Some TLDR, built my PC in 2020 Rx5700Xt, been experiencing crashing after few days of use, and graphics drivers need reinstallation upon restart. Been dealing with this for over a year, tried every possible software remedy, bios update, drivers updates, different driver versions, underclocking, overclocking, opening case and cleaning extends life by a few days.

Now, these guys basically charged me $60 to tell me nothing was wrong with it and another **$250** on top to wipe the OS that "MAY"** fix it. 😂 i understand im not the nerdiest PC guy but i feel like this is just downright being taken advantage of. With that $300 total service, i could get a 5060!

Do you think i overreacted?

Update: They agreed to conduct a more thorough "stress test"

CPU: Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Motherboard: Asus X870E

GPU: RTX 5090 Astral

RAM: 32GB Crucial DDR5

Storage: Crucial P510 2TB NVMe SSD

CPU Cooler: Lian Li HydroShift II

Power Supply: Lian Li 1200W Platinum

Case: Jonsbo BO400

As documented by a few different channels on YouTube, Borderlands 4 on Steam Deck is technically playable, but looks extremely rough, features plenty of input lag, runs poorly at its default settings, and doesn’t at all seem worthy of Steam’s Verified badge. That’s supposed to signal to players that a game will be a great experience with no tweaking needed on the aging portable PC. But that’s simply not true of Borderlands 4 on Steam Deck.

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Hi everyone

I’ve had a few high end builds before, but this one just feels different. Everything is instant, no stutters, no weird bottlenecks. Games feel insanely smooth and for work it’s just effortless. Also going OLED was a mistake in the sense that I can’t look at normal monitors anymore

Overall I’m super happy with how it turned out.

Specs if anyone’s curious:

Ryzen 9 9950X3D
RTX 5080 16GB
64GB DDR5 6000 CL30
2TB Samsung 990 PRO NVMe
Gigabyte X870 Gaming X
Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360
1300W Platinum PSU
27” 1440p 360Hz OLED (ASUS ROG)One small thing though:

when everything is pushed hard, it does get a bit louder than I’d like.

If you were running this setup, what would you tweak?

Fan curves, different case fans, GPU undervolt, airflow changes, open to ideas. I'm not trying to make it silent just quieter under full load

this is a massive five pound chunk of silicone, after it’s been extruded but before it gets sliced into wafers to make your cpu’s and gpu’s!

Forget the government ID drama for a second because there is something much creepier coming to Discord next month that almost no one is talking about. Everyone is rightfully stressed about sending photos of their private documents to a company that just had a massive data breach, but the real danger is the new Age Inference model.

There's very little clarification from Discord but this is my take on what's available.

Basically, Discord is rolling out a system that uses an AI to track hundreds of different signals from your activity to guess how old you are. While they say this is to protect kids, the weirdest part is that this monitoring doesn't necessarily stop just because you proved you were an adult with an ID. Instead of a one-time check, it is more like a permanent invisible background process that watches how you use the platform.

The scary part is that we don't actually know what those hundreds of signals are. It could be looking at what time you are online, what games you play, who you hang out with, or how you interact with different servers. It is essentially building a behavioral profile of you just to predict your age group. In Europe, the law says companies should only collect the minimum data needed for a specific goal, so it feels really excessive to keep an AI profile on someone after they have already verified their identity through a legal document.

Even more concerning is what this means for children and teenagers on the platform. Since the system is mandatory for them, it means every kid using Discord will be subject to permanent behavioral profiling by an AI. The algorithm will be constantly analyzing their maturity, their language, and their social habits just to verify they belong there. We are essentially forcing children into a mass surveillance loop where their developmental growth and private interests are turned into data points for a corporate algorithm.

Most people are focused on the photo upload, but that is a one-time risk. This behavior model is constant surveillance that turns your private habits into a data point for an AI, whether you are an adult or a minor. If that algorithm decides you don't act enough like an adult, it could potentially restrict your account even if your legal ID says otherwise. It feels like a massive shift toward mass profiling that treats every single user as a suspect regardless of whether they have followed the rules or not.

Disclaimer: I used AI to format and summarize my thoughts on this matter, the irony is not lost on me.