EntropySink
Technical & Scientific => Hardware => Topic started by: ober on December 16, 2020, 11:30:41 PM
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I'm building a new PC. Considering starting completely from scratch so I started to put a list together:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/d2JJgt
Budget is 1500-1800. I may just use the same drives I have. Primary driver is gaming. Not sold on Intel vs. AMD. From what I read AMD is really catching up and even winning in some categories. I'd like to buy in Jan if everything is available. I'll probably use the same monitors I have as well. I've never done liquid cooling so any advice there would be good.
Anyone have any opinions?
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Good luck. A friend of mine just put one together and said everything is hard to get. Even stuff like PSUs.
I'm definitely in camp AMD with an ASUS motherboard. Noctua cooling.
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I was actually looking at some of the parts last night. The only thing I'm seeing as not available is the video card I want. The rest was readily available from several places. Maybe it was specific hardware he wanted?
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Dammit... I just looked at the CPUs and most of the Ryzen ones are not available. I might have to go Intel for that reason alone.
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Ok, modified my part list based on some availability.
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So I abandoned the idea of building myself. It appears that the video card(s) I wanted are all sold out with no idea of when they might be available. So I customized one on CyberPowerPC.
i7 10700K, Nvidia RTX 3070, 32GB RAM, 500GB NVMe + 2GB HDD, liquid cooling, etc. Not the cheapest thing but gives me what I want and should last a long time.
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Where on earth did you find a 2GB HDD? :D
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LOL!
I dunno, my old 386 ran on a just a few hundred MB just fine. I did upgrade my Compaq to 20GB in 1999 for about $160. That bad-boy could hold every thing i could ever want from napster or limewire.
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OMG... not sure why I typed that. 2 TB, obviously.