Windows will always be free 🤫

5800x3d would be better for cpu.

Would you throw your own mother into the landfill? Just memories, right.

There’s no bribery involved, Hochul is just a well-documented idiot. There was nothing forcing her to agree to what the lobbyists from the companies said, she was just genuinely swayed and signed their suggested amendments.

>Sure, the costs of high-end cards came down once crypto crashed

Pretty the MSRP of cards has actually increased since crypto crashed.

The place I had to take my dog to wanted an extra $150 just for me to be in the room with her when they did it. I couldn't afford it. Assholes.

I have a decent laptop for gaming but also like to have twitch off to the side and generally doesn’t like doing both at once. This seems like a good option to play on while streaming from my laptop, also seems more convenient when wanting to chill in bed. Also a little cumbersome setting up a laptop to project to a tv when this is more portable.

The experiment has failed, time to just give the land back to England.

You do not remember correctly. That model was never the truth. Most consoles at least break even.

Series X is generally considered equivalent to a 3060 Ti. So congratulations, you spent twice as much to get roughly the same performance.

Campaign contributions are bribery.

Lobbying is a corporatocracy. We elect politicians but it turns out the unelected corporations make the actual decisions.

Stock buybacks are a tax dodge to funnel billions to billionaires.

The US government is no longer a functioning entity.

Somewhat divergent opinion from my personal experience. The scarcity caused by first cryptominers than the pandemic took a lot of joy out of the PC building experience for me. It stopped being the fun experience of optimizing to performance but instead was a rush to get a complete set, even if it were subpar. Eventually found a next gen console at a good price to wait things out and, damn if I don't love the monthy game pass. Miss the keyboard and mouse but getting used to the controller. Thinking of getting a Steam deck to clear my steam backlog and take a step back into PC Gaming. Though really enjoying this monthly pass and haven't felt the urge.

You're going to have to pry the Pentium G4600@3.6GHz + 8 GB DDR4-2133 + 1050 Ti from my cold dead hands. It might get 8GB added, but that's about it.

I'm in a proper US midtown in a top-15 city size and the power keeps brownout'ing every 2-3 weeks, so I know that they are trying. I did not buy a crap PSU and have a true surge suppressor (that breaker has tripped a few times, she might get the budget from the RAM)

I moved to PS5 during the graphics card shit show.

It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. Even moreso when the game is rigged.

I’m sure you did your best against a juggernaut. Don’t lose hope

Time will pass, nobody will care. The best part is going to be when people say that repair advocates got what they wanted because this bill passed so why you still complaining? At the end of the day, technet won. I followed them and other similarly disingenuous lobbying firms around the country, recorded their bad arguments, rebutted them at every legislature in the country where they showed up, hired lobbyists of my own, but none of it worked. I lost. We lost, and a lot of it is because of my own inability to move the ball forward in the manner I was entrusted by so many people to do. I fucked up and failed.

Current consoles are equal to 3800 amd and 2080 nvidia

Couldn't this also be attributed to AMD artificially creating shortage by under-shipping chips?

>I want to build a new PC for my husband to replace his old 4790k/GTX970 build, but just the graphics card we’re aiming for alone is nearly the cost of a PS5.

You might consider a mitigating step and just do the graphics card. Even stepping to an RTX 3060 might be enough to go another 2-3 years on that rig especially if he's rolling 32GB of ram.

I think 8% was not with a thunderbolt 3/USBC, but a direct line into the mobo with a pci-e extender.

40% is extreme though. That may be for TB2. It is a weird edge case regardless.

At what point can we acknowledge that "lobbying" has just turned into legal bribery? This is anti-consumer behaviour. The EU has been the only thing that's keeping big tech at bay with good laws for the consumer

>I’ve been wanting to bring my PC gaming into the living room area

I've been here for about 12 years. Silverstone used to make a matx case that fits fairly well in my av cabinet with my Denon AV receiver and some other toys. When my wife and I moved in to our house I quickly realized it was way too small for me to have a workstation so I refactored with the goal of fitting in with the aesthic. I'm not sure how kosher links to new egg are so I'll just say Google silverstone htpc cases and you get a pretty good idea of my case.

I'm in

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