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[Mexicola9302 1,883]

I ordered a Asus TUF Gaming RTX 3080 OC on the 30th September, and still nothing, it probably won't arrive before the Cyberpunk 2077 release, this makes me sad.  

[yoječ 490]

Just bought a second hand Lian Li case.

 

Absolutely no idea what I'd need it for, but I like it already

 

[Mexicola9302 1,883]

The RTX 3080 arrived on the 28th October, damn that is a fine piece of hardware, but it gets bottlenecked by my older pc parts, so i decided to just build a complete new one.

 

I ordered all of that: 

 

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS

ASUS TUF GT501

ASUS ROG RYUJIN 360

Corsair DIMM 32 GB DDR4-3200 Kit

ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF OC (that one i already have obviously)

be quiet! POWER ZONE 850W

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB

 

Oh yeah i will be ready for Cyberpunk 2077 in December.  

[yoječ 490]

You didn't want to wait for the Ryzen 5000 series? (they launch on November 5th)

[yoječ 490]

TIL that Lian Li Q37 manual suggests mounting a 2.5" disk on the rear panel, in place of the rear fans

 

 

I am at a loss of words. This is so stupid that I wanna try it out actually.

[Mexicola9302 1,883]

On 11/2/2020 at 8:54 AM, yoječ said:

You didn't want to wait for the Ryzen 5000 series? (they launch on November 5th)

I didn't know the release was so close, of course im pissed by that, but the new Ryzen 5000 series is only a bit better, so it's not that bad. Also the 5000 series is more expensive.

 

Probably gonna get a new CPU, RAM, MB and watercooler in 2022 ish anyway, so it's okay. I wait for DDR5 RAM, the new sockets etc. in the meantime what i got now is good enough.

Edited November 11, 2020 by Mexicola9302

[yoječ 490]

8 hours ago, Mexicola9302 said:

Also the 5000 series is more expensive.

Yeah, that is so very true. I'm about to build a new PC myself, and while I'd love to have the 5600X, I'm not really convinced if it's worth the price premium over the 3600. I might stick with the latter, especially since I plan to upgrade to 5900X/5950X in the future anyway.

 

Ryzen 3000 series are still great CPUs, have fun

Edited November 12, 2020 by yoječ

[KDA 1,983]

Anyone have an idea why my audio isn't being detected under playback devices. Realtek drivers are all installed as far as I know. I just switched built a new PC but reused my SSD with the Windows 10 installation so I didn't have to lose everything (even though I backed everything up on an external anyway).

 

The Realtek driver is listed in the Device manager, but the volume playback device only lists "streaming speaker" and my monitors for some reason.

[sivispacem 21,750]

6 hours ago, KDA said:

Anyone have an idea why my audio isn't being detected under playback devices. Realtek drivers are all installed as far as I know. I just switched built a new PC but reused my SSD with the Windows 10 installation so I didn't have to lose everything (even though I backed everything up on an external anyway).

The Realtek driver is listed in the Device manager, but the volume playback device only lists "streaming speaker" and my monitors for some reason.

What audio, over what kind of connection?

[KDA 1,983]

It's the rear speaker jack in the back, forgot what size it was. But I've fixed it. There was a conflict in the drivers somewhere so I just did a fresh install on a new SSD so I could keep my old setup. On that new install, another problem came up with ASUS not liking older Win 10 USB installations. I bought 3 sealed copies of Win 10 Pro a few years back and used one on the new build. Since the copies were from 2015-2016, they weren't up to date. And so ASUS drivers kept on failing to install for some reason, making the entire build useless. Ethernet, Wifi, Bluetooth, Chipset drivers, etc. None of the drivers would install and the PC effectively had no internet connection.

 

The ASUS disc driver install did nothing. Downloading the drivers on another PC, and transferring it by USB to the new one didn't work either. Checking BIOS settings turned up nothing.

 

Finally I downloaded the media creation tool on the Microsoft website to make an up to date USB installation drive, and just used the key from my retail package. After the up to date install was done installing, the ROG Armoury Crate literally downloaded every required driver instantly upon logging in. So I'm convinced it must have been something with the date of the Windows 10 retail USB drive.

[yoječ 490]

It's tough to buy a new GPU for a good price these days but I've managed to score a decent deal, 16 megs should last me for years

 

(jk)

 

[IS90 1,872]

I'm thinking about small upgrades for the below but not sure it's worth it anymore:

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte H61M-S1 with two DDR3 RAM slots and a maximum of 16 GB. I currently have 12GB(4/8) at 1330 mhz.
CPU: I5 2500K @3.30Ghz with 4 cores, 4 threads

GPU: 2GB GeForce GTX 760 (still works fine and not a priority for the moment)

HDD: 465GB

+a beautiful Cooler Master Hyper Evo 212 

 

I would like to grab an SSD for the operating system, one 1TB HDD for storage and replace the 4GB RAM with 8GB.

