I was so close. I was so close. I happened to check it at the right time, used Pixie's link, and had TWO 3080s in my cart, removed one, it went out of stock, got the other, went to check out, NewEgg quoted me $900 and I was like - "Wait, is that right?" - I went back to see what I had in my cart, it was an EVGA FTW, and of course it was gone by the time I tried to check out. argh.
Yeah, I got the FTW in my cart, but lost it in checkout. /sigh
As a PSA for this chat, the largest shipments of 3080s are coming into amazon warehouses on the 7th of october. The primary units that will be available are the MSI tri (25k units) and EVGA xc3 gaming (10k units between the 8th and 10th), ftw gaming (2k units on the 10th, but intermittent drops of 10 -20, and 60 unit po's on the 5th) all of the other 3080's still have pretty low inventory counts coming in (less than 200 per po) for the time being
Getting the RetroPC into it's forever home. Turns out I didn't have as many spare case screws as I thought I had! So I ordered those and some extra PCI slot covers off Amazon. Right now the PSU is just sitting there unfastened. I know the case doesn't look like much, but it was $5 off Facebook marketplace. Hard to beat that.
I totally forgot how much interference could jack with VGA cables. Every since I got it put in the case the image is so much clearer.
I also forgot how much room for activities there used to be in a case. And by activities I mean ribbon cables. The space inside my actual computer is probably mostly taken up by the RTX 2070 Super cooler and the Ryzen 3700X cooler. Just hulks of metal and fans and heat pipes. And two itty bitty little sata cables for a bluray drive and an HDD for Steam games.
This motherboard actually snuck in the pins for a USB panel between PCI slots! Back when GPUs were wafer thin and passively cooled, and it was remotely conceivable anything could fit between them. Hell, they weren't even called GPUs then. Just 3D Accelerators.
I looked up how many watts the parts in there consume. The STB Velocity 128 consumes about 5W. FIVE! And the Pentium 233 MMX consumes about 22W. Compared with the 65W a Ryzen 3700X draws... well actually 3x the power draw for probably 1000x or more the performance ain't half bad. Then you have the RTX 2070 Super that draws about 200W when it's actually being used. 40x power increase is quite the doozy.
My quest to find a compiler for the RetroPC eventually landed me at Visual Studio 97. Borland C++ 4.52 supported OpenGL, but didn't want to play well with GLUT. Nor could it actually debug 32-bit applications, though it could compile them. So that was out. I heard tell Code::Blocks actually runs on Win95, but was unable to verify that myself, starting with versions from 2008 and working my way forward to no success. So I ended up downloading Visual Studio 97... although I suspect a legit copy probably exists without the storage lockers at my office somewhere. Didn't work with GLUT initially, but with Service Pack 3 everything clicked into place.
Most of this work was done in VMs as I rapidly got tired of burning CD after CD after CD trying to find exactly the right combination of missing DLLs and linkages that Code::Blocks claimed it needed to run on Win95. Still need to install VS5 on the real thing. But today was mostly about getting it into it's forever home.
The serial mouse seems to be in a black hole of shipping. I did finally find a suitably priced bracket and header for the PS/2 pins on the motherboard. Well, suitable enough. Going to have to go in with some needle nose pliers and rearrange the wires on the header. If it beats the serial mouse here I may yet use the PS/2 mouse I already have.
And upgrades came, for when I need some breathing room! 256MB of PC100 ram which at least didn't prevent the system from POSTing. Need to memtest it. The K6-2 500 shows up basically wrapped in an envelope, with probably 1/3 of the pins bent. Started trying to straighten them, but there is no way I'm going to get them all good enough to ever slide into a socket. Trying to get a refund on that. And then at 9:30 pm with the baby sleeping a Diamond Viper V770 showed up. Testing that will have to wait until tomorrow.
Also ordered another microsd card to start over with Windows 98SE when I feel like using the extra ram, faster cpu, and better video card. That sdcard to ide adapter is a dream come true.
I also went to my storage unit and pulled a whole box full of my old games that should run on this thing. Just a cornucopia of 90's goodness. Diablo, StarCraft, Command & Conquer, XCom, Dungeon Keeper, System Shock, too many to list honestly. There's probably 50 games in that box. It's really made me have second thoughts about digital distribution, and how much I'm at the mercy of it to retrieve anything from it 20, 30 years from now. There is something that gives me warm fuzzies about just putting in the old cds on an airgapped system and just getting to play them again. No needing to be logged into Steam, no needing to figure out how to get it to run, no configuring a VM or an emulator. No making images of the CDs to get them to run in said VM or emulator. No needing to then find cracks for them because the image didn't copy the fine nuances of the DRM.
