• MudMan@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    This stuff feels like such a pointless, almost nostalgic instinct.

    I mean, it’s fun, and I’m sure the guy got a cool Youtube video out of it, but these days you’re not roasting hardware by overclocking a flimsy chip barely aided by a heatsink. Instead, this guy took a small space heater burning the power of a half-assed microwaving session and turned it into a proper toaster over for the benefit of doing the exact same thing at mostly the same speed, just colder.

    The 4090 is already typically strapped to a massive heatsink with a bunch of fans and runs at 50-60C under load in most competent builds. I want it to not trip my breaker, not to keep it cooler, boring as that may be by comparison.

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      2 days ago

      I mean, it’s fun, and I’m sure the guy got a cool Youtube video out of it

      That’s basically it. It’s a stupidly fun idea, why not

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        Yeah, sure. I’m not ragging on the guy or the idea. It’s just seeing it done, fun and cool as it is, made me think of how it no longer makes sense even as an overkill thing. It’s a point about the hardware market, not this project.