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If this can improve my Stable Diffusion renders without me having to buy an entirely new videocard (and the cost is reasonable) i'm absolutely for this. I doubt that'll happen though.

https://serverpartdeals.com/ is where i've gotten my last few. They have sales every now and then but even the base prices are pretty damn good.

Yeah, used enterprise drive I think are my new go too. Just a bit easier, a little cheaper, and while I won't know exactly how long they've been used for, the quality of the drives themselves will likely make up for that.

I'm finally having shucked drives die on me... 7 years and well over 100TB worth of writes later. I need more hard drives.

Your 16gb ram might be the bottleneck.

My M2. slot immediately under the GPU does get hotter than my other M.2 slots, but it still maxes out around 60c, which is...whatever. Honestly it doesn't make a big enough difference to matter. It's a 4TB SN850X and I utilize it heavily, but other things interfere with the data rate when I'm...

Head over to the SNBforums Merlin forums and install entware and amtm on that thing to really see what it can do*. Having a DNS server / Adblocker / VPN etc. built directly into your router is awesome. Yes, yes I know that PFsense boxes can do all that - and more - but PFsense boxes also don't...

I need the VRAM so i'll likely bite if they're even a modest performance upgrade from my 3080 12GB but happen to offer 18 or 24GB VRAM. Otherwise I'm holding out for the 5000 series. For me the driving point of the upgrade isn't for gaming (Though that will be nice), it's AI LLMs.

Due to Black Friday I finally hit my computers final form. I have 128GB of DDR3600 in my machine instead of 64GB of mixed, really old and slow DDR3200. I managed to spend $124 on dual 64GB DDR3200 LP kits that hit DDR3600 easily. Did I need the space? Not really. I'm now using about 60GB as...

Ports are cheap. just grab a 16 or 24 port unit and call it good for long time. Especially if you only care about 1GB. I have 52 ports even though i'm only using about 1/3 of them.

I use ComfyUI personally. https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI I kept adding new nodes and add-ons and my workflow is a little complex these days. I'd started with a simpler gui.

If you're using Stable Diffusion go take a look at www.civitai.com models and you can make anything you could possibly imagine and probably a bunch of stuff you can't or don't want to imagine.

Look, I presented you with unedited, unmodified, pictures of game prices from magazines when they were new. Your memory is the one in the wrong.

What? Yes they did. here are some actual advertisements of NES, SNES and N64 games.

The only reason a lot of those games have higher numbers than Counterstrike is because they aren't PC exclusive. They're available on on every platform Including mobile. Also Microsoft didn't put games on steam because they think they're gonna buy valve. They put the games on steam for the...

They all also sell games on steam. They currently work as DLC and subscription storefronts where they keep 100% of the profits. Probably worth keeping around for that. As for GOG, they have a niche in the Old Games section and the DRM Free thing.

I used to bother with it, logged on once a week to grab my free game. I think I paid for one or two exclusives, then it told me to install "Epic Online Services" every time I relaunched it and I have zero interest in fortnite so i'm not gonna do that. I don't think I've launched EGS in years...

It's more that SDXL and other recent AI models are using more RAM because they're generating at a higher resolution. SD 1.5's 512x512 fit within 6-8 gigs pretty damn easy with some room to spare. SDXLs 1024x1024 or larger goes just to the limit of my 12GB 3080. I've had hard crashes over DWM...

I've had better luck with ASrock with my AM4 systems than my Asus or MSI motherboards. My X570 Taichi is probably my favorite mobo that i've ever owned, but it's also my only "premium" motherboard.

I miss the old Anandtech days. They were the best for years.

I've gotten a couple hard drives from Serverpartsdeals.com and they've all been great. Got 14TB WD Ultrastar drives for $99 each a few months ago, recertified - yes, but they haven't thrown a single error in 91 days of continuous usage and some rather massive data being added and removed.

Yeah, I have a LOT of the settings tweaked quite a bit. I've been slowly learning and adding new nodes as I go. I have it set up so that it uses roughly 11gb of my 12276 total ram.

I generate at 1280x768 and upscale to roughly 4k and then add more detail via grid rendering. An example of a recent workflow. I have it set up to use Controlnet if I want, but I had it disabled for this particular picture.

In the extremely unlikely scenario that the RTX 4080 Super is somehow more powerful than a 4080 with 20GB of VRAM and significantly cheaper than a 4090 (Under $1000) it's tempting. I could use the VRAM. Still likely just gonna hold out for the 5000 series at this rate though.

When I hit 12GB on certain games I get massive hitching (Diablo IV being a huge one - had to lower settings to even get the game to run), and when I hit 12GB on my AI image generation software I get crashes of the program including error messages about how much VRAM it wasn't able to allocate...

I have dual 4k60hz monitors and 1x 1440p165hz monitor. I usually game on the 1440p monitor these days and use the 4k monitor for videos and such. Still, in certain games 4k60hz makes more sense to me.

I've been hitting the 12GB VRAM limit of my 3080 12GB a *lot* lately. It's absolutely holding me back. If I only had a single monitor and a lower resolution it probably wouldn't matter, but I'm routinely over 10GB in games and programs I use daily and don't even get me into how close to the...

Someday they'll find a way to make it possible for me to make a living bartending from home. Until that day, guess I'll go to work. I'd love to WFH but the entire reason I'm in my career instead of sitting at a desk is because I need the social and mental engagement of a public facing job...

A friend of mine in another forum was an epic employee that worked on Fortnite level design. Now that he's been laid off he's finally able to show-off his portfolio and if you've played fortnite at any point in the past 5+ years (and even right now) you've battled in the arenas he's made. If...

If you're leaving the fan on the noctua and its going to be creating airflow through the RAM, then naked shouldn't be a problem at all.

Rumors put it around ps4 pro peformance clock for clock which, for a handheld, is kinda crazy, especially for a part that's supposed to be sub 15w. (Ps4 pro was 300 watts) That's almost on par with a steam deck except it's likely gonna be smaller than a steam deck Also, it will have 10+ years...

I switched to OrangePi for my last project due to the ridiculous rarity of rasp pi. It works fine for my needs.

Epic owned Bandcamp!?

It's pretty simple. Which matters more? Gaming first? 5800X3D Production or any other tasks that use 32 threads? 5950X. Keep in mind that if you do both, the 5950X will likely be more useful because double the cores and higher clockspeed makes up for the extra cache a little bit.

What's wrong with an external one? I just keep one attached to my computer's usb-hub at all times even if I rarely use it. It's smaller than a flash drive...

That was fast

Even with my largest transcoding jobs the 5950X seems remarkably effective. Curious what'll happen with AV1, but for 4k x265 it's holding up so well that I'm not worried about upgrading, and I haven't yet come across a game that I feel is CPU limited, unlike when I had my 3900X. My 3080 12GB...

I love my 5950X and I personally don't think that the 7950X is a worthwhile upgrade for the cost of new mobo, ram, etc. Especially with as much RAM, SATA and M.2 ports I need. (Though the rapidly lowering price of NVME drives is making the last one less important.) I'd wait till the 8000...

When it comes to SATA cables, I'm frankly mind boggled that we haven't moved past SATA 6.0gbps yet. I feel like they could easily implement a faster, more flexible, cable that also does power pretty damn easily. Using something like more modern USB cables.

Not gonna lie, having 3 or 4 super thick PSU-> GPU cables -> 12hp whatever adapter -> GPU felt like a lot of failure points in my build. Also was just kind of a pain for routing, and I have a massive case. (Fractal Define 7XL) Just having much shorter PSU -> GPU cables that plug directly into...