Recent content by ReaperX22

As someone who worked at an online retailer who shipped builds often, it's actually quite rare there's any major issues. We generally used insta-pak where applicable, and that held the heatsink in place quite well in a high majority of cases. This is an ncase m1 with a U9S. Not a giant case with...

Just remember your ability to see pixels doesn't necessarily equal your ability to determine the difference in clarity. Great examples are phones. Iphone has a ~320ppi requirement for their phones to be 'retina', determining from a certain distance you can't make out individual pixels. However...

+1 to refurb units. Best bang/buck you'll get at the price point. Consider maybe a dedicated low-profile GPU on top to alleviate any pixel pushing issues.

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2600x + B450M board? Comes with a usable cooler, double the threads, sure you lose a little IPC, but you can also Zen2 upgrade later down the line.. Or 3 assuming supported! The two options below are both a fair bit below your current picks...

Biggest upgrade was a full system leap really. From a Celeron something 800mhz to an Athlon 3500+ and 6600 GT AGP. Ran D2 like butter while it was struggling on my old uh... Geforce 2 MX?

Yes. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/88183/intel-core-i5-6500t-processor-6m-cache-up-to-3-10-ghz.html

I'd really have to ask what a church that drives a few screens needs a 8700k for. You could try the used market for Z97 boards? I just sold two earlier this year myself... Or alternatively I'd really consider a B360 board, an 8400 i5 +something like a GT 730 or low-end card that comes with all...

Yeah I'd really not limit your options to a VGA-featured board.. https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-Z390-F-GAMING/ Perhaps?

The NUC will give you the small form factor you want, but lose out on upgradeability and overall performance. For your use case, I'd probably go the Nuc, given I don't expect the requirements for YouTube or media streaming etc for a long while. It's also just an easy build, get the NUC, RAM and...

My pixel 2 laughs at your puny bezels. XD

I have 2 gripes with the 3a. One has nothing to do with the phone itself. 1. Lack of any water resistance. Not a deal breaker, but I'm clumsy and have previously dropped a phone in a toilet before (long gone now :P), so whilst I own it's my fault, water resistance is nice! 2. The price in...

Nice, i literally just bought these for my brother for his bday. He's pretty happy and in the small moment I had to check/play with them they sound pretty good for a budget headset. Detachable mic is nice though finnicky.

Although SSDs have come down in price, I haven't seen a huge shift in HDD prices. With less demand won't we see potentially higher HDD prices? I personally just have 2 SSD's in my system and it's realistically plenty. 250 + 500 gb drives, and a 2x3TB NAS for general storage.

Again as above for around ~60 there's the Shure SRH240? I own two higher end models and am very happy with them, however I can't really vouch specifically for this model. I've always been happy with my Shure products, and based on a quick look a reviews seems like most others are too...