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I’m thinking of picking up a pre-built PC since this one even with a new SSD is still slow and parts are so hard to find right now or are being price gouged. I can get the same setup prebuilt for almost the same price as building it myself.

I can go with one company that only uses the Nvidia RTX 3080/3090

Or a different one that’s uses the AMD RX 6800 XT/6900

I’ve read both the 3090 and 6900 are more work station cards so I’m not going to spend the extra on those and the 6800 is at most 10% slower then the 6900 and in some tests the 6800 beats it.

I’m leaning towards the 6800, does anyone have real life experience with it instead of just review sites or experience with the 3080?

Thanks.

I’m thinking of picking up a pre-built PC since this one even with a new SSD is still slow and parts are so hard to find right now or are being price gouged. I can get the same setup prebuilt for almost the same price as building it myself. I can go with one company that only uses the Nvidia RTX 3080/3090 Or a different one that’s uses the AMD RX 6800 XT/6900 I’ve read both the 3090 and 6900 are more work station cards so I’m not going to spend the extra on those and the 6800 is at most 10% slower then the 6900 and in some tests the 6800 beats it. I’m leaning towards the 6800, does anyone have real life experience with it instead of just review sites or experience with the 3080? Thanks.

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Haha, yeah, the itch never really goes away. I just don't scratch it as much as I used to.

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Yeah I grew out of it also, I used to constantly upgrade then a new system ever 2 years. 4 years for the build before this one and almost 6 1/2 this time. I only replaced the power supply that went out 6 months ago and a new ssd for 199 the other day so $400 in 6 years.

I used to get ram and CPU together, then a GPU whichever refreshed first. Get faster or tighter timings on my ram and the new slightly faster processor. Then over clock it all.

Then one day about ten years ago I realized this is a lot of money and in a year or two it’s outdated and I’m barely scraping by to get a new gun and ammo every two years. So I switched the spending around, new guns and ammo and skimp on the PC upgrades instead lol.

Here’s something stupid I used to do, you should get a laugh. I got a gaming mouse with a 1000mhz refresh rate but the polling rate of the usb was only 125HZ(haven’t kept up usb polling rates since I stopped doing this stupid thing). I downloaded a program that would overclock your USB port up to 2,000HZ, increase the usb voltage(I believe) and also change the windows kernel to keep up I believe.

So I’d overclock the usb to 1500HZ and around a couple months later my motherboard would go out lol. off to the store to get a new one for a couple hundred. I did this like 7 or 8 times. After the second time I stopped overclocking my cpu, ram and GPU thinking that was the problem but it kept happening.

I finally went to a repair shop and had the guy diagnose what was going on since there’s no way I could get that many faulty motherboards(even switched brands a few times)

He calls an hour or so later and says your USB ports are fried, what did you plug into this thing lol. I lied and said I don’t know, because I realized what I had been doing and felt so stupid.

I went to pick it up that evening after he replaced the motherboard and he showed me the old one, yup the they were fried and took out the rest of the MB with it. He asked again and I actually told him what I had been doing and he shook his head and said do you think that’s wise? lmao.

I went home and overclocked my ram, CPU and GPU and never touched the USB ports again. It took a few weeks to get used to the sluggish mouse, that overclock was amazing but $200 ever 1-3 months wasn’t worth it.

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LOL. Experience is the best teacher, eh? I guess you got lucky that you were only losing motherboards, and not the rest of the components plugged into it as well.

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Yup, it is. Who would’ve guessed it was that though and each time I replaced it I made sure to reinstall that program lol.

And yes, I was luckily it was only the USB and motherboard and not other components, I’m also surprised it never took out my mouse or keyboard.