What are y'all upgrading this holiday season?

[Osiris199]

On 10/25/2019 at 11:47 PM, dizmo said:

 

How do you find Crossfire in 2019? Does it actually work on anything?

 

When I bought the cards there was more support for it. Now I wouldn't recommend it anymore. There aren't enough games that support multi-gpu properly.
Battlefield used to be a great game for crossfire in BF3, BF4 and hardline, But I can't get the second card working on BF1 and BFV anymore. It detected once in BF1, when I used it in Eyefinity mode but fps were too low to be practical.
Now I would just stick with 1 card. Even though I spent 940 euros on both cards  Right now a GTX 1080 is faster than what I have in perfect scaling.
To be fair, I didnt test modern games lately, because I dont play them as often as I used to.

[Janeins]

I think I'm going to buy a Samsung 970 Evo with 1 TB as my 500 GB SSD is not enough as a boot drive because everything gets stored in C: even if you tell windows to store it in D: .

[Poohy14]

Not going to upgrade my main as I bought a 2080ti a few months ago, but planning on upgrading my server here shortly. Been buying 10tb drives when bestbuy has them on sale (wanting to get a total of 10 drives, currently have 3). Other than that I just want to get a new sound bar for the livingroom TV and I should be good this year.

[JSFetzik]

Hoping for a moderate deal on a couple 5700XT's to upgrade my wife's and my machine, from the Radeon 480's.

[TheSLSAMG]

I'm going to upgrade my mouse to a G604 Lightspeed, maybe I'll get around to building my new keyboard and I'd love a 1440p 144Hz monitor (though that will make me feel the need for a GPU upgrade for sure.)

[KnowledgeByTech]

still waiting for the alleged i7-10700K and next gen RTX

[redbread123]

On 10/25/2019 at 5:01 PM, danomicar said:

I could really use a new keyboard. I have an older razer keyboard from around 2013 with cherry mx blues. It was really fucking cool at the time since I was able to have my own office area/was living alone in the dorms at school. But now I'm a full fledged adult and living with my SO, the clackity clack in front of other people is slightly humiliating.

There are plenty of great silent mechanical keyboards for office use or whatever, I know corsair makes some pretty good ones, I personally hate membrane keys.

[iBabySlapper]

I'm going to upgrade pretty much everything in my PC, aside from my GPU. I've bought everything except for my case, which I'll buy in the next few days.

Stuff I've bought:

Ryzen 5 3600X

X570 Taichi

Aerocool Project 7 P750, 80+ Platinum

Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 3600 (2x8) kit

Silicon Power A80 NVME SSD 512gb

A Gigabyte GTX 950 G1 Gaming (for H265 NVENC)

A weird gold 512gb chinese SSD that has "Halloween 2019 Special Edition" written on it. It'll probably end up as a game drive.

 

 

 

 

 

[williamcll]

Would my current motherboard handle a 3950X?

[minibois]

9 minutes ago, williamcll said:

Would my current motherboard handle a 3950X?

Looks like the forum's tier list places it at Tier E:

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Tier E 75A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 1600X and 3600X, a bit more than maxed out 2500X

I wouldn't say a 3950X on that board is a good idea.

[williamcll]

19 minutes ago, minibois said:

Looks like the forum's tier list places it at Tier E:

I wouldn't say a 3950X on that board is a good idea.

Looks like I'm giving half of my PC to my cousin then.

[Radioactive Snowman]

Nothing with the pc I dont think, I was going to upgrade to 3rd gen ryzen but I'm not having any issues with my current cpu so didn't feel the need

 

Will probably upgrade my earphones and phone though, I'm feeling the urge to go back to android for a while 

[Animal901]

No real desire to upgrade, and still waiting for my circa 2013-14 motherboard to die. My previous phenom 2 build is still hanging in there. Will probably out last the i7 im using. Even X58 x5660 has life left to it.. they make great home servers.

[Mnky313]

On 10/22/2019 at 4:34 AM, eemunni said:

I'm probably going to buy bigger HDD/SSD for my games.

Honestly idk, the only thing I might do is buy a FlexATX PSU instead of using a Pico PSU+Server PSU w/ Breakout board. It's kind of jank and sometimes has issues (though I haven't really had any problems recently).
a Vega64/r5 2600 plays almost everything at 1080p just fine even at high refresh rates.

I am not about to buy a new laptop for very little benefit (the only one I would get is a Precision 7720 for ~$800+) and still have to get a $100+ dock to use an eGPU again.

I just got a new phone (technically 2 because I bought another one to swap board from my Exynos Note9 to a Snapdragon N9600 Note9)
 

[WkdPaul]

I think it's time for me to get an NVME drive !

 

[Animal901]

I want a whole box of cheiftec dragon cases. Best case ever made.

