Malcador

Happy Independence Day to you US people

Grabbed Andromeda off Steam for $10. Probably will never remember to play it

Nope, no need for Wi-Fi, definitely none for BT, have a sound card already so that matters less (my old Realtek bigotry runs deep). Just means I need a motherboard with a couple PCIe ports, I guess. The Fractal Torrent looks nice, will have to look at that.

Yes, "just curious". But MW beats me to any pro-Ukrainian news, most of the time. Other than that the pro-UA stuff I see will just be T-72s getting blown up and such, and I try to not gawk at that. Kherson is probably good news for Ukraine, but not sure what's to talk about as there's a blackout of sorts about it.

Okay, so sticking with the 5600 and with the MSI MAG-b550 Tomahawk (I've liked MSI in past and seems popular). Still not too sure on the case though, probably do need ssome 3.5 bays.

Yeah, hardware prices suck here in Canada. Intel draft build is like $400 more, interesting

$60-70 more, so about 3-days work for me. Guess I'll have to do this the right way, going component by component and being organized. Sort of feel like getting something more than the 5600 just for e-peen purposes, but probably will end up broke that way

If only Zelensky had not listened to the members here.

Lovely drama over the Monkey Island game. People flaming Gilbert and he's pouting over that https://www.pcgamer.com/monkey-island-creator-says-hes-done-sharing-the-new-game-after-personal-attack-comments/ People have been posting needlessly aggressive stuff. Not sure Amato helped things by referring to people upset about the art style as "retro fascists"

Not all that outrageous, see conflicts in the third world over the years.

Well as the thread exhorts us to live as if today were our last..... Kill your manager.

Makes sense to, just there getting shelled, I guess that was practice for the Ukrainian troops. Not sure it changes much w.r.t the Black Sea. Appears the withdrawal from Lysyschansk is going well.

For some reason I thought I had changed to a B550 board. I may not be upgrading CPU but probably will be replacing drives - in this new machine I'll be bringing over the 2 SATA SSDs and 1 HDD from the current one, or just adding more as I hoard stuff. Fair point on the case, picked that as I like my current Corsair and that one got good reviews and the cooler as everyone I know keeps talking it up. Roughly priced at 12400f build using everything the same that could be and it came up to $400 more, too.

Draft build idea CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Video Card: Asus Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB ROG STRIX GAMING OC Video Card Case: Corsair 5000D AIRFLOW ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair RM (2021) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Not all too sure on the case, though. But is just a draft.

Well, RAM stick in another slot seems to be ok. Curious, will have to find time to run memtest, the Windows memory tool spotted nothing. Wonder if the slot is the issue - which is worse.

I think Elmo could take Ted Cruz in a fight.

Escape from LA was a warning.

Compared to Bucha, a missile going off target getting this reaction is funny. Maybe they are low on missiles finally (as we've been hearing since, March ?) if they used a Kh-22 - guess it locked on to the mall.

What else do you think Turkey would want ?

PC just switched off then failed to POST. Last weekend it did similar behaviour, would turn on then turn off again, turned out it was a RAM stick. This time taking the RAM stick out did fix it, so guess the stick died. Really need to just build a rig, prices are down a bit these days, so I guess that is my weekend project.

Course it will work. Bruce is here.

Doubt anyone'll care, really. It's not as if they're in a relatively civilized country.

It's like booze. It's the solution to life's problems until you overdo it.