Does anyone know some good Adeptus Mechanicus prayers to keep your PC working? :D
Machine God, watch over us in our travels, shield us with metal and lightning. For the universe is an uncaring void, and the Warp hungers for us all.
At this point I think my new PC will be a 2022 rig. Sadly I will have to replace my 3 case fans soon, they are going on 9 years old, and the case needs a good slap once in awhile to get them to stop making weird noises.
It sounds like a can of compressed air being used.
Interesting discussion in this weekâs Digital Foundry Direct Weekly show on youtube about ray tracing on AMD GPUs. That Spider-Man on PS5 has shown that AMD ray tracing, when handled well by a developer on the specific hardware is really good, so good it almost blows away most ray tracing on PC, but on PC, AMD is so far behind Nvidia on ray tracing.
stusser
8390
We saw from Spider-man and Control that it can work, but we know from Control that they had to make significant compromises to do it-- none of which are particularly noticeable to the player.
Ethics question: would it be wrong to craft a bot to buy a single GPU for personal use? Itâs using an advantage most people wouldnât have, but some obviously do. Thereâs a good part of me which would feel guilty and Iâm trying to figure out if its a rational feeling to have. Any thoughts from the peanut gallery?
I feel like there is some bot code out there already for people who want to do that?
And yeah, go for it. Wild west.
I say youâre in the clear, ethically. Youâre not buying them up to scalp. Youâre just using available tools (and your own knowledge) to get a card via the normal means.
People shit on âbotsâ, but theyâre really shitting on people who use bots en masse to buy cards they have no intention to use. Go for it.
Itâs also a luxury good that is completely non-essential. Donât feel bad ethically about getting your hands on it.
Also, come back and share/compare notes, I think Iâm ready to pull the trigger myself. :)
Nesrie
8395
There are a lot of people out there that spend 10-12 hours a day without even being able to look at screens. They have to rely on other people to get hot contested goods and tickets. I would think a bot for a single purchase is okay. I had thought some retailers were trying to block those though, donât recall which ones.
IMO thatâs ethically fine if you are just buying one or two for your personal use. BUT, as Nesrie mentions, you might get parma-banned by some sites with anti-bot code. It happened to me with GameStop while doing same FWIW.
Diego
Thanks, guys; really good feedback. I think Iâll wind up giving this a try with my meager abilities, but do a dry run with a dummy account and different IP address to see how any given site responds before going all-in. I swear to all thatâs holy to me, itâll be one and done because scalpers are @$$holes who deserve to spend their lives playing only Facebook âgamesâ on a GT 710.
stusser
8398
Using a bot is fine for a single card for your own use, donât lose any sleep over that. I strongly suspect making a bot that actually works is not trivial these days, though.
By âworksâ I mean not only notifying of new stock but actually going through the checkout and buying the product, which is what isnât freely available.
Yeah, this is definitely going to be a project. I figure Iâll keep trying my ânormalâ avenues while Iâm chipping away at it. If and when I figure it outâŚ
So the project has been up and running but just focused on Best Buy (the site of least concern if I got banned). No ban, but no luck with it either. HOWEVER, I woke up this morning with a little bit of an itch and decided to swing by the local Microcenter just in case.
I came away with an MSI 3080 Suprim X.
stusser
8401
So you gonna resell it and buy a used car?
You got enough room for that monster?
I admit I looked on Ebay out of curiosity and the thing is selling for $3000, lol. But no; this is a keeper.
LOL - Thankfully I didnât skimp on case size; Lian Li O11 XL - fits beautifully!
The non-paid version of the Hotstock app (sort of*) helped me find a Series X at Costco a number of weeks ago but I donât know if it would help get a 3070 or whatever now. What does the paid version have that the other one doesnât? Can you still buy these things from anywhere near MSRP or is it at least a $150 premium, even from established retailers like Best Buy?
*short version: it told me that the PS5 was available (but by the time I got there it was gone) but on a whim I checked on the Series X (the one I was more interested in anyway) et voilĂ there it was. I was notified about Xbox SeX availabilty only after it was in my cart and I was finalizing the order.
My project was a home-brew using Python (which ultimately didnât get me anything, lol). Figured all those years of modding had to be good for something, right? If I had to guess, the paid version of that app probably adds more nodes and increases the frequency of checking.
Edit - oh, and for pricing, you can essentially tell bots to look for specific listings and therefore stick with whatever price they would have once available. However, tariffs are tariffs and opportunistic resellers are opportunistic resellers so MSRP generally isnât what it once was.
