These two orders were my last upgrades and I am very happy, that I decided to spend a little more back then to have a few years without needing to upgrade. How much was your last upgrade?

Gng🥀

When every game can be easily decompiled / reverse-engineered, will we enter an era where every indie dev will have their game decompiled and pirated while the big publishers will go full cloud-gaming? There was already a trend of Roblox copies and such, along with more and more slop being published, but will this ruin indie game development?

I don’t know where’s to go for this, so I’ll ask here. A guy is offering to trade a race sim cockpit, says costs round 1.1k. He just wants a low end pc for gaming, the pc was your average 1060 build in 2017. So definitely profit, the pc prob cost somewhere in the 200s now days, but sounds too good to be true.

He says he just wants to play Fortnite and doesn’t use the cockpit. I’ll put the pics he sent me. Is this a fair trade? (The pics don’t include the seat and shifter)

Another concern is could I even sell that easily, I sure don’t need it.

Edit: THESE ARE THE PICS HE SENT ME😭 I could send u the irl rig in replies

32gb

2TB SSD

9070GRE

i5-14300f

I forgor what the MB is.

GT Sport 1.0 booting to menus can get into race but not rendering & 1.69 boots to menu & crashes.

Has anyone here used Ghost Spectre Windows from @GhostSpectre on YouTube?

I asked in r/GhostSpectre, and people said it’s safe. But I’d like to hear opinions from other communities too.

Is it safe for daily use, especially for gaming, online banking, and personal accounts?

Would you trust it on your main PC, or is it better to use an official Windows ISO and debloat it yourself?

Would appreciate your honest opinions!

I've finally done it, I've crossed the Rubicon. I've upgraded my gtx 1060 6GB after it finally died a week ago (RIP King) after almost 9 years of use, I also upgraded my old 1080p 74hz monitor with a 1440p 240hz OLED monitor.

I'm so excited to finally play my old games with High settings (Witcher 3, Metro Exodus, and total Warhammer) and try the games I barely can run smoothly before (BG3 and KCD).

Do you guys have any game recommendations that can make me appreciate these upgrades? Because so far I've only tried wardogs and even that blows me away with how smooth things are with max settings when previously I can barely hit 40 fps on low settings XD.

I'm sad that this workhorse died. Was honorable, an Intel Core i7 2.8Ghz quad core, 2 core turbo boosted machine, 16GB LPDDR3, discrete GPU, AMD Radeon Pro 555 2GB VRAM ... my just enough Dota 2 machine. I'm gonna try to get it fixed, but should I be worried about these lithium batteries? They are puffed up, not hot at all, but full of air...

Im just getting ready to buy this can yall give me some opinions

Hi everyone, I undervolted my RTX 4080 Super using MSI Afterburner curve editor, saved it to profile 1, and enabled Apply at Windows startup.

My saved curve is 2655 MHz at 950 mV, with a flat line to the right of that point.
However, when I booted my PC this morning, the curve was around 2615 MHz at 950 mV, and the line was slightly stepped instead of perfectly flat.

Selecting and applying profile 1 manually restored the correct curve, so the saved profile itself appears to be intact.
The profile padlock is closed, and the Windows startup button is enabled in the main UI.

Why would the automatically applied curve differ from the saved profile, and how can I make it apply correctly at every boot?
Thanks

I'm currently building my first ever PC, and I wish to add an optical drive (preferably Blu-Ray). What makes this build different than traditional builds (other than the optical drive) is that, due to the current state of geopolitics, all of the components are sourced from non-U.S. sources. However, I have run into a snag. Outside of Amazon and Newegg (i.e. U.S. based websites), I seem to have a hard time finding websites that sell optical drives.

Do any of you know non-U.S. based websites that sell optical drives?

SPOILERS BELOW.

I just got back from Guarma Island and the game was just singing. That whole battle on the island, the ride back to the gang with the song playing.. The fight back at Lagras, Sadie ordering me around and knowing she saved everyone, so hot. I caught this glimpse of what GTA 6 is gonna be like and it's just so exciting you know? Holy fuck boys.

Honestly I don't think I'm gonna be able to wait for the PC release. I might be playing early.

Dudes, I am sure I am in for the roller coaster of my life in this last half of the game

I'm gonna disable replies for now. See ya.

Got a Asus nitro 31.5 inch 170hz 1440p monitor, was around 300 dollars, do I have to cough up another 300 to get a new one, or is there anything else I can do? Also why does it look like that with the blue lines along the cracks? Never seen anything like that.

If the AI R&D had happened in a slower rate, I think a lot of issues we face now won't happen, or happens in a weaker scale compared to now. Take for instance, the pricing of PC components that uses memory, such as RAM, graphics card, SSD, and even HDD to some extent has been affected. But also other non-PC hardware things such as land usage for data centres, energy consumption, government regulations etc.