I only play on weekends but I would like it to perform better when I do.

 

Is it worth upgrading? Was also thinking of trading it with a laptop, was curious if there are any upgradeable ones with the same specs as my PC.

 

Edited December 8, 2020 by IS90

[LunaMax 15]

On 11/17/2020 at 4:41 AM, KDA said:

It's the rear speaker jack in the back, forgot what size it was. But I've fixed it. There was a conflict in the drivers somewhere so I just did a fresh install on a new SSD so I could keep my old setup. On that new install, another problem came up with ASUS not liking older Win 10 USB installations. I bought 3 sealed copies of Win 10 Pro a few years back and used one on the new build. Since the copies were from 2015-2016, they weren't up to date. And so ASUS drivers kept on failing to install for some reason, making the entire build useless. Ethernet, Wifi, Bluetooth, Chipset drivers, etc. None of the drivers would install and the PC effectively had no internet connection.

 

The ASUS disc driver install did nothing. Downloading the drivers on another PC, and transferring it by USB to the new one didn't work either. Checking BIOS settings turned up nothing.

 

Finally I downloaded the media creation tool on the Microsoft website to make an up to date USB installation drive, and just used the key from my retail package. After the up to date install was done installing, the ROG Armoury Crate literally downloaded every required driver instantly upon logging in. So I'm convinced it must have been something with the date of the Windows 10 retail USB drive.

Being an older version of Windows 10 it could be there wasn't support for some portion of the chipset, or indeed USB3 wasn't enabled in some way.  Always throws up issues when I used to do new builds back in the day.

 

Glad it's sorted though.

[ilya 71]

Welp, didn't get a new graphics card from the dude who comes down my chimney and calls me a ho, predictably. Maybe I'll get a 56-5700/X or Intel equivalent by March or so for the W10 build, with my 1070 still maybe. If I ever make it GPU-wise, I'll be nice and safe for the first few RT games tho, i.e. Metro, Control, etc.. And I'll look up CP77 in a year or five. Chillin'.

Edited February 17 by ilya
Man, f*ck PC gaming :D

[yoječ 490]

Who was fed up with waiting for GPU prices to come down, and snatched a second hand RX470 for a reasonable price? Me B)

 

 

Who didn't bother to check if this model actually fits in a ITX case? Also me

 

 

 

Ah crap

Edited January 27 by yoječ

[GTA3Rockstar 3,059]

Started to put together my first real build together, not just a cheap generic PC; like an HP or Lenovo with some parts installed.

 

• Lancool 2 Mesh case
• Asus Tuf x570 Pro (wifi)
• AMD R5 5600x
• 1TB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 NVMe (250gb 960 evo for OS, 500gb 960 evo for backup stuff)
• 2x16GB DDR4 3600 G Skill Trident Neo
• Uphere case fans

 

 

 

Currently using my HD7850 I was using in my Lenovo lmao Looking for a 6800XT founders but f*ck trying to get one.

[Payne 243]

I tried to block updates for my iPhone and was searching through internet to find a way. Found this site and it actually worked even though it was stating that my phone would need to be ios 14 or up in order to have it work.

 

edit: 

feedback wat, that thing wasn’t there before.

Edited February 7 by Payne

[sivispacem 21,750]

5 hours ago, Payne said:

I tried to block updates for my iPhone 

Why??

[Payne 243]

The phone i use is a 6s. I watched a video on YouTube and saw the performance on ios 13 is better. Its been talked for a while that apple slows down their old phones with updates, i kinda believe that. But....the actual reason why i would “need a specific profile” is because apple automatically downloads their cancer updates if you have enough space. If you refuse to install the update and delete it, it’s gonna be downloaded again when you’re connected to wi-fi. So if I deleted Gta Liberty City Stories, that sh*t would most likely be installed and could cause me storage problems. Plus, it’s annoying as f*ck.

It’s working so far.

Edited February 8 by Payne
Edit2: fixed broken image

[sivispacem 21,750]

Seems like a terrible idea given this is currently under active exploitation

 

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/01/27/apple-critical-patches-fix-in-the-wild-iphone-exploits-update-now/

[yoječ 490]

I need to vent a little.

 

Someone with a very bright mind at Acer made a great decision to have a key combo that restores the factory master boot record. Great, I can see how that can be useful, good job.

 

But why the f*ck did it have to be a one-key combo? Holding the power button, which conveniently rests under your thumb when moving the laptop one-handed? I just did this by accident and wiped my GRUB. Thankfully that's a quick fix once you know what to do (and I do, because it's not the first time this happened...). Dumb design like this is aggrevating. I can see literally no reason why it should be a one-key combo, let alone the power button.

Edited February 12 by yoječ

[KDA 1,983]

For people who like to make stuff... McMaster have finally added shipping costs before you place an order. No more unknowns!