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This thread will attempt to provide a place to discuss past/present/future PC gaming deals. While mainly focusing on Steam games, any standout sales may also be presented. I will not be updating every Daily/Weekly/etc. sale. The tools to help individuals become a smarter shopper will be provided below.

See this POST for links to store sale pages, threads of interest and other tools to help you become a more informed PC game shopper.
 
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MysterD said:
Depending on where you're going later for a video card (3070, 3080 or even 3090) - yeah, I'd get more Watts on the PSU.

See this chart on PSU stuff:

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650W will be barely be cutting it with a 3070, if you want to go in that direction later.

I really don't know how you'll go wrong w/ your build - we all know a i7 10700 is a really good Intel CPU for gaming; 32GB of RAM should be glorious (and then some!); RX 5700XT should be really good (you're literally in 2070 Super turf here - that's 1440p60fps+ turf pretty much; and you could probably do some 4K gaming here too on some titles).

Heck, even with a 5700XT 8GB VRAM - I don't know if you really need to enter 3070 turf or anything anytime soon, unless you want to even more so destroy everything framerate-wise (unless you plan to do RTX).

If you don't care about RTX and DLSS - you could probably hold off for a while....unless you really want from Nvidia RTX and DLSS for 4K or something by going 3070 or better. Since 3070 isn't even out yet and you are buying stuff now (since your laptop's dead) and tossing in 5700XT ($400) - might as well get your $ worth out of it now, unless you plan to sell it soon (for a good price) to get a 3070. [shrug]

Plus, there's even been rumors 3070's and 3080's might be coming with 16GB and 20GB respectively later (around December) - https://www.techradar.com/news/nvidia-rtx-3080-and-3070-gpus-could-arrive-with-twice-the-vram-in-december

It's a rumor, so take that for what it's worth, until it's official. But, given the gaps of VRAM counts b/t 3070/3080 (8GB and 10GB respectively) with the 3090 (24GB) - I smell another variant coming for 3070 and 3080. It's just...really a matter of when, it seems and smells like.

You could always wait way later for those...or whatever KO, Ti, Super or whatever improved versions Nvidia puts out of these in the next year(s) or so. [shrug]
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re; vRAM usage / 20GB RTX 3080

No one needs more than 10gb of VRAM for gaming right now or within the next few years. It is a common misconception. Even though applications will ask the system to allocate upwards of 10gb, most games only use 4-6gb or so in actuality. The most demanding games (like RDR2) use little more than 8gb. Those applications that test your VRAM usage are just reporting the amount the game asks to be allocated, not the amount that is actually used which is far lower. 10GB is just fine. Not to mention the GDDR6X on the 3080 has higher bandwidth/transfer rates, so that's similar to having additional VRAM.

High data transfer rates on your NVMe SSD are going to be much, much more important (than VRAM) going forward. That's where you would consider upgrading. That's what the new consoles are using and that's where game development is heading. RAM + VRAM does a lot less work because of the data loading using modern SSD bandwidth.

The 20GB models of the 3080 being announced soon are almost definitely not going be worth their ~$200+ cost for 90% of people. Not unless you need all that memory for video editing or something.

 
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sasquatc4 said:
You can troll better this, come on, nowhere in there do they mention anything close to your 100$ price point, they even mention the exact same prices I did that you quoted
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sasquatc4 said:
You can troll better this, come on, nowhere in there do they mention anything close to your 100$ price point, they even mention the exact same prices I did that you quoted
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I said closer to $100. The 3600 released at a $199 MSRP which was why it was such a big deal at the time and with discounts and sales it was closer to $100 than the $300 they will be asking for the 5600. $199 MSRP for that performance was a big deal. Charging Intel prices for Intel performance, not so much.

 
Man, I keep wanting to build a new system. I've been putting it off for years. Guess I keep waiting for better deals/hardware. Really tempted to grab that $500 10700 bundle from Newegg, but I think I might wait until a bit closer to Black Friday to start buying parts.

 
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I said closer to $100. The 3600 released at a $199 MSRP which was why it was such a big deal at the time and with discounts and sales it was closer to $100 than the $300 they will be asking for the 5600. $199 MSRP for that performance was a big deal. Charging Intel prices for Intel performance, not so much.
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They arent charging 300 for the 5600, they are charging 300 for the 5600x. Again you arent comparing the same things

 
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re; vRAM usage / 20GB RTX 3080

No one needs more than 10gb of VRAM for gaming right now or within the next few years. It is a common misconception. Even though applications will ask the system to allocate upwards of 10gb, most games only use 4-6gb or so in actuality. The most demanding games (like RDR2) use little more than 8gb. Those applications that test your VRAM usage are just reporting the amount the game asks to be allocated, not the amount that is actually used which is far lower. 10GB is just fine. Not to mention the GDDR6X on the 3080 has higher bandwidth/transfer rates, so that's similar to having additional VRAM.

