Posts by Sam Diaz2

Charles Carter4 said:What I find really funny is the idea of Republican Party voters getting a say in who leads the opposition—especially when they're trying to pick the leader of the strongest opposition party. 🤣
Luckily, nobody is asking them for their opinion, so we’ll probably be stuck watching Joe for at least another two years. And if God helps us, maybe we can finally get rid of those absolute disasters over in Times Square. A little jail time here, some community service there... that's what they need.

Honestly, from everything I've seen in this thread, if Joe Biden ends up staying president after the election, he'll have the right-wing to thank for it. It seems like the left is getting pretty fed up with him.

Raymond Turner7 said:My Intel motherboard died on me—it was an old model from back in the day. Everything else in the rig is still running fine (just got it checked out at Best Buy), so I just need a replacement. The whole build is from 2016.
I appreciate the help.

Check eBay for something with an AM3/AM3+ socket. And honestly? Just stay away from Intel. I’ve already had two of their boards kick the bucket on me. Not much else to say.

wearybison63 said:Search is disabled.

I'm gonna call a buddy to see if he's seeing this too, because it seems fine on my end. 🙂

I can't search my own posts or anyone else's on here. It’s honestly pretty annoying. I was just trying to track down a comment I made a few days ago—no luck. Then there’s this guy explaining something he already covered a few pages back... what am I supposed to do, scroll forever?
I don't think it has anything to do with the temporary search outage.

"Sam Diaz2, you don't have permission to access this page. There are a few possibilities for this:

Your account might lack the necessary permissions. Are you attempting to edit a post that isn't yours, trying to hit admin tools, or messing with some other restricted part of the system?
If you're just trying to post, the site admin might have suspended your account, or maybe it's still waiting to be activated."

rustymason82 said:I dealt with COVID-19 back in April. Now I've got doctors giving me conflicting advice on whether to get the shot—one says go for it, another tells me to wait six months, and a third one doesn't even seem sure, so I just went out and got my antibody levels tested myself.
The result was 170.6 U/ml.
Does anyone actually know if that’s a good number or what? Should I just get vaccinated now or hang tight for another six months?

1. "Updated Aug. 27 with large Israel study that finds dramatically better protection from natural immunity than vaccination"

2. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...study-suggests

If you just need a COVID certificate to stay cleared, you're probably fine for nine months from when you recovered.

If you're genuinely worried about getting sick, though... well, you're in your 30s, right? Statistically, you're more likely to get taken out by a car accident in a major US city than die from COVID-19. In the States, we've seen way more people in their 30s die in traffic wrecks than from COVID over the last year and a half.

Plus, if your symptoms were pretty mild the first time around, there's a decent chance that if you catch it again, it'll be even lighter.

Alexander Moore67 said:The price for the Intel Core i5-9600K was sitting around $567 when it first hit the shelves here, and it never actually dropped below $500. Now that it's hovering above $600, there's no way we'll ever see a price cut like the one on the Intel Core i5-12600K dropping from 2900 down to 2000.

If you check Amazon, there's a "lowest price history" feature for every product, and it was actually quite a bit lower than $500 back in the day. People on the forums were recommending it all the time to anyone asking for build advice.

wiredotter14 said:1) Nobody on this thread recommended the Intel Core i5-9600K just because the price spiked.
2) Sure, the i3 10100 has HT, but it’s the same situation as those quad cores without HT from a few years ago—demands are just rising.
3) The i3 10100 is basically on par with the R5 2600. A few FPS better on average, maybe a few worse on the minimums. The Intel Core i5-7500 is right there too. The Intel Core i5-10400F is significantly better.

4) The i3 10100 is great value because the prices are ridiculous, no question. What's questionable is the futureproofing and the upgrade path.
5) The Intel Core i5-7500 offers a much better upgrade path for not much more cash + you can run 3200MHz RAM on a B450 board. You can't do that on B460.
6) The i3 10100F performs well, but the futureproofing sucks. If new games like Cyberpunk 2077 push the limits of the Intel Core i5-9600K, how will a quad-core handle it? The i3 has a mediocre upgrade path since used Intel chips are historically way overpriced (for example, a couple-year-old quad core costs the same as an i3 10100 now).
7) The Intel Core i5-10400F has solid performance and a good price—the current sweet spot. It doesn't have a great upgrade path, but you probably won't need one.
8) I’d go with the Intel Core i5-7500 if I planned a decent upgrade in a year, or the Intel Core i5-10400F if I wanted to just leave it alone. I wouldn't touch the i3 10100 with this budget because it'll eventually bottleneck a card like the NVIDIA RTX 3060, especially once you upgrade the monitor.

