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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • My bad. It just seems like the low hanging fruit everyone plays off of.

    We actually used to get vehicles close to this size. The Suzuki samurai (really a jimny) was sold here for a number of years. Geo sold a fair number of almost kei cars that Suzuki made.

    I’m a fan of limiting them from interstate highways, but keeping them registrable. It’s just dumb they cite “safety” even though the law explicitly calls out they aren’t required to be safe. I just want a nice 25-45 mph city truck to lug dirty junk around.

    But if anyone is curious, Douglas deBoard imported so many European cars in the 80’s that cut into the profits of Mercedes USA enough that they pushed the law through. Buying them in Europe and importing them was actually cheaper (in some aspects) than buying a US market one. And the imported cars were better equipped!

    It wasn’t even about protecting American manufacturers or trucks. Mercedes has just always been a huge dick.


















  • What AiB are you getting? A board partner like Gigabyte or Asus have factory overclocked cards that are more power hungry than a reference 7800xt. And AMD already states 700w as a minimum recommendation. Nvidia also states 700w for the 4070ti. Same thing happens, board partner cards will draw more power.

    I’d stick with 750w at minimum. Give yourself more overhead since psu’s are more efficient that way.

    Either way, the current cards are power hungry. There’s no way around it without going for a lower tier card, but at that point I don’t think the gains are worth it. Maybe a regular 3070 if you can find one cheap enough.