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[Slaughtahouse]

 

Played the demo last year. I knew then I would need to buy Sea of Stars but I held off until the physical release. First game I aim to complete in 2024 after my Balatro addiction… Approx. 3 hrs in. It’s on Steam for those interested. Essentially a new Chrono Trigger. JRPG with interesting characters, excellent art, music, and combat that isnt just spam attack.

 

Sea of Stars on Steam

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Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the...

 

 

 

[chandlermaki]

This beauty, along with the board and RAM. It's waaay more of an upgrade than I was expecting coming from a 5900X. 

[J7SC_Orion]

...new PHEV, charging at no charge  ...coffees on sale...RR napkins were free

 

[Sir Beregond]

On 19/05/2024 at 20:05, chandlermaki said:

This beauty, along with the board and RAM. It's waaay more of an upgrade than I was expecting coming from a 5900X. 

5900X here. I don't need 16 cores, or really even the 12. I'm thinking next upgrade for me will be Zen 5. Thinking a 9800X3D. I definitely don't want any split CCD X3D like they did with the Ryzen 9 sku's with Zen 4.

Edited May 23 by Sir Beregond

[Slaughtahouse]

On 23/05/2024 at 06:26, J7SC_Orion said:

...new PHEV, charging at no charge  ...coffees on sale...RR napkins were free

 

 

What a combo! Hope you enjoy the new BMW  How far do you think you can get on a charge (highway) and what’s the recharge time from near zero to something manageable? Like if you’re out on the road and you get the low fuel / charge light.

[The Pook]

On 19/05/2024 at 22:05, chandlermaki said:

This beauty, along with the board and RAM. It's waaay more of an upgrade than I was expecting coming from a 5900X. 

 

I keep almost being tempted to move from my 10900K to a 7800/7950X3D, but I keep convincing myself to wait for next gen. I'm hoping they put the extra cache on both CCDs next gen. 

 

also hoping the new chipset brings a better selection of motherboards with onboard 10 GbE, ideally with Intel based NICs 

[Sir Beregond]

1 hour ago, The Pook said:

 

I keep almost being tempted to move from my 10900K to a 7800/7950X3D, but I keep convincing myself to wait for next gen. I'm hoping they put the extra cache on both CCDs next gen. 

 

also hoping the new chipset brings a better selection of motherboards with onboard 10 GbE, ideally with Intel based NICs 

This close to Zen 5 / Arrow Lake, I totally agree that it makes sense to just wait.

[SoloCamo]

1 hour ago, The Pook said:

 

I keep almost being tempted to move from my 10900K to a 7800/7950X3D, but I keep convincing myself to wait for next gen. I'm hoping they put the extra cache on both CCDs next gen. 

 

also hoping the new chipset brings a better selection of motherboards with onboard 10 GbE, ideally with Intel based NICs 

 

You sound like me when I had a 4790k.  Ended up waiting six generations to upgrade.  My 11900k is going to have to hold me over for a bit as my 6900XT is the bottleneck for me in 99% of things I do at this point.   The 7800X3D is extremely tempting though, especially with it's lower power use.  I'd like to keep my system usable with a 700w psu as a computer nearing 1,000w is silly to me for gaming... Guess I'm getting old because power was never a limiting factor to me in the past.

 

As far as purchases go... I'm getting all fancy these days...

 

Edited May 25 by SoloCamo

[Slaughtahouse]

Because I’m a Nintendo fanboy.

 

 

 

It came with a reversible sleeve. 2024 cover art on one side; 2004 cover art on the other, including Gamecube branding. Kinda cheeky. I can’t believe I bought the original game 20 years ago. It’s been a minute but it holds up really well. I love both the N64 original and TTYD. If you haven’t played it, give it a go if you enjoy RPGs. It’s one of Nintendo’s best games flat out.

[Sir Beregond]

40 minutes ago, SoloCamo said:

 

You sound like me when I had a 4790k.  Ended up waiting six generations to upgrade.  My 11900k is going to have to hold me over for a bit as my 6900XT is the bottleneck for me in 99% of things I do at this point.   The 7800X3D is extremely tempting though, especially with it's lower power use.  I'd like to keep my system usable with a 700w psu as a computer nearing 1,000w is silly to me for gaming... Guess I'm getting old because power was never a limiting factor to me in the past.

 

As far as purchases go... I'm getting all fancy these days...

 

Sound like me. I went from my 4790k to the 5900X.

[The Pook]

55 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

This close to Zen 5 / Arrow Lake, I totally agree that it makes sense to just wait.

 

I just hope AMD and Intel pump the brakes on the slowly climbing power consumption numbers 

 

[Sir Beregond]

52 minutes ago, The Pook said:

 

I just hope AMD and Intel pump the brakes on the slowly climbing power consumption numbers 

 

This 13900KS I was playing with was pumping 450W +!

[SoloCamo]

14 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

This 13900KS I was playing with was pumping 450W +!

 

If I buy Intel again I'll probably disable the E-cores and go for the highest clocked 8c16t system I can get.. hopefully that will keep the consumption reasonablish...

Edited May 25 by SoloCamo

[Sir Beregond]

18 minutes ago, SoloCamo said:

 

If I buy Intel again I'll probably disable the E-cores and go for the highest clocked 8c16t system I can get.. hopefully that will keep the consumption reasonablish...

Yeah. Totally fine for my bench system, but I would never use this in my daily.

[neurotix]

I also went from a 4790k to a 3900x, then 5900x.

[J7SC_Orion]

6 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

 

What a combo! Hope you enjoy the new BMW  How far do you think you can get on a charge (highway) and what’s the recharge time from near zero to something manageable? Like if you’re out on the road and you get the low fuel / charge light.

