Off-Topic Thread V3.0

As an aside. A question for the room.

I've been able to get my hands on three lower end GPUs for a decent price. A gtx 1650, an rx570 4gb and a gtx 980 4gb

I'm going to build three lower end machines and sell them for basically cost price. I enjoy building PCs and do it as sort of a hobby.

Just can't decide if I should use second hand Ryzen 1600's or new i3 10100f's.

Both platforms work out at about the same price.

Do you think a Ryzen 5 1600 on say a b450 or a 10100f on a b460 would be a better/more interesting platform fro a buyer?

It probably depends on the games. Ryzen 1600 is 6/12, 10100F is 4/8. But the Intel has significantly better per-core performance.

Both have reasonable upgrade options either.

I'd probably go Ryzen 1600 purely because casual buyers see "i3" and automatically think lower end, even though that CPU is effectively the same as an i7-7700K.

"Six core Ryzen 1600" sounds better to most casual buyers. For the kind of games I personally play I'd actually prefer the i3.

So one of the worlds largest shipping companies are suffering a ransomeware attack. Expeditors International's entire operations are down, they can't move anything.

This will effect the cost of basically everything for the intermediate term until they can get back up and running.

https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-hits-global-operations-logistics-giant-expeditors-international

Link?

It would of course be excellent for that. If the discount still works at €1,600 it's incredible value. At this point in time a 6800XT and 5800 alone would cost what, €1,500?

For the extra €100 you're getting the good quality case plus fans, an excellent quality PSU, good set of 16GB ram, WiFi/BT, Motherboard, CPU cooler, 512GB NVME, legit copy of Windows.

The one I bought isn't even much better than my current PC but at that price it was a no-brainer as I prefer Nvidia. Should be easily able to sell my current PC for the same price (6700XT based)

I wouldn't worry about it. 11th gen was lacklustre. 10th gen is still extremely solid.

The ones I was looking at had 3070tis and 3080s I believe.

Prices on 3080's are dropping noticeably in the last few weeks. Have a look here for example:

I wouldn't pull the trigger until I see retail prices stable for at least a week or two.

And....will there be a 40 series in September this year ? Imagine paying over the odds now and seeing a new top tier in 6 months or the arse falls out of the crypto market and a load of second hand cards flood the market .. A lot of serious decision making to be done in the next six months .

Good points, but I don't think retail prices for GPUs will be impacted up in the short term due to the war. GPUs that are in the retail pipeline now and the next few weeks are already manufactured and sold on to distributors. But we could definitely see a problem for the next gen series in September.

Yeah Amazon are great for refunds. I prefer to spend the extra with them to save the hassle on potential returns/refunds.

What's the current case you have ? What's your plans for it ?

mITX board only has 2x slots

Will do!

There's longshots, and then there's this one....and it's one for the fossils of the forum (like myself). I'd love to find and rebuy (or at least identify) the very first pc I ever owned.

It was in or around 1999, maybe 2000....and I bought a Compaq Presario of some description. I'm sure it had a K6-2 450, but the mists of time may have made that incorrect, could have been a K6-2 350. Definitely an AMD K6 of some description anyway.

I can find matching photos, but just can't nail down the model number. It could be the 5070, some of these have Pentium 2 chips. Looked exactly like this...

But that has a P2 chip in it.

As I said, it's beyond a long shot but maybe someone here had one and might remember?