u/Brick_Grimes

I have a ryzen 5 5600x and a 2x8 3200mhz cl16 ram kit. Should I buy a b550 motherboard for like 100$ and then get something like a 9070xt or 9070 or even 9070 gre, or should I spend the extra money and just build on am5?

For context the cpu and ram came from an attempted build a couple years ago where I got a few parts on prime day and never actually did anything with them.

I mainly play.. well random stuff I get on sale during steam sales and apex legends. Right now I’m using a pretty mid gaming laptop that has a 2050 and a ryzen 5.

So I have a series x and it never a single time will go over 150 mbps download speeds. I know the console has to be capable of faster speeds than that. My ps5 gets 500-600, mt switch 2 gets 350-400, my damn phone gets 600, my pc gets between 500-600, the only thing that doesn’t even come close to getting the correct wifi speeds over 5ghz is my series x. What could possibly be the issue? I have gigabyte internet. Yes it’s on wifi, no Ethernet is not possible.

For reference I can turn each device off and run the test on the exactly same spot in my desk, the Xbox series x will never download above 149.9 mbps while the other devices will regularly get well above that, to the point of if I download a 90gb game on my Xbox it takes an hour and a half where as on my PlayStation, switch or pc it would take 25-30 mins. It’s really killing me and makes me not even want to download stuff on my Xbox anymore.

So a few weeks ago I purchased a ps plus premium upgrade.. my partner that is on the card with me saw the charge and thought it was a mistake and we were double charged (since I got essential and upgraded to premium shortly after) so she disputed the charge.. obviously sony suspended the account, I got into contact with sony and said I had already contacted the credit card company to reverse the charge back. Which my credit card company a couple of days later did. The issue is Sony unsuspended the account, got their money, I was charged.. but they didn’t give me my ps plus premium back. I’ve been trying for days to get into contact with someone but the live chat is broken I guess because itll say estimated wait time is 30 minutes and then just disconnect and say sorry we were having a problem connecting you to someone try again in 24 hours.

I’ve tried all hours of the day every day this week and still can’t get a hold of someone and honestly I’m starting to get pissed because it’s ridiculous that Sony got their 77$ premium upgrade and my account is showing that all I have is essential and I can’t get a hold of anyone to get the problem fixed. What can I do here because I’m at a loss.

I can grab a brand new rx 6800xt for 400$, I have a 200hx 1440p monitor and currently use a RTX 4060. Is it worth 400$?

So right now I have a 2021 ram 1500 classic (single cab 8 foot bed v6) that’s currently in the shop getting repaired because some impatient moron couldn’t wait 2 seconds behind me and ran into the back corner of it trying to pass at a busy intersection.

I was already planning to get rid of it because I moved further away from work recently to a nice neighborhood and the thing was killing me on gas. Driving about 40 mins each way to work. In the morning I go the highway and on the way home to avoid traffic I go down the back roads.

I currently owe right around 7k on it and I’ve gotten appraisals for it between 17k to 19k to sell/ trade it. I don’t foresee the accident killing its value since it was purely cosmetic damage, no structural damage, it’s just getting the side panel of the bed replaced.

I’m not really sure what to buy though, I’d love something that’s more fuel efficient since I’m driving further for work, and I’d also love to lower my payment a bit. Was originally planning to keep it until I paid it off but gas is now 4.60 a gallon where I live and that thing cost 120$ to fill the tank once a week.

My mind defaulted to something like a Toyota Corolla for fuel efficiency and reliability but I’m 6’4” tall and I don’t think that’ll work out. I currently have a Malibu as a rental car and I barely fit in it leg room wise. Seat all the way down and back and my knees still damn near hit the steering wheel.

I want something that’s going to be fuel efficient, and reliable.

I’m thinking of just buying something new again since my intentions are to keep it for 10 years. The maintenance part of it isn’t really an issue because I’m a mechanic and do my own maintenance (unless it’s brand new I do work right down the street from a auto mall so dropping it off for service in the morning and picking it up on the way home is no big deal either). I preface that with I’m not an auto mechanic though I’m a diesel mechanic, not exactly the same but a lot of it translates over for basic preventive maintenance.

Budget 30k. I don’t plan on putting all of the equity of the trade into a down payment as I just had to spend 5 grand in moving cost so I’m probably going to use about 4-5k down and hope to walk away with a check for 4-5k.

Suggest away, my current considerations are a Chevy trax and a Mazda cx50. Although the Mazda is really pushing the budget, they are really nice cars though.