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Tape decks... I wish I still had my Akai reel-to-reel from the 1980s.

Same... until two of the family EcoTanks developed bad print heads and feeder gears and I was quoted over $100 each for replacements. Then we gave up and went to Brother laser printers... not a failure since (5 years+)

I've never had any problems with an ASRock board... I currently have the X670 Taichi Carrera and love it. ASRock was the first OEM to release an updated BIOS for this too. When I had a driver problem with my older Velocita board, their CS was very proactive and even emailed me some...

I'm just hoping that the 7000's launch will finally bring down prices on a 6800XT, which is the card I actually almost afford

Wait for BuildZoid to do a complete review of all of the boards after they launch

Sitting out this round of cpu/mb upgrades, but could be after a better gpu if prices continue to improve. Having double the M.2 slots is a nice feature though. Any motherboards in white this cycle? /5800X3D - ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero X570 - Sapphire Nitro+ 6600XT

JayzTwoCents just did a video on how to get around the 'online' MS account nonsense

I burn DVDs and Blu's almost weekly.... God Bless Them

Couldn't care less about Ray Tracing... I don't play a single game that even supports it. Hopefully, I won't have to buy a new GPU until after the next product cycle late this year. /6600XT works just fine for 1440p gaming

I've already got a ghost image of my boot drive, but will update it. The CTD issue is weird and has been happening on/off for several years. Never while gaming or running any productivity app - only happens 1-2 times a month when playing a YT video... best guess is that my 6600XT runs out of...

My Win10 system for work/play (Ryzen 5900/32gb) is now pushing me with nags to install the Win11 update... Gaming performance in W11 is about identical to W10? I suppose MS Office performance is same. How is memory handling? I sometimes get CTD's when playing YouTube videos

Every two years or so, when I do upgrades, I'll say to myself 'time to build a W/C'... and then I look at build prices, gasp... just lazy out and put in a good AIO /has Lian Li Galahad 360 - replaced the crap LL fans and went 6-fan push-pull and get silly low temps on my 5900X /14 fans total :p...

Bump (just in case) for a damned good cpu! /love mine

So.... when is John Romero going to get around to 'making me his bitch'? /Dakatana was a real POS //Romero + Carmack(s)=genius - but they were crap solo

I think wokeness ought to be this generation's Godwin Law... the first poster crying racism, sexism, ****ism, equity, etc (and anyone dredging up Gamergate) automatically loses the thread and must stand in a corner with a dunce cap on ;)

Sticking with my 5900X. I'd like to ride with AM4 for at least another year before I start thinking upgrades again.

Do it! We're thinking about doing the same, getting out of Houston and trying to find a nice quiet corner of the hill country that hasn't already been discovered and become unaffordable, so we might consider Arkansas, Missouri, Colorado or even Maine for our retirement. She wants to rescue...

I like Brave... but FVD Speeddial doesn't run in it, as of the last time I checked. At the moment I'm just looking for a registry hack to mute FF's constant attempt to dial home

When Firefox recently disabled FVD Speeddial (which is essential to me) I had to back up to a prior version of FF and then I disabled automatic updates in FF setup. Now I'm getting an unacceptable level of 'nags' every time I open a webpage reminding me to Update - How can I turn these reminders...

There are already much easier ways to track us.... MAC numbers on your cable modem/router and NICs, for starters

Ack... unfortunately, I think you're going to be right on this one. It might easily become a world where Gamer's Nexus and Hardware Unboxed become unprofitable.... while Linus grows and branches out with his own cooking lines of air fryers and a daytime talk show, and such :/ /starting to really...

I can proudly say that I've never even heard of any of those top ten channels

I haven't bought anything Intel in over ten years. Thank goodness that AMD is at least competitive with both CPUs and GPUs.

Perhaps... but my 6600XT benchmarked @ 10% faster in every score than my prior 5700XT, so I kept the 6600XT and eBay'd the 5700XT for stupid money /6600XT also had lower thermals and burned less watts

China... China never changes

Ah... a perfect thread for my Easybake oven pic with Intel Inside.... and now I can't find the bloody thing!

HP p*ssed me off for the last time a few years ago with (the above pic) can't print, low on xxxx color nonsense. 90% of the time I could shake the cartridge and it would sound about half full. So, I bought one of the Epson Eco-tanks (midrange model) and have never regreted it. Printer ink in...

There are lots of tech rumor sites that are 98% rubbish, but MLID does have some decent, fairly accurate, sources and has a respectable batting average for his predictions

Just overly cautious. I just changed any password that I had associated anywhere with the leaked Username (not my primary)

The report I saw stated that all of Twitch's stored user data was hacked/leaked - including primary email address, userid's & passwords :/ Had to spend most of yesterday changing passwords at 20+ places :( /don't want to buy a pw manager... but it may come to that if this sh*t keeps happening...

Bump - price reduced

Just picked up Tropico 6 + a few DLCs as part of a Bundle, but the sale also included extra full copies of Tropico's 3-5 (already had) that I can 'Gift to a Friend'. Tropico 3: Gold Edition + Tropico 4 Collector's Bundle + Tropico 5 - Complete Edition $10 for all three (via Paypal) OBO

The 6800's are pretty decent GPUs.... if sold at or near MSRP /not paying $1000 for any card, let alone $2k+ //quite happy with my 6600 XT (bought at MSRP)

Nope... value and price sanity doesn't enter (much) into the discussion :/ /won't buy any card not at (or below) MSRP //happy with my Sapphire Nitro+ 6600 XT for now (bought at MSRP)

How the years go by...

My Sapphire 6600 XT Nitro+ plus arrived and I'm really happy with it - even at the price. I was able to troubleshoot my wonky Gigabyte 5700 XT some more (and got it working - it was a bad HDMI cable!) and then decide which card to keep and which to just resell. FurMark for the 5700 XT was 5623...

'Not worth it' is an individual value decision - 2021 GPU prices are a complete train wreck. 99% of the time I would probably agree with you, but since my 5700 XT choked I needed something ASAP... and today/now buying at MSRP for the Sapphire Nitro+ 6600 XT was 'acceptable'. If I'd had my old...

/sigh.... apples/oranges In the last 30 days on eBay, the average NIB 6700 XT sold @ $700 (non-reference cards $50+ more) Again, in 2021 original MSRP for 2020 (and older) products is a fantasy number with almost no bearing to reality

Costs more than a 2080? lol... tone down the trolling, you're trying too hard ;) NewEgg doesn't show a single 2080 in stock for less than $1000. Amazon is slightly worse, even. None in-stock at MC. Burned out used mining cards on eBay aren't much cheaper. Thusly, a $1000+ card is not an...

Those look pretty close to the AIB MSRP prices for the better cards. All of the $389 one sold first. My Nitro from the NewEgg shuffle was $449. Sure there will be price creep up as the original stock sells out, though