Nice.
Why on earth would anyone buy this when the 4070ti, 7900XT, and 7900XTX are all cheaper with better performance and/or efficiency
I would say SLI, but then I remembered that it hasnāt truly been a thing for many years nowā¦ 
This one is certainly a very confusing price/performance proposition, given that I bought my 3080 Ti new for less than this, quite some time ago. And with current offerings from both Nvidia and AMD outclassing it in raster, RT, or other machine learning features (newer core design for DLSS, optical flow, etc.), I donāt know why this would be a particularly tempting offer to most folks.
Surely the price is a typo. I feel sorry for anyone who is unaware of current prices enough to purchase this.
donāt listen to em woot! Itās a trick. dhgate has these for $3k. Alibaba is selling them for $1400. You know what you got, donāt take any low balls.
Probably because it isnāt produced anymore, also you can get brand new cheaper on Newegg. As well as much cheaper used and refurbished. Definitely not a smart purchase at this price
Esp when you can get a 4070 which is basically just as good for less
Or a 4070 ti for cheaper. .
I know, but theyāre not going to listen to us. I hope no one buys a gpu from alibaba. Iād hate to see what actually comes in the mail. So Iāve decided to support the ridiculous pricing and provide ridiculous examples in support of the lunacy.
Aye to each their own, there is actually a niche collectors market for these gpus new in box, one day I image it may go for much more than 1K new in box.
I second the alibaba purchase though, gonna end up getting a 730 GT with a fancy fan shroud with modified bios to appear as a 3070 ā¦ " it was a rare variant, limited Asian release " will be the go to excuse 
I have a thrifted ā1050 Tiā that is probably a GTS 450 or something ancient. At $3-ish, I might still have overpaid.
Definitely! On eBay, if you put that in a Dell dimensions, itās a gaming PC! xD Iād get a little plastic display box for it, finding that thrifting is a true gem
Nah. The 79 cents SSD was a better deal ā¦ though it is an OCZ ā¦
Oh wow ive never heard of that brand but theyāre rather expensive on Amazon, Iād be flipping it on eBay! Best thrift find for computers ive had was a $3 hyperX alloy keyboard, besides the many 17-21" $5 DVI/VGA ViewSonic screens I acquired before goodwill decided they were going to hike the prices up. Though to be fair I havenāt gone thrifting enough. Still wanna find a good flea market to rmage through one day, all the ones around here closed down!
āOCZ-branded SSDs were notable for high failure rates.ā
Some backstory of the company:
Also my first SSD well over a decade ago was an OCZ ā and they came with this decal:
Oh wow, yea I have to admit I didnāt get into custom PC stuff or hardware until I was about 19, so Iām pretty sure these werenāt around much when I began getting into ssds. However this makes me feel a bit worried about the Kioxia boot nvme in my laptop 
ahh a sticker Iām guessing from when the SATA ssds were finally begining to outperform hdds. I think I was playing ToonTown when all that was going down xD
Iāve been at this for ā¦ uh, 3+ decades already. I still remember being excited seeing an 80 megabyte hard drive for under $1000 ā MFM controller sold separately.
I wouldnāt worry about the Kioxia; the only SSDs Iād question are the no-name ābrandsā. Even then, I have multiples in use on computers which donāt really matter.
Love the breakdown and history. I always find it amusing when I have to clarify that companies like OCZ, or others are not just no-names. Like the PCPartPicker young āuns who question whether Mushkin RAM is trustworthy, compared to their Corsair stuff ā¦ āWho is this Micron, anyway?! Sounds so generic!ā Or questioning Kioxia, despite their having basically pioneered the BiCs memory platforms.
And there are always those who are new names, but with the legitimacy of industry veteransā¦ Like Solidigm, whose legacy is that of having bought out Intelās SSD tech portfolio, and inherited most of their tech team, and have even created their own unique NVMe driver, unlike the vast majority of SSD manufacturers, who all use native Windows drivers. Interesting stuff, actually. But youād never know without the background.
Damn my first PC was a Dell dimensions or an eMachines, I forget. But I do remember the drives being wayyy smaller. And games took an entire night for the installer to download. Then it had to patch lol. I think the first thing I got excited to purchase was a GTX 660 SuperClocked, pretty sure I got that with my first job, and then failed to understand I needed a better power supply to fully support it. I thought it was just all plug and play. Lol didnāt even understand drivers and all that. But I did teach myself how to reformat by running a laptop so hot it began melting or something, dunno I tried every solution until I found out that it was just inadequate cooling. But I learned so many different little things trying to fix it before finding out it was the fan.
Iāve become indifferent towards Linus Media Group ever since their incessant shameless plugging of their store, to the deliberate water block scandal video & auctioning off a prototype that didnāt belong to them, but this is still a decent video:
Iām a huge fan of Crucial drives for storage, and micron in general for RAM and everything (even though Iām usingā¦ Corsair Vengeance 
) used to be a die hard g.sKiLL RAM user (mainly because of the name)
For many, itās not necessary to know. Does it work? If yes, thatās all that matters. The knowledge that SpecTek is Micron, Klevv is SK Hynix, the number of layers in the NAND chip, the CPU die manufacturing process ā all that is inconsequential to the user.
On a different paw, I use PowerShell scripts to add printers ā because using Windowsā āAdd a new deviceā must be barbaric or something. Also it saved me seconds every time I set one up!