[dizmo]

On 10/25/2019 at 5:04 PM, redbread123 said:

The viotek is great, I can't really push 1440p 144hz with a laptop 1070 atm, but it has great colors (somehow better than my old ips) and the response times and clarity is amazing, for the game that I can run at 1440p 144hz like csgo it's a legendary experience, cant wait to upgrade the rest.

Nice! Good to know. 

On 10/25/2019 at 6:01 PM, danomicar said:

I could really use a new keyboard. I have an older razer keyboard from around 2013 with cherry mx blues. It was really fucking cool at the time since I was able to have my own office area/was living alone in the dorms at school. But now I'm a full fledged adult and living with my SO, the clackity clack in front of other people is slightly humiliating.

Check out the GSkill KM780. Usually they're quite cheap (I got mine for $80US) but they're some of the best built keyboards I've had, far superior in quality than the K70. 

On 10/25/2019 at 7:42 PM, Ithanul said:

Depends on the deals for some items I need to switch out.

Top of the list, my phone.  It just hit four years old and the battery is starting to go.

Maybe the keyboard.  Looking to go wireless.

Some speakers, see if the Venatoo Transparent Zeros go on sale.

 

That about it for this year.  Most of the major upgrades I plan are later next year.

I want to go wireless for the keyboard too, but the battery life for mechanical keyboards just isn't there for me. When they get up to the 100 hour mark, I'll definitely invest. 4 years for a phone is a lifetime! If you're able to hold out though I would, new phones are only a few months from launch. 

On 10/25/2019 at 7:52 PM, Jarsky said:

Nothing to my PC's, just built my new Home Server with 3900X/X570 Taichi/64GB Ram/10 x 8TB HDD's/Gen4 SSD cache/2 NVMe + 2 SSD's for all the VM's storage.

My PC also got a 2700X + RTX2080Super + 32GB Ram + 1TB NVMe upgrade as well. 

 

Considering getting some new Unifi Cameras for the house. 

A lot of work to do to the R33 Skyline including a new Haltech ECU, so that will be this holidays money since its summer down here in New Zealand, racing season

That R33 must look niiiice. Also, jealous. NZ is probably the best place in the world to live. No dangerous animals and it looks just like BC. 

On 10/25/2019 at 8:47 PM, RoseLuck462 said:

The only things on my mind for holiday sales are 1tb SSDs.

You and me both. Must. Resist. If they go down to like $80 I'll have a hard time not buying a few. 

On 10/26/2019 at 7:49 AM, Dandapani108 said:

Just upgraded from GTX 1060 3gb to RTX 2060 super 8gb.

That's quite the upgrade! I can't wait to get a new graphics card to try 144hz.

On 10/26/2019 at 11:37 AM, 1984_C10 said:

Ended up picking a Cooler Master Trooper SE.

Damn! Does that thing have tempered glass side panels? How much did you get that beast for? Part of me would want to fill all the SSD trays on the side for sure... 

On 10/26/2019 at 12:51 PM, Xiee said:

I'm currently on an AMD Ryzen 5 - 1600 using a B350 Asus Prime Plus motherboard. Before the Christmas season hits, I'm planning on upgrading to an AMD Ryzen 5 - 3600 and a B450 board (or an X570 board for future upgradability). 

I'm still gonna keep using my Nvidia GTX 1060 (6GB variant) and probably upgrade to a Radeon 5700 at the beginning of next year.

I don't think X570 will help with future upgrades, I'm pretty sure this is the last year for AM4. 

On 10/28/2019 at 7:49 AM, Osiris199 said:

When I bought the cards there was more support for it. Now I wouldn't recommend it anymore. There aren't enough games that support multi-gpu properly.
Battlefield used to be a great game for crossfire in BF3, BF4 and hardline, But I can't get the second card working on BF1 and BFV anymore. It detected once in BF1, when I used it in Eyefinity mode but fps were too low to be practical.
Now I would just stick with 1 card. Even though I spent 940 euros on both cards  Right now a GTX 1080 is faster than what I have in perfect scaling.
To be fair, I didnt test modern games lately, because I dont play them as often as I used to.

Yeah, that's kind of what I figured. Which is a shame! 2 cards in a system just look so much cooler. 

On 10/28/2019 at 8:09 AM, Janeins said:

I think I'm going to buy a Samsung 970 Evo with 1 TB as my 500 GB SSD is not enough as a boot drive because everything gets stored in even if you tell windows to store it in .

Why the 970? There's loads of cheaper NVME drives. 

21 hours ago, Poohy14 said:

Not going to upgrade my main as I bought a 2080ti a few months ago, but planning on upgrading my server here shortly. Been buying 10tb drives when bestbuy has them on sale (wanting to get a total of 10 drives, currently have 3). Other than that I just want to get a new sound bar for the livingroom TV and I should be good this year.

That is so much storage, I can't imagine needing that much. I've just now almost filled my 2tb external and I've had that thing for years! 

