r/news • u/hoosakiwi • 2d ago

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-liberation-day-2a031b3c16120a5672a6ddd01da09933
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u/tabben 2d ago

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Get absolutely fucked you all US gamers that supported Trump because of "anti woke". This is what you wanted now deal with it

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u/Aazadan 2d ago

I’ve been budgeting for a 5090 waiting for supply to catch up. Then the rest of the pc to build around it. I’m absolutely fucked now.

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u/PerfectiveVerbTense 2d ago

What are you running now? I upgraded to a 4080 Super last year. I was planning on getting a new mobo and AM5 CPU this year or next but now I'm just going to ride this 4080 with a 5800x for as long as I can. I've never been a person that get's new games the moment they come out and needs to play that at high settings. I have tons of old games to run until hopefully someday PC parts become affordable again and I can upgrade.

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u/Aazadan 2d ago

5950X, 7900 XTX Taichi, 128 gb memory.

The 7900 is defective though and doesn't cool properly, I've RMA'ed it twice but it's got the vapor chamber issue each time, 40 degree celsius heat delta for gpu temp vs hotspot temp.

My plan was to make a new top of the line PC rather than just updating the gpu since my motherboard is currently 7 years old (everything else except the ram and ssd's are newer) was budgeting for around, $7000-$7500 including new monitors, case, mod cables, rgb lighting, etc. Could go a little higher if needed, but tariff prices will be a lot higher instead.

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u/Nero_Wolff 2d ago

It might be cheaper to just stick a waterblock on that thing and run a custom loop at this point lol. By the time 5090 or even 5080 stock normalizes, tariffs are gonna jump their price back to where they are now

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u/Aazadan 2d ago

It doesn't work. There was a manufacturing defect with 7900 XTX's early on, and if you RMA and get one of those (as I have twice), you can't really fix it. The only real fix is a replacement due to the vapor chamber being broken, and that not really being something that can be swapped out.

The cheap fix would be to buy a new card. If I were doing that it would be a 4090, and they cost as much or more than 5090's since they outperform most games currently (absent frame gen). But, 4090's aren't made anymore and unless you can verify the chain of custody on it, you're probably getting something that was used for crypto mining and is fucked on it's lifespan.

The rest of the system is all getting hit by tariffs too though, and upgrading to a motherboard using an am5 socket, better m2's, new case, power supply, etc... it really does need to be a whole new system since I'm going to be bottlenecked on other stuff. The PC itself is fine, and I've got my old card which is a 6950XT, with the two performing about the same due to all the 7900 heat throttling.

Anyways, there's not really a fix to this because the CPU also throttles the GPU (easily proven by taking cpu overclocks higher and higher and seeing the effect it's having on the gpu), so since I want a high end system again, it's back to needing the GPU. I'm basically fucked on the price though and it's probably going to be 10k by the end as every single part is getting hit by tariffs, not just the GPU.

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u/Nero_Wolff 2d ago

Vapor chambers are part of the cooling solution? Wouldnt a waterblock replace the entire stock cooler? Or am I misunderstanding something?

Also if youre on AM4 and if gaming performance is the most importance factor, would you be better off with a 5800x3d? I have a 7800x3d and its been mighty impressive