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7 hours ago, Captainant said:

Tbh 32 gigs of memory is gonna put it into the "workstation" or other specialist category for computer and make it at least a grand for what you're looking for. 16GB of memory and you're cooking at that price point

Get the right ThinkPad and upgrade the RAM yourself.

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My wife has been itching to play The Sims again and didn't want to deal with a desktop computer, but surprise surprise her M2 backbook air runs those games like a CHAMP! It's pretty amazing how much a "basic" computer can play if you're looking to play games that are 10+yrs old

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This GPU market is wild...again of course.  I bought a used 6700xt off eBay in Sept last year for 230.  Now they are going for 300+ for a fairly mid-tier card.  

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On 3/2/2025 at 7:46 AM, MadTrapper said:

This GPU market is wild...again of course.  I bought a used 6700xt off eBay in Sept last year for 230.  Now they are going for 300+ for a fairly mid-tier card.  

I've been getting the itch to build a new rig, but the current GPU market is keeping that on hold.  I'm looking through the Tom's Hardware build guides, and all of them cost hundreds more than when they were written.  It's crazy.  

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Just bought some upgraded ram

 

Went from Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000 CL36 12ns 1st world latency and 36-36-36-76 timing

to TeamGroup T-Force Delta DDR5 6400 CL 32 10ns 1st world latency and 32-39-39-84 timing($80 on Newegg - sale)

 

Only major upgrade that is worth the money for my current rig

Going to a 14900k/14900ks from my 13700k isn't worth the $450-650 for 5-8% performance

I sure as hell am not going to spend $3000-5000 to upgrade from my 4080 to a 4090, 5080, or 5090.

On 4/24/2025 at 8:32 AM, idigTexas said:

I've been getting the itch to build a new rig, but the current GPU market is keeping that on hold.  I'm looking through the Tom's Hardware build guides, and all of them cost hundreds more than when they were written.  It's crazy.  

What would be your budget? AMD or Intel? What's your current GPU? What color theme? RGB or no? 

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6 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Just bought some upgraded ram

 

Went from Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000 CL36 12ns 1st world latency and 36-36-36-76 timing

to TeamGroup T-Force Delta DDR5 6400 CL 32 10ns 1st world latency and 32-39-39-84 timing($80 on Newegg - sale)

 

Only major upgrade that is worth the money for my current rig

Going to a 14900k/14900ks from my 13700k isn't worth the $450-650 for 5-8% performance

I sure as hell am not going to spend $3000-5000 to upgrade from my 4080 to a 4090, 5080, or 5090.

What would be your budget? AMD or Intel? What's your current GPU? What color theme? RGB or no? 

I would prefer to stay under $2.5k for everything.  I'm essentially looking at the $2k build from Tom's.  AMD CPU.  Icy white everything.  RGB yes.  Current rig is showing its age, but I've shifted most of my gaming to xbox, so I haven't had a pressing need to upgrade.  My pitiful 2070 was low end of the top tier when I bought it, which tells you how old this thing is.  It's essentially a surly reading box at this point.    

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2 hours ago, idigTexas said:

I would prefer to stay under $2.5k for everything.  I'm essentially looking at the $2k build from Tom's.  AMD CPU.  Icy white everything.  RGB yes.  Current rig is showing its age, but I've shifted most of my gaming to xbox, so I haven't had a pressing need to upgrade.  My pitiful 2070 was low end of the top tier when I bought it, which tells you how old this thing is.  It's essentially a surly reading box at this point.    

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https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2nGPGJ

5070ti and 9070xt are fairly close in performance with the 5070ti being marginally better within 3-5% of gaming performance. White GPU's are hard to come by!

The case comes with 7 RGB fans preinstalled. Thermalight has come in and crushed the aio scene with pricing, quality, and performance according to people lately.

You're aright around 2500 with that setup with a better CPU, MoBo, RAM, and similar storage. If you decided on the 9070xt that would save you $220 that you could use to go with 2 more tb of storage. I included both storage sizes and both GPUs. I think I’d personally go with the 5070ti for the slight performance because it’s always cheap to add another m.2 later on than buy a new GPU. 
You're RGB'd as fuck and white as fuck with that setup.

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4 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2nGPGJ

5070ti and 9070xt are fairly close in performance with the 5070ti being marginally better within 3-5% of gaming performance. White GPU's are hard to come by!

The case comes with 7 RGB fans preinstalled. Thermalight has come in and crushed the aio scene with pricing, quality, and performance according to people lately.

You're aright around 2500 with that setup with a better CPU, MoBo, RAM, and similar storage. If you decided on the 9070xt that would save you $220 that you could use to go with 2 more tb of storage. I included both storage sizes and both GPUs. I think I’d personally go with the 5070ti for the slight performance because it’s always cheap to add another m.2 later on than buy a new GPU. 
You're RGB'd as fuck and white as fuck with that setup.

That's a good build.  I'm not sure I want to drop $1k on a GPU, but I could always compromise and get the regular 5070 and save a few hundred.  Thanks.

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1 minute ago, idigTexas said:

That's a good build.  I'm not sure I want to drop $1k on a GPU, but I could always compromise and get the regular 5070 and save a few hundred.  Thanks.

I will build this for you. 

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6 minutes ago, idigTexas said:

That's a good build.  I'm not sure I want to drop $1k on a GPU, but I could always compromise and get the regular 5070 and save a few hundred.  Thanks.

Kind of is what it is right now with GPU prices....just insane.

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1 minute ago, immamac said:

I will build this for you. 

I appreciate it, but I've been building my own for over 30years.  My first build had an i386.  Putting it together is the fun part.  I'm just a little in shock at the current GPU market.  

1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Kind of is what it is right now with GPU prices....just insane.

Yep.  

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