The PC Thread - Tips, Benchmarks, Specs, Laptops, Custom Desktops, Pre-Builds and more.

[Afrodroid]

Depends on what you're using the tech for.


What's your preference?

SVA with deep black levels and high contrast ratio for general content, love my samsung odyssey g7 27


On the other hand, can't stand the glow of my acer xv280k

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

what up, Arcadium heads.
been a minute so let me fill you in.
around May of 2020 i convinced my girl that
she should let me build her a pc.
shortly after that my mobo died so i had to build
a new pc. right after that the chip and gpu market
went ape shyt. i was super lucky.
been fukking with VR lately.
shyt is dope.

 

[Ruck]

PC I built for my niece 3 months ago for her birthday. Just transferred all my components except the power supply into her new case which is a Phanteks P500A and got her a Corsair RM850X power supply.

CPU - 3900X
GPU - RTX 3080
MOBO - ASUS CROSSHAIR VIII HERO
RAM- G.SKILL 32GB 3200
COOLER - NOCTUA DH15 CHROMAX

 

[Ruck]

Current setup

CPU - 5900X
GPU - 6900XT
MOBO - ASUS X570 DARK HERO VIII
COOLER - AMD WRAITH PRISM
RAM - 32GB TEAM FORCE 3600
PSU - CORSAIR HX1200i
CASE - CASELABS MERCURY S8
FANS - NOCTUA ELOOP 120 AND 140

Going custom watercooling soon.

 

[Theolodius_Black]

So what we think about an LG OLED as a monitor

I was looking at the CX or the C1 48in.

70 percent gaming, 25 percent watching YouTube or movies, 5 percent work related. Mostly for play basically

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

PC I built for my niece 3 months ago for her birthday. Just transferred all my components except the power supply into her new case which is a Phanteks P500A and got her a Corsair RM850X power supply.

CPU - 3900X
GPU - RTX 3080
MOBO - ASUS CROSSHAIR VIII HERO
RAM- G.SKILL 32GB 3200
COOLER - NOCTUA DH15 CHROMAX

that's a beast.
what is she using it for?

 

[Anti-Anime]

PC I built for my niece 3 months ago for her birthday. Just transferred all my components except the power supply into her new case which is a Phanteks P500A and got her a Corsair RM850X power supply.

CPU - 3900X
GPU - RTX 3080
MOBO - ASUS CROSSHAIR VIII HERO
RAM- G.SKILL 32GB 3200
COOLER - NOCTUA DH15 CHROMAX

Wish I had gone with the p500a

 

[Fctftl]

So what we think about an LG OLED as a monitor

I was looking at the CX or the C1 48in.

70 percent gaming, 25 percent watching YouTube or movies, 5 percent work related. Mostly for play basically

I use my lg oled for my pc. Sure im capped at 120fps but i can couch game and it looks good.

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

So what we think about an LG OLED as a monitor

I was looking at the CX or the C1 48in.

70 percent gaming, 25 percent watching YouTube or movies, 5 percent work related. Mostly for play basically

I use a CX right now and tbh I probably wouldn't do it again.

 

[Ruck]

that's a beast.
what is she using it for?

Gaming. Mainly FPS like overwatch, valorant and left 4 dead. She's excited for the back for blood. She's a high school senior and will definitely be taking it with her to college next summer.

Wish I had gone with the p500a

It's a great case. First time building in a Phanteks and was thoroughly impressed. Definitely worth its price and highly recommend it. She absolutely loves the case.

 

[MajesticLion]

Windows 11 will hobble gaming performance by default on some prebuilt PCs

Windows 11 will hobble gaming performance by default on some prebuilt PCs


Microsoft 'will be enabling VBS on most new PCs over this next year' and that can tank PC gaming performance by around 25%.


Despite Microsoft's claims that "if you're a gamer, Windows 11 was made for you" you will need to watch out for future prebuilt PCs with the new OS factory installed. That's because the Big M is enabling more security features in PCs by default, and one in particular can seriously tank gaming performance.

In our testing, that can add up to as much as a 28% drop in average frame rates. And you thought the TPM 2.0 restrictions were a pain...

That sort of frame rate delta is like dropping down an entire tier of graphics card and, in these days where GPUs are so hard to come by, Microsoft gimping the performance of the chip in your newbuild machine would surely be hard for gamers to stomach.

The issue is Virtualization-Based Security (VBS), a setting introduced into Windows 10 which uses hardware and software virtualisation to enhance the security of your system. It basically creates an isolated subsystem that helps prevent malware from screwing your PC.

Microsoft explains it as follows: "VBS uses hardware virtualization features to create and isolate a secure region of memory from the normal operating system. Windows can use this 'virtual secure mode' to host a number of security solutions, providing them with greatly increased protection from vulnerabilities in the operating system, and preventing the use of malicious exploits which attempt to defeat protections."

It's a feature mainly intended for enterprise customers to be able to lock down the corporate PCs they drop into their offices and make sure they don't get compromised.

And if you're upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 then you don't have to worry about VBS being enabled, unless you were already running an enterprise version of the older OS, that is. The issue comes if you're receiving a machine which has had an OEM build of Windows 11 installed on it.

 

[Theolodius_Black]

I use a CX right now and tbh I probably wouldn't do it again.

What issues are you having with it? It checks a lot of boxes for me but I'll gladly save that money

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

What issues are you having with it? It checks a lot of boxes for me but I'll gladly save that money

Too big. Some games i just cant play on a monitor that size

Got to baby it.

The burn in stuff is unavoidable

Some text issues on browsers

 

[shutterguy]

Current setup

CPU - 5900X
GPU - 6900XT
MOBO - ASUS X570 DARK HERO VIII
COOLER - AMD WRAITH PRISM
RAM - 32GB TEAM FORCE 3600
PSU - CORSAIR HX1200i
CASE - CASELABS MERCURY S8
FANS - NOCTUA ELOOP 120 AND 140

Going custom watercooling soon.

Where did you find the case from?? I remember seeing some builds with it about a year ago, it had been discontinued. An absolute art piece with insane potential.

 

[Ruck]