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Premades actually have a better price-performance ratio than homebuilt.
no they don't. That has never been true.
Premades actually have a better price-performance ratio than homebuilt.
Well, maybe not so much lately, since OEMs have raised their prices. Here's a rig that's a few hundred cheaper than what I configured, with near-comparable performance:no they don't. That has never been true.
Well, maybe not so much lately, since OEMs have raised their prices. Here's a rig that's a few hundred cheaper than what I configured, with near-comparable performance:
A few years ago, a prebuilt that cost about $2200 would have cost about $3000 if you bought the parts at full retail. Right now? I have no idea.
I think at that price point, I'd do something more like this:11th gen locked i5, 16 gigs of DDR4, 500gb SSD, and a 3060ti for almost 1200 dollars?
Boom, 1200 dollars. 4x the storage, 2x the ram, better GPU, infinitely faster CPU, better CPU cooling, better motherboard, better power supply, better case.
And you can cut a good amount of the price off by going with the stock cooler, dropping the SSD to a 1tb one, going to a cheaper motherboard, a cheaper case, and cheaper RAM. And it would still be better in most every way than that piece of shit prebuilt.
UserBenchmark: AMD RX 6700-XT vs Nvidia RTX 3060
Wow, that's surprising.
Why get a mini PC? If you want something beefy, get something big.The computer I have now, and got in 2015 is a prebuilt and has lasted 8 years so far. Any opinions on Mini PCs?
My old headphones are not compatible
I was using cordless ones and they would not connect. Why, I have no idea. But I'm getting some new ones in Monday.
Same.I built an AMD computer in 2011 and it went strong for a decade before it really started to show its age. I can't say that about either of the Dell computers I got before I built it.
Completely unrelated, but what is it with everything having obnoxiously bright LEDs on them these days? I legit miss the days when the only lights a computer really had were some dim green ones for the power and to show when the HDD was active.
Phenoms were the GOAT, especially since the FX successor line could, well, act as makeshift BBQs with how hot they ran. They were reliable, stable, and if you had a BE, you could overclock the fuck out of them (like I did) so they punched well above their weight class.What a coincidence, I also have a Phenom II. I have 16 GB on an ASUS MB, though. New one is also an ASUS with a Ryzen 5 3600, and 124 GB or RAM (cost me as much as the board and the processor). I think the graphics card I got is kind of mid-tier, though, but it's at least better than what I got on the old one. I'm hoping I can upgrade later like I did with my last one. That one cost a lot less, though, as it only cost about $700. My card by itself was almost that much this time around.
Eyyyyyyyyyyyyy! A fellow 3600 bro! I slapped a big fuckoff cooler onto mine, lets her turbo-mode forever without overheating.I snagged a deal on a second-hand Ryzen 3600 (guy bought it, but then was gifted a better processor by family, so he eBay'd his first), bought a decent motherboard (Tomahawk Max II).
*fist bump* The 3600 is an amazing little trooper, ain't it?Eyyyyyyyyyyyyy! A fellow 3600 bro! I slapped a big fuckoff cooler onto mine, lets her turbo-mode forever without overheating.
She certainly hasn't let me down so far, and compared to the intel I3 I was using before her, she's a monster. XD*fist bump* The 3600 is an amazing little trooper, ain't it?