Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow Americans. More importantly, happy holiday shopping weekend. It's Black Friday now, of course course a lot of sales have already been running for the past week or longer, and we still have Cyber Monday coming up. Anyone snag anything interesting?

Personally, between the sales and accidentally discovering I had $750 in unclaimed rewards cash on one of my credit cards, I've just ordered all of the new components I need to build myself a new PC to replace this one. That should keep me busy in December.

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Re: Thanksgiving!
By: jack phlash to All on Fri Nov 29 2024 12:14 pm

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow Americans. More importantly, happy holiday shopping weekend. It's Black Friday now, of course course a lot of sales have already been running for the past week or longer, and we still have Cyber Monday coming up. Anyone snag anything interesting?

Happy Thanksgiving! We had perhaps the best one in our household yesterday. Everything turned out awesome.

My family has been nagging me to set up a Giftster account for myself, so I finally caved and did it. Not expecting much out of it, but I did go ahead and put an Analogue Pocket in it. Maybe Wifey will decide I've been good this year.

Personally, between the sales and accidentally discovering I had $750 in unclaimed rewards cash on one of my credit cards, I've just ordered all of the new components I need to build myself a new PC to replace this one. That should keep me busy in December.

Man that sounds nice. I wish I could just discover free money laying around. :P

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on 29 Nov 2024, Codefenix said...

Happy Thanksgiving! We had perhaps the best one in our household yesterday. Everything turned out awesome.

Nice! Mine was good, though as a general rule, put a ton of tasty food and wine in my face, and I'll probably be pretty happy. ;)

My family has been nagging me to set up a Giftster account for myself,
so I finally caved and did it. Not expecting much out of it, but I did
go ahead and put an Analogue Pocket in it. Maybe Wifey will decide I've been good this year.

Ahh. My partner's family has been using Giftster too. Last year, I could detect ZERO logic in who got me what - it all felt totally random, but hey, it was all stuff I wanted so... *shrug*

Man that sounds nice. I wish I could just discover free money laying around. :P

Ha! I mean, to be fair I knew I had a ridiculous amount of rewards points on that account, but I didn't know it was that much, and the ability to simply have them deposit the cash value directly against the balance is new. More than anything, the timing was nice. :)

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Happy Thanksgiving to you and everyone as well!

I had a nice relaxing weekend allowing me time to telnet in to one of my favorite BBSes ;)

cheers

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Personally, between the sales and accidentally discovering I had $750 in unclaimed rewards cash on one of my credit cards, I've just ordered all
of the new components I need to build myself a new PC to replace this
one. That should keep me busy in December.

You can't drop this on us without some stats, bud.

I've been eyeballing one of those new Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs. Kinda wanna build a rig around that...maybe I'll wait till the 5000 series NVidia RTX GPUs come out though.

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My family has been nagging me to set up a Giftster account for myself,
so I finally caved and did it. Not expecting much out of it, but I did
go ahead and put an Analogue Pocket in it. Maybe Wifey will decide I've been good this year.

I'm rootin' for ya! It's a fun piece of kit. I really enjoy mine.

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on 01 Dec 2024, sloop said...

Happy Thanksgiving to you and everyone as well!

I had a nice relaxing weekend allowing me time to telnet in to one of my favorite BBSes ;)

Awww... and mine as well! ;)

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on 01 Dec 2024, esc said...

You can't drop this on us without some stats, bud.

Ha!

I've been eyeballing one of those new Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs. Kinda wanna build a rig around that...maybe I'll wait till the 5000 series NVidia
RTX GPUs come out though.

I ended up going with that card's little brother, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. The 9800X3D, being so new, has some availability issues and corresponding price gouging going on. If it had been readily available at MSRP, it would have been a no-brainer.

I was also intrigued by the 9750X3D but scared away by numerous issues around how its cores are asymmetrically spread across two different dies which can cause some performance issues. In Windows, this can often be worked around by forcing applications to one set of cores or they other, though a lot of older programs don't respect this and/or (reportedly) have stability issues with this thing... and you know how much I like old stuff. ;) I'm hoping the next generation or two equivalent will be a little better in this regard, or maybe Microsoft is able to add some sort of solution to its scheduler, but while I do a lot of "productivity" that mostly comes down to multitasking rather than doing a lot of CPU intensive work like rendering, etc. anyway. My old 4 core Skylake I7 still does well in that regardless so this new 7800X3D should be a big upgrade there.