21 hours ago, JSFetzik said:

Hoping for a moderate deal on a couple 5700XT's to upgrade my wife's and my machine, from the Radeon 480's.

Black Friday is just around the corner  

21 hours ago, TheSLSAMG said:

I'm going to upgrade my mouse to a G604 Lightspeed, maybe I'll get around to building my new keyboard and I'd love a 1440p 144Hz monitor (though that will make me feel the need for a GPU upgrade for sure.)

You don't think the 1080 will be able to handle it? I'd think it'd do pretty well! 

 

I looked up that mouse, very interesting. Do you know if they can use the same adapter as the MX Master? I've been wanting to go back to a 2 mouse setup for a while. 

17 hours ago, ibabyslapper said:

I'm going to upgrade pretty much everything in my PC, aside from my GPU. I've bought everything except for my case, which I'll buy in the next few days.

Stuff I've bought:

Ryzen 5 3600X

X570 Taichi

Aerocool Project 7 P750, 80+ Platinum

Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 3600 (2x8) kit

Silicon Power A80 NVME SSD 512gb

A Gigabyte GTX 950 G1 Gaming (for H265 NVENC)

A weird gold 512gb chinese SSD that has "Halloween 2019 Special Edition" written on it. It'll probably end up as a game drive.

If you're in a country that has Black Friday sales, wait! No reason to not cash in on those. 

32 minutes ago, Animal901 said:

No real desire to upgrade, and still waiting for my circa 2013-14 motherboard to die. My previous phenom 2 build is still hanging in there. Will probably out last the i7 im using. Even X58 x5660 has life left to it.. they make great home servers.

Haha I've never understood the point of keeping something until it breaks. If you sell if before then the money you get can be reinvested into something better. 

8 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

I think it's time for me to get an NVME drive !

 

I've been contemplating that for my rig update too. Some people say they really notice the difference...but most here say you wouldn't *shrug* Patt if me wonders if I'd even notice the difference with 144hz I noticed on the WAN show Luke said he doesn't, and I'm a lot older than him... 

[WkdPaul]

4 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I've been contemplating that for my rig update too. Some people say they really notice the difference...but most here say you wouldn't *shrug* Patt if me wonders if I'd even notice the difference with 144hz I noticed on the WAN show Luke said he doesn't, and I'm a lot older than him... 

Yeah, not sure I would see a difference in speed, I just like the idea of a PCIe drive. I would also get a 1TB to replace my 240GB OS drive.

[Chrizl1990]

Nothing, just bought myself a new mobile phone. Probably saving up for a 4k TV next year if all goes to plan.   

[WkdPaul]

1 minute ago, Chrizl1990 said:

[...] Probably saving up for a 4k TV next year if all goes to plan.   

That reminded me, we're also getting a 55in 4k TV to replace the old dumb Panasonic 1080p 32in TV we've had since 2014!

[Animal901]

Woah long quote Dizmo.....

 

I would feel bad to sell this thing.  It's in a cheiftec dragon case.  Lol...  my fave...   plus it's a biostar motherboard. has the biostar disease... cold boots are awful..  they can't get the bios right. I don't think tb85 is technically compatible with rx580. I mostly have to work with junk anyways.  I see  alot of core 2 duos that i swap to core 2 quads for people. Put an ssd in.  Put in a better gpu, and upgrade their ddr2. lmao......  I'm still happy with an i7 4770s. I have been tempted to get a new board, cpu, and ram... part of me doesn't care about jumping to ddr4.

[Automobili3XF]

38 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Damn! Does that thing have tempered glass side panels? How much did you get that beast for? Part of me would want to fill all the SSD trays on the side for sure... 

Oh it was a bit on the expensive side, around US$200, but i think its going to be worth it.

The left side panel is a thick tinted 4mm glass panel, the right side panel is a steel panel with a mesh intake for more SSDs over on that side as well, it even has a carrying handle on the top (which i also needed).

I really wanna make that SSD array on the side as well, hopefully with fancy SSDs like the Team Delta Max RGB.

[redbread123]

1 hour ago, wkdpaul said:

ok well actually, I returned the Viotek for a dell s2719dgf, I had best buy credits I got for returning my wheel which wasnt for working for 2 monthes so I ended up just buying the dell, It's being shipped and I'll let you know how I like it compared to the viotek.

[Xiee]

4 hours ago, dizmo said:

 

I don't think X570 will help with future upgrades, I'm pretty sure this is the last year for AM4. 

 

Even if we hit AM5 next gen, I don't mind being a gen behind. I'll stick with the x570 boards until the new AM5 stuff gets cheaper.

[dizmo]

4 minutes ago, Xiee said:

Even if we hit AM5 next gen, I don't mind being a gen behind. I'll stick with the x570 boards until the new AM5 stuff gets cheaper.

Yeah but at that point why not get X470? It's cheaper and just as compatible.