B. Friday 👎

[Shane_B.]

Just for kicks and giggles I just checked the pricing on the 2 sticks of ram I bought.

Original Price: $168

I Paid: $486 (1.5 weeks ago)

Today's Price: $619

[kitekrazy]

47 minutes ago, Shane_B. said:

No. The internet. Lol. I did a lot of reading before I pieced out this build. I even emailed a couple of the manufacturers and got quick responses surprisingly.

But I never officially asked about the bottlenecking of a pci 4 gpu on a new pci 5 compatible system. I got a mobo that supports full lane width for the gpu and m.2 drive., which is hard to find actually. 

That said, I can run this rtx 3060 in 4K with no problems with the 1 game I play now.  I just have to turn a couple of eye candy settings off that I dont care for anyway and would never have on if I had a system that could handle it. I can live without the game if it won't run properly so it's not that big of a deal to me. 99% of what I do would run off th3 3mbedded gpu. 

I read there will be significant dropped frames and others say it will run even better. I take the net with a grain of salt so time will tell.

I got the final pieces yesterday. I'm so disgusted by being forces to do this because of windows 11 and the astronomical price increase that I just threw everything in my.office and have no motivation to put it together. Normally I'd be up all.night as soon as I ot rhe final piece, but I'm really feeling crappy about this build for several reasons. I don't like being forced into it then being robbed at checkout.

Sorry for the long rant. LOL. I'm sitting at work waiting for an inspector and I'm bored and completely burned out. I worked 7 days a week for the last 4 months doing gut and remodels and as soon as this guy gets here and leaves, I'm outta here till 1/1/26.

Unless it snows or something breaks. Then I'll be back. 😔

I have no desire to game in 4K. I'm still using a 1660.  I have no desire to upgrade the most overpriced piece of hardware.  

[57Gregy]

On 12/7/2025 at 4:54 PM, Shane_B. said:

I can't explain why without "going there" but I do believe there is a process in the works to, uh, undo the halt that was previously implemented.

 

On 12/9/2025 at 10:17 AM, kitekrazy said:

Who told you that? nVidia?

I believe in this instance Bub/Shane was referring to my statement about gas prices.

[Shane_B.]

10 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

 

I believe in this instance Bub/Shane was referring to my statement about gas prices.

I thought he was referring to the bottle neck stuff I read about the gpu/cpu. But I wasn't sure. 🙂

[57Gregy]

Gas, food, PC components, music. It's all still expensive. And the older I get, the more everything gets more expensive. Get off my lawn, ya pimply-faced punks!
Concert prices. Yikes! Wanted to see Todd Rundgren here in Raleigh a few months ago. At a medium-sized venue. Too much.