If only you had i9 instead of i7 which would have matched nicely with your RTX 30 series.

Do I really need an i9 though? My build is absolutely crushing everything I am throwing at it without breaking any kind of sweat. If anything the only "restriction" I have for 1080p gaming is my vram for Halo Infinite but I'm still able to get half my settings at Ultra/max with the rest at high. If I am going to upgrade later down the line it'd probably be to a higher 30 series card or a 4060/ti depending on the specs.

Also I just downloaded Stable Diffusion; I SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN GIVEN THIS POWER.

Those cables at the bottom AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Oh? You want computer gore? Here's a picture of Avalon's cable management (or lack thereof) before I took it apart.

It's admittedly a piece of legacy hardware but when I built Avalon in 2016 I still had some old CDs I hadn't burned to iTunes yet, but now that I have those files saved locally I really have no use for the disk drive. It's not even connected to the motherboard; just decoration now.

It was a BD drive too but the software that came with it never worked.

haven’t seen a disc drive in a while

My current PC is named Avalon, I want to start naming tech going down the alphabet. What should be the next name starting with the letter B?

1. Bavaria
2. Babylonia
3. Britannia
4. Baetica

Fun fact: The computer that preceded my current build had a Pentium processor and it actually ran quite well. Surprising since I also had a budget Radeon card inside it too.

So what kind of Pentium you got in that thing?

Full breakdown:

CPU was $277
GPU was $490 (thank you for giving up cryptominers)
Mobo was $200
PSU was $120
RAM was $90
CPU cooler was $30
$60 for six LED fans

Basically I decided to upgrade right at the perfect time with GPU prices crashing (though still above MSRP).

Damn that seems really cheap

How much did it cost
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Around $1300 including new red and blue LED fans since I want to keep my Police Interceptor aesthetic. I'll post pictures once all the parts are in.

did you upgrade your monitor?

I did not, I don't plan on going past 60fps/1080p, but I really wanted to play Halo Infinite and games with Ray Tracing.

I haven't touched any of my internal PC components since I built the monstrosity that's currently on my desk SEVEN years ago. In Ian-years that is a very long lifespan for tech hardware. However the storage is starting to become limited, the fans are failing, and the GPU (while being considered high-end at the beginning of 2016) is now incredibly dated and laughably bad by today's standards.

As such I have have taken my tax return that would've just gone into an index fund, and used it instead to completely rebuild the computer with all new internal parts. I am keeping my mouse, keyboard, monitors, and case because there is nothing wrong with any of them and Corsair still doesn't make a mid-tower version of my Corsair 760T and I am very in love with this case design. Below is a list of what I currently have inside compared to what I am waiting to come in the mail.

Original build (2016):
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI DDR3
CPU: Intel i5-4690
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 (2x4GB sticks)
GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 980
PSU: EVGA 850W G2 Supernova
1xSamsung 250GB SSD
2xWD 1TB HDD
OS: Windows 8.1

New build (2023):
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z690 UD AX DDR4
CPU: Intel i7-12700KF
CPU Cooler: ID-Cooling SE-914-XT
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4 (2x16GB sticks)
GPU: Gigabyte Geforce RTX 3060 Ti
PSU: Corsair RMX RM750x
1xSamsung 970 2TB m.2 SSD
OS: Windows 10

Please rate and offer suggestions. I will be keeping the HDD trays and eventually getting two very large (10TB+) HDDs for media storage in the somewhat near future.

Evangelion 3.0+1.11 on DVD & Blu-Ray 3/8/23

Included is an animated short taking place before the events of 3.0. Khara has teased some images:

I’m 28 and I feel fucking ancient.

I am still with Disney but I am not currently where I should/want to be. I’m ultimately just trying to get back but there’s a lot of nuance to my situation.

What happened to your job at Disney

Is a straight up fucking lie. I've lost nearly 15 pounds in the last two and a half months.

Which isn't a bad thing but I do kind of miss the days where I can just order Chinese takeout without fear of any financial turmoil from doing so.

Everyone and their grandmother expects the party that has the WH not to win in the midterms. This is such an expected observation that Dems were making jokes about losing their jobs running up to the 2010/2014 midterms. So when I see an administration spend the last two years playing damage control against an incredibly fragmented GOP, I don't know what kind of conclusions you want me to draw other than "They're going to get butt fucked" when historically they've lost way more when they haven't even done anything laughably silly.

It's pretty obvious Ian was hoping for the GOP to win bigger, but I will say that basically everyone I know that is a Republican or leans republican believes that the majority of the GOP are complete losers.

>Two days later
>Google still refuses to call Alaska

It was literally two GOP candidates running against each other....

As some of you might remember, I had a pretty bad situation almost five years ago. I drove out to a liquor store with the intent of buying enough alcohol to make the pain go away. I ultimately decided against it because I had a small moment of clarity and didn't think the situation would improve if I started getting shitfaced drunk.

Fast forward to now and a far worse life event has occurred and I've been trying to build up tolerance so that I inevitably can drink all that pain away. Of course because I've never drank before I've been starting out small, like real small. I had three bottles of Mike's Hard Lemonade a few nights ago, which did....fuck all and I felt nothing.

What would one recommend to in terms of a ladder or rung for moving on to some of the harder stuff?