 

My fifth BMW; they start out as company car leases which I often buy out privately at lease-end...good to know how the car was treated and driven since new . The hybrid-battery range of this new one is listed as 50km - 55km, depending. But it now has just above 500km on the odometer and I have yet to charge the battery fully via chargers.  Per pic below, most of the energy savings come from re-gen anyways, so for now without a separate full charge, it still manages just over 40%  on e-power alone. That's with 2/3rd metro traffic and 1/3rd mountainous highway. 

 

[Sir Beregond]

Memorial Day sale at Crandall Office Furniture.

 

Wife's turn for a Steelcase Leap v2 chair, she opted for the Brisa vinyl on hers. 

 

Deal was good for 11% off.

[J7SC_Orion]

4 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Memorial Day sale at Crandall Office Furniture.

 

Wife's turn for a Steelcase Leap v2 chair, she opted for the Brisa vinyl on hers. 

 

Deal was good for 11% off.

 

...got to get a new office chair one of these days. I had a really nice IKEA swivel high-back office chair that was the most comfortable over the longer working/gaming stretch, but the metal neck underneath has been welded once already.

Edited May 26 by J7SC_Orion

[schuck6566]

22 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Sound like me. I went from my 4790k to the 5900X.

lol, I made the jump from a 2600k to the 2700X . Now I'm trying to decide if I want to go last gen of amd4 or a used amd5 when the newer ones come out. (Also still on a RTX 2070)

[chandlermaki]

On 25/05/2024 at 10:50, The Pook said:

I'm hoping they put the extra cache on both CCDs next gen.

I was pretty concerned about this at first, but with the latest chipset drivers and BIOS I've had zero issues with games being detected properly and the second CCD parking. Xbox game bar as a requirement is... weird, but it does the job and I don't notice it/think about it, which is good because I was under the impression that Process Lasso was going to be a must.

All that said, 16 cores with the full amount of cache would be really sweet.

Edited May 26 by chandlermaki

[Fluxmaven]

On 25/05/2024 at 12:29, SoloCamo said:

You sound like me when I had a 4790k.  Ended up waiting six generations to upgrade.  My 11900k is going to have to hold me over for a bit as my 6900XT is the bottleneck for me in 99% of things I do at this point.   The 7800X3D is extremely tempting though, especially with it's lower power use.  I'd like to keep my system usable with a 700w psu as a computer nearing 1,000w is silly to me for gaming... Guess I'm getting old because power was never a limiting factor to me in the past.

 

I also don't want 1000W+ in every PC. Bedroom rig still rocking the AX760. I went from 10850K + 2080 to a 7800X3D + 6950XT. Wanted a faster GPU but needed a more efficient CPU to keep the overall draw down. Been very happy with it for a 1440p machine. 

 

Like seemingly everyone, I also had a 4790K that I held onto for a long time in my main rig. Went 4790K -> 3900X -> 5900X and will likely get a 9900X once those are out. 

[bridgypoo]

I'm a huge book worm, and read the last 30 books on an android tablet. the weather's nice now and i want to read outside on my deck now. just bought my first e-reader. I don't want to be tied to amazon and their nonsense.

 

i previously bought a boox tab mini c but my issue was i was trying to use it as a tablet and e-ink refresh rates just don't meet that use case. kaleido 3 also is not comparable to carta so I'll take the b&w.

 

the reader also has overdrive built in so i can check out books from the library.

 

while not a totally open source reader, there's a lot more i can do with this than with a kindle so looking forward to getting it.

Edited May 27 by bridgypoo

[Slaughtahouse]

On 26/05/2024 at 12:05, schuck6566 said:

lol, I made the jump from a 2600k to the 2700X . Now I'm trying to decide if I want to go last gen of amd4 or a used amd5 when the newer ones come out. (Also still on a RTX 2070)

Similarly, 3930K to 3800X. Then I did the swap to 5800X3D. No regrets. 

[schuck6566]

4 hours ago, bridgypoo said:

I'm a huge book worm, and read the last 30 books on an android tablet. the weather's nice now and i want to read outside on my deck now. just bought my first e-reader. I don't want to be tied to amazon and their nonsense.

 

i previously bought a boox tab mini c but my issue was i was trying to use it as a tablet and e-ink refresh rates just don't meet that use case. kaleido 3 also is not comparable to carta so I'll take the b&w.

 

the reader also has overdrive built in so i can check out books from the library.

 

while not a totally open source reader, there's a lot more i can do with this than with a kindle so looking forward to getting it.

I'm a huge reader. I use my Amazon Fire tablet with FBReader installed along with the kindle app. any formats they can't handle I just use Hamster ebook converter to covert the file to epub or mobi. Also,if you get a book from somewhere else,you can upload it to your kindle and Amazon converts it for you. Also have overdrive on my tablet.

How to send books to your Kindle — even if they’re not from Amazon - The Verge

WWW.THEVERGE.COM

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You can now use drag and drop to add documents to your Amazon Kindle library.

 

Edited May 28 by schuck6566

[bridgypoo]

13 hours ago, schuck6566 said:

I'm a huge reader. I use my Amazon Fire tablet with FBReader installed along with the kindle app. any formats they can't handle I just use Hamster ebook converter to covert the file to epub or mobi. Also,if you get a book from somewhere else,you can upload it to your kindle and Amazon converts it for you. Also have overdrive on my tablet.

How to send books to your Kindle — even if they’re not from Amazon - The Verge

WWW.THEVERGE.COM

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You can now use drag and drop to add documents to your Amazon Kindle library.

 

I appreciate that, i use my android 14 tablet indoors and needed an ereader for outdoors since lcds can be quite difficult to read in the sun. i mainly check books out from the library but got calibre to handle the epub management.