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Think for yourself. Do not trust advice given here. Do your own research using the information in the stickies.

>A /pcbg/ for every use case and budget!

>News & Rumors
Just read TomsHardware -- industry is screwed until RAM/SSD/HDD catches up ;_;

>Price tracking
RAM: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/ram-price-index-2026-lowest-price-on-ddr5-and-ddr4-memory-of-all-capacities
SSD: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/ssd-price-tracking-2026-lowest-price-on-every-m-2-ssd
GPU: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/lowest-gpu-prices-tracking

>GPU hierarchy 2026
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

>PSU Reviews
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplies
https://www.lttlabs.com/
https://www.kitguru.net/reviews/?category_name=power-supplies

For tier-list enjoyers:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akCHL7Vhzk_EhrpIGkz8zTEvYfLDcaSpZRB6Xt6JWkc/

>Storage Reviews
https://www.tweaktown.com/cat/storage/index.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/?category=SSD
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/ssds/reviews

>Monitor Hunter
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1illeNLsUfZ4KuJ9cIWKwTDUEXUVpplhUYHAiom-FaDo/

>Other helpful Links
Mobomaps, only lists a few AM5 boards but actively updated: https://mobomaps.com/
A PC build guide : https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Build_a_PC
German autism : https://www.igorslab.de/en/
Monitor reviews : https://www.rtings.com/
Alternate to pcpartpicker: https://pangoly.com/en/pc-builder

hdd prices seem to be rising even more in the last week
I'm actually getting depressed over the whole thing

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thoughts on case figures?

>>108271947
It's because the ssd prices are ballooning. No more pressure to keep hdd prices down.

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>>108271947
me too and I was holding off to build a NAS but I realized it aint worth it to buy DDR4 either for that build
maybe shit will get better by later this year but I am so tired of a new happening every year

>>108271976
i dont have a fishtank and im too old to not be labeled a sex offender if i owned figurines

also why did you leave the plastic for shipment on your GPU? youre thermally insulating it

For a 5090, is it worth paying 400€ more for an Astral?

>>108271999
Not really. It's too late. The time to buy was December.

>>108272006
It's never too late, I'm just paying more. Just wondering if there is a noticeable gap that'd warrant the price difference.

>>108271976
>thoughts on case figures?
It's not my money.

>>108272010
No. I'd get whatever is cheapest and buy a full open loop with the money you saved.

>>108271976
If I had the space to put my case up somewhere where you could look into it, I'd put some Pikmin figures in there.

>>108271999
The only advantage of the Astral is the per pin monitoring feature, advantage that is compensated by a Wireview pro 2 that's cheaper than whatever extra money you have to shell out for it. Don't get scammed.

How much time should I set aside to build?
Is it recommended to do it all in one go or is fatigue/stress a legit thing when you're not experienced and should break it up over a few sessions

>>108272067
3h

>>108272067
take your time and dont rush
spend two weekends
watch videos before you build so you get visual experience from others if youre new or out of the loop

>>108272067
You can break down the assembly into smaller portions, complete one set at a time.
The core step is to check whether the CPU/motherboard/memory (and later storage) boots to BIOS before you install the board in the case.

>>108272067
It's really quick
>screw motherboard
>lift cpu socket, drop your cpu, close the socket
>apply thermal paste then screw the cooler
>insert the ram sticks like they're lego
>insert your nvme
>plug your case fans and cpu into the mobo
>add your PSU and plug what you need to
>add your GPU and plug it

that's it, you're done
it's extremely short you'll just waste time finding the right screwdrivers at first

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Adreno is anagram for Radeon

>>108271976
probably looks cool next to your dilator.

>>108272128
*dildo

>>108271976
Tranime stuff is pretty cringe.

>>108271976
My case doesn't have any windows.

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Fuck me... how do I keep managing to make shit worse like this? Just hoping this M4 didn't rupture the heatpipe completely, I figured that the screw would resist enough for me to prevent screwing through it, why didn't I check the progress as I felt the resistance.

Do not work on your computer when you should be going to sleep.

>>108272248
Or work overtime for more money and buy new instead of being a ghetto-rigger who doesn't know how to fix or mod stuff

>>108272248
you could probably solder it if there is a hole

Any experiences or opinions on DC or pico ATX PSUs? I got parts for a 300W build, and I feel it would be perfect for something on the go or off-grid.

>>108272285
I already bought a new GPU, I know what I'm doing.

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>>108271976
Probably a secular surrogate for the modern lack of religion. People used to put figurines of the Virgin Mary in their windows.

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just upgraded from an i5-8400 & 1060 to a 7800X3D & 9070 XT

>Alan Wake 2
>4k dlss quality
>path tracing and max settings


the fucking 5090 can't handle it @60fps lmao it gets to 40 in the forest area
what is this dogshit fucking card of the shittiest generation ever release

>>108272219
oh so you're a linux user?

>he spent thousands of dollars on a GPU

>>108271999
Depends on what else you can get. Asus is usually not worth the extra tax that you pay for the name.

