Strangely enough I have actually upgraded both my GPU and CPU over the past year, but that is because my brother gave me his second hand parts. It is not like I run the latest hardware to begin with... :whistle:

Ha, yeah my upgrades usually go to my desktop, then my newly created VR box downstairs, then to my server, then to my brother.

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnyone else actually able to upgrade their PC in the last few months?

New hard drives (8TB and 1TB) and extra RAM here (from 8GB to 18GB), most of it second hand of course.

I'm so pissed. So I screwed up one night while trying to play with NetBSD on my Atari TT030, and accidentally wrote a 32mb disk image on top of my 3tb drive I had a bunch of random shit on. So bought another hard drive (6tb) to image it before I did anything else and try to recover it, but of course then I ended up having to get an even larger drive...

Well long story short, after I recovered a bunch of stuff to an enxternal 8tb drive I bought, now I can barely mount the thing before it starts spewing I/O errors... Gonna have to format it... luckily I managed still to recover most of the files. I highly recommend R-Studio for Linux :)

No need to upgrade lately. Somewhat paradoxically, I find my usage requirements going in a downward trend as I learn more and more about digital tech.

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: slaapliedjeI highly recommend R-Studio for Linux :)

I don’t think I ever heard of that software.
Is it some alternative to TestDisk and PhotoRec?

It is a commercial product. Saw it on Linus Tech Tips when he was talking about Data Recovery. Noticed they had a native Linux version and bought it. Funny enough in my restoration attempts, I ended up buying the Windows version as well to test out a bug I found in the Linux version, then was asking on their forums something, and holy crap they are scary knowledgeable about disk layout and data recovery! Highly recommended!

Quoting: GustyGhostNo need to upgrade lately. Somewhat paradoxically, I find my usage requirements going in a downward trend as I learn more and more about digital tech.

I like pushing my system in weird and wonderful ways. And to play with new tech (VR being the main drive for better hardware these days).

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: slaapliedjeI highly recommend R-Studio for Linux :)

I don’t think I ever heard of that software.
Is it some alternative to TestDisk and PhotoRec?

It is a commercial product. Saw it on Linus Tech Tips when he was talking about Data Recovery. Noticed they had a native Linux version and bought it. Funny enough in my restoration attempts, I ended up buying the Windows version as well to test out a bug I found in the Linux version, then was asking on their forums something, and holy crap they are scary knowledgeable about disk layout and data recovery! Highly recommended!

This got me out of a very tight spot a few years back.

I just put a SteamOS image on a USB to put on a newly assembled computer and thought “let me just restart to see if it boots” and did that. As it was rebooting I went to check the bios settings in the new machine and when I came back it turned out it had booted, wiped the drive in my main machine and started installing itself.

Testdisk was unable to do anything sensible so I went looking for alternatives and found R-Studio. It recovered almost all of the data, with the exception of stuff that was actually overwritten.

So yeah, highly recommended when other stuff fails.

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I also really need to do some upgrading, I'm constantly out of disk space due to having so many games installed. Want to replace my older plain HDDs with some nice SSDs eventually :)

Really though, I think my next true upgrade will be moving from my ridiculously overpriced Intel CPU to a modern AMD CPU.

This reminded me that I actually needed to update my PC info. Upgraded from a temperamental, early-production Ryzen 7 1700 to an R7 3700X and swapped out the 2133 MHz RAM for 3000 MHz. Now my CPU can hold steady at 3.7 GHz all-core with heavy compile workloads without having to up the voltage to keep the system stable. I probably should have RMA'd the 1700 when I had the chance and probably wouldn't have needed to make this interim upgrade, but the 3700X should function pretty decently into the future, and I'm nowhere close to extracting the maximum speed out of it yet either. Next upgrade will probably be an after-market cooler to get the CPU to 4.0 GHz and beyond.

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnyone else actually able to upgrade their PC in the last few months?