P.S.

Regarding what you wrote at the end about $567 for the Z490 and the i3 10100F... I follow similar logic, but I think it's far better to grab the Intel Core i5-7500 and a solid B450 board. That way, you can upgrade to something like an Intel Core i5-12400, which beats almost anything on the LGA1200 platform, and you can pick one up for roughly $667 new (or less as time goes on). With Z490, you're stuck with expensive Intel options, whether new or used.

I don't really see it that way. If you're dropping $100+ on a chip from 2017 and a B450 board, there's no guarantee that some future 6th gen Ryzen will even stick to the AM4 platform. Plus, who knows if AMD will even bother innovating now that they've taken the lead? They might just sit there milking their 5th gen by releasing X and XT versions or whatever other junk they come up with, which means those Intel 12th Gen prices might stay high for a while. And once they finally drop in two or three years, how much will a 5 or 6-year-old processor even be worth?

On the flip side, with LGA1200 and Intel's 11th gen trying to hold its own—either through raw power or price—you'd at least have the option to pick up a faster chip or jump to an Intel Core i7-10700 when things get cheaper. An i3 is usually easier to offload too, since it stays relevant longer.

Just to be clear, this is just my take. I'm not trying to act like I've outsmarted anyone 👍 . I'm just looking at it from my own experience of picking a CPU, back when I wasn't even looking at Intel. I ended up spending some time on: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/ sort by Best value for money

I knew from the jump that if I went with AMD, I'd want a B550 board (for the reasons I mentioned), or LGA1200 if I went Intel. When I compared the prices, the form factors, and the features—having Wi-Fi was a non-negotiable for me—I ultimately went with Intel because of the cost.

Personally, I picked up the 10100F for $203 during Black Friday. I'm not saying it's the smartest move ever made, but it felt like a good deal. Honestly, if I were going to buy an NVIDIA RTX 3060 for $1467, I'd make sure the motherboard, CPU, and cooling all actually made sense in terms of quality and looks. I wouldn't pair a card like that with an i3 or an R3.

wiredotter14 said:18% faster than what? The Intel Core i5-7500?
Maybe in games where you aren't even hitting your FPS ceiling. Once the heavy hitters arrive, you're going to feel those missing cores (the 10100F is just a quad-core). We saw this exact same thing happen with non-hyperthreaded quads about a year ago. There's no reason to settle for a quad when you can step up to 6-core (whether it's an Intel Core i5-10400F or an Intel Core i5-7500).

Example: Cyberpunk 2077 hits 80% CPU usage on the Intel Core i5-9600K (with decent performance), so a quad-core would just be choking.

If we're talking price, then the i5 and the R5 are 100% more expensive (and not even in the same league). If we aren't talking savings, then there's that $333 difference on the processor. In a year or two, you could just swap in a new chip. The socket is fresh, so it’ll definitely support at least one more generation.
On YouTube benchmarks, the i3 actually pulls a better average FPS than the R5 2600.

The Intel Core i3-10100 has hyperthreading.

A few years back, people used to recommend the Intel Pentium G4650 for budget builds because it was so good that its price quickly climbed to nearly 80-100% of what was actually recommended. I'm worried they did the same thing with the Intel Core i5-9600K, driving the price way up. I think back in the summer, it topped out around $500.

Throughout my whole component picking process, I was certain I'd go with AMD. They were better, had better tech, and were affordable... until recently. Honestly, once you bundle a solid motherboard and a processor together, I don't think the price is a best value for money anymore. Just my humble opinion.

Personally, if I'm gaming heavily and want to stay current, I'd rather invest in a Z490 board now. For $567, I'd have a CPU and mobo setup ready for the future instead of dropping $567 just for an Intel Core i5-9600K.

boldharbor7 said:Are we strictly talking about Intel here?
It’s not bad, though it feels a bit pricey; I might consider it.
I was doing a little digging myself—maybe one of these would work?

