Any PC Gamers Around?

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by AngelGT86Racer

I second the recommendation for NVMe for a boot/program drive since pretty much all boards have support for it now and prices have come down a LOT. It's a LOT faster in benchmarks. 3500 MB/s read on a decent PCIe Gen.3 SSD vs 525 on the fastest SATA SSD I had previously.
I should stress that I didn't find it to be a night and day difference in bootup times going from SATA to NVMe. It's definitely fast as hell, but it wasn't the same quantum jump I saw going from a hard drive to a SATA SSD.

I have a 500GB NVMe C:drive. I've never done a comparison to a SATA HDD but from what I read when researching my current build I was expecting close to instant boot/load times. It still weirds me out I have to wait for all my programs to start.

[Jacky Smith]

Originally Posted by AngelBracer

I switched from Destiny 2 to World of Warcraft. Never liked the whole Destiny series actually Moreover while playing WoW you realise that the game has great powerful community and awesome ecosystem round itself as it is not a problem to buy any item, any currency for the game. Because of a great number of offers it is easy to get what you need for a good price. Get new items here, it is a real bargain I have dealt with them 3-4 times and have no complaints.

Started playing WoW about 2 months ago and must admit that playing with extra items makes the whole gaming process a way easier and much more enjoyable .

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by Jacky Smith

Started playing Cyberpunk 2077 the other day. On PS5 it runs quite smooth but on my brother's PC with powerful hardware it is so glitchy that it is almost unplayable.

That's quite the reversal of everything I've seen and read. On my PC, the game runs just fine at max settings. Sure it's still got a few bugs and isn't the smoothest, but by no means is it jacked enough to not play (or enjoy playing).

[DarkPira7e]

Originally Posted by weederr33

That's quite the reversal of everything I've seen and read. On my PC, the game runs just fine at max settings. Sure it's still got a few bugs and isn't the smoothest, but by no means is it jacked enough to not play (or enjoy playing).

Maybe " powerful" hardware is relative

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by DarkPira7e

Maybe " powerful" hardware is relative

Needs a meme. Here, let me help.

[weederr33]

I just ordered a Ryzen 9 5900x. God help me

[Dadhawk]

Well, finished AC: Odyssey, or at least stopped playing it, its hard to tell with AC games any more if you are "done" since they don't really provide a lot of tracking info.

Started playing Far Cry: New Dawn. Decent game as a continuation of 5 which I played when it first came out in 2018. I still like the Just Cause franchise a bit better though.

[spcmafia]

I had an NVIDIA 3070 in my cart, after weeks of tracking a GPU. I F5'd and F5'd and F5'd the website, over and over. When out of nowhere, the "Sold out" sign changed to "Add to cart" then said sign changed to "Wait", and after waiting for the latter for hours, I was finally able to add that glorious fruit of the gods to my cart, my heart was racing, palms were sweaty, knees weak. Hold on, getting carried away here.......Anywho, the damn card was in my cart, and as soon as I press CHECKOUT....."Oops, looks like we've sold out this item, please try again next time". Off to track again we go.

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

I had an NVIDIA 3070 in my cart, after weeks of tracking a GPU. I F5'd and F5'd and F5'd the website, over and over. When out of nowhere, the "Sold out" sign changed to "Add to cart" then said sign changed to "Wait", and after waiting for the latter for hours, I was finally able to add that glorious fruit of the gods to my cart, my heart was racing, palms were sweaty, knees weak. Hold on, getting carried away here.......Anywho, the damn card was in my cart, and as soon as I press CHECKOUT....."Oops, looks like we've sold out this item, please try again next time". Off to track again we go.

Scalpers man. They are vicious.

That or some poor bastard was doing the same thing as you and just beat you by milliseconds.

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by weederr33

Scalpers man. They are vicious.

That or some poor bastard was doing the same thing as you and just beat you by milliseconds.

It's insane, every card, no matter how old or overpriced by the retailer because its been overclocked by EVGA, ASUS, XFX, etc, is fair game. It's being purchased within seconds.

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

It's insane, every card, no matter how old or overpriced by the retailer because its been overclocked by EVGA, ASUS, XFX, etc, is fair game. It's being purchased within seconds.

Yup that's scalpers.

Unfortunately, my 3080 was bought off ebay for double the price and now my Ryzen 9 the same. So guess I'm a fool.

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by weederr33

Yup that's scalpers.

Unfortunately, my 3080 was bought off ebay for double the price and now my Ryzen 9 the same. So guess I'm a fool.

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[spcmafia]

If you live near a Micro Center, there’s word of NVIDIA stock being replenished in a fair amount. But purchase in store only.

As if I didn’t hate living in CT already, now I hate it even more. Best Buy has no idea when they’re getting stock online or in store.


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[soundman98]

i think i've been playing forza too much...

went to drive the car today, and panicked a little when i went for reverse next to and down off 6th gear...