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Tech Gaming Hardware discussion (& Hardware Sales) thread

Madmick said:
https://www.ibuypower.com/community/content-creators/ronda-rousey

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Ronda's Custom PC Configuration Here:
https://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Intel-Z490-Ronda-Rousey-Recommended-PC
  • CPU: i9-10900K
  • Cooler: iBuyPower 240mm ARGB
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB
  • MoBo: Gigabyte Z490 Aorus Master WiFi 6 ATX
  • RAM: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3200MHz ADATA Spectrix D41 RGB
  • SSD: WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe
  • HDD: WD Blue 2TB 7200RPM
  • PSU: 700W High Power Gold
  • Case: be quiet! Pure Base 600
  • OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Strangely, the default PSU in their custom build violates their own PSU wattage compatibility checker for the build (which wants 750W). It's also asking about $1000 more than you should pay for this list of components.
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ibuypower was never my friend.

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Madmick said:
That's precisely why this could be the issue. Could be the thermal paste application didn't go smoothly, and that's beginning to show already.

Did you confirm there were no temp issues by monitoring your hardware during one of these game scenarios?
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Apparently some of the plugs that supply power are bad. Plugged my fans into new plugs and it's all working great now.
 
Madmick said:
https://www.ibuypower.com/community/content-creators/ronda-rousey

Ronda-Rousey-LP-Header.jpg



Ronda's Custom PC Configuration Here:
https://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Intel-Z490-Ronda-Rousey-Recommended-PC
  • CPU: i9-10900K
  • Cooler: iBuyPower 240mm ARGB
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB
  • MoBo: Gigabyte Z490 Aorus Master WiFi 6 ATX
  • RAM: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3200MHz ADATA Spectrix D41 RGB
  • SSD: WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe
  • HDD: WD Blue 2TB 7200RPM
  • PSU: 700W High Power Gold
  • Case: be quiet! Pure Base 600
  • OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Strangely, the default PSU in their custom build violates their own PSU wattage compatibility checker for the build (which wants 750W). It's also asking about $1000 more than you should pay for this list of components.
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I've always wondered what it would cost to build out a PC on a site like this and then just go and buy the parts yourself.
 
Headkicktoleg said:
I've always wondered what it would cost to build out a PC on a site like this and then just go and buy the parts yourself.
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That's for her specific configuration, and her specific build foundation as the configurator. Don't judge them by this. Never use a celebrity build configurator on a website like this one. It's guaranteed to carry a premium over other configurator foundations at the site assembling the exact same parts.

These sites have actually been beating the self-building market if you choose the right configuration on the right day (with some flexibility) for the past three months. The best sales this holiday season were all prebuilts (including some iBuyPower units) and custom build specials from sites like iBuyPower. Yet, perhaps more meaningfully, they've been one of the only ways to actually get the new hardware because vendors like them get priority. So if you want a new Zen 3 CPU, or a new RTX 3000 series GPU, they've been one of the only ways to actually get your hands on it.

Hell, there's a top value running right now from iBuyPower, and the Redditor who flagged that doesn't apply the "DEFER" 5% discount that becomes available when you select the deferred shipment option (add ~1 month to delivery). It's $1130 for that build with the discount which is cheaper than the self-building market even if you could buy a 3060 Ti for the $399 MSRP, and you obviously can't. Inspect an even better 3060 Ti build I highlighted for Terry Noonan via Cyberpowerpc (available Dec. 23-24, and for even cheaper on Christmas Day). Nothing but premium parts in it.

The best deal I saw this season was for this Skytech Azure prebuilt for $999. The second best was the following custom build via iBuyPower on 11/27/2020.
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
  • Cooler: iBuypower 240mm Deepcool Gamerstorm Captain EX RGB CLC
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3070
  • MoBo: ASRock B550 Pro 4 ATX
  • RAM: 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 CAS16 RAM ADATA XPG D41
  • SSD: 512GB ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro m.2 NVMe
  • PSU: 700W High Power Gold PSU
  • Case: iBuyPower Slate 4 MR Mid ATX Case incl. 4x120mm ARGB fans
  • OS: No Windows
  • Bonus: 1-year GeForce Now Founder’s Edition membership
  • $1155 effective tender ($1269 - 5% DEFER discount + Bonus $50 Amazon Gift Card included)
 
ToxicShocker said:
This is the case I've had for the last 7 years. I kinda like it and if I was gonna build/buy a new computer I might just reuse this one.

I assume its forward compatible with modern hardware. It might even be bigger than current cases.

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Cases/VENGEANCE®-C70-Mid-Tower-Gaming-Case-—-Military-Green/p/CC-9011018-WW

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Yeah, that case is built on the ATX standards, so it's still viable today. It's a hell of a case, too. IIRC, @Lubaolong owned that one before he upgraded to the Corsair Graphite 760T.

The front ports won't be quite as fast as those available on some of the latest cases, there won't be USB-C, but the most meaningful shortcoming there is that the power throughput on those front ports won't charge your phone at the speed of the wall (assuming you like to plug your phone into your comp to charge it). Otherwise, I'm not sure what its original stock configuration was, but it may not have a lot of 2.5" bays for SATA SSDs. But you can easily swap a drive cage, I'm sure, if you have a bunch of those.
 
