Dreamer_of_the_past wrote:

luckybob wrote:

I'm scared of the day my dual 1366's can't handle the newest games and I have to break down and delve into 2011's.

I am a bit surprised that such a wise person as you cares about newer games. Gaming companies stopped making good games after 2004 or so.
I tend to agree with you about overclocking especially when it comes to vintage hardware. I personally will never overclock anything in my life.

Flattery will get you everywhere. ^.^

I drop a lot of hours into CIV 6. Doom was fun to play. I look forward to trying out Quake. ^.^

Hotline Miami? Anyway I say the cutoff is more like 2006, but there are still a few good modern gems out there.
But I can't think of anything newer then 2010 that I find worth wile other then hotline Miami.

luckybob wrote:

and that's not my point. I'm really glaring at the people that will spend $200 on outrageous cooling so they can make a $200 cpu run as fast as the $250 one. I overclocked my systems, back when I didn't run dual cpus.

Yeah, I never got that part. Still if you need a little more power and don't have the money for an upgrade there is always overclocking. Just don't waist money on colling when you can get a faster CPU.
But whatever, its people like that I make money to off of working on there junk.

This could probably be called modern.

I ended up picking up another XFX GTX 285 Black Edition in case I want to run tripple SLI... in two systems at the same time... In my defense I have to say that this is my favorite video card of all time.

The sellers picture. I doubt this is the actual card though. ~21 euro + ~6 euro shipping.

You know when you make an initial bid on something, then chuck in a maximum bid straight away, then lose interest in the thing you're bidding on, and hope someone else will beat your max bid but no one does?

Ended up with a Phenom II X6 1055T when what I actually wanted was a Phenom X4 955 Black Edition. As a result I might end up with both. Would make an interesting benchmarking exercise because I have read that the extra 2 cores have a very limited effect on anything other than highly multi-threaded games. I'd be interested to see what Quadfire could achieve on GTA V with no CPU bottleneck because old tests show little or no improvement with the 4th card. Reckon I'll end up selling the X6 immediately though, before my wife kills me.

brassicGamer wrote:

You know when you make an initial bid on something, then chuck in a maximum bid straight away, then lose interest in the thing you're bidding on, and hope someone else will beat your max bid but no one does?

Ended up with a Phenom II X6 1055T when what I actually wanted was a Phenom X4 955 Black Edition. As a result I might end up with both. Would make an interesting benchmarking exercise because I have read that the extra 2 cores have a very limited effect on anything other than highly multi-threaded games. I'd be interested to see what Quadfire could achieve on GTA V with no CPU bottleneck because old tests show little or no improvement with the 4th card. Reckon I'll end up selling the X6 immediately though, before my wife kills me.

FYI for the future, possibly now.. just use this: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?RetractBidShow retract your bid as long as it's before 24 hours. Completely ignore all of the words and just do it, it's always okay to retract your bids at any time and nothing will harm your account. Just pick "entered wrong amount" and forget about it. I do it all the time, nothing happens.

Bought four of these myself:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?I … N82E16822136313

Actually I got em from over here on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/172490860101

They're inside these NetApp SAS trays but they're still WD black enterprise drives. Can clearly see it in one of the photos. And one of the IBM stickers has the WD Part # on it. So double definitely sure what it is. Fairly cheap too. Seller accepted my best offer for I think $22 each, paid $113.40 including shipping for all 4 to Texas. Saved -$116.16 off the new price in the end.

Starting a second file server. Going with 4 of these initially with the plan to upgrade to maximum 7 or 8 later. Raid-5 on a LSI MegaRaid PCIE hardware SAS card with BBU. Using an Intel server board and a core2duo @ I think 3.33 Ghz. Need to upgrade both it and my main file server computer with Intel Pro PCIE NIC's soon so I can do teaming for failover protection.

Just have to disassemble these NetApp trays the drives will come in and tear em apart, and then they'll be your normal sata drives inside ready to be used in any computer.

kithylin wrote:

FYI for the future, possibly now.. just use this: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?RetractBidShow retract your bid as long as it's before 24 hours. Completely ignore all of the words and just do it, it's always okay to retract your bids at any time and nothing will harm your account. Just pick "entered wrong amount" and forget about it. I do it all the time, nothing happens.

I have retracted bids before but you're right - rather than leave it to chance it would be better to at least attempt it, especially with a £45 winning bid. Oh, and I won the Black Edition 955. Only cost me £25 because the seller had made a typo in the title (995 - which doesn't exist). Looks like I'm going to have an epic benchmarking session to work out which of these badboys is the AM3 / Crossfire King. GTA V should separate the men from the boys!

Oh and nice HDDs. I need to get me some of those so I can setup proper RAID5 in my server rather than just 2x 1TB on old drives - I keep fearing it'll keel over. TMI: I'm planning to back it all up to tape (which I should be doing regardless) but the files are so disorganised at the moment that I can't face the thought of archiving a messy file hierarchy with potential duplicates, etc. and things in the wrong location / mislabeled. That's OCD for you. the irony is that the more file transactions I carry out, the more I'm technically stressing the drives, the longer it's taking to get the job done, and the more likely they are to fail.

