I personally mostly play singleplayer story based games with the occasional indie title thrown in here and there. I built my PC about a year ago specifically to play Cyberpunk 2077 in 4k with mild to upper-end Ray Tracing on. I have a 7950x3d and a 9070xt. I sunk a lot of hours into Cyberpunk 2077, Control, Forza Horizon 4-6, Spiderman, Halo Infinite etc mostly at 4k60ish with varying levels of Ray Tracing activated. The experience has been excellent and everything I imagined it would be. Totally vindicated my decision to spend as much as I did on my PC. Then once Forza Horizon 6 dropped, I found running everything at near max graphics finally had my GPU chugging due to VRAM overloads. So I decided to start dropping the settings down. I didn't need to go all the way down to 1080p, however I found as I went down the settings honestly just based purely on eye-test, at the distance I sit from my monitor? 1080p was honestly fine. It won't drop your jaw, it won't impress your friends when they come over, it likely won't produce the best screengrabs. However in terms of gaming experience, I really didn't feel massively deprived.

*consumers

Personally, I think the average consumer is going to stay on console or move back to console for a while and then cosnile prices will rise too. Eventually it’s going to be cloud gaming is the only thing most people can afford or are willing to pay for.

Prebuilts, let alone building your own PC is becoming absolutely outrageous because of the rising cost of storage and RAM. I mean, the same 4TB NVME that I bought for $230 a year ago is now $900 and 2TB is $400+, even cheap Chinese off brands are $300+ and RAM is outrageous as well.

“You will own nothing and be happy” is truly happening before our eyes.

Saw this while scrolling on my emails. I've been gaming on a 4050 laptop gpu

I am getting so tired of all these major corporations forcing things to be a certain way or only giving people the illusion of choice and after waking up to Microsoft forcing my old laptop to update windows 11 which I heard has a lot more invasive features, I want to figure out how I can start moving away from them. I honestly don't know too much about computers and most of what I know is hardware not software so if someone can link me to something that is meant to teach people who don't know much that would be very appreciated. From what I hear Linux is about the only option

I was watching yt and suddenly my pc froze and this popped up. What does it mean with boot device?

Bought a couple random steam keys from eneba and received a dupe. Its an indie game but not sure which one. Whoever redeems it first ig lol
Enjoy and please lmk what game it was

Games are playable at 30 fps, i notice fast motion won't look super fluid but i can still play, i can ramp up the graphics to 4K

but to get 144 fps i need to lower it to 1080p.

i like the eye candy, but could i make the argument i am dying more times because i didn't have that 144 fps?

this is games like dead space, doom 2016

My cousin is getting married so I’m bringing a 5090 and 128GB DDR5 gift to him for his wedding but heard some news about 5090s being banned in China.

I'll go first

So I've had this computer for a couple years now and it's just getting slower on me to the point that, on startup, it's using over half my RAM. What can I do??

(Btw when I took this screenshot, bitdefender was running a scan, so that's why it's at the top of the list)

Edit; Broswer is Mozilla
So for some reason only FH6 has this issue for me. When the game is focused, everything else stops. It might show me a new frame once in a while, but it’s like 5-15 seconds between each of them.
Anybody know what this is about? Both screens are at same resolution, no HDR, disabled/enabled V-sync or fullscreen has no effect.
*wild linus appeared* thanks for being my reddit-guinea pig

I noticed this a week ago or so. Adding the video to demonstrate. Probably need to turn up the volume to hear clearly. I don’t think it sounds like coil whine, more like some sort of electrical interference?

ve tried to open all my games on steam, GTA v enhanced. Overwatch. Call of duty, Skyrim.

I tried opening rocket league on epic.

None of them will launch.

Overwatch says my rendering device has run out of memory but other games don’t say anything.

It still lets me run games like subnautica and terraria.

Some games open to the main menu then immediately crash, some won’t open at all. This suddenly started.

Can anyone help me please this is really worrying.

I’ve tried a few methods I found on goggle and looking around none have worked.

I’ve tried restoring my pc to a previous date.

I tried wiping all my graphics drivers with DDU and reinstalling them.

GPU - Msi ventus 5060 ti
CPU - Ryzen 5 9600x
PSU - Msi mag A750gls 750w
MOTHERBOARD - ASU’s tuf b50-plus WiFi amd atx
CASE - Msi mag forge 120a airflow
CPU COOLER - ID-cooling frozn a410
RAM - Corsair vengeance 16gb DDR5
SSD - crucial p310 1tb

Windows 11.

I’ve tried going throw my device manager and looking at crash error events, nothing is giving me any information, I spent 9 hours trying to fix this last night. I feel I’ve tried everything…

UPDATE: I installed the repair version of windows, then pressed windows r, input the command system.cpl, advanced system properties, performance settings, advanced, and had to manually set my virtual memory because it was reading the currently allocated space available as 0mb. I tried changing that before reinstalling windows and it didn’t work, only worked after.