After being looking to upgrade my rather old I7-4790k with a Ryzen 5900x, I finally got impatient and ordered a 5800x instead... Can't wait to receive it :smile:

A few months how long is that. I got my GPU in 2020 I have a 2070 super and im happy with it I don't see myself upgrading anytime soon even if the scalpers died.

Hopefully 2021 will be better for you with hardware.

I upgraded, well a completely new build, in fall 2018. It replaced my 10 year old gaming machine.

I think I can probably wait out the mining craze for another 4-5 years. I've found that with some tweaking, it'll running anything you throw at it for that long. Maybe not at max settings, but that's ok. Can't really tell with a 1080p monitor anyway (upgraded from my 1024).

I'd love to upgrade more frequently, but it's so expensive. How do you all manage it?

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Liam DaweI also really need to do some upgrading, I'm constantly out of disk space due to having so many games installed. Want to replace my older plain HDDs with some nice SSDs eventually :)

Out of curiosity, how does your setup look like on this front?

Here I used to often saturate my 250GB SSD with games, but now that I moved /home out of the way to a dedicated hard drive it is far more than enough to keep all the games I’m currently playing, with a lot of extra space to run tests with other games.

Of course, DRM-free archives are going onto another dedicated hard drive. This is the one I had to upgrade from 4TB to 8TB lately :whistle:

My boot and home is all on a 248gb SSD, the rest split across two 2TB HDDs which are constantly full.

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Quoting: furaxhornyx

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnyone else actually able to upgrade their PC in the last few months?

After being looking to upgrade my rather old I7-4790k with a Ryzen 5900x, I finally got impatient and ordered a 5800x instead... Can't wait to receive it :smile:

Have fun with the 5800X, it's a very nice CPU. With PBO it boosts up to 4.85 GHz on single-core loads.:grin:
Also, with all cores being on the same CCX and sharing one unified L3 Cache, you avoid most of the infamous fabric latency.:wink:

Keep in mind though, that it doesn't come with a stock cooler.

Quoting: Hooly

Quoting: furaxhornyx

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnyone else actually able to upgrade their PC in the last few months?

After being looking to upgrade my rather old I7-4790k with a Ryzen 5900x, I finally got impatient and ordered a 5800x instead... Can't wait to receive it :smile:

Have fun with the 5800X, it's a very nice CPU. With PBO it boosts up to 4.85 GHz on single-core loads.:grin:
Also, with all cores being on the same CCX and sharing one unified L3 Cache, you avoid most of the infamous fabric latency.:wink:

Keep in mind though, that it doesn't come with a stock cooler.

Yes, I know, I ordered a Dark Rock 4, along with some Grizzly Hydronaut thermal paste, which I didn't heard of before, but seemed to be decent :wink:

I actually bought a lot of hardware end of last year.

For myself:
I had luck and got a Radeon 6900xt directly from amd.com for about 900€ where the custom designs nowadays retails for about 1500-1600€. The market is absolutely crazy.
Also I got a Ryzen R7 5800x at launch day from a german retailer who is AMD partner and sold the first batch for the recommended AMD price. Currently I‘m waiting for the 5900xt as I originally wanted to have a 5900x. But I‘m not sure AMD will release one as intels 11000er are less strong than expected.

Also I build a gamin rig for my daughter/son. Therefore I got an intel 10400f for about 130€ and a Radeon 5600xt for about 330€. The 5600xt was already overpriced that point in time, but looking at prices know I‘m glad i did buy it last year.

I really hope that this crypto bubble will implode. Not only becuase of HW costs but mainly because it is an environmental desaster and just insane. Also it has moved away from beeing a currency to a pure speculation object. Besides speculation and criminal activities there is no practical use for them. Secondly many crypto coins are poorly implemented and therefore a thread for the owner.

Quoting: HerrLangeI actually bought a lot of hardware end of last year.

For myself:
I had luck and got a Radeon 6900xt directly from amd.com for about 900€ where the custom designs nowadays retails for about 1500-1600€. The market is absolutely crazy.
Also I got a Ryzen R7 5800x at launch day from a german retailer who is AMD partner and sold the first batch for the recommended AMD price. Currently I‘m waiting for the 5900xt as I originally wanted to have a 5900x. But I‘m not sure AMD will release one as intels 11000er are less strong than expected.

