Tech Gaming Hardware discussion (& Hardware Sales) thread

Madmick said:
Probably not. You can use Steam's performance overlay (or download and use MSI Afterburner) to see what your current RAM consumption is. I highly doubt you're ever using that much even with other processes running in the background.

A heavily modded Cyberpunk 2077 with crazy high textures packs on a 4K monitor (or in a dual monitor setup) for someone who runs a lot of intensive stuff in the background (like also streaming their game) is probably one of the few cases where someone will go above 16GB today.

If RAM prices were as dirt cheap as they were 1-2 years ago, it would be like, hell, you're opening the thing up, why not upgrade, but since the prices are so crazy, now, it seems like more of a situation where it probably makes the most sense not to buy it until you need it. If you're not getting crashes or the issue where apps launch but immediately close...you have enough RAM.
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Thanks Mick, I figured as much. I watched a video on YouTube of how to open it up install a new ssd or ram and in the video the guy was like “here’s a cheap stick of 16gb of DDR5 that cost me $25” and then I looked it up on Amazon and saw it listed for anywhere from $169 to $239 :oops:

Just figured I’d check because if I was going to crack it open at all I may as well crack it open just once and do all my upgrading in one go. I’ll stick to just throwing in another 1TB nvme ssd.
 
My Spot said:
Do y'all remember the Zip drive? Too many people today just don't know the struggle of dealing with 1.44mb floppy disks and then along came 120mb. I think the 5" floppy disks we still had in preschool and early elementary school held like 500kb.
But then CDR/CDRW being mainstream killed the Zip drive. :(
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Office i worked at back then used them. Was the only way we could easily transfer Autocad files between computers.
 
Also do y'all remember the slot loading Pentium II and you could have two on one motherboard? Although I doubt it helped much for gaming.
Also the good ole days of getting 14k dial up at home in 6th grade and waiting 5 minutes for a topless 640x480 picture of Lara Croft's PS1 model to show. Hard times. <lmao>
 
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KaNesDeath said:
Crucial is shuttering its consumer division. Shifting to a AI supplier:

wccftech.com

Micron Is Abandoning Consumer SSDs & RAM; Crucial Products Are Being Killed Off as the Company Shifts Everything Toward AI

Micron has announced its exit from the Crucial consumer business, marking a significant blow to consumers, especially gamers.
wccftech.com wccftech.com
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Fucking awesome how we paid for their expansion with tax money and they’ve gotten tax breaks, then they can turn around and do this.

This shit is just transparent collusion. They’re killing off personal computing to force everyone online and into subscription services.
 
Blayt7hh said:
Fucking awesome how we paid for their expansion with tax money and they’ve gotten tax breaks, then they can turn around and do this.

This shit is just transparent collusion. They’re killing off personal computing to force everyone online and into subscription services.
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They're not exiting consumer, they're just no longer competing with their customers who sell into consumer.
 
Blayt7hh said:
This shit is just transparent collusion. They’re killing off personal computing to force everyone online and into subscription services.
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People have been saying this but i dont see it. Sure once AI implodes they may try to repurpose some datacenters for cloud gaming. But i dont see it as a viable solution to ward off their impending financial loss.
 
KaNesDeath said:
People have been saying this but i dont see it. Sure once AI implodes they may try to repurpose some datacenters for cloud gaming. But i dont see it as a viable solution to ward off their impending financial loss.
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It’s not the priority but once they secure other marketing it’ll be added to the agenda.
 
avenue94 said:
Why would a memory provider want cloud gaming over traditional gaming hardware? That heavily reduces their revenue and TAM.
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Uh they’re not the ones doing it. They’re selling their product in bulk to the ones that are. It’s not just gaming, but Anything these tech companies can think of to sell a sub for
 
You guys think it's worth it to purchase the Switch 2 now rather than later when they inevitably upgrade it?

I personally don't care about a visual upgrade, but is there something else I'd potentially miss out on if I didn't pick up the awesome, newer switch down the road?
 
EL CORINTHIAN said:
You guys think it's worth it to purchase the Switch 2 now rather than later when they inevitably upgrade it?

