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Dave1988 said:
Didnt think i would be buying one of these
Bought from uncle for £280 he only bought it june 17th june🤣... Good ol haggle
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For anyone who didn't know, PS5 has had a price drop today, it's £400 new for disc version as far as I can see.

£280 is great though especially if good condition and only a month old!
 
Lordhippos said:
For anyone who didn't know, PS5 has had a price drop today, it's £400 new for disc version as far as I can see.

£280 is great though especially if good condition and only a month old!
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Yeh did see that... I told him has reduction for 2 weeks i think? As its promo due to selling 40 million units... Just said ill give him what cex give🤣.. Yeh 1 month old said only played twice.. Lol
 
I received another partial shipment of a new Crunchyroll title today from rightstuf:

Black Summoner Blu-ray

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Dai said:
Did it come with the antimatter reactor needed to power it?
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850W PSU but should be enough assuming I power limit the card a bit.

I'd like a bigger PSU but if this one works, no need to change it on a whim.

I have a new problem though with the 12VHPWR cable, they say not to bend it before 35mm or so and I'm hitting straight into the glass side panel after about 20mm, I need to look at a vertical mount for the GPU probably. One thing leading to another here! :oops:
 
Lordhippos said:
850W PSU but should be enough assuming I power limit the card a bit.

I'd like a bigger PSU but if this one works, no need to change it on a whim.

I have a new problem though with the 12VHPWR cable, they say not to bend it before 35mm or so and I'm hitting straight into the glass side panel after about 20mm, I need to look at a vertical mount for the GPU probably. One thing leading to another here! :oops:
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The psu I got can only deliver 450W through the 12VHPWR while the 4090 requires 600W at full load, though it does actually have the cable itself so I don't have to rely on Nvidias melting adapter.

I'll most likely be looking for a second hand RTX 3080 for my build, should cost me about the same or less than the underwhelming 16GB RTX 4060Ti.

Total cost so far is €800 plus a €303 CEX voucher, second hand RTX 3080s are currently going for €400-€600 depending on make and sale platform, hell if I had the money I could have gotten a 3080Ti from a local marketplace for €380 last week.

Fyi the system it's replacing is an i7 920(1st gen) with 6gb ddr3, a 2GB radeon HD6870 and a 60gb sata ssd for the Windows drive.
 
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sniper_samurai said:
The psu I got can only deliver 450W through the 12VHPWR while the 4090 requires 600W at full load, though it does actually have the cable itself so I don't have to rely on Nvidias melting adapter.

I'll most likely be looking for a second hand RTX 3080 for my build, should cost me about the same or less than the underwhelming 16GB RTX 4060Ti.

Total cost so far is €800 plus a €303 CEX voucher, second hand RTX 3080s are currently going for €400-€600 depending on make and sale platform, hell if I had the money I could have gotten a 3080Ti from a local marketplace for €380 last week.

Fyi the system it's replacing is an i7 920(1st gen) with 6gb ddr3, a 2GB radeon HD6870 and a 60gb sata ssd for the Windows drive.
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I think 450W is fine most games/real world usage scenarios don't seem to use that much, looks similar to my old 3080 TI in terms of power as long as I limit what the card can use (I usually set a 90% power limit in Afterburner for the old card, can do similar on the new one). I know the card can take more power but the top end isn't as efficient.

Running Cyberpunk 2077 on the new path tracing mode with frame gen, it was reporting 350W in game and fps was around 100 give or take, so good performance without needing excessive power consumption. The 3080 TI would struggle to keep frames high with RT enabled but this seems to handle things with ease so far.

I'm on a 5900X cpu, I don't tend to upgrade the core system that often, I expect this will last for another couple of years at least, longer if I want it to, though upgrade itch will probably get me at some point. What spec are you going to? I like the white themed stuff can look cool if you lean into it and buy all the matching components.

This is my system but I have a lot of stuff not routed/cable managed, and the sides are off. Case is Lian-Li Dynamics 011 which is fairly popular, need to sort a few things out, but you can see how ludicrous this card is in terms of raw size, and how the cable will not really let me add the side panel back on as it will bending the 12VHPWR cable far too close the clipped in end on the GPU. There is like 20mm of clearance to where the glass would be.

I either need to add a vertical GPU mount which should solve that, or I need an adaptor that can right angle the cable, but I read even the Cablemod ones can melt. These 12VHPWR seem like they're poorly designed.

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Lordhippos said:
I think 450W is fine most games/real world usage scenarios don't seem to use that much, looks similar to my old 3080 TI in terms of power as long as I limit what the card can use (I usually set a 90% power limit in Afterburner for the old card, can do similar on the new one). I know the card can take more power but the top end isn't as efficient.

