Anyone here spend a bunch of money on their PCs.....but don't actually use them?

[Kilrah]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Hoooooo baybee those TR chips tho . They're outta my price range or I'd be all about them, lol. Stupidly monstrous but that's kinda the point of HEDT lol.

Heh. I don't mind the price if there's something behind. Which is why I threw a big F U to Intel when they moved their top of the line HEDT from $1k to $2k for absolutely no good reason and minimal performance improvement. But for a 32 core TR3 I'm happy to give AMD that much, very much worth it.

 

HEDT has proven to be a great "investment". I've basically had a better CPU than anything mainstream for 4 years until the others caught up. Not bad for paying $500 more over a mainstream part.

[Mister Woof]

2 minutes ago, amdorintel said:

hey anything for good health right

I used it once. Lol

[chen57]

i have full custom watercooling EK, i7-8700k, msi z390 ace, 16go ram, 1070 msi/EK with the waterblock(its kind of old i know :P) , 2x 250GB nvme ssd, 2x500GB SSD, PG279Q(1440p144hz)

 

and i play dota 2 only 3-4 games a week XD

[Kilrah]

7 minutes ago, amdorintel said:

that looks to be an interesting hobby, other then spending a bunch of money on pc shit. to each their own. balance in life is important.

I've done the opposite, my big hobby was RC aircraft, and I've moved to PCs. I've probably wasted more on those than on PCs though, since I've kept buying equipment when I couldn't actually acknowledge that I was less and less interested and it's never been used.

 

9 minutes ago, amdorintel said:

kilrah - since you never mentioned rgb you are still good in my books. rgb is a waste of money, no benefits to the pc itself.

SFF PC has RGB support and mobo has built-in LEDs that shine red by default, but they got deactivated. Case is 100% uninteresting black PETG, and the paramount of function over form 

[amdorintel]

2 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

I used it once. Lol

hey thats better then the average!

[St. Nick]

On the topic of RGB. My system, Right now >>.

BTW, that is a white noctua fan with black chromax pieces, it may look like brown and beige under the RGB but it isn't.

[Zando_]

4 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

HEDT has proven to be a great "investment". I've basically had a better CPU than anything mainstream for 4 years until the others caught up. Not bad for paying $500 more over a mainstream part.

Yes, especially used. My refurb X99 Classy was $99, my j-bin 5960X was $290. Compare that to my old 2700X ($330 at the time) on a Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi ($290), and it's a damn good value. I get better performance due to similar IPC but way more clock headroom, quad channel RAM, and markedly more PCIe lanes. Also dat HEDT flex and 5960X prestige . 
 

6 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Which is why I threw a big F U to Intel when they moved their top of the line HEDT from $1k to $2k for absolutely no good reason and minimal performance improvement. But for a 32 core TR3 I'm happy to give AMD that much, very much worth it.

Valid, the fact that they just casually dropped the 10980XE to $999 is a large haha moment. If you get good deals on the older stuff it can pump out stupid numbers though. Friend scored a deal on a mobo + stupid amount of RAM + 7980XE. Delidded, direct die cooling, beefy custom loop, SLI 1080 Tis. Cracked the top 100 in 3DMark within a few days. 

Betcha you can get some borderline this-shouldn't-be-legal numbers from the TRs, on single core they're even with an X299 chip at 4.8-5Ghz, and there should be room to pull some more zoom outta those chips. Got any plans for the rest of the spec? 
 

5 minutes ago, chen57 said:

i have full custom watercooling EK, i7-8700k, msi z390 ace, 16go ram, 1070 msi/EK with the waterblock(its kind of old i know :P) , 2x 250GB nvme ssd, 2x500GB SSD, PG279Q(1440p144hz)

 

and i play dota 2 only 3-4 games a week XD

Sounds balanced to me tbh. My ex-main rig (awaiting 2 new rads and a rebuild once money allows) boasts a 5960X, X99 Classified, 32GB RAM, a Radeon VII, 1TB 970 Evo, various HDDs and an SSD or two, inside an Enthoo Evolv TG, on a custom loop, all powered by an RM1000i. All for gaming at 1080p/1080p ultrawide. 