I may have spent a month slowly researching parts, waiting for them to get here, returning things, waiting more, researching software, etc. But I think that's still less time that I've spent mucking around with VMs or Emulators. I submitted a patch to 86Box to fix how they read input from HOTAS or Joysticks to play Heavy Gear better for god's sake! It's kind of weird when just buying the real thing ends up being the best solution.
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
@Namrok or anyone really: I've got CDs for Starcraft and Brood War, complete with manual, if y'all want em. Help me pay shipping and all good (you can send games via media mail so it's not super expensive)
I may have a couple more games kicking around; I'll have to look.
I won't lie, Namrok; I thought the retroPC idea was pretty cool but I wasn't really sure why anyone would go to the trouble. Other then as a technical exercise. But then;
I also went to my storage unit and pulled a whole box full of my old games that should run on this thing. Just a cornucopia of 90's goodness. Diablo, StarCraft, Command & Conquer, XCom, Dungeon Keeper, System Shock, too many to list honestly. There's probably 50 games in that box. It's really made me have second thoughts about digital distribution, and how much I'm at the mercy of it to retrieve anything from it 20, 30 years from now. There is something that gives me warm fuzzies about just putting in the old cds on an airgapped system and just getting to play them again.
Oh yeah, ok. Now I get it. And now I'm kinda jealous, lol.
It's really not hard to limit these to legitimate orders I'm not really sure why they're struggling with this.
You do know there are online site CAPTCHA resolution services that will do it for less than a cent per CAPTCHA, right?
For companies like Bounce Alerts that charge something like $75 a month for services, this is part of the package deal.
If it was that easy, I'm sure a company would prefer to not have to deal with what is effectively a DDoS mixed with hugely negative PR.
Yes I'm aware.
There are other solutions that don't require someone to prove they're human (delivery address, cards, billing address limitations). As much as people pretend that bots are using stolen credit cards for this, a simple limitation on billing details would take the wind out of the sails of almost all of them.
There are also nuclear solutions like, uploading government issued IDs and manually approving orders and things like order queues.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
It's really not hard to limit these to legitimate orders I'm not really sure why they're struggling with this.
You do know there are online site CAPTCHA resolution services that will do it for less than a cent per CAPTCHA, right?
For companies like Bounce Alerts that charge something like $75 a month for services, this is part of the package deal.
If it was that easy, I'm sure a company would prefer to not have to deal with what is effectively a DDoS mixed with hugely negative PR.
Yes I'm aware.
There are other solutions that don't require someone to prove they're human (delivery address, cards, billing address limitations). As much as people pretend that bots are using stolen credit cards for this, a simple limitation on billing details would take the wind out of the sails of almost all of them.
There are also nuclear solutions like, uploading government issued IDs and manually approving orders and things like order queues.
Yes you've already said how we should cut out most of rural America (and any native American on a reservation) who use PO boxes, which I don't really find to be a good solution.
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OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
It's really not hard to limit these to legitimate orders I'm not really sure why they're struggling with this.
You do know there are online site CAPTCHA resolution services that will do it for less than a cent per CAPTCHA, right?
For companies like Bounce Alerts that charge something like $75 a month for services, this is part of the package deal.
If it was that easy, I'm sure a company would prefer to not have to deal with what is effectively a DDoS mixed with hugely negative PR.
Yes I'm aware.
There are other solutions that don't require someone to prove they're human (delivery address, cards, billing address limitations). As much as people pretend that bots are using stolen credit cards for this, a simple limitation on billing details would take the wind out of the sails of almost all of them.
There are also nuclear solutions like, uploading government issued IDs and manually approving orders and things like order queues.
Yes you've already said how we should cut out most of rural America who uses PO boxes, which I don't really find to be a good solution.
If you're not willing to move to buy a new video card I don't even know what to say
It's really not hard to limit these to legitimate orders I'm not really sure why they're struggling with this.
You do know there are online site CAPTCHA resolution services that will do it for less than a cent per CAPTCHA, right?
For companies like Bounce Alerts that charge something like $75 a month for services, this is part of the package deal.
If it was that easy, I'm sure a company would prefer to not have to deal with what is effectively a DDoS mixed with hugely negative PR.