Hi so I'm upgrading my old PC (R53600, 5600xt, 16 GB ram) and have got a 5600x3d as well as 32 gigs ram. The Micro center near me has a Asus tuff 3080 ti refurbished for $500 or a 9070gre for 520. I really don't know what one to go for. I'm planning on hoping to get another 5 years out of my PC. I play a lot of grand strategy games and DayZ. Triple A titles aren't my thing. I have a 2k 144hz monitor. What would you guys recommend. Considering gpus are only gonna go up it seems and everyone says that u need more V ram.

While gaming, my main monitor randomly loses its display signal and goes black. My PC itself continues running, and the game appears to keep running in the background. The GPU fans also continue spinning during the black screen.

I’ve also noticed that my GPU temperature can reach around 80°C or higher before the display loss. I recently updated my graphics drivers, but the issue has persisted.
I checked Windows Event Viewer and found a Display event (Event ID 4107), although I’m not sure whether it is related to the problem.

Ive tried reinstalling the drivers both display adapter and nvidia graphic driver but the issue persist.

It only happens when im playing or running intensive applications

Currently surviving on Intel UHD 730 and single-channel RAM, and it's time to finally throw a dedicated GPU into this rig to drive my 1080p 100Hz monitor.

**Current Setup:**

* **CPU:** Intel Core i5-12400

* **Mobo:** Gigabyte H610M K DDR4

* **RAM:** 16 GB DDR4-3200 (1x16GB)

* **GPU:** Intel UHD Graphics 730

* **Storage:** 256GB NVMe + 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD

* **Monitor:** 24" 1080p 100Hz

**Target:**

* Stable high-refresh 1080p gaming (aiming for close to 100 FPS) and smooth video editing.

* Budget: roughly ₹25,000 – ₹35,000 (~$300–$400 USD).

Debating between picking up an **RX 6600**, **RTX 3060 12GB**, or stretching to an **RTX 4060**, plus adding a second matching 16GB stick for dual-channel. What would give me the best bang for the buck here?

i can barely hear it at max rpm

After doing a lot of research and comparing different monitors, I finally pulled the trigger on the Acer Predator X27U W3bmiiprx! Here are 3 pictures of my setup.

Monitor specs:

Acer Predator X27U W3bmiiprx
26.5” QD-OLED
2560 × 1440 (1440p / QHD)
240Hz refresh rate
0.03ms response time

My PC specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
RAM: 32GB DDR5
Resolution: 1440p

I was coming from a regular 1080p 144Hz monitor, and honestly, the difference is absolutely insane. The image quality, contrast, colors, and overall clarity are on another level. It’s genuinely a night-and-day difference, and now that I’ve moved my old monitor into a vertical position as a secondary display, comparing them side by side makes the upgrade even more noticeable.

However, there’s one thing I didn’t expect: HDR.

After trying it out, I actually ended up preferring HDR OFF, at least in RDR2. With HDR enabled, the image looked darker and more washed out to my eyes, and the colors didn’t have the same vibrancy and clarity I got with HDR disabled. I tried adjusting the settings, but so far, I still prefer the SDR image.

Maybe there’s something I’m missing with the HDR calibration or settings, so I’d love to hear your recommendations if you’ve had a similar experience, especially with RDR2.

Apart from that, I’m absolutely blown away by this monitor. The image quality is ridiculously good, and I’m really happy with the upgrade. Going from 1080p 144Hz to 1440p QD-OLED at 240Hz feels like a massive step up.

For those of you using OLED monitors, do you usually keep HDR enabled, or do you prefer SDR for certain games? And if you play RDR2, what HDR settings have worked best for you?

у меня возникла такая проблема. Я начал замечать, что в большинстве игр даже с использованием только дискретной графики присутствуют заикания на несколько секунд, также заметил, что нагрузка на процессор крайне высока по сравнению с аналогами моего процессора. Я читал, что моя встроенная графика по мощности сопоставима с 1650, но это вообще не так. Включая стрим в 720p в Discord начинаются жуткие лаги в системе, не говоря уже о играх. Не думаю, что наличие одной плашки ОЗУ может так сильно резать мощность процессора и встроенной графики. Прикладываю характеристики.

Already posted here but it didn’t really get many responses. Recently swapped from a Radeon 7600 to a founders addition 3070 and have been having issues ever since. The most common and annoying one is that my mouse and keyboard will periodically “skip” and then have to catch up. If im moving my mouse on the homescreen, it’ll freeze for a few seconds, then catch up and appear where it should’ve been. Same thing if im typing and it happens while im pressing a key, it’ll hold creatinggggggggg that type of effect. Smaller issues like steam and apps taking longer to boot also prevalent. Already tried DDU and updating drivers so taking my issue here. This issue does not happen when in games or when booted into safe mode.