#pc-gaming

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shy root
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wished microsoft had family share on pc

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i don't fully understand why cause steam has it

wise urchin
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Xbox and pc gameing?

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Ima get a pc xbox and ps are to controling and i feel like i am playing with a 3< toy and not sumthing i am spending 500$ for

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Not to menton over price games and suscriptons

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No more next gen just swich out your parts

thorny cypress
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You're fine to play on what you want, but plenty of people enjoy consoles

livid brook
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good luck getting latest gpu for less than console

wise urchin
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I understand

silver river
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can anyone help me find a new GPU

floral quail
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shadow of the tomb raider, all ultra with rtx on, and still getting 150fps, NOICE

raven hull
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That’s not family sharing. That’s just logging in with the account that has Minecraft

tiny gate
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Yeah my wife has game pass ultimate on her Xbox and I just sign her account into the Microsoft store on my pc and I am able to download game pass games on my profile.

rugged hazel
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I got my 3070 for straight trade of a series x so it's possible

smoky flame
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ooh nice!

analog sapphire
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that sounds shady

smoky flame
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I think I'm going back to 1080p gaming. 1440p is nice but I like how much performance can be gained just from dropping to 1080p. 4K in my opinion now looks really stupid considering it will be even heavier than 1440p

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been messing around with The Division 2 some more and at 1440p with Hardware Unboxed's settings my system (5600X, 32GB 3600MHz ram and a 5700 XT) struggles to maintain 60 FPS. Those same settings but at 1080p I'm way above 60 FPS. So much so I set the game to maxed settings and still managed to maintain over 60 FPS. Still upgrading my GPU but this is interesting, at least to me

sharp moss
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ohh k

tepid fable
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I’m doing ok in 1440p but it is getting harder, better textures us the way though not resolution

full flint
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nitro ?

royal sandal
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anyone know how to fix "This feature is blocked per your Xbox Live parental control settings" on Forza Horizon 4 pc

surreal moss
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Yeah you have to change your parental controls

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Sorry to state the obvious but that’s literally the answer. You have a parental restriction set somewhere.

round reef
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I don't get 1440 gaming. Are there that many people plugging xboxes into monitors? Ive never even seen a 1440 tv

surreal moss
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You’re forgetting the entirety of the pc gaming world

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In which probably around 95% of people use monitors

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And yes, there’s lots of people who use consoles with monitors. You still get the same benefits of better responsiveness.

shrewd rock
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i use a monitor with xbox sometimes

surreal moss
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Idk contact support

royal sandal
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will it automaticaly turn off when I turn 18?

tepid fable
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i play on a pc in 1440p on a 4k display

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the benefits of say playing on it is maybe you can handle 4k@ 60hz with a setup, but maybe that same setup could handle 1440p @144hz and that wouldbe more beneficial in some games, so some people priotize different thhings

surreal moss
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2k is the nickname for 1440p, but it’s not actually 2k

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4k is very demanding and lowers your frames dramatically, while 1080p is not and provides great frame rates

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1440p is a middle ground where you can get a bigger screen with a sharp picture, and still have good framerate s

tepid fable
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some guys will even go for 1080 at 360hz

surreal moss
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Me

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Literally

tepid fable
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im thinking of getting a 144hz 1440p monitor maybe this summer

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id like to try above 60hz

full flint
sharp moss
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2 times

full flint
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Yes ik it’s so frustrating you just want to play some forza and Microsoft be like “ reinstall 100gb”

sharp moss
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Ikr

sharp moss
full flint
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My wifi is not that good I’m not a sweat and stuff but it took from 2pm to 9pm

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To install ultimate edition

sharp moss
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It took me from aroun 4pm to 7pm to install it

full flint
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i just made a refund request for mordhau after buying it on release and loving it.
I only recently (2 days ago) made a return to it only to see it become a shadow of its' former self.
The technical side of the game is very unstable, with it crashing frequently not only on custom maps, but on the official ones as well. Performance is severely unoptimized, with recommended-tier system struggling on Low.
The playerbase is now majorly consisting of closet cheaters and smurfs, who openly admit it due to the game's lack of any anti-cheat system whatsoever.
Racial/gender slurs in the chat are on the minute-basis.
The main gimmick of this game is broken too, which is melee medieval combat. It is better than Chivalry's, but it's more exploitable than that one.

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sorry for this kind of rant, but i'm just done with it

full flint
spiral iron
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Anyone there?

raven hull
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Seeing that you’re asking in multiple channels. You probably have a question for #233805809346150400

fickle sluice
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Hosting sniper only lobbies every night 7:30-10:30 dm me for info COD

autumn sluice
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nah

granite storm
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Looking to start a friend group on pc. In need of 3 people for it. I play bo3. MW. Phasmophobia. Among us. Vrchat. Left for Dead 2. Fortnite. Rocket league. And many more. Must be 14+ to join and from United States!

split sun
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I wonder when will Halo 5 come to PC

lusty oak
surreal moss
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It won’t

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They reconfirmed there’s no plans in fall 2020

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The halo 5 team is the team that’s working on infinite

full flint
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surreal moss
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Ooo baby we’re getting close

surreal moss
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@hollow solstice English only please

hollow solstice
spiral iron
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Does anyone know when Radeon Rx 6800xt restocks?

smoky flame
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not a clue. They are very difficult to come across (at least here in the UK) I want to get one too but since retailers listed them on their sites I have never seen any "in stock" they either have yet to get some or come and go so fast

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just wish more companies done a trade up thing similar to what EVGA do where I could trade my 5700 XT Red Devil against the cost of a 6800 XT, pay the difference and be guaranteed one. If there was that option I'd be using it right now

full flint
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yup, the cpus you can buy though
at least 5600x and 5800x

gloomy rain
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hi

frozen rover
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brand new xbox x wireless controller having problems connecting to pc, it just says try connecting device again, i have updated the controller in the xbox accessories app

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elo

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enybody der

full flint
floral quail
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Lmao

split sun
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I will never buy the overpriced AMD GPUs

surreal moss
livid brook
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why not evil?

snow tulip
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evil i would rather take a nvidia gpu

livid brook
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a

snow tulip
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?

hearty ruin
hearty ruin
woeful bone
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Can someone play with me on a game like minecraft or roblox and van call dm me

static cargo
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does anyone here use the wave 3 mic from elgato? Im having issues

warm vigil
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Why can’t I play rainbow six siege on my pc but I can on my Xbox even though I have the ultimate edition??

thorny cypress
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Rainbow six siege isn't on game pass for pc

warm vigil
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Really?

thorny cypress
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really

warm vigil
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Dam 😢

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Xbox barley has any good games for pc 😭

thorny cypress
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There's plenty of good games for pc!

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Among Us, Gears 5, A Plague Tale, Bloodstained, Celeste, Cross Code, Final Fantasy (multiple ones), Forza Horizon 4, FTL, Golf with your Friends, Gris, Guacamelee 2, Halo MCC, Hellblade, Hollow Knight, Flight Simulator, Minecraft Dungeons, Moving Out, Ori and the blind forest, Ori and the will of the wisp, Streets of Rage, Sunset Overdrive, The Messenger, The Outer Worlds, etc

radiant sentinel
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hello, I have a xbox game pass for 3 months.....but I dont play on Xbox what should I do of it

void spindle
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they are in the xbox app found in windows store or perhaps preinstalled

radiant sentinel
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@void spindle @amber laurel I have got the nitro of discord...that's why I got the Xbox game pass code to redeem...does anyone want it...I have no use of it

ruby spear
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I'm sure someone does. Feel free to drop the code in #xbox-game-pass , CoCo.

full flint
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I'm going to get a RTX 3080 build

surreal moss
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Nice

smoky flame
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I'm still trying to get a 3080 or 6800 XT. Having no luck 😦 Got pretty lucky with my new CPU though. Half expected I'd have been waiting over two months for it

full flint
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follow stockinformer uk

stuck coyote
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Hello folks. I have a question. I main on Xbox console with gp ultimate sub. And own about 189 games. I recently started up on pc, and am figuring out the ropes but wonder if I am doing something wrong cuz only 4/5 games show up under owned on my pc, or is it like a beta thing. Games I own, that are play anywhere are not even there. Was wondering if someone could help me thru the process. Thanks. Gamertag is helloZigii.

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Like for example, I own wwz, (oh and I am the main acct. holder for the gp ultimate in the household), but when I click on it, it says I can install (cuz of gp), or buy it. But I already own it, so why is it not showing up as an owned game on my pc acct. when it is pc playable?