Yes I'm aware.
There are other solutions that don't require someone to prove they're human (delivery address, cards, billing address limitations). As much as people pretend that bots are using stolen credit cards for this, a simple limitation on billing details would take the wind out of the sails of almost all of them.
There are also nuclear solutions like, uploading government issued IDs and manually approving orders and things like order queues.
Yes you've already said how we should cut out most of rural America who uses PO boxes, which I don't really find to be a good solution.
It's a plenty fine short term solution considering rural america with PO boxes can't get them right now anyways.
But you appear to have missed the solution I tossed out to that:
Even with a PO box you can have a package delivered to your address and UPS/Fedex will drop it off at the post office and the USPS will leave a slip for you in the PO box. That's how it worked when I lived in the middle of nowhere farm land NY until I moved into the city itself.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Anyone know the best way to search for MOBO+CPU combo deals? My i5-6500 skylake doesn't meet minimum specs for X-wing (barely), and it doesn't seem worth it to upgrade to just a Kaby Lake.
I usually buy intel and Asus, but I know AMD is the talk of the town right now. Not sure I want to dive into a different chip company after all these years...
As a PSA for this chat, the largest shipments of 3080s are coming into amazon warehouses on the 7th of october. The primary units that will be available are the MSI tri (25k units) and EVGA xc3 gaming (10k units between the 8th and 10th), ftw gaming (2k units on the 10th, but intermittent drops of 10 -20, and 60 unit po's on the 5th) all of the other 3080's still have pretty low inventory counts coming in (less than 200 per po) for the time being
Anyone know the best way to search for MOBO+CPU combo deals? My i5-6500 skylake doesn't meet minimum specs for X-wing (barely), and it doesn't seem worth it to upgrade to just a Kaby Lake.
I usually buy intel and Asus, but I know AMD is the talk of the town right now. Not sure I want to dive into a different chip company after all these years...
Not sure I understand your second paragraph? Sounds like you'll need a new mobo no matter what.
Intel is still on top in single thread performance but articles are stating the new Ryzens will be able to beat them there and match or exceed their clock speeds.
I'd personally take the best price/performance in whatever your budget is, no matter if it's intel or amd
Yeah I was on that right away, but still, just hung on the checkout button.
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HalfazedninjaAuthor of Jake Howard: Multiverse 101!Behind YouRegistered Userregular
edited October 2020
Hi all! @Pixelated Pixie pointed me over here from the Steam thread. Here's my original post:
It's time.
After many faithful years of service, it is time to build a new PC.
I think I've been using my current one for about seven years or so, it's the first PC I ever built. I'm going to be wiping it and giving it to my daughter's boyfriend. There's still use for it for what he wants to play and I just put a 980 in it a couple of months ago that I found cheap.
But I want opinions! I built one on newegg (my budget is under 1k but I went a little over because I wanted new monitors) and, because I'm buying the parts week by week it will be done right around when Cyberpunk is coming out. I actually didn't plan it this way, it just happened to work out :biggrin:
So if you guys would please click the link and tell me if it looks good or (even better) if there are some cheaper things I can do to cut the cost a little.
Hi all! @Pixelated Pixie pointed me over here from the Steam thread. Here's my original post:
It's time.
After many faithful years of service, it is time to build a new PC.
I think I've been using my current one for about seven years or so, it's the first PC I ever built. I'm going to be wiping it and giving it to my daughter's boyfriend. There's still use for it for what he wants to play and I just put a 980 in it a couple of months ago that I found cheap.
But I want opinions! I built one on newegg (my budget is under 1k but I went a little over because I wanted new monitors) and, because I'm buying the parts week by week it will be done right around when Cyberpunk is coming out. I actually didn't plan it this way, it just happened to work out :biggrin:
So if you guys would please click the link and tell me if it looks good or (even better) if there are some cheaper things I can do to cut the cost a little.
Thanks!
There's a lot here but I'll go over 2 things thay stuck out to me
Don't buy a 2060 brand new right now. The 3060 is right around the corner (1 month, or 2) and will be significantly faster.
I wouldn't put that power supply in a $1,000 computer on a bet. Look for something with the 80 Gold rating, the EVGA Supernova G2 and G3 series are solid. Never, ever, ever go bargain basement with a power supply.
