Syka Bee

@ticky I used to be like that, and then I went fuck it and bought a smol alienware
So far none of it has caught on fire, no regrets (I guess you want to plug in your HDDs tho)

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Misty

@syka @ticky Hah. I'm looking at a Canadian shop's building service but it does require me to develop an opinion on parts.

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Misty

@ticky @syka On the plus side they have a console-size mini-ITX case, which seems basically perfect for my usecase of "I just want to play games on my TV"

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Syka Bee

@ticky @dog I have many opinions on parts
they're usually "if it comes overclocked out of the box, you're in for a real bad time" and "don't buy 2133MHz RAM when your CPU will downclock it to 1666MHz" and also "I will frown if there is any references to cr1tik4l or whatever on the box"

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Syka Bee

@dog @ticky I have an Alienware Alpha, it's tiny and relatively performant in the mid-range model. the HDMI input on it isn't able to record tho :(

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Misty

@syka @ticky Yeah I was definitely considering an Alpha. Similar size to what I'm looking at, though the green logo on the case is a bit too gamery.

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Misty

@ticky @syka I'll probably do a more thorough comparison once I've settled on parts, but basically all I care about at this point is "what SSD is decently fast and won't die young"

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Syka Bee

@ticky @dog conventional wisdom is "none but Intel are the least bad" last time I checked. I don't even trust the one in my Mac

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Syka Bee

@ticky @dog just uh, if you buy any current-gen parts, you'll need to buy Windows 10, as Microsoft has EoL'd 7/8.1 for Kaby Lake and Ryzon

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Misty

@syka @ticky Yeah, planning on it!

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Syka Bee

@ticky @dog the LED alienware logo is colour changeable. mine is pink and purple. I think you can turn it off too

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Misty

@syka @ticky Huh, it looks like they're shipping a last-gen GPU in all tiers of the Alien right now. Kinda surprised.

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Syka Bee

@ticky @dog I think Kaby Lake delayed new models of that sort of thing a bit, since if they launched with the NVIDIA 1xxxs, they'd have come to market a month before Kaby Lake

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Syka Bee

@dog @ticky Apple, however, didn't give a single care

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