News is a couple of weeks old now, but trend force are predicting a 90% price increase in memory during Q1 (April I guess) this year.

>>108272427
What are you going to do with it?

>>108272427
based. I went from i7 860 + 1060-3gb (I think it had a gtx 260 originally) to a 7800x3d + 4070

>>108272477
I have many games I've been waiting to play for a few years
I haven't played a new graphics-intensive game since, I don't know, Witcher 3?

>>108272473
>Trusting corposhills who want number to go up because it means better margins for shareholders
Memory is already going down in a few regions, why would it go down if it wasn't at peak already.

actually that's a lie, I played Resident Evil 2

I don't know why people buy a 5090 for gaming at this price point
For someone using Blender all day, maybe

>>108272530
Some people want the very best and money isn't an object because they can put it on credit card

>>108272530
Literally people who are paid 6 figures but have no life. They can piss away 10k on a gaming PC and not really care, even if they bitch about the pricing, they can afford it.

PCs are still a "cheap" hobby even then, I know people who have bicycles that cost about 15-20k for example.

>>108272104
You forgot to install the mounting backplate for the CPU cooler and a dozen other things.
A proper cable management also requires several trials and errors before you find the optimal solution. Maybe the BIOS needs an update. And a build is only complete with an OS, drivers and tools installed or else the box remains unusable.

>>108272530
Let's say they're on a 3090 and they skipped 4090. They had about 5 years to save up for that 5090.

>>108272530
>move to a low cost of living place (northern maine)
>get 40k a year wagie job
>no debt, no kids, no woman
>live frugally by nature
>have infinite disposable income

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>you fell for the oled meme

>>108272599
not really infinite though is it?

Remind me how to properly replace PC parts. Should the PSU be plugged into the outlet at all times for grounding as I connect it to the motherboard?

>>108272614
yeah make sure everything is turned on at all times when replacing parts, preferably under load

>>108272580
what other things?
cable management barely matter, my cable management is terrible I just plugged everything to get done with it quickly

bios and drivers and tools are all software, the hardware part of building a PC is what's scaring people off but it's actually braindead easy

>>108272530
I paid my 4090 2k five months before the 5090 released
and I just bought a 5090 for 3,2k$

now I hope we won't see the 6XXX or a 5090ti for a while heh

>>108272613
as long as you keep the job, yeah p much. i get the point your making but there is a difference in attitude.
there exists nothing that i want that i could not buy outright right now.

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>nvidia sisters he can't do this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvx8Q1RdZkI

>>108272614
pc off
psu switch off
unplug
press power switch to discharge the system
if worried about static, touch the screw on an outlet or a metal powerstrip before you do to ground yourself once
replace parts
reconnect
profit

>>108272433
Just because some terrible unoptimized garbage of game allows you to select irrational settings your GPU isn't bad.
RTX stands for Ray Tracing btw, You need to wait for the PTX 6090 if you want smooth Path Tracing. To date PT is just a proof on concept, not a serious option.

>>108272652
how about a house of your own

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Mounting pressure on modern GPUs must be stupidly high, because this M2 won't seat and let its self be screwed in. Maybe that's why the last two broke off when I tried pushing them in.

Remind me, why are M4 screws not standard for heatsink mounting?

>>108272599
>>108272652
The best thing you can do in your position is save up for traveling abroad. I too thought it was a meme until I first did it and found how good it is to experience new stuff first-hand.

>>108272670
>best thing you can do in a low-income position is to spend all of your money on luxuries

>>108272445
Some people spend even tens of thousands on their wedding.
That money is gone over night and you keep nothing but an entitled bitch.
Not so with my 90! It only increases in value and is a never ending source of bliss.

>>108272660
see caveat 2 (thats the want one). i do live alone btw and no i dont get gibs or money from parents or have a trust fund or anything or the sort. i just dont spend much and live in a low cost area.

>>108272658
The 4090 was able to completely smash every title that came before it
Why can't the 5090 do the same? why is it struggling so hard on fucking 2023 titles?

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>selling my ryzen 3 3300x, mobo, and 16GB ram for $100 on marketplace
>everything works
>bombarded with "how will you guarantee it works?"
these niggas think they're buying from microcenter, not marketplace.

>>108272669
you need power tools since hand cranking wont get as tight as machine

>>108272700
I was able to screw in the core screws last time by hand just fine.

>>108272679
Please understand, I am a third-worlder, 40k USD is 7x the average salary of my country.

>>108272498
Memory is going down a little because retailers have large stocks of RAM that hardcore AI people can't use (no R-DIMMs) and the mass of gamers can't afford at such inflated prices. They want/need to get rid of it. Unsold stock only costs money. This doesn't mean that RAM supply improved even a tiny bit.

>>108272724
>Memory is going down a little
every chart i've looked at says this is not true

>>108272679
hes not wrong. if hes speaking from experience like it sounds, we can take a 10k hit to the bank accout and just forget about it. in 6 months itll be right back where it was without changing anything other than we have a cool new toy to play with. about travel tho; i dont think thats me.

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>>108272588
> they skipped 4090

>>108272686
developers don't optimize their games anymore.

