I'm with E30 Wagen...go with the chipset that already at least has publicly stated that it will work with next-gen Zen CPUs. It's worth the incremental cost increase for sure. In my experience, any time I've had to "just" upgrade the motherboard, I ended up getting faster RAM, a new GPU and sometimes building a whole new PC lol. If I had had the option to simply pop in th elatest & greatest CPU, I'd definitely have done that and not replaced other stuff.
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Check how the 2600 compares pricewise to the 1600 -AF sku because they ninja updated the 1600 to 12nm and just changed the sku.
Performance is nearly identical as far as I know, and at least north of the border, there's a bit of a price difference.
I have the 3600 on an MSI B450 A-Pro and it works great but I think I'd update the mobo if I went zen3 just for overall improvements. Mostly thinking out of box CPU capability without a gimped bios, extra m.2 slots (and PCIe ones at that), whatever VRM improvements.
Probably will remain on the 3600 though. Realistically it's fine for anything I do. hardly hits 50% usage in games, and nothing else is that crazy.
Hardly doing any CAD or anything this term, mostly staring at spreadsheets/PDFs/Video calls, so extra monitors are the biggest QOL computer improvement for corona times IMO.
I think a GTX 970 will do just fine on 1080p with almost anything modern.Originally posted by priapismMy girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.Originally posted by shamesonUsually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30
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Hadn't thought about slightly nerfing the processor in favor of a better board for Z3 and a planned upgrade. You guys seem to be thinking pretty much the same thing, and the rest of what I'm reading in to 550 says about the same. Also saw that a couple of other midrange AM4 550 boards may be coming later in the month, and more choices are almost always great.
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Just did an upgrade 6X10TB Seagate Exos drives in Raid 10, and happy with the performance using a cheap $140 Highpoint raid card from 10 years ago. Looking forward to Zen 3 next month when I do a whole new build, but keep the Raid setup. Too bad I can't find an MicroATX case that 6+ drives.
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New on the left, old on the right.
Fractal Define 7 (The case is a mix of 2 Define 7s to customize the black/white) The other was used for a NAS build to backup Cx data ~6mo
AMD 5600x (temporary till my 5950x ships)
Nvidia RTX3090 FE
Asus VIII Crosshair Hero X570 Motherboard
128GB RAM
1TB 980 Pro Boot
2TB Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus (Cache for Resolve Proxy Media)
4 500GB Samnsung 850 Evo SATA SSDs for 4K footage/steam Raid 0
6x10TB Exos HDDs Raid 10 (~30TB) for general storage
Antec 1000w Platinum PSU
All backed up to Backblaze and another in house solution.
Should be ~$400-$500/year for energy usage as it's on 24/7. I still need to make the BMW VMs/ISOs available to DL from here to all, especially as NewTIS is shut down.
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^I felt less ripped off paying 127% of MSRP for the 3090 vs 228% of MSRP for the 3080.... The video card was the only unexpected part, purchased on a whim via FB Marketplace in Beverly Hills, coming from Santa Barbara about 3 hours away. At least I should get a good chunk of change back selling the old rig or just the 1070 EVGA FTW2.... even old cards are going for good $$$
I seriously wish I could have put this in a üATX case instead like the last one. However I do plan on adding a 10Gb or faster network card. Unseen in the pic is a newer 12 Gig 8x SAS/SATA HBA Raid card, that really needs to have active cooling. I wanted to splurge on custom water cooling, but the prices of the AIOs just can't be beat, along with build time. Also this AIO has a fill port and comes with extra liquid, so expect 4 years out of it.
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Originally posted by roguetoaster View PostAfter reading the folding thread I'm thinking it's time to finally replace the laptop that will not die (6+yr old XPS w/ i5 2410m ~2.3-2.9 dual core, 8gb DDR3, and an old GT525M), and continues to handle light gaming, mostly R6 at 30ish.
Here's hoping that the direct cost of $249 to me (Amazon gift card covered the CPU) won't result in a disappointing every day sort of build.
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So I am torn to do as planned with a custom loop or not. My EKWB 3090 FE Hybrid waterblock arrives tuesday, but ACTUALLY building this loop will be $1200. (Part of that due to buying hardline tools to do so)
It would be better to do an external Mo-Ra3 9x140 Radiator, but it would have to sit 4 feet down and 5 feet away, so dual D5 pumps, quick releases, custom wiring and probably another $500 to do that...yuck
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