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My eyes got teary when I put the PC components I'd like to upgrade my current PC. 1800€.
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@adiwan How do you manage to get 1800€ worth of upgrades for a PC whereas my complete builds usually do not even scratch 300€ below ?
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@drinkingpony well. Ryzen 3700X, 64GB RAM, 1TB NVME M.2 SSD, NVidia RTX 2080S, mainboard and CPU cooler. The rest I can reuse although not much.
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@adiwan Ohh, yeah, when I buy a new CPU, MoBo, RAM, and format a entire disk, I just give the entire beast a new name. I guess that means that kinda auto-defeats the idea of upgrading in my head.
Especially when I have one of these really old fashioned end of the nineties hightower cases somewhere in storage. You know, the ugly ones with the side-braces that you could swap out for wheels.
But enough of my ramblings. I had been eyeballing a similar processor. What motherboard did you specifically get ?Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony I didn't choose anything in particular. I preliminarily took the average price of the compatible mainboards. It should have 1GBit LAN and USB 3.2 and decent sound and m.2. My demands aren't high. I don't have the need to support old PCI hardware anymore like a 1999 WinTV TV card.
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@adiwan ... Who still has PCI hardware in 2019 ? I mean, I guess if I did then I would look at stupid things like this with really big eyes http://rainbowdash.net/url/875100
But yeah, most people I know avoid MSI and Gigabyte MoBo's like the plague.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Intriguing little adapter. I'll put that into my browser bookmarks. Why are MSI and Gigabyte boards avoided?
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@adiwan The way I figured after talking to some nerds, bad RMA's ( in the past ) bad temps ( in the past ) really shoddy bios updates ( in the past ) lots of lousy capacitors ( up till at least 2017 ), mangoty factory service ( as recent as 2018, though it could have been Amazon for that guy ) VCORE issues ( as shown on live hardware ) and rather lousy warranty compared to TUF ( Asus ) which everyone really seemed to love.
As for that adapter. I can not think of any use for it. Let me know if it works though. I mean the last thing I had that would probably even get some usage would be this ancient [ picture of pinnalce PCTV stereo PCI card ], which ofcourse is downright silly these days. There are better things on USB 2.0 than that card. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875102
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