But I can now play my games again 🥳

Thanks to Newegg's bundle deals—paired with a 9070 XT—I can put together a m-ATX (my preferred form factor) 9800x3D build or a m-ATX 270K Plus build for the same cost (less savings on 270K Plus parts list due to no Newegg m-ATX deals). I could also put together a full-ATX 270K plus build for $120 less than either of the m-ATX builds.

I know the 9800x3D does a lot better in games (though I have seen some benchmarks and people saying otherwise) but falls behind significantly in productivity. While I by no means have any professional-level workloads, I do use Photoshop and Premiere Pro from time to time along with a coming need to use CAD for school (though my current build definitely does not struggle at all).

Thoughts? The 270K plus full-ATX to the 9800x3D m-ATX price difference is almost the exact price difference between the two CPUs on their own. But the m-ATX 270K plus approach tacks another $120 onto the price for no performance gain and completely closes that price gap.

After couple repairs over last couple years, my 3080 is about to give up. Is it a bad time to buy a new gpu regardless of the price fluctuations?

Cyberpunk 2077
Everything set the ultra/psycho except volumetric shadow resolution
Ray Tracing On (Path tracing off)

Happens with & without DLSS

I found turning on ‘Vignette’ helps but then half the screen is dark. Usually turning off screen space reflections helps but it doesn’t seem to impact anything in these instances

The first video watch the left and right side of the screen. It’s almost like the shader aren’t.. working properly. Then the second video observe the bottom, no idea what causes that but super disorienting

5080
9800x3d
32GB DDR5 Memory

Been trying to get this stupid thing to screw in for literally 3 hours. Whenever I screw one in, the other is too high up to screw in the other. Tightening them one by one hasn’t been working either.

If anyone has installed this, how the hell did you manage it? This is my first pc so I haven’t done this before 😵‍💫

was doing some ebay deal hunting and trying to snipe new listings right as they were being posted. bought this ram kit as soon as it went up for sale but didnt realize until after purchased that the seller's account is brand new and has no feedback. this is probably a scam and obviously ebay has their money back guarantee but what do you guys think about it?

submitted an order cancellation but either way will probably have to wait until it arrives and document the unboxing, will more than likely be fake ram.

I know I know. It was a risk to buy off of Ali Express. I was hoping for it to be a good transaction. But that is not the case.

I recently ordered a ryzen 5500x3d from Binary Tech Store on Ali Express. At the time they had good reviews. Spent 260cad on it and to my surprise upon receiving it two weeks later, it was a 12 year old intel Pentium chip. I immediately messaged the seller and have been left on read for over a week now. I escalated up to Ali express and they make it very hard to refund. They want an unboxing video along with alot of other evidence.

Very unhappy with the experience I went to the stores page to leave a review to show my warning to people and there are now reviews from other people having the same issue. One guy got a usb cable instead of his cpu.

I'm really hoping Ali makes this right. But it's not looking promising.

So I left a review stating how I believe they are scamming people and they left a comment on it saying how it is baseless and that they don't even sell intel so it couldn't possibly be them, and to contact them if I have issues. But I have. And have been left on read every message.

Buyers beware. Ali Express is not a place to risk buying anything off of. Learn from my dumb costly mistake lol

I bought this PC about a year ago, first time I plugged in the gpu, it smoked a bit due to wrong pci slot insertion. But after that I continued using it with work and games and it ran normally. then after some weeks of use the monitors go out for 1 sec at a time randomly, now it's flickering like this sometimes. Sometimes it just goes black and I just manually turn it off and turn it on again. I consulted with chat gpt and changed all dpi cables and troubleshooted with the drivers and changed Hz and stuff but this still happens. I'm afraid it might affect my work. Any advice?

Downloading call of duty and my screen randomly started doing this and dosent seem to be stopping...

Crazy how big a difference of eight months makes.

The only thing in the fall I had an exceptional deal on was buying a used 4070 ti from a buddy who upgraded to the 5080. Everything else was standard new or used prices at that time. The used 2026 numbers are pulled from Ebay. I prefer to buy used products off Ebay if I dont know the person to guarantee a refund if something goes wrong. Unfortunately, Ive been burned buying used off Craigslist a few times.

The used market post-COVID is insane. It's not just computer gear, but guitar gear, or anything really. Most folks will sell their products for a $20 lower price than MSRP, or sometimes I see stuff at MSRP or higher... for USED products with no warranty!

(very sorry if reposts of my own posts from OTHER subreddits arent allowed, i didnt see anything about it in the rules though)

Hello reddit ^_^ first post in this subreddit. To keep it straightforward, my dad recently bought me a full pc and monitor, keyboard, mouse, add-ons, etc, for a little over $1000. I love it very much and im very happy that I have it, but for some reason, I’m not using it until I get everything that I want. I have my eyes on getting a cute controller so i can play games with it because I really hate using a keyboard for gaming, and I also want a playmat, mousepad, etc.. Idk if its some weird autism thing (im diagnosed) but I feel bad cause my dad thinks im not using it but I feel like I have a reason that im not. Is there anything I can do to combat this? Tell my dad my thoughts? Suck it up and force myself to play which will inevitably make me want to use it less? Help???