Help me build my PC 2020 Catch All

Pretty sure it's MSRP. You can go look now at the out of stock ones and see the prices.

Since Best Buy doesn't do 3rd party sellers like Amazon or newegg there's no gouging.

Does anyone have an opinion on the Corsair 4000D Airflow case?

Math wrote:

Does anyone have an opinion on the Corsair 4000D Airflow case?

I was seriously considering the airflow version for my just-finished build, but ended up going with the Lancool II Mesh instead.

I think you'd want to purchased another fan or two, as it only comes with 2 stock.

Math wrote:

Does anyone have an opinion on the Corsair 4000D Airflow case?

I just ordered one last night and am going to be rebuilding my old computer in it. I can have an opinion tomorrow

I just moved my old MB into the Corsair 4000D airflow. I can confirm that it only has one fan in the front (but room for two) so it might be worth buying a fan. Otherwise the case was pretty nice. It has some good cable management features. It was a little tight getting things connected, (especially with my heatsink already attached) but that could just be my bias from my main case (Corsair 740 Air) which has a lot of space in it.

Friend of mine walked into Microcenter yesterday to get an upgrade for his 2700X based gaming system.

He walked out with a 5900X and a 6800XT.

Said they just had them sitting in the shelf.

Then he got home and discovered his fancy new GPU only has one HDMI out and 3 DP1.2 ports. Neither of his monitors has a Displayport input

Time to go back and get some new monitors ............... or adapters.

Yeah HDMI to display port or vice versa adapter is a lot easier to find than that video card

EVGA 3060 was in stock at Amazon last night but I guess I missed it by 10 minutes. Seems like they did a 1am restock so maybe I should be checking around that time if I'm awake.

Any reason I should avoid the WD Black SN750 500GB NVMe SSD? It's $70 and that's a price point I'm happy with.

I don't care about bleeding edge speed and the size is fine as I try and keep my OS drives, which this would be, pared down (ie. little to no gaming).

garion333 wrote:

Any reason I should avoid the WD Black SN750 500GB NVMe SSD? It's $70 and that's a price point I'm happy with.

I don't care about bleeding edge speed and the size is fine as I try and keep my OS drives, which this would be, pared down (ie. little to no gaming).

Looks like a solid drive to me. It performed pretty well in the AnandTech review. They were testing the 1TB version though and in SSDs the larger ones tend to perform better.

garion333 wrote:

Any reason I should avoid the WD Black SN750 500GB NVMe SSD?

Yes.

Because you have to step up to the 850 to get the Call of Duty Special Edition drive.

It's $70 and that's a price point I'm happy with.

Yeah but with the COD drive, you get double the storage for triple the price.

*Legion* wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Any reason I should avoid the WD Black SN750 500GB NVMe SSD?

Yes.

Because you have to step up to the 850 to get the Call of Duty Special Edition drive.

It's $70 and that's a price point I'm happy with.

Yeah but with the COD drive, you get double the storage for triple the price.

I hear that if you buy the CoD branded GPU, MB and CPU also you can assemble them as an automatic rifle.

garion333 wrote:

I hear that if you buy the CoD branded GPU, MB and CPU also you can assemble them as an automatic rifle.

You get called a noob for using it, though.

It is a black rifle and it also brews coffee...

fangblackbone wrote:

It is a black rifle and it also brews coffee...

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garion333 wrote:

Any reason I should avoid the WD Black SN750 500GB NVMe SSD? It's $70 and that's a price point I'm happy with.

I don't care about bleeding edge speed and the size is fine as I try and keep my OS drives, which this would be, pared down (ie. little to no gaming).

I have 3 of the 1TB ones, and they work great.

New Windows coming June 24... Windows X Series X?

OK so this gave me a big chuckle ...

Hulk saves GPUS?

The Tis aren't here to save us. GN 3080Ti review in short: 71% more MSRP, <10% more performance.

One can hope that the introduction of the Ti will result in less demand in the others. Though with the mining lock, maybe not.

peanut3141 wrote:

The Tis aren't here to save us. GN 3080Ti review in short: 71% more MSRP, <10% more performance.

Called that. The 3090 barely provides a meaningful uplift over the 3080. There was no room in there for another SKU.

kazar wrote:

One can hope that the introduction of the Ti will result in less demand in the others. Though with the mining lock, maybe not.

*doubt*

I'm gonna assume they stockpiled some volume before the 3080 Ti launch. It's now all gone with nothing in the 3060-3090 lineup in stock anywhere, excepting some scalper listings at 200% MSRP.

peanut3141 wrote:

The Tis aren't here to save us. GN 3080Ti review in short: 71% more MSRP, <10% more performance.

No but the gist of the video (I thought) was the AMD solution to DLSS.

*Legion* wrote:
peanut3141 wrote:

The Tis aren't here to save us. GN 3080Ti review in short: 71% more MSRP, <10% more performance.

Called that. The 3090 barely provides a meaningful uplift over the 3080. There was no room in there for another SKU.

Those numbers are pretty bad. Even at the bloated MSRP, which no one will ever get. It will be even worse with scalper prices and even relatively honest resellers like Best Buy.

Makes on wonder what Nvidia is thinking from a marketing standpoint. I mean, how do you even try to make that look good? Can't just be greed, they are already selling non TI cards faster than they can make them.

Maybe they just see the money people are making with bots and decided they want in on that sweet sweet dough

Those new cards sure seems bad. I wonder if the old ones will still be manufactured or are they going to be replaced by TIs. Seems like I won’t get a new GPU anytime soon.
Which wouldn’t be a big problem, current card is reasonably powerful, if it wasn’t acting weirdly. I recently underclocked the card a bit because it kept “overheating” (fan speeding up like crazy for a few seconds, then down, repeat endlessly) for no apparent reasons. Would sure suck if it died in the current GPU hellish market.

From what I've read, the 3080 ti is essentially a 3090 with half the RAM. So it simultaneously is a horrible buy and expands how horrible a buy the 3090 is.

*WINNING*
PROFIT!?!

Shadout wrote:

Would sure suck if it died in the current GPU hellish market.

That's my fear. I only have an old 1060. If it dies I can't even replace it with like card. Or a minor 16xx upgrade. Or ideally the 20xx that I probably would have bought doing my new build recently.

I think I have an old 750 TI in the closet. That would hurt but I guess it could barely run some things still...

fangblackbone wrote:

From what I've read, the 3080 ti is essentially a 3090 with half the RAM. So it simultaneously is a horrible buy and expands how horrible a buy the 3090 is.

*WINNING*
PROFIT!?!

Presumably, they'll continue selling the 3080 standard - - which is, apparently, a reasonable value at MSRP ($699). The upcoming 3070 Ti is supposed to cost $599. Will it end up being precisely at the midpoint in power between the 3070 and the 3080?

I'm waiting for there to be 20 xt, ti, super, max q all situated between the 3070 an 3090. And nothing around the 5700xt or below.

Because reasons!