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@guizzy @coolboymew I had an 8GB 3060ti TUF that wasn't LHR and I did a 1:1 trade with someone who had a LHR locked 3070 form eVGA. I wanted the eVGA card because I liked the FTW3 cooler design and since I didn't crypto mine i was getting a bit of a performance boost for free upgrading.
I did buy a 3070ti off a friend for $1000 during the near end of the GPU bubble not that i needed it ( I kinda regret spending that kinda cash in hindsight ) But my friend bought the card only to find out the board wasn't a reference design and couldn't water cool it with his block. I bought the card off him to save the hassle but I had a 1070 in my spare rig and I gave that to my nephew for his 6GB 1060. Then traded the 6GB 1060 to my cousin's daughter for her 2GB 750ti and sold the 750ti to some guy for $100 who was on an old Radeon HD 5450 and couldn't play the Diablo 2 remaster and was on a tight budget.
At the end of the day I was $900 out of pocket and a few relatives got sizeable upgrades to their pc's so it wasn't a total loss and I planned on giving the 3070 to my nephew with the 1070 at somepoint when I upgrade his machine in the next year or two since his i5-7500 is starting to show it's age.
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@ooignignoktoo @guizzy @coolboymew When can we get a fediverse pc building service?
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@Dadbolgainz @guizzy @ooignignoktoo just use pcpartpicker and make your list. The site should generally do a good job to tell you if anything is incompatible, otherwise, for CPU, search CPU + passmark for raw score to see what's worth it
And then share your list for opinions
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@guizzy @coolboymew the i5-7500 is still an okay cpu but it's achilles heel is that it doesn't have hyperthreading and a lot of newer games love HT. I have a spare ryzen 5 5600x i'm sitting on right now since I upgraded to a 5800x3d but I planned on giving the 5600x to my step sister's son who has a 3600x. My step sister doesn't have a lot of money and her son is running it on the stealth wraith cooler. It's good enough to cool the cpu at stock settings but I figure replacing the 95W TDP 3600x (zen II) to a 65W 5600x (Zen III) would reduce temps and the single core boost would help him get along for another couple years when we can get him a better PSU and gpu as prices go down.
I was gonna take his 3600x and try to get a cheap AM4 motherboard and carry over the ram and NVME and GPU from my nephew's i5-7500 machine and get him a sizeable performance upgrade.
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@ooignignoktoo @guizzy yeah I'm even worse off on my i5-6600
Converting all those anime vids takes long and it's getting on my nerve
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@ElDeadKennedy @guizzy @ooignignoktoo jesus. I got rid of my core 2 duo with my last build and it was already stretching it out
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@coolboymew @ooignignoktoo @guizzy I mean it's not that bad. I built a new pc a few months ago but before that I was using my beloved Core 2 Duo ThinkPad. And before that I was using an Atom netbook (one core)
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@coolboymew @guizzy @ooignignoktoo That netbook has the shittiest performance ever, but I absolutely love the form factor
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@ElDeadKennedy @coolboymew @guizzy
I had a 600mhz amd netbook I bought in 2011 that ran lubuntu but I ditched it once I got a free dell laptop that some company was liquidating. It's not my daily driver but I use it for shitposting on the web and it works well still for that.
I had a Core 2 Duo e8400 build paird with an eVGA 8800GT 512MB I built myself as a high school graduation present. Sadly the 8800GT had a memory chip go bad and die ( artificting ) and the motherboard with the 8400 lived a long time about 11 years before it also died ( gave it to my nephew who now has the 3600x ) But the desktop with the e8400 he had before got hit by lightning and >_<. Sad thing was it had a Radeon HD 5850 1GB in it as well that also got toasted by lightning
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