My face when I MFW a reddit comment.

Someone in 2017: “I’ll get a b350 motherboard and a cheap Polaris GPU, by the time they’re obsolete I’ll have enough saved to upgrade.”

That same person in 2026: “Okay, time to try to build a $20,000 gaming PC…”

Well, I gave up drinking a decade ago, but I do turn 40 next year.

Hmm…

Jesus Christ, I’m even less eligible than a cartoon horse.

The AMD Athlon was the first CPU to hit 1GHz back in 1999, it had one core, one thread, and a one gigahertz clock rate.

Today we’re hitting 6.2GHz on 96 core CPUs.

It’s wild living in the future.

This stuff is wild, I’m waiting for the post explaining how 7950 can help people quit smoking.

The whole underwater episode.

I can’t say that I wish it hadn’t happened, but I sure wouldn’t give a shit if it didn’t.

What the fuck is an “opps?”

Welcome to the club!!

Charley Witherspoon. I could literally watch an entire television show that was just episodes of Charley Witherspoon getting stuck to things.

You joke, but…

Off topic: I think it’s so weird that Forbes of all places has such a solid game commentator.

Well, then, now that I think about it, Forbes is a financial publication, and video games are a bajillion dollar a year industry, so I guess it checks out. Still, it would be weird if Jim Kramer started riffing on the latest Mortal Kombat or something.

TO CONTINUE YOUR PROGRAM, SAY: “MCDONALD’S: I’M LOVIN’ IT!”

Kind of a bittersweet day.

Polaris was a workhorse, it put in more miles than I think any of us could have expected, and while Vega didn’t sell like gangbusters, those of us who had one had a lot of fun playing around with it.

o7

If you do a google search for “[Ryzen CPU] Eco mode benchmarks” you should get a fair few results, though they’ll probably be more from hobbyists than professional media outlets.

Ryzen CPUs have had an “Eco mode” option for a long, long time now. In the case of my 5800X, enabling Eco mode sets the max TDP at 65 watts, plus some other stuff. I get about 25%-30% power savings in exchange for a 10%-15% performance reduction, plus the CPU puts out a lot less heat, which is also nice, it’s a very fair trade, but it is a trade.

Google “Ryzen Eco mode benchmarks,” that’ll get you started.

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Neat!

o7