What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)

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TenEightyOne
Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.4GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard ASUS® PRIME B450-PLUS (DDR4, USB 3.1, 6Gb/s) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 SUPER - HDMI, DP - VR Ready!
1st Storage Drive 1TB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 470MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive 512GB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2000 MB/R, 1100 MB/W)
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Only thing I see that could been changed is if you could of maybe waited another week or two and get the B550 motherboards.

Then you would have access to I think PCI-e gen4 and open up some more budget areas.
 
TJ13
Only thing I see that could been changed is if you could of maybe waited another week or two and get the B550 motherboards.

Then you would have access to I think PCI-e gen4 and open up some more budget areas.
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I've spec'd a lesser mobo than the builder's top option so that I won't feel as bad about swapping out for a B550 (or successor) further down the road. The 2060 Super is the best card I can afford in there with all other parts of the build balanced, I'm not sure it would benefit greatly from 4 over 3, although the faster SSD would probably like it a lot.

I've ordered now because the builder I'm using has done a good price but (like most places right now) is struggling to produce on time. I actually made the order a couple of weeks ago but confirmed-and-paid yesterday when they were ready to move the order into production. The wait for B550 release plus the build lead time (presuming they can even meet B550 demand at launch) would push the delivery date back too far and I've got quite a few clients waiting for work. My current PC is flat-out every night so I need to share some load out.

I completely agree though, and I'm sure it'll be getting a PCIe4 board somewhere down the road. Depends how much it earns in this incarnation :D
 
TenEightyOne
I've spec'd a lesser mobo than the builder's top option so that I won't feel as bad about swapping out for a B550 (or successor) further down the road. The 2060 Super is the best card I can afford in there with all other parts of the build balanced, I'm not sure it would benefit greatly from 4 over 3, although the faster SSD would probably like it a lot.

I've ordered now because the builder I'm using has done a good price but (like most places right now) is struggling to produce on time. I actually made the order a couple of weeks ago but confirmed-and-paid yesterday when they were ready to move the order into production. The wait for B550 release plus the build lead time (presuming they can even meet B550 demand at launch) would push the delivery date back too far and I've got quite a few clients waiting for work. My current PC is flat-out every night so I need to share some load out.

I completely agree though, and I'm sure it'll be getting a PCIe4 board somewhere down the road. Depends how much it earns in this incarnation :D
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A few days ago I saw some MSI B550 boards on Amazon for about 120 pre-order that since disappeared but knowing that it's around the corner.

Most PCI-e Gen 4 would be for the M.2 SSDs to gain more performance than the use of GPUs from what I have read on.
For me I would be lucky to get Zen 3 working in B450 boards without having to swap and move and everything.
 
TJ13
For me I would be lucky to get Zen 3 working in B450 boards without having to swap and move and everything.
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I think the BIOS updates on 450 boards are pretty robust but they do back-disable earlier chips, if I've understood the various sites I've read correctly. I'd looked at upgrading the PC that I use now but on consideration it was like the broom that needed a new head and handle, I was better off just going for a whole new build so that I can break the old one at my leisure :D
 
TenEightyOne
I ordered the following PC, should arrive in a couple of days. I got it past Mrs. Ten as a business investment. Hurr hurr.

I was still on a budget for Safety Reasons but I think I did okay for £1300-ish. It'll handle PG and large point clouds better than the ******* I'm running now, that's for sure. By coincidence it should also be much better for MSFS2020. Funny, that.

Thoughts welcome, just in case I've made a huge mistake?

Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.4GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard ASUS® PRIME B450-PLUS (DDR4, USB 3.1, 6Gb/s) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 SUPER - HDMI, DP - VR Ready!
1st Storage Drive 1TB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 470MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive 512GB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2000 MB/R, 1100 MB/W)
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I'd have personally gone for a better B450 motherboard (Most MSI MAX motherboards can handle Ryzen 9's down the line, and all of them are guaranteed to get Bios updates to support Zen 3 - I don't think Asus has said anything about the latter), gone for a 5700XT instead of a 2060S (similar price to a 2060S, but not far off a 2070S in terms of performance) and gone for 3200MHz CL16 RAM.
 
I made the mistake of telling my brother that I may consider selling off a good chunk of my components for cheap. Looks like I may be building another build sooner than I thought if he accepts the deal. :lol:
 
Finally went through my old Yahoo email and marked several thousand emails as read, some of which dating back to 2012, and I deleted whatever spam I found along the way. Now I don’t have to be bothered seeing 3000+ unread messages every time I bring it up.

