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woo. nice.
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woo. nice.
Neogeoman106st
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Got these today.
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If I bought it I would crack it open. lol
ChopstickSamurai
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Me too. I'd stick my nose right down in it and breathe in that 30 year old unstable air.
I'm surprised the shrink wrap hasn't constricted and crushed the shit out of that game yet. Does having a game graded and entombed in a lucite coffin stop this from happening?
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I don't think shrink wrap works like you think shrink wrap works...
Westcb
Give an Azn, A Break Here!,
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ChopstickSamurai
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I've seen plenty of old game boxes and records crushed by their plastic wrappings. Leaving things sealed for decades doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
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Same. I've bought sealed Atari 2600 games whose boxes have been totally deformed because the shrinkwrap kept shrinking over time. Get that shit off of there.
Mr. Mort
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BUT WHAT ABOUT THE VALUE?$?$?$?$?$?
madman
Blame madman, You Know You Want To.,
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I've seen that happen more so with Atari games than other games for some reason. I even have slightly more recent Lynx games that are crushed due to the shrinking shrink. On records I've only seen it be a problem a few times. Unless it's a gatefold or the shrink already appears to be causing problems, I keep it on my records.
Kid Panda
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KoF ‘98 UM Hero and DoDonPachi DaiOuJou Tamashii
What's your score table look like on DOJ?
madman
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Factory defaults.
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Considering it’s only just arrived... it’s on the Supergun now and I’ve had a quick couple of credits, I’ll get into it more this evening.
You know that 2nd gen TR is around the corner, right? Either way, great CPU. Doesn't taste too good, though.
NeuroticMoose
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Just bought a Threadripper 1950x.
Holy shit, had never heard of this until now and just looked up the specs and some pictures of the size of the goddamn thing. That thing is a goddamn monster, what are you trying to run on your computer that would even require that kind of power? Are you launching a space bound rocket from your back yard?
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Yeah, I mean can't you just buy a Packard Bell like everyone else? Show off.
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Yeah, but I got a pretty good deal on some parts and it just kind of happened. I'd been looking into doing a small Ryzen 7 build to run as a server.
Amazon Warehouse was selling the Asus Zenith Extreme motherboard for $280 as "used - like new", and then had a 20% off coupon for a couple days bringing it down to $230. I bought it because the board is normally like $400-560 and is supposedly going to be compatible with TR2, so I figured I could either keep it for a build or flip it later on (it comes with a 10gb PCIe NIC, which sells for $130 used on its own). I received the board and it was missing a few tiny screws for the m2 mounts and it came with some Gigabyte branded SATA cables (none of this matters much, but....). I talked to Amazon about it and they gave me a 50% discount, so I basically ended up paying like $125 for this bad ass motherboard.
I started looking at the cost of CPUs and most places had the 1950x for $900+, but I found that Microcenter was selling it in-store only for $699. I decided to go ahead and get it since I saved a lot on the motherboard. Then I started looking at cooling and the AIO watercooler that seems to be popular was around $140, but conveniently Fry's was having a one day sale that same day where it was $89.
I used the 50% refund from Amazon to buy a Corsair Carbide Air 540 case.
So I saved something like $500 across the board on this. If TR2 turns out to be insanely better than TR1 I'll probably sell and upgrade, but I'm not super concerned about it. I've got a 7700k I use for games and mainly wanted this many cores/threads for virtualization, Plex transcoding, etc., so it should have a pretty long lifespan and work very well for home lab purposes.
Plex transcoding, video encoding, virtual servers, etc.
Spycee
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Do you have any recording than I can hear ? I'm very curious to try !
