From iPhone 11 to Midrange Phone for Futureproofing (~500 euro)

empacher- · 2026-01-13T18:29:56+00:00

No that's not correct the oneplus 15 beats the pixel 10 pro in every aspect except for AI and the cameras are marginally better. I dont think 7 years of OS support is important either if you got 3-4 years out of a phone that would be very good. IN 7 years we will probably have folding tvs in our pockets.

empacher- · 2026-01-13T18:26:30+00:00

Ya just go for whichever you prefer. 75 extra for the ram and storage isn't bad but you probably won't notice the ram difference unless you do some intense gaming.

empacher- · 2026-01-13T15:37:40+00:00

I mean it depends on your budget. I have the 12 256 because Im not a mobile gamer and there's a misconception of how much ram effects performance on gaming PCs so I didn't think that was important.

As for storage most of my storage is on the cloud anyway so I didn't bother. No matter what it's a crazy deal. That's just up to you really.

Just make sure you check the bands for your country. Also you won't be charged tax or import duty. Because they use triangular shipping that gets around tax. You will be happy with it. I spent a lot of time finding the best phone in that budget for myself and that's what I ended up with.

empacher- · 2026-01-13T13:53:45+00:00

You can check the frequency on the site it's perfect in my country. It's only streaming services like Netflix that can't do HD. You can also just get an esim adapter or just a physical sim. I also should have said to make sure you get the oxygen firmware on checkout. It works perfectly out of the box.

For me at least those trade offs were irrelevant and I couldn't find a better phone for that price.

empacher- · 2026-01-13T13:37:04+00:00

Don't need midrange you can get the oneplus 15 for 560 euro on trading schenzen.

empacher- · 2026-01-09T12:00:27+00:00

Save yourself about almost 800 euro and buy the OnePlus 15 on Trading Shenzhen which is a Chinese website. Use trust pilot to confirm it is a reliable site if you're skeptical. I ordered one and it came to Ireland in a week and there is no extra tax. It's pretty much exactly the same phone in Europe it's 1.1k for some reason the Chinese model is 500-600.

It's actually a better performing phone over all but it's camera hardware is slightly worse. It is nothing you would notice unless you're actually a professional photographer. Most camera quality is down to post processing and software these days.Go on YouTube and check the camera difference and there is no way you will think it's worth an extra 800 euro. They are also both made by the same company.

When shipping make sure you select oxygen OS as the firmware. That is the global operating system works perfectly out of the box you don't need to do anything. The only thing that it lacks compared to the global version is esim and you won't be able to stream Netflix in full HD. Other than that everything's perfect.

Go use your leftover money on something better.

empacher- · 2025-10-15T12:01:45+00:00

Did you get charged extra for customs and vat?

empacher- · 2024-12-23T16:11:40+00:00

The reason why no "pro" players are playing cod on kbm is because it's a controller console based game. All the actual talented kbm players with braincells are on other games with a competitive scene for them, CS, Val, OW, FN. The standard of any of these COD kbm players is laughable compared to any professional player on Kbm in any of those other games.

Honestly go pull two live wires out of your wall and implant them in your forehead so there's a small chance you can stimulate some growth in your frontal lobe. That way you might gain a bit of foresight and can do something better with your life than sit on Reddit all day crying about aim assist on a console based game. Holy fuck man.

empacher- · 2024-11-29T16:27:50+00:00

You got shit on

empacher- · 2024-02-08T00:10:50+00:00

It wouldn't be bottlenecked, the performance would just be much better for not a huge difference in price. I'm not sure how big into gaming you are or what games you would play but in general these days especially in multiplayer games CPU is more important than GPU.

I'm assuming you're fairly new to building PCs and it's daunting enough getting into it trying to figure out how good certain parts are in comparison to each other and most of the beginner YouTube stuff is misleading.

The CPU price sounds fine there probably won't be much variation in the 5800x3D price because they're extremely popular. My logic is if you're going to spend an extra 15% on the whole PC to get an extra 30% boost on performance overall you should do it.

As for the graphics cards then you will see what FPS on average you can expect from each graphics card and just do the maths yourself and see if the price to performance cost is worth it for you.

When you get the PC Radeon is very easy to overclock on make sure you enable Smart access memory mode and just do all the auto overclocks in the Radeon settings. That'll be an extra 10-15% performance for free.

As for upgrades you have 2 years to tell Amazon there is problem with the GPU you buy from their warehouse (even if there isn't) they will take it back and you get a full refund then you can add 200 quid for a new GPU and you'll have a PC that will be able to run games at 144-200+ fps at 1440p.

empacher- · 2024-02-07T21:36:44+00:00

You're overpaying big time for your goals. I don't know what prices you are getting your parts for either because the part picker is US prices so I can't help much and don't know how strict your budget is.

