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.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    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 😅

  • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    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?

      • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        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…)

  • fadingembersEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    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