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#91
General Chat / Re: Member Introduction Thread
Last post by Bella - February 02, 2026, 10:44:12 PMHi Xi Wang chan!! I remember you! How's life going?
It's great to see old members checking in. ^_^
It's great to see old members checking in. ^_^
#92
General Chat / Re: Member Introduction Thread
Last post by narumichan - February 02, 2026, 09:47:16 PMHi hi ^^/...
Maybe older members remember me, Im Xi Wang chan, female, mexican and currently housewife because of my lovely nephew (Im not married), Im still a hobby illustrator and additionally a novice musician ^^...
Today I remembered this community and, since I see is still active, and I didn't recovered my original name/password... well... Im here ^^...
Maybe older members remember me, Im Xi Wang chan, female, mexican and currently housewife because of my lovely nephew (Im not married), Im still a hobby illustrator and additionally a novice musician ^^...
Today I remembered this community and, since I see is still active, and I didn't recovered my original name/password... well... Im here ^^...
#93
General Computers and Gaming / Re: Computers General
Last post by VonDaab - January 27, 2026, 11:02:48 AMGrabbed 2x16gb sticks of DDR5 when I collected the parts for this build back in May, at normal price. DDR4 is still fairly valid RAM even today, so I've been looking around to hoard some of that and have a AM4 socket based mini PC build coming up someday later. So far have 2x8Gb set of DDR4, but the local 2nd hand marketplace here has bunch more of it, even if bit on the pricey side, like, 80-ish euros for a 2x8gb set.
The 3-fan Arc B580 I got in December for 280euros when GPU prices were at their record low. Arc cards aren't in super high demand so their prices haven't gone up terribly lot, just seems like supply is more of the question.
Just strange that people aren't buying the B580. It's basically a RTX4060 power card, but with 12Gb of VRAM.
When I saw the RAM prices spike, I anticipated a spike in SSD prices as well, so managed to grab a 2Tb stick of M.2 NVME, just couple days before it went up by 30%. It's almost double now.
Fortunately PC case parts, motherboards and CPUs are still normal priced, even if there are rumors of CPU prices going up and generally energy prices rising causing all component prices going up with it.
Along with couple more fans for my build, I need to get a case fan power hub. Fans came with a hub for the RGB, but not for the power, so I had to scavenge the hub off my old case and it's sub-optimal for the task because I might need to divide the fans between as many motherboard power headers as possible as right now too many of them are running at same exact speed and its generating resonance, a low wavy hum.
The 3-fan Arc B580 I got in December for 280euros when GPU prices were at their record low. Arc cards aren't in super high demand so their prices haven't gone up terribly lot, just seems like supply is more of the question.
Just strange that people aren't buying the B580. It's basically a RTX4060 power card, but with 12Gb of VRAM.
When I saw the RAM prices spike, I anticipated a spike in SSD prices as well, so managed to grab a 2Tb stick of M.2 NVME, just couple days before it went up by 30%. It's almost double now.
Fortunately PC case parts, motherboards and CPUs are still normal priced, even if there are rumors of CPU prices going up and generally energy prices rising causing all component prices going up with it.
Along with couple more fans for my build, I need to get a case fan power hub. Fans came with a hub for the RGB, but not for the power, so I had to scavenge the hub off my old case and it's sub-optimal for the task because I might need to divide the fans between as many motherboard power headers as possible as right now too many of them are running at same exact speed and its generating resonance, a low wavy hum.
#94
General Computers and Gaming / Re: Computers General
Last post by Bella - January 27, 2026, 09:25:07 AMShe looks good! I hope she treats you good too.
Did you manage to snag your GPU & RAM before prices went crazy?
Did you manage to snag your GPU & RAM before prices went crazy?
#95
General Computers and Gaming / Re: Computers General
Last post by VonDaab - January 24, 2026, 12:14:48 PMWell, took a good while to get around rebuilding my system. Slight delay due to the Ryzen 7600 frying itself and then the whole mucking about with the warranty. Got it replaced under warranty with a 9600X, which I don't mind.