High data transfer rates on your NVMe SSD are going to be much, much more important (than VRAM) going forward. That's where you would consider upgrading. That's what the new consoles are using and that's where game development is heading. RAM + VRAM does a lot less work because of the data loading using modern SSD bandwidth.

The 20GB models of the 3080 being announced soon are almost definitely not going be worth their ~$200+ cost for 90% of people. Not unless you need all that memory for video editing or something.
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Thanks for even more info. Appreciate it.

I haven't been running stuff at say 1440p or 2160p here. Namely, 1080p with a better refresh. And for the most part - yeah, I'm in the 4-6GB VRAM range, like you said.

But dammit, I really like bigger VRAM counts. :p

So, fine; I'll just eyeball the 16GB VRAM 3070 variant then - yeah, a little bit of future-proofing and all. :p

I have a 6GB 1060 (laptop version) - so, ideally, to me, even a 12GB VRAM 3060 Ti version or some kind or 12GB VRAM 3070 would probably make me feel a bit more future-proofed here and/or having a bit more VRAM buffer, just in case, for when I build or buy my next big desktop. C'mon, NVidia and/or AIB's - make me happy here! :p

Plus, c'mon - we all know AC games and other AAA Ubi games will eat up 10-20GB of VRAM, given how un-optimized they all are. ;) :p

 
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MysterD said:
Thanks for even more info. Appreciate it.

I haven't been running stuff at say 1440p or 2160p here. Namely, 1080p. And for the most part - yeah, I'm in the 4-6GB VRAM range, like you said.

But dammit, I really like bigger VRAM counts. :p

So, fine; I'll just eyeball the 16GB VRAM 3070 variant then - yeah, a little bit of future-proofing and all. :p

I have a 6GB 1060 (laptop version) - so, ideally, to me, even a 12GB VRAM 3060 Ti version or some kind or 12GB VRAM 3070 would probably make me feel a bit more future-proofed here and/or having a bit more VRAM buffer, just in case. C'mon, NVidia and/or AIB's - make me happy here! :p

Plus, c'mon - we all know AC games and other Ubi games will eat up 10-20GB of VRAM, given how un-optimized they all are. ;) :p
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10gb is plenty.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vram-in-2020-2024-why-10gb-is-enough.280976/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfnzHA3-MhM&t=4m09s

I'm trying to find the appropriate GamersNexus video timestamps bc he touches on vRAM fearmongering a couple of times in his RTX 3080 response videos.

You have absolutely no use for 16gb of vRAM; that is patently false. That GDDR6 is also going to have lower bandwidth which will actually offer less performance than GDDR6X (which is also more expensive). Unless you are planning on buying a high-end card today specifically to be used 3-6 years from now for future high-end AAA gaming then there is no point. Even then it is only a possibility, and on only the most demanding games.

How many new AAA games, with PC as the leading platform, optimized for PC, have we even gotten during the last two years?? There are very few. People on here don't even buy them.

Not many people are buying high-end cards to be used four and five years from now. Those people replace every 1-2 years. Many of the rest of us are replacing budget purchases every 3-4 years. There is simply no point. By the time this would even be applicable there will be newer tech, and higher recommended hardware requirements. There is no such thing as VRAM futureproofing.

What would a person with a GTX 1080 or 1070 (from 2016) with an alleged 16gb of vRAM be doing today? Nothing more than anyone else; he'd be casually shopping for the new architecture. That extra vRAM money was 100% wasted in the past bc his card is still four years old.

The only reason these 20GB versions exist is to "respond" to AMD's Oct.28th announcements with something that appears better.

It is quite possibly the worst allocation of $200-300 for anyone who is on any sort of pc building budget.

 
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I don't see where anyone would be surprised at the AMD chip prices.  When AMD was objectively inferior per CPU tier than Intel, they competed as a budget chip.  Now that they can equal or exceed Intel, it's "Oh, you want top performance?  Pay me."  Got news for you all -- if the rumors of AMD having a card to rival the 3080 are true, AMD video cards are going to have Nvidia prices.  Why leave money on the table?  The only people who should be surprised by that are people who bought into some Good Guy AMD myth they cultivated by trying to profit as Number Two.

