• 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    6 hours ago

    When I used to be interested in hardware I would buy it with half of the top of the line money, the rest invest it in some fund and then buy an upgrade in two years with that investment. Or at least that used to be the case when GPU and all the components had a tendency to become a fancy vintage museums after 2 years. You would be laughed at if you said something about future proofing.

    I miss that.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    8 hours ago

    I bought my son a computer for Christmas and put an i9 in it. Not a great graphics card, but it gets the job done. Bought him some games on steam that play great. He was playing a first person shooter on chrome today.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    152·
    9 hours ago

    I need a new CPU… that new Marvel game has shown me two things

    1. Western Developers still have open contempt for the concept of Optimization
    2. I’ve upgraded EVERYTHING over the years… except for my CPU
  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
    301·
    10 hours ago

    YouTube is usually the first thing I open on first boot of a new machine. That way I know if the sound is working, network is working and video drivers are ok all at once.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
    422·
    11 hours ago

    Core i9 - Well there’s your problem.

    No NVMe M.2s? What a noob! HDDs in this day and age!?!? Would you like a floppy disk with that?

    4 slots of RAM? What is this, children’s playtime hour? You are only supposed to have 2 slots of RAM installed for optimum overclocking.

    Does the dude even 8K 300fps ray trace antialias his YouTube videos!?!? I bet he caps out his Chrome tabs below a thousand.

    • IceFoxX@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      11 hours ago

      NVMe uses SSDs as well as flash memory. NVMe is just the protocol.

      • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        Although joking, I do tend to assume that people who say SSD refer to the traditional SATA SSD drives and not M.2.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        I think they were saying that the read write speeds being from a NVMe would be faster than (an unspecified) SATA drive. But that was my assumption while reading

        • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          7·
          9 hours ago

          SATA SSDs are still more than fast enough to saturate a 2.5G ethernet connection. Some HDDs can even saturate 2.5G on large sequential reads and writes. The higher speed from M.2 NVMe drives isn’t very useful when they overheat and thermal throttle quickly. You need U.2 or EDSFF drives for sustained high speed transfers.

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      10 hours ago

      HDD for long term storage. More reliable, has a higher number (essentially infinite assuming the drive never fails) of read/writes before failing. Cheaper and higher capacity than any ssd or m.2. Also if you dont keep applying a small electrical charge to an m.2 they eventually lose the data. HDD doesnt really lose data as easily. Also data recovery is easier with HDD. Finally you know when a HDD is on its way out as it will show slower write speeds and become noisier etc.

      I used to work in a service desk looking after maybe… 4000 desktops and 2000 laptops for a hospital and the amount of ssd and m.2 failures we had was very costly.

      • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        I actually only installed M.2 a few years back when I went serious on my PC. I’m aware of the issues, although it’s still running good. I wonder how long it will last. I still have a few IDE drives, and some no longer can be read. Not because they’ve lost the data, but it just doesn’t spin up correctly. It will be interesting to see how it works out, at the moment I’m keeping an eye out on the health using CrystalDiskInfo. There’s certainly been cases of M.2 sticks with shitty firmware, but so far I seem to have avoided them. I’m also trying out a RAIDed M.2 mini NAS, it will be fun to see how that works out compared to the traditional NAS.

    • Abnorc@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      13 hours ago

      I feel like building a top of the line PC cost less than half this just one generation ago. What on earth happened?

      Edit: maybe the specs in the comic are just crazy.

        • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
          131·
          11 hours ago

          “AI heavily increased GPU prices” Nvidia one of the greediest companys around increased the prices of GPUs, not necessarily AIs fault because nvidia is in direct control of their card prices.

          Take a look at Intel’s new GPUs, they are actually priced in a way that isn’t fist fucking the consumer.

      • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        13 hours ago

        The SSD is what’s jacking up the price so much.

        I built a similar PC in 2022: Ryzen 7700X, 4090, 32GB of DDR5 6000, 4TB NVME and 6TB HDD; it was $4400 including tax. If you spec the same PC today, it’s under $3K now.

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        The specs in the comic are just crazy. The top of the line option has expanded a lot too. In the past Nvidia wouldn’t have bothered making a 4090 because the common belief was nobody would pay that much for a GPU… But seemingly enough people are willing to do it that it’s worth doing now.

        AMD also revived CPUs in desktop PCs from extreme stagnation and raised the bar for the high end on that side as well by a lot.

        So it’s a mix of inflation and the ceiling just being raised as to what the average consumer is offered.

      • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
        3·
        11 hours ago

        I still order from them although it’s definitely gotten worse and the website feels like It was designed exclusively by the marketing team and high-up executives instead of web engineers.

        Honestly, I typically gravitate towards Amazon over Newegg these days, but Newegg does have a lot more options for computer hardware, so I still order from them. I just ordered an ITX motherboard and SFX power supply from newegg yesterday actually because amazom didn’t have the products I wanted.

      • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        Just built a server and a PC and they were fine. I had a couple of delivery issues and they sent replacements no questions asked. Even ended up with an extra 4 TB HDD because UPS fucked up, they sent me another, then UPS came by with the original.

        Only issue now is a backordered SSD that they keep pushing the release date back on, but $180 for a 2TB nvme pcie Gen5 x4 ssd is worth the wait, I think.