Running Cyberpunk 2077 on the new path tracing mode with frame gen, it was reporting 350W in game and fps was around 100 give or take, so good performance without needing excessive power consumption. The 3080 TI would struggle to keep frames high with RT enabled but this seems to handle things with ease so far.

I'm on a 5900X cpu, I don't tend to upgrade the core system that often, I expect this will last for another couple of years at least, longer if I want it to, though upgrade itch will probably get me at some point. What spec are you going to? I like the white themed stuff can look cool if you lean into it and buy all the matching components.

This is my system but I have a lot of stuff not routed/cable managed, and the sides are off. Case is Lian-Li Dynamics 011 which is fairly popular, need to sort a few things out, but you can see how ludicrous this card is in terms of raw size, and how the cable will not really let me add the side panel back on as it will bending the 12VHPWR cable far too close the clipped in end on the GPU. There is like 20mm of clearance to where the glass would be.

I either need to add a vertical GPU mount which should solve that, or I need an adaptor that can right angle the cable, but I read even the Cablemod ones can melt. These 12VHPWR seem like they're poorly designed.

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The system I've gone to is a Ryzen 9 7950x with 32gb of 6000mhz ddr5, so quite a significant upgrade. It's a pretty power hungry cpu before even putting in a GPU card, pc partpicker have the tdp around 520w with a 3080 added. I've reduced the temp for thermal throttling down to 80C, it can go to 105C but power efficiency drops pretty hard there.

I'll post Cinebench scores when I've finished setting up the pc, even using the iGPU it will be a no contest between the two.
 
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sniper_samurai said:
The system I've gone to is a Ryzen 9 7950x with 32gb of 6000mhz ddr5, so quite a significant upgrade. It's a pretty power hungry cpu before even putting in a GPU card, pc partpicker have the tdp around 520w with a 3080 added. I've reduced the temp for thermal throttling down to 80C, it can go to 105C but power efficiency drops pretty hard there.

I'll post Cinebench scores when I've finished setting up the pc, even using the iGPU it will be a no contest between the two.
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Nice that should be a good system! These AMD chips do indeed run pretty power hungry and hot under load. Not sure if I'll go AMD next time or Intel again, typically always had Intel in the past. Hoping for another couple of generations to pass though.

I went from an Intel 9700K which I had in 2019, to this 5900X back in 2021, so I'm already doing pretty well by resisting upgrading given it's been 2 years since my last one! If I can get to 2025 I'd probably re-visit this.

I kept the 9700K system as well, not sure if I will longer term, but it's been handy a couple of times.

If you do wind up with a 3080 I'd definitely recommend power limiting it anyway, at stock it uses more energy but the performance increase is small, and it thermal throttles as well.

Apologies for taking this thread miles off topic, if there is a general pc thread somewhere I'm happy to go post there instead!
 
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2023 HAUL VER 7.5
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A surprise batch for today as I decided at the last second to take a trip to town before seeing Oppenheimer, because the traffic can be rather messy and last time (for Mission Impossible 7) I almost missed the screening despite planning ahead.

So we have 9 more books for the collection, from retailer Travelling Man as part of their 3 for 2 on Viz Media titles. It has been a while since I picked up any manga at their store because the volumes were not stocked enough but this time they did get some more for specific series.

That said, Black Clover, Blue Exorcist, and The Promised Neverland were out of the running as they didn't have the volumes that I had wanted.

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To begin with, we have some books from author Tatsuki Fujimoto. Chainsaw Man: Buddy Stories is a single volume light novel that has four stories included. The other two are Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 17-21 & 22-25 which contain manga stories from before he became known for his work on Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man.

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Next we have more Komi Can't Communicate with Volumes 5, 6 & 7. Finally they had more volumes for the earlier stuff but I paused on doing a larger batch so that I had enough funds for other hauls in the coming week or two.

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And then we have a new volume for each with Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Volume 8, Mashle: Magic & Muscles Volume 12 and One Punch Man Volume 11.

Which reminds me, I did almost pick up Helck but one of the volumes they had available was damaged on the spine so it didn't make the cut.
 
sniper_samurai said:
The system I've gone to is a Ryzen 9 7950x with 32gb of 6000mhz ddr5, so quite a significant upgrade. It's a pretty power hungry cpu before even putting in a GPU card, pc partpicker have the tdp around 520w with a 3080 added. I've reduced the temp for thermal throttling down to 80C, it can go to 105C but power efficiency drops pretty hard there.

I'll post Cinebench scores when I've finished setting up the pc, even using the iGPU it will be a no contest between the two.
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Just finished setting up the new system and running Cinebench the scores for the old and new builds are

I7 920
Cpu multi 2258
Cpu single 449

R9 7950x
Cpu multi 36074
Cpu single 1964
 
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