It is somehow both smaller and larger than I expected. I don't know how that works. :rotate: EDIT: I could see how the Ncase M1, being a good bit smaller would be appealing, but just as far as build quality goes, this seems as good as any case I've ever owned, and the cost disparity between this and most of the boutique ITX cases is nuts. $90 for this vs $220+ for something roughly the same but slightly smaller? o.O
Should fit on my desk perfectly fine, assuming the sound level is not distracting. I guess where on my desk is what I need to figure out next.
Waiting on the PSU and fans to actually build the thing. Probably won't see them till sometime next week, at best. They're all shipped through USPS for some reason, and they've been hit or miss on getting things here in a timely fashion.
Just looking at it, I'm gonna say that there's no way my GPU can go vertical. If you've got a GPU larger than 2 slot, but only uses two case slots, you can probably fit a pretty thick card (up to 3, I imagine); but if it actually takes up 3 literal slots, the vertical cutout only has 2 spaces. Maybe if you were willing to bend/dremel off the extra slot, but I'll pass. Even horizontal, just looking at it, i'm not sure even low profile fans would fit under the GPU. I guess I'll see; I didn't order any yet, I was waiting to see if it could even take them, or if it would really make a meaningful difference if the GPU is already sitting almost on the case.
The only thing that is concerning is that empty it doesn't seem to sit level. I'm hoping with weight it'll sort itself out, or just a minor bend; as it could have gotten slightly torqued in shipping.
EDIT: the magnetic dust covers are a nice touch. The top panel is the only one that the fine mesh is rigid and built in; bottom and sides you can remove it easily. Should make keeping it clean a cinch. The only panel that is screwed into anything is the bottom one. The rest can just be pulled off, tool free.
Hi all! @Pixelated Pixie pointed me over here from the Steam thread. Here's my original post:
It's time.
After many faithful years of service, it is time to build a new PC.
I think I've been using my current one for about seven years or so, it's the first PC I ever built. I'm going to be wiping it and giving it to my daughter's boyfriend. There's still use for it for what he wants to play and I just put a 980 in it a couple of months ago that I found cheap.
But I want opinions! I built one on newegg (my budget is under 1k but I went a little over because I wanted new monitors) and, because I'm buying the parts week by week it will be done right around when Cyberpunk is coming out. I actually didn't plan it this way, it just happened to work out :biggrin:
So if you guys would please click the link and tell me if it looks good or (even better) if there are some cheaper things I can do to cut the cost a little.
Thanks!
There's a lot here but I'll go over 2 things thay stuck out to me
Don't buy a 2060 brand new right now. The 3060 is right around the corner (1 month, or 2) and will be significantly faster.
I wouldn't put that power supply in a $1,000 computer on a bet. Look for something with the 80 Gold rating, the EVGA Supernova G2 and G3 series are solid. Never, ever, ever go bargain basement with a power supply.
Thanks fpr the tip on the power supply. The ratings said it was good but I will err on the side of caution, and your advice, and change it.
As far as the 2060 goes, will the 3060 be around the same price?
Hi all! @Pixelated Pixie pointed me over here from the Steam thread. Here's my original post:
It's time.
After many faithful years of service, it is time to build a new PC.
I think I've been using my current one for about seven years or so, it's the first PC I ever built. I'm going to be wiping it and giving it to my daughter's boyfriend. There's still use for it for what he wants to play and I just put a 980 in it a couple of months ago that I found cheap.
But I want opinions! I built one on newegg (my budget is under 1k but I went a little over because I wanted new monitors) and, because I'm buying the parts week by week it will be done right around when Cyberpunk is coming out. I actually didn't plan it this way, it just happened to work out :biggrin:
So if you guys would please click the link and tell me if it looks good or (even better) if there are some cheaper things I can do to cut the cost a little.
Thanks!
What resolution/refresh rate/settings do you plan to game at?
Bnet tag: Nermals#11601
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Hi all! @Pixelated Pixie pointed me over here from the Steam thread. Here's my original post:
It's time.
After many faithful years of service, it is time to build a new PC.
I think I've been using my current one for about seven years or so, it's the first PC I ever built. I'm going to be wiping it and giving it to my daughter's boyfriend. There's still use for it for what he wants to play and I just put a 980 in it a couple of months ago that I found cheap.
But I want opinions! I built one on newegg (my budget is under 1k but I went a little over because I wanted new monitors) and, because I'm buying the parts week by week it will be done right around when Cyberpunk is coming out. I actually didn't plan it this way, it just happened to work out :biggrin:
So if you guys would please click the link and tell me if it looks good or (even better) if there are some cheaper things I can do to cut the cost a little.
