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moggers

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  • CPU
    2700K
  • Motherboard
    Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
  • RAM
    16gb DDR3
  • GPU
    Gigabyte GTX 1080
  • Case
    Darkbase 600
  • Storage
    Sansung 850 EVO 500gb, 3tb WD Red
  • PSU
    EVGA Supernova G2 650W
  • Display(s)
    4k LG TV
  • Cooling
    H100i v2
  • Keyboard
    Logitech K400
  • Mouse
    Logitech K400
  • Sound
    Onboard
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 / Linux Mint

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  1. In the old days (1987-2007), you genuinely needed to upgrade everything everything every couple of years! It was brutal. These days, when it makes sense. The 3080 looks like a very good performance upgrade from my 1080, until I consider that it’s only got 2gb more VRAM. For what I do, which is a mix of unreal engine dev, photo/video editing, machine learning + gaming I actually use the vram. However - this is all as a hobbyist - I don’t make money from it (other than making my skills better for work). So I’d want to see more of a leap if I’m going to be spending. The 3090 is overkill and a little too pricey if I’m not making money out of it, but if a 3080ti with 16gb comes out for £750 I’d probably go for it. The 1080 itself was a forced buy at the time. A GPU failure during the crypto boom (I wasn’t mining) meant I was stuck. Everything was ridiculously priced - but I was extremely lucky to find a 1080 in amazon warehouse France for cheap (cheaper than retail 1060 6GB) At the time, so it made the most sense.
  2. USB on an early pentium mainboard? Unlikely from memory. *Maybe* a PS2 port if that motherboard was slightly non standard AT layout. As far as serial and parallel went, anything other than riser cards would have been also unlikely.
  3. A few years ago I got a ThinkPad x220 from eBay for £90. It had already been upgraded with an IPS screen, but had a German keyboard. I got a second broken UK x220 for less than a UK keyboard cost, and swapped them. Put in both an msata SSD and a standard 2.5" one, plus a genuine new battery. All in cost was about £220. Amazing little machine. Light but tough, superb keyboard and decent battery life. Now triple booting Windows 10, Kubuntu and Mac OS high Sierra and running them all like a champ! Easy to fix it anything goes wrong and the most versatile little beater machine you can get. Only downsides is it’s dual core (sandy bridge i5) and lacks USB3, but for its use case (light and durable) it’s astonishing how usable it remains to this day.
  4. To add, this just shows how high end extremely customised rigs of the past really are a money pit and such a difficult thing to resell. If he had a 5820k on a simple air cooler/aio with one 1080 and 32gb ram, coupled with a ready to go win 10 install on a fresh 512gb ssd, he could probably sell that machine all day long for $650 (maybe even 800 if he rgb blinged it up) it and it’d have cost maybe $1700 new around that time for not *that* much less performance.
  5. You can’t compare what it would cost new today with its second hand price, because a 5960x new would cost a silly amount of money compared to a modern mush equivalent like a 2700x, which can be had for stupidly cheap money. The only parts of that machine you might buy new today is the ram, and the shell (case, water cooling kit, cooler. That said, it’s a nice machine and I did a mental tot up of what I think it’d go for used parted out - and that’s around $1400-1600. but would I buy it - no. I’d build a modern ryzen / 2080 super machine for around the same money.
  6. I've been tinkering with pcs from the age of 10 (thirty years ago!) I've taken apart/upgraded/built more pcs then I could count. I enjoy it and I'm good at it. I wouldn't recommend it to 99% of people I know. There are always little issues. Just this past week, I built a machine from a bunch of second hand parts (Haswell era). The four sticks of identical (as far as you could tell) DDR3 on the 4 ram slot gigabyte motherboard gave an untold amount of hassle. For some reason, I eventually diagnosed the system only works with each stick in a specific slot, and so to do that I needed to build up from 4 (try each stick in slot 1 until it posted), 8, 12 until finally I found the combination that accepted 16gb. I have never seen anything like it! Complete waste of time and if I price my time at what I'm paid - you're quite right - I could have gone out and bought a coffee lake / ryzen machine. But it was sort of fun and now I've seen something new. If you don't want to deal with hassle, buy a prebuilt, use it and then sell the damn thing to a tinkerer when it's out of warranty.
  7. I shorted Nvidia a month ago at around 266, saw it move up to 290 and held firm in my opinion that they were about to get hammered. Buttclenching at points, a very bad entry point and I should really have closed the short before I was sitting on such a big paper loss. However, turns out it was a good decision - fortunately. It was technically a bad trade but I was lucky. All IMHO: * The Nasdaq itself is grossly overvalued - applies to nearly all stocks. I've done similar trades with far better entry points on Tesla, Facebook. * Nvidia stock has had a ludicrous run up in the last 18 months. The RTX launch is a joke, * the second hand market is flooded with GPU's at the moment, and most people are on the breadline at the moment. Not many people can afford a £1000 GPU, and that's the only one worth buying (well, not worth it, but if you genuinely need that horsepower there's no other option). * the mining boom has taken a pause / died. Anyway closed the short at $238. Could have had more, but no worries. Profit would pay for a RTX 2080ti, but I'm fine with a 1080 I bought second hand ? Before anyone accuses short selling of being 'evil', it's no more evil than central banks interest rate manipulation and the distribution of wealth towards asset holders that we've seen post financial crisis. I'll buy AMD once it's started going up again properly. But looking at the Nasdaq charts, there's blood all over it so I'll wait
  8. Current : iPhone 7 Plus 128gb (bought last month second hand for £350, immaculate). Bought because I take a lot of photos and video Previous (smart) phones: (2003 HTC Himalaya/O2 XDA II, 2008 Samsung Omnia 2, 2009 HTC Wildfire S, 2012 Samung Note 2, 2015 Samsung Note 4 + iPhone 5s as a toy, 2017 iPhone 6S+ 64gb) Also am 'supporting' an LG G3, Xiaomi Note 4 which I have bought for family members. I've bought most of my phones heavily discounted or second hand. Reason for moving to iOS: the infamous Note 4 emmc failure that left me disgusted. The Note 4 was a fantastic device and I wouldn't have got rid of it for years otherwise. Was going to buy a Xiaomi (amazing value for money, and I can tweak the OS), but was comfortable with iOS's quirks - pros and cons from having used the 5s at the same time as the Note. I'd implemented workarounds for almost everything I needed to do by using cloud services and scripts on my desktop PC. So I found a cheap 6S+ and jumped on it. 2 years into using the iPhone as the primary it's main benefits are : * the updates don't tend to break things (although iOS 11 was not great at first for battery issues. ). * the apps are always slick * the camera, with a separate app like Camera+ is excellent. I'm a hobbyist photographer and whilst I miss my DSLR if I'm out and about and don't have it, it's amazing what you can achieve with the iPhone camera. * apple supporting the devices for so long. The 5S is still going as a backup and works great with ios12. The 6S+, well, I hardly see any difference between the 7 and it to be honest, but I needed to give it to my diabetic dad to use with his continuous glucose monitor (rather than buying him a cheap android phone which he might have struggled with, the iPhone is simple). Additional benefit was the Apple Watch can also be used to monitor his blood sugar - perfect and life changing solution. and what I miss : * the much easier ability to use an android phone as a portable storage device easily (solved with a 128gb usb stick on a keychain) * The Torque app on android for diagnosing cars. * an IR blaster. * I'd prefer to have a headphone jack, but I used headphones twice in the year I had the 6S+ so it's not an issue for me.
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