>>108272669
are you trying to screw the heatsink onto an SSD that already has a heatsink on it?

>>108272765
thats a GPU and hes mentioning screw sizes
... not M.2 the NVME

>>108272776
fuck I read M2 and heatsink and defaulted to M.2 NVME SSD.
don't mind me, just going to an hero.

>>108272686
No, even my 4090 could be brought down to 5 fps just by selecting stupid options in some games. Anomaly for example.
Newer titles are less optimized, rather developed with upscaling and even FG in mind and they don't offer path tracing with any promise of high FPS. Would you prefer them to not provide you the option in the first place? The difference to RT is huge. The 5090 doesn't struggle in RT.

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>>108272693
>Sell scrap CPU off at a open street market
>Scrap and maybe functioning hardware by the heap loads spread on carpets
>CPU by the bucket pick and choose which one you want, going off by cents
>GPU too
>Everyday someone asks, after picking a barely recognizable pentium whatever the fuck, if I can give them warranty or if I make refunds
>Mfw
My dearest nigger, you came out here in this fucking 110 heat, shoved your stinking sweaty hands on my silicon bucket and dare to ask me for warranty. I don't know what you just bought half the time, half the time I don't even know what I buy off e-waste warehouses. No I won't give you warranty.

>>108272823
>Would you prefer them to not provide you the option in the first place?
yes, useless functionality should not be an option; that's a bad user experience

>>108272693
> how will you guarantee it works
Just answer: "A guarantee would be another 100 bucks."

>>108272588
>They had about 5 years to save up for that 5090.
Why would you assume they are saving up for a new GPU instead of moving on with their life?

>>108272599
> have infinite disposable income
And no health insurance.

>>108272847
I want more options, not less. In 10 years those settings may just be a walk in the park.

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>>108272789
>typo or reading comprehension issue, hit ENTER and then it hits you

>>108272863
developers should not be bothering with functions that "might be useful in 10 years"

>>108272860
Dude you go to the hospital and never pay them back. It's free. Only suckers pay.

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>>108272693
>how will you guarantee it works?

>>108271947
I spent £600 on 1 fucking drive

>>108272873
Why not. Do those settings hurt your feelings. Do they make you regret your AMD purchase. There is nothing I love more than upgrading GPU and trying out some favorite older games.

>>108272889
You are appealing to FOMO
I am appealing to maximising the limited resources of development
We are not the same

>>108272860
my employer does health insurance and dental and eyecare and.. i chose the lower tier because im 34 but the higher tiers are unironically the best in the state.
i guess 40k wagie job was a little misleading; i work for the largest food processing company in multiple countries but not as anything special, just a machine operator.

>>108272530
I have a 4090 FE and was offered a 5090 FE at MSRP from nvidia, but after looking at how that model in particular absolutely COOKS aircooled CPU's (talking like up to 30C more) I said fuck it, keeping my amazing 4090

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>>108272847
> that's a bad user experience
Huh? I think it's fun to try it just out of curiosity, knowing that it's a proof of concept, a thing from the future, not to be selected for smooth gameplay today. Selecting lowest settings also gives you a "bad user experience", poor visuals i.e., and yet it is possible. There is usually the option to let the game choose optimal setting for your hardware but if you insist on fucking around manually you can't complain that the game allows you to shoot in your foot.

>>108272847
unironically one of the better takes. they shouldn't allow you to scale things up to 11 when they haven't tested if it will even work.

>>108272938
a setting that only allows users to play at 5fps is nothing like allowing less powerful hardware to play the game at 60fps
>if you insist on fucking around manually you can't complain that the game allows you to shoot in your foot.
I can complain if the game has a dedicated foot-shooting setting

>>108272929
You should have bought it and make 2k in profit.

>>108272929
Same here. I decided to keep waiting for the PTX 6090 just as originally intended when getting the 4090.

>>108272929
>I have a 4090 FE and was offered a 5090 FE at MSRP from nvidia, but after looking at how that model in particular absolutely COOKS aircooled CPU's (talking like up to 30C more) I said fuck it, keeping my amazing 4090

Huh is that true? sounds like a cope to me, unless it only concerns FE models

>>108272965
I skipped the 4090, I know dumb Idea, so I have a 5090 now. Smartest decision ever at this point. I still have my 3090 as a backup.

>>108272915
> my employer does health insurance and dental and eyecare
That's great. Saves you a lot of money and perhaps even your life at some point.
Now you only need to prepare some income for your retirement years.

>>108272980
Look at the airflow path of the 5090 FE model, it blasts hot air straight into the CPU air cooler.

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>>108273009
don't forget the ram which also gets hot with ddr5 but that is nothing new and all fe cards do that since the 3000 series.

>>108273009
>>108273020
I don't know why a water block isn't mandatory on a 600w card.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Rc3YJw

What do you humans think about this, it would be my first ever build after actually getting a job, i dont give a fuck about playing in ultra, i just want to play whatever i want
Budget is whatever i will buy it slowly during the year, but i'm not buying a 5090 or some expensive ass bullshit
Also the processor is going to be an i7 ultra, not i5

>>108272886
You must be the Brit with the 24TB drive from recently.
24TB is very bad money to TB ratio. The 20TB models are more economical.
I paid under €500 = £438 for a Toshiba 20TB recently.