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Hope that makes sense. Sorry for being dumb about this. Lol.

full flint
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the majority of games i own are play anywere but you cant play them on pc @stuck coyote

stuck coyote
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Okay. I’m so confused now. Lol. Straight from Xbox website it says, “now when you own an Xbox play anywhere digital title it’s yours to play both on Xbox and windows 10 PC.” And “purchase an Xbox play anywhere digital game, play it on Xbox and windows 10 pc at no additional cost”.. the games that are listed in my owned are only gp games. Hence my confusion and why I thought it was a beta error?? Thanks tho for your reply. 😉

toxic needle
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does anyone know a good software to get clips

edgy gate
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geforce experience works pretty well

dusty vector
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So the PC World War Z is not the same license as the Console World War Z, therefore you only have rights on PC due to Game Pass

stuck coyote
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True. Thanks for the reply. Another example of a game I own that is play anywhere would be, gears 5, that does not show up. So I am just wondering if I am doing something wrong on my end with settings. ? If that makes sense.

dusty vector
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The account "helloZigii" does not own Gears 5

coral bobcat
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L

stuck coyote
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OMG your right! I don’t, I only own 4, I totes forgot I’ve had gp for so long now. Lolol. Umm okay so that’s good then you can see my games. I’m looking at the play anywhere list atm and comparing. Looks like deep rock galactic is the only one that I have and not showing up. So is there something I can do to like reset my pc? I’m not sure which is why I’m asking. Thank you.

dusty vector
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I'm not sure... I know for Deep Rock there are a couple editions listed in the store. I don't know if all editions carry over Play Anywhere but I would try looking at both the deluxe edition and the base game and see if they both show the wrong thing for you?

stuck coyote
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Okay. Thank you @dusty vector like I said im new to the pc thing, and thought it was just an easy peasy thing w/my acct in a cloud somewhere 😄 but... thanks for your help and input regardless.

dusty vector
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It should be straightforward, but yeah, the details of cross-licensing can be unclear sometimes.

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You can try Celeste too

stuck coyote
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Yea, grabbed that when it was gold. Lol. SOD2 has been my grind lately.

golden coyote
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Go back to the office, that's where the computers are.

hearty ruin
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Here’s a quick guide to animal crossing

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I only reccomend if you’re a Peta fanboy or a memelord

night shore
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when streaming to a pc, can you use the keyboard connected to the pc to control the xbox or no?

edgy gate
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idt so

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atleast not in the games i streamed

night shore
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ah alright

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I'll have to get an extension cord then or something because I don't have a wireless one yet

smoky flame
autumn sluice
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Whats it mean in 5yo speak

smoky flame
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idk how to put it in more simple terms but some of these 5600X and 5800X CPUs were 5900X and 5950X that failed to qualify as those CPUs due to some issue or another with one of the two CCDs that would have been active. AMD have disabled this seemingly defective CCD but people have uncovered these CPUs exist and are no doubt trying to find a way to enable this disabled CCD to see how it performs

surreal moss
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Basically 5900 and 5950s that weren’t good enough got turned into the 5600 and 5800

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This is common practice for most cpu manufacturers. Intel has been doing it for decades

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It’s just another form of binning

full flint
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it's interesting to see some dual CCD zen 3 chips though

smoky flame
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I just wonder if lucky some people may get a free upgrade to a 5900X or 5950X 😄

surreal moss
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They were disabled for a reason

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You may have to run cores 9-12 on something terrible like 2ghz

smoky flame
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oh yeah that would be pretty bad but I guess it also comes down to how poor the bin was that cost that CPU from being a 5900X or 5950X?

surreal moss
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My view has always been that again, they were disabled for a reason. It could be speed, stability, or just a straight up defunct core

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It’s not worth playing around for an extra broken core or two

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And of course you could get lucky and just have a chip with 4 extra cores that run just a little too slow

full flint
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at best they're tinker chips

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and only for those that know what they're doing

smoky flame
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I'm glad there are people out there that love tinkering around and finding these things. I probably won't touch it if mine is one of these special chips but it would sure be interesting no less

surreal moss
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Like oh I turned on my extra cores

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Oh now my cpu is unresponsive

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Not worth it

tepid fable
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this is what i want but hopefully not 500$

full flint
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my guess is $200-$250 1TB

edgy gate
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yeah my $100 1tb sata ssd will do just fine XD

surreal moss
surreal moss
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Alder lake confirmed H2 2021

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Looks like I’m skipping rocket lake

autumn sluice
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Apparently 11xxx intel aint so good

surreal moss
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How so

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surreal moss
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This whole video is just him speculating the 10th gen was a stop gap

full flint
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P C M A S T E R R A C E

full flint
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a hands on with the GPD

toxic moss
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Is there any workaround to get the share button working on pc?

ruby spear
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Not currently. There will likely be a driver update in the future to add support for it.

gray thicket
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How do I change gaming account in Xbox app Pc? Like i tried changing my Microsoft account as well nothing changed

thorny cypress
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click switch account there to swap

full flint
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rtx 3060 looks promising

tender bloom
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rtx 2070 super mobile still looks good though

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thankfully

hearty ruin
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Wait so is the KFConsole gonna be a pc or a console

azure flicker
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yes.

surreal moss
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It’s in the name

worldly ravine
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The most important part is not the games, it's the free chicken I get

round reef
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Its a Console shaped PC.

hearty ruin
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So which is it

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@round reef @surreal moss

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Sorry for ping

round reef
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I mean, fundamentally, consoles are pcs. But since the version of games this thing will play are the pc versions, not console versions or a bespoke version for it, it's a pc

hearty ruin
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Ok

surreal moss
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Idk I don’t work for KFC bro

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Don’t ping mods for non-moderation purposes

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Sorry doesn’t make it ok

hearty ruin
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Sorry

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Won’t do it again

full flint
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so i have xbox game pass ultimate on my account i use on my xbox and i have another account i use on pc (differnt accounts) how do i use the game pass on both?

hearty ruin
astral ridge
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acc

full flint
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I am

astral ridge
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you said that you are on 2 diffrent

rich hedge
full flint
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i have 2 top case fans
What to choose?

  • both exhaust
  • 1 exhaust 1 intake
smoky flame
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have them both exhaust seeing as hot air rises you will want that hot air drawn out of your case

full flint
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Asus, Zotac and Evga now confirmed to be increasing prices of GPUs

smoky flame
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Have you seen the Asus Z590 motherboard prices? Crazy

surreal moss
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You want them both as exhaust

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Front and bottom fans should be intake, back and top fans exaust

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The Z line has always been expensive. They don’t cheap out with them like they do the AMD equivalents

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Lemme rephrase that

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They don’t just make boards that do the bare minimum standard

smoky flame
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I still find cases with fans at the bottom odd but I guess only certain cases would have that work and mine isn't one of them but I'd be obsessed with putting a fan everywhere there is a place for one. Having a case with all those options... That will be a lot of fans!

surreal moss
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Bottom fans are a very big thing to have

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The GPU temperature difference can be huge. Mine is right up against my PSU and just injects cold air from the floor right into the GPU

smoky flame
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won't say a triple fan GPU cause issues with these bottom fans or vice versa?

surreal moss
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A triple fan will yield even better results with a bottom fan

smoky flame
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hmm interesting

surreal moss
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Those GPU fans are intake

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So that cold floor air that the bottom fan is pulling in, is getting sucked right into the GPU

smoky flame
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oh wow. I like how that all sounds

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still, would be pretty crazy to imagine a case with as many as 8 fans (3 front, 2 top and bottom and 1 rear) I'd never have enough fan headers to fit all that with my current motherboard

surreal moss
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That’s a 140mm fan just pumping air into the GPU

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And yes, I have 8 fans and it’s great

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3 120 exaust above the radiator, 4 140 intakes, and a 120 rear

smoky flame
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damn and that's even with the PSU right next to it. I was about to ask if these cases would have been the ones that have the space to hide the PSU behind and allows for even more space at the bottom (no cables in the way type deal)

surreal moss
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Most allow it as long as you get a standard size psu

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So like anything 850w and under

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That’s a 160mm psu

smoky flame
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I don't think mine allows it

surreal moss
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Anything 1000w and up is usually 180-200 so I wouldn’t be able to have a bottom fan

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You could always look into a compact psu

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Something SF form factor

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I think it’s SF

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Check this out

smoky flame
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I'd rather not just now. Pretty happy with how my build is but after this I may look at these cases with support for fan(s) at the bottom for my next rebuild in 3 years or so and for my brother's upgrade

surreal moss
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Only 100mm in length, 750w

smoky flame
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btw, speaking of cooling. I'm pretty impressed with the air cooler I bought. Seems to be managing my 5600X pretty well. Temperatures hardly exceed 60C (stock) for comparison my 6700K that was on a 240mm AIO was only around 5-10C cooler.
That's a 5+ years old, quad core CPU that boosts to 4GHz vs a few months old, hexa core CPU that seems to have no trouble having all cores boost up to 4.6GHz. I was half expecting this Zen 3 CPU to be melting my cooler

