PC Pc Gaming/building thread

[dwwaino]

Well f**k woke up this morning and found my PC off and refusing to turn on, and a burning smell coming from the PSU, I unplugged my GPU and could get the system powering up with my old 750W PSU, so it's bye bye 12 month old Corsair RM1000x.

I got it online from PC Case Gear so warranty may take a while, I reckon I'll just go grab a HX1200i and be done with it, it's an expensive beast but I can't see anything I like the look of that I can go grab today.

That's nuts, only 12 months old. RMx is an A tier line that should only fail to a manufacturing fault in that time so at least you should have no issues getting a refund.

 

[dav3]

That's nuts, only 12 months old. RMx is an A tier line that should only fail to a manufacturing fault in that time so at least you should have no issues getting a refund.

Yeah the higher end Corsairs have always been solid for me, but faults can happen.

 

[dav3]

Awesome, walked to Centrecom only to find it was suddenly out of stock and replaced with the same model only $50 more. Had to walk another 20 minutes to get to Umart which I swear had stock earlier but didn't, so I just grabbed the same model that blew up.

At least there's a microbrewery across from Umart so not all was lost

 

[Ry009]

At least there's a microbrewery across from Umart so not all was lost

Geez reckon I'd be flat broke if I lived anywhere near there. Continual impulse buys on both sides of the road lol

 

[dwwaino]

 

[Long Live HFC]

Accidentally picked up a 5070 ti for Crimson Dawn. Hoping to get a fair return on my 3080.

Eta- And duh, obviously I meant crimson desert. Idiot.

 

[dwwaino]

Accidentally picked up a 5070 ti for Crimson Dawn. Hoping to get a fair return on my 3080.

Hate it when this happens

 

[dwwaino]

Just on Crimson Desert I watched this DF video earlier today and it made excited that it's sounds like it's one of the first times my 5090 is truly going to get to stretch its legs. So far it has just brute forced performance out of everything. I didn't get a 5090 because I'm "rah rah no fake frames!" and just wanted to force native resolution, I wanted to leverage all the NVIDIA tech to get higher performance at lower loads. So far the PC demo footage has been on a 9070xt at Ultra settings at native 4K and still looks awesome. There is a higher cinematic setting so if I can get that to run at a decent frame rate and it has frame gen I'm just going to lock it at something to cap my 240hz monitor while running at less load. Sounds like Ultra will be a breeze but I'd even happily use an upscaler on cinematic if it's that much better at eliminating things like pop-in. That's the reason I splurged on a 5090.

 

[Ashman23]

Accidentally picked up a 5070 ti for Crimson Dawn. Hoping to get a fair return on my 3080.

Eta- And duh, obviously I meant crimson desert. Idiot.

You should've sniffed some rosemary.

 

[Long Live HFC]

Just on Crimson Desert I watched this DF video earlier today and it made excited that it's sounds like it's one of the first times my 5090 is truly going to get to stretch its legs. So far it has just brute forced performance out of everything. I didn't get a 5090 because I'm "rah rah no fake frames!" and just wanted to force native resolution, I wanted to leverage all the NVIDIA tech to get higher performance at lower loads. So far the PC demo footage has been on a 9070xt at Ultra settings at native 4K and still looks awesome. There is a higher cinematic setting so if I can get that to run at a decent frame rate and it has frame gen I'm just going to lock it at something to cap my 240hz monitor while running at less load. Sounds like Ultra will be a breeze but I'd even happily use an upscaler on cinematic if it's that much better at eliminating things like pop-in. That's the reason I splurged on a 5090.

Haha yep. It was this video and ray reconstruction examples which led me to Scorptec.

 

[dwwaino]

When hardware becomes dull and/or scarce, just turn to ragebait and scandals. The Current Affair of hardware channels.

 

[Supersuns]

Have had the pull my pc apart and rebuild it itch for a while now, ending up devolving into let's build an entire new pc from the ground up.
So naturally I've gone over the top.



Debated a 5090 for weeks but just couldn't justify a gpu costing more than this entire build. Runs like a dream tho, Flux Pro best case I have ever built in, build quality was top notch and thermals have been incredible.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Pretty much the same PC as mine specs-wise. Enjoy!

 

[dwwaino]

Have had the pull my pc apart and rebuild it itch for a while now, ending up devolving into let's build an entire new pc from the ground up.
So naturally I've gone over the top.
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Debated a 5090 for weeks but just couldn't justify a gpu costing more than this entire build. Runs like a dream tho, Flux Pro best case I have ever built in, build quality was top notch and thermals have been incredible.

Is 2x16gb 6000cl28 going for as much as a 5080 yet?

 

[Supersuns]

Is 2x16gb 6000cl28 going for as much as a 5080 yet?

Pretty much. I got insanely lucky on SSDs and got all 5tb for like 500 bucks but the prices of both have shot back up in the last week. When ram prices drop (in 2029) ill grab another kit.

 

[dwwaino]

That reminds me I've still got to sell my 5080. I completely forgot about it. I was thinking I could use it towards an overseas flight next year but at this rate I might need it for a tank of petrol.

 

[dwwaino]

Hard to actually gauge until we play ourselves, but looking at these benchmarks Crimson Desert surely has to be one of the most optimised open world games ever

 

[dav3]

When hardware becomes dull and/or scarce, just turn to ragebait and scandals. The Current Affair of hardware channels.

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It's all they do anyway, it's just more noticeable and random when the industry is in a lull. They'll be back to FaKe FrAmEs!1!1 style crap soon enough.

 

[dwwaino]

It's all they do anyway, it's just more noticeable and random when the industry is in a lull. They'll be back to FaKe FrAmEs!1!1 style crap soon enough.

They've started on DLSS 5 so instead of fake frames it's fake graphics. These channels have rabid following and everyone just repeats what they say like it's gospel. Richard Leadbetter received death threats for Digital Foundry's coverage of DLSS 5. That's so ****ed. Gamers are so unhinged. I think full AI renders like DLSS 5 is where I will draw the line on this sort of stuff (*though it might be a neat novelty to apply to old games as a free remaster) but it's not like it makes me angry to the point I need to make death threats against a journalist. Not that I'm blaming GN directly but it's channels like them that stir up this sort of thing.