Thanks!
There's a lot here but I'll go over 2 things thay stuck out to me
Don't buy a 2060 brand new right now. The 3060 is right around the corner (1 month, or 2) and will be significantly faster.
I wouldn't put that power supply in a $1,000 computer on a bet. Look for something with the 80 Gold rating, the EVGA Supernova G2 and G3 series are solid. Never, ever, ever go bargain basement with a power supply.
Thanks fpr the tip on the power supply. The ratings said it was good but I will err on the side of caution, and your advice, and change it.
As far as the 2060 goes, will the 3060 be around the same price?
All of the 3000 series cards have been the same MSRP as the 2000 series so far, so I would imagine so.
And power supplies in the $80-$100 range are good to look at, usually. You want solid japanese capacitors and the numerous safety systems that extra $30 provides.
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HalfazedninjaAuthor of Jake Howard: Multiverse 101!Behind YouRegistered Userregular
Hi all! @Pixelated Pixie pointed me over here from the Steam thread. Here's my original post:
It's time.
After many faithful years of service, it is time to build a new PC.
I think I've been using my current one for about seven years or so, it's the first PC I ever built. I'm going to be wiping it and giving it to my daughter's boyfriend. There's still use for it for what he wants to play and I just put a 980 in it a couple of months ago that I found cheap.
But I want opinions! I built one on newegg (my budget is under 1k but I went a little over because I wanted new monitors) and, because I'm buying the parts week by week it will be done right around when Cyberpunk is coming out. I actually didn't plan it this way, it just happened to work out :biggrin:
So if you guys would please click the link and tell me if it looks good or (even better) if there are some cheaper things I can do to cut the cost a little.
Thanks!
What resolution/refresh rate/settings do you plan to game at?
1080 - 1440
I'm not looking for the super high end rig. I just want something that can play the new games coming out at High settings and stable 60+ framerate.
It looks like the 3060 might be coming at the end of October. I can wait till then if the prices are similar
Hi all! @Pixelated Pixie pointed me over here from the Steam thread. Here's my original post:
It's time.
After many faithful years of service, it is time to build a new PC.
I think I've been using my current one for about seven years or so, it's the first PC I ever built. I'm going to be wiping it and giving it to my daughter's boyfriend. There's still use for it for what he wants to play and I just put a 980 in it a couple of months ago that I found cheap.
But I want opinions! I built one on newegg (my budget is under 1k but I went a little over because I wanted new monitors) and, because I'm buying the parts week by week it will be done right around when Cyberpunk is coming out. I actually didn't plan it this way, it just happened to work out :biggrin:
So if you guys would please click the link and tell me if it looks good or (even better) if there are some cheaper things I can do to cut the cost a little.
Thanks!
What resolution/refresh rate/settings do you plan to game at?
1080 - 1440
I'm not looking for the super high end rig. I just want something that can play the new games coming out at High settings and stable 60+ framerate.
It looks like the 3060 might be coming at the end of October. I can wait till then if the prices are similar
The 3060 should be somewhere around $300-400 according to the interwebs. If you have the time take a look at pcpartpicker for testing out various builds and configurations, has a nice feature which lets you know if your components are compatible and the total power draw of your system.
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Yeah, I got the FTW in my cart, but lost it in checkout. /sigh
Getting the RetroPC into it's forever home. Turns out I didn't have as many spare case screws as I thought I had! So I ordered those and some extra PCI slot covers off Amazon. Right now the PSU is just sitting there unfastened. I know the case doesn't look like much, but it was $5 off Facebook marketplace. Hard to beat that.
I totally forgot how much interference could jack with VGA cables. Every since I got it put in the case the image is so much clearer.
I also forgot how much room for activities there used to be in a case. And by activities I mean ribbon cables. The space inside my actual computer is probably mostly taken up by the RTX 2070 Super cooler and the Ryzen 3700X cooler. Just hulks of metal and fans and heat pipes. And two itty bitty little sata cables for a bluray drive and an HDD for Steam games.
This motherboard actually snuck in the pins for a USB panel between PCI slots! Back when GPUs were wafer thin and passively cooled, and it was remotely conceivable anything could fit between them. Hell, they weren't even called GPUs then. Just 3D Accelerators.
