u/Bront20

I have a normal (not Super) 4070. Served me well for over 2 years, was nicely undervolted, and gamed on somewhat regularly but not treated hard. Pretty clean, still getting around 60c under FurMark loads and rarely over 56c otherwise. I even have the original box. 3 fan OC model and I think I even know the detailed OC I ran on it for 2 years stably.

I'm seeing these go for $450 to $500 used. Is that still fair market value?

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I've been playing with my new Buds 4 Pro, and in testing the 360 audio I'm not really sure it's worth it

Some songs it does nothing of note. Like I can't hear a difference.

Some songs the effect is cool, but I swear I hear extra echos that aren't normally there, the trebble is cranked up on cymbals and guitars, and vocals tend to fall into the background a bit, and overall it sounds like the song is being put though an extra EQ and effects rather than just clean sound.

Am I alone?

No hate for anyone who likes this btw.

Every Tuesday we open a thread to let people ask questions about the system or the game without judgement. New players and GMs are encouraged to ask questions here.

The rules:

• Any question about the FFG Star Wars RPG is fine. Rules, character creation, GMing, advice, purchasing. All good.

• No question shaming. This sub has generally been good about that, but explicitly no question shaming.

• Keep canon questions/discussion limited to stuff regarding rules. This is more about the game than the setting.

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I think I found a great deal on 2x 8TB WD Purple drives in sealed packages from 2023.

I realize they're not optimized for speed or NAS service, but I'm low on space and was looking to add a backup of some kind, possibly just a DAS to use to backup old video files from my Youtube Channel, so I'd be using the drives once every few months to dump old data on.

Would I really notice or be risking anything grabbing them for a DAS? I already have one 8 TB HDD (ironwolf) so I could set them up in a 3 drive Raid 5, or just as 3 individual drives on a DAS.

I know they aren't rated for high end NAS Raid use, but I figure this is pretty light work.

What options are there for white ATX PC cases with a stage?

I know Coolermaster has one but it's like $275 and not 100% sure if it comes in white.

GAMDIAS has the Atlas P6 which I think would be perfect, but it looks to be black only (even though their promo video has a white version) and I could justify the $140 price tag for that.

For some reason I swore Phantex made one, but I can't find it, so maybe it was a CES thing that's not out?

Any other options? Ideally under $150? I'm getting ideas for a build for my kiddo (almost 19, but it's what I call her), and she wants a white build with RGB, and while I know she'd be fine without a stage, I think it'd be cool (otherwise I'll likely end up with an Lian Li 216, 217, or 207, I've built 3 PCs in the 216 and love it, and the price is right)

Every Tuesday we open a thread to let people ask questions about the system or the game without judgement. New players and GMs are encouraged to ask questions here.

The rules:

• Any question about the FFG Star Wars RPG is fine. Rules, character creation, GMing, advice, purchasing. All good.

• No question shaming. This sub has generally been good about that, but explicitly no question shaming.

• Keep canon questions/discussion limited to stuff regarding rules. This is more about the game than the setting.

Ask away!

Just to confirm, you are still earning points, they just aren't displaying. Do your training, and you'll get the rewards. Plarium will fix the leaderboards eventually, it's a known issue.

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Every Tuesday we open a thread to let people ask questions about the system or the game without judgement. New players and GMs are encouraged to ask questions here.

The rules:

• Any question about the FFG Star Wars RPG is fine. Rules, character creation, GMing, advice, purchasing. All good.

• No question shaming. This sub has generally been good about that, but explicitly no question shaming.

• Keep canon questions/discussion limited to stuff regarding rules. This is more about the game than the setting.

Ask away!

Every Tuesday we open a thread to let people ask questions about the system or the game without judgement. New players and GMs are encouraged to ask questions here.

The rules:

• Any question about the FFG Star Wars RPG is fine. Rules, character creation, GMing, advice, purchasing. All good.

• No question shaming. This sub has generally been good about that, but explicitly no question shaming.

• Keep canon questions/discussion limited to stuff regarding rules. This is more about the game than the setting.

Ask away!

Pretty much the title.

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I have a 12900k running 52x 4 core 51x all p core 40 E core oc (undervolted so it only pulls 160-180 tdp at load). I'm mostly happy with it but I always get the itch to upgrade, which would be a 14700k or 14900k. I do game, video creation/editing, and stream on occasion so the horsepower wouldn't be wasted, but I'm not really feeling like I'm lacking either.

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Would I see any real benefit? What price would make sense? Any reason to avoid either of those CPUs (outside of the voltage issue so I'd update my MB first)?

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Talk me into or out of this please!

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I set a daily alarm, but since the 8th, my Google home keeps forgetting my alarms, particularly the reoccurring ones if I don't have a static alarm also set.

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Usually happens about 15-30 minutes after I set it, usually about 10 minutes after I confirm it's set. The first time.

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Very frustrating as that's my main use for my nest speakers.

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I've tried rebooting them, does not help (they're a pair). As far as I can tell they're updated and running Gemini.

Would love some opinions.

