Seneschal

Well now, I just learned something new. I thought those Xeons were.. something else entirely, okay now those are cheap. I mean they're not readily available but that's affordable. Ye, to be fair if I have that money I might go the path of new parts and probably a Ryzen 7 2700X but that's a great idea to think about right now.

So basically I've been using this beast of an i7 930 for a decade now. I call it a beast 'cause it survived several hurricanes and outages. Paired with, of course.. a Sabertooth x58 board I had to get used off ebay cause my other one died, with 12GB DDR3-1600 ram and a GTX 1060 6GB, which is getting bottlenecked to fuck. Other details but not necessarily important. At some point, I aim to actually have money to upgrade, etc etc.. My passion is casual video editing but moreso just gaming and my budget is/will be *high*. I don't want any mid stuff, but I also don't want RGB garbage. I want a total upgrade - sure, but not only do I want to do better than my current hardware, I kinda want something at the top or close, ya feel me? I've seen a fps benchmark comparison of first gen I7 and I think a 7770K, and I thought the difference over the years wasn't that great and I thought, gee.. intel CPUs are this expensive for this kind of a difference? Maybe I'm wrong there. I just went on pcpartpicker and just tossed in these (yes I have no case, psu, monitor, this is a future thing, just added super important stuff) Are these a good place to start? I thought for over 300 dollars, I'd opt for the Ryzen, I thought since the 2080 got bad reviews I'd opt for the 2070 and since I never tried water cooling I'd opt for the.. Kraken? Also that motherboard was a quick google search pair for the CPU. Otherwise, stir me in the right direction? CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor ($309.99 @ Newegg) CPU Cooler: NZXT - Kraken X62 Rev 2 98.17 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard ($119.99 @ Newegg) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($109.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($167.99 @ Newegg) Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($499.99 @ Newegg) Total: $1207.95

What do I think about Apple? I don't, to be honest. I don't think nor care about them. I don't use their products and never plan on it. An iMac .. why? I actually like my heavy ass full tower case, thank you. An IPhone? Man, this shit cost as much as rent, fuck outta here. Cheaper phones > * What are they good at? Nothing, really.