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Post by Slinger on Dec 29, 2020 17:50:18 GMT
Surprisingly, with just the RAM and the Graphics card left to buy I'm only around £18.00 over my budget for the original pieces I winnowed my list down too. The original "£1,400 - £1,500," before I started costing actual items might end up looking a bit adventurous though.  I'd say the cost is going to end up closer to £1,700 than £1,500. |
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Post by Slinger on Dec 30, 2020 15:22:46 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 30, 2020 16:25:42 GMT
(Englischer Schweinhund)  |
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Post by Slinger on Dec 30, 2020 16:37:55 GMT
(Englischer Schweinhund) Dankeschön. Mike |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 30, 2020 18:09:52 GMT
Whenever I'm in Spain I mutter "feeelthy Eeeenglish peeeg" under my breath. Must have got it from a spaghetti western. It keeps me amused.
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Post by Slinger on Dec 30, 2020 20:59:31 GMT
Things just get better and better.  It was the RTX 20xx series cards I was looking to purchase. The RTX 30xx series are horrendously expensive, especially as people can more or less ask what they feel like for them with graphics cards this scarce. Yes, the crypto-currency miners have actually designed bots to check global stores for the availability of graphics cards, which the bot then purchases in whatever quantity its been set to purchase. If I'm reading that right, then I'm not likely to see any new reasonably-priced (and available to buy) graphics cards before Q3 of 2021 unless I can spot a used card on eBay before anyone else sees it. Until then there will it seems, be a huge gap in the market for mid-range graphics cards. |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 30, 2020 22:12:49 GMT
What about an ATI/AMD graphics card?
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Post by Slinger on Dec 30, 2020 22:25:26 GMT
What about an ATI/AMD graphics card? Radeon (AMD) cards are more expensive for the same "speed" as the NVIDIA range, plus the major selling point as far as I'm concerned is the NVIDIA cards' native handling of ray tracing. Who knows, by the time cards are actually available again Radeon may be in closer competition as far as my needs go. It's not as good time for a home build it seems. |
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Post by petea on Dec 30, 2020 22:51:38 GMT
You will have a nice case though!  |
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Post by Slinger on Dec 31, 2020 14:22:23 GMT
I'm currently taking a break from changing all of the key-caps on my 104-key keyboard. It's a great keyboard - one of those clicky, illuminated, mechanical jobs - but let down by poor key-caps. It's only two years old and some of them are wearing out. The legends are obviously(?) not printed on, they are cut out of the caps themselves. "M" and "N" are now just unreadable blobs. Other keys are going that way. I thought while I was buying everything else I might as well treat it to a bit of a refurbish. The new key-caps cost about a third of the price of replacing the keyboard, so it made perfect sense, but what a fiddly, boring, bloomin' job. Oh well, back to it I suppose... as soon as I've finished this cup of coffee. The liquid cooling system for my CPU has arrived, another reason for my case requirements. It's the same brand (Corsair) as the case, and was recommended by Corsair for that particular case. I'm just waiting on the CPU and the case now, and everything I've ordered will have arrived. I'm leaning towards purchasing the memory too, it's the only thing, other than a graphics card, left to buy, and I don't suppose it's going to go down in price over the next 9 months or so. |
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Post by petea on Dec 31, 2020 14:40:03 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Dec 31, 2020 15:39:36 GMT
Yes, thanks Pete, unfortunately, as the seller of the case told me, they're not allowed to send stuff to the UK at the moment, but even so the first one is already sold, and the 2060 is the baby of the series and about £100 overpriced. To be honest, now is probably not the best time to buy from Europe as nobody knows what duties/tariffs/rip-offs, there are to pay. It could be messy for a while, and I think I'll stick to UK purchases until we hear the horror stories, or, hopefully, don't. |
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Post by Slinger on Dec 31, 2020 18:00:11 GMT
Thanks go to Martin for transplanting all of this old guff into a new thread. You can now safely read the "Windows 10..." thread without any of my interruptions.
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Post by ant on Dec 31, 2020 19:47:55 GMT
Im still getting pretty good performance from an i5 on a hp motherboard and a gtx 970 graphics card
Passed it onto the kids for gaming and it runs most steam games they have on ultra and high settings at 60fps.
Then my son goes and spends hours and hours on the original doom..
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Post by Slinger on Dec 31, 2020 23:33:00 GMT
Im still getting pretty good performance from an i5 on a hp motherboard and a gtx 970 graphics card Passed it onto the kids for gaming and it runs most steam games they have on ultra and high settings at 60fps. Then my son goes and spends hours and hours on the original doom.. What's next, Wolfenstein 3D? |
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Post by ant on Dec 31, 2020 23:51:08 GMT
Actually yes.... hes asked for it but its not on steam. There will be some sort of port of it somewhere on the interweb
He will spend hours on old games, i introduced him to the original half life (ive still got the original 1998 boxed release) and he spent days on it.
Theres something about those old games, doom still plays extrordinarily well to this day. I lost a couple of hours in it recently myself
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Post by MartinT on Jan 1, 2021 0:12:09 GMT
My son loved Quake.
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Post by Slinger on Jan 1, 2021 17:13:02 GMT
I've just found a seriously good deal on some memory, so I bought it. It's a Patriot Viper Steel 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4 3600 MHz kit. Amazon has them at £264.00, I've just picked mine up (from a UK company) for £218.49 including delivery. At least this way I can set the machine up and run the onboard graphics while I bugger about overclocking the CPU etc. At 3600MHz there's not a great deal of headroom to o/c the memory, but that's probably a good thing, and I won't have to worry about setting the machine on fire. Next up, download a copy of Windoze 10 and buy an OEM key. |
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Post by Slinger on Jan 2, 2021 17:13:02 GMT
The case approacheth. It's now in the same county as I am, which means it'll probably be sent to Scotland to be sorted and sent to me. The arrival date given is Thursday 07/01/21 but hopefully they'll beat that.  No further news on the CPU and the MOBO though. For someone who was happy to wait until mid-year I'm getting awfully impatient. |
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Post by MartinT on Jan 2, 2021 17:53:24 GMT
My Mad Scientist order's last status was on 22-Dec when it left NZ. Goodness knows where it is now, probably stacked in a pile of goods in a black ops warehouse labelled "stick all the post Brexit packages here until we work out how to process it".
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I'd say the cost is going to end up closer to £1,700 than £1,500.
