What's your latest tech purchase?

[gffermari]

@CallandorWoT

Photos or it didn't happen.

Why did you choose KF instead of K? Is it cheaper?

 

[Space Lynx]

@CallandorWoT

Photos or it didn't happen.

Why did you choose KF instead of K? Is it cheaper?

its $10 cheaper. but also I don't like integrated graphics of any kind, I have no use for them.

pics when its all done.

 

[dgianstefani]

$10 cheaper and you lose diagnostic graphics if your DGPU ever fails. Plus quicksync support and the excellent Intel encoder that takes load off DGPU if you stream or encode (actually faster at encoding some formats than CPU or DGPU).

 

[Space Lynx]

$10 cheaper and you lose diagnostic graphics if your DGPU ever fails. Plus quicksync support and the excellent Intel encoder that takes load off DGPU if you stream or encode (actually faster at encoding some formats than CPU or DGPU).

that's what backup graphics cards and extra pci slots are for.

i dont even fucking know what quicksync is my dude, i just game. casual gamer. dont care.

 

[Super Firm Tofu]

Can we all maybe get back to enjoying people's latest tech purchases rather than nit-picking the ever living shit out of them? Jesus, you people could take the fun out of the Reeperbahn on free beer night.

 

[Steve-007UK]

I have finally got around to sorting out my nephews pc so he now has my old asrock b450 steel legend motherboard and ryzen 2600x.
We also got him 16gig of 3600mhz rgb ram to go with it but the max speed the 2600x i had can do is 3400mhz but at least i got the timings down to cl16 on most things.

I also got my pc back up and running with my new motherboard and ryzen 5600x but i am using my old 16gig 3000mhz memory although it's oc to 3400mhz and stable using cl18 timings,

I wanted to get 32gig of faster ram and found this and i believe the timings are cl20 but i don't expect the 5600x to do much more than 3800mhz so with this ram i have found i might be able to tweak things and for the price i think i just got a bargin maybe.

 

[Space Lynx]

I have finally got around to sorting out my nephews pc so he now has my old asrock b450 steel legend motherboard and ryzen 2600x.
We also got him 16gig of 3600mhz rgb ram to go with it but the max speed the 2600x i had can do is 3400mhz but at least i got the timings down to cl16 on most things.

I also got my pc back up and running with my new motherboard and ryzen 5600x but i am using my old 16gig 3000mhz memory although it's oc to 3400mhz and stable using cl18 timings,

I wanted to get 32gig of faster ram and found this and i believe the timings are cl20 but i don't expect the 5600x to do much more than 3800mhz so with this ram i have found i might be able to tweak things and for the price i think i just got a bargin maybe.

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I don't think you will notice a difference in real world usage going from 3400 cl 18 to 4000 cl 20, I personally think you should save your money, but do as you please young lord of the wetlands

edit: unless you need the extra space I suppose, but my guess is you are just gaming yeah? so 16 gigs is plenty still.

 

[Mussels]

and what exactly is the problem?
i had so many different corsair kits over the years (at least 10-15)

early LPX ram was a f*cking nightmare on ryzen
You know enough to make it work if you have those issues


It's a mix of odd number timings at clock speeds too low to activate GDM, dodgy XMP profiles, and 'revisions' where you'd never get two matching kits even if you bought them at the same time (getting mixed dies/ram manufs)

 

[Steve-007UK]

I don't think you will notice a difference in real world usage going from 3400 cl 18 to 4000 cl 20, I personally think you should save your money, but do as you please young lord of the wetlands

edit: unless you need the extra space I suppose, but my guess is you are just gaming yeah? so 16 gigs is plenty still.

I do more than just gaming I like to make music and i also like to run my own rust game server and when that server is running and playing the game from the same pc then 16gig of ram just does not cut it.

With the default rust map size of 4500 so it loads everything and then playing the game on the same pc to ram usage is at like 98%

I also like to mess with unreal engine 4/5 to so more ram is better

 

[Space Lynx]

I just ordered the WD SN770 500gb for $49, based on W1zz's review sounds like a great deal for a boot drive. That will be my main drive for my new build, with a 2TB SSD for my bulk storage.

Not an exact amount, but off the top of my head my entire rig (including my new monitor) so far has cost about $880 if I factor in the 5% cashback from my credit card.

So, now there is only one piece of the puzzle left, RDNA3 gpu. Come on AMD give me what I need baby!!!

I am hoping for $799 7800 XT...

 

[lexluthermiester]

I have finally got around to sorting out my nephews pc so he now has my old asrock b450 steel legend motherboard and ryzen 2600x.
We also got him 16gig of 3600mhz rgb ram to go with it but the max speed the 2600x i had can do is 3400mhz but at least i got the timings down to cl16 on most things.

I also got my pc back up and running with my new motherboard and ryzen 5600x but i am using my old 16gig 3000mhz memory although it's oc to 3400mhz and stable using cl18 timings,

I wanted to get 32gig of faster ram and found this and i believe the timings are cl20 but i don't expect the 5600x to do much more than 3800mhz so with this ram i have found i might be able to tweak things and for the price i think i just got a bargin maybe.

