Fluxmaven

The problem is at this point people have proved that they will pay for it. Pascal was the last gen that made sense price wise. Turing came along with a big price hike and barely any raw performance uplift and just a huge focus on ray tracing and various software add ons that nobody asked for. Back then we had one of the mining booms which kept the prices sky high all the way until Ampere came along with that cute promise of buying 2080ti perfomance for $500. A handful of lucky people got in on an original MSRP 3070 or 3080. Most people got shafted because they waited and waited and waited to upgrade. Just for another mining boom paired with a global pandemic to make affordable GPUs a distant dream. Now, big surprise they follow that up with the most mis-priced lineup of cards ever. While people * and moan constantly about how much they hate them, they still keep buying it all up. Mostly because you had a bunch of people still holding on to those Pascal cards or even Maxwell waiting for a time when a decently priced card would come along and it just never did. As for the VRAM thing, if we get more, it'll be in the form of a new $3000 Titan. They don't like doubling flagship VRAM without making some comically priced "best card in the universe". I think the lower tier cards will continue to get bumped up. I can see 12GB as the new minimum offering with more cards in the 16, 20, and 24GB range. I just don't see them giving us a 48GB 5090 as a direct replacement for the 4090 at the same price level. They should, but I'm sure they will find a way to make it a more expensive product. Then serving up the cut down version at still absurd prices. AMD should have priced more aggressivly to undercut Nvidia's poor pricing/naming this gen, but they are happy to just sell what they sell of their also overpriced cards.

I really doubt they will give us more than 24GB anytime soon. Wouldn't want to compete with their own professional GPUs. Also with how hard they push DLSS and frame gen I think it's safe to say they will keep relying on software magic VS give us stronger hardware. I totally understand cutting down specs for lower tier cards, but It's REALLY annoying how hard they start gimping their lineup starting with the XX80 SKU's. When Amphere was first announced I was really hoping for a 20GB 3080. I ended up buying a 3090 because I was wanting it for my 4K OLED and wasn't going to buy a 10GB "high end" GPU. Interestingly the 4070 Ti Super is getting upgraded to 16GB of VRAM on a 256 bit bus. If they just replace the current 4070 Ti that would probably be the best value Nvidia card on the market. Knowing them, they will sell it along side the current cards and jack the price up.

Did someone say volleyball?

Did someone say Chug a lug a luggin' 5 miles an hour?

call me petty, but I'd make it my life mission to make them as miserable as I could without committing any serious crimes. And if that didn't work, I'd get some 3rd party to commit the crimes.

Better luck next year

Quick check of the inventory spreadsheet shows 35 GPUs in the house... And that's assuming I haven't missed any If only the majority of them weren't old stuff for HWBOT comps. I'd love to have some more RTX 4XXX cards for folding

I'm just using them to store my benching cards. I'm tired of every flat surface in the office being covered in hardware

Down to the last few hours. I decided to spin up a few extra cards to torment my long-term rival @neurotix. Sorry bud I couldn't help myself That comes at the cost of the office being a bit warm while I'm in here building my rack mount GPU storage shelf. I only have 20 of these risers currently but the rails are 3' deep so I can squeeze 3 or 4 shelves worth in here.

I'd love to go back down to a 42". The 48 is just a bit too much for how close I sit. I don't use mine for anything other than the PC so I'd like to get away from a TV. Turning it on and off manually is only a minor inconvenience, but if I'm gonna spend more money, I'd like to get exactly what I want. I haven't come across a 42" glossy OLED monitor yet. They always put some sort of BS Matte coating on the monitor versions of all the big OLED displays. That being said. I still love my CX and it's been going strong for a few years now with no issues. At work currently so I can't check but the last time I looked a couple months ago I was just shy of 2300 power on hours. Still no burn in. Haven't needed to or at least haven't been prompted to do a pixel clean. *Just checked and she's at 2481 power on hours.

I think when I bought my Datavac they were around $70. I just borrowed the one from work for years until I switched jobs and had to buy my own For just dusting off PCs these new battery powered ones probably work great. I also use my Datavac for blowing coolant out of custom loops and I kinda doubt the little battery powered ones have the same grunt as the 500w Datavac for that niche use case.

Finally got around to fixing the one thing I hated about this car which was lack of Android Auto. Normally I'd get an aftermarket unit. Newer cars use the display for a bunch of other stuff like climate control so it was simpler to stick with an OEM option. The parts for the conversion came out to $584 which is reasonable to me considering the quality of life upgrade. While I was in there I upgraded the center speaker to an Infinity reference 3.5". I have a couple more of these to put in the upper door location. It got dark before I got to those. Once those are in I'll decide if I need to do the tweeters, lower doors, and rears.

