'Twas the night before PCmas
Cooler didn't arrive until after dinner. If I were twenty years younger I'd have stayed up all night. đ
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.
I randomly decided to upgrade from a 3700x to a 5700x just after the price dropped to $130 (đŽ)
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 đ
Good times! That always happens to me too. I buy parts with upgrade paths in mind, but by the time it's time to upgrade a single component, I want to swap everything.
One of the most exciting times owning a computer for me is where you are right now. When everything arrives, and it's still in all the fancy packaging, and you're mapping out the build in your mind. I can't tell from the picture, which CPU did you get?
Edit: can you believe HDD these days? I'm still amazed every time I pull an NVMe HDD out of the packaging. Absolutely mind-blowing. My first computer had an spinning drive connected through molex and IDE cables.
My first computer didn't have hard drive at all. 5.25" floppy drives.
My first PC with a hard drive used an ST-506 interface w/molex and data and control cables. 40MB. I couldn't imagine ever filling the whole thing.
It's all so much easier now.
Damn, I'm old.
Oh yeah, I meant the first computer I built myself from scratch. My actual first computer was a Commodore 64, and then an IBM clone 386, and eventually a powerhouse 486. It's mind-blowing how far things have advanced, especially if you consider things like ChatGPT, which is essentially the Star Trek computer actualized in the real world.
Yup pretty wild. We've come a long way. CPU is a 9800x3D.
Very nice!
I almost got pissed for about 5 seconds the first time I ordered a new SSD and thought they shipped me RAM. Mind completely blown. I was showing the thing to my friends for a couple of hours, just asking, "you know what a Hard Drive looks like? Check this out! That tiny thing is a freaking 2 TB SDD!"
My first computer was either the Mac 128k or the Apple ]|[
FYI: HDD is short for hard drive. So calling an SSD a hard drive doesn't make a lot of sense since they are by definition different things.
It would be HD if it was hard drive.
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk[a] is an electro-mechanical data storage device
Woah. That's a lot of printer cartridges. I hope you get the colours you need!
Um... thanks! I think. đ¤
Wise choice on waiting for the graphics card.
How so?
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. đ
Ah snap! Iâm doing my upgrade today as well. Good luck with yours.
To you as well! Have fun.
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...)
one day I'll have this again...one day
Gave me a boner looking at all these toys. Damn
I respect your life choices. Please splooge responsibly.
Looks nice! Have fun
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
If it's closer to Halloween it legally has to be called PCween.
Why wouldn't you wait like 2 weeks until black Friday?
A lot of stores are already having their Black Friday sales.