What tech are y'all buying/upgrading this year?

[Saurfang]

A R7 1700x, X370 motherboard, either another R9 Fury or Vega, a full custom hard line water loop, an NVMe drive, DDR4 ram, a mechanical keyboard, a gaming mouse, a 144Hz 1080p monitor, and maybe a 1440p monitor. 

 

I'm basically selling my computer (which is worth around $1260 in parts, so I could probably get a fair bit more than that), adding a paycheck, they building a complete new setup.

 

I still haven't found a case I like. The In Win Tòu 2.0 would be my case of choice, but its $8000 so...

[Gikero]

On 4/4/2017 at 7:10 PM, vinyldash303 said:

I bought a 92mm OEM Asetek Cooler for my HP secondary PC. I'll be window modding it at some point, and this summer its getting a motherboard upgrade. 

I want to buy a reference 660 Ti for it though. 

I haven't seen a HP desktop that has a black interior like that. I love the modding you've done. I have seen plenty that are normal machine steel inside. Did you spray paint or is it a special model? 

[othertomperson]

I'm waiting for Asus to shut up and release this so I can barf money at them. I'm expecting it to be more expensive than the entirety of my PC but SO MUCH WANT.

[dizmo]

23 hours ago, Ithanul said:

Going from my two 980Tis in the main rig to a 1080Ti.  Plan to get second 1080Ti later, since I like to always have my 2nd card fold or boinc while doing things on my PC.

Nice! That'll be some solid performance, and you should be able to recoup most of the cost of the 1080Ti when you sell the 980Ti.

7 hours ago, Takota Reed said:

I'll probably be getting a Deepcool Captain 240 AIO for my FX 6300 build. Along with a 1920x1080 display that has about a 3-5 ms response time (lower than that and it gets too expensive). As well as a G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 1600Mhz kit, which should total up to about $400.00.

It's more important to look at some TFTCentral reviews when choosing a monitor. Response times given by companies often aren't accurate, as they don't account for input lag.

7 hours ago, QuantumElement said:

Getting a new case and GPU for my PC. Zalman Z11 and the RX 470.

The RX 480 isn't that much more in most places, might be worth looking into?

7 hours ago, Mutoh said:

I really need a new headset and chair. Thats the biggest thing im aiming at doing since upgrading to a 1070 strix this week.

Please tell me you're not going to try and get a "gaming" chair...

7 hours ago, UnbrokenMotion said:

Well seeing as I'm working to build a brief-case computer:

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That sounds pretty cool! Are you going to do a build blog?

6 hours ago, Coaxialgamer said:

Already bought ryzen and an axon elite this year. Won't be upgrading anything else in 2017 most likely. 

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Do you mean the older Axon Elite? How do you find their phones?
I almost bought an Axon 7, but now I'm considering the Axon 8 provided they don't price it super high like the rumors.

6 hours ago, Chevy_Monsenhor said:

I'm full of projects this year and i have a little list actually.

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Random electric stuff:

Hubbell Hospital Grade power outlets and a big G.R. Savage or UPSAI power conditioner, depending on how much money i'll decide to spend.

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What's the point of those?

[Automobili3XF]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

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What's the point of those?

The conditioner is mostly to eliminate ground loops and to prevent losing my gear in the case of an electrical storm (quite common around here), the ones by GR Savage are particularly well built.

The hospital grade outlets serve just a single purpose in this particular case, ensuring i have US plugs directly to the wall instead of using the standard euro plug with an adapter. It has to be hospital grade by Hubbell because its the only ones i can find.

[TetraSky]

I'm hoping to maybe build a new PC this year. Most of my parts are 7 years old right now.... Ryzen looks quite attractive to me right now.

Waiting a bit to see if maybe, just maybe, the CAD will rise up a little by the end of the year... Doubt it though. But at least it gives me plenty of time to save up some money until black friday/boxing day. You don't go far with only $2000 in Canadian rupees these days. Especially when you need a new monitor because your current one is going to shit and you want something more than just a 1080p TN monitor. Any slightly decent 1440p/4k monitors start at $500 with the better ones, high refresh rate IPS monitors being above $1k...

[dizmo]

15 minutes ago, Saurfang said:

A R7 1700x, X370 motherboard, either another R9 Fury or Vega, a full custom hard line water loop, an NVMe drive, DDR4 ram, a mechanical keyboard, a gaming mouse, a 144Hz 1080p monitor, and maybe a 1440p monitor. 

 

I'm basically selling my computer (which is worth around $1260 in parts, so I could probably get a fair bit more than that), adding a paycheck, they building a complete new setup.

 

I still haven't found a case I like. The In Win Tòu 2.0 would be my case of choice, but its $8000 so...

Do you really need an NVME drive though? They're only really worth it if you're getting one of the smaller ones.

How do you plan to get more than you paid for the computer? It doesn't really work like that

12 minutes ago, othertomperson said:

I'm waiting for Asus to shut up and release this so I can barf money at them. I'm expecting it to be more expensive than the entirety of my PC but SO MUCH WANT.

That's pretty damn sexy! If I was getting a 1080Ti I think that'd be the monitor I'd go for.

Alas, another year at 1080p for me. Probably closer to 2 years. I'll build a new sweet build when I move back to BC.

[GreenZombie]

I got tired of using radios, which were always "poor" condition of the aftermath. The result was that I decided to order me a new radio HARRIS FALCON III RF-7850M-HH

 

[Vulrax]

Gonna hope i get a gtx 1060

[dexT]

X299

GTX 1180/2080 whatever it's called

4000+MHz DDR4

 

I want to bench a 7700K but I keep getting hit up by dudes with other gear I need. It sucks.

