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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #700 on: Sun, 13 July 2025, 10:58:36 »
Downloaded this new firmware for the the ol' JMS583-chipped ssd enclosure, seeeems to work gud now.

Althhghhghghgouhgggg,  Fastcopy can still crash it, despite only it being able to hit dat max theoretical 980MB/s

Windows copy can only do 730MB/s sustained, but no crashing.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #701 on: Sun, 13 July 2025, 13:58:28 »
Why are they so stingy with the usbc ports?

How much can these chips possibly cost?


This is pretty accurate from what I've seen. I was shopping between motherboard models and features earlier this year and you'll realize they're really giving you the bare minimum even on $200-$300 boards. I hear that motherboards are more robust than in the past but really there hasn't been any explosive advance in features that you get at a given pricepoint, vs for keyboards for example a $100 keyboard now has the features of a $400 keyboard 5-10 years ago. I wanted a motherboard that was ITX, had good connectivity and had display connectors that allow for GPU passthrough that support 4k 120hz and up, and that narrowed it down to like 2-3 models and they were all $300 or more.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #702 on: Sun, 13 July 2025, 14:27:53 »
One can understand why gpu passthrough would be expensive, if they have to all be 80gbps ports. But surely you can give people 2 of the damn things. and the REST be 40gbps.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #703 on: Sun, 13 July 2025, 16:05:26 »
SSD price fixing.

This has got to stop.  We should be at roughly half the current price.   Hopefully Heroic-Y|\|\TC comes through for the world and destroys the Evil Nand Cabal.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #704 on: Sun, 13 July 2025, 16:20:30 »
Pcie gen 6 ssds, might not be affordable to average consumers.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #705 on: Sun, 13 July 2025, 18:24:01 »
Throughly tested the new jms583 firmware, gotta hand it to startech, they make stuff work. Even on stuff you don't buy from them. LOL.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #706 on: Mon, 14 July 2025, 06:38:05 »
Batteries are alot cheaper thanks to aliexpress.

Remember when they used to be over $200. 

They still sell them for $130 oem (who knows if they're even oem), $50-90 on amazon (non oem), $30 on Aliexpress.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #707 on: Mon, 14 July 2025, 15:30:52 »
Whenever Tp4 gets nervous, he compulsively browses computer parts.

This is a grave illness.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #708 on: Mon, 14 July 2025, 15:52:13 »
Most platforms don't even properly support  2x  gen 5 ssd.  You end up having to bifurcate down to 8x for gpu.

What the hell is the point of Gen 5 ssds then even, if you can't transfer anything that fast TO or FROM anywhere without kinda gimping the GPU.

 

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #709 on: Mon, 14 July 2025, 15:56:10 »
SSDs are literally 3x more expensive than they were just 2 years ago

gee - 4Tb platter drive for $55 or 2Tb SSD for $170? what would you do?

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #710 on: Mon, 14 July 2025, 17:18:30 »
Only if you buy the latest Gen 5 ssd model.

Tp4 just got a used 4TB sn850x for $205 from amazon resale prime day, 0 read/write. Basically a return brand new.




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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #711 on: Mon, 14 July 2025, 22:59:36 »
SSDs are literally 3x more expensive than they were just 2 years ago

gee - 4Tb platter drive for $55 or 2Tb SSD for $170? what would you do?

$50/tb is the goal for ssd, don't pay much more than that.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #712 on: Tue, 15 July 2025, 06:38:20 »
We should be at $25 per TB. It's all price fixing.

There's no reason they should be this high.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #713 on: Tue, 15 July 2025, 14:10:29 »
Bwwwahhh.. Got scammed.  /CRYyy

Bought this enclosure, says 40gbps, but it's actually a JHL7440 chipset, which is Tunderbolt 3, and tops out at 2800MBps.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #714 on: Wed, 16 July 2025, 09:38:00 »
Most these drawing tablets still stuck at 60hz.

Seems like a straight forward thing to have Maxxed out on given what's possible.

In theory, they can do 4K 325hz 8bit, or 270hz 10bit,  on the latest 4-lane HBR20. ~77.4 Gbps

That would be pretty awesome. 3DLut that can power that in gsync motion would be difficult, you'd need some pretty powerful chips, but it's certainly within the realm of possibility.  But static is probably more than enough, would artists care their pen tip has a slightly different shade on the leading edge for 1/300th of a second, I doubt it. so they probably don't need that pixel boost strobe compensation table.


But now that entry lvl artists are replaced by AI, they will be too poor to afford such things.



Without the individuals to drive demand, it falls to corporations, and if you supply corporate, the prices will massively inflate, and we're back to wacom prices.  And all innovation stops.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #715 on: Wed, 16 July 2025, 12:26:48 »
Gud' ssd heatsink (HR10) vs,  bundled motherboard flat aluminum bar.

It's a pretttty sizable difference, now that Tp4 has 2 identical drives to compare.