Rage Set

Honestly, I kept looking at the 9950HX3D Lenovo 7 Pro, but it was limited to a 5080. It started at 3K and then I saw the 7i Pro with a 5090 around the same price. It snowballed from there. It is a really nice laptop and it handles my 8K footage from my Canon R5 like butter. Yes, this is the time. I am not sure if I want to attempt to put some rigs together to sell or just simply sell the components individually. I only have a couple DDR5 mobos from AMD/Intel and only three sets of DDR5 that are working, two sets currently in use. Probably best I sell the components. We got 20'' inches thus far where I live in CT. I spent the past several hours, going out every few hours to attack with my shovel. I still relatively young compared to my neighbors, so whereas all of my neighbors will be using their snow blowers, I am out there strong arming the snow. Good cardio as well! I was having some serious buyer's remorse, even though I got both cards for their MSRP. I am happy now, seeing that the Red Devil jumped up $110 and the Prime is $250 more, excluding the scalper pricing. Both cards are great. I can't really choose. The only thing the 5070Ti has over the 9070XT is better video editing performance. Welcome to the Red Devil family, lol.

It's funny. Some states shut down when they get 8 to 12 inches of snow. We, on the other hand, require 24 inches or more. My job (IT school system) & Mayor are still contemplating if we will or not. Now if the governor shuts down the state (they rarely ever do), that's one thing, but if the Mayor shuts down the city, he will have to pay us all. Otherwise, you have to use personal or vacation time if you don't want to venture out in the snow. I make it a point to go, because there is no one there and I can use the time to learn/study or repair broken desktops/laptops. I usually work on my soldering skills and/or create troubleshooting guides for the entry level techs. Or I can do some overclocking in my office, which I might do!

It is definitely overclocking season - I am about to take my new purchase (yes, I went the dumb BGA route and got a 275HX/5090 Lenovo 7i Pro laptop) into the snow. I got a great deal on it with 64GB of 6400MT RAM. I kept haggling with the seller and he kept coming back - 64GB of laptop RAM cost around 500 to $600. However, I got it for the price of 2800 (before taxes), my max budget. I am hoping I can sell my old 7i (11980HK/3080 (16GB VRAM) 32GB of DDR4 RAM) for around 800 to $1000 to offset the cost. February is the best time to sell things, because people are going to be spending their returns. My area is projected to get around 21 inches of snow - at 5F (-15C), with a wind chill of -10F (-23.33C). @Papusan I know this snowy weather is tame compare to what you have, but us people (well most) in the Northeast are celebrating. We haven't had snow like this in years, normally our max is 12 inches of snow.

Happy New Year brothers!

I am more incline to keep both, as I go through the benching process to see which will work best for gaming and the other for productivity. One will go into my 3960X build for my video editing needs and the other will go into the 14900KS gaming rig. The new cards will be replacing the 4070 TI and 6900XT. In terms of spare parts, all of my spare motherboards, RAM kits and CPUs are on the higher end of things. I know I won't be able to recoup most of my costs - unless the used market really does turn to a wasteland. For example, my DDR4 RAM sets are nuts. I have the four sticks of CL19 4000MTs I got from @Mr. Fox , four sticks of G.Skill non-RGB CL15 3600, and four of the super overpriced Trident Z Royal Gold (non-Elite) CL18 4800MT DDR4 RAM sticks. I never got these sticks to run at that speed with any of my CPUs, lol. Of course I have the G.Skill NEO sets I previously shown to you all. I really had a tech addiction it seems, lol.

That sucks, but I trust that TG is producing a good product. I know if I ever go down the path of securing a 5090, I would definitely be picking up a WireView. In other news, the 9070XT Red Devil arrived last week and the PRIME 5070 TI will come today. It doesn't escape my mind that I essentially spent nearly $1500 for two GPUs, when I could have put down another 500 for a 5090 at "MSRP". We all know they don't cost that, so I am fine for now. If anyone needs a 4070 TI (Gigabyte Windforce), let me know. I might just build a PC out of spare parts and sell it.

