Oh my cord work isn’t neat and tidy by any means but the lumpy weight distribution of a big case just feels disorganized next to a solid dense block of compute
I needed my wife’s help to put the Node 202 together because she has much smaller fingers and even modular power cables don’t like to bend that much
my wife refuses to even be in the house any time I have to take my SG05 apart because it’s just a constant string of curse words from me trying to work around tiny tolerances
not as bad as my father who, whenever a chair leg broke or my mom asked him to fix something, would mutter “fuck you, you shitty fucking son of a bitch” at the light switch / chair / saw / etc. from that moment until it was fixed
I love protestantism and I love small computers
anyway the PCIe riser generation of ITX/DTX cases seems a lot more tolerable to work in
I barely had enough room to get my recent ryzen 3700x ATX build together in a mid-tower case. I can’t imagine the patience it must take to put one of these tiny computers together.
you planning on pulling the trigger on Ryzen 3xxx/4xxx, or waiting a bit longer?
Ryzen 4xxx; above 8c. I want to do full liquid-cooling because I’m tired of how loud a GPU gets when it’s pressed up against a case vent. And just because I’ve never done it before.
I’ll carry over my 2 SATA SSDs and wait a year or so for PCI-E gen4 SSDs to hit console parity/not ludicrous pricing; reuse my power supply, resell my GPU, and then I’ll have a 6700k w/RAM and motherboard and a TSA-cracked Node 202 case with no clear purpose.
I don’t like to part out old friends if I can help it and honestly nothing in my current build is going to be worth hanging on to in a new machine other than the Pascal Titan (even the 450w bronze PSU that came with the silverstone case way back when is easily worth replacing with a 600w SFX job now), so I’m still committed to seeing how long I can drag SATA along with this absolutely blown out 3570K before it becomes obviously not doable, as the GPU is obviously still going to be fine in five years
wow that’s a lot of complex mouse jumping
it’d be really funny if Windows mapped one of those gaming keyboard screens like this
Each of those OLED keys as a separate 64x64 display
Display taskbar on all monitors
OK now show us your fancy zones, coward
Well, @Felix, you were right.
Trying to find someone to trade for a Samsung Odyssey+ now
briefly considered posting my balls
honestly my setup is… pretty quiet? I don’t hear very well, and both of the theoretical loudest components in my case are first-generation-after-a-shrink (22nm and 16nm) which I think is generally best case for heat dispersion, but I’m frequently surprised that even with this overclock and pushing the limits of this old PSU, just having it on a little table below my desk makes it functionally inaudible
I wish I could make my computer make more noises like my 386 did anytime you did anything
It’s really only the GPU; when it starts to top out and the fans get above 80% (which is where I want it to be) it’s obtrusive. These are the Nvidia FE fans.
I think turing is quite a bit louder than pascal
It worked out about the same for me because the FE cards went from a blower to an open-air design. I prioritized blower, at first, because that’s how the vents are arranged on the Node 202 (GPU pressed against a vent, no open airflow to the rest of the case) but it turns out that it washes out either way.
Y’all I just built my first computer in 10 years (and the first one I’ve actually built on my own). It’s a relatively low-spec system with an i3-9100F, 16GB RAM, and a ridiculous number of old and new hard drives stuffed in it. I was gonna cannibalize my old graphics card since it was slightly newer than the rest of my components–it was a GeForce 210 with 1GB of DDR3 RAM. But then I saw an opn-box GeForce GT 710 with 2GB and assumed it would be better and impulse bought it, but even though my processor’s way faster than my first-gen i5, things graphically seem about the same and when I look at the benchmarks, yeah, it’s better, but only a bit.
My question is, if I can ask questions (tell me if I should boot this to quick questions instead), what the next step up from here is while staying under, like $120 and if that’s even worth it? The numbering and hierarchy of contemporary video cards is utterly confounding to me because I’m dumb. From what I cuold see, though, getting anything even remotely decent might cost over $300? The world of graphics cards is different and worse than I remember it. It looks like mid-range almost doesn’t exist.
I’m not looking to run Shadow of the Tomb Raider in 4K, but I was thinking it might be nice to be able to play Hitman 2016 at the lowest settings at more than 8fps. I’m contemplating returning this card since the place I bought it from will let me for a few more days and either waiting to drop a few more dollars on a better one when i see a deal or feel the need, or just sticking with the minor improvements on this one because at least this one’s got silent cooling.
Sorry for my dumbassery. Any insight appreciated.
if you want to get a good GPU for under $300 you basically shouldn’t be looking at retail – it shouldn’t be that hard to find a secondhand 1060 or 1070 (depending on budget), but I don’t think anything in the current lineup will be worthwhile if you’re trying to stay around $200
Yeah, used 1070s in the US run $200 and they’re definitely the sweet spot. I’ve bought three for various friendbuilds from crypto miners with no issues at all.
yeah I bought my 1070 used at that price. if you’re playing at 1080p there is still no game that it can’t play maxed out or close to it. at 1440p you sometimes have to make sacrifices, but there’s not going to be a better value buy anytime soon.