What are y'all upgrading this holiday season?

[amdorintel]

1 hour ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

Crap, I meant 1070 performance in the 1660 Super. If I would have known my 970 would die during a super overprice generation though I would have definitely jumped on Pascal.

shoulda woulda coulda

 

we'd all go back in time!

and we'd all be billionares

[Polyvalent]

4 hours ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

Any games where the cpu and/or the AMD DX11 drivers have been a massive bottleneck? I basically have your cpu plus hyperthreading in the Xeon E3-1231v3.

Yeah in CPU heavy games like PUBG, GTA V, etc there is a clear bottleneck. Even with the bottleneck I've seen substantial improvements in FPS in all my games.  I'm coming from a R9 290x as my last upgrade so this isn't surprising.

[George.]

Upgrading my weight and width dimensions...

[Mikaeo23]

Note 8 > Note 10 Plus

Crappy wireless buds to either Galaxy buds or some other better option, still researching

[dizmo]

On 11/5/2019 at 8:12 PM, dogwitch said:

to diz

i use it for reading both books,mag,comic books,manga.

i like 10 inch  due to my eye sight. i  dont use  ipad due to the sheer amount of books /media i have on it. i also wear out the storage on it to...

not sure what i will find for black/monday thing yet.

Ahhh gotcha. I can't read on a screen...well, something like a book.

On 11/5/2019 at 8:16 PM, battlebox56 said:

I am upgrading my display to a 1440p 144hz freesync monitor from samsung (yay my gtx 1080 is freesync compatible)

I am also upgrading my iphone 6 to the iPhone 11 Pro on the iphone upgrade program from apple.

Are you sure your monitor will play nicely with the Nvidia GPU though? Only the ones on the compatibility list are guaranteed to work properly.

On 11/7/2019 at 7:39 AM, SYLENTm said:

Just a few days ago I went from:

 

Athlon X4  --->  Ryzen 5 2600

Some crappy mATX mobo --->  ASUS PRIME B450-PLUS

8GB DDR3 (1333mhz I think)  --->  Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB DDR4 3000MHz CL15 Dual Channel Kit

Earlier this year I upgraded from a Sapphire 6970 2GB to an Aorus RX580 8GB

 

Looking into getting an M.2 drive if any good deal is available during black friday.

 

Mainly for RDR2, Cyberpunk 2077 and Death Stranding

That's a solid upgrade! I can't wait for CyberPunk, I'll definitely upgrade again just for that game.

12 hours ago, kaiju_wars said:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-58-class-led-2160p-smart-4k-uhd-tv-with-hdr-fire-tv-edition/6355437.p?skuId=6355437

 

This TV, according to blackfriday.com, is supposed to be $200 as a doorbuster for black friday.

I think I found the 4K TV I will be getting.

 

If my Best Buy ends up not having this TV, this will be my fallback:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JJZPZNS/ref=twister_B07H5S7X4X?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Oooo nice. Pretty decent size too.

10 hours ago, amdorintel said:

Gale Banks Turbo kit

https://www.bankspower.com/i-580-sidewinder-turbo-system-for-1983-1993-ford-f250-f350-6-9-7-3l-c-6-transmission.html

Haha, damn. Not bad. That's why I love modern cars with superchargers or turbos. For $1,000 I can get a 100hp/80tq increase.

5 hours ago, amdorintel said:

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X

and 64gb of ram

Haha, so much RAM.

5 hours ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

Considering I'm running a GeForce 8400GS right now (GTX 970 RIP) I badly need a gpu. Don't know if I want to go cheap with a GTX 1660 Super since I don't expect Turing nor Navi to age all that well, or if I still want to go with something stronger like 5700, 2060 Super, or 2070 considering 1660 Super is a reasonable but not huge upgrade from a 970. Should have just bought a 1070 a couple of years ago for $350, would have been better than $230 today for 1070 performance in the 2060 Super.

Why not just buy a used 1070 now? They're super cheap.

[battlebox56]

29 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Ahhh gotcha. I can't read on a screen...well, something like a book.

Are you sure your monitor will play nicely with the Nvidia GPU though? Only the ones on the compatibility list are guaranteed to work properly.

That's a solid upgrade! I can't wait for CyberPunk, I'll definitely upgrade again just for that game.

Oooo nice. Pretty decent size too.

Haha, damn. Not bad. That's why I love modern cars with superchargers or turbos. For $1,000 I can get a 100hp/80tq increase.

Haha, so much RAM.

Why not just buy a used 1070 now? They're super cheap.

The Freesync Monitors work with Nvidia cards so it will be fine.

