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.
Looks nice! Have fun
Wise choice on waiting for the graphics card.
New ones are always better and we have been waiting for new ones for over two years
New ones are leaked to be much more expensive.
It only makes sense to wait if you were planning on spending $2000 on a new card. The cheaper 5070 won’t be out in January.
Amd is supposed to be bringing out a $500 card that is more powerful than their current 7900xt. That will be a great card.
I’d not heard that. I thought AMD was sort of sitting this generation out. Huge if true.
They’ve stopped production on the 4000 series and prices on those are only going up. The high end of the 5000 series is supposed to launch in January.
I briefly considered grabbing an RTX 4080 Super. It’d still be a big upgrade over my RTX 3080 LHR, but with January looming I decided to wait. Hopefully there’ll be a week or two between retail availability and crushing new tarrifs. 😆
Gz and don’t forget to update your Samsung 990 asap. Cheers
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.
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 😅
Ah snap! I’m doing my upgrade today as well. Good luck with yours.
