Computers General

[Goujer (she/her)]

Finally made space on my messy project bench, so I can have something else than just heaps of unfinished console projects.

iMac that I've had since 2005? 06? Hadn't booted it in probably 10 years, and this silly thing just powers on without issue. Still, I installed a pirated OSX Panther on it long ago, and its clearly not running optimal on that, after all 1998 hardware trying to run a 2003 OS. I should look into downgrading it down to OS 9, as what it was originally running.
Pretty silly that it supports a modern-ish bluetooth keyboard just like that.

Those old iMacs and eMacs die hard, they're like tanks.

[VonDaab]

Just built my current system, but still didn't stop me from picking up a new case.



Because, WOOD.

Also bought an another Arc B580. because after I bought my first one, there was a new 3-fan model of it, and I want to try to build a quiet air cooled system.
Not to mention not a bad idea to have an extra GPU in the current market situation.

Lots of rumours going about Intel announcing a 300Watt B770 card come January, but I cant imagine it going for any sensible price now.

[Bella]

Finally made space on my messy project bench, so I can have something else than just heaps of unfinished console projects.

iMac that I've had since 2005? 06? Hadn't booted it in probably 10 years, and this silly thing just powers on without issue. Still, I installed a pirated OSX Panther on it long ago, and its clearly not running optimal on that, after all 1998 hardware trying to run a 2003 OS. I should look into downgrading it down to OS 9, as what it was originally running.
Pretty silly that it supports a modern-ish bluetooth keyboard just like that.

Man I miss my G1 iMacs. I wish I had the space to keep them in my current place. T_T

Nice mug too. ^__^

[VonDaab]

Well, took a good while to get around rebuilding my system. Slight delay due to the Ryzen 7600 frying itself and then the whole mucking about with the warranty. Got it replaced under warranty with a 9600X, which I don't mind.
There was some talk that ASRock has had issues with frying AMD CPUs, but it's becoming more apparent that its really AMD who's at fault as the fried CPUs are starting to crop up on various motherboard manufacturers. This is purely an AM5 socket issue it seems, and even then heavily implied majority on the 9000 series, but with my fried one being a 7000 series, I have a feeling its really the whole AM5 production.

But anyways, got that fish tank made. Also upgraded to a 3-fan Sparkle Nox B580.
Also will be getting more fans for it, as when ordering fans I wasnt sure if I wanted 2 or 3x140s at the bottom, but when building decided I wanted 3, so side panel ended up with only a single fan, so looking bit weird.

[Bella]

She looks good! I hope she treats you good too.

Did you manage to snag your GPU & RAM before prices went crazy?

[VonDaab]

Grabbed 2x16gb sticks of DDR5 when I collected the parts for this build back in May, at normal price. DDR4 is still fairly valid RAM even today, so I've been looking around to hoard some of that and have a AM4 socket based mini PC build coming up someday later. So far have 2x8Gb set of DDR4, but the local 2nd hand marketplace here has bunch more of it, even if bit on the pricey side, like, 80-ish euros for a 2x8gb set.

The 3-fan Arc B580 I got in December for 280euros when GPU prices were at their record low. Arc cards aren't in super high demand so their prices haven't gone up terribly lot, just seems like supply is more of the question.
Just strange that people aren't buying the B580. It's basically a RTX4060 power card, but with 12Gb of VRAM.

When I saw the RAM prices spike, I anticipated a spike in SSD prices as well, so managed to grab a 2Tb stick of M.2 NVME, just couple days before it went up by 30%. It's almost double now.

Fortunately PC case parts, motherboards and CPUs are still normal priced, even if there are rumors of CPU prices going up and generally energy prices rising causing all component prices going up with it.

Along with couple more fans for my build, I need to get a case fan power hub. Fans came with a hub for the RGB, but not for the power, so I had to scavenge the hub off my old case and it's sub-optimal for the task because I might need to divide the fans between as many motherboard power headers as possible as right now too many of them are running at same exact speed and its generating resonance, a low wavy hum.