I'm speccing out a PC for the kiddo who wants to get her first desktop. We're unsure on the exact budget, but the GPU is already sorted (I should have an extra 4070 soon). I do NOT want to go AM4. I get that it's probably better value at the moment, but the value of AM5 is that a huge CPU upgrade is a drop in away even years later, as would be a RAM upgrade. System would primarily be used for gaming, and while she does enjoy streaming on occasion, I'm not really worried about that functionality, though mostly due to RAM prices since most modern CPUs can handle it pretty well, particularly with a 4070. We might also be able to simply steal one of her laptop's SSDs to save money as well (her older laptop has a 512 GB SSD and a 2 TB Gen 4 SSD) though I think I'd rather budget a 1 TB SSD for a boot drive anyway.

We have a Microcenter here so I've been looking at the AMD and Intel bundles. Curious on your thoughts on different budget price points.

Under $400:
The 7500X3D with RAM bundle for $299 doesn't look too bad, but the 7600X3D bundle looks like either motherboard ($349.99 or $379.99) looks a LOT better with better VRM cooling. Maybe the X870 board bundle might be the way to go there just for the better motherboard. The con to this is only 16GB of RAM, but the X3D chips make up for that in gaming, and it's still plenty of horsepower for other tasks she'd need (she's not editing videos, and if it came to it, I'd let her edit on my rig if it was a huge problem)

Under $600:
The AMD plays here seem to be 7800X3D or 9700X, so probably the 7800X3D is the way to go for $599.99 given that has most of the non-gaming performance and a lot more gaming performance. But for $549.99, the Intel 270K bundle feels like a better option. Similar gaming performance (heck, probably better in most cases), significantly better other performance.

Other Option:
A third option is for me to pay the upgrade difference for the 270K, snag that (Minus the RAM) for myself, and hand her my 12900K, Z690 MB, and the 32 GB RAM kit from that bundle for $299. I'm not 100% sure where that compares to the 7600X3D in gaming, probably somewhat similar, but it would be a banger of an all around system. It would be a ton of work, but in the end we both end up with better systems. I toss this in because I want to make sure it's a solid option and not just me angling for a system upgrade, and she's already getting my hand me down GPU at a reduced price/free.

Non-Bundle Options:
Are there any non-bundle options elsewhere on the internet that could possibly do better?

Would love some feedback.

I'm a content creator. I used to stream more, and I do a lot of youtube. I started with a 2060 Mobile and got a 4070 desktop build 3ish years ago. The 4070 is fine, I play games in 1440P, and the games I generally CC with aren't super demanding most of the time and my 4070 runs games like Horizon Forbidden West well enough at settings I enjoy at around 90-100 FPS.

But I use a lot of the Nvidia Broadcast suite, and I do edit videos to some extent. And I've been eyeing the 4070 TI Super or 4080 (either) and now the 50 series equivilants for some time for the extra NVENC encoder as well as the performance upgrade, but I'm not sure if it's worth the jump.

At the moment Microcenter has an MSI Shadow 5070 TI for around $850 (I want to say $839, but honestly $50 isn't a huge price fluctuation) and I've seen 5080s for $1199 (I think Zotac). Some part of me is itching.

The other reason I'm thinking about this, is sometimes in the next 6 months, my kiddo wants to build a new PC, and while I could snag her a 9060 XT or 5060/TI level card, she'd also be fine with my old 4070 that's been undervolted for the duration. Not sure if I should maybe make the move now while I can financially (would be a slight stretch, but it's also a tax write off).

So any thoughts? Do the extra encoders or GPU power help a ton with Nvidia broadcast? Would it help editing videos in Davinci Resolve?

For reference, I'm rocking a 12900K, so not the best of the best, but no performance slouch for work or gaming and no real system imbalance if I dropped either in there.

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Update:
Thanks for the feedback. I figured the 5080 was probably a pipe dream, but a man can dream. And sadly, a tax writeoff means I can deduct the price of the GPU from my income before calculating taxes, so an extra $400-600 isn't really moving the needle much.

I stopped in a local Best Buy, and they had a shelf tag for the PNY 5070 TI OC for $799. Talking to a rep, I was able to order the part at that price, should arrive on Friday. On top of that, I applied for the Best Buy CC, so I got a 10% rebate though that, and earn regular rewards points on it as well for the purchase, so including tax it'll still be around $750 net out of pocket and I can pay with some money I'll have coming in next month. And I'll have the spare 4070 I can keep or sell, though probably pass it down.

Every Tuesday we open a thread to let people ask questions about the system or the game without judgement. New players and GMs are encouraged to ask questions here.

The rules:

• Any question about the FFG Star Wars RPG is fine. Rules, character creation, GMing, advice, purchasing. All good.

• No question shaming. This sub has generally been good about that, but explicitly no question shaming.

• Keep canon questions/discussion limited to stuff regarding rules. This is more about the game than the setting.

Ask away!

Every Tuesday we open a thread to let people ask questions about the system or the game without judgement. New players and GMs are encouraged to ask questions here.

The rules:

• Any question about the FFG Star Wars RPG is fine. Rules, character creation, GMing, advice, purchasing. All good.

• No question shaming. This sub has generally been good about that, but explicitly no question shaming.

• Keep canon questions/discussion limited to stuff regarding rules. This is more about the game than the setting.

Ask away!