>>108273006
yeah thats in the trailing "and..." even tho i dont really have faith in boomer style retirement plans.
along with the uncertain current economic state thats another 10 years off from being a real concern deSu.

>>108273026
bad cpu cooler
bad cpu
bad gpu
don't have to buy a windows key

Chat GPT can pick out better parts than /pcbg/

>>108273034
120 SE is a good budget cooler

>>108272980
The FE at MSRP was interesting to people who would put a waterblock on it and torture it with "AI". Not so much for gamers and casual gooners.

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>>108273025
it's alright for most people since the cpu and gpus don't get used at the same time most of the time.
>>108273043
the thermalright phantom spirit 120 is better

>>108273053
The fact that the hotspot is hidden just reassures me that a water block is required.

Imagine not buying a CPU cooler with 140mm fans

>>108273025
You'd never run a 5090 to 600w unless you overclock it
you can run a 5090 at 460-470w maximum without a loss in performance

>>108273034
What gpu and cpu do you recommend then, i sure do hope you wont tell me to buy a more expensive hardware for 5% more performance

>>108273075
You do with a water block. Even then it's a cool 50c.

>>108273071
that is just nvidias way of making their gpus "quiet" since they "don't run hot". same reason why the locked down overclocking. they don't want their gpus to run out of "spec". to get painted in a bad light etc.

>>108273086
not putting any water in my computer, i'm too old fashioned and retarded to build them differently from what I got used to back in 2011

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>putting water inside a pc

>>108273101
It's not hard.

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>>108273072
no point really.

>>108273025
the heatsinks are very good. even with a sustained actual 600w ai workload a blackwell 6000 (not max-q) stays under 80c. the problem then is that it cooks everything else and does quickly heat the room.

well you guys made me check my RAM temp out of fear but my DDR5 never goes above 50°c it seems
time to add a 5090 in there then

>>108273110
this isn't 2003

>>108273154
unless water has changed since 2003 it's still stupid to put it inside a pc.

>>108273139
Yes but dumping 600w into a box of components you want to keep cool is dumb. Everything can run 50c under full tilt and dump the heat directly outside the case with water.

>>108273139
the 5XXX are so fucking bad lmao

>>108273026
I wouldn't go Intel atm unless perhaps I wanted to build an affordable PC for production that makes use of all those cores.. For gaymen there is nothing better than Ryzen X3D. I don't think it's worth trying to save the bucks with CL36 RAM over CL30 RAM and even less so with a non-X3D Intel CPU. There is even CL28 and CL26 RAM. CL30 is nothing fancy, it's the sweet spot. I wouldn't pay any money for SATA SSDs. Even in an external enclosure a NVMe is always a lot faster via USB4. PCIe 5.0 SSD makes no sense as the home drive of the OS, as it doesn't benefit from the bandwidth. I would put it on a cheaper Gen4 drive and get a larger Gen5 drive for heavy workloads with large files if I actually needed it. Even for games a Gen4 drive is hardly slower than Gen5. This is where saving money actually makes sense but people refuse to believe it, probably due to overwhelming marketing.

>>108273157
It's not in the PC, it's in a sealed closed circuit. Leakage of AIOs hasn't been a thing for many years now.

>>108273085
you can get a 7800x3d for 288 bux here. better socket. more fps and better frame times. less multi core score tho. you can cheap out on the ram more with those since they don't care as much. the 5070 is mid. 5070ti or you might s well get a 9070 or 9070xt. don't get the logic behind buying a 1tb nvme and a 2tb sata.

>>108273186
Alright thanks that makes sense, i dont even care about the ram latency i just found those to be the cheapest ones i can buy from amazon in my region.
The intel cpu is because i also use the Pc for work, such as photoshop and illustrator, and it's relatively cheap.
About the drives yeah it's probably true, i only added a SATA ssd because NVME drives above 1TB are simply more expensive.

>>108273208
The 5070ti costs 70% more than the 5070 here, and the performance sure is not 70% more, so i have to pass.

>>108273276
you should not buy the 5070.
you should only buy an 8GB or 16GB card.
if you want to be budget you should buy the 5060 [ti or not] or 9060 xt, otherwise buy the 5070 ti or 9070 xt.

>>108273281
Explanation? I checked and the 5070 is still better than the 5060ti 16gb, ant they literally cost the same here, so the 5070 seemed like the best option since i will be playing at 1080p and i dont care about more than 60fps.

>>108272693
there's a reason companies have stopped bothering to sell shit to poorfags

>>108273028
All on "pre order" here, which means they are gone until god knows when

I actually did the price/TB on all available and 24TB at £579 came out to have the best ratio. It is totally fucked especially for NAS/Enterprise shit. Fucking hell people are flying to US to get drives and it's working out cheaper. I probably should have hopped on to Eurostar.

