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On 6/26/2025 at 9:23 AM, BoomMF said:

Turns out my MSI X99a Godlike Gaming Carbon is something of a collectible. Maybe I can flip an old Fatal1ty case I have in storage for one of those fancy chromed up espesso machines. brb

If you watch LGR reviews on YouTube, he talks about building old systems with original parts and how expensive it is.  A shitload of systems/components had problems (capacitors) and were trashed,  or were scrapped for metals or whatever, or because there was a period of rapid advancements, a lot of stuff was churned through quickly - like extremely noticeable differences on a yearly basis.

And there is a serious community of people out there who play their favorite games on period-accurate systems.

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3 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

Case fans?

The Lian Li LANCOOL 217 comes loaded with 5 fans, including twin 170s up front.  Reviews say they are quiet and perform well, but if I find out otherwise, I can always replace them.  Top exhaust will be handled by the AIO CPU cooler.  

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Pro tip:  If using a SFX PSU in an mid-ATX build, check the length of the included cables.  Build is on hold while I await my PSU replacement.  

Note:  I am not a pro.  

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On 6/29/2025 at 8:32 AM, idigTexas said:

Pro tip:  If using a SFX PSU in an mid-ATX build, check the length of the included cables.  Build is on hold while I await my PSU replacement.  

Note:  I am not a pro.  

Why were you going with SFX anyway in a case that large? Or was it just left over from a previous build? 

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3 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

Why were you going with SFX anyway in a case that large? Or was it just left over from a previous build? 

It is an efficient and quiet performer, and I thought the extra room would be nice to have.  

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13 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

How fast are those fans to be putting out so much heat it's lighting up your case?  That shit's going to melt!

If it's able to take off from the treadmill before it melts, i will consider it a success.

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19 hours ago, idigTexas said:

Have a little tidying to do, but it's alive.

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Looks awesome. Good cable management is my happy place.

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19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

How fast are those fans to be putting out so much heat it's lighting up your case?  That shit's going to melt!

That glow is from the brakes on the fans, trying to keep the tower from taking off.  Think 24 hours of Le Mans at night...

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On 6/26/2025 at 7:56 PM, Dahobbs said:

I ended up with a Kitchenaid KF8 - everything else in the kitchen is Kitchenaid and I'm a systems person. Love it so far, however I use distilled water and add potassium bicarbonate but it looks like I can't defeat the filter warnings. Zzzzz

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I ended up with a Kitchenaid KF8 - everything else in the kitchen is Kitchenaid and I'm a systems person. Love it so far, however I use distilled water and add potassium bicarbonate but it looks like I can't defeat the filter warnings. Zzzzz
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What PSU are you rolling with? 1000W ???
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Yeah, I needed a new little box to do some work with and replace my gaming box. But RAM and graphics card prices convinced me now isn't the time to build anything. So I bought a little minisforum ryzen box instead.

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Just now, randomhorn said:

Yeah, I needed a new little box to do some work with and replace my gaming box. But RAM and graphics card prices convinced me now isn't the time to build anything. So I bought a little minisforum ryzen box instead.

Which one? I bought some Refurb N150s for $100 each right before the ram price hikes. Insane that I got 2 16GB (32GB total) systems for 200 bucks. 

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43 minutes ago, Atticus said:

Hopefully you guys stocked up on ddr5 ram, could be pretty rough until next gen drops

Until next gen drops? Lmao my dude there are 3 companies that are buying 60%+ of wafer starts in the DRAM industry. 

HBM is a packaging exercise, not a memory manufacturing exercise. It's all the same memory cells. 

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You’re referring to HMB, right? Far more valuable for manufacturers to make that instead of consumer memory. Crucial just exited the consumer memory space  

I think the thought is that demand will shift to ddr6 and the old ddr5 modules will drop in price. Ddr4 can be still be had at reasonable prices for example

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29 minutes ago, Atticus said:

You’re referring to HMB, right? Far more valuable for manufacturers to make that instead of consumer memory. Crucial just exited the consumer memory space  

I think the thought is that demand will shift to ddr6 and the old ddr5 modules will drop in price. Ddr4 can be still be had at reasonable prices for example

No dude. No it can't. 

DDR4 prices are insane as well and there's a real supply problem there because they have stopped manufacturing it. 

HMB is host memory buffer a consumer technology that let's your SSD use your computers DRAM for its cache and has nothing to do with anything. 

DDR6 is nowhere near any kind of production and the stuff in HBM, DDR4/5/6 whatever is all the same shit. Its packaging and different things that decide what it will eventually be. The RAM wafers/die are like sandwich meats. You can make a sandwich out of all kinds of meats. You can mix meats. Some meats are more expensive than others etc. Some meats have more caloric density. The packaging is the sandwich with all the condiments and toppings besides the meat, but in reality the sandwich is just a way to consume the meat. 

Micron shut down crucial its consumer focused brand. 

Please, unless you actually know what the fuck you are talking about don't say stupid shit like your post in response to mine, somebody who actually works deep in the memory manufacturing industry. 

34 minutes ago, randomhorn said:

The UM870 Slim (w/ 32GB + 1TB). Picked it up from MicroCenter. https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-um760-slim?variant=46040999657717

Hell yeah. Great little PC. The iGPU on those is plenty to do anything except gaming at 1440p and beyond. It'll run Photoshop or video editing stuff easily. 

