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Components: new or second hand? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 days ago by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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I recently bought 16GB (2x8GB) of 3000 MHz DDR4 RAM second hand for my server so that I could swap out the 32GB (2x16GB) of 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM and put them into my new gaming rig.

Final hardware config: https://pastebin.com/3uFXuPht

Now I just have to figure out whether I want to get another external soundcard for my gaming rig or if I can live with switching the USB cable back and forth between the two PCs or if I can get used to control the volume with software. I really like hardware knobs though...

Anyway...

What - if anything - do you insist on buying new and what do you buy second hand and why? Personally, I could buy any component second hand, provided I'm allowed to run my own test on it first.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Now I just have to figure out whether I want to get another external soundcard for my gaming rig or if I can live with switching the USB cable back and forth between the two PCs or if I can get used to control the volume with software. I really like hardware knobs though

I don't know what you're doing, but if your headphones are using a 1/4 inch jack or 1/8 inch jack and your devices have some form of audio output already, you can just use a plain ol' analog mixer. That'll give you knobs and let you hook multiple devices up.

I keep my headphones plugged into one. I rarely actually use the other devices, but sometimes I'll want to be listening to a radio scanner or a shortwave radio or some other things, and it lets me just pipe whatever into the headphones.

searches Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/LiNKFOR-Channel-Separate-Controls-6-35mm/dp/B0DDKBJFWY

That's $11 and looks like it'll do 4 1/4 inch inputs. Looks like they also have RCA and 1/8 inch input versions (though those cost more, and there there might be more-inexpensive mixers).

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

That's a great (and obvious) idea! Don't know why I didn't think of that... Thanks! :)