A second m.2 for trying out the switch to Linux. It went well, primary boot now.
Edit: I went with Nobara.
I just installed another m.2 for the same reason. I’m hung up on what distribution use though and haven’t made it any further.
What distro you go?
Same
That was a long time ago tho
New SSD for games and VMs.
Bought a mouse with silent clicks, so I don’t disturb my partner with my raging click barrages.
Nice idea, which model is it?
Kudos to my partner for bugging me about my annoying clickety-click.
It’s a simple Logitech M650, nothing special or fancy, but I don’t play competitively on a level where that kind of stuff matters.
I had to buy a louder keyboard because my girlfriend enjoyed the clicking
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I just bought a steam deck.
ARGB LED strip and three fans. Picture related:
It’s only fluff. Or, like my folks jokingly say, LPAJ (luz para agradar jacu = lights to please hillbillies). But I like how it turned out.
The second most actual upgrade was the Radeon RX 6600, visible in the pic. I bought it juuust before all that tariffs ruckus; I had to get one because my old video card was ancient. (I remember mentioning this, but my nephew was crawling around my computer when I installed that video card. The same nephew is now studying to get into an university.)
Overall I’m rather pleased with my current rig. It isn’t top grade, but I think I got a good cost/benefit.
A 4070 to replace my 2080S. The improvement was fairly noticeable.
Last week from a Ryzen 3700x to a 7800x3d, so new mobo, cooler and ram as well. The 3700x was a bottleneck in some games for my GPU. Performs well now.
My niece will upgrade from an old 7 series Intel to my old 3700x, x570 chipset mobo, Deepcool double fan CPU cooler and 32 GB ram. I will give her my old GTX1080 as well. Whole system perfectly fine for WOW classic.
This probably shouldn’t count, but I diagnosed and removed a bad stick of RAM. It works much better now. Since I was running on 32Gb, I haven’t really noticed the drop to 16. I’d been blaming system instability on not knowing how to properly maintain Linux and shit drivers. Turns out
Prior to that was when I bought a 2TB SSD.
Added a 2.5gbps max network card. Still not getting the 2gbps i paid for, unsure why…
The Mobile Athlon CPU, with unlocked multipliers I was able to overclock like crazy. It was something like 20 years ago.
Seriously, replaced a 2x6Tb raid1 of mechanical hdd’s with 4x4tb raid 5 SSDs. Amazing update in terms of noise reduction and power consumption. As for speed, I don’t care, the content is consumed over the network anyway.
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Wireless + Bluetooth expansion card :3 My PC can now pretend to be laptop ^^ And I don’t have to use USB versions.
A 4K MSI gaming monitor. I figured it was cheaper to sign up for GeForce Now and use my old computer than to upgrade my whole system from a 970 (10ish years old?!?)
So I still have nice graphics. GeForce Now also has a lot of games but I wish there were more.
My psu fan gave out and started making an awfully loud noise. (Seasonic 850fx) so I upgraded it to a corsair 1000w psu. At least I hope it is an upgrade. I actually liked the cables on the seasonic more but hopefully the corsair lasts a bit longer. The seasonic was only about 1.5 years old.
