• Questy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A second m.2 for trying out the switch to Linux. It went well, primary boot now.

    Edit: I went with Nobara.

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    1 year ago

    Last week from a Ryzen 3700x to a 7800x3d, so new mobo, cooler and ram as well. The 3700x was a bottleneck in some games for my GPU. Performs well now.

    My niece will upgrade from an old 7 series Intel to my old 3700x, x570 chipset mobo, Deepcool double fan CPU cooler and 32 GB ram. I will give her my old GTX1080 as well. Whole system perfectly fine for WOW classic.

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    1 year ago

    The Mobile Athlon CPU, with unlocked multipliers I was able to overclock like crazy. It was something like 20 years ago.

    Seriously, replaced a 2x6Tb raid1 of mechanical hdd’s with 4x4tb raid 5 SSDs. Amazing update in terms of noise reduction and power consumption. As for speed, I don’t care, the content is consumed over the network anyway.

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    1 year ago

    This probably shouldn’t count, but I diagnosed and removed a bad stick of RAM. It works much better now. Since I was running on 32Gb, I haven’t really noticed the drop to 16. I’d been blaming system instability on not knowing how to properly maintain Linux and shit drivers. Turns out

    Prior to that was when I bought a 2TB SSD.

  • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I finally bought a 7900xtx after my gtx 1080 died.

    • I saved several paystubs from shitty fast food jobs to buy the 1080 too

    I saved up for 8+? years to try and buy a flagship as I really didn’t want to buy a low tier gpu every year.

    As the SI/tech person that’s built PCs for my friends and referrals for several years I’ve seen firsthand just how awful the gpu landscape is especially if you choose to buy whatever’s the cheapest tier card.


    I typically recommend saving up to buy a good gpu first as it’s the most expensive and excruciatingly painful part to buy last.