If you don’t find a preconfigured one you like I can take a stab at it within a budget and put it up for the sb gestalt to review
Oh that would be great. I will take a closer look tomorrow and let you know!
it’s healthy to not have to disassemble your graphics cards to fit your case.
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I’m currently on a cocktail of 2 beers, muscle relaxants, and Benadryl to sleep in this heat and every time I start to nod off I have nightmare flashbacks to the clutch of the grom I rode today, don’t tell me what’s healthy
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You probably have a higher dex stat than me right now
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lol
Please keep this thread safe for work
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That’s the guy Conan prays to
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Wait this isn’t Felix Mets-Posting outside of the sports thread?
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Jacob THEE Grom
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I stumbled onto this thread about the Apple A2049 USB-C to 3.5mm DAC dongle and ordered one for $7. It’s hands down better than the on-board audio on my motherboard, my monitors, or my USB mic. Obviously probably doesn’t compete with an audio interface but it’s an incredible value for everything else.
Plus I get to use the USB-C port on my GPU!
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That’s interesting. You can’t necessarily assume every Apple peripheral will be the best in its category, for instance the Airpods Max are poor value for money and their entire line of USB-C chargers is strictly worse than cheaper Ravpower chargers, but it sounds like they did a fantastic job on this particular adapter
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yup, it’s always been the case that the parts of apple’s lineup – or features of their computers – that are exceptionally high quality are almost never marked out as such
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It drives my 50 ohm headphones so well I have the on-headphone volume turned all the way down with tons of headroom. I don’t think it could drive e.g. Sennheiser 6XXs (300 ohm) well but I wonder how it’d handle planar magnetic drivers with high sensitivity/low impedance.
luckily I’m immune to audiophile fussiness because I frankly don’t hear that well and I can barely tell the difference between a piece of shit mp3 over iPhone headphones plugged into realtek audio and, like, expensive speakers. I have an old Akai amp hooked up with nice speaker cable and everything but mostly because I felt like it was a nice home decorating choice
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hmm… i’ve looked at the ibuypower thing and i feel like i have to reconsider my whole plan. i was hoping to stay under 1500 CAD total (incl monitor) and still get something that was like moderately up to date. on the other hand i probably don’t actually need anything that cutting edge as i am not planning on trying to run cyberpunk 69 at max settings or whatever. i just don’t really know where to cut corners, it seems like there is a very wide gap between ‘budget pc’ and ‘dedicated gamer’s passion rig’
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prices here are horrible, I had a friend commission something from me last year and he said his budget was $2k-2500 at the max and I was like “no way I’ll need that” and I wound up spending like $2400 without a monitor or peripherals to get something I was satisfied with, then I had to move to america for 3 months and hoard a bunch of computer parts while I was there to cope
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If you wait a few months AMD is releasing new processors with good integrated graphics so you could skip the dedicated GPU altogether until prices get normal and/or a game you want to play necessitates one
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this was while 3070s were available for MSRP so it could’ve been worse, and I had to import one of the OEM Ryzen 4750G chips because I refused to get a CPU without an iGPU (which as @doolittle says won’t be an issue soon), but still
From what I gather, it seems like the trick for you/what you can get away with is getting an underpowered PC, with room to kit it out as you get more budget/prices on GPUs drop from insanity. Basically, get a nice motherboard/CPU, and a solid PSU, and the rest can come later.
Fill 2 of the 4 RAM slots with 8GB sticks, 16GB is is plenty enough to get by without wanting to pull your hair out, and you can easily slap another 2x8GB down the road, I can’t imagine needing more than 32GB for just gaming and productivity.
For the graphics card, ask around to see if anyone has a spare laying around they are willing to send/give to you. I have a 660Ti laying around in a box somewhere. It’s not much, but it will play basic games. When the great GPU scarcity finally clears up, you can get something newer. I guess this means you’ll have to get your hands dirty, but putting in a GPU is one of the easier things you might have to do in a PC by far, much simpler and less room for error by miles than installing a CPU properly.
SSDs are decently priced these days, get a 512GB SSD and then for actual storage/installing games that don’t take 5 hours to load off spinning disks, get a 1 or 2 TB HDD, those are dirt cheap.
For the PSU, you probably want something 650 watts at minimum, 800 is better, and if you think you will eventually be getting a 3080 or whatever the equivalent is by the time you get around to buying a GPU, you might want a 1000W PSU. But PSUs are also not the most expensive part in a PC, so you could go with a cheaper 650W if you don’t expect to be doing major upgrades for a couple years.
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