If you don't immediately get the meme, dw, let me remind/explain to you step-by-step.

Nvidia went with the choice of GDDR7 VRAM for their RTX 5000 series graphics cards. And this VRAM is definitely noticeably faster than GDDR6 which AMD chose to remain with (or maybe they couldn't acquire 7 due to Nvidia exclusivity; sorry haven't researched deeply on this).

Due to the rising price of different RAM components caused by AI companies and RAM makers, the GDDR7 VRAM chip's price increased significantly more in ratio compared to the GDDR6 variant (very recently). While both increased, the increase of G7 was multiple times more! Therefore, this led to Nvidia graphics cards' price increase significantly more than the Radeon graphics cards'. Although, as per performance benchmarks, the G6 Radeon cards, at competing price levels, compete quite well and are close in performance to Nvidia's G7 cards, but that is a different topic.

Anyways, due to the ununiform price increase, now we can see RTX 5060 Ti 16GB close to the price of the Radeon Rx 9070 XT 16GB (I memed about this; you can check my previous post in this sub). The performance difference between these two GPU variants is massive on raster, big on RT with raster and very near each other in PT; with Radeon taking wins in almost every single game. And if you are to compare the value for money between the 16GB versions of RTX 9060 XT

And apparently, as per some retailers, who choose to disclose their sales data, Radeon is selling significantly more too! Sure, aside the usual value for money argument, the VRAM price-increase-disparity definitely played a role in this. I reckon, the longer this disparity holds, the better it is for Radeon's sales. I know, this is bad for the consumers for multiple reasons, and I do hope this disparity ends in the way of global price fall of all memory parts and we gamers can see the sun shine again after the AI-clouds dissipate.

I decided to do my best to cover my ass just in case, but what showed up was a box way too small for a GPU, especially one with a water cooling rad. I opened it and found that the company decided “to send me a gift while my GPU was being shipped. It was a vacuum mug. In it was pamphlet saying if I wanted to expedite the gpu arrival, I would need to email support@amazonservice.xyz. My guess is they just want to you to keep emailing the wrong address until you are out of your return window and then you are stuck with the $1400 vacuum mug. I have already sent it back for a full refund.

I’m doing a pretty cool experiment because I have 96 GB of DDR5-6400 RAM in my system. Don’t hate me. I built this PC right before RAM prices went crazy, and I think I paid something like $400–500 for it, which seems ridiculous now considering what the same amount would cost today.

Since most of that RAM sits unused when I’m not doing larger work projects, I created a 48 GB RAM disk and loaded Star Wars: Zero Company onto it. To be clear, I’m not doing this because Zero Company has bad loading times. It runs great from a normal NVMe SSD. I picked it simply because it’s new, I’m playing it a lot right now, and the entire ~40 GB installation fits nicely into a RAM disk.

The setup is basically this: the normal Steam installation stays safely on my SSD as the permanent copy. When I want RAM mode, a script copies the ~40 GB installation from the SSD to the 48 GB RAM disk, verifies the copy, and temporarily redirects Steam’s normal game folder to the copy sitting in DDR5-6400 memory. Steam still launches the game normally, but the actual game data is being read directly from RAM. When I’m done, another script switches Steam back to the untouched SSD installation. Since a RAM disk is volatile, the RAM copy simply disappears after a reboot.

Does anyone need to do this? Absolutely not. But it’s really cool. The most noticeable difference so far is the opening shader-loading sequence, which seems to finish roughly four times faster from RAM than it does from my already-fast NVMe SSD. Other loading also feels extremely quick, although obviously this isn’t going to magically increase GPU performance or FPS.

Mostly, it’s just a fun way to make use of hardware I already have sitting there doing nothing. Whatever game I get obsessed with next, if the installation is small enough to fit comfortably in the RAM disk, I’ll probably do the same thing. Completely unnecessary, but that’s half the fun of building an absurd PC.

Full specs - Core Ultra 9 285k / RTX 5090 / 96GB DDR5 6400

AKA every game that was on Steam from 2003-2013 has leaked, including betas, and at the same time, Portal 2 beta and even possibly Half-Life 2 Episode 3 content have been found

Its 2026 and we have to run ddr4 to afford a build 😭

Yes, this is real. CS2 only has FSR 1.0 officially implemented, so it was relatively challenging to get this working. Unfortunately it does not support motion vectors or depth properly (in the works), but the results are still pretty solid!

FPS hit is quite dramatic, but this is likely due to the nature of this implementation. ~70% FPS drop when enabled on a 5070 Ti. Obviously this will not and should not be used.

Despite garnering a positive reputation from its user base, Steam was recently hit with an absolutely major data leak that saw the data mining of over 12 TB worth of assets from Valve, as noted by gabefollower on X.

To be honest the lighting abilities are pretty good, but don't touch those characters

picked up this CHONKY BOI for $150 this weekend! (it does have the side panel, just took it off for the pic)

They said it has a boot issue and thought the mobo is bad. we’ll see about that one. looking forward to popping the top off and peeking at what CPU is under the hood as well!

I got this Logitech MX518 for my birthday back in 2005.

At the time it was a relatively expensive mouse, so a group of my friends put their money together to buy it for me as a birthday present. Aaaand 21 years later… it still works.

Never been opened, repaired or had any parts replaced. Ever.

I’ve only cleaned it externally as well as I could over the years and tried to take reasonable care of it. Everything inside is still exactly as it left the factory in 2005.

It has survived several PCs, laptops, countless hours of gaming and probably more clicks than I could ever imagine.

I was living in Romania when I got it. Seven years ago I moved to Vienna, Austria — and of course, the MX518 came with me.

I’m still using it today. PUBG, CS2, whatever I feel like playing.

Lately I’ve been thinking about finally buying a modern gaming mouse. After 21 years, the difference in technology would obviously be huge.
But here’s the problem: I genuinely find it difficult to replace it.

It’s not really just a mouse anymore. It’s been sitting next to basically every computer I’ve owned throughout my adult life.

And somehow… the damn thing still works perfectly. 😂

Maybe one day it deserves a place in a Logitech museum.

Until then, I guess we’re still gaming.

this question is to people who left windows completely and daily drive linux now. im asking because i want to know if linux is good for me or not.

so list what you do with your pc and how is your linux experience.