I personally don't care about a visual upgrade, but is there something else I'd potentially miss out on if I didn't pick up the awesome, newer switch down the road?
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When was the last time Nintendo released a performance-improved mid-generation upgrade? I'm not sure they ever have. Upgrades have been mostly cosmetic, cost-cutting, or form-factor (Lite, SP, etc).

Switch 1 lasted nearly a decade and Switch 2 just came out this year. If you want one, why not buy it now? Any potential changes are probably years off at this point.
 
JBSchroeds said:
When was the last time Nintendo released a performance-improved mid-generation upgrade? I'm not sure they ever have. Upgrades have been mostly cosmetic, cost-cutting, or form-factor (Lite, SP, etc).

Switch 1 lasted nearly a decade and Switch 2 just came out this year. If you want one, why not buy it now? Any potential changes are probably years off at this point.
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Good enough for me. I'll look into getting It before a price increase
 
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Blayt7hh said:
It’s not the priority but once they secure other marketing it’ll be added to the agenda.
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Policies and datacenter locations intentionally work against this. Like the elimination of federal subsidizes/guidelines to continue expansion of fiber infrastructure and increasing the national bitrate average. Locations of these new AI datacenters are also quite bad to pivot into a effective cloud gaming server farm.
 
Blayt7hh said:
Uh they’re not the ones doing it. They’re selling their product in bulk to the ones that are. It’s not just gaming, but Anything these tech companies can think of to sell a sub for
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Yeah most companies want a subscription where possible but hardware is still key. It's why there's been such a push for NPUs and local AI, to offload the datacenter costs to end users.
 
Does anybody have mice recommendations? My Logitec G203 developed some right-click weirdness so I bought a Razer Basilisk V3 and the damn thing had connectivity issues where it wasn't always connecting on startup (it's a wired mouse) so I'm returning it and going back to the flaky Logitec for now. I'm looking for a basic-bitch mouse: left/right, scroll/middle, forward/back, dpi, wired is fine. I don't play competitive games and don't want to spend more than $50, and would prefer to keep it under $40. I have a wrist-rest and use a fingertip grip so shape isn't all that important. Based on previous experience I won't touch Corsair products and don't feel like giving Razer a second chance. Any thoughts?
 
JBSchroeds said:
Does anybody have mice recommendations? My Logitec G203 developed some right-click weirdness so I bought a Razer Basilisk V3 and the damn thing had connectivity issues where it wasn't always connecting on startup (it's a wired mouse) so I'm returning it and going back to the flaky Logitec for now. I'm looking for a basic-bitch mouse: left/right, scroll/middle, forward/back, dpi, wired is fine. I don't play competitive games and don't want to spend more than $50, and would prefer to keep it under $40. I have a wrist-rest and use a fingertip grip so shape isn't all that important. Based on previous experience I won't touch Corsair products and don't feel like giving Razer a second chance. Any thoughts?
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Check out Steelseries if you wish to go away from Logitech.
 
JBSchroeds said:
Does anybody have mice recommendations? My Logitec G203 developed some right-click weirdness so I bought a Razer Basilisk V3 and the damn thing had connectivity issues where it wasn't always connecting on startup (it's a wired mouse) so I'm returning it and going back to the flaky Logitec for now. I'm looking for a basic-bitch mouse: left/right, scroll/middle, forward/back, dpi, wired is fine. I don't play competitive games and don't want to spend more than $50, and would prefer to keep it under $40. I have a wrist-rest and use a fingertip grip so shape isn't all that important. Based on previous experience I won't touch Corsair products and don't feel like giving Razer a second chance. Any thoughts?
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Just about anything, then. You definitely don't need to spend more than $50 for a flawless mouse sensor with those criteria. Just pick the one with the shape & button configuration you like most.

Wired
Logitech G502 X (the basic wired version; maybe more buttons than you want, but it is Logitech's analogue to the Basilisk)
Steelseries Rival 3 Gen2
Steelseries Rival 3
Glorious Model D 2
Glorious Model O 2
Glorious Model O
Endgame Gear XM2 8K
HyperX Pulsefire Haste 2

Wireless
Logitech G309 Lightspeed
Logitech G305 Lightspeed
Keychron M7
Keychron M6
Keychron M3
Keychron M3 Mini
 
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