Yeah, NVIDIA should be ashamed
As much as I didn’t want to buy an NVIDIA GPU, the 2070 Super was perfect for my use case. If AMD ever creates decent drivers for their GPU’S, NVIDIA is screwed…especially with intel about to enter the GPU market.
Nvidia GPUs start reducing clocks at 60°C, so watercooling give you single digit percent performance increase.
I helped a friend watercool his PC, watercooling just makes your PC twice as expensive.
Thermaltake has also some gear, in the TT fashion, solid mid-range.
Nvidia is… I can’t even…
The practice that got Nvidia on their golden throne:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/367qav/mark_my_word_if_we_dont_stop_the_nvidia_gameworks/
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Is it still more economical to build your own PC?
I would not bet on Intel getting anything working.
Their 10nm has been a dumpster fire for the longest while.
Depends.
When you go bottom of the barrel office box, yes.
When you need a mid to high-end computer or get into workstation territory, you save a bunch.
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I don’t think Intel has anything to offer yet based off of the recent rumors I read. Basically they have a dgpu which is a igpu slapped on a pcie card. And works with the igpu to give better performance. Still just a rumor so hopefully it’s better than that but…
Nvidia’s price points are literally a giant FU. When they don’t have competition they literally doubled the price for the follow on generation. That’s some BS. I could understand a 100 or even 150$ price hike…but doubled? That’s just shitty consumer relations
True, but they supposedly have been ramping up orders for GPU memory and wafers. We’ll see if they do anything significant…
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It is still economical to build your own. Especially if you care at all about the parts which go into it.
Most prebuilt PC’s have little to no room for expansion and often have cheaper components used.
Most “custom” PC builds don’t let you choose the specific parts, just from a small selection, and when they do it’s often at a price premium.
I would love to give suggestions for you if you want, just tell me your use case and I’ll see what I come up with 
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Whoa! Love the code geass girl inside and the neir girl intop. My brother would freak out (in a good way) if I show it to him. I see the senheisers and the hifiman… Nice. Not to mention the POKEMON figurines.
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thanks, thats nice of you. i’m not gonna do it right now but i’m thinking of it for the future.
One thing I haven’t done much research on because I’ve only just started THIS hobby (audio) is sound cards. Maybe irrelevant because everyone here generally has decent dacs and amps, but could be an interesting prospect to cross these two hobbies I have…
Studio equipment bridges the analog/computer gap a lot of times. Is kind of pricey and kind of pointless unless you run a home studio.
Dante is probably the most accessible of the “what am I doing with my life”-systems you could run at home.
I had issues with creative labs stuff too.
And they are not that expensive.
Throwing a digital interface card into a computer on the other hand might be a life saver.
4x ADAT I/O PCIe card:
Expensive sound card: Marian Seraph 8+ TRS
8 channel I/O balanced sound card
I’ve used soundcards before, and that is what I used before I knew about dacs/amps. Soundcards are essentially put in an environment with a lot of electrical interference, I had issues with noise with my mic and other issues/bugs over time and I had these issues with expensive creativelabs sound cards. Moving away from that to an external dac/amp solution was so much better for me. I think soundcards are what you go to if you aren’t aware of anything else as an option. Zeos, I believe has a video where he mentions dacs/amps/headphones for gamers and I remember him shitting all over soundcards. He was right.
When I build a pc again, it sure as hell won’t have a soundcard in it.
Out of curiosity when is the last time you used a sound card? Mostly to get a gauge on whether research into newer cards coul be worth it or if they are still a waste of time.
I have a soundblaster ae-5 in my pc right now, and before that a soundblaster zxr, which was $250 when I bought it. I only use the mic-in on the soundcard to feed audio from my gaming consoles into the pc. That’s its only use right now, and I still have to use something to filter out the noise.
I think $250 is too expensive for the bullshit I dealt with. Also I expect a premium experience for something marketed as a premium audiophile product.
Using an external digital interface is the way to go imo (I use a very strange one lol)
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Sure, equipment should not cause bullshit problems.
Rightfully so.
Careful with marketing. I approach every manufacturers description as utter bullshit unless corroborated by a reviewer I trust or a large number of random reviews
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I feel like it depends on the product and the manufacturer for how they market their stuff