I looked up how many watts the parts in there consume. The STB Velocity 128 consumes about 5W. FIVE! And the Pentium 233 MMX consumes about 22W. Compared with the 65W a Ryzen 3700X draws... well actually 3x the power draw for probably 1000x or more the performance ain't half bad. Then you have the RTX 2070 Super that draws about 200W when it's actually being used. 40x power increase is quite the doozy.
My quest to find a compiler for the RetroPC eventually landed me at Visual Studio 97. Borland C++ 4.52 supported OpenGL, but didn't want to play well with GLUT. Nor could it actually debug 32-bit applications, though it could compile them. So that was out. I heard tell Code::Blocks actually runs on Win95, but was unable to verify that myself, starting with versions from 2008 and working my way forward to no success. So I ended up downloading Visual Studio 97... although I suspect a legit copy probably exists without the storage lockers at my office somewhere. Didn't work with GLUT initially, but with Service Pack 3 everything clicked into place.
Most of this work was done in VMs as I rapidly got tired of burning CD after CD after CD trying to find exactly the right combination of missing DLLs and linkages that Code::Blocks claimed it needed to run on Win95. Still need to install VS5 on the real thing. But today was mostly about getting it into it's forever home.
The serial mouse seems to be in a black hole of shipping. I did finally find a suitably priced bracket and header for the PS/2 pins on the motherboard. Well, suitable enough. Going to have to go in with some needle nose pliers and rearrange the wires on the header. If it beats the serial mouse here I may yet use the PS/2 mouse I already have.
And upgrades came, for when I need some breathing room! 256MB of PC100 ram which at least didn't prevent the system from POSTing. Need to memtest it. The K6-2 500 shows up basically wrapped in an envelope, with probably 1/3 of the pins bent. Started trying to straighten them, but there is no way I'm going to get them all good enough to ever slide into a socket. Trying to get a refund on that. And then at 9:30 pm with the baby sleeping a Diamond Viper V770 showed up. Testing that will have to wait until tomorrow.
Also ordered another microsd card to start over with Windows 98SE when I feel like using the extra ram, faster cpu, and better video card. That sdcard to ide adapter is a dream come true.
I also went to my storage unit and pulled a whole box full of my old games that should run on this thing. Just a cornucopia of 90's goodness. Diablo, StarCraft, Command & Conquer, XCom, Dungeon Keeper, System Shock, too many to list honestly. There's probably 50 games in that box. It's really made me have second thoughts about digital distribution, and how much I'm at the mercy of it to retrieve anything from it 20, 30 years from now. There is something that gives me warm fuzzies about just putting in the old cds on an airgapped system and just getting to play them again. No needing to be logged into Steam, no needing to figure out how to get it to run, no configuring a VM or an emulator. No making images of the CDs to get them to run in said VM or emulator. No needing to then find cracks for them because the image didn't copy the fine nuances of the DRM.
I may have spent a month slowly researching parts, waiting for them to get here, returning things, waiting more, researching software, etc. But I think that's still less time that I've spent mucking around with VMs or Emulators. I submitted a patch to 86Box to fix how they read input from HOTAS or Joysticks to play Heavy Gear better for god's sake! It's kind of weird when just buying the real thing ends up being the best solution.
You do know there are online site CAPTCHA resolution services that will do it for less than a cent per CAPTCHA, right?
For companies like Bounce Alerts that charge something like $75 a month for services, this is part of the package deal.
If it was that easy, I'm sure a company would prefer to not have to deal with what is effectively a DDoS mixed with hugely negative PR.
hint: the 3090 SLI link placement isn't standardized
Talk about building your own custom X-Box
Plus my DT1990s sound wonderful.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/pablocampy
I may have a couple more games kicking around; I'll have to look.
Oh yeah, ok. Now I get it. And now I'm kinda jealous, lol.
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Yes I'm aware.
There are other solutions that don't require someone to prove they're human (delivery address, cards, billing address limitations). As much as people pretend that bots are using stolen credit cards for this, a simple limitation on billing details would take the wind out of the sails of almost all of them.
There are also nuclear solutions like, uploading government issued IDs and manually approving orders and things like order queues.
Yes you've already said how we should cut out most of rural America (and any native American on a reservation) who use PO boxes, which I don't really find to be a good solution.
If you're not willing to move to buy a new video card I don't even know what to say
It's a plenty fine short term solution considering rural america with PO boxes can't get them right now anyways.
But you appear to have missed the solution I tossed out to that:
Even with a PO box you can have a package delivered to your address and UPS/Fedex will drop it off at the post office and the USPS will leave a slip for you in the PO box. That's how it worked when I lived in the middle of nowhere farm land NY until I moved into the city itself.
