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I’ll echo that you probably want to choose an x3d chip over anything else. The giant size cache lets non-benchmark tasks go much faster.
Is there a reason you chose a two stick ram kit rather than a four stick like your motherboard supports? I used to leave slots open “for when I want some more”, but nowadays when I want some more I’m finding the lower latency stuff is in my price range or I can get a higher speed with a cpu upgrade and end up swapping it all out at once.
If you can get away with a cheap b580 then it’s worthwhile for you to do so. Intel is losing money and fucking up as a business anyway so don’t let their evil actions prevent you from picking their bones clean. No ethical consumption etc.
Consider socking back $20 for some ptm and switching to an air cooler. They’re genuinely not loud, have fewer ways of catastrophically failing and dovetail nicely with the processors built in overheat handling because of their much larger thermal mass.
Consider putting a spinning hard drive in there as well. Not everyone is as versed in the new failure modes of ssds and how to deal with them and having somewhere else your data is stored locally is nice.
Also being able to shuffle something you’re not using off the ssd temporarily is a real luxury, like having a shed.
Crossing picket lines is good actually. Buying IOF bonds with the money OP budgeted for a PC would be even better.
There is no picket line to cross. There is not significant organized opposition to intels equivalent to ibm selling to Nazi germany. Buying an iof bond would not put the ops limited funds to more efficient use in the form of pc parts but scooping up cheap parts from an ailing manufacturer would.
Your consumptive decisions do not define you or exert control over the productive forces which put them in the market place.
Buying a Mac doesn’t make you a free thinker and not buying a Mac doesn’t make you the real free thinker.
I am not sure that there is enough common ground to have a good faith discussion if you are handwaving away not the (limited) successes of BDS, but its very existence.
E: I would find it a lot more comprehensible if your expressed statement was along the lines of "get something used so you are putting money into the pockets of a cryptominer ghoul rather than DoD contractors", but "this loss leader deal from a failing direct beneficiary of palestinian genocide is a fine choice to make" just bends my brain
They are making new kinds of liberals every day I stg.
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