>>108273304
5070 8s more tyan enough for 1080p and maybe some light 1440p.
I have a 5080 and most games seem to be specifically using 11gb at 4k for some odd reason.

>>108273304
People think 4GB VRAM is better than a literally 33% more powerful GPU because of youtubers

>>108272980
It's true for the 5090 FE airflow, the bigger concern would be the higher DDR5 temps.
5090s are a lot more power efficient with a water block, but you need active cooling for the power connector (heatsink fans also kept the 12V-2x6 connecter cooler).

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>>108273346
>for some odd reason.
ain't nothing odd about it

>>108273304
>>108273350
The main reason cards like the 5070, 5080, and 5090 have the vram is because of bandwidth limitations. Kind of like how the 5060 and 5060ti don't even have a full 16x pcie lanes.

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>built pic related ~7 years ago
>haven't had any issues as I don't game that much anymore
>tempted to do a refresh on CPU and GPU
is there any AM4 CPU worth buying? based on benchmarks, my 3800x is within 20% of a 9800x3d, and even less of a difference vs. a 5800x3d. a 5900x is cheap ($250) that the extra cores and slightly newer chip might be nice

if I just buy a new gpu like a 5070ti or 9070xt, I don't think I'll be bottlenecking anything, but maybe I'm wrong

>>108273399
>my 3800x is within 20% of a 9800x3d
That's a huge difference.

>>108273399
you put in 32GB of ram 7 years ago?

>>108273404
no, a huge difference is going from a 1080 to a 5080

>>108273399
9800x3d beats a 7800x3d by 10% so I highly doubt that

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>>108273399
>my 3800x is within 20% of a 9800x3d
That's bullshit but if the only things you do at your computer is browsing and light gaming at 60fps, then yes the 3800x is still good enough, but then even my ryzen 1700 is plenty for that.
>>108273405
Not uncommon, at the time everyone was building with 16GB as it was the standard, but just like how there are many (or were prior to the RAM apocalypse) using 64 GB today, people with more money to spare were buying 32 GB at the time.

>>108273404
It's not a huge difference when you consider that result was with a 5090 at 1080p
Anon has a 1440p screen so that squeezes all the results pretty tight.
Combined with a 5070 ti class GPU and a platform upgrade becomes very marginal one at best.

1080p benches with a 5090 has given people like zero perspective on what's actually important.

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>>108273026
lol wtf is this. get samsung nvme ssd that goes directly to cpu.

>>108273430
with upscaling it is very much real now. now everyone is running at resolutions below 1440p on 5090s. haha.

>>108273304
5070 will be fine for gaming @ 1440p resolution as long as you're using reasonable visual settings.
Game devs can't afford to exclude the more mainstream PC hardware owners.

>>108273404
maybe gen to gen, but spending $500 on a 5800x3d to go from 120fps to 150fps seems like a waste

>>108273405
I think I bought 16gb and then added 16gb more a year later

>>108273411
you're right. I was looking at 4k, where the 3700x is 88.3% relative to a 9800x3d. 7800x3d is 99.7%, for reference. at 1440p, which is what I use, the results are more like 25%, which is a lot more, granted, but I'd probably get a bigger uplift by turning my settings down from High to Medium

>>108273451
>maybe gen to gen, but spending $500 on a 5800x3d to go from 120fps to 150fps seems like a waste
I agree. I wasn't really speaking in terms of gaming.

>>108273304
>1080p 60fps
then you should go budget. 8GB.

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>AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT

>no new GPUs this year
is there going to be a 6090 or is nvidia done with us forever?

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>>108273504

>>108273519
Not this year.

>>108273519
>is there going to be a 6090 or is nvidia done with us forever?
It's so far away that you're grandchildren will know about it.

Should I sell a Kidney so I buy a 5090?

>>108273548
>sell kidney
>buy 5090 with the money.
>wait a year
>sell 5090
>buy a new kidney
>???
>profit.

>>108273519
they're done forever. why make products for a market that doesn't exist?

>>108273570
why not get someone elses kidney first?

>>108273574
>why not get someone elses kidney first?
It a sellers market right now.

>>108273594
oh he doesn't have to sell it.

>>108273548
Take your mom's.

If any of you live in the shithole that is Australia - they are giving away a RTX 5090.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/contests/residentevil-giveaway

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>>108273607
Maybe I'm retarted, but it seems available for all places of the world that have some sort of relevance. And I know I must be retarted since
>Follow our social channels on X (formally Twitter)/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok/Twitch/Reddit/Discord and other social media platforms based in China for key prompts and instructions
>Like/comment/tag/share posts across social depending on prompts
makes no fucking sense to me. Which accounts? nvidia, or GEFORCE specifically? China??

>>108271872
R7 9800X3D, RTX 5090, 2 TB NVMe, and I um running vr now just got a quest 3 I wanted to experiment with it instead of going straight for a pimax

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ram prices dropping?

