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Saying Hello, and 2 years update after my PC Build Journey (lemmy.tevtra.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/cat@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.tevtra.com/post/394

Two years ago I made a post on Reddit's pcmasterrace (under same username) that somehow made it to /all and trended for a while.

Fast-forward to today, and I’ve found myself slowly distancing from Reddit with all the drama, weird decisions, and the feeling that any post you make can get nuked on a whim by a power-tripping mod (see: r/art).

So I wanted to anchor this moment with big chungus here on the fediverse as I start a new chapter on Lemmy. Looking forward to hanging out with everyone here and having fun again.

By the way big chungus is alive and well, the same can't be said for the 4090 though, i'm getting coil whine from it and had to live with that until 60 series...

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[–] 54 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Is it meant to look like you bought the card with your cats kidney?

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    According to OP’s comment in the original post, yes, that’s exactly what it’s supposed to look like. The gauze just has some food coloring to make that joke.

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    exactly, thanks. I'm following the template of one of those memes that always circulate around everytime apple release new iPhone, just this time it's the cat's kidney.

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    • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    Alive and well, and with a look that says, "Using me for internet clout again?"

    Give that fluffnugget some compensation snacks.

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    [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    🇯🇵

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I have a Gigabyte 1070 from a previous build that had coil whine.

    Ended up being fixed after a long stress test ran the fans at full speed for a while.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    I wish mine will break-in like yours, but so far no such luck 🙃

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    It was a great many hours of running a GPU stress test that used 100% of the GPU causing the fans to go full bore.

    My guess is coil whine is caused by the parts not fitting together properly meaning that the motor not having enough oomph to move the fans over the extra friction.

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    [–] 39 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Wish I could be as optimistic as you about the 60 series. I hope the AI bubble bursts quickly so that prices can normalise because I won't buy a PC with these prices.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    How funny it would be if by that time the insane price would not be because of the GPU itself, but because of the memory..

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't the AI bubble also the cause of high memory cost?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    isnt that literally the current issue?

    gpu chip prices coming down but mem chips skyrocketing instead

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    No, GPU prices are still high and memory is overtaking them, I'd rather have no pc than buy at these prices.

    I'll just keep using used notebooks for cheap and not play GPU (or CPU) intensive games until (if ever) the situation improves.

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    • [–] 31 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Sooo, whats with the patch on your cat? 😄
    Unfortunate with the coil wine, but otherwise great cardbto skip a generation 😬

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  • [–] [S] 61 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I was making a joke that i had to sell my cat's kidney for one of these cards. It's just a gauze with food coloring, but the post got taken down briefly by reddit mod due to "depiction of violence" because of that 😂

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    • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I just upvoted for the cat, not sorry. Your cat is one chunky man and I just wanna squeeze him and rub him and love him forever! (sorry if it's actually a girl cat lol)

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    • [+] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    it's not affecting me that much when i'm fully immersed in VR due to wearing headphones, but when i'm using it with local LLM for chats the noise can be unbearable. Not sure how undervolting can affect that particular use case yet so i've never done it.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Do you get coil whine on idle? Or only under load? Maybe just a frame rate limit might reduce your coil whine

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Totally no whine on idle, only under load. Like i said in other reply, on stable frame rate it can almost be like white noise due to constant noise, but when running LLM it makes a very distinctive rhythmic noise, and the noise pattern is different with every model and its VERY annoying.

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    • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    i'm getting coil whine from it and had to live with that until 60 series...

    My 7900 XTX sounds like it's trying to establish a dial-up connection to Satan when running intense compute tasks. So we can suffer together.

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    • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Welcome to Lemmy, hope you'll like it here:)

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