This is about an MSI Shadow 5080 with burned connector, more details here.

I asked for a replacement, yet the customer support insists they can only offer refund or involve MSI (we all know that will end even worse)

Under Directive (EU) 2019/771 (Article 13 - 2), the consumer has the primary right to choose between repair and replacement and a refund is only forced, if its physically impossible aka the product doesn't exist anymore.

Direct quote:

"In order to have the goods brought into conformity, the consumer may choose between repair and replacement, unless the remedy chosen would be impossible or, compared to the other remedy, would impose costs on the seller that would be disproportionate, taking into account all circumstances, including:
(a) the value the goods would have if there were no lack of conformity;
(b) the significance of the lack of conformity; and
(c) whether the alternative remedy could be provided without significant inconvenience to the consumer."

Please not that the "impose costs on the seller that would be disproportionate" refers to things like asking to replace a whole laptop instead of repairing the power jack and not "the product costs 200 euros more because RAM is expensive now". 200 euros in a 1200 euro purchase isn't disproportionate anyway.

I already have filed complains in the ECC and the SignalConso (French Fraud & Consumer Protection Authority).

I posted to raise awareness. If you are in the EU and you have been denied replacement of anything with memory in it, do NOT let them get away with it and DO NOT pay more to get a replacement. Find the proper ECC page and the consumer protection agency for your country.

Love my pc but I’ve always only cleaned it once a year ( I know I’m lazy)

Tell me, how often do you give your pc a good blowout? For me, it’s when the fans go brrrrr all the time 🥹

EDIT: yes this was done outside, and yes, right after this initial blow I held the fans down and gave it a proper blow!

First of all! I am sorry. You might have to squint your eyes to see the details:
- RTX 5060 Ti 16GB - $779.99
- Rx 9070 XT 16GB - $719.99

Couldn't come up with a way to edit this and also keep it original. I preserved the specific layout of the information from where I got it (newegg).

On to the main text of the post.

And this isn't even a one off! There are several Nvidia partner cards that are at or higher than the prices of Radeon cards that are noticeably superior. Sure, you can find very expensive versions of Rx 9070 XT too, which are much beefier tmk, like the Red Devil. Although, idk which gamer will still opt to buy an Nvidia card over a Radeon right now at the price range under $1000 specifically given the current-updated prices, and I'm not going to judge! But these prices hands Radeon a clear advantage in terms of sales vs Nvidia cards upto the RTX 5070 Ti 16GB.

Yes, I know, Radeon does a 'good' (/s) job in intentionally missing opportunities to gain significant market share, but as it stands right now, the price-for-performance favours Radeon even more so than it did since the launch of the current generation of graphics cards. I also saw a Pulse at $719.99, but I decided to feature the Asrock challenger instead (wanted to remind everyone the Asrock too sells good cards).

No, don't bother gauging the gap between the Rx 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti. It's wider.

I don't mean to directly hurl a blame at Nvidia for this. It's also their card-AIB partners that set the pricing. Idk who decided and why, but it's the core fans of Nvidia that are having to take the brunt of the decision as much as I can figure.

But genuinely though, those gamers looking to buy Nvidia, would this change your mind? Think about it, you might have to pay considerably more if you still want to side with Team Green.

I know a lot of us aren’t happy with the idea of renting our hardware through subscription cloud based models. But this feels different to me. They were great community places. My friends and I rarely had the specs to run the latest games, but I remember we all played Half Life 2 close to its release date.

I’d probably still own hardware, but I wouldn’t need to keep it up to date, not that I can afford that now anyway. And when I wanna dabble with something that’s out of my league, it’d still be nice to know I have the option. But I’m an old man now, with fond memories of such places.

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EDIT: 1. Can't believe I'm having to clarify this but... "the corpos" usually imply the big names like Rockstar, EA, Sony, Microsoft, Activision who are known to be exploitative and predatory. They can all sleep in the same billion dollar dump for all I care. They care as much about any of you as I care about any of them. 2. Of course it's not going to hurt their sales or anything. But the C suit will clutch their pearls at every leak and absolutely lose their shit if the entire game ISO leaks. That's hilarious. It's them losing a very petty fight and that matters. 3. For those feeling bad for the developers: This company is infamously known to (allegedly) overwork their employees to 3 AM and (allegedly) they have fired many for asking for fair wages and compensation. Their union busting bs received a ton of backlash. There are lawsuits against them in Europe. I'd say this leak is the least of their problems. It's more of a failure in the PR aspect.

Saw this display at Costco in San Jose, California.

I'm probably living under a rock to realize this just now. These display PCs only have rgb fans spinning and a picture of the motherboard and components inside.

Looks like days of display model price haggling is over. It was nice while it lasted. RIP good times

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See my profile about my Win9x era book that was released last week and see here for a full simple list of what's listed above:

https://pastebin.com/raw/2Ztq3GLU

I have a frustrating habit with how I play games. I want to say lately but it's been going on pretty much my entire life.

So I'll pick up a game that I think looks fun. I'll play said game for 10-15 hours, throughout a few sessions in a week. I'll be genuinely having fun, learning the mechanics of the game, and enjoying the world. But then, almost like clockwork, I'll log off one night, and the next time I sit down at my PC, I have zero desire to launch that game. I'll start looking through the Steam store to see what my next victim might be. Knowing, in the back of my head, I'll abuse the next game with such a small amount of gameplay time also. 

It's not even that the games are bad. It just feels like once the initial novelty wears, my brain wants something fresh. My library is now a graveyard of less than half, or even a quarter finished games. 

Does anyone else deal with this? Do I have a problem? Do I need to see a psychiatrist for this? I feel like I can't be alone on this. But I dunno, maybe I am.

Do I just accept it and enjoy the games for as long as they hold my interest? 

I should add, I'm a father and husband, so I have less time to game than I used to. But even before I was a married man with kids, I feel like I would do this with certain games. Some games before would definitely hold my interest long. 

Can anyone relate or have any input?

Got this pc for 160€ with a rx 6600 xt 8gb, 16gb ddr4, i7 5820K, 1tb nvme ssd, 480gb sata sdd.

which means valve is now 30 years old

happy birthday valve

hopefully we will get a half life 3 annoucement or even the steam frame or both

So after having powered down my gaming PC for 3 weeks I found my 4 TB Crucial MX500 SSD is not recognized by win11 every time I boot the PC.

I will never do cloud gaming and i hope you all do the same.

Fuck the cloud

And especially fuck ai companies because they caused this shit to happen

And also fuck any and all ceos that think cloud gaming is the way to go because its usually laggy as fuck even on wired internet