Well guys it looks like the broke-people gods were smiling down on me tonight. I thought "Hey, why not check out Craigslist?"
Saw a listing for a PNY GeForce RTX 3080 12GB UPRISING Triple Fan LHR, and it was listed for $250 local pickup, and the guy was like 15 minutes away from where I live. I msg'd the guy, said "Hey man, I got $220...but I'm ready to rock 'n roll right now bro".
I figured maybe either I don't know what I'm doing here, and Im blowing money on something that isn't worth it, and I'm making a mistake, or this guy isnt for real, for whatever reason.
I made sure to test it before forking over the money. Dude had a sick setup. He just upgraded to a 4080. Alienware, 13900K, RGBs every where. Sick AIO, tons of fans. Sick gaming mouse. keyboard was tiny though idk wasup there lol. Super nice guy.
Anyways so that's good right? Like did I really just get a badass deal like I think I did? I feel like something supposed to go wrong, like ya'll are gonna say "dude that's what they're worth" or something.
I looked it up and it seems to me it's going for a lot more than that.
LUCKILY I had already bought that PSU and it just so happened to have exactly two 8-pin PCIE power supply connectors I had stuffed back hidden in the case. I wasn't 100% sure that when I got home I was even going to be able to play with it...
Anyways I have to say...the Nvidia software/driver/Cuda Toolkit install was cake man. Everything works the first time, and everything had an appealing look to the graphics etc during the install. The install of everything was real quick.
I cant tell you how many hours I spent uninstalling and reinstall different and/or the SAME drivers over and over for the dinosaur Radeon HD 5670. It's embarrassing, really lol. Tried Ubuntu 14.04, 14.4, 22.04, Server, Desktop, HWE, every driver. Borked my whole system to where I had to reinstall the GRUB probably 20 different times. Windows around a dozen. Dual/Triple booting took a bit for me to learn the hard way how to do it the right way so stuff boots up and works right. Many times I had the flashing cursor on a black screen, or the GRUB rescue menu. When I started tring to get that Radeon working, I had only used linux a total of maybe 10-20 hours my whole life. putting the OS's on the NVME w. a PCIE adapter and running a separate boot partition for Windows/Linux on an old Legacy BIOS is doable and I did it lol. I guess it worked out eh..
Anyways yeah so that happened today... :]
thing is cracking a custom [adjective][noun] 12 character list with a ?d?d?d mask on the end as we speak..
I got some python scripts and a couple programs I made that I will be sharing on here, once I get it ready. I dont want to put it out there quite yet. Mostly to do with stripping down and building wordlists for cracking default router passwords...but they can be used for other purposes, too if you have some info that can narrow down the topic or key types of things the password might include, I suppose. I'm testing them right now. Man this thing is running fast and hot. lotta heat!
On a side note..look at my start time lmao; wth?
Time.Started.....: Fri May 03 06:42:14 2024 (4294967295 years, 364 days)
Time.Estimated...: Fri May 03 17:05:34 2024 (14 hours, 49 mins)
I think my system clock is on drugs ;P
Saw a listing for a PNY GeForce RTX 3080 12GB UPRISING Triple Fan LHR, and it was listed for $250 local pickup, and the guy was like 15 minutes away from where I live. I msg'd the guy, said "Hey man, I got $220...but I'm ready to rock 'n roll right now bro".
I figured maybe either I don't know what I'm doing here, and Im blowing money on something that isn't worth it, and I'm making a mistake, or this guy isnt for real, for whatever reason.
I made sure to test it before forking over the money. Dude had a sick setup. He just upgraded to a 4080. Alienware, 13900K, RGBs every where. Sick AIO, tons of fans. Sick gaming mouse. keyboard was tiny though idk wasup there lol. Super nice guy.
Anyways so that's good right? Like did I really just get a badass deal like I think I did? I feel like something supposed to go wrong, like ya'll are gonna say "dude that's what they're worth" or something.
I looked it up and it seems to me it's going for a lot more than that.
LUCKILY I had already bought that PSU and it just so happened to have exactly two 8-pin PCIE power supply connectors I had stuffed back hidden in the case. I wasn't 100% sure that when I got home I was even going to be able to play with it...
Anyways I have to say...the Nvidia software/driver/Cuda Toolkit install was cake man. Everything works the first time, and everything had an appealing look to the graphics etc during the install. The install of everything was real quick.
I cant tell you how many hours I spent uninstalling and reinstall different and/or the SAME drivers over and over for the dinosaur Radeon HD 5670. It's embarrassing, really lol. Tried Ubuntu 14.04, 14.4, 22.04, Server, Desktop, HWE, every driver. Borked my whole system to where I had to reinstall the GRUB probably 20 different times. Windows around a dozen. Dual/Triple booting took a bit for me to learn the hard way how to do it the right way so stuff boots up and works right. Many times I had the flashing cursor on a black screen, or the GRUB rescue menu. When I started tring to get that Radeon working, I had only used linux a total of maybe 10-20 hours my whole life. putting the OS's on the NVME w. a PCIE adapter and running a separate boot partition for Windows/Linux on an old Legacy BIOS is doable and I did it lol. I guess it worked out eh..
Anyways yeah so that happened today... :]
thing is cracking a custom [adjective][noun] 12 character list with a ?d?d?d mask on the end as we speak..
I got some python scripts and a couple programs I made that I will be sharing on here, once I get it ready. I dont want to put it out there quite yet. Mostly to do with stripping down and building wordlists for cracking default router passwords...but they can be used for other purposes, too if you have some info that can narrow down the topic or key types of things the password might include, I suppose. I'm testing them right now. Man this thing is running fast and hot. lotta heat!
On a side note..look at my start time lmao; wth?
Time.Started.....: Fri May 03 06:42:14 2024 (4294967295 years, 364 days)
Time.Estimated...: Fri May 03 17:05:34 2024 (14 hours, 49 mins)
I think my system clock is on drugs ;P