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Project 2501 said:
If I could have a fanless pc I would.
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Madmick said:
I completely lost it at "watch a fucking marble roll around a desk!"
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It was great hahaha

The Minecraft can't a draw a fucking circle cracked me up as well. There was an overload of those Hitler videos in the last few years and the quality dropped quite a bit but this one was A+
 
salamander said:
@Madmick
Geforce RTX 2060
AMD Ryzen 5 2600
WD Blue Solid State Drive
ASUS Prime B45OM-A
Aegis DDR4 Gaming memory
(I'm going to bump up the ram to 12)
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Your rig can handle 1440p gaming. Your GPU is NVIDIA, so you want a G-Sync or G-Sync compatible monitor.

NVIDIA themselves and DisplayNinja both maintain lists of all G-Sync monitors. Display Ninja's is more convenient for browsing as an active shopper with the price links:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/g-sync-monitors/specs/
https://www.displayninja.com/g-sync-monitor-list/

DisplayNinja and Monitor Nerds are both incredible resources for deciding which monitor you want. Both maintain an updated guide for the best G-Sync monitors:
https://www.displayninja.com/best-g-sync-monitors/
https://www.monitornerds.com/best-g-sync-monitors/

My favorite overall electronics lab, Rtings, specializes in TVs, so their list of monitors they've had time to review isn't yet as large, because they're so exhaustive, but it's been quickly growing. Nobody is as critically objective, transparent, and concrete. Their have multiple updated "Best Gaming Monitors" lists.

I created this customization of their ratings table of G-Sync and G-sync compatible monitors specifically isolating the metrics that matter most to gaming:
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tools/table/36827
*Edit* Touched up the customization table. Some of the columns were outdated because there are new lows for the sliders in certain categories (ex. lower refresh rates than any monitor had before). I also realized that I created that table for another Sherdogger who had a budget. I removed the budget constrictions.
 
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Big Navi sounds amazing with 16gigs of ram but let's face it AMD got to not only hit it out of the park but land it on the moon.
 
Nothing frustrates me about PC building as much as cooling. Nothing else is as remotely as subject to mixed or conflicting results. Benchmarks almost never agree. I feel like the more I learn the less I know.

 
Madmick said:
Nothing frustrates me about PC building as much as cooling. Nothing else is as remotely as subject to mixed or conflicting results. Benchmarks almost never agree. I feel like the more I learn the less I know.

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FUNNY STORY

When I first heard about water cooling many years ago, I thought you needed to have like a reserve of water or a direct connection to a water line to keep the water supply going. Kinda how like water cooled engines in cars work.. BMW has a special edition M3 that's like this.

It wasn't until yesterday that I realized I have a water cooling system for my CPU in my ibuypower PC. I have had it since last fall....
 
Madmick said:
Nothing frustrates me about PC building as much as cooling. Nothing else is as remotely as subject to mixed or conflicting results. Benchmarks almost never agree. I feel like the more I learn the less I know.

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I don't trust myself not to fuck it up so on both the PCs I built I just used a full size case with lots of fans with a highly rated cooler on my cpu. I just figure that tons of airflow must be good. I'm no groundhog expert, but this "PC building for morons" method has done well for me both times.

Obviously these PCs are massive and loud, so many people might not like them.
 
Madmick said:
Nothing frustrates me about PC building as much as cooling. Nothing else is as remotely as subject to mixed or conflicting results. Benchmarks almost never agree. I feel like the more I learn the less I know.

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My decision these days on water vs air is aesthetics. I don't overclock my stuff to the razor's edge anymore though.
 
Why do the AIB embargoes lift on the same day they go on sale?? Wtf is this shit. I need to plan my purchase or everything is going to sell out. Do I just go 3080 FE and be done with it? Or will some AIBs outperform?
 
Cygnus A said:
Why do the AIB embargoes lift on the same day they go on sale?? Wtf is this shit. I need to plan my purchase or everything is going to sell out. Do I just go 3080 FE and be done with it? Or will some AIBs outperform?
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Of course some AIBs will (at least eventually) outperform the FE with higher boosts, and there's almost almost at least a few triple-fan variants the AIBs roll out quickly at launch. They're never easy to get. There still aren't any reviews, but the FE's look like the RTX FE's with phenomenal dual-fan construction and cooling at reference. All the RTX 2xxx series cards killed it with noise, temps, and even overclocking potential (with power limit hacks via imported BIOS). Hell, even on air without any BIOS hacks the RTX 2080 FE performed on par with the best AIBs.

I say if you can get your hands on one, grab it, especially if you can get it at its quoted launch price. My great fear here is that demand is going balloon the RTX 3xxxx MSRPs, because they're so out of line with the current price-to-performance curve of the market, and it may be years (or never) that we see RTX 3xxx cards actually sell on the market for what NVIDIA intended.
 
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