Hello sg community, my pc is old and beaten down enough that even before halls of torment came out of early access (so no update to ruin optimization) one day it just went "nope, you're not getting more than 10 fps" so it is well past time for an upgrade yet im still indecisive for a bunch of reasons.
Ill attach the pc my friend got in january for some 1990 euros in serbia (pretty clutch play considering he didn’t want to go above 2000). I am wondering what yall are workin with and if you'd be satisfied with more or less those specs for around 1850 euros with some slower part speeds and a deal i could get on a mobo or processor, i forget.
Excuse the grammar, mouse went ahead and died, typing on phone (:

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Took me a bit longer to add, small bot protection, should be enough, right?

2 weeks ago*

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I'm content with my laptop, I have more issues with Windows 11 but I guess that also depends on what games I'm interested in playing.

1 week ago
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I've always been prejudiced against laptops... Give me a desktop, i just won’t have a pc on the go then.

1 week ago
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Ryzen 5600X 3,7ghz
50gb RAM
RX 6700 XT
1 1TB SSD, 1 2TB SSD

Pretty happy with it, and I don't intend to upgrade for a while longer.

1 week ago
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What the heck! Stop downloading ram and leave some for us!

1 week ago
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If they don't want me to have more ram, then why did they let me download it so cheap?

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1 week ago
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50 gb ram is.... A choice. :)
No need to upgrade indeed

1 week ago
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It just kind of happened thanks to me upgrading

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1 week ago
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CPU: Ryzen 5 5600
Motherboard: Asus Prime A320m-K
GPU: SAPPHIRE NITRO+ AMD Radeon 7700 XT
RAM: Kingston Fury Beast 2x8GB 3200Mhz
SSD: Kingston 240gb
M.2 Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB
HDD: WD Blue 1TB
PSU: Raidmax Vortex 800w
Monitor: Gigabyte GS27QC
Case: Raidmax X603 NANO
CPU Fan: Arctic Freezer A13 X

1 week ago
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amd 3600 and a 3070. want to upgrade, but skipped the couple times the 5700x3d went "cheap", and it hasn't gone that low again since. still considering just going to am5 instead of sticking to am4, but, also thinking of holding out until next amd socket. gpu I would love to upgrade as well, but, it will be many, many years before there is an affordable upgrade with how insanely high prices are now :( Also need a big ssd.

1 week ago
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If someone can tell you this then it's me, waiting will get you nowhere :)
Wait for new parts, but they're expensive
Shortage of ram, prices going up
Shortage of whatever it was because of smartphones
Oh look new parts are coming out again

1 week ago
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AMD Ryzen 9 7950x3d
Gigabyte RTX 4090 WINDFORCE V2 24G
MSI X670E Gaming Plus Wifi
64 GB DDR5 RAM G.SKILL Flare X5
Drives: Mix of M.2 NVMe and Hard Drives.
Case: Lian Li Lancool 216
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360
PSU: be quiet! BN517 Straight Power 12 1200w
Mouse: Logitech G600
Keyboard: CM Storm Quickfire.
Microphone: Shure SM7B with a Scarlett Solo and Cloudlifter CL-1.

Might buy more RAM. I should have gone for a 128 GB set. I use a lot of virtual containers and they eat up RAM. I have run out of memory at 64GB a few times!

Also gotta get a better keyboard. The keyboard I'm looking at getting: https://www.amazon.com/KINESIS-Advantage360-Split-Ergonomic-Keyboard/dp/B0CGJRK71M/

The reason I have a computer like this is for work.

1 week ago*
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Let me know when you get that keyboard so i can call you hackerman.
Grade A pc without question.

1 week ago
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Currently

Motherboard: Asrock X570 Taichi
CPU: Ryzen 3900x
Cooler: NH-D15
GPU: Asus GeForce ROG Strix RTX 2080 OC
Memory: 2x16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 3200CL16
Case: Fractal Design Define R6
PSU: Fractal Design Ion+ Platinum 760W
Nvme SSDs: WD_BLACK SN850X - 2TB
Seagate Firecuda 510 - 2TB
Kingston A2000 - 1TB

Sata SSDs: Kingston A400 - 1TB
Kingston V+200 - 240GB

But already have new PC waiting on floor, got following from black friday sales:

Motherboard: Asrock X870E Nova Wifi
Memory: Kingston FURY Beast DDR5-6000 - 64GB - CL30
Case: Fractal Design Define 7
PSU: Corsair RM1000x, 80 PLUS Gold ATX 3.1
WD_BLACK SN850X - 4TB

Also ordered 9800X3D (wasn't discounted), but still on backorder, should arrive early next year along with ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360.
Was planning to keep 2080 until 5080, but it might release before CPU arrives :D

1 week ago
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Too much info for me but i see big numbers, i like :D
And look at the bright side, you can upgrade both at the same time in the end!

1 week ago
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Assuming there's stock for 5080 :P

But yeah, might be first time since 2009 for upgrading whole PC at same time.

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I mean, sure, I've got a perfectly decent PC (RTX 4070 + Ryzen 5600X + 32 GB RAM + all the SSD space I actually need for OS and gaming), I think I'm set for some more years, also I'm literally broke - but there's always that itch to upgrade, upgrade, upgrade... Realistically speaking, the only thing I need is a new sound card, my ancient Asus Xonar Essence used to be amazing, but it's a bit senile these days and tends to glitch from time to time. But that's likely not happening in the nearest future as well.