I really let me Yahoo account go over the years, I guess that’s what happens when I move to another I prefer more. Eventually I may go through and delete a bunch that don’t really matter to me, but that may not be anytime soon. :lol:
 
Sonygamer455
Finally went through my old Yahoo email and marked several thousand emails as read, some of which dating back to 2012, and I deleted whatever spam I found along the way. Now I don’t have to be bothered seeing 3000+ unread messages every time I bring it up.

I really let me Yahoo account go over the years, I guess that’s what happens when I move to another I prefer more. Eventually I may go through and delete a bunch that don’t really matter to me, but that may not be anytime soon. :lol:
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I'm supposed to check and delete my e-mails? :scared:
 
I literally just spent about 4 hours typing a single post for another thread here on GTP. :lol: Typed it on a document first just so I wouldn't accidentally post it too soon, then pasted it when I was ready. Started at around 8:15 I think and finished less than 5 minutes ago. (it’s 12:30) I really do have a lot to say sometimes. :lol:

Haven't really done much otherwise.
 
I've been looking at X570 and B550, case, and PSU prices lately. The only thing holding me back from buying more PC parts is that my iPhone 5s needs replaced badly.
 
AnthonyD1993
I've been looking at X570 and B550, case, and PSU prices lately. The only thing holding me back from buying more PC parts is that my iPhone 5s needs replaced badly.
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Motherboard and PSU prices and stock are so out of wack right now, but they should be getting better now. IIRC, PSUs should be back in stock in early Q3? I bought mine off of Craigslist for a bit less than MSRP. Buying used isn't that bad, but you have to make sure they're not too old or used as a bad PSU could destroy everything
 
Started converting a bunch of my car thumbnails from GT5 to a readable format on my PC the other day and finished converting the last 200 of them today and now my ring finger hurts. :lol: Took a long time, but it was worth it!

While it's nice having all of my car thumbnails as PNG's, this is the one that really matters. :P
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Over the past week or so, I've been getting into Linux. Played a game of distro musical chairs trying Fedora, Solus, Manjaro, and openSUSE before finally settling on Linux Mint.

I've dabbled with Ubuntu and a couple other distros in the past before, but never very seriously. This time though, I actually have a use for Linux in my life and I've been really enjoying it so far.
 
I started using Plex recently on my Android TV box. Basically trying it out. I may want to test out Emby in the future.

Besides that, I have also been trying to practice modeling different things in Blender to hopefully begin building a portfolio of Blender models.
 
So I am perplexed on this situation.

Getting a Nvme drive to what I thought would be able to store my games on and have the sata ssd as my primary and now I have found out that my computer doesn't like the sata ports.
:banghead:

Right now as I got it to work the way it was before.
I have my main SSD plugged into an ASATA port and it works and boots up no problem.
But when I put into a SATA port it gives me a Driver PNP watchdog error.
However this is where it makes me even more confused.
Is that I have the HD I cloned in a SATA port and it reads it okay and everything but just won't let me boot into it.

So what in the world do I have to do to get it where I can run it or should I just have my SSD cloned to my Nvme and then change out the SSD to be the gaming SSD?

Mobo is B450 Auros M running F51f bios.
 
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@TJ13 OS initialisation is currently one of the few places you'll notice the speed difference between NVME and SATA, it seems a bit backwards to use the NVME drive for game storage instead of a boot drive. :lol:

Most motherboards disable a few SATA ports when you populate the M.2 drive due to bandwith limitations. I've also heard that having multiple drives plugged into the motherboard while installing Windows can cause it to install the bootloader on the incorrect one, so I always make sure to just have the primary drive plugged in during installation. After that, I plug in the remaining drives.

Windows might have gotten confused with the boot order when you switched your drives to different ports. Anyway, I highly recommend doing a clean install of Windows on your new NVME SSD.
 
Nexus
@TJ13 OS initialisation is currently one of the few places you'll notice the speed difference between NVME and SATA, it seems a bit backwards to use the NVME drive for game storage instead of a boot drive. :lol:

Most motherboards disable a few SATA ports when you populate the M.2 drive due to bandwith limitations. I've also heard that having multiple drives plugged into the motherboard while installing Windows can cause it to install the bootloader on the incorrect one, so I always make sure to just have the primary drive plugged in during installation. After that, I plug in the remaining drives.

