CynicalTeacher

Just to illustrate this; I was bidding on this used drive on ebay. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Crucial-BX500-480GB-Internal-2-5-inch-CT480BX500SSD1Z-Solid-State-Drive-/353104869034?nma=true&si=ToRnafPcsVKBudjVBb1%2BFIHbNfY%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 It just sold for 49.50 + 3.10 postage - So a total of £52.60 Same drive brand new is £55.19 on amazon delivered next day. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-CT480BX500SSD1Z-Internal-Solid-State/dp/B07G3KRVWP/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=480gb%2Bssd&qid=1592572465&refinements=p_76%3A419158031&rnid=419157031&rps=1&sr=8-3&th=1 So the difference in price is £2.59‬ between an older used drive with 3-4 days postage and a brand new one next day. That's absolutely mad.

What are the drives (genuine sandisk or wish specials?) ? Can you do a screen grab of disk manager? What do they report as in crystal disk info?

Yeah i suppose that makes perfect sense. Didn't occur to me that it'd hit the new market as hard if not worse than the used market. Had one of my colleagues telling me they got a great deal on a used logitech c110 webcam for £140 today, I paid about £70 for mine new probably 6 years ago. Absolutely mad.

Aye id noticed used prices and especislly 3-6th gen hardware has gone up about 30% but didn't expect retailers to be getting in on this, thought it was limited to the used market

Hi guys, Brief one; what on earth is going on with SSD pricing? So, 2 years ago I bought some 240gb kingston a400 drives off amazon at £27.50 each for 4 (I checked, this is definitly accurate). Figured id upgrade them now and... Well, prices for the same drives are now more expensive than 2 years ago? A 960gb a400 is £95, so essentially the same as i paid 2 years ago for 4 smaller drives. Why has the price of ssd's not decreased? Have they already hit that plateau of minimum manufacture cost vs retail price?

Yeah this Sumvision one has lasted years, no idea how they've managed to build it so well for the price but it's sturdy as hell. Been really disappointed with how little longevity i've had from keyboards from the big boys. I fully realise how I treat my keyboard is unreasonable and this is probably a big ask, but I can't be the only person in the world that expects to be able to drop a £100+ keyboard more than a few times before it gives up the ghost. The worst of the lot has been the Corsair one, that lasted 9 days. It's a fully aluminium frame so I thought hey, that'll be perfect! Nope, I broke 1 corner clean off it on a 3ft drop as well as the support stands on the back.

Hey guys, Need some serious recommendations here - I sit with my feet up on the desk and keyboard on my legs 95% of the time at home, as a result of this I constantly drop my keyboard, at least 5-6 times a week. I've had a Sumvision Wraith (Pictured - non mechanical) keyboard for around 5 years, i've dropped it hundreds of times, banged it, bashed it, gamed on it for years, programmed on it, worked on it, picked it up by the cable and generally abused the thing and it still works perfectly. In that same time i've utterly killed the 4 keyboards i've tried to upgrade/replace it with; 2x Logitech G510's (Broken plastic housings, literally shattered after a few drops) Black Widow 2010 (Broken housing / keys, stopped working altogether after about 6 months) Corsair Vengeance K70 (Broken housing / keys / Support Stands) So, I want a 'gaming style' keyboard (large plastic surrounds so it'll sit nicely on my legs) and my only criteria is that it has a Full size European style Enter key and media keys. Budget is not an issue, it just needs to stand up to unreasonable abuse, the kind a £20 ebay keyboard can take but not a £120 razor one apparently. Cheers!