[amdorintel]

12 minutes ago, St. Nick said:

RGB

urrggghhhh what did i start here arrrggghhhhhhhhhh LOL

 

rc airplanes/heli's looks good, not sure what the difference is between those and whats in the news about drones, or umav's, but city bylaws are cracking down, still can use drones but need a license. lots have been caught near the airport, not the brightest rc'ers there. its an ongoing problem.

 

spending money on pc's is better then a drug habit right

 

[Kilrah]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Cracked the top 100 in 3DMark within a few days. 

Nice. I got the 5960X shortly after launch in 2014, OCd it to 4.2 straight away, had 32GB RAM, 2 SSDs in RAID0 and 2 970s in SLI. I made it to the top of a system-wide benchmark, don't remember which. It favored "non-gaming" stuff though, for 3D no chance, people with quad OC'd 980Tis were dominating those by a lightyear.

 

7 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Betcha you can get some borderline this-shouldn't-be-legal numbers from the TRs, on single core they're even with an X299 chip at 4.8-5Ghz, and there should be room to pull some more zoom outta those chips. Got any plans for the rest of the spec? 

Indeed. I do stuff that benefits from single core perf so I wouldn't get one of those high core count parts if they couldn't keep up with single core, no chance for the TR2s - but the TR3s do. Unless Intel magically come up with something miraculous that increases single core perf tremendously in the next few months that'll be it.

Not much planned, as said GPU I'm waiting for next gen and apart from that... 64GB RAM, the 2x16TB RAID0 storage + 2TB NVMe boot SSD I already have...

[WkdPaul]

My main rig (in sig) has mostly been used as a night light for my office for the last few months ... 

[Kilrah]

9 minutes ago, amdorintel said:

rc airplanes/heli's looks good, not sure what the difference is between those and whats in the news about drones

The difference is you've got to actually fly them and learn to do so, if you don't you'll have crashed in seconds and the problem is solved. The drones fly themselves so any idiot can get one and do stupid stuff with, and obviously the first thing the average Joe thinks of doing is "fun" but very stupid stuff.

 

 

[Kilrah]

27 minutes ago, St. Nick said:

 RGB

12 minutes ago, amdorintel said:

urrggghhhh what did i start here arrrggghhhhhhhhhh LOL

 

2 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

My main rig (in sig) has mostly been used as a night light for my office for the last few months ... 

I think we found the use for RGB! 

[St. Nick]

These are the parts that I am currently rocking in my build, and yes I know not everyone likes RGB but it's all set to Lightblue, with only the lightloops being on the spiral pattern. No rainbow puke but I do like my case lighting. It makes the build look nice to me. Same reason i spend 7 hours taking apart a Noctua fan to Ink dye it exactly the colours i wanted! I am not on HDET or other extremely high spec gear like some of you, but I am extremely proud of my rig. I went through all the effort to colour match it so yeah, I went the whole 9 yards with the RGb too. Cable managing it took 7 hours but I enjoyed that part of the build a lot to. It was very calming.

Corsair Crystal 680X 
R7 3700X - NH-D15 W/ Chromax White Covers, Custom White NF-A15 HS PWM with Chromax Black Vibration pads - 4.3 GHZ/All Core, 1.285v (core) 
Gigabyte Aorus X570 Elite
Gigabyte RTX 2080 SUPER Gaming OC 8G white 
16GB (8x2GB) G-Skill 3600 Cl16 DDR4 
Gigabyte Aorus 520 Gen 4 NVME 
Gigabyte Aorus 2TB Gen 4 NVME 
4x Kingston A400 480 GB SATA (Raid 0) 
Corsair RM850X white W/ Custom Black and Lightblue PRO cable set w/ Black Aluminium Cable Combs  

- 3 LL120 fans front, 
- 2 Corsair LL140 Fans Top 
- Noctua NF-A15 HS PWM Chromax Black Rear Exhaust 
- Antec Prism Cooling Matrix GPU intake 
- Corsair RGB Strip Pro Kit 
- Corsair Commander Pro W/ Noctua 2x PWM splitter cables 

[porina]

I have a parallel problem... I have more systems than I can use at the same time. Most of them were bought with the intent of setting them on distributed computing. There's two big reasons preventing me from going all out: 1, heat, 2, power cost. Kinda related I guess... respect to those folders running more than I dare. The last time I ran everything I had was when there was settling snow outside. That was about right to balance out house temps and remain comfortable.

