Somebody stop me... (Gaming PC Build Thread)

[CudaMan]

Remember when you could stand in line on release day and still get your product, or even wait 24 hours and not have a line at all?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[Rare White Ape]

Remember life before the pandemic?

Pepperidge... um I mean XKCD remembers.

[Kchrpm]

Apparently Best Buy is implementing some new verification/anti-bot tools:

Once you get it in your cart and check out, you have to enter a verification code sent to your email and once you enter that you have to enter a code sent by your bank that’s on the card you’re checking out with. Keep trying guys you’ll get it!

[Rare White Ape]

I'll report in when I get the keyboard later.

Keyboard is here. I haven't really typed anything on it yet, apart from this post and a few Google searches.

It's heavy. My God it is heavy. I guess it's meant to sit solidly on a desk rather than my lap. And it isn't making me type any better yet

One gripe: it won't pair up with the receiver for the mouse. I suppose it would be too much of a no-brainer for Logitech to implement a feature like this.

But at least it has dual Lightspeed and Bluetooth functionality, so I just connect with Bluetooth and I'm happy. I just won't have access to the G keys, which are used to program for features in games, because the G Hub software doesn't recognise a peripheral that isn't connected via the receiver, which would be another no-brainer I guess.

At least it is solid and seems to be built well. It has all the media stop/start keys and volume controls which I use a lot, so it's OK for an expensive keyboard.

No RGB lighting though

[Rare White Ape]

Did you guys know that the RTX 3060 Ti was a thing?

I found out this morning, and for $400 North American pesos it matches the performance of the 2080 Super, and troubles the abilities of the RX 6800 especially in ray traced workloads.

Nice

[drew]

The next GPU I buy, I don't want to have to buy one for 5 years. That basically (in my little mind), gives me two choices. I have to wait and see the 6900XT tests.

Of course, if rumors hold, and they release a 3080Ti with 20GB, I'll throw money at that shit.

[Rare White Ape]

I would guess that that's probably 12 months away, if you take the last gen as an example where the Super models arrived in the halfway point of the 2 year cycle.

But for now you have to battle scalpers anyway, so waiting 12 months probably wouldn't be so hard.

For me, if I was buying a GPU for a build right now, I have already decided that Nvidia is the way to go. Their RT tech is so much better in price-for-price cards, plus DLSS is a killer, allowing MUCH better performance for the small trade-off of a little bit of softness in image quality compared to native resolution. Further, DLSS is a feature that can be improved and updated as time goes on, as it's not fully bound to the hardware you buy.

[drew]

I'm leaning towards NV as well. Having had 6(?) various cards of theirs over the years.

Can't even remember the first few, but I progressed from 480-680-1080 then 1080ti (why not).

Intel CPUs go way back for me as well. I remember a Q6600 dual-core, it was a beast!

[Yw-slayer]

Ah yeah, I was thinking about my old desktops in bed last night (that's how I roll).

- P4-2.6C in old-school Coolermaster ATCS case, the first and only computer I put together myself from start to finish. Originally at home, then moved to work
- Q6600 (I think) in a Gigabyte case at home
- E7200 in mini-ATX smaller, Coolermaster or Silverstonetek case at work
- i7-2600K in a Silverstone Raven RV-02E at home (at work I changed from the E7200 to a Thinkpad W520)
- i5-6500K in Fractal Design case at work (gave Thinkpad to my wife soon after I got a Thinkpad T470)
- i7-6700K in another Fractal Design case at home
- i5-3470 home server that was originally in the Gigabyte case, then shifted to the Raven, then shifted to Fractal Design case

Good times.

[Rare White Ape]

I’ve had three computers:

i3 laptop
i7 laptop
i5 desktop

Needless to say, the i5 has been way way way faster than the laptops.

Also laptops are a fucking ripoff, unless you absolutely have to have one. If you need mobile web browsing or entertainment get a tablet. For gaming get a Switch.