Any PC Builders Out There?

Shit that's right, we were both running 1080 TI's.

Yeah I have no problem running everything at max with my 3080, but your 7900XT will definitely future proof you for awhile to come.

I was toying with the idea of buying a 42" OLED since they normally run for $1k and we have OLED tv's at home....way cheaper than a smaller OLED monitor. Anyway I digress.

Can't wait to hear about it once it arrives.

 

Yep, kinda smart of them. I tried giving away a few games between mine and my wife's AMD cards, and couldn't. I suppose someone else with the same card could make it work, but all my friends run Nvidia cards. I ended up just downloading the games, and then deleting later to make space..

 

Yeah, I got a code for The Last of Us with my 6650XT, and that redemption process is pretty silly, lots of back and forth. But hey, free! Although I've already played through it multiple times, PS3, PS4 remastered, but refused to pay for the PS5 remastered remaster.

 

I don't have BF2042 but what other games do you have that show 'minimal' improvement?

I have a 12400F, which would be only a slight improvement but you being able to overclock yours would make that difference moot.

 

Ah ok.

Was thinking I could fire up a similar game, and seeing as how you have the better GPU than I do, see if the bottleneck was indeed with the CPU.

Then again every game is different.

MS Flight Simulator would be one to test out as that exercises both CPU and GPU.

 

Older games are going to be CPU bound. That's how things usually work. Make sure resizable BAR is enabled in your MB settings and your MB is on the latest BIOS. This is one feature your 7900XT will take advantage of that the 1080Ti wasn't designed for.

AMD is also dropping a new driver within the next week that's supposed to tweak something for the 7000 series.

 

What Up! I am building an AM5 platform with my wife & son. We have all the parts but our 1440p monitor, ram & gpu purchased.

Probably getting the AMD 6950 xt because it fits our case & we bought our cpu (7900) from Microcenter. They’ll sell it to us for $600. Thus going 1440p & leaving room for the 6950 xt power draw.

Using a brand new Corsair RM850e & Montech X3 mesh case. I’ll give the free case fans a shot, but not the AMD factory cooler. Soooo, the reference card will fit & the case is perfect for my Noctua U12a. I have 3 m2s. Kingston’s KC3000 for a boot drive & 2 Crucial P3+ for everything else.

We went with the ASRock 670 Pro RS mobo from Microcenter. We have high hopes for it. We also bought a new steel series keyboard & mouse. We got that massive free mouse pad/desk pad from Newegg & enjoy it.

Heres the entire build. Will get the final 3 items 1st of the month.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/JxN8W4

 

I’ve been gaming with my coworkers lately and finally decided to dust off the VR/MSFS combo today, googled some setting for the VR setup and voilà, anywhere from 30-40 FPS flying low altitude in my city, looks better than it did before and even flying in San Diego it looks good so I’m happy now.
It still blows my mind how realistic the VR MSFS experience is with a yoke, throttle quadrant, and rudder pedals.

 

Looking for a really good wifi booster. What would you tech guys recommend?

 

What exactly are you trying to achieve? The mesh systems from the major brands are all pretty good. Some routers can be added as mesh points to an existing network. And I think Netgear has a phone app you can use to test your signal in various locations. I have a single Asus RT-AX86U, but you can add additional ones as mesh points.

 

My router is on the east side of my house. House is 1300 sqf. The bedrooms are on the west side of the house and over the garage, with a wood rafter floor. I have a weaker signal in my bedroom for the smart TV and I also want to put a TV in the garage below. I figured if I put an extender/booster in the bedroom it would boost the signal so I can stream better on the TV's.

 

Are you using the WiFi router provided by your ISP? If so, does it support WiFi 6? If you are renting it and it is older, get them to upgrade that first.

Wherever you put an extender, it's got to backhaul the traffic to the main router. If your TV gets a weak signal in the bedroom, so will an extender. If you put one there, you may see a stronger WiFi signal between TV and extender, but actual internet speeds would be no different since it is backhauling to the router at the same speed your TV was getting. And, you've added an extra hop so likely would see poorer performance.

Placing an extender somewhere between where you want a better signal and the router is typically a better option, especially if you can situate it so that it avoids any obstructions. You want to balance the strength of signal between all hops.

Pretty much any decent router can be configured as an extender. I am partial to Ubiquiti/AmpliFi products, or the Asus model from my previous post (RT-AX86U).