Windows might have gotten confused with the boot order when you switched your drives to different ports. Anyway, I highly recommend doing a clean install of Windows on your new NVME SSD.
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I haven't installed any nvme yet I just changed from asata to sata and it wouldn't let me boot.
But when I went back it worked. So I have no idea.
 
I recently did a major system overhaul that was long overdue. I am now running a i9-9900, 32gb ram, eVGA 2080 Super XC Ultra, 1TB nvme system drive, repurposed a handful of SSD's for storage and picked up my third Predator 27" monitor. I was long overdue so this upgrade feels like a bit of screamer compared to my old rig.
 
Pako
I recently did a major system overhaul that was long overdue. I am now running a i9-9900, 32gb ram, eVGA 2080 Super XC Ultra, 1TB nvme system drive, repurposed a handful of SSD's for storage and picked up my third Predator 27" monitor. I was long overdue so this upgrade feels like a bit of screamer compared to my old rig.
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And here I am with my "old" 1080 still. :lol:

Waiting for the new line of whatever 3*** series to come "soon". :dopey:
 
Phoenix
And here I am with my "old" 1080 still. :lol:

Waiting for the new line of whatever 3*** series to come "soon". :dopey:
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it’s a weird market right now. The 1080 is still a solid card. Honestly if my wife didn’t need a new machine (my old one), I wouldn’t have upgraded yet.
 
Pako
it’s a weird market right now. The 1080 is still a solid card. Honestly if my wife didn’t need a new machine (my old one), I wouldn’t have upgraded yet.
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Yeah true. Electronic components are super expensive at the moment. They have gone up like 30% here since the start of the pandemic.

1080 is alright I guess. But I do notice it starts to struggle with newer games when I stream and play on the same PC. Would like to switch to a streaming PC aswell. But time will tell if I can afford it. :crazy: :lol:
 
I'm still looking at picking up at least a 3700x and a GPU better than my 1660 Super. I should just stop saying I'm looking at buying and just buy them already. :lol:
 
September is a month away with the new releases, might as well wait and see if the price will drop for those potential products you are looking at.
 
Blah.
Now I got an nvme and tried to clone and doesn't like it.
Wonder if that's because the boot is mbr and others are gpt

Now have to somehow convert maybe and then do it.
Since I don't want to spend all day reinstalling everything.

Edit:
Nvme still doesn't quite want to work but just for fun I tried my laptop sata m.2 just to see if it would boot into it.
It did.
So now I have an adapter for the nvme to maybe have work then unplug everything right after and see if it would work.

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So I did manage to get to clone but now inaccessible boot drive.
That was after the clone and everything was removed from the system.
 
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TJ13
Blah.
Now I got an nvme and tried to clone and doesn't like it.
Wonder if that's because the boot is mbr and others are gpt

Now have to somehow convert maybe and then do it.
Since I don't want to spend all day reinstalling everything.

Edit:
Nvme still doesn't quite want to work but just for fun I tried my laptop sata m.2 just to see if it would boot into it.
It did.
So now I have an adapter for the nvme to maybe have work then unplug everything right after and see if it would work.

Edit2:
So I did manage to get to clone but now inaccessible boot drive.
That was after the clone and everything was removed from the system.
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So you cloned the m. 2 Sata drive to the nvme and get this error?

0x7B or INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DRIVE means the required drivers to load in are not installed, wrong, not configured.

This is to be expected as Windows was 7sing Sata based drivers and now needs nvme drivers
 
Grayfox
So you cloned the m. 2 Sata drive to the nvme and get this error?

0x7B or INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DRIVE means the required drivers to load in are not installed, wrong, not configured.

This is to be expected as Windows was 7sing Sata based drivers and now needs nvme drivers
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It wasn't an m.2 sata drive it was just a sata ssd drive to nvme
It's now how can I get the nvme to register and update so I can actually see it and then maybe clone or should I get an adapter so I can be logged into my system while doing it since for some odd reason it doesn't like my sata ports but likes my ASATA port.

So it was my AMD port that was causing conflict with my sata ports.
Fixed that and now I am running SATA for now.
And that means I can clone the disk after the install of the nvme driver.

Which will be for a different day.

Edit:
So after changing my SATA controllers and then editing some stuff I am now running off the nvme and it only took a half hour to do. :banghead:
 
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Cleaned up my keyboard and keycaps. Was supposed to be getting my new mouse today too, but it didn't get delivered. Sigh...
 

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