Would there be any kind of motherboard that would let you boot from something on a pci express card if you moved your OS there, or is that totally normal and not a big deal?
being able to boot from PCIe devices (add-in card or otherwise, yes that means m.2 slots built in to the board) is a generational thing; if you go far back enough, it wonāt be supported, but arguably going that far back enough will probably limit the usefulness of such an upgrade over a SATA SSD to begin with
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replaced glass bed on FDM printer with a magnetic base and PEI-coated steel piece. cheaped out so the edges werenāt finished and I cut my index finger. I should really just file everything with a nail block before handling now
otoh now I never have to scrape prints off glass again ā just pop them off by bending
also swapped hotend to trianglelabs dragonfly, extruder to a BMG clone, the firmware with klipper on a pi, silicone spacers instead of springs. adding an accelerometer to apply a smoothing factor to the stepper controls. definitely at the limit of ender 3 modding now
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6E watch: Costco US has the TP-Link 6E mesh kit, 3 nodes for $350
Thatās probably enough to dissuade me from running Ethernet through the walls honestly
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I am probably not going to do this any time soon, but Iāve begun to think about (i.e., search for deals on constantly) replacing my i3-9100F with (most likely) an i5 or a (probably not, due to price) i7. My board can take either 8th or 9th generation chips. Would it be stupid to replace my 9th gen i3 with an 8th gen i5, if thatās what I find first for a better value?
Please note that I am only very dimly knowledgeable about these things.
I honestly wouldnāt bother replacing your CPU while keeping your motherboard unless youāre able to like, do the whole thing on eBay for a <$50 differential all told ā thereās been very significant improvements since then.
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Even a modest laterally-equivalent hexacore like the i5 8400 is going to run ~$100 on eBay which just plain isnāt worth it. A 9900K (upwards of $300 on eBay) is at best ~25% faster in single-threaded tasks than your 9100F, so unless youāre thread-bound on something critical just wait for Ryzen 7XXX parts this fall and do CPU + board + RAM.
If you need something faster, but also to illustrate how bad used Intel pricing is:
Ryzen 5600G or 5600X parts are ~$200 and a bundled motherboard should come in around or under $100. Reuse your RAM and itās bizarrely price competitive with a used 9900k on eBay with twice the improvement vs. your 9400F (~50% faster single-thread)
(I recognize itās cliche to say thereās some improved product right around the corner but it is literally true right now and most CPUs from the past five years are fine.)
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short version: if you want more cores for content creator-y things, go Ryzen, pretty much any 6-core or up chip from the 3000 or 5000 series will do you good (not APUs, they perform a little worse than their non-GPU having equivalents in the stack. if you want thing that games, 11th gen Intel parts on the lower end are pretty much on firesale new now that 12th gen is out in force.
Intelās 12400 is pretty much the best straight recommendation but the motherboard landscape for 12th gen is a bit iffy, even after non-premium chipsets have shipped
if you want a computer that works, lol buy a Apple Silicon mac
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I know someone who got an M1 Mac mini for $400 off marketplace which is about $100 less than a good deal on eBay and an absurd value, like, competitive with CPUs that cost about that much alone without the rest of the computer
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canāt wait to try running assetto corsa via whatever the then current cocktail of shims is on the used Mac Studio I will end up buying off of FB Marketplace in like 6 years
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Thanks for talking me out of this, friends. Iāve been kicking myself for not spending a few bucks more when I got my i3 and springing for an i5. My PC is really fine for most things I throw at it, including most games Iāve been interested in, so Iāve just been letting the regret fester.
I just built this machine in the summer of 2020 and it looks like I should just hold onto my money and plan on doing a whole cpu/board upgrade 2 or 3 years down the road maybe. Iāve never seriously looked at AMD vs Intel, so Iāll have to reassess where things are then.
Yay, I can stop browsing ebay listings looking for i5s and i7s. Yāall have freed me.
Really, I think the best thing to look at upgrading before I change up the CPU and motherboard would be my GPU. But also, the only game Iāve wanted to play that I (probably) canāt with my current one (GTX 780) is Elden Ring, and I donāt see a ton more of those coming down the line soon, so I really should just sit on it until it dies or I can upgrade significantly for a reasonable price.
Building my PC a couple years ago for the first time on my own, and switching out my HDD for an SSD in January, has really got me itching to just make things ābetterā even though, honestly, my computerās running pretty great and does whatever I want it to.
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reminder that Nvidia shipped current gen parts with 8GB of VRAM
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Thatās double precision baby
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i want to find the oldest file in my world now, itās probably from 1998
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every now and then I have a momentary lapse into āhm maybe I should get a steam deck/whatever equivalent is actually in stock nowā and do five minutes of research before I discover the price for skipping the deckās queue is actually like 100% extra in literal dollars
you should have had faith
gamevice! gamevice and over-provisioned Wifi!
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We have one on the way but my queue spot was from last July