Edit: Rather than double post I thought it would be better etiquette to append. The X6 1055T arrived, as did the PSU. 70A on the 12V rail for x2 X2 graphics cards and the 4 + 4 CPU ATX plug. Problem though. The PSU absolutely stinks of cigarettes, despite the eBay description explicitly (and, suspiciously may I say) that it was from a pet- and smoke-free home. How does one prove a smell?

My first new pc in 8 years going from i5 750 to AMD again with this Ryzen 7 1700, asrock x370 killer, 16 gb corsair vengeance, samsung evo 960 250 gb nvme, asus gtx 1070 dual, corsair rm650x and nzxt s340 elite build.
Next will be a nzxt kracken aio cooler.

Just ordered this little bugger so I can hook up my MIDI keyboard controller to my laptop:

M-Audio MIDIsport 2x2 USB

seob wrote:

My first new pc in 8 years going from i5 750 to AMD again with this Ryzen 7 1700, asrock x370 killer, 16 gb corsair vengeance, samsung evo 960 250 gb nvme, asus gtx 1070 dual, corsair rm650x and nzxt s340 elite build.
Next will be a nzxt kracken aio cooler.

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If you get some time, could you consider contributing the first Ryzen system on vogons to do a little benchmark for this 7zip thread please?

7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs

seob wrote:

My first new pc in 8 years going from i5 750 to AMD again with this Ryzen 7 1700, asrock x370 killer, 16 gb corsair vengeance, samsung evo 960 250 gb nvme, asus gtx 1070 dual, corsair rm650x and nzxt s340 elite build.
Next will be a nzxt kracken aio cooler.

EPIC! I daren't ask how much you forked out for that. What was your last AMD system?

Well lets say that the tamron 70-200 f2.8 g2 lens my wife bought last week was a bit more expensive. But not expansive enought that i could by a nzxt kracken x52, with my setup.
My last AMD was a Athlon 63 3200+ or a 3000+ if i recall correct, before that came a Athlon xp 1800+, before that a k6-233mhz, and before that a 5x86-P75, a 386dx-40. Between those and before the 386 i had Intel models.

seob wrote:

Well lets say that the tamron 70-200 f2.8 g2 lens my wife bought last week was a bit more expensive. But not expansive enought that i could by a nzxt kracken x52, with my setup.
My last AMD was a Athlon 63 3200+ or a 3000+ if i recall correct, before that came a Athlon xp 1800+, before that a k6-233mhz, and before that a 5x86-P75, a 386dx-40. Between those and before the 386 i had Intel models.

Did you wait until the Phenom II came out before you decided the i5 was superior (assuming that was the reason for the change)

Can't remember, i did a lot of research back then into the i5, and almost every test that i read, the i5-750 had the best bang for buck, so that's why i bought that own. I paired it with a XFX Radeon 5850 XXX, and it did work fine for me until i got GTA V, i then upgraded the graphics card with a R9 380 8Gb, and it ran oke in 1680x1050. The main reason i had to upgrade was that i couldn't edit 1080p home videos when i was using 2 different streams, sound and picture weren't in sync anymore in preview mode, making editing a pain.

Hmmm, something like this "ancient" 4790K build perhaps:

It's from the mid 2010s. Already old apparently, thanks to drive bay-less tempered glass cases, VR headsets, Windows 10, Kaby Lake, Ryzen & Pascal. 😜

Still, at least it does RGB now, thanks to the NZXT Hue+ kit I recently got for it! (Which I've since turned off. 😜 )

Outtheredude wrote:

Hmmm, something like this "ancient" 4790K build perhaps:

WP_20161203_05_29_51_Pro.jpg

It's from the mid 2010s. Already old apparently, thanks to drive bay-less tempered glass cases, VR headsets, Windows 10, Kaby Lake, Ryzen & Pascal. 😜

Looks suspiciously like Fractal Design case. Very nice and very flexible as they give you the choice between cooking and acoustics.

brassicGamer wrote:

Looks suspiciously like Fractal Design case. Very nice and very flexible as they give you the choice between cooking and acoustics.

Yep. It's an "old" Arc Midi R2 with a pair of stuffy old Pioneer BDXL Blu-Ray Optical drives. Not like those proper modern cases that do away with such old fashioned nonsense, in favor of a nice big fat RGB water cooler that could really make use of the space those optical drives are currently occupying. 😉

(I prefer acoustics myself. Cooking involves washing up. Ugh.)

I left out the optical drives since i already have a external dvd drive, ever since my wife bought a 2015 imac.
So i didn't really need a dvd drive using up space and power when i'm not using it.

After selling i7 2700k and R9 290 i decide that i need something to sit at and so it is:

Picked Powercolor HD 7850 2gb for 53$
Here it together with picked earlier i7 920 and Asus P6T SE,performing surprisingly nice for it age and price.
920 overclocked upto 3.9ghz on stock voltages
yes,yes,i know,i'm dust collector

idk what happened with this i3 but for 1.5$ i decide to give it a try,if its dead i gonna make some awesome trinket

An HP dc7900 SFF that I upgraded a bunch. http://imgur.com/a/tsrVC

E8400 -> Q9400
2GB RAM -> 4GB RAM
Added 80GB Intel 320 SSD to go along with the 250GB 7200RPM SATA HD
Added an LSI 20160 SCSI PCI card for testing old SCSI drives
Ordered an HD6450 on eBay. Turned out they mislabeled it and it is actually a 1GB HD 7470. Pleasant surprise.