Thanks!

Personally, I'd grab the MSI and just go with Intel.

I’d probably pair it with the Intel Core i3-10100F too—it's actually 18% faster and about 20% cheaper.

Just jumping in on what @Kimberly Gomez34 was saying...

Seriously, just double-check everything you order online....

1. You check a shop—it says they have the RAM "in stock." So I buy it, pay for it... then the next day they hit me up saying it's actually out of stock and they're refunding my money.
2. Then, because that first shop messed up, I try ordering a case from another place that supposedly has it "in stock," choosing cash on delivery. They call me and drag it out for up to two weeks.
3. Since I couldn't find the motherboard I wanted locally, I started looking at places in Germany. Everything looked good there. But after buying the memory, it said "arriving by end of day," then suddenly switched to "available Dec 7th," and now it finally says "available. Order placed Nov 24th."

Honestly, if I get everything by Dec 20th, I’ll consider it a win.

Check out Links too. From the time I bought stuff online to when I actually picked up a power supply from them, I think about 10 days passed.

It’s non-existent.

There's just this massive pile of reported posts, and honestly, I can't tell if the mod actually saw them and decided they weren't worth a ban, or if they just completely missed them.
The exact same arguments keep looping, people are getting insulted, trolls are running wild... yet there isn't a single warning in sight.

If we actually need a moderator over there, I’m more than happy to throw out a few names. Let the folks in that PDF group pick someone, because at this rate, one decent little PDF thread is just going straight down the drain.

Kimberly Gomez34 said:The i3 line is a dead end no matter how you look at it; Intel basically killed its momentum with the G4560.
Unless they start offering quad-core chips while keeping prices in the $900-$333
range.

I was actually just about to ask this.

What’s the actual upside to an i3 7100 compared to a G4560 when the price gap is nearly 100%? Like, where am I actually going to notice a difference?

Also, is the integrated HD610/630 graphics enough for basic daily stuff? Just some light work and the occasional run of FreeCAD?

crimsonstag84 said:I don't know, I think Ryzen actually offers quite a bit more than Intel for the same money. Maybe the R5 1400 and 1500X are a little $33 overpriced, but even then, they seem like a better value than those locked i5 models.

It feels like we might be waiting a long time for an answer from Intel in the mainstream segment; they haven't even adjusted their prices yet 😛

Well, they listened to you. 👍

Lowering the price of the i3 7350

rustydrifter10 said:Permanent bans aren't really a thing here, but you can get hit with one for up to two years max.

I'd appreciate it. 👍

Quote : Sandy Low Lead, Quote : Sandy Low Lead, this is Cole, - - .

Go ahead, - - .

I'm finished, Sandy. I'm totally messed up. My spine is shot. They're everywhere. I'm perched on a ZSU. They're just using me as live bait.

Just do it, Sandy. Lay it on me, man. I'm popping smoke.

Do it, Sandy. Do it right now. I'd do anything for you.
That's a rogue, - - .

Alpha, Mike, Foxtrot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXLL...F6855A&index=6



😁

Is there any way I can request a permanent ban without actually breaking any forum rules? My sense of politeness won't really let me just go on a tirade.

Basically, I’m trying to get back into reading more. There are certain topics I love diving into, but at the same time, some of the users here just... well, their posts get under my skin so much that I end up arguing with them. It’s a massive time sink. I’ve got the spammers blocked, obviously, but when it comes to the "normal" people, I find myself debating them until I'm blue in the face.

Please, help me break this little half-addiction. Thanks. 😁

I’m looking for a little help here. I’ve got this document open in Word 2013 and I need to add a table on the very last page—specifically under my list of acronyms and abbreviations. Ideally, I want it to automatically sort everything alphabetically so I can just type in the definitions next to them. Thanks.

Edit: Actually, never mind, I figured it out. EndNote will do the trick.

quietpilot87 said:That’s just wrong. Smoking is an addiction—it has nothing to do with someone's actual character. Unless you honestly believe being addicted is a personality trait?
It’s the same deal with anything else—alcohol, caffeine, certain foods... some people just have brains that are wired to be more prone to addiction. That doesn't mean they're "bad" people; it just means they have to fight harder to manage it. A cigarette triggers that dopamine hit—if I remember correctly—and then it just keeps pulling you back for more.

