NorCal (Bay Area) OFF-TOPIC Chat Thread

[Clipdat]

I agree with the performance observations and expectations. It's somewhat surprising that optimizations weren't made before launch. Also it seems like the various motherboard manufacturers are having a difficult time keeping their boards in stock. Seems like there could've been more anticipation of demand and stock levels in order to avoid this from happening. For example yesterday evening that Asus board was in stock and now it's out of stock again.

Going back to the performance, I was a bit surprised at the 1080p performance as well since that's the resolution I play at. I'm currently on a i7-920 though so I'm sure it would still be a huge improvement.

But yeah i7-7700k vs 1700 Ryzen is a tough call.

Originally Posted by My Key

I would, but... i dunno. multi-threaded performance seems to be pretty damn good, but single-thread applications just cant' fully utilize it.

A lot of optimization still needs to be done before I feel like its tried and true.

I'd rather wait until then. Although any upgrade will be an upgrade for me at this point. Seeing the numbers versus my FX8350 just makes me sad.

[driggity]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

My favorite style is IPA. But yeah, I'm a snobby asshole.

IPA snobbery is so early 2000's. Catch up man!

Originally Posted by spike021

Otherwise I'm kinda into sours and belgians. Traditional german hefeweizens too.

Spending 7 weeks in Bavaria in 2006 ruined hefeweizens for me. Nothing can compare now.


See, now that's how you do beer snobbery


Recently I've been tending to get a sour, gose, or saison if there's one available. Had a Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose last weekend and I had forgotten how much I enjoyed those. I also forgot that my wife likes it enough to steal a bunch of mine, but thinks they're too sour to order one for herself.

[Clipdat]

Can't stand sours. yech.

Originally Posted by driggity

IPA snobbery is so early 2000's. Catch up man!





Spending 7 weeks in Bavaria in 2006 ruined hefeweizens for me. Nothing can compare now.


See, now that's how you do beer snobbery


Recently I've been tending to get a sour, gose, or saison if there's one available. Had a Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose last weekend and I had forgotten how much I enjoyed those. I also forgot that my wife likes it enough to steal a bunch of mine, but thinks they're too sour to order one for herself.

[My Key]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

I agree with the performance observations and expectations. It's somewhat surprising that optimizations weren't made before launch. Also it seems like the various motherboard manufacturers are having a difficult time keeping their boards in stock. Seems like there could've been more anticipation of demand and stock levels in order to avoid this from happening. For example yesterday evening that Asus board was in stock and now it's out of stock again.

Going back to the performance, I was a bit surprised at the 1080p performance as well since that's the resolution I play at. I'm currently on a i7-920 though so I'm sure it would still be a huge improvement.

But yeah i7-7700k vs 1700 Ryzen is a tough call.

I think the poor planning of the board optimization is due to AMD keeping everything on lock down until the last minute possible. Just not enough time to get it running as they'd like. There's still bios updates going out right after the embargo.

Low stock and high demand seems to be the trend lately with the manufacturers. Same occurrence when the Nvidia's 10 series and when AMD launched the RX400s. All it does is drive up the price for the early adopters and they make more money. Ugh.

[kakacarrotcake]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

Can't stand sours. yech.

I second that, sour beer is nasty.


Give me a nice blonde, red, or an IPA.

[PMok]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

LOL! His gf has such a flat ass, but I know she is absolutely wild in bed.

wait, what?

[Clipdat]

Track 7 in Sacramento makes a good IPA

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/track-7-panic-ipa/194658/

Originally Posted by kakacarrotcake

I second that, sour beer is nasty.


Give me a nice blonde, red, or an IPA.

[Clipdat]

Drunk post. Best to just ignore it and move on.

Originally Posted by PMok

wait, what?

[kakacarrotcake]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

Track 7 in Sacramento makes a good IPA

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/track-7-panic-ipa/194658/

Yeah I like it a lot! We used to have a place called Dragas that made a good one too but they shut down recently.


My favorite IPA is Deschutes Freshly Squeezed. I spend a lot of time at Final Gravity in Granite Bay. It's a tap room that always has tons of different beers.

[PMok]

I went out to my BRZ this morning in the other garage to find that I had left the trunk open all week and the battery was dead. Was about to resignedly head back to my daily driver but remembered I had my portable jumpstarter battery on hand! I tell you, that thing has paid for itself already a few times over. Get one if you don't have one.

[My Key]

Originally Posted by PMok

I went out to my BRZ this morning in the other garage to find that I had left the trunk open all week and the battery was dead. Was about to resignedly head back to my daily driver but remembered I had my portable jumpstarter battery on hand! I tell you, that thing has paid for itself already a few times over. Get one if you don't have one.

gave one to my sister and she just let it run out and not recharge. -_-

Im thinking about taking it back. lol

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by PMok

I went out to my BRZ this morning in the other garage to find that I had left the trunk open all week and the battery was dead. Was about to resignedly head back to my daily driver but remembered I had my portable jumpstarter battery on hand! I tell you, that thing has paid for itself already a few times over. Get one if you don't have one.

Yup. I bought one a week ago. Its awesome. Screw jumper cables

[Clipdat]

Link?

Originally Posted by finch1750

Yup. I bought one a week ago. Its awesome. Screw jumper cables

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

Link?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B013U...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Only used the jump once and charged my.phone a few times. Being as it was cheap the longevity is the thing I question