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Cooler didn't arrive until after dinner. If I were twenty years younger I'd have stayed up all night. 😆
As I suspect a lot of people are doing, I'm going to keep using my existing graphics card until RTX 5000 series drops in January. Everything else is new, though. First build in seven years.
I randomly decided to upgrade from a 3700x to a 5700x just after the price dropped to $130 (😮)
Nice, painless, cheap upgrade...
Unfortunately...the bios upgrade needed for my Gigabyte x370 board just flat out doesn't boot so i had to revert it...
So then i was like fuck it I'll get a 5000x-ready x570 board...
But then it's like hmmm..i can do DDR4-3600 on these boards... might as well get a couple Trident Z Neo sticks...
And hmm... this board does PCI 4.0 NVME... might as well splurge for a Samsung 980 Pro...
And now I'm wondering whether to get a new PSU so i can do a second PC with the spare parts... and scoping out GPU deals because I'm already in too deep at this point..
So now my office is starting to look like a budget version of this post 😅
Good times! That always happens to me too. I buy parts with upgrade paths in mind, but by the time it's time to upgrade a single component, I want to swap everything.
One of the most exciting times owning a computer for me is where you are right now. When everything arrives, and it's still in all the fancy packaging, and you're mapping out the build in your mind. I can't tell from the picture, which CPU did you get?
Edit: can you believe HDD these days? I'm still amazed every time I pull an NVMe HDD out of the packaging. Absolutely mind-blowing. My first computer had an spinning drive connected through molex and IDE cables.
My first computer didn't have hard drive at all. 5.25" floppy drives.
My first PC with a hard drive used an ST-506 interface w/molex and data and control cables. 40MB. I couldn't imagine ever filling the whole thing.
It's all so much easier now.
Damn, I'm old.
Oh yeah, I meant the first computer I built myself from scratch. My actual first computer was a Commodore 64, and then an IBM clone 386, and eventually a powerhouse 486. It's mind-blowing how far things have advanced, especially if you consider things like ChatGPT, which is essentially the Star Trek computer actualized in the real world.
I would trust an answer that The Enterprise, DS9 or even Voyager's cranky computer, gave me. I don't trust LLMs not to lie to me.
I almost got pissed for about 5 seconds the first time I ordered a new SSD and thought they shipped me RAM. Mind completely blown. I was showing the thing to my friends for a couple of hours, just asking, "you know what a Hard Drive looks like? Check this out! That tiny thing is a freaking 2 TB SDD!"
My first computer was either the Mac 128k or the Apple ]|[
Yup pretty wild. We've come a long way. CPU is a 9800x3D.
Very nice!
FYI: HDD is short for hard drive. So calling an SSD a hard drive doesn't make a lot of sense since they are by definition different things.
Calling an SSD a hard drive makes sense but calling it a HDD doesn't because HDD means hard disk drive and an SSD doesn't have disks
Huh, I always thought it stood for hard drive device, which can be used universally. It's still easier to type HDD on a phone keypad than hard drive though, which is why I used it.
Nah, just call an SSD an SSD (or solid-state drive if you got lots of time and like being overly verbose) or just storage device or similar synonym.
A hard disk drive is called that because it contains hard disks as opposed to earlier storage mediums which often had soft (or floppy) disks. Hard drive is just a shorter and easier way to say hard disk drive.
Hard doesn't refer to the fact that the outer shell is hard, because of course it is.
So since SSDs don't contain any disks, it doesn't make a lot of sense to call them hard when they are in fact nonexistent.
Never said anything bout shells. The definition of hard drives predates SSDs, back then you had soft media like a floppy disk and tapes, so by it's original definition, an SSD is a hard drive. Ofc nowadays we had to accommodate for the changes and there is little reason to say just hard drive since soft media is not widely used anymore
It would be HD if it was hard drive.
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk[a] is an electro-mechanical data storage device
Don't even try, that guy clearly gets off on being pedantic and hates to be wrong instead of trying to learn something new. Which is funny cause he didnt even know what HDD is short for.
Gz and don't forget to update your Samsung 990 asap. Cheers
Update what? Are there firmware updates for those things?
I'm hoping Bazzite Topgrade will handle the firmware upgrade. This'll be my first box I've built that Windows will never, ever go anywhere near.
Samsung has an app you can download that will check your drivers. I would use that.
I have one of those in my PS5. I wonder if it's possible to upgrade the firmware through that, or if I have to pull it first. What does the firmware update do?
Yes
I had no idea! Thanks.
Woah. That's a lot of printer cartridges. I hope you get the colours you need!
Um... thanks! I think. 🤔
one day I'll have this again...one day
My PCmas also arrived because my 10yo mobo finally died! I'm loving the new CPU and RAM, got the best Ryzen 9 since it was on sale early and only 30 bucks over the best 7. I forgot what it's like to have everything stable for once and USB-C support. Mobo, CPU, RAM, PSU, and a case-- it's like a dream. (But same, no Nvidia GPU for now).
Which Ryzen 7 is that?
9800x3d
Yes, that one is what I got. Those x3d chips seem good for gaming. I used to only use Intel, but they really dropped the ball. (AMD is also more Linux friendly, but Nvidia is still making better gpus...)
I'm also doing a new build! I would've held on to my eight year old PC a little longer but with the incoming tariffs I decided to pull the trigger now before they kick in
Wise choice on waiting for the graphics card.
How so?
New ones are always better and we have been waiting for new ones for over two years
New ones are leaked to be much more expensive.
It only makes sense to wait if you were planning on spending $2000 on a new card. The cheaper 5070 won't be out in January.
Yeah if rumors are true they're gonna be hard on the wallet and the power budget, too. Bought a ridiculously large PSU in anticipation. 😆
Radeon?
Not much better. They'll happily grapple onto Nvidias trend of charging an arm and a leg for their products, and instead only charge an arm.
They've stopped production on the 4000 series and prices on those are only going up. The high end of the 5000 series is supposed to launch in January.
I briefly considered grabbing an RTX 4080 Super. It'd still be a big upgrade over my RTX 3080 LHR, but with January looming I decided to wait. Hopefully there'll be a week or two between retail availability and crushing new tarrifs. 😆
Ah snap! I’m doing my upgrade today as well. Good luck with yours.
To you as well! Have fun.
Gave me a boner looking at all these toys. Damn
I respect your life choices. Please splooge responsibly.
Looks nice! Have fun
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