yeah ya know what at that price point and feature set I think I’d probably recommend it over any other sub 16G card now
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I bought a five bay HDD caddy. Right now I think I have six HDDs totalling about 72TB. I probably have an SSD or 2.5 inch HDD around here somewhere two. I should be able to run all of these connected to my laptop dock now (gave up on NAS because it was too power hungry)
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just in case anyone cares, after over a week of doing further research and benchmark comparisons, strongly considering a ryzen, i ended up going with a i5-14400F after all. got a motherboard that supports my old 32gb of ddr4 ram because after reading up on costs and speeds, i felt like staying at ddr4 would be good enough, and i was trying to do this on a low budget. maybe this is a mistake. we’ll find out, maybe, i guess?
and then, uh, i got itchy about how old my gpu was and worried about how much time left it had in it and what the future of consumer gpus look like and found a good deal on an rtx 3060 12gb. so much for my low budget build.
got myself a couple new ssds too, which are much faster than my old ones, which is neat.
i didn’t exactly follow anyone’s advice here, but i appreciated all the input and that helped me understand the landscape better and whatw my choices were. thanks for anyone who gave input.
so uh at the end of the day, all i kept from the old build: my case, my psu, my ram, and various old hard drives (2 ssds and 2 4tb hdds). got a bit carried away.
but also i’m pretty happy with it. it feels slick af and games run better with quieter gpu fans.
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if you’re happy, I wouldn’t stress it too much
a lot of the Intel/AMD debate is minmaxing perf per dollar. the 13/14400 are actually in the safe CPUs (a lot of the issues are in the 600 and above SKUs), although I would absolutely hunt down the latest BIOS update for your board to make sure you’re getting all the mitigations against the CPU blowing itself up (yes this is a thing and is a lot of the reason why people push AMD in the DIY space)
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Oh, thanks. I’ll be sure to update my BIOS tonight then.
Intel also tends to lead on platform features and avoids crudities like actively cooled chipsets and lower memory speed with 4 dimms.
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yup. It’s actually shocking how long it took AMD to catch up on stuff like adequate iGPUs and usable out of the box cooling, and their memory controllers are still unbelievably more sensitive to timings than Intel’s have been for like… 20 years. It’s just that Intel has been dragging ass so badly lately on things like “having an intelligible consumer lineup” and “not being stuck with their own mediocre fab” and (relatedly) “keeping power consumption remotely competitive with other architectures” that AMD is somehow the better option 90% of the time these days if you’re willing to not get a bottom dollar board/cooler/ram or are reusing parts (in which case Intel still wins).
the DDR4/5 performance delta on Intel is somehow still pretty marginal in most cases whereas with AMD you have to get very specific memory to not fuck up your build
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IIRC the story on the chipsets needing cooling was that AMD farmed out 300 and 400 to ASMedia and took over for X570 and their answer was to turn the server chipset into the consumer chipset
servers, of course, have tons of cooling
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I need a dock that will let me
- Connect and power one (optionally two) Macbooks
- Connect my desktop PC
- Power a few other devices (at least iPhone and iPad, but a handful more devices would be nice)
- Isn’t $200
Is this a real thing?
There are definitely KVMs that do most of this. Though the answer to the last bullet point is pretty inconvenient.
nice
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what
everyone loved Aero
Apple’s bringing it back
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Ugly is back
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reminds me of vita
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Yeah is iOS really gonna be uglier than AOSP??
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If their behavior with the iOS 7 redesign repeats, it’ll be this ugly for about 6 months before they quietly retreat on the worst aspects of it
my logitech “superlight” mouse I got not that long ago already failed, was having phantom clicks and whatnot, impossible to highlight anything or drag anything anywhere etc. somehow several buttons started doing this, not just one. did I learn my lesson? no, I got the same mouse except now it has a 2 in the name and optical switches and is slightly curved for right hand use. I’m too invested in the charging mouse pad, the updated version of which doesn’t even have a wireless receiver on it anymore which was a big part of why I wanted it
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Should’ve gotten an attack shark.
Speaking of monitors: how do I know if it’s the monitor or the dock when I’m getting issues with 4k120 output from my rog ally? I used it just fine on my 1080p60 old tv but now… every so often I just get a black screen. And mooost of the time it’s a hassle just getting on the screen at all.
I only have one usb c out on the ally. My dock says it’s 4k144, but… it was pretty cheap.
Big news for mac dweebs: Steam for ARM
Though it definitely has more to do with nvidia than apple. I kind of appreciate valve’s ongoing disrespect for macOS because 1. it doesn’t stop developers from distributing ARM builds (e.g. baldur’s gate III) and 2. any games-related plans apple makes will have nothing to do with valve. But this is a good sign and a little quality of life improvement.
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