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Just taking a second to gush about the Xeon e3 1240. It's a lot of CPU for 40 bucks! And the fact that DDR3 is dirt cheap on ebay right now just makes it even sweeter.
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@dizmoYou just have to look around, I got lucky and picked up a two stick 8GB kit for 15 bucks on ebay, paired it with the 40$ e3 1240 and now my spare PC is pretty badass for basically free considering I got the motherboard for a couple of bucks.
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@dizmoWell if it was a main rig of course, but it's just as a random spare rig for when I wanna have some people over for LAN stuff, or just as a good spare in general, so 8GB does fine. If I ever needed to I could still upgrade to 16GB super cheap.
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People are still paying 200$ for quad core haswell CPUs on eBay... With that money you could damn near buy a 2200g, motherboard and 8GB of DDR4 and be on a platform with a gigantic upgrade path. WHY PEOPLE???? "I already have the motherboard and RAM!" then sell it and use that extra money to help get you onto the new platform!
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@Princess LunaOh yeah, that too, especially. Ryzen came out, and then Coffee lake came out. They were just killed. I feel terrible for anyone who bought into the 7th generation of Intel. Oh wait, I don't feel bad, they were told to wait and they didn't listen! A lesson learned the hard way.
Well, now that I think about it, it's not too bad of a situation. They can just sell their motherboard+CPU combo for a ridiculous amount (because suckers will be happy to buy it for some reason) and use that money to get a really good Ryzen combo.
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You'd think people not to fall for it but surprisingly I seen an example today! someone was willing to pay 220 pounds for an i7 6700K + Z170 used combo.
When you can buy a R5 3600 for 185 pounds... add another 90 pounds for a Tomahawk we're talking about 50 or so pounds difference between a dead platorm with a quadcore vs up-to-date still fully supported platform and a hexacore...
Person still went Skylake...
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@Princess LunaInstances like that just boggle my mind. I've tried coming up with a reason/excuse for that but I just can't. Either they don't know shit and are too lazy to research or they're a fanboy on a tight budget.
HMMMM, dead quad core platform, or a still going 16 core platform..... What a difficult decision. And I don't blame the sellers in this case for charging that much, if people are willing to pay that much then why not take advantage?
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Samsung removing headphone jacks? What the fuck... Okay, is there a single phone on the market that can match my S5 in features? I'm talking:
Micro SD
Removable battery
Headphone jack
Liquid resistance
A physical home button
No stupid curved screens or notches/camera holesGreat durability (not made of fucking glass in other words)
I'm lost. Whenever I have to upgrade, it seems like it's going to be a downgrade, except I'll have a better camera and things will load faster. Not worth the trade off at all for me, so I'm clinging on to this phone for as long as possible.
Also, the fact that society is getting more and more desensitized to loss of features is freaky. People don't seem to be upset that features are being taken away, while prices keep hiking. Before you know it we'll be throwing our 2000$ phones away ever year, because phones are being more and more designed to be fucking disposable. With Apple's war on repair and batteries, along with the fact that every company follows their lead, I'm very worried for the future. I mean, my S5 has lasted me about five years at this point, and without features like removable batteries and expandable storage, there's no way I would have made it this far. I've swapped the battery twice and I expanded the 16GB of internal storage (lmao right) with a 128GB SD card. SD cards are so cheap right now I'm even thinking about going 256GB.
Mini rant over, I could bitch and rant about this for hours, so I'll stop myself here and just go to sleep. S5, bitches, the best phone Samsung ever made AFAIK.
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Ha, just realised I've been on here for over five years. Thanks to everyone for making it interesting! There's a couple stupids on here, but the majority of yall are alright.
but seriously, it's been nice! Before I joined these forums I just kept to myself about computer stuff (cause no one I know IRL knows the difference between memory and storage). Well, unless you count Youtube comments, but we all know how great of a place that is...
Also if any LMGers happen to see this, you're doing a great job.