PC Pc Gaming/building thread

[blackshadow]

The Beast lives!

took a month + to ship it back home, but it's running happily in my mum's kitchen

She hates it.

So that's an added bonus.

What was the issue?

 

[sataris]

What was the issue?

Turns out the motherboard had shit the bed somehow,

To be fair, a few of the SATA ports had stopped working about 6 months prior so there were definitely signs.

(not that I was using onboard sata to begin with, never use onboard Sata controller for mission critical stuff!)

 

[sataris]

Turns out the motherboard had s**t the bed somehow,

To be fair, a few of the SATA ports had stopped working about 6 months prior so there were definitely signs.

(not that I was using onboard sata to begin with, never use onboard Sata controller for mission critical stuff!)

Full specs now are

X570 Aorus Master
Ryzen 3950x 16 Core
4x1TB SSD (for cache)
8x Drive for 57TB storage
1x Drive for 16TB Parity
64GB DDR4-3200mhz RAm
Geforce GTX1660
Adaptec SAS/SATA controller
6 x 120mm intake fans (3 on the radiator)
360mm arctic liquid freezer ii
2 x 80mm exhaust fans
1 x 40mm fan for the sas controller (yes it needs it's own fan, ask me how i know..)
Rosewill L4500U case

 

[blackshadow]

Rosewill L4500U case

So your mum has a nice rack even if she hates it?

 

[sataris]

So your mum has a nice rack even if she hates it?

 

[dwwaino]

Linus vs GN

 

[gaskin]

What is the beef about? HUB just posted a video with something about it in the title but I cbf watching it.

 

[dwwaino]

What is the beef about? HUB just posted a video with something about it in the title but I cbf watching it.

A video from LTT about their new testing lab had a drive by to other tech tubers from one of LMG's staff. It was actually in poor taste and Linus could have owned it, but instead he doubled down on the comment. HUB originally jabbed back a week or so ago but being petulant on Twitter isn't unusual for Steve/HUB. Now GN have fired back bascially pulling apart LTT, their inaccuracies, cash for comments and conflicts in interest when covering products.

Pretty fair assessment though. LTT/LMG stopped being decent a long time ago. Now they're just mostly paid advertisements, shitty unboxing/reaction videos and terrible memes. But I also don't bother too much with these channels outside of major generational hardware periods and don't care too much about all the talking head videos in between that they all seem to churn out to keep their view counts up.

 

[sataris]

A video from LTT about their new testing lab had a drive by to other tech tubers from one of LMG's staff. It was actually in poor taste and Linus could have owned it, but instead he doubled down on the comment. HUB originally jabbed back a week or so ago but being petulant on Twitter isn't unusual for Steve/HUB. Now GN have fired back bascially pulling apart LTT, their inaccuracies, cash for comments and conflicts in interest when covering products.

Pretty fair assessment though. LTT/LMG stopped being decent a long time ago. Now they're just mostly paid advertisements, shitty unboxing/reaction videos and terrible memes. But I also don't bother too much with these channels outside of major generational hardware periods and don't care too much about all the talking head videos in between that they all seem to churn out to keep their view counts up.

This is in a nutshell.

I pretty much only follow level1techs nowadays.

 

[blackshadow]

This is in a nutshell.

I pretty much only follow level1techs nowadays.

Wendell’s the man!

I’m also a bit of a Network Chuck fan - I like his style.

 

[dav3]

A video from LTT about their new testing lab had a drive by to other tech tubers from one of LMG's staff. It was actually in poor taste and Linus could have owned it, but instead he doubled down on the comment. HUB originally jabbed back a week or so ago but being petulant on Twitter isn't unusual for Steve/HUB. Now GN have fired back bascially pulling apart LTT, their inaccuracies, cash for comments and conflicts in interest when covering products.

Pretty fair assessment though. LTT/LMG stopped being decent a long time ago. Now they're just mostly paid advertisements, shitty unboxing/reaction videos and terrible memes. But I also don't bother too much with these channels outside of major generational hardware periods and don't care too much about all the talking head videos in between that they all seem to churn out to keep their view counts up.

Tech influencer turns out to be a douchebag, mind blown. They're all as bad as each other, everything they do is about maintaining their cash flow, and drama sells.

 

[dwwaino]

Tech influencer turns out to be a douchebag, mind blown. They're all as bad as each other, everything they do is about maintaining their cash flow, and drama sells.

It's a shame because I don't think it was always this way. I used to sub to a lot of them and regularly watched their content. Now I don't sub to any of them and only search them around releases to fast forward to benchmarks.

 

[Supersuns]

LTT taking the cooling block prototype then 1. Not testing it correctly,
2. Shittcanning it after not testing it correctly,
3. Selling the prototype at an auction after agreeing twice to give it back to the supplier/maker is one of the worst things I've ever seen. What a scumbag of a business.

 

[blackshadow]

LTT taking the cooling block prototype then 1. Not testing it correctly,
2. Shittcanning it after not testing it correctly,
3. Selling the prototype at an auction after agreeing twice to give it back to the supplier/maker is one of the worst things I've ever seen. What a scumbag of a business.

Shut up and buy a screwdriver!

