It's Already 2AM: 36th Edition... THE REUNION THREAD !

Have a merry Christmas fellas. enjoy the holiday with your family. stay warm and safe.


will respond more when I have the time.

KenjiS wrote in post #19459720
Not ENTIRELY, I did a CPU/Motherboard/Case upgrade more or less, I went with a Ryzen 9 7950X on a Crosshair X670E Hero, 32gb of GSkill Trident Z5 RGB, 2 new Samsung 970 EVO Plus drives and a Hyte Y60 to put it in.

I reused my RTX 3080 FTW3 because the 4000 series cards are stupidly overpriced

That’s a great build! I almost went very similar, but last minute went Intel instead. The G Skill Z5 is pretty incredible ram, I got a 32gb 6400mt/s kit and it flies.

Yeah, absolutely no reason to upgrade your GPU from a 3080

DTBaan wrote in post #19459721
Have a merry Christmas fellas. enjoy the holiday with your family. stay warm and safe.


will respond more when I have the time.

Merry Christmas to you as well!

Merry christmas

And yeah the GSkill was great stuff

I forgot i also ended up with an Alienware AW3423DW for a screen upgrade

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Spring for some Lian Li fans. They seem to have enough static pressure for most situations and the cable management is a dream. I have 10 rgb and 1 non rgb fan in my case, so I went from a potential 21 fan cables to 5

Am in the market for a new pc, main requirements is for it to run MS Office & Photoshop - any recommendations for buying “off the shelf”

GibJock wrote in post #19459849
Am in the market for a new pc, main requirements is for it to run MS Office & Photoshop - any recommendations for buying “off the shelf”

How intense is the photoshop work you’ll be doing? Just light editing or will you be doing HDR/Panoramic merging?

And rough budget range?

*sigh* wrote in post #19459852
How intense is the photoshop work you’ll be doing? Just light editing or will you be doing HDR/Panoramic merging?

And rough budget range?

HDR/Panoramic mearging is not so strssful and pretty much any PC can handle those these days. The real questions are, budget? Video? Desktop or laptop? Any gaming? But budget will pretty much set the bar. I have always had good luck with Asus, Dell, HP PCs but i think PCs have sort of fallen into the appliance realm, one is really not that different than another. They all use the same parts and price will set the quality level and performance level of the parts.

gjl711 wrote in post #19459856
HDR/Panoramic mearging is not so strssful and pretty much any PC can handle those these days. The real questions are, budget? Video? Desktop or laptop? Any gaming? But budget will pretty much set the bar. I have always had good luck with Asus, Dell, HP PCs but i think PCs have sort of fallen into the appliance realm, one is really not that different than another. They all use the same parts and price will set the quality level and performance level of the parts.

Yeah, but it can determine the amount of RAM deposing on the size/number of images. GPU acceleration never hurts with those sort of processes either, but yeah it’s true, even baseline computers are so fast these days it’s hard to push them with photoshop.

The other consideration is how much data storage is needed?

got the lunar. small and and feels quality. much more premium than the timemore. but the timemore is very easy to use and does not require learning. Lunar I will need to look up on how to use it. probably because it has more functions. also its easier to read the digits on the Lunar, big, bright, and clear.

*sigh* wrote in post #19459409
That’s a nice clean build!

Is the NZXT Aio that much louder than your air cooler? My Galahad is dead silent… the noise (or lack there of) was actually the thing that stood out to me about my build. The fans will ramp if I’m running benchmarks but it’s next to impossible to pin this CPU to the max in real world. I also undervolted it a bit which helps quite a bit.

honestly it's not alot louder than the air cooler. it's actually quiet, I am just being picky. my i7-3770 build was pretty quiet and I am spoiled from it. this time I wanted some aesthetic. why buy good looking parts only to hide it? that's what it was doing... the side was against my cabinet. on this new build, I originally had the bequiet dark power psu and as I like the quality of it, it added to the noise level. i been wanting to switch it out with a 0 rpm on normal load so went back to corsair again. thought Id play with more aesthetic and almost switched the entire system hehe. only the cpu and mobo was kept the same.

No video for sure. Budget not really an issue (unless we are being silly!). I’m guessing I need a good amount of ram and a fast processor.
Currently working with an HP Pavilion laptop Intel I7, Nvidia GeForce GTX but want to move to tower/desktop.

KenjiS wrote in post #19459740
Merry christmas

And yeah the GSkill was great stuff

I forgot i also ended up with an Alienware AW3423DW for a screen upgrade

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Going to be replacing the Corsair LL fans with some EK Loop FPT ones however, the Y60 has very fine mesh and they dont have enough static pressure to really pull air in the case at all

I also kinda wanna try to see if i can fix the cables a bit as they ended up springing out a bit and look really messy right now

very cool build! I like that case, almost like an aquarium hehe. man I wanted the hero board, its just too much for it. although I spent alot for 2 systems when I only need one....

is that your room? or living room? rooms seems big to have the desk rotate that way behind the sofa and I would assume a tv along the end hehe. cool display on the aio too.

*sigh* wrote in post #19459801
Spring for some Lian Li fans. They seem to have enough static pressure for most situations and the cable management is a dream. I have 10 rgb and 1 non rgb fan in my case, so I went from a potential 21 fan cables to 5

I agree. lian li has made some nice looking fans and is easy to connect. makes it so easy on cable management. I used to only want the minimum fans to reduce noise level, now I got plenty haha.

GibJock wrote in post #19459887
No video for sure. Budget not really an issue (unless we are being silly!). I’m guessing I need a good amount of ram and a fast processor.
Currently working with an HP Pavilion laptop Intel I7, Nvidia GeForce GTX but want to move to tower/desktop.

32g of rams would be plenty, that's my new standard and is affordable. you should be fine with mid level graphic card. say 3060 or the new intel arc.

off the shelf... I've been ok with dell. not a fan of hp and big box's 'custom' computer. I would take a look at nzxt's custom build if you want to get a best buy custom computer. can't go wrong with an i7-13700 if you are going for intel.