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no AIO cooler was a good move too imo. Don't think I could see myself using an AIO again in a hurry. At least if and when a fan fails they are inexpensive to replace but an AIO cooler is 5x or greater still the cost of most case fans and has liquid that one really wouldn't fancy exposing to the hardware in a case

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and oh boy! Sorry for being so random and switching subjects but THIS is the sort of monitor I've been waiting for https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asus-rog-swift-pg32uq-is-here-with-4k-144hz-and-hdmi-2-1.html Shame it is Asus and will probably cost a pretty penny, even without G-Sync Ultimate and HDR1000+ certification

full flint
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There are a few of those

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Lowest I have seen is an Acer at $900 ish

smoky flame
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That actually isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Somewhat expected them to all cost in excess of $1000

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awkwardly though I seem to be taking a liking to 1080p gaming again. Even on my 1440p monitor. 1440p pushes my 5700 XT just a little too much for my liking but 1080p is just right it would seem. I can set games to maxed settings again and see FPS that still exceeds 60. Often reaching into triple figures. Now I get why esports gamers prefer the lower resolutions but I don't think I could see myself drop to 720p

surreal moss
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The resolution is only half the reason

dreamy lark
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peepeepoopoo checkkk

surreal moss
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You’re running max but also chasing frames, it’s counterproductive to what you’re looking for

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You should try maybe chasing a medium high blend that satisfies your visual desires but still yields great performance.

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For me, I run BF2 on a custom mix of things anywhere from ultra to completely off depending on the settings

smoky flame
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I used maxed settings as an example. Games that have some sort of optimization video I can go off I will drop certain settings down a notch or two if it barely impacts immersion but saves on performance. Looking at the likes of volumetric fog and shadows

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ray tracing is also included though I don't yet own a ray tracing capable GPU. Even when I do get my hands on one I'm not likely to touch it. Would prefer it gets to the state where features like DLSS are no longer required to fix the performance loss ray tracing brings. I can happily wait for that generation of GPUs to arrive

surreal moss
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They won’t

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It’s ray tracing vs standard easy rendering

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The performance impact will never be negated because the better that tech becomes, the better performance the classic lighting methods will have alongside it

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When the day rolls around that you can get 8k60 ray tracing with no draw backs, those same GPUs will be capable of 8k180

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And by then your standard and expectations will increase accordingly and you’ll be in the same mindset you are now

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Oh I’ll just wait a few years until 8k120

smoky flame
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I just want to target as high a frame rate I can without dropping too many settings that may impact how the game looks. A sort of fine balance between visuals and performance. If that means sticking to 1080p I don't really mind tbh. I believe ray tracing performance will improve but there is a lot more that can be ray traced still and improved upon and annoyingly that will impact performance still

surreal moss
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Remember when you first got your 5700xt and were pretty satisfied

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Then the 6000s and 3000s came out and now you’re a little unsatisfied

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But nothing changed on your end

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That whole feeling will be a circle of history repeating itself

smoky flame
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I know but at least at 1080p, if I choose to game at that resolution rather than 1440p or 4K I may not have to upgrade so often. I'm even considering dropping my upgrade plans

floral quail
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hey guys, I need help

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al my PC's audio (people talking specially) is ecoed, this is not a hardware issue, it is a software issue, how fix?

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this is the exact reason why I had to use the warranty on my old headphones and get the razer kraken headsets as I originally suspected it to be a hardware issue,

surreal moss
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How do you know it’s not a hardware issue

floral quail
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because It's happened on 3 different headsets, a hyperX cloud stinger, cloud revolver, and a razer kraken

surreal moss
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Ok so it could still be a hardware issue

floral quail
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other than cloud stinger, which I had used before, the razer and revolver are brand new

surreal moss
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That doesn’t rule out anything in your pc hardware being the issue

floral quail
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oh yeah

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I forgot :P

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havent tried to re-install audio drivers cuz idk how to

surreal moss
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I have to go but I will come back to this

floral quail
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okey

surreal moss
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So due to unforeseen events I WILL be getting rocket lake ASAP instead of waiting for alder lake

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Dis gon be fun

torpid otter
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anyone here know what those things are called

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like the thing you take your keys off with

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on your keyboard

surreal moss
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A keycap puller @torpid otter

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^ link to one

torpid otter
surreal moss
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If you’re looking to pull the actual keys out of the board, I would research if it’s even possible on your keyboard

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And that will require a different tool

torpid otter
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oh

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like i need to clean under the keys so i need something to pull the keys out with

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@surreal moss

surreal moss
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Dirt shouldn’t be under your keys unless you spilt something or it’s super old

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It should only be dirty under the keycaps

tepid fable
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i use my fingers

spiral iron
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Anyone have any idea when Best Buy restocks the Ryzen7 5800x?

floral quail
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hello

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troubleshooter couldnt identify the problem

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and in some apps, the echo just suddenly goes away

full flint
surreal moss
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No surprise there

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The Maximus extreme has always been one of the top of the line boards closing in on 1k

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This one has a fully custom waterblock covering the whole board including the chipset

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The basic Maximus extreme was $750 for the z490

full flint
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Its gone up because of those tariffs right?

azure flicker
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They gotta add something to turn off the controller then taking out the battery in pc

surreal moss
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It’s gone up because of that huge water block and the the fact that the board has even more expensive features and power stages than the last one

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These Z590s are next gen everything

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The z490s were still 1g internet and pcie 3.0 and all that stuff

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This Maximus extreme board is 4.0, 10g, WiFi 6E, usb 3.2 gen 2x2 finally, the new sound chip and asus dac, basically 20 power stages, its everything z490 cut

full flint
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not bad
there is that netgear Wifi 6E router right

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http://www.boundarygame.com/ Boundary's Beta registrations are up

surreal moss
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And throw a custom water block on top of that

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I mean

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Look at this thing

eager nacelle
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that looks beautiful

full flint
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DisplayPort 2.0 monitors in late 2021 Thanks to HDMI 2.1 display connection standard, our new graphics cards are now ready to support next-generation displays with ultra-high-resolution panels at much higher refresh rates. The next-gen monitor rollout has been very sluggish and despite the standard debuting back in January 2017, only this week a...

smoky flame
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damn! We about to see 8K 120+Hz monitors with that displayport 2.0 spec

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something like double the bandwidth of displayport 1.4 I believe, which would leave HDMI 2.1 in the dust too

surreal moss
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4k240 is gonna be next

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Also it only supports up to 8k 85hz

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But it does support 4k240

smoky flame
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8K 85Hz? this including DSC?

surreal moss
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Not including

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It can go past 85hz with compression methods obvi

full flint
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should i get a 3080 or a 3090

edgy gate
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depends on ur budget and requirements

surreal moss
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3080

azure flicker
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or get a 3060

tender bloom
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or a 3070

smoky flame
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provided you can actually get any of them (I know I can't) the 3080 is the clear winner in terms of value and performance out of the 3080 and 3090. I wouldn't even consider the 3090 tbh

spiral iron
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I heard the Radeon rx 6800 xt restocks in spring does anyone know if this is true

smoky flame
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no idea but I have seen light stock coming in at one of the stores I'm monitoring daily on the 6800/6900 series cards but they appear to be pre orders for February

spiral iron
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Do you know what websites

smoky flame
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no, I just use the stock informer to keep me updated but it doesn't support all the retailers if you are in the UK. idk about the US version

spiral iron
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When you say pre orders for February to you mean the pre orders are available in February

lusty oak
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Is BenQ a good brand for monitors? I saw a 27-inch on Amazon for $149.

modest gulch
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They used to be Acer.

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I'd say they're a known brand.

lusty oak
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Wait, so Acer isn't Acer anymore? They're now BenQ?

full flint
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Fellas can I ask some input in a dilemma im having with my new rig? I'm new to pc so don't flame too hard lmao

surreal moss
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Benq just seperated from acer

surreal moss
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Not really

modest gulch
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Kinda like Lexmark and IBM.

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I think it was IBM 🤔

surreal moss
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If you go up to $200 you enter a market with a plethora of 1080p144 pure gaming monitors

modest gulch
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Been soooo long.

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Wow. 30 years.

lusty oak
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All I really play on PC is WoW. Will 1080p144 really make that much of a difference?

surreal moss
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When you dip under $200, you lose a lot of quality, performance, and features for not much money

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Your loss to money saved is terrible

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Not just hz

lusty oak
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What do you recommend then?

