PC Pc Gaming/building thread

[dav3]

nah i mean it doesnt look very deep.

Looks like they're 76cm deep, which is pretty good compared to the ones I was looking at last time I desk shopped.

 

[gaskin]

Just put in a refund for The Last of Us. 2 months later and I still can't play it. Hopefully Steam refund knowing how shit the port is but I reckon they will be a bunch of campaigners and say too bad.

 

[blackshadow]

nah i mean it doesnt look very deep.

It’s pretty deep.

 

[dwwaino]

Drifting pretty far from gaming but figured posters here might have an appreciation for this kind of stuff. I have no idea why this guy ended up in my suggestions but he's the dude who wrote the original Windows task manager (and has a video about it). Now he has a series of videos of the development of certain Windows features and I find them really fascinating.

 

[Ry009]

Got an Omnidesk delivered on Friday and setup on Saturday.

Huge fan of it. Solid as a rock and looks great. Ended up leaving my tower on the ground. Cables are long enough.

Bought a cable management bar for the power board but unless your plus bend at the right angle, not worth getting.

Monitor mounts are awesome. It's great having more desk real estate and also more freedom with the monitors. USB/Mic-Headphone passthrough on the mounts are a great handy feature, although I only have use for the USB ports.

While the instructions aren't great, youtube vids helped, and managed to get live chat with Omnidesk on Saturday afternoon which was both surprising and a lifesaver. Great customer service.

Not cheap but jumped at it with the sale. Highly recommend.

Cheers Rich and Dwainno for the suggestion here.

 

[dwwaino]

Got an Omnidesk delivered on Friday and setup on Saturday.

Huge fan of it. Solid as a rock and looks great. Ended up leaving my tower on the ground. Cables are long enough.

Bought a cable management bar for the power board but unless your plus bend at the right angle, not worth getting.

Monitor mounts are awesome. It's great having more desk real estate and also more freedom with the monitors. USB/Mic-Headphone passthrough on the mounts are a great handy feature, although I only have use for the USB ports.

While the instructions aren't great, youtube vids helped, and managed to get live chat with Omnidesk on Saturday afternoon which was both surprising and a lifesaver. Great customer service.

Not cheap but jumped at it with the sale. Highly recommend.

Cheers Rich and Dwainno for the suggestion here.

Ooooh you got the cable bar. I was spewing that like 3 days after I ordered mine they started a new sale and actually included it . Missed out by that much.

 

[blackshadow]

Got an Omnidesk delivered on Friday and setup on Saturday.

Huge fan of it. Solid as a rock and looks great. Ended up leaving my tower on the ground. Cables are long enough.

Bought a cable management bar for the power board but unless your plus bend at the right angle, not worth getting.

Monitor mounts are awesome. It's great having more desk real estate and also more freedom with the monitors. USB/Mic-Headphone passthrough on the mounts are a great handy feature, although I only have use for the USB ports.

While the instructions aren't great, youtube vids helped, and managed to get live chat with Omnidesk on Saturday afternoon which was both surprising and a lifesaver. Great customer service.

Not cheap but jumped at it with the sale. Highly recommend.

Cheers Rich and Dwainno for the suggestion here.

Awesome.

I got the cable management tray underneath mine and it’s been excellent.

I probably could have left my PC off the desk but I liked only having one power cord and one network cable going to the desk.

 

[dwwaino]

A fair bit of "yeah but whaddabout whabbabout" with this. In the past NVIDIA technologies exclusive to NVIDIA were when they had no competition. This is what happens when you dominate the market. However their sponsored titles don't lock out competing technologies. Let's give Bethesda the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe it isn't logistical at the moment to add in DLSS alongside FSR in their new Creation engine. However for third party engines like Unreal Engine where implementing DLSS isn't much more than opening the plugin menu, searching for DLSS and ticking the box to include it in your project it is a little harder to excuse.

Some strange comments about criticising both brands on needing an upscaler. Good upscaling is free performance and in my experience DLSS + ultra settings looks and performs better than optimising med-high settings without DLSS at native resolution. FSR still looks like poo.

 

[biaseddustyfan]

I ended up buying the biggest zen space desk in the sales, with cable management and a single draw. funny thing is I really wanted the black legs, but they weren't 50% off like the white and grey. I procrastinated for so long that the grey legs sold out (think they must've been trying to clear all that stock) and they put the black legs on 50% off after that so I ended up getting the colour i actually wanted haha

it's on back order so hopefully next month it will arrive and can test it out!