 
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I don't see where anyone would be surprised at the AMD chip prices. When AMD was objectively inferior per CPU tier than Intel, they competed as a budget chip. Now that they can equal or exceed Intel, it's "Oh, you want top performance? Pay me." Got news for you all -- if the rumors of AMD having a card to rival the 3080 are true, AMD video cards are going to have Nvidia prices. Why leave money on the table? The only people who should be surprised by that are people who bought into some Good Guy AMD myth they cultivated by trying to profit as Number Two.
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I mean, there's supposedly this concept of selling your comparable products for slightly less than your better-established competition if you can afford to do so in order to get a leg up on them in market share and total sales.

I'm not sure if I've ever seen it in actual action.
 
Souffrir said:
I mean, there's supposedly this concept of selling your comparable products for slightly less than your better-established competition if you can afford to do so in order to get a leg up on them in market share and total sales.

I'm not sure if I've ever seen it in actual action.
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AMD does do this, but where the margins are a lot better, the corporate/server side. They beat the hell out of intel performance wise and cost about half as much as the worse intel parts, and still make boatloads because they know they can get much larger bulk and repeat purchases out of corporate customers.

For consumers they probably just dont care as much, they know the builder market will either aim for whatever is cheaper if doing a cheap build, or whatever performs better for the comparative dollar based on the work being done, which is where they have focused. First on getting something that can finally compete with intel and beat them price wise, and now they moved on to beating them performance wise so they can still offer a better price/perf ratio

 
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I mean, there's supposedly this concept of selling your comparable products for slightly less than your better-established competition if you can afford to do so in order to get a leg up on them in market share and total sales.
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Makes sense in a scenario where supply is greater than demand. But, right now, when AMD and Intel will have no problems selling new generation CPU/GPUs, there's no sense in leaving money behind.

Even in a situation where they aren't selling 'em as soon as they make 'em, you go 5% cheaper to look better on the Amazon listing. No sense in making yourself into the budget option on a premium product.

 
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RIP Amazon Crucible, 2020-2020.

Final Crucible Developer Update
October 9, 2020

Essence hunters,

In July we moved Crucible into closed beta. We made a list of features we felt would enhance the player experience, which we shared publicly on our roadmap, and with the exception of custom games (which we expect to ship in the coming days), we completed them all. With those features shipped, our next step was to evaluate the feedback we’ve heard from you, paired with the data we’ve collected, to determine our path forward.

That evaluation led us to a difficult decision: we’ll be discontinuing development on Crucible. We very much appreciate the way that our fans have rallied around our efforts, and we’ve loved seeing your responses to the changes we’ve made over the last few months, but ultimately we didn’t see a healthy, sustainable future ahead of Crucible. We’ll be transitioning our team to focus on New World and other upcoming projects from Amazon Games.

We’re offering a full refund for any purchases made. You can find more information on our support page. We will also be disabling credit purchases within Crucible.

In the next few weeks we’ll be hosting a final playtest and community celebration, both in-game and in our official Discord. After that point we’ll be disabling matchmaking, although you’ll still be able to play Crucible through the custom games feature. Stay tuned for more information on that event. Servers will stay up for custom games until noon PST on Monday, November 9, 2020.

Thank you, as always, for being part of our community. This has been a labor of love, and we’re grateful for the time we got to spend on planet Crucible with you.

Signing off once more, -the Crucible team
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shadowysea07 said:
must be targeted. I got nothing coupon wise in my email.
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I haven't ordered from Newegg in a while, so that might be where the coupon came from. I'm considering a smaller 2.5" SSD that will fit into my Chuwi Herobox. It came with a 180 gb Samsung SSD, but I need more some more space. I've used HP and Lexar products before, but I don't know if Patriot Burst, Silicon Power Ace, or Team Group are good brands.

 
josekortez said:
Check your emails. I just got a $10 off your next order coupon from Newegg that expires on 10/14/2020.
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I got one of these a couple of months ago. I think it's for people who haven't shopped in a while so it's pretty random. I also think it might help if you are signed onto their daily deal email and they track if you click through.

Regarding the SSD, sometimes they put HP and WD ones on sale to close for what the generics go for. Don't know if newegg sells the microcenter drives, Inland, but those are well reviewed too. I've had TeamGroup and Silicon Power products before (RAM and MicroSD cards) and they worked well for me but always best to check reviews since it can vary on individual products.

