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.
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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 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 😅
Woah. That’s a lot of printer cartridges. I hope you get the colours you need!
Um… thanks! I think. 🤔
Gz and don’t forget to update your Samsung 990 asap. Cheers
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. 😆
Amd is supposed to be bringing out a $500 card that is more powerful than their current 7900xt. That will be a great card.
I’d not heard that. I thought AMD was sort of sitting this generation out. Huge if true.
They are sitting out the high end like the 5090. They are going for the mid range like 5070 or 5080.
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
If it’s closer to Halloween it legally has to be called PCween.