>>108273607
>https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/contests/residentevil-giveaway
>OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF AUSTRALIA (only certain states: due to state regulations, residents of New South Wales, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory are not eligible to participate in the contest), AUSTRIA, CANADA (EXCLUDING THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC), CROATIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREECE, IRELAND, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY, PERU, SOUTH KOREA, SPAIN, SWITZERLAND, TAIWAN, UNITED KINGDOM, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (EXCLUDING PUERTO RICO AND ITS OTHER TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS).
>>108273709
yeah seems like he's a retard lol.
it doesn't say which one but it's currently active for 1 more day, so just go to both of their twitters and see what it says.

>>108273727
>ddr4

>>108273727
we are SO back

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>vram doesn't matter

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>>108273743
>more ram
>lose two eyes

>>108273743
That's why I bought a 5090.

>>108273746
those damn two eyes stole 20 fps

>>108273743
>native
>ray tracing
who cares?

>>108273757
upscaling takes even more vram.

>>108273762
you're trying to perform ray tracing on a card that's too weak to do it.

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>>108273757
>>108273762
>>108273767

>Instead of fixing burn-in, the OLED are becoming cheap so replacing them bi-yearly will be a viable way of utilization
...yay?

>>108273767
its only too weak because it has too little vram shabbos goy

>>108273782
What else do I spend my money on? There is no new hardware for 4 years.

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3070 is prob the most cucked gpu nvidia has ever made

>>108273823
No that would be the 3070ti. Ask me how I know.

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>>108273836
the slop thickens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82z326-STqI
'vidia bros.................

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Alright, I'm no longer poor.
I'm eyeballing a 9950X3D and 5090, but I've got a secondary issue I need help with:
I'm going to be doing a lot of GPU-passthrough related hijinks, what would be my go-to low profile low power card that isn't completely old and shit?
I currently have a GTX 970 sitting about but it's about to burst into ash and rather bulky.

>>108273856
instead of wasting money ask yourself why would you need those expensive components

>>108273861
he needs to render every pixel of the brown DEI characters in AAA games.

>>108273861
he has to show his pride to everyone with lgbt lights in his pc

>>108273856
Intel GPU?

>>108273856
Well if price isn't a thing than an rtx pro 4000 sff blackwell.

>CPU: 5800x3d
>MOBO: Asrock X470-TAICHI
>RAM: 4x8GB 3200 cl16
>GPU: RX 7900XT
>Case: Phanteks P500A
>PSU: Corsair RM850x
>CPU cooling : Arctic Liquid freezer II 240
>Monitor: LG UltraGear 27GP850P-B
What upgrades could i make here?

>>108273959
none, wait for rnda5 next year and get a new gpu

>>108273936
anon that shit is NOT low power in the slightest
>>108273856
arc A310 is an excellent choice for low power low profile, otherwise the best bet is something like a second hand nvidia T600~T1000 line

>>108272067
I could literally get my CPU out and replace the thermal paste then have it running again in like 10 minutes.

>>108273985
>anon that shit is NOT low power in the slightest
It has a 70w maximum and is only powered through the pcie slot. You could get a rtx 2000 sff aswell or an even cheaper rtx sff from the ada generation. All powered entirely through the pcb. The idea of having a low profile 70w card with no power connector and 24gb of vram is a nice dream though.

>>108273772
more rt, who cares.
>>108273789
it's still unplayable when you add vram to it though???

>>108273972
Personally i was thinking on getting an OLED display but im out of touch. Alas my 27GP850P-B has shit contrast and awful ips glow

>>108274022
how is it unplayable if you can now turn on frame gen? the base frame rate and lows are now much better for it to work. 60fps at 1440p with high rt is playable as well.

>>108274017
oh fuck you're right, I thought it was 140W
that is kind of fucking nuts, damn

>>108274035
30 series cards cant do frame gen.

>>108274044
see >>108273823

>>108274035
holy fuck you goys just keep moving the goalpost.

>>108274049
38fps vs 60fps with rt. the game is playable with more vram.

framegen uses a lot of vram, if you're low fps because you don't have vram framegen isn't going to help much
but everyone here buys/bought 16gb vram cards, we've been over this for 4 years already

>>108274055
I did not pay 2-6x the price of a console for sub 60 fps LMAO fuck out of here. the GPU alone costs as much as a console and you think it's acceptable to have less than console fps???

>>108274071
he soldered vram by himself on it. what do you mean? are you retarded?

HDR LOOKS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD

>>108274074
just turn off RT you fucking clown.

>>108274091
you still have shit frame times thanks to the low vram and high textures nigger.

>DDR5 16GB 5600mhz at $70
>DDR5 64GB 4800mhz at $330
bros, i bought these two sets from marketplace. which ones would you keep and which would you sell? sorry if you saw this question earlier.

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>>108273856
https://microsounds.github.io/notes/low-profile-gpus-for-sff-pcs.htm
from a fellow /g/tard that spams miku images, so you know it's a good resource with heavy amounts of autism

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Path Tracing is here it's over for everything else

>>108273861
ask yourself why would you need to impose upon others how they live their lives

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>>108274116
what a retarded combination of parts
a shitty dell optiplex with a 2nd, 3rd or 4th gen 4 core 8 thread i7 max
noctua fans
sff server psu
and lp gpu
only an anime nigger would build something like that

>>108274127
it's good advice in an advice general

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>>108274134
>performance

>>108274078
You need OLED to use it fully.

