mmmmm this advice is not great
do not get 8GB sticks because you shouldn’t get a board with 4 ram slots
you absolutely do not need >750w under any circumstances, the only reason people pass that wisdom around is because they don’t know how to look at the 12v rail numbers so they massive inflate the theoretical overhead they need
I would not buy a 1TB hard drive under any circumstances in 2021, those are basically nowhere on a price-performance curve
PSUs run optimally at roughly 50% load. If you come up to their max, you’re burning off a lot of energy as heat. Maybe some folks don’t care about that. It’s certainly not going to destroy your build if you cut it close, but if you’ve got the extra cash it might be worth it. I did say you can always start with a 650 and reassess.
Care to explain?
sure, I think both of your arguments here reflect an unfamiliarity with SFF components, which even if you aren’t building ITX typically means higher quality components – yes, PSUs run better with less load, but an 80plat rated 600w PSU (SFX or not) is going to be pretty darn good with 500w of load, and an 1000w is going to be a lot bigger and more expensive with a comparable efficiency rating.
wrt memory – typically mATX (best value) and mITX (smallest) boards only have 2 slots, and it’s only full ATX boards that have 4+. there are very few reasons for most people to build full ATX these days; you don’t need the extra PCIe 1x slots, GPU SLI isn’t really popular or cost effective anymore, and a good ITX board will have headers for all of the PCIe lanes that modern CPUs can provide anyway.
u_u seemed like he was not terribly confident in the field of PC building, and the extra room to stick one’s grubby mits into the case of a computer and fiddle around is a really undervalued benefit, I’ve always felt. It’s not like you’re losing anything by going ATX over some compact form factor, unless you are building your PC around the deliberate intention to frequently pack it up and travel with it/move it. There are plenty of ATX cases that aren’t monstrosities. I certainly wouldn’t suggest one of those. ATX mid towers are very nicely sized.
I think it’s fair to ask the question and look at the two options, but I’m not really seeing an objective “ATX sucks, compact is better”.
Plus, he’s literally talking about how he’s trying to figure out where he can skimp on, and being able to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB without tossing out $$$ because you have to entirely replace whats in your slots is, again, a nice benefit.
Your priorities may be different, this is what I gleamed from u_u’s. 'S how I see it, anyways.
actually the joke’s on me because it turns out it’s relatively easy to get 4 slots on mATX these days, which is definitely the cheapest and simplest option if you don’t care about form factor, eg
Yeah, this was basically my plan, except I hoped I could just start from something pre built and figure out what was worth replacing gradually. I know literally nothing about building PCs and don’t particularly want to try to learn it all at once this summer
Because my brain is tired and I’d rather use the few non fatigued brain cells I have left to think about ancient sea monsters and destroyed libraries or whatever
Problem with actual OEM prebuilts is, as was mentioned briefly earlier, you’ll often end up with weird proprietary bullshit that makes gradually swapping your way into a self-built rig difficult, if not impossible. Not all of them will have this issue, but its generally not the most advertised aspect of a pre-built machine. Maybe there’s a database somewhere, idk.
Which is why going for one of those boutique “You customize your PC and we’ll put it together” companies might be a good compromise for you, though yea, you’ll have to put a bit more thought and research in at the start to figure out what you should be buying.
idk, 2x8GB sound like much, but tbh, i’d go for 32GB right out of the gate if you can get a good deal on it now, before you are ending up buying a new set of ram sticks in a few years (because cannot get the same two sticks anymore and matching two different ones to the existing set is ryzen ram lottery all over again, or scalpers will have turned to that) down the line?
same thing for 1TB drive/m2 stick/drive, it’s good to have the headroom if it’s not too expensive right now, and that stupid storage space crypto-thingy seemingly didn’t impact prices… yet. For installing a few games, it might even be enough to have just one drive at all, and that headroom is there with 1tb (iirc, FF7R leads with 120gb’ish reqs, and that’s 1/4th of 512 already accounted for).
n. b. and when prices for dedicated GPUs go down, you may very well have saved the surplus ram/ssd markup on not spending it on scalped GPUs, and that’d be a nice icing on the cake, too.
why was kitematic discontinued and it tells me to use docker desktop when I can’t do any of the things in that I was using kitematic for
Not an exhaustive database by any means but part 2 of that LTT secret shopper vid linked above has a pretty good breakdown of a few of the major prebuilt companies. Seemed like everybody except Dell pretty much used standard components that could be swapped out later.
my scheme of changing the created by date to the date the thing came out so I could sort files by name or release date blew up in my face cause windows just doesn’t recognize any date information if it is older than 1980
lookin’ at my classic mac files with modified dates of 1904 due to someone’s bad PRAM or whatever and mugging for the camera
meanwhile
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-TSX-Off-New-Microcode
TSX disabled up to coffee lake lol
gotta buy a new computer not to be able to keep running windows but to keep being able to run RPCS3
I had just finished wiping the sweat off my forehead and phonetically saying “phew” gdi
hell of a lot of words to say “we are addled with engineer brain and never talked to anyone in PR or marketing”
will windows 11 support time older than 1980
Coordinating departments is part of what a CEO is for but I guess Nadella’s brain is full of Azure and he didn’t pay close attention to Windows folks’ plan
you could tell what was going on when they let (or didn’t know about) the head of Windows Enterprise and Security tweet that the CPU generation cutoff wasn’t related to security