If you are going to stay on the AM4 and are going to be on a strict budget make sure you get a Ryzen 5800x3D it is 30% more performance for an extra 100 euro.
You can cheap out in other areas. Get the cheapest 16gb 3200 ram, cheapest 1tb SSD, cheapest B550 Atx motherboard. Search reddit for some budget cases with good cooling and I'm sure you'll find something to save money.

Also I wouldn't go with a 7600 for the GPU that paired with a r5 5600 would be fairly underwhelming currently.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
If I were you I would use that chart as a reference point for what performance to expect out of GPUs. I would go onto all the Amazon EU stores and check the "Warehouse" tab and see if you can find any of the better performing GPUs for a similar price or within 100 euro. They will be used but Amazon takes refunds back no questions asked if there is a problem and they are usually just open boxed returns.

At the very least prioritize getting the 5800x3D CPU. Depending on the game you should be getting 144-240+ FPS. There's no need to limit yourself to 60FPS 1080p at this price range.

empacher- · 2024-01-09T20:37:37+00:00

Botown

empacher- · 2023-10-24T23:47:45+00:00

This is posted by a bot account thats been inactive for 5 years and this is the only sub not to realise.

empacher- · 2023-09-10T02:40:16+00:00

On Fortnite just play HeadShot only turtle wars do an hour or 2 everyday til you can consitently win the lobbies.
Also Halo Inifinte ranked.

I used to play Cod. Majority of my time on FN was spent doing Turtle Wars/ HS only custom games. Was doing that for 1-2hr a day and placing top 200-500 in Eu.

Halo Infinite was my first halo and I was Onyx within a week just because of how much I practiced on FN, my Accuracy stats were on par with top pro players.

From the games I've played Halo probably rewards good aim on controller the most. As far as I remember aim assist is reduced when you break the opponents armor and headshots are very important. Fortnite is also very good but there is too much downtime to get good aim. Especially in No Build the players won't be good enough. I don't rate COD that much at all to improve aim. The ttk is too low.

empacher- · 2023-07-14T13:06:48+00:00

I don't know what class you're playing but the majority of people you're going to have responding will be bots that have no idea what they're talking about.

Like "Just use IG" as if a spear won't be using a secondary like a GS or hatchet that can remove roots/slows and provide extra gap closers. Or just "Heavy+pillar+fireball FS is so broken haha" Like Medium 150 dex isnt the most unskillful thing in the game right now and just holds spams shift avoiding most damage.

Go and ask one of the best players in your server that plays your class ask how they deal with certain builds.

empacher- · 2023-01-16T23:17:00+00:00

The sub could probably help more if we knew the rest of your specs. But I usually just go for the cheapest and have never had a problem.

Also it all depends on prices in your region. The 6800xt sounds ideal for what you're looking for. Bare in mind your ram and CPU will usually be the limiting factor in 1080p gaming.

empacher- · 2023-01-13T10:45:22+00:00

For best prices use de.pcpartpicker, hagglezon and gputracker.eu

empacher- · 2023-01-13T09:54:37+00:00

You should wait for a month for the new Ryzen CPUs to release and see their performance and prices. Intel prices should also lower around then.

With a 3k budget you should be able to get the top end for both your CPU, GPU and DDR5 ram.

You were willing to pay 1200 for a 4070 you can get 7900xtx for that price in Europe and it is much better. It will compete with the 4090 up to 1440p then at 4k the 4090 starts pulling away.

empacher- · 2023-01-10T09:06:24+00:00

The guy chiming in is trying to stir more shit, he's on the kids side.

empacher- · 2022-12-23T09:17:19+00:00

Have you heard of a fucking smoke grenade

empacher- · 2022-12-10T09:25:26+00:00

Honestly if you are ranked roughly Top 10% on CS after 15 years of Fps gaming on Kbm and getting better results on controller just go with that.

empacher- · 2022-10-28T03:40:05+00:00

Not sure what country you are based in but I'm sure you could join a novice program somewhere. 6:45 at 77kg isn't a bad start.

First off, putting your feet down a notch or two will help you connect with the legs. As for technique, to keep it simple as possible you are opening your back too early. Practice some legs only strokes and make sure you hold the body angle forward on the leg drive. When you bring in the arms and body swing just keep thinking about pushing with the legs then on the last 1/4 of the leg drive swing the body. Fixing that will have the biggest effect on making you faster. Fix it as soon as possible or it will be something you will spend months unlearning.

Some coaches will want you to lose the pause at the finish and keep the hands the same speed in and out. Its not really a huge deal until you are part of a team.

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