Yeeeeeeeah
Dis a lot lol
I'm not gonna count ya pockets but this could get really expensive
COMMUNITY The Master Race (All Things PC Gaming)
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Dis a lot lol
I'm not gonna count ya pockets but this could get really expensive
mike030270
Memes
Is that a max of 2k or starting at 2k?
Depends
Parts are marked up super high right now cause of the lack of supply due to covid.
mike030270
Memes
So is now not a good time to buy or build a PC?
imho, no
but let me clarify, if you know for sure you are getting a PC, then i wo uld definitely take advantage of sales on games going on right now. Build up your library, and you can also base your specs around those games as well because you can see what they require and what parts are recommended to get the most of them.
the parts that have chips in them are in low supply and high demand, so if price is no object, then buy what you want.
BrotherZ
Active Member
speculation I've seen said GPU prices (bulk of your cost) won't go down even after the supply chain issue is resolved. We've had issues due to scalpers and bit coin farming for a few years even before the supply chain started. If you go with an AMD card, you would definitely save a bit but I always rocked Nvidia. Nvidia is slated for a new 4x series card this fall so chances are high you can get a current gen 3090 or 3080ti either just below MSRP or right at it.
Ccslim
Active Member
you dont need to play games on PC in 4K. 1440P is the aim since that looks better than 4k you can get anywhere else and you are so close to the screen it wont matter. 1440P 144-165HZ is the Aim.
2k should get you in the top %5 of PC's
BrotherZ
Active Member
I have a 4k monitor and a 1440p 240hz monitor. trust when I say that running more fps is worth so much more than higher resolution. Only reason consoles been targeting higher resolutions last two cycles is because PC always been able to outpace them in the frames department. Also 4k resolution isn't the same on every game. Minecraft and Horizon Zero Dawn can both run at 4k but whose spending 2 grand to run Minecraft at 4k?
SneakDZA
Liberal Pronouns
I've been wanting to overhaul my gaming rig for a while now but these video card prices are pissing me off. Do people even still use those joints to mine coins? I thought that shit was over. Like... your upfront costs plus energy costs seems like it would just make the ROI pointless.
I'm thinking it's just straight up gouging at this point because the retailers know they can get away with it now.
I'm thinking it's just straight up gouging at this point because the retailers know they can get away with it now.
It is gouging and people are still using them to mine crypto
BrotherZ
Active Member
Hell, even Nvidia is gouging the prices. GTX 1080 was 600$ MSRP when it was released. the RTX 2080 was 799 MSRP. the xx80 series cards are supposed to be the standard with every card below it being suboptimal for the sake of saving sake. we not going back to 400-600 MSRP for the GPUs in the foreseeable future. also, the mining thing was only just beginning to be a problem when they released the 2080 cards. I got mine on black Friday by luck and I'm gonna ride it til either the 5 or 6series cards come out cause this shit is ridiculous.
konceptjones
The one between three and three.
I have 160GB of RAM on my main PC as well as a total of 32 physical cores spread across two processors. It allows me to do all of this along with running 2-3 VMs at the same time as well as play games. I never shut my pc's or laptops off ever unless I'm not going to be using them for an extended period of time (i.e. rigth now I have two desktops, two laptops, and a raspi 3 running right now and they've been on for weeks with the primary laptop being on for the last few months straight).
What you're describing is a workstation, like a Dell Precision (which is what I'm running) or HP Z-station. They allow for goo-gobs of ram (I can go up to 1TB of RAM), and usually two Xeon processors (I can upgrade to a pair of 20 core joints) and they sometimes have enough drive bays to use multiple drives in a RAID array. Slap a good GPU in it and you're good to go with what you want to do.
konceptjones
The one between three and three.
bruh, mining been causing problems for high end GPU availability for at least a decade now.
That's why I run Quadro cards. Easier to get used they're typically far less than their GeForce equivalents (used pricing) plus, depending on the card, you can get something that wasn't even offered on the GeForce equivalent (i.e. my Quadro K6000 is equivalent to a GTX Titan Black, except I have 12GB and they never offered that much RAM on the Titan Black, only 6GB)
Golan
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What sort of stuff are you doing on those VMs?
BrotherZ
Active Member
Just wanted to add that different games run at different specs. Even if you could obtain 240fps on 4k in one game, doesnt mean you could do the same in others. so really if you looking for optimal gaming its best to see what kind of performance you get for something thats already out.
Golan
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Check Nexus mods.
konceptjones
The one between three and three.
some of everything.
I do all of my client work in VM's to keep my private shit separate from client shit. I can stand up pieces of a client's infrastructure when needed. For example, I have a 4 node Maria DB cluster, an OpenShift cluster with clustered GFS2 file servers, Win2012, 2016, and 2019 domain servers with Exchange and MSSQL servers, and a buttload of Linux shit.