Tech Gaming Hardware discussion (& Hardware Sales) thread

[mb23100]

Ordered a Ps Portal and an Anbernic retro games console. Seems too good to be true but for $70 it's worth a shot.

 

[Madmick]

Ordered a Ps Portal and an Anbernic retro games console. Seems to good to be true but for $70 it's worth a shot.

Which Anberic did you get? I just watched RGC's "Favorite Handhelds of 2025" yesterday, so I saw his comments about his pick for the best retro handheld, the Anberic RG Slide, but it's listed at their website as $150 on a Christmas sale, so unless you caught a crazy sale from another retailer like on Amazon, I'm guessing that isn't the one you got. They have tons below $100.

 

[Slobodan]

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

Thoughts on this?

 

[Madmick]

Thoughts on this?

Sounds pretty cool in theory, I guess, but I just plug my mouse in at night. I don't really have an issue with this. On the rare occasion I have to plug it in in the middle of gaming, I don't find the wire that obnoxious.

 

[Slobodan]

Sounds pretty cool in theory, I guess, but I just plug my mouse in at night. I don't really have an issue with this. On the rare occasion I have to plug it in in the middle of gaming, I don't find the wire that obnoxious.

He was playing at 8000hz polling rate and only getting like a day out of the battery which sounds pretty shit.

 

[mb23100]

Which Anberic did you get? I just watched RGC's "Favorite Handhelds of 2025" yesterday, so I saw his comments about his pick for the best retro handheld, the Anberic RG Slide, but it's listed at their website as $150 on a Christmas sale, so unless you caught a crazy sale from another retailer like on Amazon, I'm guessing that isn't the one you got. They have tons below $100.

RG40XX H (horizontal) saw a review that said it was the best one.

 

[Madmick]

RG40XX H (horizontal) saw a review that said it was the best one.

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LMFAO at offering a financing plan for a $74 purchase. Unreal.

Looks sweet. I'm not sure "best" is all that relevant with these. They all have a niche appeal with their form factors like the Slide RGC liked; that design reminds me of some of the old cellphones before the iPhone came along. Just a matter of not paying more for what you need, and whether or not it has the juice to emulate the systems you want to emulate. Looks like you got one that is for the PS1 and earlier generations. I'm sure it will be dope.

 

[KaNesDeath]

He was playing at 8000hz polling rate and only getting like a day out of the battery which sounds pretty shit.

Battery life is expected to last that long at such a polling rate. Gotta remember the device is updating every 0.125 milliseconds.

If you have a home security system that uses wireless devices. The drastically reduced health status report rate to the base station is why their batteries last so long. For every one time that device reports. A 8K polling rate mouse has reported 14.4 million times.

 

[mb23100]

LMFAO at offering a financing plan for a $74 purchase. Unreal.

Looks sweet. I'm not sure "best" is all that relevant with these. They all have a niche appeal with their form factors like the Slide RGC liked; that design reminds me of some of the old cellphones before the iPhone came along. Just a matter of not paying more for what you need, and whether or not it has the juice to emulate the systems you want to emulate. Looks like you got one that is for the PS1 and earlier generations. I'm sure it will be dope.

Doesn't arrive for another week. I'll give a review.

 

[jefferz]

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?

rtings.com has a tool where you can compare the shape of mice if you're looking for something similar shaped.
For example

 

[Madmick]

The worst news in years. Original story broke here (you'll have to translate from Korean):

엔비디아·AMD, 내달부터 GPU 값 대폭 올린다

[서울=뉴시스]이지용 기자 = 미국의 엔비디아와 AMD가 당장 내년 1월부터 그래픽처리장치(GPU) 가격을 대폭 인상할 전망이다. 높은 메모리 가격에 따른 원가 부담이 GPU 가격 인상의 핵심 배경으로 꼽힌다.양사는 한 차례 가격 인상에 그치지 않고 앞으로 수 개월에 걸쳐 단계적 가격 조정에 들어갈 방침이다. 이에 소비자용 GPU 뿐 아니라 인공지능(AI)..

www.newsis.com

According to the industry, AMD will increase some GPU prices from January next year, and Nvidia will increase some GPU prices from February next year.

The price increase will be made first, with some consumer GPUs, such as Nvidia's GeForce RTX 50 series and AMD's Radeon RX 9000 series. The initial release price of Nvidia’s flagship product, the RTX 5090, was $1999, and is expected to soar to $5000 next year.

Both companies are expected to continue to raise GPU prices every month. Not only consumer GPUs, but also GPUs for AI data centers and servers are likely to expand the scope of price increases to a full product line...

