@trwnh oh a 3950X would be a lot more reasonable for a high-performance personal machine

we probably wouldn't go beyond a 3700X personally, considering our 3600 is already performing quite well as it is

Went with the 2080s because I don't think the 5700XT is quite as ridiculous as two 2080s in SLI, hah

also its driver support is reportedly bad

@trwnh huh! maybe will consider it for the next upgrade, if they've fixed the driver issues it had at launch

that 2060 super is looking pretty good too though

though honestly we don't have the money for any of this stuff so it's not like it matters

@trwnh we really want to upgrade both our machines to 32GB of RAM and get a valve index and get an ultrawide monitor for the desktop and...

we have no money with which to do that

@trwnh we just have 16 on both computers and it's fine for what we use it for but trying to run heavily modded minecraft on the laptop (and running hte minecraft server on the desktop) eats up a lot of ram and gets worryingly close to the limit

why does money have to be a thing anyway, let's just all agree to stop doing this whole money thing

@trwnh unfortunately our laptop is 2x8 and only has two memory slots so we'll have to replace both of those

and what with how picky DDR is with its timing i can't imagine trying to use the old laptop ram in some sort of adapter to use as desktop ram would work

@trwnh problem is upgrading would cost too much, 32g is like $130 and we currently have a budget of, uh, $0 or thereabouts

@trwnh if only there were places where you could spend negative money

@connie wait what

@Felthry here's the starting price for the Mac Pro tower pc, and here's after I pick every most expensive option available

@connie wwhat the fuck apple

@Felthry to be fair this is with: a 28 core 4.4ghz processor, 1.5 terabytes of ram, *two* 32gb video cards, and 8 terabytes of storage...

@connie that's a lot of ram

@connie the ridiculous thing i put together has it beat in the storage and processor though, it has a 64-core processor (2.9 ghz but with that many cores does the clock speed really matter?) and a total of 20 tb of storage

i guess i could have stuffed a quadro or two in there to make it more ridiculous

@Felthry it is, but even at that amount it's overpriced because it costs Apple Dollars

here's an example of Apple Dollars at work: do you want feet, or wheels, on your case?

@connie apple needs to stop

@Felthry BIG agree