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As close to $200 as possible.

surreal moss
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Literally anything over $200. There’s no real way to go wrong as long as you stick to the known gaming brands

lusty oak
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Pretend I know nothing about what a gaming brand is.

surreal moss
lusty oak
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Even better. Thanks, X.

surreal moss
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Badda boom

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Gabagool

lusty oak
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ShortTallGrandeVentiTrenta.

modest gulch
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oh, bing - whendidjoo get hear?

lusty oak
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So, XLR8, which is better? HDMI or DisplayPort?

surreal moss
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DP

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HDMI has technically bested DP with 2.1 (only took them how many years) but DP 2.0 will immediately create a huge gap again once it’s widely adopted

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The format has been around since 2017, it’s just taking time to develop alongside partners and other adopters

lusty oak
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I thought you were gonna say that so I bought a DisplayPort cable.

spiral iron
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Are pixio monitors good?

surreal moss
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Yeah they’re decent

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Good price for value too

sour creek
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What's cheapest good gpu?

full flint
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Is star wars squadrons good? I heard it's good. But the only question for me: is gameplay enjoyable? This is only thing I care about. I'm not a star wars fan

full flint
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If you like dogfighting then sure

naive veldt
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hi guys 😄

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im new to group

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i am looking for friends who also play hypixel skyblock and do some svens with me 😄

full flint
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is a 3090 worth it if im only gaming

tepid fable
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probably not

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the best is usually the worst choice for price to performance

full flint
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not really, no

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if you're doing standard gaming a 3090 won't do you well

full flint
full flint
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@full flint there's literally a link to the announcement there

surreal moss
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Lul

granite storm
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looking for pc friends, if your on pc and play more then 5 games lmk, be 14-17 and be down to play alot and be from united states:)

rough bay
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Hey all, my game bar is acting weird, whenever I open it in a fullscreen game I am able to press the record button for halfa second but then it grays out and says "gaming features aren't available"
Yesterday this wasn't an issue yet, my pc installed an update today, if anyone is able to help I would greatly appreciate it

smoky flame
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revisited Metro Exodus with my new CPU and an AMD GPU and I forgot how much Nvidia gameworks can wreck performance on non-Nvidia hardware. Having watched Hardware Unboxed's graphics optimization guide on the game I disabled tessellation and hairworks and lowered the quality setting from extreme to ultra. These tweaks can apparently expect to see a 50-60% performance increase in both average FPS and 1% low FPS. Which is HUGE

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I wonder how these settings on a 6800 XT at 1080p with ray tracing enabled would do. Surely it is playable if I can get over 100 FPS on my 5700 XT under the same conditions, minus the ray tracing

full flint
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probably 30-50fps

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oh, 1080p.

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eh, yeah. you might be able to hit 60fps in some cases. but Exodus is running older RT-implementations, so it's really just down to how well the GPU can process it

smoky flame
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Surely more FPS than that. 100+ FPS on my 5700 XT with the stuff I mentioned. Throw those same settings on a 6800 XT that on average is almost double the performance of a 5700 XT in a lot of titles and surely it still manages to achieve a higher FPS than what I'm seeing on the RTSS OSD

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so much so I'd consider upping the resolution from 1080p to 1440p

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took a pic from my phone since I think I disabled the OSD from appearing in screenshots but this is pretty crazy on a 5700 XT (I think) also have HDR and radeon image sharpening enabled

full flint
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just use printscreen

smoky flame
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I don't think printscreen worked. Pressed the key on my keyboard and it didn't do anything

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was getting in excess of 100 FPS though, even that picture I took shows 137 FPS at that area. My target was no less than 60 FPS so I guess I can up the resolution to 1440p already!

spiral iron
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is the 3070 or the 3080 more worth it

surreal moss
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3070

spiral iron
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why

surreal moss
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More value in terms of performance per dollar

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If you want the best value, get the 3060ti

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You should really just approach it from the perspective of that you have the money for

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Do you have $400? Get the 3060ti. Do you have $700? Get the 3080.

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@woeful bone use the LFG channel

wet sluice
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Does anyone have any recommendations for switching from xbox to pc, or both? Never played pc before and I really want to get into it, though being a fill-time college student and a minor doesn't fit well with a full-time gaming hobby. whether it be a pre-built setup or otherwise! Any tips for getting started would be awesome, thanks :))

full flint
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Don’t get a prebuilt one

wet sluice
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Is it for the cost?

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I like your pfp btw

full flint
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No prebuilt ones are always crap get a custom built one

full flint
wet sluice
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Okay! Do you have any reccomendations or suggestions for maybe stores to look at or different components?

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And ofc :))

full flint
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No that’s all Ik

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Sorry

surreal moss
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I’m gonna follow up by giving you an actually educated opinion

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If you go the prebuilt route, just be aware that the good quality ones will cost your more than building it yourself (sometimes even 300/400 or more) or if it’s a good deal, they may be cheaping out on certain parts like your motherboard or power supply. You also may just find a good quality one at a great price. You never know.

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If you build it yourself, there’s some research you need to do on how to do that. If you just buy all your parts and try to put them together like legos, it’s not gonna be a good time. There’s full breakdowns on YouTube on how to fully build a PC from start to finish, usually they’re about 45min to an hour.

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If you go this route, you can save some serious money and build it to be more personal in terms of function, and of course looks

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You get your parts from anywhere the big stores sell them. So amazon, Newegg, b&h, etc

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I recommend amazon for as many as possible because most of the other guys have big restocking fees if you need to return something

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Amazon obviously does not

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But first and foremost, pc gaming can be very expensive

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You will spend more money over time than consoles. But your experience can be the best in the world if you put enough in. Right now I’d say if you’re intending on spending any less than $1200 for your pc, just buy a console and save your money. The next gen consoles are unbeatable for performance to value. A good $1000+ pc will just begin to match them.

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@wet sluice knock yourself out

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Oh, and one more thing

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If you choose to build your own, make sure you spend some extra money on good parts that will last a long time and leave room for upgrading in the future. Specifically fans, the case, and your power supply

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Easiest example is instead of getting an average $80 power supply, get a high wattage and efficiency power supply for like $120 and then you’ll never have to buy another one for 10 years

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Rather than having to replace that $80 one 3 years from now when you need to upgrade and you end up buying that $120 one anyway

torpid otter
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does anyone know a lot about editing

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clips

wet sluice
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thank you so so much @surreal moss !!!!!

tepid fable
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my favorie part of having storage, running out, now to find another ssd or wait till new ones come out

full flint
surreal moss
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No problem 👍

surreal moss
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@flat pasture keep it civil.

inland herald
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who wanna play roblox

tepid fable
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im torn between a rift s, monitor and a dji mini 2, would vr be worth 500$? or is it still the gimmick era, the drones seemed to have past that so im leaning to that right now

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never tried vr but ive seen a few games that might be interesting

full flint
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honestly the single most next-gen game ever made imo

full flint
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Space FPS in unreal?

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Yes, that's what it says.

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team based space FPS in unreal engine 4 thats also coming to PS4 as well as PC? (or was supposed to)
Is next gen?
shows us how bad western fps type games have been

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more gameplay though
https://youtu.be/LDW8vtsJdW4

Here's an official exclusive look at the upcoming Action-Shooter game 'Boundary' coming this Summer 2021 to both Playstation 4 and PC on Steam. Thanks to the developers for giving me the permission to share this. Boundary on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1364020/Boundary/
👾 Official MathChief Gaming Store: https://www.nexus.gg/mathch...

▶ Play video
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It's been in dev for a few years

smoky flame
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just wondering, with DirectX 12 does that allow games to make use of other features besides ray tracing, like VRS or does it still require the devs to implement these other features into their game?

full flint
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I'd imagine it's API bound since it'd need to be at least DX12_U title to support the API callbacks

autumn sluice
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that and im sure certain features are dev dependent

full flint
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cause DX11 doesn't have the capabilities for it, so it's doubtful they'd be able to run it

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oh, yeah, of course.

autumn sluice
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like not every dev needs VRS esp for low power requiring games

smoky flame
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hmm I see. Doesn't Vulkan support VRS too? Seems a neat little feature for efficiency and to regain some performance from what I've read of it. Kind of hoped it would be one of these baked in API things that as long as the user has a GPU that supports Direct 12/Ultimate or Vulkan and has DirectX 12 or Vulkan selected in games it would just work from there sort of thing

full flint
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how do we enter "game mode" when playing a game on win10?
the option is selected, so it's on.

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or is it auto?

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Can someone help me with an airflow question about pc?