All of my 32GB ECC DDR4 are in use, unfortunately. I do have one W-1290 server that I only turn on once per month with 128GB of 2933MT/s RAM (32GB x4) that doesn't particularly need that much RAM. I only purchased that much RAM to max out the server. They are UDIMMs though. The crazy part is the price for them didn't change. I paid around $850 for the two kits around three to four years ago. They cost the same now. I am starting to realize I only buy RAM during shortages...LOL.

Merry Christmas to all my extended family in this thread!!! Now, I am in a bit of a dilemma. Bestbuy has the Prime 5070 TI for $749.99, brand new. I just spent that on the "Like New" card from Amazon. I am going to cancel the card from Amazn and begrudgingly buy from Bestbuy. Here goes nothing....

I actually like that a lot! Speaking of 3D printing/CNC - this is what I want to ultimately get into. https://modcase.com.au/ A lot of his PC cases are fully 3D printed or a mix of 3D printing and CNC milled. He actually released a free version of one of his cases here: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1740435-modcase-hyper-compact-atx-pc-case#profileId-1849515 The crazy thing is, with certain filaments, you can print out a case that would be as thermally safe and rigid as steel/aluminum with massive weigh savings. I am going to buy the premium version of the MASS NAS ITX and print it out. I want to make my own NAS case with custom colors and my own logo.

Just snagged a PRIME 5070 TI from Amazon Resale - Like New condition for MSRP to compare to the 9070 XT Red Devil that is coming before Christmas. Due to all of the fraud I have heard about, I am going to unbox both on camera. I am hoping the 5070 Ti has damaged packaging and isn't actually used. Whichever card performs the best for my use cases will stick around and I will probably either send the other back or sell locally. I saw a 5080 for a little over MSRP, but I can't justify spending over 1K for the same 16GB and average of 15% better performance over the 5070 TI. Even in video editing apps, the 5080 isn't much better than the 5070 TI. I don't understand Nvidia's thoughts on the 5080 but I assume they were always planning on making the 5080 Super (which may or may not be cancelled). At the very least, if GPU pricing goes all to hell again, I can resell the 5070 TI for what I paid for.

That is what happens with the faulty green stick. The PSU just clicks.

That's actually great news. It will force developers to optimize for all levels, instead of the high end. Don't get me wrong, this will make those that have invested thousands on high end GPUs a bit angry, but those people only account for about 10% of the market. The true adverse thing to come out of this RAM shortage is Nvidia and AMD will continue to push 8GB cards in their next generations. Or worse, the reintroduction of the 6GB or lower "midrange" GPUs....Lol the 6070 coming with 8GB and 6070 TI with 12GB above $750

With the bad stick in and when the mobo tries to retrain, I get error Code 55. I am going to chaulk it up as bad and submit an RMA with G.Skill. I am going to spend a lot of money to make sure it gets to them, which means insuring it for $600. I am going to ship it via FedEx, so hopefully it doesn't go missing. Thanks for all of your help brother. It felt great getting into the minutiae of hardware troubleshooting like this again - I don't get a lot of that in my IT day job.

So this is what I found out thus far. The green stick - is dead as a door nail. The PC won't boot with it, at ALL. Even with the known working stick in A2, trained and etc. As soon as I put it in any slot outside of A2, the mobo just clicks whenever I press power. The bad G.Skill stick will boot with the known working stick in A2 after it has trained. I don't think it is hardware related, but it is definitely corrupted by that damn iCue software. I tried changing around the speeds to see if it could be detected. I even lowered the trained stick to 2133, lol. Still can't be detected but obviously it is getting power by the slot. It's almost behaving like a dummy stick.

I am using my Asus Z690 Extreme board. The good news, the newer version works with my board and I was able to read and save a copy of the working stick's firmware. The bad news, is the software doesn't see the other stick. EDIT: Yes, I had iCue on this machine. So it is likely what caused the issue with the bad stick.