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  • Uhhhh.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=what+percentage+of+homes+are+over+%241+million

    Apparently per Redfin 8.5% of homes in the US are 7 figures or more. We’re not talking the 1% here.

    In California the median home price is almost $800,000.

    I’m in a HCOL area in Washington State and regularly see 3bdrm and sometimes 2bdrm condos for over 1 million.

    Not to mention sure your home is equity or net worth but most people only buy one and sell it anytime they move. Many of these people also planned on selling it / downsizing in retirement and converting it towards their retirement fund.

    Remember that “afford” doesn’t mean they have a million dollars. “afford” means they saved up a down-payment and then paid interest and mortgage payments (sometimes barely scraping by) for at least 30 years. Usually many more years if they moved from smaller house or a condo to a larger house when they decided to have a family (thereby starting a new mortgage for another 30 years). Or worst case, they haven’t paid it off and now are underwater on their mortgage.

    The banks are the ones making crazy money on all this.




  • While this is technically true, in practice I’ve found there’s always something the old PC is missing, tech wise.

    Socket change. Ram version change. New version of PCIe.

    Effectively you need to do mobo/cpu/ram all together.

    The only other components are GPU and storage, which I agree are generally transferable, but depending on age you may want to upgrade too.

    I guess PSU but that is thankfully something you almost never need to upgrade, unless your new GPU sucks down a lot more watts.

    Maybe if I had an AM5 board I would be in a better state, but currently on AM4 so my upgrade paths are limited (already on a 5000 series chip).


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    2 months ago

    You’re comparing a 2d custom engine. Which admittedly you wouldn’t expect to have multiple os support…but it’s built on allegro, which is open source c++.

    To a 3d game in Unreal Engine 5, which stresses even the best systems running dedicated gpus on windows. Do many macs offer dedicated gpus these days?






  • BlackAura@lemmy.worldtoNostalgia@lemmy.caLAN party from 2003
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    6 months ago

    Also efficiency.

    All PSUs have efficiency curves and are rated differently. You can’t always trust the published numbers either.

    Your 750W PSU might pull closer to 937W from the wall when you’re asking it for a full load, if it’s rated at 80% efficiency. Those ratings are not linear though and usually have a sweet spot around 80% of max load.

    I.e. It will be most efficient at around 600W (80% of the 750W max load). At higher loads it will be even worse, possibly drawing closer to 1000W from the wall.