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@smoky flame not that I know of

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As the implementation in DX is designed by Microsoft

full flint
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Ok guys thank you so much

floral quail
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np

smoky flame
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these audio driver installs are a bit awkward now with UWP. Was so used to the old way that just worked 😦

full flint
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speaking of is Realtek R Audio better than the HD one or recommend just sticking with whatever came with the motherboard

surreal moss
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Imagine @amber mirage

amber mirage
azure flicker
smoky flame
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https://www.techpowerup.com/277421 Hah. G Sync Ultimate isn't so "ultimate" now. Glad I never bought into that stuff. Most of those monitors cost in excess of £2000 and now they are downgrading it to allow even HDR400 monitors (with a gsync module) support for this "gsync ultimate" tier. To my understanding all it adds anyway is low latency HDR support. Similar to that of Freesync Premium Pro

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knowing Nvidia they won't add support for existing gsync module + HDR displays either. It will be future monitors

full flint
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Gsync is hardware modules, so yes.

sharp moss
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Hey

digital python
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Hi

floral quail
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wth, why is my RTX 3080 stuggling with battlefront 2 on all ultra 1440p
literall 5fps. I thought rtx 3080 was supposed to run like any game, I only have HDR off, everything else it on

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the audio is like, stopping, and playing, and stopping, and it plays WAYYY too early

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like the dude hasnt even opened his mouth and the sentence is already over

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and then he opens the mouth

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how 2 fix dis?

sharp moss
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That's weird..🤔

autumn sluice
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@floral quail servers are dying cause free

floral quail
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im playing singleplayer

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like the story

full flint
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Servers don’t affect client FPS anyways. Could be CPU or heat related.

full flint
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if i buyed xbox game pass does i play fh4 for free

oblique zephyr
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yes

full flint
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what i well get

full flint
ruby spear
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My DMs are not a place for support.

carmine saddle
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I have a question about windows updates. Actually 2 considering what I just saw on a screenshot.

ruby spear
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@full flint Don't take your question to my DMs

full flint
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if i subscribed to xbox game pass in PC which eddison i get in fh4

carmine saddle
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I have a security update for Windows 1909 (KB4535680) and a to Feature Update to version 2004. Would I need to figure out a way to cancel one or the other or would it install them both correctly?

Also, my nvidia drivers are a bit out of date and I have a Nvidia - Display - 27.21.14.5671 update, does this have anything to do with the drivers or will it be some other update? I was going to update the drivers sometime after I got the system done. I got a screenshot of all these if you'd like to see them!

ruby spear
tepid fable
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Decided I’ll hold off on vr and got a camera thing instead

smoky flame
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@carmine saddle sounds like you really need to update things

carmine saddle
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I leave my drivers out of date because sometimes they just mess the games up, so I let them go for a bit before updating so bugs with whatever game I am playing can be ironed out.

full flint
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i just buyed the xbox game pass

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can i get the ultmate fh4

smoky flame
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thing is the updates shouldn't mess the games up. Stuff like driver updates are there to fix various things.

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only standard edition is included in the game pass

full flint
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sure

carmine saddle
smoky flame
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only updates I tend not to do is anything beta or hotfix. Other than that I install every driver update as it becomes available and I can't say I've come across many issues but I am aware drivers can bring issues. What GPU you got anyway?

carmine saddle
smoky flame
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nice

carmine saddle
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Yeah, just my issue is the way my case is and how my AIO is. I may have to switch to air cooling if they don't mess with where the RAM chips are on the board.

smoky flame
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We talking CPU or GPU cooling? air cooling isn't all that bad. I have a 5600X that stock rarely passes 65C and a 5700 XT Red Devil on its silent bios that doesn't exceed 70C with the fans spinning from 60C

oblique zephyr
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Just put it into google and your all set

carmine saddle
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CPU cooling. I have a stock i7-9700k, I have a AIO that came with the PC when I got it from Cybertron before I had to switch cases cuz a wire was bad inside it and causing an error. So I picked a smaller case and then they came out with a GPU that is just a hair too big for it to properly fit. My 1080ti is right up against the back of my AIO.

smoky flame
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yeah, you might want to consider air cooling then. Remove the AIO and it would free up some much needed space for your GPU. Doesn't have to be an air cooler too big either. Look at the likes of Arctic Freezer 34 esports duo, it's what I use and keeps my CPU pretty cool (stock too might I add)

surreal moss
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Sounds like time for a new case

carmine saddle
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Was looking at the Noctua NH-D15

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It is a new case. It's a Corsair 220T Airflow, just got it about 6-7 months ago.

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Original was a Gamdias Talos P1. Never going with that brand again. >_<

surreal moss
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Because if you go to something bigger in the future (which yes, all cards are getting bigger) this might end up being a reoccurring issue

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Yeah that’s a mid tower

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full tower might be a better option
And one not from Corsair

carmine saddle
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Was actually looking a cases not long ago, another Corsair one. Let me find the name of it real quick.

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What's wrong with Corsair?

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And I can't use full tower, it'd be to big, it needs to fit under the desk.

surreal moss
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Most full towers are the same height, just longer

carmine saddle
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That's part of the problem.

surreal moss
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Usually desks are a height issue

carmine saddle
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It's gonna be sandwiched between a subwoofer for my speakers and a shelving unit for my consoles. My desk is custom. XD

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I'd be switching from a iQUE 220T Airflow case to a iCUE 4000X RGB Tempered Glass case. Can hold a maximum GPU length of 360mm vs the 300mm of my current one.

smoky flame
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I'd say that noctua cooler you are looking at is excessive. As good as they are you might have issues with cooler height and ram clearance in that case you have but I'd also say buying a new case isn't something to have to do as often as you have done. I'm still using the same case I bought over 4 years ago. Everything fits nicely and I like it so see no reason to change

carmine saddle
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Well, worst case scenario is it's a case for my mom to build a new PC into. shrugs I usually get a new case when I get a new PC. The Gamdias one would have allowed easily for upgrades to be done but the wiring issue inside it made me have to switch forcibly.

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My other option is to ditch NVIDIA and go with AMD and get one of their 6900 XT which WILL fit inside my case but I'd have to switch the PSU out anyway.

tepid fable
#

I really wish to get a 1tb m.2 but they’re just too pricey

smoky flame
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6800 XT is better value. Don't bother with the 6900 XT

carmine saddle
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I want something on par with a 3080 or above.

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Plus this ain't happening for a while anyway, I'm just biding my time and considering options.

smoky flame
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the 6800 XT can throw down with the 3080, just not on ray tracing but Nvidia do have DLSS advantage

carmine saddle
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DLSS?

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And I while ray tracing is pretty, it's not something that is making me want to buy it. XD

smoky flame
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👍

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something like a £300 premium on the 6900 XT for very little in terms of performance gains over the 6800 XT

carmine saddle
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Yeah, so this is me waiting for prices to drop/go up so probably within a year or so? Maybe longer, depending. My 1080ti works fine for now, I'm not in a rush yet.

smoky flame
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Turing all over again with the 2080 vs 2080 Ti

carmine saddle
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I was gonna wait for the 2080ti prices to drop but the 3080 is better for 700 so, I am skipping the 2000 series.

smoky flame
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3080 or 6800 XT sounds your best options really. I'm after one of either myself too. Want to push 1440p gaming better than my 5700 XT can and either of those GPUs will do just that and much like you ray tracing is not a factor

carmine saddle
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I only got 1920 x 1080 144hz monitors so I may or may not have to ditch these but, we will see.

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I spent years on 60hz, I don't think 144hz is gonna be bad on one of those cards either.

tepid fable
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I’m going to stick with my 2060 till next gen I think

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Unless I get lucky with a regular 3060

carmine saddle
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I'd have gone with them but they are weaker than the 2080ti so. XD

tepid fable
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2080 ti wasn’t as hype as it was supposedly going to be, already superseded for cheaper lol

carmine saddle
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I know.

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But if I'm upgrading from a 1080ti to a new 3000, I might as well make sure it's better than the 2080ti.

tepid fable
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On my end I only spent like 500 so I’m much better off than those guys who got the best thing

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Just don’t go for like the 3090 or whatever it is is my thoughts

carmine saddle
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I just wish the 3080 was like 5mm smaller. That is literally what is making me redo all this. My 1080ti is 280mm, the 3080 is 5mm. Dx

smoky flame
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even the 3070 is meant to be better than the 2080 Ti

tepid fable
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Yeah

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The 3060 isn’t a joke either

carmine saddle
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Even though it's not sadly, at least not currently.

tepid fable
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The way I see it is I can get my head around using 500$ for awhile then spending for another card but I can’t see myself spending 2k every year for the best

smoky flame
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thing is with the 3080 you are going to want a better monitor. Whether that be an even higher refresh rate or higher resolution

tepid fable
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3090 is good but unneeded lol

carmine saddle
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I'm definitely not doing that, Keyan. I'm going for the 3080 for price and the fact it does beat the 2080ti.

