Uh oh, to the beginners who are looking for a case like that Hyte Y60, let this video be a PSA. Then again it’s not uncommon for most stuff to be copied and imitated, but yeah it’s gonna suck for the buyers if they are looking for a case yet they received the one who got told by their mothers that it’s there at their homes.
I just got a huge win to get a completely silent noise floor on a gaming computer. There was a flash sale for 50% off an optical USB cable and put it on the powered USB hub and it’s the best upgrade in years. All the amplifiers and DACs have an inky black silent noise floor, couldn’t be happier. Corning came out with the first optical USB many years ago, but VR Headsets created a demand for shorter (15ft) cables and now prices have come way down. Just get one that’s USB A to C and a USB powered hub that has a removable C input cable.
This cable is 16ft so there’s lots of room to move it away from all the other electronics, and everything plugged into a Cyberpower Sine Wave UPS. I just put it into a USB port right on the motherboard in the back and it’s so much better than optical since the whole hub can use it also. Archimago did measurements years back, it’s pretty substantial reduction in noise floor.
Undervolting the video card helped a lot to get rid of coil whine and increase performance while dropping temps dramatically so I could lower the fan curves and still run cool enough under load. A Febsmart USB card helped a little, but the optical USB cable was dramatic when the noise floor dropped to complete silence. Tuesday I’ve got a Topping L30 II coming to pair with an E50 DAC and see just how low it can go. I’ve had them before and it’s the quietest amplifier ever measured on ASR (100 on the 50mv test). If you have a gaming system, I’d highly recommend doing this before anything else, cable on lightning sale with a coupon was $38 and I had the hub already. Going to listen to everything all over again now that details just jump out.
my computer system has changed now…I’m running a Dell G15 5515 with a Ryzen 5 5600H, 32GB RAM, 1TB and 512GB SSD, RTX 3050 GPU on Win 11 Pro. it has a 15.6" FHD 120hz screen and I bought an Arzopa 15.6" FHD USB-C external display to go with it.
what are you all running now?
Still running my 10900KF, Strix 4090, 4x8 G-Skill 4000 C15, 4 SSDs of various capacity, Windows 10 in a Define R6.
I intend to finally upgrade once Arrow Lake and the 9000X3D chips are out so I can see what I want to build.
also excited for 9000 X3D chips but probably not upgrading my 12600k for another gen, looking to trade in my 6750xt when next gen GPU’s come around though
Sticking with my R7 5800x3d & RX 6950 xt for now. AM4 still has some life left in it 
. The 9800x3d will be interesting to see how it preforms, but I expect that most prior gen x3d owners will hold out for the following generation. We shall see though. 
Main desktop is Endeavour OS with a ryzen 5600x and rx 6900xt and my fun mess around laptop a lenovo x1 yoga gen 4 that is running fedora with gnome currently . Maybe a few years later the 5800x3d chip falls in terms of used price. The switch over to linux has some headaches mainly with some apps being stuck for no reason but been smooth. Somehow my arch based install has been more stable than my times with ubuntu and fedora based distros.
I’m using an AMD 5600X and RX6700 with 32GB RAM and it’s incredibly efficient on power. I under-volted the video card and it doesn’t heat up the room like my old Intel/Nvidia 3080 did. For 1440p it’s enough for 100-140fps with all details maxed in Destiny 2 so I’m good with it. Don’t have plans to upgrade until I go with a 4k monitor, for 2k this is really good.
I’ve been reading how the new 50 series of Nvidia is going to be a huge leap in performance, so current high end cards will probably tumble pretty far in price. Not going to buy anything until they arrive and see how low a 4080 is going to go as they clear out inventory for the new ones. Using twin boot with Linux Mint and Windows 11 and just downloaded the ISO for Manjaro since it seems to have really good support for AMD stuff.
50 series is also rumored to be a power hog (5090 600watts) lmao
Wasn’t the 4090 originally rumored to be well above 600 watts before it came out, and it didn’t happen. We shall see what the final product yields. 
I think that was for the rumored 4090ti/super that got scrapped, from what I remember we were expecting less power than 30 series
No, the initial rumors for the 4090 were 600W, just like they are saying for the 5090.
Yeah, the rumored 4090ti variant was supposed to be 800 watts plus. lol
If there was any truth to any of those rumors it would have most likely came down to Nvidia testing the limits of the chips via a one off prototype.
The internal child in me is fighting the urge to buy one of these cheap Thinkpad T420s and just upgrading the living hell out of it. I mean for price it might be a fun project or something. The charger is prob worth more than laptop
Is anyone here even excited about the upcoming new 50 series GPUs from the Nvidia? Me? Not really anymore especially with the prices that keeps on rising and more components that are just virtually impossible to get without going all out to get them.
The excitement for me is not there anymore folks, it used to be exciting when it was the 900 series and 10 series from Nvidia, but guessing that Nvidia did absolute cinema with the 1080Ti, they’re not doing that shit anymore.
I am just overall satisfied with my current build and it still gets the job done, even if it’s an AM4. My belief nowadays when it comes to PC building, I just get an upgrade like once my PC just stops working overall, for I don’t see the point anymore getting an upgrade always especially with video cards. If it’s gonna be a new GPU for me with the event of my current one just dying, it’s either Intel ARC or AMD for me, since those two options are more afforadable than Nvidia, correct me if I am wrong though.
In a word - Nope. I could care less. Seems like the 5000 series won’t be out till early 2025 and will be ridiculously priced. Then again, I am not a gamer, so I have never really been bothered by all this GPU madness. So for me, NVIDIA can take their overpriced toys and shove 'em. That said, if I was in the market for one I would go for the 4070Ti or the Radeon 7900XT, leaning toward the 4070Ti for its DLSS3 support and ray tracing abilities, which seems to be the future.
As I write this, I am rocking a GeForce MX150 on this old fossil of a laptop, and it does everything I need it to do for a whopping 25 bucks! 
I don’t even follow this ridiculousness anymore. Space heater wattage numbers for a few extra moving pixels, FFS. It only gives game designers excuses to be lazy and come out with an unending stream of stupid games because “but the graphix bro the graphix”.
I upgraded from a GT440 a couple years ago to a second-hand RX470 of the Sapphire Nitro OC variety and I think I’m good for another decade. 
Yeah they can shove those prices indeed, but you know what is unfortunate overall about this? Gamers would still suck it up and buy their shit since they are like the only choice for most things that caters to their uses. And it’s not helping much when the stigma towards AMD and Intel when it comes to driver stability issues is still there and I want the two to desperately thrive in that department for I am so sick of Nvidia’s excuses that are just bullshit.
So yeah for now, I am sticking to what I have right now, but with that being said it will probably remain the same when it comes to modern PC gaming.
Fuck graphics! and yeah that overall view on it just like that is just frustrating overall. If your game is already a piece of shit fundamentally as well as your ways of monetizing your game, it’s already ruined in the first place also that so called graphical fidelity doesn’t mean shit overall. It’s like covering dog poop with a lot of sprinkles and cream to make it presentable, but when you smell the shit, it’s still shit.
You know what’s better than realistic graphics? Give me a memorable art style to me that makes a game more distinguishable and original, for most of the graphical juggernaut games for me lately have no soul with a few exception when passion is really poured into it.