Also I build a gamin rig for my daughter/son. Therefore I got an intel 10400f for about 130€ and a Radeon 5600xt for about 330€. The 5600xt was already overpriced that point in time, but looking at prices know I‘m glad i did buy it last year.

I really hope that this crypto bubble will implode. Not only becuase of HW costs but mainly because it is an environmental desaster and just insane. Also it has moved away from beeing a currency to a pure speculation object. Besides speculation and criminal activities there is no practical use for them. Secondly many crypto coins are poorly implemented and therefore a thread for the owner.

Yeah, I told myself I'd wait, I should have tried right at the beginning, would probably have had more luck. But I wasn't trying to build my second machine just then. Wasn't until later I decided that I may as well pimp out a second machine so I can have two VR setups.

Oh well, live and learn! The prices are so ridiculous now, the 2080 I have in my system is a 2 year old card, but people are selling it for 1k-1.5k...

Quoting: The_AquabatI currently want to buy a 27 inch monitor 1440p, but I'm not sure what to do, here in my country (argentina) there seems to be supply chains problems because I've seen them increase a lot in months.... I supposed that monitor were kind of the question here. What do you guys recommend? maybe in the future this begins to normalize

During the first months of the pandemic the monitors prices went nuts. Everyone was trying to buy one (or a laptop). Right now the prices are kinda "normalized" for mainstream monitors but whatever has the "gamer" label on them are still slightly expensive IMO.

With this said, the best offer I can find for you is this: https://compragamer.com/producto/Monitor_Gamer_HDC_27_HM_27WQ_2K_144Hz_TN_HDMI_DP_11408?seccion=3&destacados=1&nro_max=50&cate=5

But bare in mind that it's a TN panel. If I were you, I would go for a 23"/24" 1080p 75Hs Panel (a little over the half of the price of this monitor). My two cents.

Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: The_AquabatI currently want to buy a 27 inch monitor 1440p, but I'm not sure what to do, here in my country (argentina) there seems to be supply chains problems because I've seen them increase a lot in months.... I supposed that monitor were kind of the question here. What do you guys recommend? maybe in the future this begins to normalize

During the first months of the pandemic the monitors prices went nuts. Everyone was trying to buy one (or a laptop). Right now the prices are kinda "normalized" for mainstream monitors but whatever has the "gamer" label on them are still slightly expensive IMO.

With this said, the best offer I can find for you is this: https://compragamer.com/producto/Monitor_Gamer_HDC_27_HM_27WQ_2K_144Hz_TN_HDMI_DP_11408?seccion=3&destacados=1&nro_max=50&cate=5

But bare in mind that it's a TN panel. If I were you, I would go for a 23"/24" 1080p 75Hs Panel (a little over the half of the price of this monitor). My two cents.

I shouldn't talk about monitors, as I'm rocking a 144hz 3840x1200 monster...

Quoting: The_AquabatYeah gaming monitors are overpriced but look at this https://diamondsolutions.com.ar/monitores/hp-monitor-27-elitedisplay-e273q-hdmi-hp-1fh52a8

looks like a steal !

but I don't have all the money yet :sad: I think in 15 days maybe, I'm afraid this price won't stay longer :neutral:
in mercadolibre (ebay like site) the same monitor is 70k at least
what do you think x_wing?

Well, it's hard for me to say "a steal" when the price is the double of two 23" 1080p IPS 75Hz monitors but yeah, compared to all the other shit that is available this is definitely a good offer.

Beware of the seller though, I wasn't able to find the physical location of the company. Before buying try to reach them a check their policy about dead pixels, there can be nasty surprises for RMA with unknown sellers.

Quoting: The_Aquabatare HDC monitors good? never saw one in person... I have read both good things and bad things bout them.

I never got one so I can't give an opinion. But what I can say is that Compra Gamer is well known in Buenos Aires, so it's quite easy to RMA and/or return the product if you don't like the quality.