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Thankfully i only have a bundle itch... And a bit of game removal fomo...

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I bought my laptop 3 years ago during the GPU shortage, but damn has it been a kicker for me. It wouldn't impress anyone with it's GTX 1650 and Ryzen 5 5600H, but it does impress me. I was able to bring a bit more life into it by upgrading to 16GB of RAM and a second SSD that is 1TB.
Modern games have been less than stellar so this configuration doesn't bother me, but it can still handle some of them, like Horizon Forbidden West. I played it in 1600x900, medium overall preset and FSR set to balanced, while also streaming to Twitch!!! Despite the 1650 being listed as minimum for the game, it was able to handle all of that, showing that developers are just lazy.
Upgrading is currently not on my bucket list. I used the laptop I had before this one for 6-7 years, this one will be no excuse (if you're wondering it's still in service as a file server :D).

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Are you upgrading them yourself? I assume stuff like that is harder than with a desktop.

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Yes, I did upgrade them myself.
In my opinion it's not harder, the laptop even came with a bracket, screws and cable to install the SSD. I believe it still has a free M2 slot somewhere inside if I want to go bonkers. Actually, scratch that, I'll be forced to give it more storage at some point.
RAM depends on your laptop, luckily this one doesn't have it soldered and it even had a thermal pad where the 2nd stick is meant to go.

1 week ago
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kinda based tbh

1 week ago
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PC died :(
So now i'm running a Razer laptop from 2014
At least it matches my 2 other razer products, and the RGB glows in unison and games i run often have their own RGB themes that give me subtle backlighting in my periphery.

Also being forced to use decade old equipment has me replaying older games, and reminded how newer, and more resource hungry, rarely make for a better game.

WOOT! for indie dev's and those who do it for The Love of the Game \o/

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At least your RGB game is on point... It's not about the games, it's about the branded products!
:'D

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I'd say it's more about the games, but i REALLY do enjoy when there's an actual functional reason for the design.
In this case, not just RGB, for the sake of more blinky lights.

I dont know of razer makes one, but i also REALLY want to find myself one of those RGB projectors for behind my monitor, so there'll be that much more feel of immersion from background lighting.

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I have running Linux my main PC:
Motherboard: MSI X570 Gaming Edge
CPU: Ryzen 5950X with Phantom Spirit 120 EVO cooler
GPU: Radeon RX 7900 GRE
RAM: 64GB Kingston DDR4
SSD: 1TB NVMe Samsung 860 EVO
SSD: 1TB SATA Sandisk Ultra
HDD: 4x 14TB (RAIDZ2) connected to LSI SAS controller
PSU: Corsair 850W gold

and running Windows connected to TV, my Steam Big Picture machine:
Motherboard: Gigabyte mini ATX can't remember the model
CPU: Ryzen 3700X
GPU: GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Dual Fan
RAM: 64GB Corsair DDR4
SSD: NVMe 1TB MSI Spatium
SSD: SATA WD Blue 1TB I got for $2 at an Amazon bins store
PSU: 550W EVGA

Both run every game I've ever tried to play with no problems at all. Just running everything at 1920x1080 for the most part. My TV is 4K HDR but I can't tell the difference between 4K and 1080p from couch distance, nor HDR, so I don't bother to waste processing cycles on those. I'd rather have higher framerate.

1 week ago
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CPU: Intel i7 13700K
CPU Fan: Thermalright Frost Commander 140
Motherboard: MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk WIFI DDR4
GPU: nVIDIA RTX 4090
RAM: Kingston Fury Beast 32x4GB DDR4 3600Mhz
SSD: Micro P5 Plus 1TB
SSD: Micro MX500 4TB
SSD: TEAM MP34 4TB
SSD: Intel 660P 2TB
HDD: Toshiba 800E 8TB
HDD: Toshiba 800V 8TB
PSU: FSP Hydro PTM PRO 1200W ATX3.0
Monitor: ROG Swift OLED PG42UQ
Monitor Arm: Ergotron HX
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P600S
KB: NZXT Function Mini TKL
Mouse: Razer Naga V2 HyperSpeed
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Probably upgrade the CPU/MB/RAM/PSU for buying the 5090 series GPU

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its not too impressive, but these are my specs:
Motherboard - PRO Z690-A WIFI
GPU - GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING X TRIO 12G
CPU - Intel Core i7-13700K
Cooler - MAG CORELIQUID 240R V2
RAM - 32gb DDR5 Corsair Vengeance RGB 6000MHz
SSD1 - 1tb Samsung 990 PRO NVMe
SSD2 - 2tb WD Blue SATA
Also got a spare external 2tb SSD i am currently using for my Xbox

overall, i'm looking to trade my current rig for one that has a beefier CPU and preferably a card with at least 16gb of vram

1 week ago
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Ryzen 5700X + Asus TUF Gaming B550M-Plus
RX 6700XT 12GB
32GB Ram
2TB NVMe + 256GB SSD

Not gonna upgrade for a while unless I see a sale for more storage but until then, I think the games I play still works pretty well.

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