[dizmo]

Just now, battlebox56 said:

The Freesync Monitors work with Nvidia cards so it will be fine.

They work with some FreeSync monitors. Saying they work with all is factually incorrect. You can get artifacting, worse compensation, screen tearing, etc. Some monitors actually look worse when trying to use Nvidia cards with Freesync.

[SteveGrabowski0]

3 hours ago, dizmo said:

Why not just buy a used 1070 now? They're super cheap.

Because they're used and go for around $215 to $220 shipped on ebay. I can buy a brand new 1660 Super with the same performance for $250 shipped after tax and get a three year warranty, so 1070 makes no sense to me now.

[dogwitch]

i might be buying parts for a file server etc. the parts i had failed my test  over a week ago i been doing for months.

[dizmo]

5 hours ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

Because they're used and go for around $215 to $220 shipped on ebay. I can buy a brand new 1660 Super with the same performance for $250 shipped after tax and get a three year warranty, so 1070 makes no sense to me now.

I got mine for $100 *shrugs*
Just have to wait for a decent deal.

[SteveGrabowski0]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

I got mine for $100 *shrugs*
Just have to wait for a decent deal.

Wow, how the hell did you get that deal? Of course I'd want a 1070 for the price of a used RX 570.

[dizmo]

18 minutes ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

Wow, how the hell did you get that deal? Of course I'd want a 1070 for the price of a used RX 570.

There was 12 hours left, for some reason no one had bid on it, offered him $100 and he took it.

I sold the card for $280 locally.

[amdorintel]

upgrading wife this holiday season

 

 

 

[D.U.F.F.]

4 hours ago, amdorintel said:

upgrading wife this holiday season

 

 

 

Face, tits or even lower ???

[amdorintel]

18 hours ago, D.U.F.F. said:

Face, tits or even lower ???

tits and a little face

[MysticLTT]

On 10/22/2019 at 3:28 AM, RejZoR said:

Nothing. I already have everything exactly where I want it.

This. 

 

9900k machine, 7T phone, 34" 21:9 ultrawide, 12.9 iPad Pro, gf, what else a man could want

[amdorintel]

Just now, MysticLTT said:

gf

but the thing is are you happy with that gf?

[Letgomyleghoe]

On 10/22/2019 at 12:22 AM, dizmo said:

So all the major sales are fast approaching. Cheap tech for all!

What are you guys upgrading?

 

I'm on an upgrade year, so mine are:

Current system -> 2600x/GTX1080

29" LG -> 27" 144hz 1440p

S8 -> OnePlus 7

 

And maaaaybe if I'm really feeling it, a 2014 Audi Q5...

a whole new pc! with an 900 dollar budget, 800 for pc 100 for games

[amdorintel]

1 minute ago, scuff gang said:

100 for games

2 games?

[Letgomyleghoe]

1 minute ago, amdorintel said:

2 games?

nah ima get rust and some old-ish titles that i dont have yet

i can probably get  5-10 games with steam sales

[amdorintel]

Just now, scuff gang said:

nah ima get rust and some old-ish titles that i dont have yet

i can probably get  10-15 games with steam sales

good good, i buy cheap games on steam. the most i've ever paid is probably $8 or $10 for a racing game that i never play, some dude with ltt recommended it, so i gambled. not my cup of tea!

 

$1 games are good for me

$2 check

$5 maybe

[Letgomyleghoe]

1 minute ago, amdorintel said:

good good, i buy cheap games on steam. the most i've ever paid is probably $8 or $10 for a racing game that i never play, some dude with ltt recommended it, so i gambled. not my cup of tea!

 

$1 games are good for me

$2 check

$5 maybe

yeah i will wait to play a new game until the prices drop unless i really want to play it 

[amdorintel]

Forza racing game is what I bought, waste of money!

[dizmo]

3 minutes ago, scuff gang said:

a whole new pc! with an 900 dollar budget, 800 for pc 100 for games

Nice! What's the build plan?

[Letgomyleghoe]

ryzen 5 2600x

Quote

 

asrock micro atx b450m pro4

ryen 5 2600x

16 gb crucial ballistix sport 3200mhz

powercolor redragon radeon rx570 8gb

 

Cooler Master MasterLiquid LC240E RGB Close-Loop AIO

 

Thermaltake Smart 500W 80+ White Certified PSU

seagate barracuda 1tb (im buying 1 but i have another so i can use raid 0)

corsair carbide 275r

redragon s101 mouse+keyboard

acer sb220q

 

all for the neat price of $793 usd 

if prices drop just a lil i am gonna buy a cooler master HAF XB EVO (i participate in many lan partys)