 

Right now it is cool enough I can run "some" systems 24/7, but I still have to watch the weather forecasts and start/stop some accordingly. In summer, all off except gaming system.

 

Keep thinking I should get rid of some of the less efficient ones, but they're also hardly worth the time and effort to sell. I did give away a system to a gaming youtuber (50k subs) as what I considered junk he considered a significant upgrade. (Ryzen 1600, 980Ti based). 

[Zando_]

12 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Indeed. I do stuff that benefits from single core perf so I wouldn't get one of those high core count parts if they couldn't keep up with single core, no chance for the TR2s - but the TR3s do. Unless Intel magically come up with something miraculous that increases single core perf tremendously in the next few months that'll be it.

Not much planned, as said GPU I'm waiting for next gen and apart from that... 64GB RAM, the 2x16TB RAID0 storage + 2TB NVMe boot SSD I already have...

Noice! Tis a benefit of everything still being on DDR4, you can pull your RAM and then ofc drives and everything over pretty easily. 

 

12 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Nice. I got the 5960X shortly after launch in 2014, OCd it to 4.2 straight away, had 32GB RAM, 2 SSDs in RAID0 and 2 970s in SLI. I made it to the top of a system-wide benchmark, don't remember which. It favored "non-gaming" stuff though, for 3D no chance, people with quad OC'd 980Tis were dominating those by a lightyear.

Yeeeaaahhh... I still want quad SLI 980 Tis. I do have a 1600W PSU... . And ye bois would have quickly caught up with the 3DMark scores, it's not uncommon for j-bins to do 5Ghz all-core on water, and ofc much higher on LN2 and such. 
 

5 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

obviously the first thing the average Joe thinks of doing is "fun" but very stupid stuff.

Yes. See Joes flying drones around airports or straight-up pointing high power lasers at cockpits for "fun". 

[Kilrah]

3 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Noice! Tis a benefit of everything still being on DDR4, you can pull your RAM and then ofc drives and everything over pretty easily. 

I think I'll only pull the drives, replace them with a pair of 3TB ones and my old 512GB 970EVO and sell it with the single 970 that's currently in. 

2014 2133MHz RAM is too slow for a worthy AMD build. 

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

I think I'll only pull the drives, replace them with a pair of 3TB ones and my old 512GB 970EVO and sell it with the single 970 that's currently in. 

2014 2133MHz RAM is too slow for a worthy AMD build. 

3600-4000Mhz low latency RAM time

[St. Nick]

7 minutes ago, Caroline said:

Nah this dude should try to live with my wallet, he'll have to decide between a low end component and eating, to add some difficulty all of the prices are increased by 400% and money loses 10% of its value each month.

I can't speak for the rest of the people in this thread, but I just work at a KFC for a regular working salary, I saved up for 14 months to buy my CPU, Motherboard, Ram and Grasphics card, I cannibalized the Power supply from my old FX-8370 build until I could buy a new one and ran my brand spanking new motherboard on a cardboard box with the stock cooler for a month before I bought the case. And spend another month before I replaced the cooler. I have been buying 1 part at a time every month since these CPU's hit. It's not that I am particularly privileged or made of money. My PC's are my hobby and passion, I have been building PC's for people for a bit of extra pocket money, replacing harddrives with cheap SSD's for like 10 bucks a system for people just working to get my system together. Most of these people are talking about buying used hardware, I don't think any of us are particularly rich, were mostly in similair situations to you dude, every spare dime goes towards these systems, at least mine do.