>>108274126
60fps 2x fame gen at dlss ultra performance on a 720p handheld screen.

>>108274139
It's not good advice though, it's half-baked, lazy and dismissive.

>>108274139
>muh austerity
K

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Is this sort of cooling ever necessary?

>>108274212
Well where else should I store my semen?

>>108274212
not only didn't he not water cool his gpu
he didn't even direct die his cpu
he also bought a g pro
the fastest gaming cpu is like 100w or smth

>>108274212
>no fans on the bottom radiator

>>108274145
Well it does performs well as a leg warmer.

>>108274226
at this point it's not even needed. the 280 alone would be enough for the cpu he is prob running.

>>108274212
i would have put a fan over that fancy ram ddr5 gets so hot, also where are the intake fans? just exhaust so the vrm and ram would burn up fast especially with a heavy cpu overclock and the little air that gets in would leave so much dust

>>108274212
Not for a cpu.

if he had watercooled his gpu I'd think that's totally normal, except for the gay rgb lights and the milk colored water instead of transparent, I would also never use that computer vertically, the radiators are too big, it should be horizontal

>>108274212
it makes sense if you have like the best CPU's on the market, like threadrippers etc

or a 5090 overclocked or something

>>108274109
Keep the 64gb if you have an x3d CPU
>>108274212
It's never necessary but it helps you overclock much further

>>108274246
also even if the top fans are intake which is retarded it would still cause problems because the exhaust would immediately exhaust it before it blows over any of the components or reaches the gpu, the gpu would be circulating hot air then that goes up and out and would be desperately trying to get fresh air in through gaps. i think its a bad case design and a bad case for this watercooled build even if it looks pretty. im not sure what he could have done differently other than also watercooling his gpu and having having fans for his vrm/ram or some jank custom watercooling shit for them and have reservoir for his gpu and one for vrm/ram/cpu but theres no space

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>ram coolers

Man I used to have this bad boy, those were the days

>>108274212
what CPU could possibly justify those rads

>>108274303
r5 7500x3d

>>108274303
nothing these days because overclocking is no longer a thing

>>108274303
14900ks

>>108274295
Those small fans are memes
I've found that a single 120mm fan outperforms dual 60mm fans by 5-6C. Triple 40mms will perform even worse I suspect

>>108274295
i feel like 3 tiny fans would make so much noise compared to just 1 120mm fan ziptied pointing at it. my 2x32gb hynix m die errors out above 60c during any synthetic even with my vddq at 1.35 (expo was at like 1.45 which is crazy) and a relatively low refresh interval + trefi. i think anyone running expo and fast/high capacity/low latency ddr5 should cool their ram even if it doesnt get anywhere near as hot as mine its crazy that it isnt common practice. my ram doesnt even get above 39c even with 1.6v vdd and high vddq now, im sure keeping it cool will extend its life

FUCK THIS GAY EARTH

>>108274410
The Earth isn't the problem, it's a certain group of people

>>108273856
How did you stop being poor?

>>108273856
Then just buy a new low profile low power card Mr. Rich Jew.

>>108274426
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA6yTq_gPAg&t=24s

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>>108273727
>32gb DDR4

>>108274426
Grandma's inheritance came in

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BROS

>>108274566
it's gonna get much worse when china invades taiwan in 3 days

>>108273727
>DDR4 32shits for over $200
clearly not

>>108272964
It's not within my moral compass to do such a thing

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tfw people saw this tiny dip and confidently stated the ai bubble was popping
if you say if every day eventually it'll be right and you can say "see, i told you"

>>108274146
Wrong
OLED ruins HDR due to aggressive ABL
High end MiniLED TVs (not monitors) demonstrate the best HDR effects

>>108274620
This makes me want to kill myself out of pure hatred and spite

>>108274639
shoot up openai headquarters instead, they caused this

>>108274643
I don't want to hurt anybody

>>108274644
if the bad guys don't suffer things don't change

1700, 32gb ram, OEM 2080ti scavenged from a dead prebuilt. Crosshair VI mobo from 1st gen ryzen.
What 5XXX chip should I buy? Figure I can stretch this a couple more years and then just start fresh. 5700x or 5800x, spring for something like a 5950x or 5900xt?
Not sure how to deal with ram, QVL list for ram I imagine is useless for newer chips, so basically keeping an eye out for a decent deal to jump to 64 but seems unlikely in this market.
Got an old CLC on there not sure if to just buy a new one or just go air.
Curious to see what uplift would be but been ignoring the pc world since I originally built near 1700 release. Learning blender/video editing half heartedly. Game occasionally but nothing major mostly stuff like a OW or hop on whatever MMO buddies are fucking around in.

just upgraded to 27" 1440p monitor and everything is so sharp

i cant believe i stuck on 1080p for so long. now im curious about 4k is it worth it at 27"?

