Iām really glad that I got 96G on a complete lark a year ago because I (drum roll) actually used it for work last week (and just sold my old 32G on eBay for what I paid for it despite it being 2.5 years old)
unfortunately Windows 11 keeps trying to remove the dll that comes with OpenRGB as a virus ever since I upgraded to 25H2 and without that dll I canāt disable the horrible LED lights on the 96G of ram so Iām in a tackiness war with my operating system but as I said: terrible hobby
My previous computer lasted me 8 years with just some storage upgrades and I expect the one I recently built to last me at least that long, probably longer because the pace of improvements has slowed even more. The era of rapid improvements in tiny transistor manufacturing seems pretty firmly over.
responsible part of my brain: hey you should go get a refund on that kit of 6000c32 ram you bought to troubleshoot
present day, lazy asshole part of my brain: well well well
this thread is like entirely people with 8-11 year old computers theyāre trying to make last as long as they can or people who recently replaced their 8-11 year old computers??
oh yeah I ran my previous Z77 3570K machine for 10 whole years from 2013 - 2023 (didnāt get the GPU until 2016 technically but 10 and 7 years is pretty good for a CPU and GPU) and I suspect I will have this X670E / 7700X / 4090 situation for likeā¦ 15 years easy, given that it should outperform a PS6 by enough to offset the optimization difference in PC titles. depends whether I seriously need hardware AV2 in that time period for some reason?
technically it has thunderbolt 4 so I guess I could get an external GPU enclosure just to have hardware AV2/H.266 if Intel is still making cheap GPUs by 203X. that sounds like fun to me personally
Iām pretty reliably on a 4 year cycle on my main machine and the other stuff is my brain getting bad ideas and seeing what I can grab
Iām honestly so excited I just thought of this for the first time
Iām waiting for consumer platformers to not have an embarrassing external IO path to the PCIE lanes so I can live the life of tiny computer and a GPU enclosure
just the idea of using one for more display heads + modernized encode is likeā¦ lightbulb going off
Glad I nabbed the only x670 board with tb4 so when felix figures this out in 6 years Iām ready to go
Iām still on Zen 3.
AM4ever!
I decided to reseat my CPU cooler with a kryosheet and found a 64gb (16x4) kit of fairly quick DDR4 (DDR4-3600 CL16-16-16-36) NON RGB!!! memory on eBay for a really good price ~$160.
Iāve also just discovered power limiting my GPU to 80% and setting my CPU to 65w eco mode.
So I think can wait another few years before replacing my main machine. I hope the AI bubble and its demand for hardware and power has exploded by then.
same yeah, very needs suiting
only thing in my 6 year old pc that concerns me is 8gb vram
and one day hopefully itāll be repurposed as a debian stable plex server like every other pc iāve had
But does it close up into her body when itās turned off?
So SSD prices are about to spike like RAM?
Theyāve already started to go up quite a lot
Apparently on top of RAM and SSD prices spiking, some people (supposedly AI data centers, how theyāre making this work is beyond me) are starting to hoard those already-expensive microSD cards that the Switch 2 uses.
And maybe just microSD cards in general? I swear those things have gone way up, too.
If the manufacturing capacity can be used to make something a data center can use it is rapidly going up in price, which is pretty much everything
Especially great that once this pops all of that hardware is useless to anyone else
Hmmm gotcha. Was trying to talk myself out of getting a new NVME drive during black friday.