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I still use my 2012 Desktop with a i7 3770K. Except for NVMe upgrades and a RTX 2060 Super (originally 670, then 980) it's still the original Build. I will be

by verst 6y ago

I still use my 2012 Desktop with a i7 3770K. Except for NVMe upgrades and a RTX 2060 Super (originally 670, then 980) it's still the original Build. I will be going for 3900X for my next machine. Probably waiting for the RTX 3080 Ti I now see being leaked, or a regular 3080 (not interested in the 3090).

soylentcola 6y ago
Also still running my 3770k desktop. Also the original build with the exception of replacing my existing GTX680 with a 980 a year or two in. Amusingly, my thoughts of upgrading were initially triggered by wanting new storage. I currently have the original 250GB SATA SSD I put in originally, along with a handful of hard drives from various older systems. Motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot and I was thinking, hmmm...I bet there are a lot of things I can't upgrade at this point. Waiting on these new Zen 3 CPUs to be available, but not in a huge rush since I also can't get my intended 3080, so we will see which comes into stock first. It will be a nice bump to a new gen CPU, DDR4, and a few gens of GPU once I can actually buy the dang parts. If they were around I would've built the thing a month ago.
- verst 6y ago
  I'm even willing to pay the premium for a prebuilt PC this time but it will be a while before I can find that Ryzen 5900X / RTX 3080 (Ti?) combo anywhere.
jmnicolas 6y ago
I have a 3770k at home too. How did you upgrade to an NVME? There's no M2 port on my motherboard and I can't boot the OS on the NVME / PCI express I bought.
- rasz 6y ago
  https://www.win-raid.com/t871f50-Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-support-for-all-Systems-with-an-AMI-UEFI-BIOS.html https://www.win-raid.com/t871f50-Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-...
  - jmnicolas 6y ago
    Thanks, I saw this forum a while ago but there's no way I'm running a hacked bios on a machine where I value my data!
    - rasz 6y ago
      Its "hacked" by adding NVME bootrom module. You can also run Clover EFI from HDD/pendrive without modding bios https://www.win-raid.com/t2375f50-Guide-NVMe-boot-without-modding-your-UEFI-BIOS-Clover-EFI-bootloader-method.html https://www.win-raid.com/t2375f50-Guide-NVMe-boot-without-mo...
- verst 6y ago
  My OS drive is still the original 100GB SSD from 2012. I replaced my 2TB HDD with a 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus in a M.2 PCIE 3.0 x4 riser card. Unfortunately when I switched from the GTX 980 to the RTX 2060 Super all PCIE 3.0 lanes were being used (ASRock Z77 Extreme 6) so had to put the riser card into a PCIE 2.0 slots which means I am not getting the full performance.

by verst 6y ago

soylentcola 6y ago

Also still running my 3770k desktop. Also the original build with the exception of replacing my existing GTX680 with a 980 a year or two in. Amusingly, my thoughts of upgrading were initially triggered by wanting new storage. I currently have the original 250GB SATA SSD I put in originally, along with a handful of hard drives from various older systems. Motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot and I was thinking, hmmm...I bet there are a lot of things I can't upgrade at this point. Waiting on these new Zen 3 CPUs to be available, but not in a huge rush since I also can't get my intended 3080, so we will see which comes into stock first. It will be a nice bump to a new gen CPU, DDR4, and a few gens of GPU once I can actually buy the dang parts. If they were around I would've built the thing a month ago.

verst 6y ago
I'm even willing to pay the premium for a prebuilt PC this time but it will be a while before I can find that Ryzen 5900X / RTX 3080 (Ti?) combo anywhere.

jmnicolas 6y ago

I have a 3770k at home too. How did you upgrade to an NVME? There's no M2 port on my motherboard and I can't boot the OS on the NVME / PCI express I bought.

rasz 6y ago
https://www.win-raid.com/t871f50-Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-support-for-all-Systems-with-an-AMI-UEFI-BIOS.html https://www.win-raid.com/t871f50-Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-...
- jmnicolas 6y ago
  Thanks, I saw this forum a while ago but there's no way I'm running a hacked bios on a machine where I value my data!
  - rasz 6y ago
    Its "hacked" by adding NVME bootrom module. You can also run Clover EFI from HDD/pendrive without modding bios https://www.win-raid.com/t2375f50-Guide-NVMe-boot-without-modding-your-UEFI-BIOS-Clover-EFI-bootloader-method.html https://www.win-raid.com/t2375f50-Guide-NVMe-boot-without-mo...
verst 6y ago
My OS drive is still the original 100GB SSD from 2012. I replaced my 2TB HDD with a 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus in a M.2 PCIE 3.0 x4 riser card. Unfortunately when I switched from the GTX 980 to the RTX 2060 Super all PCIE 3.0 lanes were being used (ASRock Z77 Extreme 6) so had to put the riser card into a PCIE 2.0 slots which means I am not getting the full performance.