Cooler didn’t arrive until after dinner. If I were twenty years younger I’d have stayed up all night. 😆

As I suspect a lot of people are doing, I’m going to keep using my existing graphics card until RTX 5000 series drops in January. Everything else is new, though. First build in seven years.

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If it’s closer to Halloween it legally has to be called PCween.

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Why wouldn’t you wait like 2 weeks until black Friday?

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A lot of stores are already having their Black Friday sales.

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Gz and don’t forget to update your Samsung 990 asap. Cheers

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Update what? Are there firmware updates for those things?

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I’m hoping Bazzite Topgrade will handle the firmware upgrade. This’ll be my first box I’ve built that Windows will never, ever go anywhere near.

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Samsung has an app you can download that will check your drivers. I would use that.

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I have one of those in my PS5. I wonder if it’s possible to upgrade the firmware through that, or if I have to pull it first. What does the firmware update do?

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Yes

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I had no idea! Thanks.

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I randomly decided to upgrade from a 3700x to a 5700x just after the price dropped to $130 (😮)

Nice, painless, cheap upgrade…

Unfortunately…the bios upgrade needed for my Gigabyte x370 board just flat out doesn’t boot so i had to revert it…

So then i was like fuck it I’ll get a 5000x-ready x570 board…

But then it’s like hmmm…i can do DDR4-3600 on these boards… might as well get a couple Trident Z Neo sticks…

And hmm… this board does PCI 4.0 NVME… might as well splurge for a Samsung 980 Pro…

And now I’m wondering whether to get a new PSU so i can do a second PC with the spare parts… and scoping out GPU deals because I’m already in too deep at this point…

So now my office is starting to look like a budget version of this post 😅

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Good times! That always happens to me too. I buy parts with upgrade paths in mind, but by the time it’s time to upgrade a single component, I want to swap everything.

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Ah snap! I’m doing my upgrade today as well. Good luck with yours.

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To you as well! Have fun.

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