Desktop Computers
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Lanx
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Just use search..............
I was setting up a new desk. That is the 55" model which is awkward as all hell. I set it on my new desk and one leg was not all the way on the desk and it pivoted and smacked the center of the monitor. I have a little dent on my desk where it hit. That was a $1000 piece of art ? I took it to a shop and paid them I think it was $30 to write a letter saying it was unfixable and turned it into my credit card insurance company and got $500 back. Which helped pay for one of the 2 Gigabyte M32U monitors I'm using now.
But yes by help I mean a 2nd person. My wife kept finding excuses to not come in the back and help and I'm not known for my patience. Actually my brother told me I'll be dead in the coffin mad that I'm not rotting fast enough.
Sinistkir13
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Exactly, and most people wouldn't even know about the problem without looking into it so deeply or consulting a spreadsheet, but given how no one is using it anymore on the x870 boards, you can figure that they all said "fuck that noise" and dumped Intel altogether.
I just wish more had split the lanes in a sensible way on the new boards because if you're buying into the platform now, it makes even more sense than with the x670(e) to think ahead about future GPUs and whether or not they'll be bottlenecked, and frankly for the price of GPUs in general, fuck sharing lane with storage that is only getting cheaper. And double fuck sharing with storage that has negligible returns that aren't even being utilized by anything.
The rub is how it's some low end boards did just that, e.g. the x870 Tomahawk handles it by sharing M.2 bandwith with the USB 4.0, because that actually makes sense:
Meanwhile, this is the x870e Carbon that also has the privilege of costing $200 more:
* PCI_E1 & PCI_E2 & M.2_2 share the bandwidth, and PCIe version support varies depending on the CPU. Please refer to the PCIe configuration table in the manual for more details.
I'd suck it up and get the Taichi Lite without hesitation if they just did what the less expensive Nova did and give you an extra fifth m.2 slots and 4 SATA instead of the two extra SATA, but the Tomahawk is looking mighty tempting for being cheaper than all of them.
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You saw the thread where I asked/offered to help pay to get it fixed right? need a sarcasm filter I guess.
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