So, my old Surface Book is nearing it’s end of life and I’m needing something new. I got no idea what good right now. I just want something that I can use a stylus with for affinity and the ability to play some meager indiegames, maybe mix a little music with cakewalk.
I solved the windows 11 nag problem by having a poor, pathetic 7700k that is far too decrepit to ever handle the awesome power of a centered taskbar
Still incredibly insulted by that, fuck you microsoft
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yeah you kind of got the worst possible generation for “should by all rights be supported but isn’t because it just barely predated 6+ core defaults”
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iirc this is because MS was scared shitless of another red ring situation
even the Xbone power brick has a fan in it
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Absolutely the worst possible cpu I could have bought in hindsight
But oh well, I think I’ve got easily another 5 years on this thing if I can ever buy a gpu again
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I know a lot of folks on 7th gen Intel i7s doing mighty fine.
a while back i was contemplating swapping my 9th gen i3 out for an i7 or an i9 and i saw this on userbenchmark dot com and i thought it was hilarious
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I will say that ever since I got my free upgrade from the second-last to the last model of butterfly keyboard (2018->2019 iirc, the only one that had an actual upgrade route) whenever the keys get fucked up they always resolve themselves within like half an hour, so they did finally get this thing to the point where it wasn’t a permanent liability
re Sarif industries j/k mention in the Sanic thread:
Reality overtaking … no, divebombing snotty scifi-vidyagame plot into turn 1 of 2022.
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graphics card market is so bad I am seriously considering buying an Alienware
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a friend of mine in Montreal did just this week, apparently that’s the best solution in Canada rn
I’m still very pleased that after I very reluctantly agreed to do a build for a friend here he was able to walk into Canada Computers on 3070 launch week like a month later and get one, because otherwise he would be SOL and I would’ve sworn off helping anyone in this market again
I’m planning on upgrading from my then-free 2016 Titan Xp to a 4080 as soon as I can buy one, should be fun
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yeah, our free 1080 Ti is good but it’s struggling under the weight of me trying to do VR stuff
maybe I could get away with just upgrading the CPU (and motherboard, and RAM) to a current-get Ryzen for now? I don’t know, but then it raises the question of whether it’ll be possible to get a GPU if I actually need more of one
I suspect you could – I’m quite certain that 90% of my hitching at this point is my CPU, and my GPU still basically has room to run
I just spent $400 (Canadian) on DDR5 and consider it a deal so I’m officially starting to do my first actually new build in a decade but also lol lmao. I figure I’ll get baby’s first NVMe drive in another month, I already have a Dan A4 and a 750w SFX in a box, then I’ll wait for AM5 ITX.
anyway I’m bringing my keys to your place right now so you can look after my cats this weekend thanks again!!
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wait that means you’re doing Intel again, eh?
I was forced to jump from my 6700K in December so I could compile Unreal Engine builds but I went with Ryzen 5900; I didn’t want to mess with DDR5 prices, the thermal budget of Intel, and the prick of knowledge that I could run 12th-gen Intel faster if I switched to Win11.
nah just waiting for 5nm Ryzen
I would get a 5900X but the no iGPU thing offends me
wow you are pessimistic about RAM prices
I live in the country of eternal pessimism. please invade
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Of course, I’m sitting here with the 2 240mm radiators I bought for the formD T2 that I’ve been waiting for for 2 years
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were it not for my steam library I’d probably have cashed out on our GPUs and bought xboxes a year ago when they had appreciated 300%
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not me, my sense of self determination is too closely tied to having a programmable GPU at this point
eventually my corporeal being will just dissolve into a set of arbitrary preferences I have imposed on myself
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