 

[hornetswce]

There’s something going on with my PC, the slightest bump to the desk and it loses power.

Opened it up and can’t see anything that’s loose.

Driving me mad haha.


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[dwwaino]

Check power cable and that all cables are fully plugged into the back of the PSU.

 

[dav3]

Yeah sounds like you have a power cable not connected properly at the PSU or the source (wall socket, power board, etc), maybe swap it out if you have a spare. If that doesn't fix it it's probably worth reseating any cards and internal power cables in case there's something not quite connected properly

 

[sataris]

Not strictly a PC, but I'm super keen to get my framework laptop!

I looked at the omnidesks a while back but they are incredibly expensive :/

May try to DIY my own with a raspberry pi.

 

[dav3]

Not strictly a PC, but I'm super keen to get my framework laptop!

I looked at the omnidesks a while back but they are incredibly expensive :/

May try to DIY my own with a raspberry pi.

Could always try a Zen Space Desk

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[sataris]

Could always try a Zen Space Desk

Height Adjustable Desks – Adjustable Computer Desks | Zen Space

Explore our range of height adjustable desks in a variety of finishes & sizes. With a 5-year warranty & fast shipping AU-wide, order online today!

www.zenspacedesks.com.au

True, but to be honest the DIY challenge is far more appealing (to me anywy).

 

[blackshadow]

May try to DIY my own

I think Omnidesk will sell you the legs and controller if you contact them - add desktop and cable management.

 

[hornetswce]

The culprit ended up being a stick of RAM, one end had popped out.

Thanks for the suggestions!


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[dwwaino]

Samsung Neo G7 is finally end of life with the G8 out and being slashed heavily. I've been sitting on it for over a week and watching retailers go out of stock one by one so finally pulled the trigger and ordered directly through Samsung. Lots of horror stories about shit Samsung QA so fingers crossed. Most reviewers have reported their G7s were fine but actually had more problems with the G8.

 

[sataris]

Samsung Neo G7 is finally end of life with the G8 out and being slashed heavily. I've been sitting on it for over a week and watching retailers go out of stock one by one so finally pulled the trigger and ordered directly through Samsung. Lots of horror stories about s**t Samsung QA so fingers crossed. Most reviewers have reported their G7s were fine but actually had more problems with the G8.

Grab a Pixel and chuck GrapheneOS on it and thank me later.

 

[dwwaino]

Grab a Pixel and chuck GrapheneOS on it and thank me later.

Neo G7 is a monitor though

 

[dwwaino]

These Tech Focus videos are really cool

 

[dwwaino]

LTT-tier unbox impression of the Odyssey Neo G7 - 1000R curve isn't as aggressive as some make it out to be if you're already accustomed to curves. It's a little more noticeable than the 1800R of my AW3423DW but for anything from 32" and up I think you need some sort of curve for certain technologies. Curves on 34" ultrawides make sense regardless of technology to bring the edges into your periphery, and for 32" VA panels you're probably going to need some sort of curve to fix the viewing angles around the edges which is probably why IPS panels (that aren't ultrawides) aren't typically curved.

Won't be setting it up until tomorrow though as I'm going to take the opportunity to give my desk a thorough clean and redo all of the underdesk cabling. So fingers crossed the monitor is all good

 

[sataris]

Neo G7 is a monitor though

D'oh I was reading another thread and got muddled.

Carry on!

 

[dwwaino]

D'oh I was reading another thread and got muddled.

Carry on!

All good. I had an absolute classic doing the same thing not long ago on another board. I'm so conscientious about what thread I'm posting in now

 

[dwwaino]

4K HDR test video on YouTube with the new Odyssey Neo G7. Looks awesome.

Though for all of the hair splitting over the choice of anti-glare films of the current crop of OLED monitors by reviewers, they handle glare a lot better. 4K HDR video looks fine with perfect blacks and with nearly 1200 dimming zones there is no noticable blooming (I'm sure if you pause and pixel peep you'll find some), however general dark content like BigFooty or Facebook that is more of a charcoal it is a little washed and inconsistent compared to my OLED monitor, however pages that are actually black like Twitter (X?) are full black with no washing despire glare from my window.

Now to get used to 4K at 100% scaling because sacrificing real estate after ditching the second ultrawide will defeat the purpose of why I got it lol.