A second m.2 for trying out the switch to Linux. It went well, primary boot now.
Edit: I went with Nobara.
Same
That was a long time ago tho
What distro you go?
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.
Opensuse. There. I’ve picked for you.
No more excuses now. Go boot and install your favorite game.
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
Thanks
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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 last 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.
I just bought a steam deck.
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.
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I bought a 521GB SSD some time ago, to use alongside my 2TB HDD. Wow, I didn’t know I needed one - insanely fast boot, software launching, and it’s completely silent! (The hard disk became a bulk storage for media.)
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.
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…
Additional storage, and installing the RTX2060 Super from my old box it was replacing. That was in 2020 when this system was new.
Oh, I did upgrade my rear chassis exhaust fan to a fancier one because the cheapo one was too loud.
I dont really play new AAA games, so it mostly does fine. When I bought it, I had planned to wait for GPU prices to return to sanity …
a magewell capture card, I still need to figure out how to use it
My old laptop got a small SSD and Mint
My Deck got a 1tb swap
My main rig got a RAM capacity doubling