 
Souffrir said:
I don't think I even get the NewEgg emails anymore. I haven't bought anything from there in a few years.
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I always end up unsubbing cause newegg emails dont understand moderation. Sometimes Ill resub and say once a week is fine, but then within a couple months they are right back up to like 4 emails a day

 
Souffrir said:
I don't think I even get the NewEgg emails anymore. I haven't bought anything from there in a few years.
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They went the Monoprice route of getting bought up by some Chinese company and then neglecting their core market to sell shop vacs, coffee makers and air conditioning filters. There's really little reason to use them over Amazon or B&H or whatever other internet electronics vendor these days.

 
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Syntax Error said:
They went the Monoprice route of getting bought up by some Chinese company and then neglecting their core market to sell shop vacs, coffee makers and air conditioning filters. There's really little reason to use them over Amazon or B&H or whatever other internet electronics vendor these days.
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While that is a shame I disagree with not using them over amazon. I've been buying my Nintendo systems from Newegg for years. I got a switch from them bundled with smash for 245 with a promo coupon. I also got my Wiiu with smash from them. I think my Wii as well again with smash.

I'm not sure if they have any good deals in the last year or so since I am not a computer parts and such shopper. I think the last purchase I made from them was a micro SD card.
 
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Because I have a huge backlog and way too much to play I decided to do the smart thing and go back to a demo for an unreleased game that pissed me off until I rage quit the first time.  So Ghostrunner... I tried a keyboard before, it was awkward so I tried a controller and that was worse.  This time I tried the keyboard again but messed with the keybinds some.  I changed the dash to TAB and changed the crouch to C and that was enough for me to finally get the hang of it, more or less.  The actiony bits are the worst, the cyberspace bits (at least what little is in the demo) were far easier but it was just platforming.  Anyway I'm on the fence about it, I like the style a lot but the parkour/fighting might be a bit much since it took me a fair bit of patience to get through the demo and one would presume it will get much harder later on.  The game has a fantastic atmosphere though.  If I didn't have so many other less rage-inducing games to play (and plenty of rage-inducing ones as well, really) it would be a no-brainer.  Anyway, crouch = C, dash = TAB if anybody else tries it and hates the default controls.

 
Thanks for the advice, everyone.

I have a return going for the 650W PSU. Realized I won't even be utilizing 4K if I do end up getting a 3070/3080 because my monitor isn't 4K, so I went with 850W. Used the wattage calculator on Newegg to determine that everything is using ~600W. Meaning that I likely won't go 4K within the next few years.

Then I was going to use just the case fans that I bought, but someone pointed out that the new i7 didn't come with a heatsink. So I downgraded to 1 stick of the Viper 32GB RAM and got this liquid cooler. Anyone have any experience with the brand?

 
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Blade said:
So I downgraded to 1 stick of the Viper 32GB RAM
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Consider going with 2 sticks of 16 GB because your board is dual channel and you'll see faster memory throughput. For the cooler, I feel like that is overkill unless you're doing some serious overclocking. When I built my i7 setup years back I used this and its worked out just fine to keep temps under control. I'd imagine something similar should work in your situation.

 
Blade said:
Then I was going to use just the case fans that I bought, but someone pointed out that the new i7 didn't come with a heatsink. So I downgraded to 1 stick of the Viper 32GB RAM and got this liquid cooler. Anyone have any experience with the brand?
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I've never had any issues with Cooler Master products. Though, I'm not water cooling person myself. I've never run into a situation where it was necessary or even desired on a CPU. GPU on the other hand...

 
i got the GAMMAXX400 V2 for about 20 bucks after someone recommended it here. it's very good. the fan light might be a bit much, but i like it.

 
So while we’re on the subject of PC builds, out of curiosity, does anyone know if they make modern shells in those old wedge shapes with integrated keyboards? You know, like the old Atari computers and their ilk. As someone who was born well after they stopped being widely made, I always thought those looked neat. I’m not even sure how to search for that shape, searching for wedge pc shell mostly seems to turn up jewelry.
 
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So while we’re on the subject of PC builds, out of curiosity, does anyone know if they make modern shells in those old wedge shapes with integrated keyboards? You know, like the old Atari computers and their ilk. As someone who was born well after they stopped being widely made, I always thought those looked neat. I’m not even sure how to search for that shape, searching for wedge pc shell mostly seems to turn up jewelry.
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I did a quick search...

