Recent content by Soggy

Reminds me of the Woot.com "bag of crap". Except that was only $5 and universally known to deliver the goods.

It's true, I have a bad habit of nickel and diming myself for features that I think I might need. Younger me would have ended up with a $500 motherboard. In the end I looked at what my 12 year old computer eventually morphed into and realized a bare bones board would do just fine.

Pulled the trigger on a 7900x build. Between the Amazon sales, and EVGA B stock I was able to keep it reasonable. I was really hoping the promise of a $125 board was going to deliver but oh well. Ended up getting an Asus prime b650 plus. I wanted another Nvme slot or 2 but it seemed every...

No actually I was already buying it, just a happy bonus. Actually the day before they had the price jacked up to $580 so it was more like $50 less than I was planning on.

Looks like all of the zen4 processors on Amazon ar $20 off. I got an alert about the 7900x in my cart and pulled the trigger. I triple checked that it was the one listed in the AMD store.

Lol yeah, I was being sarcastic. I'm a bang for the buck guy myself, I'm still playing old games on an i7 920 with a 650ti.

Hold the phone. I'll gladly take any functional rtx card that is going in the trash. I know that 3090 is practically a dinosaur but some of us are on a budget.

And I remember paying $100 per gb of DDR for my socket 939 Athlon 64. And then I paid $200 for a 6gb kit for my i7 920 setup.

The thing is, if I'd had a decent option to upgrade the CPU down the road I would have. But Intel changes sockets so that you can't. AM5 however is going to have some interesting options. Still I'd probably be perfectly happy with AM4. But I'm also in no big rush. What to do....

Sigh. Im planing to finally upgrade from my i7 920 and I was really hoping Zen4 was going to be a no brainer. But these MoBo prices are discouraging. And then on the other hand AM4 is sitting there perfectly capable but at the end of it's upgrade road. But then would I ever actually upgrade the...

Oh no doubt, I got married 6 years ago and haven't had time to play games since ;D. The wife doesn't understand why I would want to replace a perfectly good computer. This is what I get for buying quality parts that won't die.

Lol current main system has an i7 920. Put this baby together 11 years ago, over locked it to 4ghz and its never felt old. The only reason I want something new is Microsoft flight sim 2020.

They waited so long to bring these back to MSRP that people like me who waited almost 2 years can now wait a little longer for the next generation. My original plan was zen3 with a 3070. Now the plan is a zen4 with a 4070 (depending on the iews of course). If they want me to buy these cards the...

It's not being cheap, it's good marketing, luring you to the higher trim level. and your falling for it.

I think the key to this being used for high capacity batteries such as cars is to have two. One battery is obviously in the car. The second battery is stationary and charges at the slower rate limited by you power source. When you get home and plug in the stationary battery dumps into the car...