Computer/Console Talk/Gaming Super Thread

[south of heaven]

How much porn you store is what really increases the need for storage!!

Ummm these days... $3k ...
Breakup will be roughy:
Video Card - $1k
Monitor - $800(ish)
Remainder - Parts

IJK, JW, ARC or MWAVE are my "go to" places in Sydney these days, and if you can put it together yourself you can save some coin.

Anyway... lets see what we can do...

BE VERY careful with Intel 8xxx series CPUS and LGA1151 motherboards. Intel in their infinite wisdom decided to make the CPUs physically fit in older LGA1151 boards, but he new Coffee Lake CPUs are pinned differently. So anything that is LGA1151 with a Z270 chipset, may NOT work. Z370 is the chipset designed to work with all new Intel 8 Series CPUs.

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That futureproofs you a bit.

The Coolermaster Masterbox is a friggin cracker of a case for the money spent. Huge amounts of room the tempered glass looks amazing, and cooling is fantastic. I use one for my test lab server.
Main rig is a Corsair Obsidian 650D.
XPPC is a Lian Li
TestlabWS is an Antec 300.

I've stuck to MSI/Corsair gear because it's bloody well built and reliable. I've ignored Intel Optane memory as it's not worth it with an SSD.

That motherboard has a second M2 SSD slot for later expansion too.

I've deduced $149 per Western Digital RED drive but if you are storing data I'd recommend 2 of them in RAID 1.

NOTE: That is BEFORE the monitor price. Monitors are VERY subjective. Do you want curved/non curved? Ultrawide or standard? 1080p/2K/4K? Freesync or not (with Nvidia cards not an issue)?, 144Hz or not?
Stick with AOC or Samsung brandwise.

For my racing sim I use this AOC: https://arc.com.au/product/59620 which is $469.
For my main setup (that I surf Kennel on and use everday) I use 2 x Samsung 24" S24D590L thin bezel Monitors. Love them.
For my testlab PCs (2) I use an AOC 27" basic monitor with VGA/DVI/DisplayPort/HDMI outputs so I can have 2 PCS and my laptop hooked into it.

I want triples
AOC AGON AG322QCX 31.5inch Curved 144Hz FreeSync Gaming Monitor
AG322QCX

 

[UmoGus]

I had triple monitors before. I'll be happy with one decent screen this time (plus I don't have the room for it)

 

[CrittaMagic69]

@Hacky McAxe this bloodbourne thing is fucking scary, idk wtf i'm meant to do so i'm just killing *****?

 

[Mr Invisible]

I had triple monitors before. I'll be happy with one decent screen this time (plus I don't have the room for it)

For a sim one large monitor does me fine. For work, two monitors is the shit. Could never go back to a single now.

 

[UmoGus]

For a sim one large monitor does me fine. For work, two monitors is the shit. Could never go back to a single now.

Yeah I was using it for uni work. Was a life saver copying and pasting

 

[Mr Invisible]

Yeah I was using it for uni work. Was a life saver copying and pasting

For me it's productivity. I always have one screen with NOTES/TODO/RDP session and the other with email/browser/what I'm working on.

 

[Hacky McAxe]

I will be sticking with Aussie suppliers. Gone through plenty of headaches with overseas warranties on my car

It's not an overseas warranty, it's a global warranty and includes Australia. I believe it's 3 years from memory. That means no matter where you buy it from it automatically has a 3 year warranty and you just need to return it to the closest repair centre. It's warranted for the product as well so if you buy a second hand graphics card from a person in America then it still has the remainder of the 3 year warranty from the date that person original bought it and it extends to Australia. The only problem is that I think the closest repair centre to Australia is Taiwan so you have to ship it there.

 

[UmoGus]

It's not an overseas warranty, it's a global warranty and includes Australia. I believe it's 3 years from memory. That means no matter where you buy it from it automatically has a 3 year warranty and you just need to return it to the closest repair centre. It's warranted for the product as well so if you buy a second hand graphics card from a person in America then it still has the remainder of the 3 year warranty from the date that person original bought it and it extends to Australia. The only problem is that I think the closest repair centre to Australia is Taiwan so you have to ship it there.

Thanks for the insight bro. Really helps

 

[Hacky McAxe]

Not sure on the 1080s and how they differ from reference designs.. but I know in the 960/970/980 days the fans varied greatly between manufacturers (noise and cooling capacity).
Thus why I stuck with MSI.

Gigabyte and ASUS are okay too, but pretty much they all follow a basic reference design.