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I'm looking at monitors but the ones I've found are... pricey.

smoky flame
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heh ikr

carmine saddle
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Looking at the Asus ROG Strix XG279Q 27.0" 2560x1440 170 Hz Monitor & Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor. I need 2 and they are 500-600 a piece.

tepid fable
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Yeah take that into consideration too, iirc a 3080 is close to 1k here

carmine saddle
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I refuse to go curved either, so those are out. >.>

tepid fable
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I could get a 3060 ti and a monitor for about that

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But I think a 3060 would be all I need really

smoky flame
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I was lucky with my monitor upgrade. Went from a 1080p 144Hz G Sync monitor that cost me £400 back in 2016 to a 1440p, 240Hz, HDR600 and 10 bit monitor for £450 last year. The 240Hz might be a little excessive but I like the monitor

tepid fable
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With my 2060s I’m doing pretty good with 1440p, 60fps maybe not on ultra though but medium or high, depends what you want to hit

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I kinda want consistent high settings so for me that 3060 seems fine

smoky flame
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I challenge either the 3080 or 6800 XT to push my monitor to its limits! Performance I expect to be around double what I'm getting just now which will take some games from borderline playable to very playable

tepid fable
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I do want to upgrade my display to 144hz so maybe I’ll want the 3080 too, if it can even handle that

carmine saddle
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XD I'm mostly wanting the ability to not worry about any games for a while.

tepid fable
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I’m looking at the odyssey g5

smoky flame
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g5 suffers from VA ghosting from what I've heard. I have the G7 and it doesn't suffer but that is thanks to the 240Hz

surreal moss
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👀

carmine saddle
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Oh, does it?

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Welp, hello mod. XD

smoky flame
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G7 have had issues with flickering though

tepid fable
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Well there is a significant price difference too

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I have other options, I think my max would be 600

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I like the curved monitors so I guess the next best would be gigabyte

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Or msi

carmine saddle
#

My only issue with upgrading monitors is idk what to do with my current ones. I can't give them to my mother, she has a TV on hers, I may be able to convince her though. XD

smoky flame
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monitor market is loaded with options. I'm sure you will find something you like. If anything don't get too caught up in it all like I did 😅

tepid fable
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I just kinda look for what I’d like, hdr, curv,2k,144+

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Won’t last forever, I’d be lucky to see year 5 lol

smoky flame
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HDR on windows is pretty poor. I can confirm that with my G7

tepid fable
#

I like it on my tv which I what I currently have as a display

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Although it has some downsides

smoky flame
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been trying to give it a chance but idk maybe I was expecting too much of the HDR600 spec or it is just Windows making it look bad or a mix but it is a shame. Really doesn't do the hype HDR receives any favours on my end imo

surreal moss
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My panel has hdr and I have no idea how to turn it on

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I never actually try for more than 60 seconds

smoky flame
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what monitor is this XLR8?

tepid fable
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It’s hard to notice hdr if sd and hdr isn’t side by side in all honesty

surreal moss
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Asus PG9QN

tepid fable
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I can see it but I also look for it

smoky flame
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oh damn!

tepid fable
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I notice it on my camera lcd panel since it’s also hdr

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But gaming wise I forget if it’s on or not half the time

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In the context of photography it matters to me since it’s better colour

smoky flame
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think the HDR on the PG259QN is HDR400 which many consider fake HDR since it is so close to the peak brightness often found on monitors these days (350 nits vs 400 nits). Obviously HDR allows use for greater colour spaces

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might just be that you enable HDR on Windows and that's it, XLR8. Monitor probably does the rest by changing to a HDR friendly picture mode that likely locks out most, if not all the settings

tepid fable
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Crazy but I guess people buy it

smoky flame
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😮

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crazy prices

tepid fable
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Msrp too lol

smoky flame
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bet the Asus Strix is like $2400 over there lol

tepid fable
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Yeah it is

smoky flame
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hah that was a good guess

tepid fable
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My pc was slightly pricier than that gpu

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I wonder who’s the buyers

smoky flame
#

no idea but they aren't the smartest with their money. Not like it matters to them it would seem otherwise they wouldn't be spending that much on a 3090. I can think of many things to spend $2000-2400 on and a 3090 isn't one for sure. Would rather buy a 3080 or 6800 XT and if I had enough after that an OLED TV

tepid fable
#

I’d probably save it for a car

full flint
#

GPU prices are inflated right now, saw an RX 5700XT on CCL for over £1,000

indigo kite
#

can't you beileve that if you play Minecraft on 4gb Ram DRR4 2400MH. an Intel Celeron N4000 and its 'intergated'' Graphics. You get 131 FPS with MAX Settings (NO Lie For real)

smoky flame
#

I doubt that. Perhaps playing at resolutions lower than 1080p it works

surreal moss
#

I video of that would be nice

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Or you know

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Any proof at all

smoky flame
#

btw. How often do AMD release chipset drivers? by the looks of it they aren't released that often but I'm just making sure I'm not missing something with their most recent update (at least for B550) being back in October

surreal moss
#

You mean like updates for your motherboard?

full flint
#

BIOS is based on manufacturer

smoky flame
#

not the bios updates. Chipset drivers from AMD I mean

full flint
#

in-OS? that depends

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quite infrequently

smoky flame
#

ahh, just thought I'd check up. I believe their latest one supports Ryzen 5000 but it was released something like 2 weeks before Ryzen 5000 officially launched

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everything, as far as I can tell is up to date on my PC. From BIOS to chipset drivers, audio drivers, GPU drivers and windows rooHappy I don't install beta or hotfix BIOS/driver updates though

surreal moss
#

I install geforce updates and that’s it

smoky flame
#

I hear the latest beta BIOS update that includes AGESA 1.1.9.0/1.2.0.0 fixes a bunch of stability related issues with ram and Ryzen 5000 CPUs. Can't wait for that to go from beta to official

rose pagoda
#

jesus yall rich

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I like being a fuzzy lion

smoky flame
#

I wish I was rich or rather better off than I am now to the point I'd never have weeks that I have to watch what I'm spending

floral quail
#

seems like all the new/popular games getting RT features

smoky flame
#

1440p 30 FPS 5700 XT... This screams poorly optimized!

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Ray tracing is only going to get more common as the years go by. We'll eventually have games that are fully ray traced

floral quail
#

isnt minecraft RTX fully ray-traced?

smoky flame
#

not quite I don't think. At least not to the level I'm talking. Minecraft RTX will probably look like 8 bit Doom in about 5-10 years with what is coming. Ray tracing, believe it or not is still in it's early phases

floral quail
#

ik

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barely any game had it 4 years ago

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becuase it wasnt a thing at the time

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like RTX didnt exist

smoky flame
#

for a while Nvidia had a ray traced shadow setting that was ridiculously demanding. HFTS. Ray traced shadows before ray tracing took off. I remember using them on The Division when I had a 1080 Ti and FPS got wrecked. Couldn't maintain 60 FPS on that game even at 1080p with a 1080 Ti! Think PCSS was similar but lower cost. Looked crap from what I remember of it. HFTS was stunning

floral quail
#

that was ray tracing?

smoky flame
#

think so, not 100% sure tbh

floral quail
#

and I saw somewhere that SSR is just rt but it only reflects the stuff visible on the screen, not the entire scene

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and rt reflections (the full mirror ones) look like hot garbage

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like they were rendered in sub-low settings

smoky flame
#

I think it all comes down to how devs implement them. Much like any other graphics setting really

floral quail
#

i think like huge chunk render distance for reflections in fortnite would be too competitively op so thats why they lowered the range

floral quail
#

same with wd legions

smoky flame
#

I haven't been fortunate enough to see how wd legion ray traced reflections look but heard they are good. Kind of given up with that game though as I found it crashes a lot. Only game that does since I rebuilt my PC

floral quail
#

F

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but the reflections of skyscrapers def need a lil bit more work, like I could see a huge ferris wheel when looking back, and on a window of a sky scraper it just wasnt there

smoky flame
#

yeah, some details might still be lacking. Did you have it set to max?

floral quail
#

yup

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reflections are always at ultra

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and DLSS at performance or balanced

smoky flame
#

nice!

floral quail
#

and no FPS drops, ever, but cod cw with rt does get dips when dlss to qual and rt ultra

surreal moss
tepid fable
#

Ray tracing itself isn’t new but it’s new to games, maybe it’ll be like how it is in the movies where it’s common one day in games

full flint
#

Real-Time RT is new

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before it had to be rendered out which could take anywhere from 30 minutes to over a day depending on the render

tepid fable
#

Prob why it’s so demanding

floral quail
#

hey

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I need help with a game, I came to this channel cuz its a PC game

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so, I got battlefront 2 on epic games for free and so basically, I start my campaign story, the audio is like wayyy of sync, like for eg: a person's audio is coming, but there are like 2-3 second gaps in audio very often, and the person hasn't even opened their mouth and the audio is already at the next line, why is this happening, please help

full flint
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@floral quail CPU and/or memory overload

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it's trying to process the asset streaming but there's not enough resources to do so

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what's your specs

floral quail
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cpu is ryzen 3900x and 32gb ram

full flint
#

hmm...GPU?

