Building New PC

[Caliga]

I always buy Samsung SSDs, and Samsung's drive clone program has worked flawlessly for me when I've used it, just FYI.

[viper37]

I like lots of cores, but I don't think I have any apps (even FS2020) that would make use of them.

I don't think any games use more than 6-8 cores.

Threadrippers are useful for video editing and video upscaling to 4k, where there are applications that uses all these cores (Topaz, there's a great tutorial/demonstration out there where the author uses a Threadripper and a GTX 2080 to upscale DS9 DVDs to near Blu Ray quality; it takes about 12hrs/video hr to process...)

[viper37]

Next week parts will be arriving, I'll keep you updated on the operations. Thank you!

L.

Looking forward to it!

Build completed in a couple hours (including a complete dusting of case and fans)!
But more important, the link you gave me about cloning the HDD was an absolute blessing: not only the cloning program, AOMEI Backupper, is fast, safe and dumb-proof, but in the article they suggest using AOMEI Partition Assistant to manage the partitions: well, this one is even easier to use, and partition managing, that the last time I installed a new HD was an absolute headache, has become a breeze.
Thank you so much, Viper, much appreciated help!

L.

I really like AOEMEI backupper, I use the free version at home, and the professionnal one in the office and it works much better, for a fraction of the price, than most other softwares I've tried.

I haven't worked yet with the Partition Manager, but it'll be my next software when I need to move my stuff

I'm glad it helped

[Caliga]

Threadrippers are useful for video editing and video upscaling to 4k, where there are applications that uses all these cores (Topaz, there's a great tutorial/demonstration out there where the author uses a Threadripper and a GTX 2080 to upscale DS9 DVDs to near Blu Ray quality; it takes about 12hrs/video hr to process...)

Yeah, I don't do any of that shit.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Threadrippers are useful for video editing and video upscaling to 4k, where there are applications that uses all these cores (Topaz, there's a great tutorial/demonstration out there where the author uses a Threadripper and a GTX 2080 to upscale DS9 DVDs to near Blu Ray quality; it takes about 12hrs/video hr to process...)

Yeah, I don't do any of that shit.

Maybe virtualize the shit out of your massive home server setup?

[Caliga]

Ryzen 5 CPUs are out of stock everywhere

[viper37]

Ryzen 5 CPUs are out of stock everywhere

Amazon.com shows 3600 and 5600 in stock.  No idea on the price, though, I haven't compared anywhere.

[Caliga]

Yeah, those are price gougers.  I only pay MSRP for stuff.

[viper37]

Yeah, those are price gougers.  I only pay MSRP for stuff.

ugh.  I just checked the prices on Newegg Canada for a Ryzen 5 5600x,  559$ CAN.  My office system in whole, with a 1st gen Ryzen 5 costed me less than that, I think
But, hey, they got one in stock, so you might rush and pay the price  gouger while it lasts
Alternatively, I would suggest watching E-bay for older generation Ryzen 7.  There might be people insane enough to buy a CPU at such a price and willing to offload their old one.

[Caliga]

At this point I'm going to wait for the Rocket Lake launch and see how that goes.  No matter what I want PCIe 4.0, so I wouldn't do a Comet Lake build, and like I said the supply of the Zen 3 chips is total shit right now so can't proceed with an AMD build.

[Caliga]

Early Rocket Lake reviews are crap.

I finally just went ahead and preordered a Ryzen 5 5600X on Amazon.  It will supposedly ship on April 1st.

[Caliga]

Early Rocket Lake reviews are crap.

I finally just went ahead and preordered a Ryzen 5 5600X on Amazon.  It will supposedly ship on April 1st.

...and it'll apparently be here tomorrow.

[Caliga]

..and it's here.

Ok, tonight I'm going to finish a draft buildout and I'll post it here, and then start working to acquire the other parts.

[Grey Fox]

You gotta love shipping departments not giving a shit about what marketing or procurement thinks.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I hope you are ricing it up with LED's and some cool logos!