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@immamacFuck off with that condescending shit. It’s a discussion board and I know plenty enough on the matter. 
I build/mod computers as a hobby and I’m not over here trying to fake big dick anything. 

You always whine about a lack of activity on the board and yet you respond this way when you could have used way you know to inform/stoke greater discussion. 

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Imma getting the F off on a comp thread was not on my bingo card today. But that aside, I’m starting to have the PC curiosity v console. Yeah, the itch has started. Someone help push me over the edge-it’s really that much better? What’s really drawing me is access to more games. 

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Pricier upfront, but it’s significantly better if you have the screen to take advantage of it. More games than you could ever have time to play as well. It isn’t uncommon for games to be made available for free or at steep discounts on epic, steam, etc. 


Stronger PCs are also great for entertainment and productivity. 

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I thought about building a new PC since I'm on windows 10 but looks like that ship has sailed. My current rig uses 64 GB in a 2x32 setup. $890 from newegg today and I bought it a few years ago for $120. 

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50 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

I thought about building a new PC since I'm on windows 10 but looks like that ship has sailed. My current rig uses 64 GB in a 2x32 setup. $890 from newegg today and I bought it a few years ago for $120. 

I bitched and moaned on this thread about GPU prices when I built a new rig in June, but I'm glad I went through with it when I did.  I spent $143 on 2x32.  Today's price for what I bought is $630.  

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I had micro center build me a gaming PC back in June.  They told me I got lucky because the memory or cpu or some shit had just dropped by a couple hundred that day (tariff or something they said).

anyways, I wonder how much more it would have been today.

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7 hours ago, idigTexas said:

I bitched and moaned on this thread about GPU prices when I built a new rig in June, but I'm glad I went through with it when I did.  I spent $143 on 2x32.  Today's price for what I bought is $630.  

Yeah, I wanted to go up from 2x16 to 2x32 because of some stuff my son is doing and I'm fucked. We've got a small form factor PC, so only 2 memory slots.

Just going to upgrade the CPU from a Ryzen 3700x to a Ryzen 7 5700 and video card from an RTX 2060 to something newer.  CPU upgrade is not much but will reduce some stuttering we get in certain games/apps (all 8 cores are on one chip on the 5700 versus 2 chips on the 3700x, and played around on a friend's 5700 and it was smoother) and even bumping up just 3 generations on the video will help tremendously. I can also repurpose the old CPU and video to a second PC we are building for my daughter.

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2 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

I'm so happy I upgraded my entire pc 2 months ago. Now I'm going to use my old 96gigs of ddr4 ram to pay for it. 

Hshahahaha

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11 hours ago, RockyMountainHighHorn said:

Imma getting the F off on a comp thread was not on my bingo card today. But that aside, I’m starting to have the PC curiosity v console. Yeah, the itch has started. Someone help push me over the edge-it’s really that much better? What’s really drawing me is access to more games. 

PC is really great if you are wanting the best experience possible on games. The problem for me with games now is I don't know that there is a difference between gaming at 1080p and 4k for a "dad gamer" vs if I was gonna be gaming 5+ hours a day. 

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53 minutes ago, immamac said:

PC is really great if you are wanting the best experience possible on games. The problem for me with games now is I don't know that there is a difference between gaming at 1080p and 4k for a "dad gamer" vs if I was gonna be gaming 5+ hours a day. 

Yeah, the only games I care about in 4K is Age of Empires II Remastered 4K edition and Civilization - I can tell a difference. Everything else, not as much and/or I'm more focused on FPS/speed (I still do Team Fortress 2 lol and some World of Warcraft and Ultima Online) and my son does most of his (few) games at 1080p - Hogwarts, some Hot Wheels stuff, and Minecraft (and he's constantly tweaking Minecraft depending on what he's doing).

And most of it is okay on our RTX 2060, but I know for a few hundred bucks I could improve performance a decent amount. And I would be able to repurpose the 2060 for a second PC.

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22 hours ago, RockyMountainHighHorn said:

Imma getting the F off on a comp thread was not on my bingo card today. But that aside, I’m starting to have the PC curiosity v console. Yeah, the itch has started. Someone help push me over the edge-it’s really that much better? What’s really drawing me is access to more games. 

You should really consider the Steam Machine when it launches early next year. It's an actual computer running a Steam operating system that makes it extremely similar to a console experience. Except it's a full-on PC so you can mod your games and load in whatever software or emulators or media you want. Because it's YOUR computer, not a locked down console. 

You can use it like a PC with a mouse and keyboard and normal desktop experience (it's Linux, but honestly very similar to a baseline Windows experience), or use it just with a controller like you would with a console under your living room TV.

I'm really strongly considering one myself since my wife wants her PC back and not to be our living room gaming PC

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40 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

Is that going to use desktop parts or laptop parts? Haven’t seen specs on it yet, but not really in the market. 

GamersNexus has some coverage on it, it's using a Zen4 6C/12T desktop part and a RX7600 equivalent card (around an RTX 3060). It's not designed to be the most powerful thing, but it'll play pretty much everything at 1080p and you can use FSR (deep learning upscaling) to play at 4K and have it look reasonably good.

But the benefit is that it's a standard hardware spec, fully supported by Valve and with the weight of their troubleshooting and community behind keeping it working well. The SteamDeck has come a long way since its launch and all that development effort is going into the Steam Machine.

It's not building your own, but it looks like it's gonna be a compelling option if you just want a PC gaming box that works

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