Madmick said:
Yeah, that case is built on the ATX standards, so it's still viable today. It's a hell of a case, too. IIRC, @Lubaolong owned that one before he upgraded to the Corsair Graphite 760T.

The front ports won't be quite as fast as those available on some of the latest cases, there won't be USB-C, but the most meaningful shortcoming there is that the power throughput on those front ports won't charge your phone at the speed of the wall (assuming you like to plug your phone into your comp to charge it). Otherwise, I'm not sure what its original stock configuration was, but it may not have a lot of 2.5" bays for SATA SSDs. But you can easily swap a drive cage, I'm sure, if you have a bunch of those.
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Did I post that somewhere?
 
Lubaolong said:
Did I post that somewhere?
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I tagged you because I couldn't remember. I thought you said you had the C70 Vengeance before you bought your new comp. It appears I misremembered.
 
Madmick said:
I tagged you because I couldn't remember. I thought you said you had the C70 Vengeance before you bought your new comp. It appears I misremembered.
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That is possible. I have too many old computers lying around, but C70 sounds like a familiar case. Definitely spot on with the 760t. I bought that over a year ago. Surprised you remember, or did you search it up recently or something? Seems like an odd thing to store away in your memory banks.
 
Lubaolong said:
That is possible. I have too many old computers lying around, but C70 sounds like a familiar case. Definitely spot on with the 760t. I bought that over a year ago. Surprised you remember, or did you search it up recently or something? Seems like an odd thing to store away in your memory banks.
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I remembered because I had advised you on that build.
 
 
Not seeing any PS4 controllers discounted for Black Fri has me thinking I'll have to buy a 3rd controller for $59.99.
 
Jim Keller has found a new home.

Jim Keller Becomes CTO at Tenstorrent: "The Most Promising Architecture Out There"

Tenstorrent is a pure-play fab-less AI chip design and software company, which means that they create and design silicon for machine learning, then use a foundry to make the hardware, then work with partners to create solutions (as in, chips + system + software + optimizations for that customer). For those that know this space, this makes the company sound like any of the other 50 companies out in the market that seem to be doing the same thing. The typical split with pure-play fabless AI chip design companies is whether they are focused on training or inference: Tenstorrent does both, and is already in the process of finalizing its third generation processor.

Founded in 2016, Tenstorrent has around 70 employees between Toronto and Austin. The critical members of the company all have backgrounds in silicon design: the CEO led power and performance architecture at AMD as well as system architecture for Tegra at NVIDIA, the head of system software spent 16 years across AMD and Altera, and there’s expertise from neural network accelerator design from Intel, GPU systems engineering at AMD, Arm CPU verification leads, IO virtualization expertise at AMD, Intel’s former neural network compiler team lead, as well as AMD’s former security and network development lead. It sounds like Jim will fit right in, as well as have a few former colleagues working alongside him.



 
jefferz said:
Jim Keller has found a new home.

Jim Keller Becomes CTO at Tenstorrent: "The Most Promising Architecture Out There"

Tenstorrent is a pure-play fab-less AI chip design and software company, which means that they create and design silicon for machine learning, then use a foundry to make the hardware, then work with partners to create solutions (as in, chips + system + software + optimizations for that customer). For those that know this space, this makes the company sound like any of the other 50 companies out in the market that seem to be doing the same thing. The typical split with pure-play fabless AI chip design companies is whether they are focused on training or inference: Tenstorrent does both, and is already in the process of finalizing its third generation processor.

Founded in 2016, Tenstorrent has around 70 employees between Toronto and Austin. The critical members of the company all have backgrounds in silicon design: the CEO led power and performance architecture at AMD as well as system architecture for Tegra at NVIDIA, the head of system software spent 16 years across AMD and Altera, and there’s expertise from neural network accelerator design from Intel, GPU systems engineering at AMD, Arm CPU verification leads, IO virtualization expertise at AMD, Intel’s former neural network compiler team lead, as well as AMD’s former security and network development lead. It sounds like Jim will fit right in, as well as have a few former colleagues working alongside him.
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holy shit. there were rumours that keller already had a new job lined up many months ago, but i didn't expect this.
 
Looking for PS4 controllers, Walmart had the colored ones for f'ing $74.99, elsewhere had colored ones for $64.99. I don't want to buy black because I'll get it mixed up with the orig black that's got buggy L stick.
 
GSP_37 said:
Looking for PS4 controllers, Walmart had the colored ones for f'ing $74.99, elsewhere had colored ones for $64.99. I don't want to buy black because I'll get it mixed up with the orig black that's got buggy L stick.
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just mark it with a paint marker or etc? i put small dots/etc on them to tell them apart.
 
jefferz said:
So the 3060 is supposed to have 12gb GDDR6 but the 3060ti only has 8gb GDDR6. And the 3070 only has 8gb GDDR6.
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https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-geforce-rtx-3060-tuf-gaming-with-12gb-gddr6-memory-leaked
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Puget used to make one but someone else has a patent on immersed pcs.
Did you ever see Gigabytes tank/pc with real fish?
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oh, shit. is that half mineral oil and half water? hahaha. no, i don't think i ever saw this.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12959/gigabytes-new-take-on-liquid-cooling

reading now...
 
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