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That's a good price! Score!

 

[Valantar]

I am hoping for $799 7800 XT...

Wait, you're hoping for a significant price increase over the previous gen?

 

[Chomiq]

Wait, you're hoping for a significant price increase over the previous gen?

"$799? What a steal!"

 

[dont whant to set it"']

@Super Firm Tofu Sure can and will do.

I could not resist letting these slip away at ~£2.6 per GB (just under £170 or about 185$) for 2 32 GB DDR5 udimms.

Crucial 32GB DDR5-4800 1.1V CL40
Purchase can be blamed , almost entirely on the pair of heat spreaders I found some time last week in a box .

And so, currently looking for a mb and cpu I am , to put together, be it on either lga1700 or lga1718.

Got case, psu, storage drive, cpu heatsink as various pieces laying around in a box or two.

Mb has to be m-atx, 2 DDR5 RAM slots preferably, Displayport out on rear I/O.
Its been a tough search so far, with no reasonable result.

CPU? 13900 or 7950X.

Cruncher after toying with it for a bit.

 

[Shrek]

Adaptor to mount a 2 1/2" SSD in a 3 1/2" bay

 

[Space Lynx]

Wait, you're hoping for a significant price increase over the previous gen?

Do you people not understand I paid almost that much for a 1080 ti? that was 6 years ago, before supply chain issues, before covid, before russia/ukraine and diesel being super expensive to transport goods. $799 would be a good deal actually if the performance is a nice uplift.

you all need to stop living in fairyland. reality isn't even a bitch, even without all of those factors I mentioned, prices go up over time. so $799 is purely logical in expectation.

@Super Firm Tofu Sure can and will do.

I could not resist letting these slip away at ~£2.6 per GB (just under £170 or about 185$) for 2 32 GB DDR5 udimms.

Crucial 32GB DDR5-4800 1.1V CL40
Purchase can be blamed , almost entirely on the pair of heat spreaders I found some time last week in a box .

And so, currently looking for a mb and cpu I am , to put together, be it on either lga1700 or lga1718.

Got case, psu, storage drive, cpu heatsink as various pieces laying around in a box or two.

Mb has to be m-atx, 2 DDR5 RAM slots preferably, Displayport out on rear I/O.
Its been a tough search so far, with no reasonable result.

CPU? 13900 or 7950X.

Cruncher after toying with it for a bit.

do the 13900 if you plan to set it and leave it for 5 years like I am doing, and yeah cheap ddr5 is garbage imo. its worse than my 3600 cas 16 ddr4 ram. i think a lot of people see ddr5 and think oh shiny... pretty... and they just don't understand the technical nature of these things.

 

[SN2716057]

So I bought an external hdd for my NAS rather than doubling the hdd capacity, as this way is cheaper.

Eventually I will buy 2x 8TB drives but for now this will do.
I use the 6TB from a previous post as a backup of the backup.

 

[AusWolf]

This is gonna be a totally unnecessary, but totally fun system upgrade.

Then, the 11700 will replace my R3 3100 HTPC, and a friend of mine will buy the 3100 system for his daughter to play on.
Or maybe the 3100 will replace the old Core i7 in the other HTPC, and that will be my friend's daughter's. We'll see.

And some proof that size doesn't matter:

 

[lexluthermiester]

So I bought an external hdd for my NAS rather than doubling the hdd capacity, as this way is cheaper.
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Eventually I will buy 2x 8TB drives but for now this will do.
I use the 6TB from a previous post as a backup of the backup.

Those are good drives. Not the fastest, but hella reliable. I recommend the following;

Something like these foam pads will cushion vibrations and reduce drive noise.

 

[Arco]

Those are good drives. Not the fastest, but hella reliable. I recommend the following;
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Something like these foam pads will cushion vibrations and reduce drive noise.

Oh yeah, I have a 500gb I fished out of an old one. Still working and kicking.

 

[Mussels]

Edited: nevermind was looking at monitors and remembered why i didnt buy (Want mini LED backlighting)

 

[dont whant to set it"']

Well, clock me silly but I did not expect same day delivery from Amazon UK, I've heard a story or here say or two but not to some area like not the greater London.
Christmas present came early and with it bye-bye holliday this "season"

Very "narrow" selection of available motherboards at the moment. Frankly I'd of picked a basic one ... , yielding to a toss between a reasonable one vs top of the line.

 

[Space Lynx]

for those of you in this thread earlier who were saying I should have went with a K only model of 13600k... you would have made me miss out on turning a 6800 xt to a 3090 ti. and if i cant score rdna3 i actually do plan to get 6800 xt. so kf model was the right choice for me after all.

go to 4 mins in on the video to skip the boring stuff

@P4-630 1usmus is back baby and he is about to attack.

 

[Mussels]

for those of you in this thread earlier who were saying I should have went with a K only model of 13600k... you would have made me miss out on turning a 6800 xt to a 3090 ti.

wot

 

[R-T-B]

wot

I can totally picture a mollusk coming out of nowhere, burrowing up to the surface just to burst into this random convo, to say "WOT?" in an aussie accent.