Sir Beregond

As much as I absolutely despise Twitter, and do believe they are biased as so many organizations are politically, I don't care. Its a platform I refuse to use to exercise my free speech, and as @UltraMega has stated, it's not a news source. As far as I am concerned the real issue is the stupidity of society for treating it like one, which let's be real is just people trying to 1up each other with their quick little gotcha or whatever their character limit equivalent term is for a "sound bite" would be, that their echo chamber "news" came up with to "own" the other side. As someone just watching the state of politics, it's like watching two sports teams that are bitter enemies fighting each other after the big game. I suppose the argument could be made that it is an avenue for expressing free speech, but back towards Ultra's point, nothing protected me from saying something profoundly untrue or stupid in real life and being mocked for it. Free speech just means I don't suffer any legal consequences for it.

Bingo. They also spill lots of stuff too and seemingly don't care.

I just don't like working on petri dishes. That included people's nasty laptops, but also people's keyboards back when I worked desktop and the keyboards in question perfectly qualified as biohazardous waste. Funny, when I moved out of desktop, I suddenly stopped getting sick so often lol.

Yeah I think I ended up with the cheapened one. I didn't know any better back then. It's PCB has noticeably fewer components on the backplate vs the reference.

30-series has kind of been an outlier in typical chip tiering and branding from Nvidia over the last decade post-Fermi. My guess is due to being on Samsung 8nm. They really were trying to squeeze out what they could. There's no way they were going to get away with a 3080 on GA-104 this round after Turing. Otherwise, all the x80 non-Ti cards have been mid-range chips going back to the 680 with the exception of the 780, but it was heavily cut down. I suspect moving to a better TSMC process (I think 6nm if I recall from the rumors?) my guess is they can start segmenting the 80 class card down again. The biggest giveaway is the 16GB rumor. Back to 256-bit for the 80 card which would be the same as the 2080, 2080 Super, 1080, 980, 680.

Well awesome job with the restoration. Night and day difference.

Did that 5770 come out of a smoker's house? I have a Sapphire and XFX 5770, but both have the reference blower coolers. The Sapphire is a reference board, but the XFX while looking like one, definitely is not on closer look.

Waiting to see who tries to run too much off of one outlet.

Well if you are looking more for deals and don't have to be on the latest and greatest, then yeah both 12th gen and Zen 3 parts should be found at pretty good prices these days. I haven't been tracking 12th gen pricing, but do recall the CPUs as being competitive, and Zen 3 can be had well below MSRP. The cost with 12th gen will be the new motherboard and DDR5...which will also be true with Zen 4 / AM5 when it launches. GPUs on the other hand are only now starting to hit their MSRPs...almost 2 years after they launched with rumors of the new ones as early as this summer or into September. So up to you there.

Yeah AM4 is dead. I guess really would want to know what your use case is? Gaming only, or have some other uses in mind? If you really need it now, definitely want to know your use case. If not in a rush, wait for Zen 4 and Raptor Lake and go from there depending on which meets your needs.

What kind of FPS do you get on the 6900XT with RT&DLSS turned off at 4k? Yeah I would have liked to see a version of the 6900XT with a 384-bit bus. I mean could have even met in the middle and done a 320-bit with 20GB GDDR6 + the Infinity cache and I'd imagine that would have really helped it at 4k.

I have two 5770's if you are still looking at them . Way cleaner than that one.

Hmm that's an interesting result for the 6900XT.

Yeah, you're right. There is no rationality to any of this. I guess part of me hopes there is a backlash in the same vein as Turing had at launch, but that's probably kidding myself. The 30-series killed any notion of that happening. Though if mining isn't as much a factor on supply going forward...I guess too many variables and whims to think about some rational outcome and all we can do is wait and see what happens.

Sadly no room for something like this where I live right now. Maybe when I get a house and have more than a tiny detached garage. Also wondering if I am overthinking this and just need to get a better hacksaw and vice/miter box. Took a look at the one @iamjanco mentioned, seems to be for 12mm and 16mm, so will keep looking for a good one for 14mm.

Hmm, thanks for the info. I may see if I can find a bit bigger of a cut off saw.

OK, and that lets you cut all the way through the tubing, or do you have to go around? The problem I had with this saw was that it didn't cut the 14mm all the way through, and was hard to flip tube and line it back up to get a clean cut.

Nope, happy to skip Fermi 3.0 if the power rumors are true.

I share that same question. I also heard that 40-series likely getting an MSRP price hike seeing what people were willing to pay during the 30-series run. There's a reason they effectively phased out the $700 10GB 3080 lol. Combine that with a mass selloff of 30-series mining cards, people might not go for 40-series if they can get cheap 3080's, 3080 Ties, and 3090's.

Next thread after people get this: "The top of my EK block is swelling and warped!"

No idea really, so I am just as interested to see where it goes. I got out of crypto last year, had bought in early 2017 before it had that bull rush to 20k. I think it was still $3.5k when I bought. I should have just bought a whole Bitcoin lol.

What size Dremel wheel do you get for doing the cuts on a 14mm tube all the way through? Just trying to see if this kit I found has what I need. Thinking of picking one of these up.

Eh we'll see. Just saying this has been the cycle ever since Bitcoin was a thing. So I'd expect the same thing, until it does something different, predicting when that will be seems hard to do.