New PC build

[Leisher]

Micron's not gonna fuck you bro.

Actually, I take it back. They just did.

[TheCatt]

Nvidia reportedly plans 30-40% cut in GeForce GPU production in early 2026
Recent reports have claimed that Nvidia intends to reduce its production capacity for GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs in the first half of 2026. These cuts are reportedly due to shortages of memory, not just GDDR7, but all memory types.

30-40% of Nvidia’s GeForce GPU production could be axed. This implies that Nvidia cannot get enough GDDR7 memory to produce GPUs at its current rate. Alternatively, it implies that Nvidia expects significantly reduced GPU sales in 2026, possibly due to rising NAND and DRAM costs and their impact on PC prices.

[TheCatt]

[Leisher]

Truth, but ad in that AI isn't even remotely close to being able to just pretend it might someday be profitable.

[Cakedaddy]

Fucking CPU interfaces. . . I may have killed my motherboard. The bed you lay the cpu on is made up of trillions of little, what look like springs that are made up of VERY FINE strands of metal. While test fitting the cpu, I BARELY touched this bed with the corner of the cpu and bent/crushed one of the springs. I tried to straighten it with a needle, but with no magnifying glass and robot steady hands, I could only, with an incalculable amount of luck, make it 'better', but not fix it. Maybe the CPU can work without that contact? I'm moving forward with the build HOPING against hope that I have it close enough and it works. That being said, I'm balls deep into swapping all the guts into my old case when I realize *pause for dramatic affect* my old PSU isn't big enough for the new GPU. I'm still sporting a 650 Watt psu. I need a minimum of 750. I'm going to get a 1000 watt tomorrow. At this point, I'm going to just get a new case as well as this turned into a 100% replacement. That way I can get it up and running parallel to my old one. Which I had already thought of doing when I thought "Nah, cause then I'll have to buy a new PSU as well".

[Leisher]

Good luck. I hope everything works out and you're not stuck having to buy components in this insane AI price climb.

[Stranger]

Maybe the CPU can work without that contact?

Hopefully its just another ground pin that isn't necessary. Usually there are many more ground contacts and VCC pins than any other and if they're not making contact its not going to make a difference. But if its some data bus line, they you may be screwed.. Good luck!

BTW, what GPU did you end up getting?

[Cakedaddy]

ASRock RX 9070 XT Challenger

[Leisher]

Lots of reports out there of companies cancelling orders from 2025 and raising prices on the items that were part of those orders. Isn't that illegal?

[Cakedaddy]

After putting off building it, and then putting off turning it on because I was afraid to short circuit everything and kill everything. . . I finally powered it up. It took about 27 minutes (or maybe about 15 seconds but it felt like forever) for the monitor to come to life and show the MSI splash screen. It booted into bios since I had an empty drive in it and I was able to checkout the CPU temps. Everything looked good, it saw the hard drive, etc. So I rebooted with the windows 11 USB in it and loaded it up. I'm typing this on the new PC.

So far so good. I'm hoping it stays good under load when temps go way up and things start expanding/contracting.

This is my first build in a really long time where LoL isn't the first thing I load! It will make it on here, but it's low priority.

[TheCatt]

Yay!

[Leisher]

Congrats, I hope you get many years of gaming out of it.

[Stranger]

Glad to hear everything went well. As long as you applied the thermal paste right and the heatsink is set well, you will be just fine on your temps.

BTW. a new season of LoL just started this week. I played 3 ranked and went 2-1. For some reason i always go back to this game.

[TheCatt]

Building a dinky server to maybe be a media server.

It came with Windows 11 home. Ugh, no remote desktop. Microsoft asks "Wanna see upgrade options?" "Sigh, I guess, gets CC ready". "Click here for Pro". No $$. Nice.

[Cakedaddy]

Just started a CVS register upgrade project. They are putting 4GB RAM and an SSD drive in every single register, at every single store. Has to be the most expensive upgrade project CVS has ever done.

[TheCatt]

They are putting 4GB RAM and an SSD drive in every single register, at every single store. Has to be the most expensive upgrade project CVS has ever done.

Is that like $10,000 with the AI shortage?

[Cakedaddy]

Here's the kicker. . . When the RAM or SSD doesn't work, we ship it out with all the garbage hardware being recycled.

[Leisher]

They are putting 4GB RAM and an SSD drive in every single register, at every single store. Has to be the most expensive upgrade project CVS has ever done.

Is that like $10,000 with the AI shortage?

That shortage is almost over.

Whatever Google did (it's in the AI thread or the NVIDIA one) dramatically scaled back the need for RAM. That's part of why Altman backed out of the deals with Crucial and that other company.

[TheCatt]

Adopting what Google did (TurboQuant) will take a LARGE engineering effort. Current adoption seems to be quite limited. Also, it has to be validated, etc.

Research vs. Deployment: Currently, TurboQuant is in the research phase, and its widespread adoption in production environments remains to be seen.

[Leisher]

I don't remember that being the name, but I don't remember it even having a name, so I believe you. I was under the impression it was farther along.

There's a reason Altman walked from those RAM deals, and I know the need not being as necessary was a factor.