re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

Anyone who doesn’t need to upgrade GPU should absolutely hold off right now, especially with the AMD cooler/driver rumors flying around right now. I think sunny skies are ahead all around, but they aren’t here at the moment.

"NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti expected to offer RTX 3070 performance for less than $500"

fricking. Awful.

I paid "less than $500" for a 3070 over two years ago. Blows my mind that Nvidia thinks this pricing structure is at all rational.

I'm hoping that the mid-cycle refresh shakes things up. If not, anyone who isn't desperate for a GPU is likely better served by skipping everything this generation and just waiting until next generation.

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I've been able to do 90-100+ FPS at minimum on my 1440p monitor with the 2070 super on most games I play, and honestly I play a ton of single player games anyway, so Idc about giant FPS

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I'm getting close to that point, but I'm not quite there yet, but that's simply a function of what I play and how I like to play them.

As I've said before, I play big, sexy graphic intensive games at 3440x1440 with everything maxed out, ideally including RT. So while my 3080 can chew up and spit out most games, I still can't play the newest/biggest/baddest games at those settings and get 100+ fps. Not that that's an issue. I've actually used it as an opportunity to push through some of my Steam backlog, most recently playing through the entire Dishonored series. But it does mean that I'm currently putting off playing games like RDR2, the next gen Witcher 3 release, etc. To say nothing of games that are likely to come out in the next couple of years. Not that those games aren't currently playable for me, but I know the experience would be markedly better after one more upgrade.

I think the thing that's so frustrating for me about this generation of GPUs is that I'm so close to having my last GPU that I hold onto for several years before eventually upgrading my monitor to 5k2k. I thought the 4080 was potentially going to be that, and then they gimped the shite out of it while vastly overcharging for it. Had the 4090 (with less VRAM) been released as a non-obscenely priced 4080, I would have bought it instantly and have been content for years, as the current 4090 can currently play pretty much anything at 120fps+ at 3440x1440 no matter the settings.

So while I could just buy a 4090 and be done, I'm choosing to wait and play through my backlog as a middle finger to Nvidia (the 7900XTX, as great as it is, simply isn't powerful enough to be my "last 3440x1440 card", especially when RT is taken into account). Not that Nvidia cares about my middle finger, but it's all I've got

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Anyone have an NZXT Streaming Pro PC?

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I doubt it since most of us build our own

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Streaming Pro PC?

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That fricking AIO installation should be criminal.

Yes. That's an incorrect installation. SI's be milking fools.

The pump should always be lower than what you're cooling.

The tubes are up in a incorrect way.

The return from the block should be straight down. If not, have fun replacing.

Ok, I was pulling something different yesterday. I blame it on the breakfast in a can due to no coffee.

I was pulling up a 360mm rad with the loop up top with plenty of room to go to the bottom.

Now I'm pulling up this. And ya, it's mainly the cooler used.

My bad.

I've gone from downsizing my homelab from one server to back up to 3

Why do I need two 2 36 core/72 thread servers with 256gb DDR4 ram each? No reason at all, but my wife is going to love that power bill increase

Results look quite good for the first game with pcie5.0 nvme support Forspoken.

Now just let me buy one dammit!


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