Found a few old kickstarters, but seemingly no way to buy them now.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/505470364/the-x500-plus-computer-case

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/raadition-apple-ii-in-back-retro-computer-case

Also found a link saying the Apple II case was a scam.

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/926681-apple-ii-case-scam

Finally found one in the C64 form factor that is purchasable.

https://myretrocomputer.com/

The x500 and the C64 one seem to only support miniITX.

The scam Apple II said it would've supported ATX.

 
Fired up the Ghostrunner demo one more time and cleared it in about 15 minutes after taking over an hour the first time.  I think with some practice I could do it in 7 or 8 minutes, maybe less.  It does not seem remotely as frustrating or as hard as you start to get some muscle memory for the way you need to move around.  Someone found a full unprotected version of the game on Steam and shared it so the whole game is floating around on the high seas and I found a couple of youtube videos that showed some later gameplay and it does look like it will get considerably harder but I adjusted quickly enough to the demo that I think it would be reasonable.  It is under 20 on Humble with the subscriber discount, and I now find it mighty tempting. 

Anyway I am also trying a few more demos while they are around.

Pumpkin Jack was just a really generic and slow 3d platformer.   I dig the pumpkinhead look but the game felt like something I would get in a bundle and never play.  I gave up less than 30 minutes into the demo and uninstalled it.  

Aeon Drive is a 8-bit style cyberpunk platformer designed for speedrunning.  You have a timer for each level and the ability to collect powerups that you bank and which you can use to give you more time.  One hit from an enemy or environmental hazard will kill you and you die if you run out of time as well.  There are leaderboards for every level and the aim is to make it through as fast as possible.  You have a sword attack which you do not use that often if you are trying to move fast and you also have a teleport skill which you will use frequently to get through the level faster.  It throws a dagger which sticks to the surface it hits (it has a limited range but can be thrown up and at angles) and which you can then teleport to by hitting the same button again.  The synth music isn't bad and fits the environment well enough.  I expect it is going to have little appeal if you are not interested in time attacks, it is clearly a speedrunning game.  It is an alpha and has some issues, the hitboxes for enemies and hazards like saws is inconsistent.  Sometimes I could practically graze something but another object would kill me when I was a third of the character's height above it.  I liked it well enough to keep an eye on it, if it gets a bit of work and isn't too expensive I would be interested, it seemed fun enough to at least play through whatever story/campaign it has even though I'd never be good enough to compete on the leaderboard.

Eldest Souls is a top-down pixel (16-bit I guess?) Souls-like.  You get a bit of tutorial on movement and then thrown at a boss with a big health bar.  Kill him and then you get to talk to a couple of people and... another boss with a huge health bar.  It seemed competent but I was not in the mood to spend twenty minutes killing two bosses right off the bat.  No regular enemies.  It has a skill tree which looked ok and the movement was fine as was the combat, I just wasn't feeling it.  It sounds like it is just a gauntlet of boss after boss but I'd have liked it better if you could fight some small fry to get a feel for the way the game plays before dealing with bosses with massive health pools.  Also a second phase on a boss that is literally the first thing you fight and you can not proceed without killing it?  lol

Wanted to play more but haven't had time until tonight.  Wish these events with demos were longer or they were just encouraging demos and keeping them around all the time.  I'd try more games, I always have enjoyed demos for some reason.

 
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I bought some gaming stuff from Prime Day.

Picked up an $18 gaming mouse and a $5 fire stick 4K to replace my OG fire stick.

I'll count the fire stick as gaming since I'm pretty sure I have a bunch of Sega games for it that I've picked up for free/on 99-cent sales at various times that I'll never play on it.

 
Ex~ said:
I'll count the fire stick as gaming since I'm pretty sure I have a bunch of Sega games for it that I've picked up for free/on 99-cent sales at various times that I'll never play on it.
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It is also android, so you can install steam link and sideload emulators and the xbox gamepass streaming app, its fairly capable

 
Amazon.

Gears 5 (For Xbox 1 Console / Xbox for PC on Windows 10) [digital] = $9.99

Notes:

  • This is also in Xbox Game Pass (for those who constantly sub or need something to play while subbing).
  • Gears 5 is a Xbox Play Anywhere Title...
  • ...Meaning certain titles digitally bought for Xbox 1, they net you both Xbox 1 digital console version & Xbox for PC digital version on Windows 10.
 
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