"The average share of memory in the manufacturing cost of all GPUs has recently exceeded 80 percent," an industry insider said.

The price of the DDR5 16G (2Gx8), the leading DRAM memory used for GPUs, was 5.5 dollars in May, and it was over $20 last month.

 

[KaNesDeath]

The worst news in years. Original story broke here (you'll have to translate from Korean):

Thats only the tip. Whats coming is even worse; increased utility costs to subsidize these datacenters thats followed by their eventual taxpayer bailout. An thats not even touching on these AI trainers lack of ethics.

 

[jefferz]

Hyper 212 black is $16. Sold and shipped by Amazon.

 

[PEB]

 

[Slobodan]

Just AI slop from AMD and Intel at CES.

 

[avenue94]

Just AI slop from AMD and Intel at CES.

Seems a tad harsh given that Panther Lake looks pretty good and ended AMD's exclusivity with as flagship a product as G14. Let alone a iGPU variant of the G14 that doesn't suck performance wise.

Not disagreeing that the CES presentations were painful to sit through, but there's still good product out there.

 

[Slobodan]

Seems a tad harsh given that Panther Lake looks pretty good and ended AMD's exclusivity with as flagship a product as G14. Let alone a iGPU variant of the G14 that doesn't suck performance wise.

Not disagreeing that the CES presentations were painful to sit through, but there's still good product out there.

It is impressive but I won't say the iGPU on the AMD G14 sucks (I have the 2025 5070ti model). This B390 on the Intel is like the discrete level iGPU that AMD has on their AI Max 395+ chips which offers generational performance compared to the older iGPUs, it won't be as powerful as the NVIDIA 50 series (apparently it's around a 4060 level) but it is impressive and efficient.

I just think overall it was a depressing show case for both for consumers. AMD did announce the binned 9800x3d chip and that was it for gaming.

 

[avenue94]

It is impressive but I won't say the iGPU on the AMD G14 sucks (I have the 2025 5070ti model). This B390 on the Intel is like the discrete level iGPU that AMD has on their AI Max 395+ chips which offers generational performance compared to the older iGPUs, it won't be as powerful as the NVIDIA 50 series (apparently it's around a 4060 level) but it is impressive and efficient.

I just think overall it was a depressing show case for both for consumers. AMD did announce the binned 9800x3d chip and that was it for gaming.

Let me rephrase. An iGPU that is actually credible for a flagship gaming laptop, let alone one from Asus. That's a whole different kind of achievement than the AI Max family, which are more geared toward being Apple killers and are a pain in the ass to design with (hence no mainstream gaming laptops with it).

And yes, CES has been depressing the past few years (it's even worse in person). But it's never really been a show for consumers it's for making deals to sell to consumers. Even Computex is more consumer friendly imo.

Not to mention PCs haven't been the focus of CES in a long time since other consumer products took over.

 

[Slobodan]

Let me rephrase. An iGPU that is actually credible for a flagship gaming laptop, let alone one from Asus. That's a whole different kind of achievement than the AI Max family, which are more geared toward being Apple killers and are a pain in the ass to design with (hence no mainstream gaming laptops with it).

And yes, CES has been depressing the past few years (it's even worse in person). But it's never really been a show for consumers it's for making deals to sell to consumers. Even Computex is more consumer friendly imo.

Not to mention PCs haven't been the focus of CES in a long time since other consumer products took over.

I thought the reason the AMD one wasn't put in a laptop yet was cost or low supply, not design complexity (HP put it in one of their laptops, not a gaming laptop though)

Yeah Computex is better, I just expected something more substantial for PC gaming but that was wishful thinking on my part.

 

[avenue94]

I thought the reason the AMD one wasn't put in a laptop yet was cost or low supply, not design complexity (HP put it in one of their laptops, not a gaming laptop though)

Yeah Computex is better, I just expected something more substantial for PC gaming but that was wishful thinking on my part.

The AI Max processors are in notebooks (elitebook as you noted) and the ROG gaming tablet (x13?). Cost and supply were big challenges, but also it was a chip with more design restraints than people realize.

It was a cool product but AMD kind of yeeted it out there and OEMs were like...ok what am I supposed to do with this processor.

I'd definitely recommend Computex, it's much easier to access and do stuff without being industry as compared to CES or MWC (the con food and floor design is much better too). It's also the Big Tech effect, companies prefer not having to share the spotlight and would rather do their own thing. CES only exists for wining and dining to close deals at whatever hotel floor companies buy out after the CTA shakes them down.

I will say though though CES 2025 is better than Computex 2024 as far as PC stuff.