Computer/Parts Deals Thread

[DrClout]

Oh you slackin heavy out here!!

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[Kalmado]

Wednesday Madness for EVGA B Stock (refurbs). Some decent deals including 850w 80+ Bronze Semi-Modular for $40 with free shipping or GTX 970s for $200.
https://www.evga.com/Products/ProductList.aspx?type=8

If needing a cheapo gpu for a low profile case, hdmi output, or maybe a kiddie build they have a GeForce GT 730 2GB GDDR5 low profile for $20 shipped. Ordered one for my HTPC.
https://www.evga.com/products/produc...02G-P3-3733-RX

[Kalmado]

If you're in the market for a monitor and want to go big, pretty killer deal on a 34" 21:9 3440x1440 IPS Freesync. $400 after coupon code EMCXPURS2 for email subscribers and $100 mail in rebate. Yeah rebate sucks, but $400 for those specs on a good brand like LG is kinda hot.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...430&ignorebbr=

[DrClout]

If only that was the curved one

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[Kalmado]

Inland SSD 120gb for $25 240gb for $45. Yeah these aren't Samsung Evo quality but fuck these are cheap. If your OS isn't on a SSD, do yourself a solid and at least get the 120.

https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Profes...d+Professional

[Boyiee]

Inland SSD 120gb for $25 240gb for $45. Yeah these aren't Samsung Evo quality but fuck these are cheap. If your OS isn't on a SSD, do yourself a solid and at least get the 120.

https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Profes...d+Professional

Not bad, now I can finally save my laptop.

[Gredival]

Inland SSD 120gb for $25 240gb for $45. Yeah these aren't Samsung Evo quality but fuck these are cheap. If your OS isn't on a SSD, do yourself a solid and at least get the 120.

https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Profes...d+Professional

The 480GB is $80 too

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...P6WV0D1P&psc=1

[Kalmado]

If ya'll didn't see it already, 20% damn near everything on Ebay today with promo code PICKDADSGIFT.

[xopher]

ty bought a gtx 1060 6gb for like $200 due to that

[DrClout]

ty bought a gtx 1060 6gb for like $200 due to that

Awesome, enjoy that!

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[Kalmado]

ty bought a gtx 1060 6gb for like $200 due to that

Shoulda bought my 1080.

I tried setting up a "server" pc but for whatever reason it keeps dropping off the network. Said fuck it and bought a Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Tempered Glass since I can house 7 hard drives and 3 solid state drives.

[xopher]

I'm just needing something to render video when I stream. Not high end gaming. Your card would have been way overkill.

I have video out from my DDR machine going into a USB3HDCAP into my stream box but my GTX 750 is having trouble keeping up and I'm getting frame drops

[Kalmado]

I'm just needing something to render video when I stream. Not high end gaming. Your card would have been way overkill.

I have video out from my DDR machine going into a USB3HDCAP into my stream box but my GTX 750 is having trouble keeping up and I'm getting frame drops

Ah gotcha. I'm about to fuck around with a GT 730 2GB GDDR5 on my HTPC. Problem seems to be the "upgrade" I made at CPU. I bought a AM2 processor and apparently my motherboard is a ECS MCP61PM-HM which is AM2+.

[xopher]

AMD sockets are weird. I should get an intel board and an i7 for video crunching tbh

[Kalmado]

AMD sockets are weird. I should get an intel board and an i7 for video crunching tbh

In the next few weeks I'll be attempting video editing for the first time. I'm using a Ryzen R7 1700X. If I recall correctly the R7 was a bit better/faster for editing and what not versus I7, but that may have just been skylake. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. I can't look up YT at work but I want to say JayZ2Cent and Linus did the comparisons with Ryzen coming out on top and Threadripper too.

My new case is coming today. Not sure if I'll rebuild tonight or over the weekend but I'm excited to work in a Phanteks case again.

[xopher]

I am hoping with a GTX1060 and the dinky AMD A10 APU I have, as long as I specify to use NVENC for encoding, I shouldn't get any more frame drops.

If I do, my wallet is going to hurt.

[DrClout]

R7 burns Intel's bacon on multithreaded processes BUT the "speed" is compromised by software optimization. Everyone still caters to Intel on that level.

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[Isiolia]

In the next few weeks I'll be attempting video editing for the first time. I'm using a Ryzen R7 1700X. If I recall correctly the R7 was a bit better/faster for editing and what not versus I7, but that may have just been skylake. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. I can't look up YT at work but I want to say JayZ2Cent and Linus did the comparisons with Ryzen coming out on top and Threadripper too.

It'd likely depend on a lot. For Adobe apps, Intel still tends to be better or at least more cost-effective. IE GamersNexus's comparison here. AMD still tends to just do better when it's very scalable on threads, and far as I know Adobe stuff only does that to a fair extent. You can also usually look at Puget Systems for their writeups. They do kind of use them as rationalizations for why they build the configs they do, but they do a bit of application-specific testing.

[Kalmado]

It'd likely depend on a lot. For Adobe apps, Intel still tends to be better or at least more cost-effective. IE GamersNexus's comparison here. AMD still tends to just do better when it's very scalable on threads, and far as I know Adobe stuff only does that to a fair extent. You can also usually look at Puget Systems for their writeups. They do kind of use them as rationalizations for why they build the configs they do, but they do a bit of application-specific testing.

Good stuff. I'll check it out. My reason for buying the 1700X was purely price at the time. During the worst of the GPU price spikes Newegg had a deal for the 1700X bundled with the Gigabyte RX 580 Aorus for $600. I sold the GPU for $465. Since I'm an average user I can't say I notice some huge difference either positive or negative in comparison to the I5 4690K 4.4 ghz I came from.

[Kalmado]

Lenovo 24" 2560x1440 60HZ IPS monitor for only $144. Take $16 w/ code VISUALS10 at checkout.

https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/access...CSE__Connexity