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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    It's called lifestyle creep and while I am succeeding at not buying fancier cars, my penchant for increasingly fancy PC gaming is much more difficult to resist!
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    Definitely with you on this sentiment for the most part, especially about how far that kind of money will go for hiking, camping, and my newer hobby, photography. The only way I justified the $1,500 4090 FE was the perception of a great deal (i.e., using the 10% Best Buy credit card code that no...
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    FS: all gone for now

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    New AMD Mobo BIOS - Update AMD AGESA 1.1.7.0 for Next Generation Ryzen™ processors support.

    Everything going smoothly for you? They released the new BIOS for the B650E Taichi Lite yesterday, too. https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B650E%20Taichi%20Lite/Specification.asp#BIOS Debating whether to be ready for a day-one purchase, or wait a bit for any potential bumps to get smoothed out.
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    FS: all gone for now

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    ChatGPT linked to declining academic performance and memory loss in new study

    I am a professor of anatomical sciences (i.e., gross anatomy, histology, embryology, and neuroanatomy) at a well-known US medical school. Here are a few of my observations: - ChatGPT 3.5 and 4 can write well enough to pass general freshman-level English composition courses - They begin...
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    FS: all gone for now

    bump, price drop
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    cpu mobo ram combo listed
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    Samsung Galaxy S24 / S24+ / S24 Ultra

    One month update: Knock on wood, phone's still working great with zero issues. Still love the screen and the battery life. Have taken it on some hikes up into the mountains in single-digit temperatures and it performed perfectly on those.
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    Am I pushing it with 750W and RTX 4090

    Note you can power limit most 4090s quite a bit with minimal performance loss. I have my 4090 FE limited to 70% in MSI Afterburner and am entirely satisfied with framerates at the resolution and settings I prefer in the games I play. Cutting 100W off the power consumption with zero performance...
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    Anyone went strictly to SSDs only yet ?

    I replaced all of my desktop's HDDs with SSDs when prices on the latter bottomed out last late summer/early fall. My daily driver now has 2x 1TB WD SN850s and 4x 4TB Samsung 870 EVOs. Backups are all still HDDs.
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