[dexT]

On 4/4/2017 at 7:36 PM, Himommies said:

I just bought a Korg MS20 should come soon

Mini or OG model? I had a MS-10 in the 90's.

[Saurfang]

54 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Do you really need an NVME drive though? They're only really worth it if you're getting one of the smaller ones.

How do you plan to get more than you paid for the computer? It doesn't really work like that

I can easily sell the computer for more than it's part's retail for, same way any company or PC builder sells their computers. PC Part Picker tells me that its worth $1260 in parts so I figure I can reasonably get around $1400 for it on eBay. Plenty of people on eBay who either don't want to or don't know how to build a PC and they'll pay a bit of a premium to have it all ready to go the second it comes in the mail.

 

The NVMe drive will either be my boot volume or a cache, but I'm thinking I maaaay just go for a regular SATA III SSD for my main storage so probably just my boot drive. OR maybe I'll go for Optane as my boot drive. Not sure yet.

[PSUGuru]

5 hours ago, dizmo said:

Nice! That'll be some solid performance, and you should be able to recoup most of the cost of the 1080Ti when you sell the 980Ti.

It's more important to look at some TFTCentral reviews when choosing a monitor. Response times given by companies often aren't accurate, as they don't account for input lag.

The RX 480 isn't that much more in most places, might be worth looking into?

Please tell me you're not going to try and get a "gaming" chair...

That sounds pretty cool! Are you going to do a build blog?

Do you mean the older Axon Elite? How do you find their phones?
I almost bought an Axon 7, but now I'm considering the Axon 8 provided they don't price it super high like the rumors.

What's the point of those?

I won't benefit from the performance of an RX 470, and I simply cannot spare the additional money to get the RX 480.

[matrix07012]

R7 1700 and maybe Vega.

[Coaxialgamer]

7 hours ago, dizmo said:

 

Do you mean the older Axon Elite? How do you find their phones?
I almost bought an Axon 7, but now I'm considering the Axon 8 provided they don't price it super high like the rumors

Yez, the 2015 axon elite with the s810. Got it new for 190$. Apart from the poor community rom support, it's a good phone. People really exaggerated the issues linked to s810 imo. 

[evolv]

wanna grab NZXT X42, sadly it's not yet available in country

[SilicateWielder]

12 hours ago, dizmo said:

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That sounds pretty cool! Are you going to do a build blog?

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I was planning on it, but i'm pretty far in now and yeah...

 

But I'll definitely be posting the completed build whenever I can get the project finished.

[Ithanul]

13 hours ago, dizmo said:

Nice! That'll be some solid performance, and you should be able to recoup most of the cost of the 1080Ti when you sell the 980Ti.

O, I got them up for sell on three sites.

 

No grabs yet though.  A bit odd since both are high clockers and under water their entire lives.  Still have warranty too.

[Mutoh]

14 hours ago, dizmo said:

Please tell me you're not going to try and get a "gaming" chair...

I'm not but mostly cause its not an aesthetic I like.

 

 

 

I'd consider one if they were comfy though. That's really what's important to me at the end of the day

[SeraphicWings]

For some reason, if $1000 magically appear before me I'll buy this phone

 

[dizmo]

37 minutes ago, Ithanul said:

O, I got them up for sell on three sites.

 

No grabs yet though.  A bit odd since both are high clockers and under water their entire lives.  Still have warranty too.

Hmmm weird, sold with the stock coolers on them?

How much are you asking?

1 hour ago, UnbrokenMotion said:

I was planning on it, but i'm pretty far in now and yeah...

 

But I'll definitely be posting the completed build whenever I can get the project finished.

Excellent, I'll keep an eye out for it!

6 minutes ago, Mutoh said:

I'm not but mostly cause its not an aesthetic I like.

 

I'd consider one if they were comfy though. That's really what's important to me at the end of the day

If you live decently close to the border, I'd order one of the open box Herman Miller chairs off eBay. They're only about $450 US for the fully loaded models. Definitely what I plan to do, might even pick a few up when I import a car in a few months.

2 minutes ago, SeraphicWings said:

For some reason, if $1000 magially appear before me I'll buy this phone

 

Can't say I recognize it, what phone?

[SeraphicWings]

Just now, dizmo said:

Can't say I recognize it, what phone?

Onkyo Granbeat DP-CMX1

[Mutoh]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

Hmmm weird, sold with the stock coolers on them?

How much are you asking?

Excellent, I'll keep an eye out for it!

If you live decently close to the border, I'd order one of the open box Herman Miller chairs off eBay. They're only about $450 US for the fully loaded models. Definitely what I plan to do, might even pick a few up when I import a car in a few months.

Thanks for the tip! Im pretty close to the border but thats about double what I want to spend on a chair so Ill probably check my local options first haha. I dont need anything fancy

[SilicateWielder]

Forgot I had to buy a keyswitch for the brief-case PC.

 

18 hours ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

awesome PC. I want to get an AIO for my sleeper PC though. Its an old socket 478 based tower that used to have a celeron cpu and 512mb of ram, but i swapped that all out for an i5 2500k and 16gb ram 

Nice! 

 

I've got a Gateway 2000 P4-xxxx tower, It's a beauty and I'd love to continue using for a server it but cats and computers missing their lids don't mix.

 

The original mobo is a Dual slot1 mobo that was running some Pentium II processors. That was all that was in the case. I kept the processors as some souvenirs and the mobo is still down in my basement somewhere.

 

Maybe I'll make a new lid for it someday when I can make a handbrake for bending sheet metal at home.

[Ithanul]

2 hours ago, dizmo said:

Hmmm weird, sold with the stock coolers on them?

How much are you asking?

I am selling with everything included (EK full blocks, back plate, air cooler, and boxes).  Only asking $370 each or $700 both which includes shipping within US48.