There was some talk that ASRock has had issues with frying AMD CPUs, but it's becoming more apparent that its really AMD who's at fault as the fried CPUs are starting to crop up on various motherboard manufacturers. This is purely an AM5 socket issue it seems, and even then heavily implied majority on the 9000 series, but with my fried one being a 7000 series, I have a feeling its really the whole AM5 production.
But anyways, got that fish tank made. Also upgraded to a 3-fan Sparkle Nox B580.
Also will be getting more fans for it, as when ordering fans I wasnt sure if I wanted 2 or 3x140s at the bottom, but when building decided I wanted 3, so side panel ended up with only a single fan, so looking bit weird.
There was some talk that ASRock has had issues with frying AMD CPUs, but it's becoming more apparent that its really AMD who's at fault as the fried CPUs are starting to crop up on various motherboard manufacturers. This is purely an AM5 socket issue it seems, and even then heavily implied majority on the 9000 series, but with my fried one being a 7000 series, I have a feeling its really the whole AM5 production.
But anyways, got that fish tank made. Also upgraded to a 3-fan Sparkle Nox B580.
Also will be getting more fans for it, as when ordering fans I wasnt sure if I wanted 2 or 3x140s at the bottom, but when building decided I wanted 3, so side panel ended up with only a single fan, so looking bit weird.
#96
OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...
Last post by Bella - January 21, 2026, 11:48:10 PMQuote from: stewartsage on January 17, 2026, 10:09:52 PMYour coloring looks so good on all her different outfits! The only SAGE-lineage -tan that got to do (fun) travel. SABRE never dies, she just respawns.
Vietnam wasn't fun? Need the werewolf and golden retriever meme but it's SABRE-tan in her original form vs. today as a conglomeration of travel booking sites.
- Family beach day! I like to think that SAGE-chan and PDP-1-chan operate at overly clingy cat levels of "cannot leave Whirlwind alone for even a second"
- Whirlwind-chan charming her Auntie (?) EDVAC!
- This post is just baby Whirlwind. (Charming EDVAC worked.)
I watched Telezonia and instantly understood that I had to draw Plan 9-tan as the AT&T Sprite. (Featuring Unix-sama & Inferno-chan, who I decided to age up to her adult form because it's been long enough. ^_^; )
Featuring Plan 9-tan on her way to live another day in her fucking life...
#97
General Chat / Re: Topicless thread
Last post by Bella - January 21, 2026, 11:30:09 PMQuote from: Basil143ily on January 21, 2026, 02:58:30 PMWHY ARE THERE SUCH ODD QUESTIONS FOR VERIFICATION
How's that? I registered an extremely long time ago & then left for a long while, so I don't actually know what verification looks like now ... other than it's tighter because of spammers & other bad actors. (Unfortunately.)
At any rate, welcome! Please make yourself at home & feel free to post. The pace of the forum is slow but it's still active.
#98
General Chat / Re: Topicless thread
Last post by Basil143ily - January 21, 2026, 02:58:30 PMWHY ARE THERE SUCH ODD QUESTIONS FOR VERIFICATION please answer me!!!!!
please answer me!!!!! #99
OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...
Last post by stewartsage - January 17, 2026, 10:09:52 PMQuote from: Bella on December 31, 2025, 11:23:59 PM
- ENIAC: turning 80 years old
- Bendix G-15: 70 y.o.
- DOS/360 & OS/360: 60 y.o.
- Cray 1: 50 y.o.
And Multics (60 y.o. as of 2025) as Father Time(sharing), ushering out the old year. . .
What a lineup! Thirty years between ENIAC and Cray-1. Ten between G-15 and the 360s...
Quote from: Bella on January 07, 2026, 07:35:47 PMSABRE-tan in eras of American Airlines flight attendant uniforms.
And as the Roaming Gnome, because she's Travelocity now.
Your coloring looks so good on all her different outfits! The only SAGE-lineage -tan that got to do (fun) travel. SABRE never dies, she just respawns.
#100
OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!
Last post by Goujer - January 11, 2026, 11:35:54 PMQuote from: VonDaab on December 25, 2025, 05:37:25 PMStill within the season for this. Happy merriments and such.
Decided to redraw the seasonal Saseko from... 18 years ago.
I'll let you figure out which one is the new one.
HELL YEAH
Merry Christmas!!!!!