[Mister Woof]

I didn't intend for this to be insensitive. If it came off that way, I apologize.

 

 

[Damascus]

2 hours ago, Gamer Schnitzel said:

It honestly sounds a lot like you just need to get a life. You seem to do it because you get bored and putting computers together excites you. Try to get a hobby and try to force a minimalist mindset on yourself not buying further parts or upgrades unless you have a good reason. For example if your PC hits the Hz cap of your monitor you should not upgrade anymore.

Unless the hobby is building the computer lol

[Evolution.]

hell na im all about getting the best bang for my buck I don't have money to waste. 

[Ithanul]

3 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

Yes, especially used. My refurb X99 Classy was $99, my j-bin 5960X was $290. Compare that to my old 2700X ($330 at the time) on a Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi ($290), and it's a damn good value. I get better performance due to similar IPC but way more clock headroom, quad channel RAM, and markedly more PCIe lanes. Also dat HEDT flex and 5960X prestige . 

O_O  Darn, a J Batch at that price?  I'm jelly now.  Those are great chips.

  I got a J Batch 5960X myself for one of my X99 setups(my 2nd, my 1st one die on me - bum me out too, it would bench at 4.8GHz all cores, daily at 4.6GHz 24/7).  I see the X99 as the new X58/X79 platform. 

 

But back on topic, I use to have that issue of spending on more than I required for my computers (especially when I was on watercooling kick).  Now though, I make sure to question myself if I really need the part and if I will actually use said part.  Plus, I got other hobbies now that I have to budget in.

[Zando_]

12 minutes ago, Ithanul said:

O_O  Darn, a J Batch at that price?  I'm jelly now.  Those are great chips.

  I got a J Batch 5960X myself for one of my X99 setups(my 2nd, my 1st one die on me - bum me out too, it would bench at 4.8GHz all cores, daily at 4.6GHz 24/7).  I see the X99 as the new X58/X79 platform. 

Indeed. Mine does 4.5Ghz at 1.2v so far, I don't have the cooling to push higher voltage. I've gotten it to boot at 5Ghz with 1.35v or so, but it either crashes from instability or instantly slapping thermal limits. Even at 1.2v it'll hit the 80s on my current loop (single 360mm Nemesis rad), thus why I plan to get dual GTS rads so I can really open it up. 

[Ithanul]

6 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Indeed. Mine does 4.5Ghz at 1.2v so far, I don't have the cooling to push higher voltage. I've gotten it to boot at 5Ghz with 1.35v or so, but it either crashes from instability or instantly slapping thermal limits. Even at 1.2v it'll hit the 80s on my current loop (single 360mm Nemesis rad), thus why I plan to get dual GTS rads so I can really open it up. 

Yeah, even water cooled those will push a loop.  My previous was in a 360mm + 200mm loop shared with two GTX980Ti BIOS modded to run at 1570MHz.  It would get really toasty and o boy, folks joke about wattage with some systems.  That computer at the time would easily draw some serious wattage when going full bore at crunching.  I could not run it safely on my 900W UPS as it would trip it and make that UPS shut down.

[Zando_]

7 minutes ago, Ithanul said:

Yeah, even water cooled those will push a loop.  My previous was in a 360mm + 200mm loop shared with two GTX980Ti BIOS modded to run at 1570MHz.  It would get really toasty and o boy, folks joke about wattage with some systems.  That computer at the time would easily draw some serious wattage when going full bore at crunching.  I could not run it safely on my 900W UPS as it would trip it and make that UPS shut down.

Lmao. I've got a 1000W PSU rn, will see if it can handle it . I may or may not have a Radeon VII I'm possibly considering slapping 1.35v through and messing around with powerplay tables so power consumption will likely be yes. 

 

And yeeeeee if you even start thinking about anything above stock voltage, the 5960X becomes a volcano. 

I do know a madlad who ran... IIRC dual 295x2s and some CPU thingie tho, he can likely talk about power consumption. @The Blackhat.