Excuse my photo dump... built a few more boards. I have reach my endgame so here on out I'll just be building fun weird boards verse trying to find my perfect daily.

Zoom65 with Cherry Spellbook caps




CoffeVan 40% with GMK Metropolis caps and a JellyKeys artisan spacebar.



Mode Envoy polycarbonate edition with GMK DMG caps (oldschool gameboy inspired)




Aozora with Voynich pbt caps.


New favorite deskmat and Voynich.


And lastly one of my new favorites. AluBolt with 90s inspired DCS Windbreaker caps.

 

Where'd you get this deskmat?

 

I got it in a group buy from AshKeebs where it is currently sold out. The original vendor is overseas... https://pantheonkeys.com/products/kl...kaijus-deskmat

Shipping from them is crazy but if you look around you may be able to find it from shops that still have extras. It's called Klash of the Kaijus by Pantheon Keys.

 

 

Yeah that sucks I've been using that backdoor for years

 

 

Supposedly the Super versions of the 40 series cards.

im still fine with my 3080. If I upgrade it won’t be until maybe the 50 series.

 

 

AM4 4Life. Amazing that there are new CPUs for it.

 

Big update to Windows 11 is out that improves gaming performance across AMD Zen 3, 4, and 5 processors by about 10% on average. Seems like AMD had been at a disadvantage against Intel when running Windows for years now. Current testing show little to no improvement to Intel CPUs

 

I upgraded from dual screens to a 34" ultrawide and holy cow I didn't realize what I was missing out on.
This wouldn't have been my first choice but it was gifted to me from my kid. It's missing some features I would have liked, such as an adjustable stand and a usb-c input, but other than that I like it!
LG 34WR50QC-B. Not bad at all for $200.

 

I've been using Dell 34" curved UW monitors for a few years now (more $$$ than LG, for certain) both at home and at my office. Much, much, much better than dual screens.

 

They’re already on 9000 processors?

Damn.
My 5800X3D sounds old now.

 

Well since the new Intel CPU's have been getting called a waste of sand it looks like my next build will be sticking with AMD once the 9000 X3D's are out. Have everything else bought and ready for when it gets released.

 

I'll probably rebuild my PC with this chip.


the 3D vcache is stacked underneath the CCD instead of on top, this allows the CCD to run at higher speeds and to be overclocked, a first for X3D chips. These chips should be better for production workloads now too

 

All reviewers are loving the 9800X3D. It seems the i/o dies on the Zen 5 is the big bottleneck and what's holding back Zen 5 from being much better than Zen 4 since they both share it.

 

Seems like Intel made a decent affordable GPU

 

Should be 50 series cards being announced tomorrow.

 

 

5070 = 4090 $549

 

5090 $1999

 

Anyone want to sell me a used 4090 for $400?

 

5080 $999

 

I’m sticking with my 3080.

 

not that I’m buying but when did it start getting so hard to get GPUs?

 

Like since 2017

 

What came out then? 20 series?

 

Not raw GPU compute but with multi frame gen.

I'm liking the idea of local ai for chat bot or image generation, etc so maybe I'll get a 50 series at some point, curious how much better it runs AI than 40 series. My 4070 runs Deepseek 14b pretty well. Hopefully with further efficiency improvements we can run even better AIs with decent hardware.

 

Nah all the crypto miners were buying up the 1060s to mine ETH

 

yea when I posted that, it was from the keynote and none of that was known at the time. I’d still gladly take that over my 3080. Maybe. But I haven’t booted up my PC in months.


ahh I see. I last built a PC in 2006 and then switched to a Mac. Didn’t get back in to PC building until 2021.

 

Ok fuck it yolo. I just rebuilt my PC today. The 9800X3d is never going to be in stock and I'm not camping out in restock livestreams waiting to get one.

So now I'm on Windows 11 Pro, AMD Ryzen 9700x, Gigabyte X870 Aorus Pro mobo, RTX 4070, 1tb NVMe, 2TB SATA SSD, 32GB DDR5, NZXT H5 Flow,850w PSU and Arctic Liquid Cooler III 360. I already had the GPU, SSDs, and PSU so I kept the rebuild just under $1k but I got a decent setup before any tariffs kick in, and while the 9700X wasn't a lot better than the previous gen it's way better than my 4 core Intel 7700k from 2017.

Now I can run my GPU, and SSDs at their full potential, resizable BAR, and a bunch of USB C ports.

I'm off to play Cyberpunk 2077...

 

I bought one of those Elgato Stream Deck's a while ago not entirely sure what I'd use it for but I've got a decent setup now. I'm using about half of it to monitor temp and fan speeds, and the other half is audio shortcuts to preset volume levels, Lofi girl live streams for background music and button to quickly switch between headphone and speaker audio output.



I'll probably dial back all the fan monitoring a little bit but it's helping me dial in my fan settings in my rebuilt PC.

 

AMD 9070 XT starting $599
AMD 9070 starting $549

 

Seems like there might finally be some competition

 

 

Don’t blame me I was just the messenger

 

9070XT is about as good as the 5070Ti but cheaper and hopefully doesn't have stock issues. Ray Tracing is much better than previous AMD cards but still not as good as Nvidia, FSR 4 looks pretty good to, seems like it might be competitive with DLSS 4 but we'll see. Overall seems like AMD has mostly caught up and if you just want a GPU that can run games well this is a good option if they don't have the price issues that Nvidia has. It's a much better value than the 5070.

 

I think I'm sticking with my 4070 for now. Paired with the new CPU it's running games much better, and for local AI it's running pretty well, and a great AVX512 implementation in the latest AMD cpus is helping out in AI workloads too.

 

I'm hanging onto my RX5700 until GTA VI drops. Hopefully a new GPU and my AM4 5700x will be good enough.
I'm mostly playing MAME and NES emulation right now. BTW Launchbox is pretty cool.

 

Have you played the new version of GTA5 will the ray tracing? Is that out yet?


I've used Duckstation in the past but I haven't put an emulator back on my PC yet.