Hi everyone! So many of you know I've started working at a local Food Lion grocery store in the produce department. This was after being let go by The GRID: Powered by Goodwill, a few weeks earlier.
Since starting my new job, I really haven't had a lot of time to do any new videos. I'm aware of some tech news I would have liked to have reported on, but the time just wasn't there to do them.
I actually did have a bit more time this week - so time certainly wasn't the only issue. In an attempt to help take care of some of the rent I owe as well as have some additional funds for groceries, I ended up selling the motherboard, CPU, and RAM from my desktop computer. Unfortunately, I didn't get quite what I wanted for it, so the money really went towards food.
Does this mean I am without a destkop computer now? No, absolutely not! I had spare parts laying around, and did a temporary build which I am calling "Scrappy". I'm using a motherboard with an LGA 775 socket from Asus, a Core 2 Quad Q8300 (10 year old cpu), and 8 GB of DDR2 RAM. And of course I'm using my Radeon HD 7870 graphics card. So the system I'm using now is definitely ancient and the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU! I've named the build "Scrappy" and I will be doing a video with benchmarks of this system.
Now this isn't the budget build I wanted to do previously. That one is still in the works. I've yet to sell the wrong RAM that I purchased and to purchase the right RAM. Financially, I have other things to take care of at the moment, and despite this even being a budget build, at the moment it's not a high priority. I hope to have that going within a month or two and a video made about that as well.
I do hope to have a video regarding Scrappy either this week or next week.
To put things in perspective, while the hardware I was using previously was better, it wasn't really that much better. It had an Athlon II X4 750K processor with 16 GB of DDR3 RAM. While the RAM was really good, the processor was weak. The Core 2 Quad is a little bit weaker but will get me by for the meantime.
As far as donations go for helping me out, I had a $20 donation the other week which I am thankful for. While I was hopeful for more as $20 doesn't really cover my loss over the past month, it definitely did help out.
I also hope to be talking a bit in a video this week about NVIDIA's possible graphics card release later this month or in the fall. In short, it looks like the 1180 and 1170, or possibly the 2080 and 2070 as there's lots of questions about which numbering they're going with, are going to be branded as RTX cards, and the 1160 and 1150/2060 and 2050 cards will be labeled as GTX cards. It's just rumor right now, but I do want to give my thoughts on this.
Futhermore, I may not have quite as much time to make videos for this channel as I had been as I am going to be making some videos for my web design/development business for a package I plan on putting out. I think I will be writing quite a bit more for this instead, for the meantime. Don't take it as me giving up completely on making Joey Tech Talks videos - that couldn't be further from the truth. But I've got to focus on the things that are keeping me afloat at the moment.
To be clear, I definitely haven't left the Steem blockchain. I did start powering down my Steem, and that's because lately my content hasn't really been getting the upvotes and making the money I expect. And I decided in order to somewhat compensate for that, to power down - not that I had a lot of Steem Power to begin with. Furthermore, while things are tight, even the small amount that I do get from that will help.
So for videos this week and next week - I'm hoping to get the Scrappy Build video done as well as talk about NVIDIA's upcoming GPUs.