Yes, they have been mailed out. I did wait an extra week for people to reply (still only heard back from about half the people). I dropped them in the outgoing mail box last Sunday night with the exception of Memmento Mori's. I took off work a bit early Monday to make it into the post office to get that one shipped out since it was going international. They are all just going snail mail USPS so who knows where any of them are at this point.

While this is neat, getting fiber to more areas seems like a better investment than making it way faster for a few people. The real crime in most residential internet is the abysmal upload speeds. Even the lowest tier from my fiber provider is 400/400. I'd take that over 1000/20. I have a symmetrical gigabit connection at home and don't have any need for anything else. We could go up to 2gig but it was nearly double the cost last we checked. My entire home network is 2.5Gb but that's just so all the machines can talk to the NAS faster. I don't really need to talk to the outside world any faster. If I were to upgrade the network further, I'd get a separate line from a different ISP to do dual WAN. The UDM Pro can support failover and they recently added load balancing as well.

With mechanical keyboard stuff if you get the parts within a year of ordering it, I call that a win lol. It's a niche hobby run by small shops. On top of that, look at a calendar. This is the busiest time of year for shipping things. As far as buckling springs go... If you want to try those, buy a Unicomp. Don't care what you've heard or remember from back in the day. A brand new Unicomp will be much nicer than some clapped out old board. If you managed to find a unicorn new old stock model M that's been hiding in a climate controlled storage for a couple decades, it would set you back more than buying a whole stack of fresh Unicomps would. This is coming from someone who actually owns a Unicomp. I have typed on an IBM model M, but never side by side. I was also a child back when I last had access to an original.

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You can always just pick up a cheap board that's hot swappable and pick up whatever switches you want to try. If you hate them, just swap to something else without having to buy a whole new keyboard. Microcenter has a full aisle of keyboard switches, keycaps, etc in addition to all the keyboards they sell. I am probably going to pick up some of these Panda switches. I have the Glorious Pandas in one of my boards and they are great. Curious to see how he Redragon ones compare. microcenter.com WWW.MICROCENTER.COM

I have so many rads laying around that I just toss em in the closet. I'll blitz and flush them when/if I ever use them again. I've cleaned and dried, or left filled and capped but I always end up cleaning them again before reusing anyway.

I am thankfully not going anywhere for Christmas. At the point where 4 of the water cooled rigs in the house need to come apart for upgrades and/or maintenance so I just need to force myself to rip everything apart and take care of it. I may need to cheat and rent some cards if I don't get those rigs back online, but I'll fold on something

Sometimes you need those little victories to keep going. I've never been one for under hood bling, but if it's a functional upgrade I'm all for it. I hate working on brakes... I have had new pads, rotors, lines etc for the Miata for over a year now putting off upgrading. After redoing the whole braking system on my clapped out E30 I just lost all interest in the car. It's that time of year where all the motorcycles I want are cheap enough I'd actually buy them. So I have had a little bit of urge to finish up the E30 so I can sell it and get the garage space back

Browns are just scratchy reds... Barely tactile. I do have a board with lubed Gateron Browns that's super smooth and quiet that feels nice, but it's too light for me. I'd agree that Gateron versions of all the common switches are better than the legit Cherry counterparts. I like heavy tactile and/or clicky switches. My favorite boards to type on currently have Glorious Pandas, BOX Royal, BOX Navy, and Topre. It's fun to bust out the old Model M with buckling springs from time to time as well. There is a point where you get too much of a good thing lol. I have a meme board with 150G springs in some Gateron Greens

MX Reds are the most disgusting thing I've ever touched. I have not used that site before. Looks fine though.

I wasn't really happy with the stock shift knob in the mustang. It's just too small and I don't like the two tone metal and leather. I was going to buy a white Bullitt knob from Ford performance but $145 was a bit steep for a shift knob. Comparing to the $400 dark horse titanium knobs it almost seems justifiable... Then I saw that AmericanMuscle had these Speedform knobs on sale for $25. I love it. It's just a little bit larger which fits my hands better. The pattern is engraved so it won't wear off like the cheapo eBay knobs that are just printed on. Saved a bunch of money that can go towards other upgrades. My Sync 3 upgrade also showed up. Now I just need a warm weekend to install it along with the new door speakers I've had sitting in the corner for a month

I've always disliked linear switches. I recently tried some newer options and results are in... They still suck