could be worse? my buddy ordered one from ibuypower with a radeon 6900. got to his place in 3 days or whatever. the card would not power on at all. he had to send it back and it'll be 4-6 weeks before it returns
So since I have time to research monitors. What should I get for my 3080. 144? I plan on playing AOE4, BF6 (don't slut shame me), and APEX. I will be running Adobe PS, AI, etc. I'm not sure I need a curved screen. But if yous think they're worth it I'll look into it.
See, this is why I'm leaning towards just building again. I was all about paying the extra for convenience, but these instances along with just not trusting these companies to not cut pennies on something like a PSU of all things... guess I'm just doing it the tedious way.
Haven't monitor shopped in a few years (currently using a 144/1440 Dell), but with a 3080 if you're wanting to blow the cash, I'm sure there are some 144/2k+ IPS panels. Seems like you're big into shooters, otherwise the main thing I'd recommend is a widescreen panel.
I'm right there with you, don't want to pay the convenience charge and worry about getting subpar parts to cut corners for the GPU, but when are any end-level consumers going to be able to get our hands on a regularly priced GPU? Who the hell knows at this point, I'm not sure my current build will even last that long.
Supposedly the etherium-nerf Nvidia gpus will start shipping soon, so maybe that will help I wanted to build a new pc anyway and paying an extra $200 or whatever to get it in a couple of days was worth it to me. The 3060 is obviously the bottom of this gen but it destroys everything I've thrown at it in 1080p
Also when I was looking into it a bit, apparently you don't actually get the benefit/effect of a curved screen until it gets massive (32"+) for shooters or sims Take that fwiw
27" 1440p 144hz is a home run for almost all use cases for gaming. Generally available for close to $500, give or take if it has adaptive sync or a high end panel. If you have a spanking new 3070 or something more powerful, or really want the highest end, go get a 27-32" 4k monitor that supports 144hz+ and it might even support HDR in a meaningful way, but at this point you are priced close to $1000 or more. Avoid HDR and avoid curved panel, unless you are going massive (37"+). Killy Me Please
It took me awhile to realize but after my old lady kicked me out of the living room with the 65' I used a 20-30 inch screen and realized I was far better for FPS games. I'm way more focused imo. So that's where my head is at. If curved isn't important I'm not bothering with it.
27” is borderline too big for me in some FPS games. I find 24-24.5” perfect for super competitive play. My college LAN team for CS back in the day all had 23-25” CRTs with 120hz refresh rate and even though they weighed 60 pounds, it was worth it to carry around and bop. If you want to have a decent budget monitor id suggest this: ASUS VG248QE 24" Full HD 1920x1080 144Hz 1ms HDMI Gaming Monitor,Black It’s not 4K, but you’ll bop in FPS games
Really like his youtube gaming investigating videos. EA being EA in the worst way possible in what they did to the original TF crazy enough the one who ran the mega blog that he talks about actually saw the vid and commented in the YT comment section.
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I'm contemplating just building a system and popping in my r9 380 from my existing rig until the stock and prices normalize on current-gen graphics cards.
Just posted my first video gameplay and commentary video on YouTube. Playthrough of the demo for King of Seas, really cool pirate ARPG coming to PC and PS4 on Tuesday. I appreciate any critique, feedback, etc on the video.
New video! When I was getting the King of Seas demo, this demo caught my eye too. Hand-drawn platformer, reminds me of Child of Light a little, really like the controls and gameplay so far.
Finally posted Part 1 of gameplay of the full version of King of Seas. Hope y'all enjoy, any critiques and feedback welcome. Part 2 coming in a bit
Help computer I've rather quickly filled up my hard drive (thanks Warzone), and would like to add another SSD to my computer. Is there anything I need to be aware of when buying an SSD to play video games off of? Will any SSD fit in my computer. This is my setup https://www.bestbuy.com/site/skytec...super-500gb-ssd-black/6409025.p?skuId=6409025 Honestly no idea how I've filled up 500 gb already. That's kind of insane tbh. Guess RDR2, RE7 & 8, and Warzone will do that I looked inside the pc and looks like there is a bracket to hold a 2nd SSD, and then I assume I get the cable thingy and plug it into the spot on the motherboard that says SATA3. I feel like an idiot when it comes to PCs now a days.
It sounds like you have an m.2 slot available (which is what the most recent post also says). I would read the reviews searching for these keywords "SSD" "m.2" "HDD" "hard drive" and even "install". That should confirm, or you can look at your internals.
Thanks - I think found what I'm looking for on Amazon. There is some pretty significant price difference on Amazon, I was looking at grabbing a 2 TB just so I won't have to worry about it for a while and be able to keep a lot of games installed. I see some as low as $200, some as much as $470, is there any noticeable difference in performance (for just general gaming) in these things?
There are tons of articles that can go into detail, but essentially you want to have windows OS and games on the main drive. your secondary drive doesn't need to be as fast (and therefore expensive). As long as you aren't putting your games on it, you should be satisfied with any old speed on your secondary drive.
WD Blue and Intel have really good m.2 for the cheaper price. Samsung is the best, but on the pricey range. also, here's my profile. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198103499897/ I'm sure I have some of you added, but your steam doesn't match your TMB name, except Rebel, lol.
so I think if windows and games need to be on the same drive- what I buy would become my primary. Is that much hassle to change everything over and make this new one my primary/C and the old one for other files/D
I'm not a PC expert, but I believe whatever drive windows is on now...that will be your primary drive. You might choose to buy a larger or even faster drive that you install next, but whatever drive Windows is on now should be considered your primary. I bet it is possible to move your windows files, but I would not recommend it. Now your game files are far easier to move. As simple as telling Steam or w/e app you use what directory (path) to save them towards, but it's not the same for fragile windows system files.