I usually buy intel and Asus, but I know AMD is the talk of the town right now. Not sure I want to dive into a different chip company after all these years...
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I guess that means I'll see a shipping update in a few days!
There's still a couple hundred cards on Ebay and I swear I've seen several re-lists.
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EDIT - And they're gone. I was on that immediately and just got hung up while watching twitch chat get successes.
Not sure I understand your second paragraph? Sounds like you'll need a new mobo no matter what.
Intel is still on top in single thread performance but articles are stating the new Ryzens will be able to beat them there and match or exceed their clock speeds.
I'd personally take the best price/performance in whatever your budget is, no matter if it's intel or amd
It's time.
After many faithful years of service, it is time to build a new PC.
I think I've been using my current one for about seven years or so, it's the first PC I ever built. I'm going to be wiping it and giving it to my daughter's boyfriend. There's still use for it for what he wants to play and I just put a 980 in it a couple of months ago that I found cheap.
But I want opinions! I built one on newegg (my budget is under 1k but I went a little over because I wanted new monitors) and, because I'm buying the parts week by week it will be done right around when Cyberpunk is coming out. I actually didn't plan it this way, it just happened to work out :biggrin:
So if you guys would please click the link and tell me if it looks good or (even better) if there are some cheaper things I can do to cut the cost a little.
Thanks!
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There's a lot here but I'll go over 2 things thay stuck out to me
Don't buy a 2060 brand new right now. The 3060 is right around the corner (1 month, or 2) and will be significantly faster.
I wouldn't put that power supply in a $1,000 computer on a bet. Look for something with the 80 Gold rating, the EVGA Supernova G2 and G3 series are solid. Never, ever, ever go bargain basement with a power supply.
It is somehow both smaller and larger than I expected. I don't know how that works. :rotate: EDIT: I could see how the Ncase M1, being a good bit smaller would be appealing, but just as far as build quality goes, this seems as good as any case I've ever owned, and the cost disparity between this and most of the boutique ITX cases is nuts. $90 for this vs $220+ for something roughly the same but slightly smaller? o.O
Should fit on my desk perfectly fine, assuming the sound level is not distracting. I guess where on my desk is what I need to figure out next.
Waiting on the PSU and fans to actually build the thing. Probably won't see them till sometime next week, at best. They're all shipped through USPS for some reason, and they've been hit or miss on getting things here in a timely fashion.
Just looking at it, I'm gonna say that there's no way my GPU can go vertical. If you've got a GPU larger than 2 slot, but only uses two case slots, you can probably fit a pretty thick card (up to 3, I imagine); but if it actually takes up 3 literal slots, the vertical cutout only has 2 spaces. Maybe if you were willing to bend/dremel off the extra slot, but I'll pass. Even horizontal, just looking at it, i'm not sure even low profile fans would fit under the GPU. I guess I'll see; I didn't order any yet, I was waiting to see if it could even take them, or if it would really make a meaningful difference if the GPU is already sitting almost on the case.
The only thing that is concerning is that empty it doesn't seem to sit level. I'm hoping with weight it'll sort itself out, or just a minor bend; as it could have gotten slightly torqued in shipping.
EDIT: the magnetic dust covers are a nice touch. The top panel is the only one that the fine mesh is rigid and built in; bottom and sides you can remove it easily. Should make keeping it clean a cinch. The only panel that is screwed into anything is the bottom one. The rest can just be pulled off, tool free.
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Thanks fpr the tip on the power supply. The ratings said it was good but I will err on the side of caution, and your advice, and change it.
As far as the 2060 goes, will the 3060 be around the same price?
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What resolution/refresh rate/settings do you plan to game at?
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All of the 3000 series cards have been the same MSRP as the 2000 series so far, so I would imagine so.
And power supplies in the $80-$100 range are good to look at, usually. You want solid japanese capacitors and the numerous safety systems that extra $30 provides.
1080 - 1440
I'm not looking for the super high end rig. I just want something that can play the new games coming out at High settings and stable 60+ framerate.
It looks like the 3060 might be coming at the end of October. I can wait till then if the prices are similar
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The 3060 should be somewhere around $300-400 according to the interwebs. If you have the time take a look at pcpartpicker for testing out various builds and configurations, has a nice feature which lets you know if your components are compatible and the total power draw of your system.
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