As someone who games entirely on 2nd/3rd gen stuff; I7 3770's are perfectly adequate for 1080p gaming on very high settings in things like RDR2 and Modern Warfare when paired with a 980 ti. 2nd/3rd gen I5's chug a bit on modern games as they're only 4 threads and some game engines really like 8 threads now. I realise you're in the US but in the UK you can easily pick up good deals on overclockable 2nd / 3rd gen board/cpu/cooler combos for the equivalent of $150 so that should be possible in the US as well. Maybe check out Ebay / craigslist and see what's local to you? You might honestly be better buying a used Dell all in one for $100 and throwing a GPU (1060 3gb? 1050 ti?) in it, it'll provide good performance and probably cost you less. Realistically, to build the 'best you can get' while keeping that motherboard, you're going to need a Power Supply (500w+), a CPU (i7 3770), ram(2x 8gb DDR 1600mhz sticks) and a GPU (1060 6GB or a 980/similar for performance vs price). You will be very very lucky to pick up those parts individually for less than $350. So yeah, you'd be better off trying to find a 'bundle' where someones selling their older desktop rig and buying the lot in my opinion.

This is right where i'm at @SupaKomputa, it's just a little too much for that i7 for me! But I need the core speed so want to stick with a K ideally rather than more xeons (honestly I have nothing but trouble with gaming on the dual socket 2667 setup, especially in things like COD, Advanced warfare hates them!). Looks like it'll be the i7 2600k then and we'll see if we can get some respectable core speeds out of it, if it's anything like the 2500k then should be able to screw 4.5ghz under 1.3v out of it. Much appreciated for your help guys

@TofuHaroto I can get a 2600k for around £55 while a 3770k will run me around £110. @SupaKomputa This is what I figured, I know the 3770k will definitly handle stuff no issues. I was looking at E3 1270's but I don't think they're unlocked / over clockable? I've got a secondary bedroom rig with e5 2667's in it and those definitly aren't.

Hey all, Finally time to upgrade the i5 2500k in the better halfs rig as it's showing it's age in AC Odyssey (AI processing seems to want more threads as it's maxing the poor little i5 out). My options here are a 2600k or a 3770k, either is going to get the balls clocked off it as I'm not going to upgrade from lga 1155 / z77. My daily driver is a 3700k clocked to 4.6ghz and that doesn't struggle with anything 1080p that I throw at it so i'd be inclined to go with another one of those for her, but the 2600k is about £40 cheaper and this i5 2500k has run 4.7ghz stable for over 5 years of heavy abuse without any issues, so maybe the sandybridge architecture is better for taking a kicking? What do we reckon, will the 2600k take the same abuse as the 2500k? Or do I go for the marginally newer 3770k that I know definitly won't struggle. *Please don't tell me to upgrade to a newer platform, this won't happen as neither of us game above 1080p 60hz.

@tep Where are you looking mate? I can see the NF-B9 1600rpm ones for £15 each but the A9x14's 2200rpm ones are really pricey (Scan via ebay) @ £24 each

Thanks for all the replies so far gents. @Mad153 Just ordered 2 of those fans, will test them out tomorrow as they're on prime! No harm no foul if they have to go back. I've tried removing the 2 of the fans (one on the left side of each block) and got an increase of roughly 4 degrees on CPU 2 (closest to PSU/left ) under synthetic load, although obviously there's a margin for error here. Would there be any benefit to going to 6 heat pipe coolers and 1 fan each over the 4 heat pipe / 2 fan ones? Obviously the set up is fairly limited for space, I have some Raijintek coolers and Scythe ones kicking around the workshop but none will fit side by side with this configuration @Alex Atkin UK This is my main issue, i've got no trouble cooling them with this current setup (65c max temps under full load and they're 130w TDP processors!). Dropping to 1 fan each cooler causes the second cpu to hit 70c (because all that lovely warm air from cpu 1 is going straight into it).

Hey guys, Bedroom gaming rig is doing my head in with it's noise. It's an EATX board bodged into a cheapo Kolink midi tower running a huanazhi x79 dual socket board. Dual E5-2667 cpus and a (now, not pictured) 1060 6gb. Issue is the 4x 92mm fans to cool the xeons are the loudest things on the planet. I tried replacing them with Arctic F9 fans and they're no better at all. I could look at Noctua fans, but they're £24 each which makes it over £100 in fans, which is just too much. Any suggestions for 1800rpm 92mm silent fans (3 pin for constant max operation)? Cheers!