Speaking personally, every PC ive built has had a low end card compensated by a beefy cpu and ram. It's a solid budget formula, able to punch above its weight. When I finally get around to build my own PC and not just others, it'll probably be a 2070 series or a AMD equivalent, with that same formula, because of the balance it delivers, especially to my bank account. I'd like more development on cards like those, to get the most out of 5hem
It'll be funny to compare when LTT drops the inevitable update video. My current "ewaste" drives that I'm still running are at 12618 and 31214 hours of use each. Thankfully I'm just one silly little guy and not a whole team of editors..
My WD Velociraptor 10k rpm drive is also still going strong surprisingly. Not desktop use either. It's put in a simple home NAS.
For my card, I've always used Nvidia when building a PC, but building my own PC? I'm going to be looking at cost first. As long as it can do what I need it to, and it can fall back on the big core and ram I'll give it, I'm open to a AMD, or even Intel card if it fits the requirements I need it to accomplish. I'm not a turbo gamer, let me make that clear. Basically: can it run World of Warships fast at 1080p and possibly a plasmacam CAD software in the future? That's the power I need, and something in the 2070 series is what I'm thinking of, but if cheaper alternatives show that they are just as capable when I'm ready to build my PC, well alright then.
Even iGPUs will run games well at 1080p now, and they’ll handle CAD software just fine with the exception of the rendering features, which are usually locked behind certified workstation cards. The 5700G is actually perfectly decent as a low-end gaming CPU+iGPU, as long as it’s paired with good memory (which prebuilts sadly never do). With bad memory it becomes nigh useless.
I have a 500GB Seagate Barracuda
Luckily, I happen to already have a 1TB M.2 coming around Monday, picked it up from a Newegg deal for $38. I've heard a lot of people talk about Seagate and WD hard drives to be shit and die really quick, but they're still going strong for me.
People say that about every brand of hard drives because every brand of hard drives is a lottery. You might get a drive from a batch that'll fun for a decade flawlessly or you might get a drive from a batch that will fail catastrophically in like a month. Basically it's a good idea to keep a mirror copy of your data on a different hard drive, no matter the manufacturer.
Wolfgang references ContraPoints early in his latest video.("...as my friend Natalie says...").
Over the past 30 or so years, I've had one WD drive die on me, and that was in the mid '00s. Over the same period, I've had 5 dead Seagates. The last dead drive I had was a Seagate that died in 2020. There were other brands such as HGST, Toshiba, IBM etc... all of which had a higher death count than WD, but they're not relevant anymore (well maybe Toshiba is... idk).
When I built my PC I picked up two Seagate drives from Best Buy that ended up being the same batch, they died within 2 weeks of each other.
Well shit, boys. I guess I should've realised something was up when he switched to Macbook.
The main problem of it. IIRC is around 5% the deviation margin on failures between the drives, so you can have more drives failing while you try to fix the main drive. I bet was one of the main reasons that Wendell said for Linus to shut everything off after they began to fuck with their array on the second failure as if more disks died, it would be unrecoverable
I just like having a GPU in general, it's good multi purpose utility. As for memory, I always put in 32 gigs, though id be open to installing 64 gigs should money allow. Core has been for the longest time Ryzen 5800x/2700x, whatever they're calling their I7 now a days.
For storage, this is good to know. I'd like to set up a raid, for at least SOME crash resistance-while keeping the important/fun shit on SSD'S and M.2's. Knowing that WD is solid helps a lot, though I am a bit ashamed, having installed Seagate HDD's on previous builds for people (I'm a cheap bastard and didn't know lol).
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