There are small cases that are roomy enough for big GPUs – the Cooler Master NR200 can be found for around $80, is about the size of a shoebox, and looks and feels nice in person. I got one last fall and I’m happy with it.
It fits 3-slot GPUs and should fit yours:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Zmn3xc
That looks pretty cool! I’m a little scared of how hard cable management might be in such a small case. This’ll be my first build without in-person assistance, so I’m trying not to set myself up with an insurmountable challenge.
This was my fourth PC build, the second-smallest, and by far the easiest cable job. I think the new thing for cases is the easy ability to remove the top, bottom, sides, even the rails, so getting access to everything was much better.
Despite all the insane legacy cruft that makes your life more difficult, like not one but two power cables to rout and plug into your motherboard.
yeah, newer ITX cases are vastly easier to work in than older ones. if you got like a three fan or three slot GPU you gotta go bigger, but getting a 3080 (not a 3090) into a modern ITX case is definitely easier than getting a 1080 Ti into a then-contemporary ITX case was
New place has a FiOS box in the garage but the FiOS website says they don’t service the address. When I called the Verizon sales line they told me to call Frontier who don’t have self-service ordering. After a 20 minute live chat I’m set but I’m supposed to send them a form with a photocopy of my ID to a PO Box.
Even where I can get symmetrical gigabit it’s still got that US infrastructure charm
I may live to regret it(?) but I just bought a 5600X on a fairly deep discount (they’re finally a decent price up here) and the 3600MHz RAM and motherboard to put it to good work
the 5600x is down to $225 and I’ve been pretty tempted at that price. maybe elden ring would only freeze for half a second instead of 4 seconds if I had one of those
according to work being done on Proton and VKD3D, the stuttering is down to bad D3D12 programming
also it seems like they got it running stutter free in Linux
Apex Legends just got patched to run with EAC under Proton too
5 years ago I bought a Radeon RX 480 graphics card for $209 new. Today, that same card is selling on Ebay used for $200. Wowzers, this market is bizarre.
somehow neither AMD nor Nvidia have hit that sweet spot of strong 1080p performance while also hitting and staying at the 200 dollar red line. hell, AMD launched a new card at the 200 “price point” and it’s slightly worse
Intel is supposed to launch Arc GPUs in the coming months so maybe there will be a return to affordable entry-level cards
yeah I’ve seemingly been cursed (to be clear genuinely actually blessed, I am grateful for it every day lol) by this hand-me-down 1080Ti into having to look to a 2080 or 3070 or better in order to see much gain in general performance, so crossing my fingers things become more tenable in the next year or so
actually I’ve already seen what few cards there are show up retail for RRP again, which is good to see, I missed the drop but at least they’re happening
yo where you gettin this dank intel?? I’ve been observing better performance on linux too vs my time spent on windows and was curious what to chalk it up to, my money was on differences in EAC implementation
personally I’m not stutter-free but it’s definitely better (and the stutters seem to correlate more to actual attempts at rendering expensive effects now)
(not challenging your facts! would just like to follow along too if this is public discourse, I’m real bad about following devs despite curiosity)
I’m still using a big Antec tower I got in 2008, which was one of the best ones at the time: relatively easy to install things and good soundproofing. Lately I’ve started to dislike it because A) it’s too heavy, B) the fans keep accumulating a lot of dust and start making rattling/whining noises, and are annoying to clean. Can I expect a better experience if I replace it with my next build?
definitely, though the current hotness ITX cases (eg DAN Cases) are all sold in small batches and fairly opinionated.
@notbov can probably give a better breakdown of what’s available right now than I can.
meshlicious make them boys go loco
/r/linux_gaming is usually on the bleeding edge of news because of the combo of reddit, gamers and Linux users
I personally am not Linux on the desktop atm but they’re saying you have to try the Proton Experimental branch for the Elden Ring commits
similarly, they were the ones who caught that the steam_deck branch for Apex got merged into the main branch last night and everyone started fiddling with it
Re: the Ryzen setup, I won’t actually care about getting a PCIe 4.0-capable riser until I get an Nvidia 30 series/Radeon 5000 series card or newer, right?
Compressed air is fine but a vacuum attachment with a boba straw taped over the end will clear out heat sinks and computer case floors without blowing dust all over.
What’s the best way to get a Windows 10 license these days without straight up pirating it? Not against piracy ethically, I just don’t want to end up with a bitcoin mining hijacker or something.
i think i saw @idiot or someone suggest grabbing a key off ebay for a few bucks