floral quail
#

3080

full flint
#

are your drivers up to date?

floral quail
#

yup

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v461.09

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ok this other dude told me to do something in the files and its fixed

full flint
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Yeah. If it’s an issue like that and everything else is fine it’s a file issue or corruption

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It can vary from game to game with issues like that though

sly zephyr
#

anyone else having trouble with microsoft flight simulator on the game pass?

full flint
#

Auxiliary M.2 installation time

tepid fable
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2000GB

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Nice though

full flint
#

my boot disk is a 970 Evo Plus M.2

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this is just for mass high-speed storage

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replacing my I: drive as it's the worst drive in my system

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I'll swap F: into I: and use that for niche projects then install this M.2 as my new F:

tepid fable
#

I’m trying to go away from hdds

full flint
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as am I

tepid fable
#

Put them in my cloud server as some storage pool of like 5tb

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There’s still another 3tb in my desktop though

full flint
#

I wouldn't trust the cloud with important things

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HDD is better for long-term storage

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SSD for general storage

tepid fable
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Oh it’s my own, and it’s just photography stuff, eats ssd storage

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I guess it’s more like a file server since it’s on the physical drive

full flint
#

yeah. file server's the way to go

full flint
#

when i want to download a game i cant its tell me i dont have applicable devise linked to my Microsoft account what i do?

tepid fable
edgy gate
#

didnt realize m.2 nvme was that expensive

thorny cypress
#

that's not a terrible price actually

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but yes, fast storage is expensive

edgy gate
#

thats a large price increase for a rather small performance boost over a sata ssd

tepid fable
#

the difference feels huge in speed

edgy gate
#

i have both... its like a few seconds

tepid fable
#

this ones around 7x faster than my sata ssd

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so its almost like sata ssd vs hdd

edgy gate
#

Sata III?

tepid fable
#

yeah

edgy gate
#

huh

tepid fable
#

its inbetween 6-7x faster

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3500mb/s

edgy gate
#

I have a samsung evo sata ssd, not that much slower than my m.2

tepid fable
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my sata is around 500mb/s

edgy gate
#

oh thats max speed

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not necessarily what ur getting

tepid fable
#

isnt max 600?

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from what i heard theres 7000mb/s m2s coming soon

edgy gate
#

max for sata is around 560, depends on the ssd

tepid fable
#

theres also 500mb/s m2s which are aruond the same price as the satas

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i think the difference is mainly one has a limit by their port

edgy gate
#

well if you're transferring large files a lot, an m.2 nvme will benefit you, but if ur just getting it for faster load times, it wont be a huge benefit

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if the sata ssd has dram that is

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which most do

tepid fable
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i do a lot of file transferring

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just wish the capacity was cheap

edgy gate
#

ye but like, large files, multiple gigs

tepid fable
#

sometime si transfer folders larger than this entire drive i just bought lol

surreal moss
full flint
#

can I plug an external hdd (usb 3.0) into a Series X?

surreal moss
#

Yes

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You won’t be able to play series X versions of things off of it

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But everything else will work

full flint
#

but like gta v etc I can?

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and series x versions on the internal?

#

just ordered my series x.

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I have a lot off games on an external. don't want to download again, crappy net.

tepid fable
#

photos take up a lot of space

surreal moss
full flint
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@surreal moss my one x atm says there's no series s/x versions.

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so I'm good?

surreal moss
#

It’s not gonna say because you’re not on series x lol

full flint
#

oh?

tepid fable
#

i seen af ew, only issue is it may be doulbe the speed of my ssd i just bought but its also triple the price

surreal moss
#

Externals will work with everything except series X versions of games. It can store the series X versions, but it can’t play them

tepid fable
#

maybe one day il lget them

surreal moss
#

The 980 series by Samsung are the good ones

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I’m planning on a 500gb 980 pro once I get a rocket lake cpu and motherboard to pair

tepid fable
#

the 3500s seem reasonable to me so far

surreal moss
#

I have a bunch of 970 pros currently

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Nothing but the best

#

Games are shifting towards SSD builds rather than HDD builds

#

Cyberpunk is a great example

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So while you don’t notice the difference now between say 1000 and 3000, you absolutely will over the next few years

tepid fable
#

even flight simgains a few frames on an m2

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this is why my main drive is full since that things like 150gb

surreal moss
#

It’s kinda like monitors. Everyone always said oh wah you don’t need 120 FPS. Then games got faster paced and their engines build to accommodate higher FPS

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Now everyone collectively agrees that 144 is a significant improvement over 60

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Storage is the same way

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Time goes by, tech gets cheap, things get superseded.

tepid fable
#

Ram too but it’s not as noticeable

surreal moss
#

It’s very noticeable sometimes

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Especially with CPUs being the bottleneck right now because of these super gpus

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Your cpu and ram work in tandem. You skimp on the ram, you’re gonna bottleneck your system ez pz

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I had a friend who upgraded their pc and was getting lower framerates with his 3080 than he was with his 2060

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He forgot to re-overclock his ram

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2133 vs 3600 makes a huge difference

tepid fable
#

i think the main thing with ram is it always speeds up every gen so its easier for some to forget about it

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at least if they get a new board every once and a while

surreal moss
#

Great chart on how skimping ram can bottleneck your performance

tepid fable
#

i forgotto overclock my ram, so it was just running in 2100 instead of 3200

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just got more ram awhile back for flight simulator

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set it to this

velvet condor
#

minecraft

slim thicket
#

Yall like ps5

tepid fable
#

It’s looks like modern art I guess

#

hitman 3 runs well

full flint
#

WOOOOOOO!

#

It's back

floral quail
full flint
#

no

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the 980 is the first samsung SSD on PCIe 4.0 spec

floral quail
#

oh ok

full flint
#

the 970 (Evo Plus, specifically) is the fastest Gen3 from them

floral quail
#

I remember it having a 9 at the begining so I thought it was a 4.0

full flint
#

970 Pros are slightly slower than 970 EVO Plus

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the 9 simply means it's M.2

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not always, but generally

floral quail
full flint
#

in between Pro and Plus

#

poor P2's under extreme load as I'm dumping 600gb onto it

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if they were all SSDs it'd be a lot closer to IO saturation

surreal moss
#

I mistyped

#

I have 970 evos with one evo plus

floral quail
#

ok

full flint
#

ah.

surreal moss
#

1TB evo plus with a fat double sided metal heat sink on it

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It’s like the width of a C battery

full flint
#

but...why

#

what in gods name did you do to that poor drive

surreal moss
#

Because the 3900x puts off a lot of heat to the mobo

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And the 970s (and most m.2s for that matter) begin throttling at 55-60c

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So with this fat metal thing on it, it never gets higher than 50

floral quail
surreal moss
#

It ain’t overclocked like mine is

full flint
#

it'd have to put a LOT of heat out to really heat the 970 though

#

like....danger levels

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just from the ambient

#

what's the board config

surreal moss
#

The board config is me telling it to remux a 125gb 7 hour recording to MP4 every night

full flint
#

it's just encoding video?

#

that's definitely not enough then

surreal moss
#

It is though

#

When you’re copying files to a new container as fast as the stick can go for 15 straight minutes, it gets hot

full flint
#

sure, but it shouldn't be getting hot enough to throttle with a single heat shield

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not judgin, just sayin that's pretty darn hot

surreal moss
#

And I don’t feel like turning that 15 into 60 because it throttles to 500

full flint
#

I know how you are, and I know you're the better safe than sorry builder

surreal moss
#

Wym single shield

full flint
#

you said you have 2 sinks on it

surreal moss
#

No, it’s double sided

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It’s a 2 piece sink

full flint
#

ah

surreal moss
#

Back is just the thermal tape + sheet of metal, front is tape + sheet with fins

full flint
#

here I thought you had 2 sinks on it

#

hence my confusion with overkill

tepid fable
#

i was thinking of getting a heatsink but i dont think i need one in all honesty

#

this is my board , everything is pretty cool and i think my first m2 actually came with a heatsink (didnt think it did picking it out)

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this new one i didnt order with a heatsink though, since its a storage drive

hollow python
#

hello, can i install mods on among us which i got from xbox game pass?

floral quail
#

idk

meager linden
full flint
#

You meme at me but in the Latin Alphabet, after Z it switches to Greek characters. Computers don’t process that however.

