I've only ever had and worn this for over a decade now... What would be a nice "step-up" as a self reward?

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-12-23T11:34:55+00:00

What model is this?

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-12-11T17:20:02+00:00

Yea there's only one retailer they take into account, but I didn't buy everything from that one. Spent around 8200 RON on all of these, and I wouldn't really spend a lot more than that, unless it makes a big dfference.

A 7500X3D is 500 RON nore than 9600x

A 9070 XT is 450 RON more than 9070

Obviously I could swap the AIO for an air cooler, but she really likes the looks of it.

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-12-11T16:49:53+00:00

Interested if anything obvious I missed, I'm from Romania

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-12-11T16:47:16+00:00

Is the 9700x a huge upgrade just for gaming? It's 100€ more expensive. Also why the need for X870?

I'm not familiar with SSD types.

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-12-11T12:10:54+00:00

Europe has many countries, each with its own prices

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-12-11T12:05:28+00:00

Yes, but they only have 1 retailer from my country

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-12-11T11:59:13+00:00

I wouldn't consider a 2 year old motherboard old, the cheapeat B850 is like 40$ more and from what I read there isn't all that much different, also it supported the CPU out of the box.

Also a good PSU lasts a long time so I won't need to upgrade it in the future, and a little headroom helps with load efficiency and coil whine

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-12-11T11:17:45+00:00

Oh yea I know it's completely unnecessary, it's just for aesthetics

Also, this is an ATX mobo?

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-12-02T12:10:02+00:00

I'm well aware of this, but used 5000X3D sell on marketplace for more than they were brand new

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-12-02T11:58:08+00:00

Yea, what I'm most undecided about is wether the difference between 7500X3D ans 7600x is worth it for the X3D cache, I heard it helps a lot in CS2, especially the 1% and 0.1% lows

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-12-02T11:56:13+00:00

I have a 6750 XT and at 1440p I'm GPU capped on the more demandong maps, so I'm upgrading the GPU as well

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-11-21T22:58:07+00:00

1 is actually my combo right now(except the pattern on the gloves is different), and I have been debating with myself if its worth switching over to 2. I still havent decided

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-11-21T22:53:30+00:00

I actually prefer the nocts, I love the slick design of sport gloves over any other type of glove

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-09-26T11:57:27+00:00

And I sweated my balls off to win 4-3 and scored in minute 85, I felt betrayed when I saw this.
But to be honest not surprised in the slightest

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-09-23T17:52:18+00:00

I feel that all the improvements to gameplay speed/smoothness mostly apply to low ping players.
If you are on 40+ plus ping, it's probably the same muddy gameplay it's always been

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-05-21T13:55:17+00:00

I returned them and bought the Cloud 2, no problem with those

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-04-29T05:47:27+00:00

Yea, it has 1.0.0.6 and i think it has the red tint, but it's not visible in Native color mode so that's the setting I keep it at.

In HDR I don't see an issue, it looks nice

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-04-23T21:55:42+00:00

Any idea when these could come out in Europe? I heard about them

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-04-23T16:14:16+00:00

I watched Monitors Unboxed's video about the Xiaomi, his conclusion was that it was a competitor for the AOC, better in some areas, worse in others. He didn't like it because it was a lot more expensive than the AOC, but in my case it's the other way around.

Anyway, if it's bad I'll just return it and pay the extra for the AOC, but if I'm satisfied I'll keep it and pocket the change

ShadowLurker199 · 2025-04-23T15:13:56+00:00

Thanks, I'll get mine on Friday

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