I am feeling ‘Armored Core 6 is about to be released and I don’t have a gaming PC’ panic. I don’t have a microcenter “near” me but I have one within reasonable driving distance. I have also built PCs before, but I haven’t built one in the past 12 years.
Please help
if it helps, From is still supporting the PS4!
Microcenter is a plague and if you go to one, you will be infected for the rest of your life
I dropped everything I was doing Saturday because the MC closest to me got 750W PSUs back in stock and I hate myself for it
What’s a good and smart solution for equipping my desktop PC with bluetooth capability? Right now I have this little USB adapter, but I’m not impressed with the fact that my headphones degrade seriously in reception when I am standing at my desk.
And does anyone recommend decent desktop speakers? I use two bookshelf speakers wired to a mini amp, which is nice and sounds good but I’m giving up a lot of space to speakers on my desk because of it.
USB adapters are a reasonable way to go. You could just try a different one, that sort of severe reception problem is not an inherent property of the whole category. If you want really good reception you could try one with a giant antenna on it but even tiny ones should be enough to cover at least the size of a room normally.
If you want to maximize reception and get wifi support at the same time, you could get a PciE card like this one. But I find USB adapters are better in practice because most headphones are bad at multipoint connections, and it’s sometimes useful to force them to connect to a different device by physically unplugging it.
I think I’ll try to track down a better USB dongle then. Thanks!
Also, does anyone think this is messing with my wifi signal at all?
usb 3.0 ports and/or devices can cause interference, I believe with Bluetooth and 2.4 ghz wireless signals???
The question marks mean while I am reasonably sure some parts of this statement are more or less true, I don’t know if it’s enough to have an effect on your dongle, like zero clue if it’s an negligible effect or not, BUT might as well try plugging it into a different port all the same, especially if it’s a usb 3.0 port (the blue ones)
sometimes it’s a matter of positioning, too
my dongle works great in a front USB port but i have problems if i stick it in the back. if it has to be in the back, maybe a usb cord that moves it closer to where your head is all you need?
This is for sure the thing. I moved my bluetooth USB dongle from a front port to a back and it was so bad. I figured maybe I should just get a better, permanent solution like a PCI-E thing but it seems like that’s unnecessary.
a lot of Bluetooth hardware is just really bad. I’ve had usb dongles demonstrate obvious interference with keyboards from like, 3 feet away around a desk, and I’ve had the Bluetooth built into an m2 wifi card work flawlessly with my airpod pros from two rooms away. spend more on the thing you can control
Ideally, it’s better to avoid bluetooth and use a proprietary point-to-point wireless connection. Otherwise even if both sides are expensive, you can run into cases where those two particular devices just don’t “get along with each other”. I guess they can’t test every possible combination and there seems to be a lot of wiggle room in the Bluetooth spec
Not using Bluetooth is also the only way to get acceptable latency for games and zoom calls, so I use a Sony H9 headset that comes with its own USB dongle for those nowadays
that audio technica turntable causes the problem, absolutely 100% true — lucky for you that I came along and gonna solve that problem for you, could you just open the door for me, OK, byeeeee——
srsly now, seconding recommendation to try different usb ports/extension cables. And make sure that a USB hub does not cause noise (which a cheap/passive one actually did for my logitech webcam).
How is Elden Ring on steam deck? ROG Ally? One of the other 7840u handhelds?
And how much can we expect AC6 to play well on those?
So far it’s pretty playable but having played it to that point primarily on a machine where I could crank nearly everything up, for once in my life I’m looking at the graphics.
Some of the text prompts could be bigger, but that’s an across the board issue with the Steam Deck
i think its new pc time. loathing having yet another atx tower lying around. i might take all my old stuff to a pc recycler and rustle up a hard drive reader
What I’m really looking forward to is purging every lightning cable in my apartment with great prejudice
I’ve been using my old X without a case this summer since it throttles so badly otherwise (and have as a result noticed how close they kept the design language to the original iPhone for this one), and I’m absolutely ready to spend on a 15 Pro after 6 years
it’s very good that “more repairable” has also become a pro feature after that was only introduced on the regular model last year
the wheels were coming off my 8 so had to get a 14 pro last year but can’t front i’ll be a bit salty missing out on usbc for the next few years
might feel a bit better when i see the £ price though innit
I’m hoping the next gen SE coming in 2025 will have USB Type-C too.
