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If I pay $20/mo to play a MMORPG, and all that grants me is access. That's fine. The minute I spend $7 dollars to buy an asset in the game, Now you must refund me that $7. If that subscription fee also prevents the demolishment if my house in the game, now that subscription fee is like paying the bank a mortgage. $20/mo * 12 *10 years = $2400, now multiply that by the 10% of players who actually own houses. There is also the unlocking of additional storage, which are addtional fees. In the case of FFXIV, That's 2$/mo per retainer. Some people have like 15. https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/option_service/additional_retainer/ Note your data isn't destroyed when you stop paying for the service. You just lose access to it. If you stop paying for service, your house is destroyed, and the items in it "put in storage". But if they shut the game down, everything is gone. You don't want to accept the idea that a player's time and experiences have a cost. The company shouldn't be able to destroy your intangible property any more than they can destroy your real world property. Every game is built that way. If it's lobby-based, there is zero reason why a private server can't be run on someone's $200 desktop set aside to run it. MMORPG's have multiple software servers to operate the game, and the game client seamlessly switches between these connections to the same server. There is no requirement to those to be a separate machine from the game client if the player is playing solo. Which is another point you seem not to want to understand. If WoW, FFXI or FFXIV:ARR shutdown, a "Single player" option could be developed to run on the same computer as the game client, and the player could play all the story and dungeon content with NPC party members. That ensures the game still can be played. If you want to get your 8 friends to play that content with, they just connect to YOUR machine. No server infrastructure is required. All they have to do is in the final patch to the game client, allow the player to define what server to connect to. Presently these private servers just interdict the connection to the non-existent servers by manipulating the hard coded IP addresses in the launcher.

Ok thanks for your answer. Yeah I've watched the LTT video before on RTX but it was more than 2 years ago. The technology has improved with newer models and games for what I can understand. If you say that RT are still too early and isn't implemented that well in most games or too overhyped right now then the 7900GRE seems like a better option in gaming for the price. The store that sells the Gigabyte model for ($660) has sold out the GPU and it doesn't say when it will return but it says I can order it. On other stores the same Gigabyte model goes for $698. However there's other 7900 GRE models from other companies that's also on the cheaper side Asus Radeon RX 7900 GRE Dual OC Edition HDMI 3xDP 16GB $673 Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse 2xHDMI 2xDP 16GB $675 I've not seen reviews on them so I don't know how well the cooling solution performs (how loud the fans are). If I see a 4070 Super for a really good price that's comparable to the 7900 in the upcomming week or two I'll maybe think about getting a 4070 super. I've heard nightmare stories of the 12VHPWR adapter for the Nvidia cards but it has been on the more power hungry models like 4080 and 4090. I haven't heard of melting adapters for the 4070 super but it makes me a little bit worried.

What program is best for malware scan? Cause its quite a clean win 11 with only afew game installed

I think the limitation of the NH-D15 actually has to do with its size. 140mm fans aren't going to have as powerful of an air column as 120mm fans, so the extra size might be lost in that. I actually ordered the delid spacers from Noctua to be able to do a delid. TBH, if I mess it up, I can just use my R5 7600 and replace my TV PC's CPU with a 8700G. Then just wait for 8000 series I already have the 7mm offset brackets for it which did help dramatically. I'm bored enough to potentially kill this CPU.

sff or tower? if sff resell and buy a used 2011(-3) workstation like the hp z420 as those are much more upgradable with much better cpus and you should be able to overclock e5 1650 and up xeons with throttlestop as those have unlocked multi if tower buy a cheap 2600 or even a 2500 and be done with it

I would just get an i5 2400 for the extra 2 cores, trying to max out sandy bridge is a fruitless effort, and you’d be better off buying a whole new platform in the long term, or at the very least a newer optiplex.

Why? the 7900 GRE has more vram, and with the new memory overclocking results, can get even better than the 4070S in many games OP seems to only want to use RT as an experimental so won't be that valuable yes, it's not that good at RT but even the 4070S just breaks 60 at 1080p ultra. If they're using RT normally then yes, I would recommend the 4070S

I just want my valorant to stop stuttering, I have an i3 2120 2c4t and a gt 730 the Fermi version and the 1% lows are bad like 15 fps so I thought since fps games are more CPU based so, upgrading to 4c8t might work.

No, I was just using this as an example question. I would never pair a CPU that is Locked w/ PCIe 3.0 and use PCIe 4.0 Parts. Seems sad that just because the CPU is limited that the other should be too, like they somehow could not have found a way around this. Also anyone else seeing this might get some knowledge out of it.

Thank you All for the recommendations and the quick help !!

If both 7900GRE and 4070S are at the same price (or within $20 of each other), get the 4070S

im curious how that d15 would do against a phantom spirit here sucks that am5 is gimped by the ihs and you have to delid the thing to get any decent oc and this seems to be even worse for the 8000g apus as they dont even use solder and the die is not as tall as the cpus but hey atleast those are easy to delid since the ihs just pops off instead of having to blast the thing with a heatgun not to mention cleaning the solder only experience ive had delidding was with a p4 631 i degraded after doing a bios run to 5.65ghz on air (1.87v) just for shits and giggles, used a cheap razor i took off a generic shaving unit by destructively dissassembling one since theyre thin enough to slide under the ihs and since i didnt have a heatgun i did the next best thing and lit a candle then held the cpu with some pliers ontop of the flame, it worked but a corner got covered in soot and the ihs looked burnt asf, should have been able to work but die cracked probably because i had no idea how to clean the solder off and decided to use the razor to attempt to clean the solder, apparently you are supposed to use gallium or liquid metal since its indium solder maybe ill try again cause i have a celeron d 351 iirc its a 65nm celeron thats all i know just sitting there for over a year cause i havent bought a board that supports 133fsb and can run 2v+ or atleast 1.8v, just bios run it into oblivion with my now much better cooler (6ghz bios run on air maybe?) then delid it

So, I stumbled across this Twitter post and I find the results intriguing. Thoughts?

sorry i thought you were just suggesting bluetooth speakers for music lollll

already use some bang and olufsen headphones for my pc and music on my phone so i wanted to get some speakers if im playing like an rpg or racing game for a long time so i dont have to wear headphones.

yes, the CPU doesn't have the PCIe 4.0 lanes for these AMD Ryzen 5 4600G Specs | TechPowerUp CPU Database The chipset may split some of these lanes for extra M.2's etc. but they will still be at pcie 3.0 since the CPU doesn't have any PCIe 4.0 lanes Are you considering this pc for you/a friend/a client?

Hello... I have wondered for years now that if I or someone else got a PC like this: Example PC Will the CPU which is locked on PCIe 3.0 take away from other Parts that are PCIe 4.0 like the Motherboard, M.2, and GPU? If the Motherboard has PCIe 4.0 Capability like being able to use a Gen4 M.2 and PCIe 4.0 GPU will it be Locked to PCIe 3.0 because of the CPU???

It’s a maybe, there’s no guarantee here. Plenty of people have shown the optiplex 790 supports some it’s Xeon equivalents, but only on some bios versions, and not the entire range of lga 1155 Xeons. However the definite one is no ivy bridge Xeons, those seem way less likely to work. No v2’s

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Thank you @OddOod this worked! what a simple fix too, thanks for saving me from even more frustration and anger!