2017 Hardware Thread

sygnus21 said:

Some might argue (rightfully so) that we're the morons for dumping perfectly good PCs in chase of minor performance increases for benchmarks and/or games. Yet no one is calling us such names. Perhaps out of respect, decency, and the plain old fact that enthusiast will chase that last vestige of performance no matter the cost.

You might not be spending what others are spending but I guarantee some of your close friends have thought the same of you (moron) when looking at your upgrades.

Anyway my beef is I don't think we should be calling people morons for spending what they do on PC parts. While I agree and said, those supped up 8700K prices are crazy, and I wouldn't pay for one, I also understand there are those that will buy one because they live for the performance. In this forum, we welcome performance junkies. Calling them morons is thus an insult.

My two cents.

Again, you're way off. I'm NOT talking about people who want to spend for performance, even a little bit better performance. I'm talking about people who don't do their homework, will pay a ridiculous price when they can get it for much less if they understand all the 8700K's will do 5.0.

Your interpretation of what I said is an insult. MY TWO CENTS.

sygnus21 said:

Some might argue (rightfully so) that we're the morons for dumping perfectly good PCs in chase of minor performance increases for benchmarks and/or games. Yet no one is calling us such names. Perhaps out of respect, decency, and the plain old fact that enthusiast will chase that last vestige of performance no matter the cost.

You might not be spending what others are spending but I guarantee some of your close friends have thought the same of you (moron) when looking at your upgrades.

Anyway my beef is I don't think we should be calling people morons for spending what they do on PC parts. While I agree and said, those supped up 8700K prices are crazy, and I wouldn't pay for one, I also understand there are those that will buy one because they live for the performance. In this forum, we welcome performance junkies. Calling them morons is thus an insult.

My two cents.

Personally let them buy because they keep chasing the dream meanwhile i'll just grab that last Gen monster that got cut in half price wise that still knocks socks off ha

essenbe said:

I haven't upgraded in close to 3 years. So, I'm thinking about it. I just don't know which way I will go when the time comes. Z370 or X299.

Hi @essenbe
I sure wouldn't go for a 7900x I can't beat my existing 5930k benchmarks on the same 1080 classified not even running it at 4.6 Mhz the 5930k was never over 4.5 Mhz
15 day return for i9-7900x expired monday

I suppose we can all see how @AddRAM 's does with a 1080ti pretty soon.

specialkone said:

Again, you're way off. I'm NOT talking about people who want to spend for performance, even a little bit better performance. I'm talking about people who don't do their homework, will pay a ridiculous price when they can get it for much less if they understand all the 8700K's will do 5.0.

Your interpretation of what I said is an insult. MY TWO CENTS.

Just like anything else it takes time for people to learn better and soak up the right information

For me i used to build the medium just to get by but when you noticed just getting by sucks ,so i had to learn what is the best route and options when building a pc

At this point i just flip graphic cards but really don't have to,it's just one of those things i know my performance will go up getting it a new CPU not so much they tend to float around the same numbers even if the other one is newer and with overclocking in the mix you can surely beat out the old stock numbers and get a few more miles out of old Betsy girl lol