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Lifer
- Apr 6, 2002
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You are like me. It's nice to know there are other people who recycle old PC parts. I have a desk drawer full of old memory DIMMS and CPU's. On my current R3 1200 build I recycled a AMD 7950, a 240GB SSD and a Samsung F1 1TB HDD. I still have a couple of Samsung F3's that still put up very impressive read writes for a 7 year old spinner drive. Those are 500GB platters on a 1TB drive.
The G4400 will be a nice upgrade over that old crappy AMD APU. It will be nice to see the Ryzen based APU's. My first build in 2003 was an AMD build. Since the Core2Duo I have not built any AMD systems until Ryzen.
My first build was in 2000, a 1200 Thunderbird. Was all AMD until they crapped the bed with the intro of the Core processors. The wife has an A10-7850K rig that I built to replace an old X2 platform that bit the dust. But for me, it's been i7 920 and now i7 4790K. Threadripper does have my attention. However, my next build will be the home server and I'm going with a Xeon Silver 4114 (x 2). Not sure what I'll do for my next main rig. That should be a few years away, unless I just get the itch. Haha.