 

[Supersuns]

Shut up and buy a screwdriver!

A noctua screwdriver!!

 

[Harlequin Dream]

Actually the latest LTT controversy was over a prototype water block for a 3090.

Linus tested it on a 4090 and refused to test it on what it was designed for. Linus slandered the company.

The company asked for their prototype back multiple times and instead Linus sold it at auction. Possibly to a competitor.

The small lab has lost its prototype and this has caused a developmental pause for the product. The costs are far deeper than the value of the individual item.

Supersuns summed it up nicely before me.

 

[dwwaino]

Shut up and buy a screwdriver!

Buy product with my endorsement! And here are my reviews of it against competitor's products! It's legit, trust me bro.

 

[sataris]

It's a shame because I don't think it was always this way. I used to sub to a lot of them and regularly watched their content. Now I don't sub to any of them and only search them around releases to fast forward to benchmarks.

This is what irks me the most and I've mentioned it before.

The fact the benchmark graphs aren't available on the websites and aren't searchable/filterable.

Remember the Graphs on Toms Hardware?

I may be wrong about the following, but there was video I believe by GN, where they said there's no charts on the website, because the 'data is nuanced'. and you need to watch the video to understand it.

 

[sataris]

I'm also genuinely concerned that LTT is a backer for the Framework laptop.

Seriously re-considering my pre-order.

 

[drd23]

This is what irks me the most and I've mentioned it before.

The fact the benchmark graphs aren't available on the websites and aren't searchable/filterable.

Remember the Graphs on Toms Hardware?

TechSpot has the HUB graphs (or at least did the last time I looked a couple of months ago), but they aren't interactive at all

I may be wrong about the following, but there was video I believe by GN, where they said there's no charts on the website, because the 'data is nuanced'. and you need to watch the video to understand it.

Seriously? It couldn't possibly be that they aren't good at communicating...

 

[Matera92]

I'm also genuinely concerned that LTT is a backer for the Framework laptop.

Seriously re-considering my pre-order.

LTT aren't a backer, it was Linus's personal money and not affiliated with the company.

 

[Mitho]

Are we allowed to ask for recommendations in here? I need help.

Exclusively a console gamer, previously PS, now XBOX, but my gaming time has plumeted and my kids are taking over the consoles far more often.
I NEED to play Baldurs Gate on a PC (as well as a few others). But I have no ****ing idea what I'm looking at.

Home laptop is on the fritz also so need to replace something soon anyway so that will get me over the line with the wife for her needs and the kids with research/homework - all comes down to cost VS required specs.

Ideally I don't want to spend any more than $1500-$2000 plus a monitor, but as above i have no idea so would be looking at prebuilts.

Any and all advice is very welcome.

 

[HirdyLannister]

Are we allowed to ask for recommendations in here? I need help.

Exclusively a console gamer, previously PS, now XBOX, but my gaming time has plumeted and my kids are taking over the consoles far more often.
I NEED to play Baldurs Gate on a PC (as well as a few others). But I have no ******* idea what I'm looking at.

Home laptop is on the fritz also so need to replace something soon anyway so that will get me over the line with the wife for her needs and the kids with research/homework - all comes down to cost VS required specs.

Ideally I don't want to spend any more than $1500-$2000 plus a monitor, but as above i have no idea so would be looking at prebuilts.

Any and all advice is very welcome.

dwwaino is the one that can help.

I have no idea about PC building and I managed to put one together, there are acouple of good videos out there. Small amount of research and asking questions in here helped me put mine together.

 

[blackshadow]

Are we allowed to ask for recommendations in here? I need help.

Exclusively a console gamer, previously PS, now XBOX, but my gaming time has plumeted and my kids are taking over the consoles far more often.
I NEED to play Baldurs Gate on a PC (as well as a few others). But I have no ******* idea what I'm looking at.

Home laptop is on the fritz also so need to replace something soon anyway so that will get me over the line with the wife for her needs and the kids with research/homework - all comes down to cost VS required specs.

Ideally I don't want to spend any more than $1500-$2000 plus a monitor, but as above i have no idea so would be looking at prebuilts.

Any and all advice is very welcome.

Of course you’re allowed to ask!

Does your budget include the monitor in the $1500-2000?

What resolution are you wanting to play? 1080 or 1440p?

Apart from BG3 what others?

For example if you are looking at Starfield some AMD CPUs and GPUs currently have a promotion for a free copy.

 

[dav3]

It's a shame because I don't think it was always this way. I used to sub to a lot of them and regularly watched their content. Now I don't sub to any of them and only search them around releases to fast forward to benchmarks.

I reckon it has been for years, it just becomes more obvious once there's some drama to pile on to and clicks/subs to nab. Their entire Modus Operandi is to blow things out of proportion because that's what gets the most people, pump up the promising stuff and tear into the stuff that doesn't meet expectations, especially if it's something they already pumped up. If your competition does something even a little bit incorrect then hammer them and set fire to their reputation.

Content creators do it, the Murdoch rags do it, TV News does it..... it gets people riled up and looking for the next update. Ratings, clicks, and subscriptions are all money to them and that's all they really give a shit about, and there's plenty of humans out there desperate for things to put on their screens that eat that shit up.