They're all fairly similar with the 1080s. EVGA, MSI and ASUS are considered the best ones. I've owned MSI cards in the past and have only had to return one on warranty. It was a nightmare and I ended up not getting anything back for it. They don't answer calls and took over 1 month to get back to me after I raised a case. Then eventually they gave me an RMA number and I returned the item. When the item went bust it had 2 months left on warranty. After they dicked me around for a while I eventually shipped it back to them with 3 weeks left on the warranty. After 2 weeks they hadn't gotten back to me so I kept spamming them. After about 6 weeks they told me that they just received the card via post and it was now out of warranty so they could only ship the broken card back to me. There was a lot of threats and abuse but in the end they said that the only thing I could do is take them to court in Taiwan.

This was back before they had global offices. They now have an office in Australia so they're probably easier to deal with.

 

[Hacky McAxe]

@Hacky McAxe this bloodbourne thing is fucking scary, idk wtf i'm meant to do so i'm just killing *****?

Yep. That's basically what you're meant to do. Keep killing ***** and advancing. When you reach a light that can teleport you back to that creepy place and you can spend your blood echos to level up and shit. If you die you lose your blood echos but you can recover them if you get back to where you died without dying again.

 

[Hacky McAxe]

For a sim one large monitor does me fine. For work, two monitors is the shit. Could never go back to a single now.

Agreed. I use 3 monitors now and I couldn't go back to two.

 

[CrittaMagic69]

Yep. That's basically what you're meant to do. Keep killing ***** and advancing. When you reach a light that can teleport you back to that creepy place and you can spend your blood echos to level up and shit. If you die you lose your blood echos but you can recover them if you get back to where you died without dying again.

Yh i'm over this already lol. Died like 50 times at the start until i realised you could get weapons, then took me about 20 mintues to work out how to equip them. Then i was running around fucking clueless and just killing ***** until i died and had to do everything over again so i just rage quit and started downloading ratchet and clank hahaha.

 

[Hacky McAxe]

Yh i'm over this already lol. Died like 50 times at the start until i realised you could get weapons, then took me about 20 mintues to work out how to equip them. Then i was running around fucking clueless and just killing ***** until i died and had to do everything over again so i just rage quit and started downloading ratchet and clank hahaha.

Yep. That's pretty much what the game is about. It's ridiculously difficult and refuses to help you in any way. It's designed so when you finally beat the game you feel like you really accomplished something.

 

[UmoGus]

Been doing some reading and apparently there is a new series of gtx GPU coming out in the next couple months. Is it worth waiting ?

 

[Hacky McAxe]

Been doing some reading and apparently there is a new series of gtx GPU coming out in the next couple months. Is it worth waiting ?

If you're willing to wait then yes. When the GTX 11 series come out they'll likely be very expensive but the price of the 1080's will drop.

 

[UmoGus]

If you're willing to wait then yes. When the GTX 11 series come out they'll likely be very expensive but the price of the 1080's will drop.

Do you think they would be equivalent to the pricing of the 1080s now?

 

[Hacky McAxe]

Do you think they would be equivalent to the pricing of the 1080s now?

Probably not. I'd expect the GTX 1180's to be at least $200 more than the current price of the 1080s but it's hard to say for sure as there isn't that many details available.

 

[UmoGus]

Probably not. I'd expect the GTX 1180's to be at least $200 more than the current price of the 1080s but it's hard to say for sure as there isn't that many details available.

I guess we'll wait and see. Just wanna do it right this time because I cut alot of corners last time.

 

[Mr Invisible]

GTX1080 is more than enough for now and the future. If the GTX11 series is a minor rehash/bump, it won't be worth it.

If you want the quickest out today (even faster than the stupidly priced TitanX), then pay about $400 odd more for the MSI GTX 1080Ti. Or look at the $3000+ TitanV.

Been doing some reading and apparently there is a new series of gtx GPU coming out in the next couple months. Is it worth waiting ?

The GTX 11 series was an April Fools Joke from Nvidia. There have been rumours for a while before that about new cards, but nothing confirmed. Claims are being made that the new cards will be 20% (@cost) more expensive given they use GDDR6.

I'd say 12 months away if not longer. There's no incentive for Nvidia to rush it.

 

[UmoGus]

GTX1080 is more than enough for now and the future. If the GTX11 series is a minor rehash/bump, it won't be worth it.

If you want the quickest out today (even faster than the stupidly priced TitanX), then pay about $400 odd more for the MSI GTX 1080Ti. Or look at the $3000+ TitanV.


The GTX 11 series was an April Fools Joke from Nvidia. There have been rumours for a while before that about new cards, but nothing confirmed. Claims are being made that the new cards will be 20% (@cost) more expensive given they use GDDR6.

I'd say 12 months away if not longer. There's no incentive for Nvidia to rush it.

Fair enough it's just that the more I read into it, the more I'm thinking that I wanna future proof myself for 4k gaming