#

Or. In a lot of cases now you use double alphabet

tribal pilot
#

I name thee alpha drive!!!!

surreal moss
#

The AA drive

tepid fable
#

my m2 drive may have two day shipping, coming from a city like an hour drive away

#

thatd be great

wispy sorrel
#

guys somebody know if i can make an streaming pc whit 144 fps medium graphics whit 900$

surreal moss
#

Sure

#

Your stream won’t look good tho

#

Also 144fps medium is a vastly different requirement depending on the game

#

If it’s cyberpunk, that’s a 3090

#

If it’s halo 3, that’s a 1660

tepid fable
#

decided to pick up hitman 2 for 10$ on epic aswell

zinc turtle
#

Hello, my friend is having an issue installing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Standard Edition that he recently purchased. Last night he went to install it for the 3rd time and during the install, he woke up 8 hours later while the installer was running to find out it had not progressed from where it had started tonight. Is there anyway we can get an Asobo technician to get into contact with him or issue some sort of partial refund? I would deeply appreciate any help or insights.

surreal moss
full flint
#

hi

amber heron
#

does anyone know what kind of bluetooth version series x controller support?

full flint
#

HI

wanton kettle
#

Which one should I go for, legion 5i (with 1650ti) or Dell G5 15 SE?

carmine saddle
#

Anyone know what to do when an nvidia display update is stuck in the windows update menu? Been sitting on 3% for some time.

carmine saddle
#

Nvm about what I asked about. Finally got the PC finished updating and everything went smooth. ^_^

full flint
#

what is the best aio up to 130$ for oc'ing

surreal moss
#

H100i pro XT or h115i pro XT

#

Go for whatever can fit in your case

full flint
#

ok thanks

full flint
#

yo is there soemone that can help me with a issue connecting to online services on xbox

surreal moss
full flint
#

I'm a new pc gamer, played xbox for years but now I'd like to play a new game on pc.
I love strategy games and already own aoe 2 and total wars but what are others great game I could play ? could be any genre single or multiplayer, thanks

#

what's popular that I must try ?

surreal moss
#

Star Wars battlefront 2 (the new one)

#

It’s a beautiful looking game on pc

tepid fable
#

hitman is fun for strategy

#

its like a stealth game

obsidian bobcatBOT
#

get ezzzzzed kid

forest depot
#

I need help

#

I have a wireless xbox usb headset and I want to use it on pc. I can hear other people in discord, but when I talk they can't hear me.

surreal moss
arctic forge
#

Can I buy a external HDMI input so that I can use it to use my laptop as monitor for Xbox series s?

gentle jetty
#

no

smoky flame
#

How come there aren't many flat cases where you could lay a motherboard flat, similar to how it would be when sitting it on the box it comes out of. I think it would look pretty neat but I'm guessing there is some complications somewhere as to why this option isn't more popular?

floral quail
#

sub, I have seen you post emojis of the panda in ur pfp, where do you get them, I want.

smoky flame
#

they are from a Twitch streamer's server. Though there are random servers that use the emotes too

smoky flame
#

idk, mostly curious as usual. Seems like it should be able to work though maybe I'm wrong

surreal moss
#

It would be inefficient for space

#

The whole reason we build them vertically is because they take up less floor space

#

You can fit two side by side in a small space or under a desk and have plenty of leg room

smoky flame
#

ahh yeah, that explains it!

surreal moss
#

Take your pc and lay it on its side

#

Where are you gonna put that

smoky flame
#

yeah, does take up quite a bit more space though height wise isn't as big

#

another thing I guess would be airflow. Heat wouldn't be able to rise if the door to the case happened to be at the top. Now I get why this isn't more common. Well seeing it was one of my early morning thoughts. They can be all sorts 😅

steep bobcat
#

I'm having an issue with CONTROL crashing a lot, anyone know a fix?

#

I've tried to delete render.ini as other fixes tell me, but my PC won't let me despite being administrator

full flint
#

Contact 505 Support.

steep bobcat
#

Thanks!

sharp moss
sharp moss
rugged hazel
#

@steep bobcat don't run an overclock in gpu or try and underclock

#

If you need to run it on dx11. You will lose ray tracing but should eliminate crashes

full flint
#

Underclocking won't change anything

#

if anything you'll get worse performance and/or more crashes.

#

Also, the game on Win10 exclusively runs DX11

tepid fable
sharp moss
smoky flame
#

just wondering. I have a monitor that claims to display colours of a wider colour space/gamut (DCI-P3) and I'm only now trying to figure out how to make use of it. Any advice on this would be helpful 🙂

surreal moss
#

It’s automatic usually

#

Either that or you’ll go to the color space option in the monitor settings. If there’s no option, it’s automatic.

smoky flame
#

I see, every chance it is already in use on the monitor as SRGB is 125% covered and I have heard that will oversaturate a lot of Windows 10 content that is in the SRGB colour space. Heard this is pretty good for a VA panel so I'm getting to like this monitor a little more 🙂

surreal moss
#

I end up turning up my desktop gamma and vibrance in the nvidia control panel anyway

honest folio
#

who can help me with some issue for minecraft multiplayer on java

obsidian bobcatBOT
#

Please state the following clearly if you are seeking support:

  1. What is your issue? Be specific.
  2. What troubleshooting have you tried? Please list everything you have attempted.
  3. Have you researched your issue on the internet? If so, what results have you seen and tried?
  4. If no to 2 and/or 3, please start there.

If you do not provide answers to all of these questions, you are not likely to receive a response.

full flint
#

People can’t help if you do t state the issue, so the odds of you getting a response are significantly lower.

surreal moss
full flint
#

I have a question for u pc players that play dayz

#

Or just in general

floral quail
floral quail
#

I see alot of benchmarks or rtx 3080 with cod cw all ultra with rt giving 200fps in dlss performance, but I dont get 150 fps with rt on dlss performance

#

btw the exact card I have is a msi gaming x trio one with a 3900X and 32gb or ram, ram isnt a bottleneck, maybe CPU tho

smoky flame
#

CPU shouldn't really be a bottleneck

#

what resolution you playing at laggy?

full flint
#

sounds like they might OC their systems, or it might be a different bin

floral quail
#

I actually get 80 fps and the 1440p benchmark says 140fps so I mightor might not have uhh, 1080 fps numbers,

smoky flame
#

I remember MW had a render resolution slider or something like that which wasn't set to 100% look out for that and if CW has that option and it isn't 100% put it to that. Could be you are running the game at 1440p but game is rendering that at a lower resolution

floral quail
#

guys if u on Nvidia gpus, new drivers are out

smoky flame
#

I'm very tempted to get CW some time but idk wasn't too impressed with what I played of the beta a while back. Has player movement improved any? felt really off but that may have been just coming from MW

livid brook
#

I play it on xbox sub and it still feels not right for a cod

floral quail
#

I enjoy it very much, but idk compared to cod mw cuz I only played it on PS4, and only played story mode lol

#

and I have played ww2, but I havent even touched mp mode of it

smoky flame
#

damn £49.99. I'll be waiting for that to go down in price before I buy it 😄

floral quail
#

idek why I enjoy updating drivers so much lol

smoky flame
#

I'm the same. Driver updates I guess are mysterious. Never know what the next one brings in terms of fixes and features. Always exciting 😄

floral quail
#

I just enjoy it, no real reason

#

now my taskbar is pure black

#

its back now

floral quail
smoky flame
#

nice, yeah. I think I'll wait for a sale like that to come up and get it at a discounted price. Probably missed a fair few chances lately but only now I'm looking for something different to play. Kind of getting bored with what I have installed which isn't good 😦

#

btw how big of a download is CW?

floral quail
#

how do I check again?

#

thats the whole package, zombies, campaign, mp, 4k, everything

smoky flame
#

not bad. At least it isn't like MW or I hope it isn't where the updates were huge. That was horrible

floral quail
#

nah, I have had like 4 or five 500mb updates since I downloaded

full flint
#

wait until the content updates start rolling out

sharp moss
floral quail
#

it was a error during the driver install

sharp moss
#

Ohh ok

#

Is there any other any way to get a pure black taksbar?

full flint
#

@sharp moss custom theme, likely one of the high contrast

#

on normal themes, no

sharp moss
#

Thx

floral quail
green parrot
teal steppe
#

Cookie clocker

floral quail
#

wait control is on gp PC too?

#

OH damn I need

brittle sluice
#

can someone help me? well my question is about pc but i bought the gamepass and i wanted to install a game but when it hit 90% it gave an error which said 0x8007003 and even though i have enough space it wont continue installing pls help

full flint
#

hey guys can i get some help with gsame pass

copper sapphire
#

Does anyone here play sea of thieves on pc

full flint
#

Can someone tell me why game pass doesn’t install on boot camp windows

full flint
#

@full flint there’s a lot of different variables. Is the windows install up to date?

#

It should be

#

I’m using bootcamp window

#

I’m able to use pretty much any windows application on it, like ps now and steam

full flint
#

It acts like a normal file and is suppose to work every-time

vivid shale
#

uhh does anyone knows among us modes pls

#

i just want

#

like modes like

#

invisible imposter

#

full time imposter

#

prop hunt

#

etc