Oh, I should mention this *might* be temporary as I specifically selected some of my components to allow for a drop-in mid-life CPU and/or GPU upgrade. For instance, I grabbed a motherboard with PCIe Gen 5 support, more RAM than I need, and a bit beefier ATX 3.1 PSU than I should require for this. It's quite possible I won't ever make such significant upgrades to this thing, but like I mentioned, I've finally accepted the fact that I go way too long between upgrades so both going a bit harder with my initial build and keeping a smaller upgrade in ~4-5 years in mind seemed warranted. :)

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jack phlash wrote to All <=-

Personally, between the sales and accidentally discovering I had $750
in unclaimed rewards cash on one of my credit cards, I've just ordered
all of the new components I need to build myself a new PC to replace
this one. That should keep me busy in December.

I loaded my American Express card into my Amazon account, and now it
asks me if I want to use reward points. Very handy!



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I was also intrigued by the 9750X3D but scared away by numerous issues around how its cores are asymmetrically spread across two different dies which can cause some performance issues. In Windows, this can often be worked around by forcing applications to one set of cores or they other, though a lot of older programs don't respect this and/or (reportedly)
have stability issues with this thing... and you know how much I like

honestly i think you made the right call. i have a 7900X3D (which is 1 model number higher than the 7800X3D and is the first model that has the dual CCD, single 3d cache package issue.

while you can definitely steer everything manually if you want to work your ass off for it, it's too much of a pain for everyday computing. i think everyone was really hoping they would fix the issue with the 9900X3D and 9950X3D, but unfortunately they screwed the pooch on it and stayed with the single 3d cache.

really what they need to do is stop trying to do dual CCD and just plop down one massive one. i'm sure the yield rates would completely tank, but maybe if they disable an erroring core in post it could work.

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on 04 Dec 2024, jinkusu said...

honestly i think you made the right call. i have a 7900X3D (which is 1 model number higher than the 7800X3D and is the first model that has the dual CCD, single 3d cache package issue.

while you can definitely steer everything manually if you want to work your ass off for it, it's too much of a pain for everyday computing. i think everyone was really hoping they would fix the issue with the
9900X3D and 9950X3D, but unfortunately they screwed the pooch on it and stayed with the single 3d cache.

really what they need to do is stop trying to do dual CCD and just plop down one massive one. i'm sure the yield rates would completely tank,
but maybe if they disable an erroring core in post it could work.

It's good to hear some first hand experience with this issue - sometimes it's hard to separate the bandwagon just repeating what they'd heard from those with legitimate experience, though I went back and forth on this a lot, and I eventually thought I'd found enough first hand accounts (good and bad, and often in the middle) that I ultimately decided to wait until they design something that handles more cores in a more elegant way.

There was a lot of speculation that they'd AT LEAST put the X3D cache on both CCDs for the 9950X3D which would solve one of the major issues, but you're saying it's still only on one? I hadn't seen that confirmed, but if so, that feels like a major misstep. :/ One CCD feels like the only way to solve all of these issues (from my relatively ignorant armchair, at least.)

Who knows, maybe Intel will stop fucking up with their next generation and we'll have more choices (though I'm personally bought into the AM5 platform now so I'm probably here for the next ~8 years or so. :P)

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There was a lot of speculation that they'd AT LEAST put the X3D cache on both CCDs for the 9950X3D which would solve one of the major issues, but you're saying it's still only on one? I hadn't seen that confirmed, but
if so, that feels like a major misstep. :/ One CCD feels like the only
way to solve all of these issues (from my relatively ignorant armchair,
at least.)

a leaker who has provided very accurate information in the past finally popped up and said that they tried to do X3D on both, but the lift wasn't what everyone expected and that anytime things had to cross CCDs it basically caused the same issues. i mean, high performance linux folks have dealt with this for years on multi-cpu systems. never really had to deal with it on same-cpu multi-core though. kind of expected it to be a little different. feels bad, but that's why i was saying they probably just need to do a giant CCD vs the split.

Who knows, maybe Intel will stop fucking up with their next generation
and we'll have more choices (though I'm personally bought into the AM5 platform now so I'm probably here for the next ~8 years or so. :P)

the intel stock i hold hopes you're right, but hearing rumors they're shopping it around for a sale right now, so... /shrug

gonna be a shit show for me if they do. very dependent on some of their fpga subsidiary's stuff.

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Re: Re: Thanksgiving!
By: esc to Codefenix on Sun Dec 01 2024 01:19 pm

My family has been nagging me to set up a Giftster account for myself,
so I finally caved and did it. Not expecting much out of it, but I did go
ahead and put an Analogue Pocket in it. Maybe Wifey will decide I've been
good this year.

I'm rootin' for ya! It's a fun piece of kit. I really enjoy mine.

The missus did end up getting it for me! Very cool little system. It's a Gameboy fan & ROM enthusiasts dream come true.

Gonna play through a Dragon Quest 6 translation hack, followed by Seiken Densetsu 3 I think. Never got around to checking those out and now's as good a time as any!

Any other recommendations?

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