>>108274732
4k is 4 times more pixels than 1080 and iirc 2.5 more than 1440p

>>108274730
work? 5950x 5900xt
games? 5700x
as for today

>>108274732
no. 32" minimum.

the LG 34" ultrawide 1440p is at the same price as the 39", same resolution, I guess I should take the 34 for pixel density?

>>108274732
32 is better, only possible argument is multi-display setups where desk space becomes an issue.
Using two 1080p 32" vertical displays arm mounted with a 32" 4k in the center, and I do find myself wishing i had a 27" center display occasionally.

24:10 is just better.

>>108274566
Waitbros, we're gonna win this. It's getting ready to crater any day now.

>Just bought Endgame Gear XM2 8k
How'd I do? Not a mouse autist, but it seemed nice.

>>108274904
its not going to make you good at games

>>108274904
more of an op1 guy (cus i liked the original sensei from steelseries) but you basically bought a top tier mouse that is wired at the price of a premium chinese clone but you have a better coating, reliability and build quality. you can also change switches easier. i think the 8k is memes tho. just spikes your cpu and some older games struggle with it.
>>108274915
as much as i like my g502 it made me worse at gayming and aiming.

>>108274915
My old mouse is making me bad at games because the glue holding the feet on is oozing out and sticking to things.

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>>108274566
>>108274620
All in.

>>108274923
Honestly I thought it was Chinese, kek. It's on closeout for $50 and I hate wireless and rgbshit, so it seemed like a good choice. Thanks for the input.

>>108274959
it's german but in the good kind because it was made in china by children.

Wanted to get a 5090 but damn I don't want to literally melt in summer
Why couldn't it be more power efficient than the 4090?

>>108274988
i can give you a 1050 2gb or rx 550 4gb if you want. i only accept 4090s.

>>108274988
Because it's on the same node as the 4090. It might actually be more efficient if you use vsync though.

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If I'm buying a case that comes without fans, what case fans do I want to buy for it? Aren't there special plugs for them that help with noise or something?

>>108275031
is that a dick?

>>108275042
does it excite you?

>>108274988
It is more efficient if you undervolt it to 4090+10% performance

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>leave PC on 24/7
>shut down when not in use
>sleep mode when not in use
Which is best?

>>108275086
leave on or maybe sleep

>>108275086
shut down

>>108275086
never turn it off.

>>108275086
24/7
Consistency is the key to longevity.

>buy parts
>think I didn't get a good deal
>start to look to send them back or get other ones that are cheaper on eBay etc

I'm just fed up

Which one of you fucking degens went to AARP lol - https://community.aarp.org/t5/Computer-Questions-Tips/How-to-Build-a-Gay-Computer/td-p/2102599

>>108275042
A thinking dick.

>>108275086
Whatever you feel like. I usually put it in sleep, and turn it off every couple of weeks, and it's been fine. A friend of mine leaves his running 24/7 and his has been fine. Another shuts it down every time, and his is fine as well.
If electricity costs are a concern to you though shutting it down is what you want to do, with sleep mode as an alternative but it will still use power.

I live in the ghetto, where the fuck can I have my parts delivered to? I don't want to sit on my front porch so no one steals them and I really don't even trust the delivery drivers at all either

>>108275170
maybe to a church but you'll have to be friends with them

>>108275170
There are businesses that literally act as delivery offices, you rent a mailbox in their building and your shit gets sent to them and they hold it, then you go there and pick your stuff up.

>>108275170
Get a PO box. They'll still let you get big packages, but the service will have to be open for you to claim them.
Amazon also has lockers in some locations if you buy from them. I don't know the size limits of them however. I think sometimes they'll also offer to ship it to a Whole Foods if you have one near you.
Speaking of UPS, if you're getting shipping from them and pay them some money they'll redirect your shipment to one of their stores. FedEx does the same, but last time I did it, years ago, I didn't have to pay so that might have changed.

>>108275170
Also retailers usually let you ship to one of their locations if you ever happen to buy from them online.

>>108275190
amazon lockers are great

there is one 5 minutes from my home and its free to deliver to them, so i don't need to pay for prime for free shipping

>>108275200
Do you know how big some of the slots are? I've seen them around but never really looked how big some of the slots were in them. I'm assuming there's a size limit, and a PC case might be that limit.

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>>108275213
pic related is exactly what mine looks like, same colour blue too.

Look at them, you could reasonably ship a graphics card to them, you're not getting a PC case or a monitor delivered though. You enter a 6 digit number that amazon e-mails you, and then one of the lockers swings open and you just take your parcel, close it and leave.

If the box somehow can't fit then the delivery driver will take it back to the warehouse and say they can't send you it.

>>108275031
depends how fancy you want the fans to be. Antec makes good quality, normal fans, but corsair have fancy snap-on rgb connector ones, pick whatever you like.

>>108275086
i shut mine down when not in use for the most part.

Sleep has been buggy and unstable forever for me, its never reliably worked, from windows 7 to 11.

>>108275086
Shut down when I go away for more than 5 minutes