PC Pc Gaming/building thread

[dav3]

I am considering a new machine soon.

The current one is work, personal, gaming. I have an inkling that I should separate gaming out onto its own machine. If not a separate one for each task.

Give me your recs, bros! What should his Chiefness get!?!

Surely you've got a spare bigfooty server around the place you can repurpose?

 

[Chief]

Never had a Commodore - we were an Apple //c household, IBM at the family business.

 

[dwwaino]

If anyone starts seeing more ads then usual then it's going towards Chief's 4090 fund.

 

[Chief]

If anyone starts seeing more ads then usual then it's going towards Chief's 4090 fund.

Password hashes ain't gonna crack themselves!

 

[blackshadow]

I am considering a new machine soon.

The current one is work, personal, gaming. I have an inkling that I should separate gaming out onto its own machine. If not a separate one for each task.

Give me your recs, bros! What should his Chiefness get!?!

I assume your budget is a bazillion bucks!

How serious a gaming rig do you want? What resolution? Do you want bling or just a good gaming box?

 

[dwwaino]

Password hashes ain't gonna crack themselves!

Do you really want to build a separate machine? Is it more of a psychological separate work from play sort of thing? Because there is a fair amount of overlap and lots of memory, fast storage and a decent CPU will always benefit gaming too.

While I don't do anything professional on mine I'm glad I still opted for 32gb RAM and a 5900x because when I'm stuffing around in Unreal I can also keep Blender, Substance Painter and 573 Chrome tabs open and absolutely crush compiling, rendering and light building.

 

[Chief]

Current one has 64gb ram and ... can't even remember the video card. Some god-awful monitor too.

 

[Kram]

Never had a Commodore - we were an Apple //c household, IBM at the family business.

How could you have not been swayed by such an ad campaign.

 

[dwwaino]

Eeeeyyyy GoG got the music license sorted for Alpha Protocol. I wonder how that holds up these days?

 

[dwwaino]

AM5 uptake must be low if they're going to keep supporting new/updated products on AM4. My 5900x at stock while gaming already boosts to 4.8ghz no sweat as advertised on the box and I've seen it occasionally peak at 4.95ghz. If Zen 3 gets the same clock bump as the Zen 2 that's allegedly going into the PS5 Pro then a 5900XT should comfortably boost clear of that magical 5.0ghz number.

AMD preparing Ryzen 5000XT series, yet another update for AM4 socket - VideoCardz.com

AMD to launch Ryzen 5000 XT series with faster clocks Something that has gone under a radar (including ours) is that AMD is also launching new Ryzen 5000 processors, effectively prolonging the AM4 socket yet again. AMD expanded its desktop processor lineup earlier this year, with a particular...

videocardz.com

 

[sataris]

Current one has 64gb ram and ... can't even remember the video card. Some god-awful monitor too.

Depends on the workloads you're running for work,

If you're going pure gaming.

Nvidia 30/40 RX Budget appropriately
I'd recommend AM5 for CPU, but I am biased slightly towards better multi-core performance. (also all the Intel security stuff)
32GB RAM should be plenty for gaming only.

 

[Ed_Gein]

Ordered a 5800x3d, b550 Tomahawk mobo, and G.Skillz 2x16gb ram....

Will grab a new card sometime soon, although not sure what yet.

 

[dwwaino]

....what am I missing? Please no one tell Razer.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

....what am I missing?

Your trip to the bank manager first.
That's as expensive as a decent entry level PC.

 

[dwwaino]

RTX 5000 launch sounds like it's shaping up to be 3000 launch v2.0. RIP.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Hoping my PC makes it to the end of Windows 10 support in October next year, then I'll sort myself out with a brand new system. Also hope Windows 11 is replaced by then too cos I really don't like it.

Current PC is almost 9 years old, no real upgrades in that time except for a second 2TB HDD and a 500GB NVMe SSD, but it was a beast when I got it.


i6700K, 16GB RAM, GTX 980Ti

 

[dwwaino]

RTX5000 rumours heating up but they can't agree. Some state only the 5090 will launch this year while others say the 5080 will come first.

This will be the first time in quite a few generations I'll have to hold off buying in early. Not only am I also waiting for Zen 5 but I'm actually buying a new car this year - something I haven't done many times as I'm not a car man. Only my 5th one ever lol. To me they're just an appliance and another bill.

 

[Chief]

I'm not a car man. Only my 5th one ever lol.

I'm on my third.

 

[dwwaino]

I'm on my third.

I'd be on my third if my first didn't get stolen after only about 12 months.

 

[blackshadow]

Just added a major upgrade to my rig… Lemmy power!

 

[Chief]

I'd be on my third if my first didn't get stolen after only about 12 months.

Sucks. But you will insist on driving to Collingwood games...

 

[dwwaino]

Sucks. But you will insist on driving to Collingwood games...

Joke's on you chiefy. It was when I was living in Brisbane and it got pinched from a Woolworths carpark in mt Gravatt

 

[Chief]

Joke's on you chiefy. It was when I was living in Brisbane and it got pinched from a Woolworths carpark in mt Gravatt

Again...

 

[Chief]

Joke's on you chiefy. It was when I was living in Brisbane and it got pinched from a Woolworths carpark in mt Gravatt

I heard once that 10% of all car thefts in Queensland happened in Garden City car park.

 

[dwwaino]

I heard once that 10% of all car thefts in Queensland happened in Garden City car park.

I read something recently that surprised me about Mt Gravatt having high car theft stats. My memory of the area was much better than that. When I was a teenager I worked at the Woolworths just down the road in another centre. And to keep it PC related my mate's brother owned a PC store around there called "Floppy Diks" and I kid you not the motto on the sign was "where you won't get screwed".