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  1. 4 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2nGPGJ

    5070ti and 9070xt are fairly close in performance with the 5070ti being marginally better within 3-5% of gaming performance. White GPU's are hard to come by!

    The case comes with 7 RGB fans preinstalled. Thermalight has come in and crushed the aio scene with pricing, quality, and performance according to people lately.

    You're aright around 2500 with that setup with a better CPU, MoBo, RAM, and similar storage. If you decided on the 9070xt that would save you $220 that you could use to go with 2 more tb of storage. I included both storage sizes and both GPUs. I think I’d personally go with the 5070ti for the slight performance because it’s always cheap to add another m.2 later on than buy a new GPU. 
    You're RGB'd as fuck and white as fuck with that setup.

    That's a good build.  I'm not sure I want to drop $1k on a GPU, but I could always compromise and get the regular 5070 and save a few hundred.  Thanks.

  2. 6 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Just bought some upgraded ram

     

    Went from Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000 CL36 12ns 1st world latency and 36-36-36-76 timing

    to TeamGroup T-Force Delta DDR5 6400 CL 32 10ns 1st world latency and 32-39-39-84 timing($80 on Newegg - sale)

     

    Only major upgrade that is worth the money for my current rig

    Going to a 14900k/14900ks from my 13700k isn't worth the $450-650 for 5-8% performance

    I sure as hell am not going to spend $3000-5000 to upgrade from my 4080 to a 4090, 5080, or 5090.

    What would be your budget? AMD or Intel? What's your current GPU? What color theme? RGB or no? 

    I would prefer to stay under $2.5k for everything.  I'm essentially looking at the $2k build from Tom's.  AMD CPU.  Icy white everything.  RGB yes.  Current rig is showing its age, but I've shifted most of my gaming to xbox, so I haven't had a pressing need to upgrade.  My pitiful 2070 was low end of the top tier when I bought it, which tells you how old this thing is.  It's essentially a surly reading box at this point.    

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  3. On 4/17/2025 at 5:32 PM, idigTexas said:

    Glad Kamilla lived to see another day.  I said "anyone but Sai" previously, but now I'm team "anyone but David."  I'm actually pulling for Kamilla, which is probably driving a lot of my David hate.   

    Okay, I need a new "anyone but..."

    I have dropped Mary from my rooting interest due to her annoying association with David, even if it was in her best interest at the time. 

    I think the previews that show Kamilla forming a group of four with Mitch, Star, and Mary is a ruse, but we'll see.  

    I know most are rooting for Joe/Eva.  It makes for a nice warm happy story, but I'm still on team Kyle/Kamilla.  

    On a side note, I'm reading that David's girlfriend left him after he got voted off.  That is probably a good thing for him.  I expect him to land on his feet and upgrade.  He seems like a decent dude, but not a particularly good Survivor player.    

  4. On 4/22/2025 at 4:46 AM, Napoleon said:

    Wasn’t he the one with a million false starts?

    No need for hyperbole here.  It was 12,416.  

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  5. On 3/2/2025 at 7:46 AM, MadTrapper said:

    This GPU market is wild...again of course.  I bought a used 6700xt off eBay in Sept last year for 230.  Now they are going for 300+ for a fairly mid-tier card.  

    I've been getting the itch to build a new rig, but the current GPU market is keeping that on hold.  I'm looking through the Tom's Hardware build guides, and all of them cost hundreds more than when they were written.  It's crazy.  

  6. 8 minutes ago, MotownHorn said:

    Good. I think there's a strong argument that Haith is one of the worst coaches in the history of college basketball. Fuck that guy and the 2 seasons he stole from us.

    What about his other 3 seasons as a Barnes assistant, including the year we went to the Final Four?  

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  7. 8 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

    The way they scattered their stacks all over the field was insane. Completely screwed themselves by not having any sort of plan or organization.

    I don't really have a problem with the first part.  Scattering the hay, while unconventional, wasn't the issue.  The fact that they didn't think to then walk over it in a systematic survey fashion is what doomed them.  They had already given up, so it wasn't going to happen.   

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  8. That was another really good episode, and the correct team went home.  They've been near the bottom the entire race.  The nerds are surprisingly awful at navigation, but survive.  I'm glad the double u-turn was used.  It sucks when it gets wasted.  The nerds owe mother daughter a huge thank you.  

  9. 1 hour ago, Skipper said:

    I kind of want them to win just to get swept by OKC so they lose a lottery pick.  Never thought I would be rooting for failure but that is kind of where my head is at.  I want not just Nico gone but things to get so bad Dumont wants out.

    I'd be down with that, though part of me wants them to somehow get to the conference finals against the Lakers and get swept by an average score of 137 - 82, with Luka averaging 50-20-15, and LeBron being out with an injury for the entire series.  

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  10. 6 hours ago, Derka said:

    my favorite carnac bit was from an issue of SI from back in like 1995-96:

    ”High and outside.”

    ”Describe JR Rider at a picnic.” 

    Isaiah "JR" Rider is well after Johnny's time, and "high and outside" suggests baseball?  Did you mean J.R. Richard?  I guess if it was a SI bit and not Johnny doing Carnac, then must be Rider.  

  11. 2 hours ago, Napoleon said:

     

    Why are they listing Arkansas with an “A” that is nearly indistinguishable from Alabama’s “A”?

    Why aren’t they using this fucking image?

    image.png.a02d3974fa1d39d88162127d5de4d6d6.png

    They appear to mostly be using the logos that are on the baseball caps.  We are one of the exceptions.  Imagine our T next to Tennessee's.  That would probably cause as much confusion as the As for Alabama and Arkansas, though not for us, as the difference is obvious.  

  12. 20 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

    The Dubai leg was pretty cool. Would’ve liked to see all the teams do the scuba challenge, but it was still good.

    I liked Pops and Jeff and was sad to see them go. Old man is ripped. Hesitating for that train was a fatal mistake.

    I actually like all of the remaining teams except Jonathan and Ana.

    Yep.  I didn't think Pops and Jeff would win, but has been fun pulling for them.  

    The Fast Forward task was awesome, but determining who got to do it was pretty lame.  It was essentially determined by the person who got to skydive first. 

    Looks like more fireworks next week with another double u-turn.  That probably means that the Melinda and Erika will survive.  Melinda is a year older than Pops.  I love seeing the olds be competitive.   

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