if it makes you feel better i cancelled my order before it shipped because i’m not going to windows harder than coffee lake/turing any time soon. like, what unreal 5 game could possibly get me on board
my desktop may as well be a 3U rack in my furnace closet
yeah, I thought I was being proactive by finally replacing my ivy bridge machine with this thing because it was simply overdue, but the truth is that I haven’t really needed it still
I used it to enable ray tracing in the AC6 menu for a few minutes. Then I turned that off because my fans were running louder in the menu than in the game
As I’m still married to Thunderbolt (and Intel) for when I take work home, I’ve been eyeing those Asus ProArt mobos. I probably shouldn’t be spending that sort of money soon. Any good reason not to just yet?
My modem keeps dropping my connection throughout the day and night and I have to powercycle it most times to get the connection back. Really annoying when playing FF14. I think I will have to call my internet provider to get it replaced. It’s several years old.
if you were scoping building an Intel system, they will have been on the same uArch for 3 generations, which also means you could just scoop up a cheaper x6xx board with the features you want and that have gotten BIOS upgrades for continued support
as for not spending that money, well, it’ll always get better. I’d buy DDR5 right now though, might as well get it cheap
hey I’m a damn moron and go in to work every day. please yell backpack recommends at me. the very least I would be carrying is my laptop and ipad and maybe some other stuff and I’d like enough room to shove tools in and also something that would last a while
If this is a DOCSIS cable modem, you can generally buy your own for like $30 nowadays. It will usually work even if your ISP claims theirs is required.
The 14th gen intel CPUs are supposed to be released in October and while I have heard absolutely nothing to suggest that they will have any meaningful performance improvement they should push down the prices for the previous generations even further. Same socket as 12th and 13th gen, I don’t think they’re even bothering with a new chipset this time. So if you wait ~1 month you might be able to save a couple bucks or get a faster CPU for the same money.
I have some ProArt monitors that are fine but I don’t know anything about the motherboards.
Damn the 7800XT looks to perform the same if not WORSE than the 6800XT in most situations except in Starfield according to the new GN review. What the hell, AMD?
AMD botched the naming conventions with all of radeon this generation. The only innovation is in the semi-reasonable price for midrange gaming. Finally getting 3080 performance with adequate VRAM for $500.
My computer is 7 years old and Black Friday is 2 months away. The time is nigh. Are these PCPartPicker builds more or less good? I could Google this, but I’d rather ask specific internet strangers.
all these builds have AMD GPUs
as an AMD GPU owner, do not buy an AMD GPU unless you also want to dive into the linux hole or you don’t care about anything DLSS/CUDA/AI
with that said, I did you a build with an AMD GPU because I am here for maximum chaos
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6T7QqR
first cuts on this build would be the Sonic motherboard I stuck you with to a DDR4 board and to DDR4 memory, which is hilariously cheap right now, but not future proof (as if DDR5 would be current in another 7 years)
next cut would be GPU, dropping down from the 6800 to the 6700XT/whatever cheap 4060 you can find
I would argue the CPU you pick doesn’t matter as long as you have enough grunt but AMD’s newest platform probably has more runway than anything Intel has right now
I’m only able to process so much information at a time but “AMD GPU bad” should stick.
“bad” is putting it the wrong way
they’re just always the second choice behind Nvidia
they’re good if you realistically want to save a few bucks and don’t care about ray tracing
Yeah they don’t do gpgpu or raytracing stuff but they’re fine imo. I threw a very cheap used 6600XT in my ancient desktop of similar vintage and it lets me play bg3 in 4k at about 40 fps with fsr on.
What is your budget? What games do you want to play? What else do you want to do with it?
I’d like to be able to play new games at 1080/60 for some years without having to compromise on settings or tinker with stuff. I think my last PC ended up running me around $800, but I’m willing to pay more to turn my brain off. I don’t think I’m what they’d call an enthusiast.
hmmm
the thing with both nvidia and amd right now is that their current generation retail product segmentation is so bad and so expensive that if you’re at all price conscious you should be looking aftermarket anyhow, and AMD is so far behind on anything other than regular ass fp32 rendering that it’s really hard to recommend them over nvidia, considering all the miscellaneous other gpgpu features of nvidia hardware, unless you’re in a retail store and you absolutely must spend $600 instead of $800
yeah what’s the deal with ram prices? it’s cheap even in fishy rishi’s britain
Finally a computer for absolute sickos