I'd love to see how much discipline non-smokers actually have when it comes to anything else in life.

And look, I’m not defending smokers, nor is that my goal—I don't smoke myself. I just think we need to look at the bigger picture here.

Smoking for one day isn't "addictive behavior."
It’s that specific day back in middle school or early high school when you're hanging out with a group of friends and they shove a cigarette in your face. You take it just so you don't look like a wimp because you want to belong to the pack. Even if it smells disgusting and you hate it, you take that smoke into your mouth anyway. And honestly, when we were younger—including kids today—we didn't really have fully formed characters yet, but we still had something. Some people have weaker willpower than others. A lot of people cave to that need for social acceptance because their character is a bit shaky.

I mean, I’ve never once heard someone on a subway loudly bragging about how they can barely make it to their stop because they "have" to light up. Or my niece mentioning to her non-smoking uncle how she "doesn't know how she survived" an hour and a half without a smoke. Or back in my day, seeing people sprinting during every 45-minute break just to grab one cigarette. What kind of addiction is that? Sure, a doctor might call it that. But we all know it’s mostly performative—kids just wanting to seem older and more noticed during puberty. That's why I think it comes down to character.

And what are these "other things" you're talking about? Give me one example. Chocolate? Coffee?
I'm thinking of this one friend who struggled to quit smoking. He’d always claim he "had" to eat chocolate or that he "couldn't function" in the morning without coffee. To me, it was pretty obvious he was just being dramatic about these little "addictions," and that’s a character thing.

Personally, I think smoking is just a matter of character. It’s pricey, it’s bad for you, and there isn't a single redeeming quality when it comes to your health—yet people keep doing it.

It’s actually pretty fascinating watching people rediscover what food tastes like after they finally quit. I remember back when my old man used to cook; everything was so incredibly salty it was basically inedible. He was always pretty short-tempered with everyone living under his roof, so maybe that’s why I have such an aversion to smoking, though I guess you could say smokers have become a bit more tolerant (to some degree). In my house, we stick to the balcony. Out of our group of five, two of them will head outside to light up and just hang out there for 30 or 45 minutes, sipping on something while they smoke until they eventually get too cold to stay.

Only one guy I know actually struggled when he quit. Everyone else I know just said, "I'm done," and actually stopped. My cousin decided not to smoke during Lent, and then, sure enough, right after Easter, he was back at it. Honestly, if you can pick a date in the future, drop the cigarettes now, and commit to not touching them until that day, that’s true character. Most people, in my opinion, just don't have the mental toughness to pull that off, which brings me back to it being a personality trait.

analoglynx37 said:What even defines an Nationalists? During the war against the Mexicans and Mexico from 1991 to 1995, there wasn't a trace of Jasenovac or Stara Gradiška, but you definitely saw the reality in El Paso, Ovčara, and Velepromet...

1. Literal definition—a member of the armed forces of Nazi Germany.
2. Current reality—any American who speaks out against a Mexican or gives them a dirty look. Someone who listens to Thompson or voted "YES" in the referendum.

Peter Clark6 said:Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. America is in Europe, while Mexico won't be for another 15 years. If Bandić could blow up his marriage over a condo in NYC, imagine how Mexicans are calculating their moves. That "extremist" from New Orleans might even be named Spasoje... I won't ask about the last name.

Maybe he is. But if we're talking about cold calculation, he probably wouldn't beat his wife, an American woman, and his own 13-year-old son. Not trying to generalize here, don't get me wrong. It's just... what kind of things can a kid like that actually say about his Mexican father?

Carol Newman2 said:What’s the actual percentage of Srbin kids in elementary and high schools these days?
Do young guys and girls even interact with that minority or their culture anymore?
I'd love to hear your take on this, since I could probably still count you among the younger crowd myself. 😬

So, I was talking to my nephew yesterday. He’s a freshman in high school. Honestly, I was kind of floored by how much they actually talk about this stuff. It's clearly "on their radar."
On top of that, a kid moved into his class from New Orleans—some sort of "half-American" guy. His dad apparently branded him an Nationalists, or at least that's how he described him, because the father chased him and his mother, an American woman, out of town after Gotovina was released. They ended up here in Chicago. It makes you wonder... what kind of image does that whole class have of Mexicans now?