Appreciate it. I mostly got it for work and video editing, haven't bothered to try any games out but was always curious.
They [fanatical/cdkeys/humble etc] get codes straight from the publishers. It's not 2012 anymore when you got an email with a Jpg photo of the code from a Eastern European or Turkish boxed copy.
Understood. But telling someone to measure up when they need to upgrade based on a console that's generations behind isn't very helpful. PC GPUs will always have a "budget" card for their generation. Since he's a PC player now, he only need to follow the announcements of the Nvidia GPUs as they get released.
But aren't the consoles holding PCs back because devs have to take in account of their hardware? This has been stated time and again in dev videos where devs said "we wanted to do this in X game, but the hardware limitations of the PS3 and X360 ..." . Like Star Citizen, which Roberts said time and again that the game is so tech-demanding that it's simply not feasible to be on consoles due to their low hardware. Sure, games can have better textures on PC, or higher resolution and framerate, but I doubt a game can take 100% advantage of a 4090ti and a top-of-the-line CPU and NvMe if it also has to be released on a PS4.
No. The graphics pipeline is agnostic of hardware. The game engine developers just implement what they want to implement. Obviously they develop with a beefy PC so that their proof-of-concepts are done and you can quickly implement papers and such. But the PC GPUs are bandwidth limited too. They just have a higher ceiling than the consoles. PCs still need DLSS to even render full RT correctly and with good performance at 4k.
Those were days of old and long gone. There is no custom hardware like that anymore.
He's full of shit. Star Citizen doesn't show anything that can't be done on a console. It's all the same graphics tech as any other game.
But that is good enough. Better textures is a BIG difference since they are the main thing people look at. Higher resolution makes EVERYTHING look better - see the HFW thread as proof of that. FPS is also VERY important to playability. All those things add up to enormous bandwidth requirements.
The 1060 is still pretty much the defacto min spec, even if you can get away with using a GPU from 2014.
FurMark.
I use NZXT's CAM app. I didn't have much choice, it was preinstalled. I'm sure there are a ton of them that the more versed PC guys will definitely suggest.
I'm finding the 3060ti to be a very capable gpu. Still not quite so sure on doing any OC, but for sure I'll give it a shot in the future. Not that worried about electricity $, as I think in the end it doesn't really add that much to your monthly or yearly bill, unless you're like mining LOL. I think we all suffered from parents telling us that these video games are using up too much electricity and that it's the reason for the bill being so high. I personally find heaters and A/C to be the things that really jack up the electricity bill!
Oh I am. First game I installed.
Hahaha yup. I'm a dad in Canada so all I do is yell "close the door"
I undervolt my 3060ti ftw3 ultra as well. I am concerned about temperatures and the needed speed isn't needed, especially after having 3 gpus die on me after 2 years (8800gts, 9800gt, and ati 7870) With shortages in cards coupled with miners and scalpers, its not something i want to deal with.
nah.
You've given me an impossible task... only John Wick could pull this off.
Sounds like you need to lower the sensitivity of your mouse. They usually have an option on the mouse itself (dpi). If you have a 4K screen higher sensitivity is helpful, and lower is better for fullHD and the like.
Yea, that's the hard part. Lost Ark is a game that I had no idea I liked, till I played it. Basically looking for very uniquely PC game experiences. Got a few good suggestions for Retro FPS games, so that was cool! Also got a suggestion for Total War.
I mean, I am sitting at my desk anyway. But whole day of kb+mouse gaming is more straining than some dark souls lean back chair dying
They dictate what he can play though. Upgrading your gpu every gen is ridiculous.
Me too. I just no longer think it's comfortable compared to other options. But there is still a reason I have razer viper mini keyboard and viper ultmate mouse
That's half of the ps5 price just here 
Disagree. PC Master Race requires a 3090.
Yea, I think so too. I'm trying to figure out exactly how I should be using my mouse. For work with my work mouse I don't move my arm at all really, most of my movement is in my fingers and just a little bit of wrist. That's enough to get me across the entire display and up to my hot corners. I think I've been doing that for so long now that I can't rewire my brain to use a mouse any other way. My monitor is a 4k one, so I'm tweaking dpi to give me the same movement style when I'm playing games. I'll get to a comfortable place eventually... well, at least I hope so lol
I don't understand this. Can you elaborate?
On the console part? Basically any major AAA game that comes out will come out on consoles. If your GPU performs at or above the consoles, he'll be fine.
I seriously was debating a 3090 but it would have taken my build costs to nearly £5K with the monitor on top.
Even though you're way closer... I guess we both ain't actual "PC Master Race" LOL... I guess we'll just have to work harder on getting the cards at retail or just pay the scalpers
This is us outside master race club HQ while all inside game on ultra wide 3090 builds. So close my friend.Even thought you're way closer... I guess we both ain't actual "PC Master Race" LOL... I guess we'll just have to work harder on getting the cards at retail or just pay the scalpers
Completely disagree here.
Nailed it
