ItsTheDuckAgain

The story so far: The last system I build and still use is 7 years old by now. I guess it's time for a new one. I am a fanboy of nothing, so red / blue / green I don't care. Budget (including currency): 2.000 € - 2.200 € Country: Germany / Switzerland Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Primary use is Gaming / Secondary is remote work but that needs only potato power. Other details: (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): - No peripherals needed / No OS license needed - Upgrading from a system that will be passed along as is to a family member, so no parts to carry over. - Target resolution is 3440x1440 at 120Hz - Planning to buy in a month or two. Preferences: - The case Fractal Design North is nailed in stone. The wife loves the look, I will not argue. (Wife = Style > Stats) - Games I play / plan on playing a lot on high / very high settings while still hitting 120hz+ if possible include: Baldur's Gate 3 / Control / Far Cry 4+ / Red Dead Redemption 2 / Diablo 4 - I don't play competitively and can live with frame drops - No water cooling / No overclocking (Don't want the hazzle with both of those) What I got so far: PCPartPicker Part List CPU: Intel Core i7-13700 2.1 GHz 16-Core Processor (€402.87 @ Amazon Deutschland) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler (€109.90 @ ARLT) Motherboard: Asus PRIME B660-PLUS D4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard (€128.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (€146.89 @ Galaxus) Storage: Sabrent Rocket Q 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (€78.98 @ Amazon Deutschland) Video Card: Asus TUF GAMING GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB Video Card (€905.99 @ Computeruniverse) Case: Fractal Design North ATX Mid Tower Case (€159.99 @ Amazon Deutschland) Power Supply: *Corsair RM1000e 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (€157.90 @ Alza) Total: €2091.42 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available *Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-03-30 16:55 CEST+0200 Questions: - Am I missing something big? Did I make a big mistake? - Should I change something? Any of the parts known as bad? - Is something complete overkill for what I want to do? - Can I save a buck or three somewhere? (Although money is not that much of an issue) All feedback is very welcome. Quack.

Howdy party people I am ina a bit of a pickle and need to know two things I have trouble figuering out on my own due to a lot of contradicting information: 1. Sending laguage via mail service from the US to Germany. Maybe someone here has already done this? I could use some advice on what service to use and what you roughly paied. Doesn't matter how long it takes. For a lot of reasons I want to send one or two pieces of laguage via mail service and am looking for details, from what I found so far the prices go from 300 to 600 USD for a 50 pound piece, which sounds expensive af. Any tips are welcome here. 2. Which US carrier to use? I will stay 3 months in the US and will basically visit every state with the exception of Alaska nad Hawaii. Unlimited Data is basically a must have, call and text stuff is not important to me emergency use only on that end. Again any suggestions are welcome. Thanks folks Also - here is the promised duck:

Without checking any of the facts you provided since you sound capable in doing so. Can that CPU just plain an simple be DOA? You said "new" CPU, "new" as in still with varanty I guess? Return it and get another one?

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but you do know what a build architecture is and that those are different and optimized for different things? ahhh the hell why do I even bother.... you are right. Good job on "informing" me. Thanks

that's sorta bonkers dude. My toaster toasts toast faster than my coffee maker too...

what? You are asking if a 4TB HDD at 5200 RPM is good for gaming and/or backups? It will do backups fine. Gaming, yeah sure stuff will run but will also take a long time to load. Faster spinners (more RPM) will generally yield better loading times. But might be louder. Compared to an SSD of some sort it is a snail though. 65$ sounds good though. Used I guess? I would never buy a used drive, but that's just me.

I don't know anything about streaming in the first place, but a RasPi doing the encoding sounds like 1 frame a second to me. Can be utterly wrong though.

Will be very good for 1080p gaming. I use the same GPU on an ultrawide 3440x1440 and still can run most games on ultra. Storage: slap an SSD in there alongside the Caviar Blue. Or upgrade to it later on, an SSD will speed up loading times by a lot! OS: 8.1 yeah it's fine, 10 is the way to go though, might as well start with it. The choice is yours.

I would go with the ultrawide one (coming from an ultrawide lover)

RMA, it's new, it should be perfect. It's not your fault that, although you did NOTHING wrong and connected EVERYTHING CORRECTLY, the board malfunctions. Thanks god nobody DIED because of the possible fire hazard. I am not encouraging you to be a bad human and lie to the manufacturer, just saying what other humans might do....

More a question for the ARK forums than for this one I guess?

have a look at steam in home streaming but still: on wifi (always a bad idea) input lag

dunno about the DT770 but I use the Byer Dynamic Custom One on my rather big head (XXL motorcycle helmet) and have to extend it to the maximum. Having said that it fits well and is comfortable.

https://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/define-series/define-r6-black (comes in 2 colors with window / TG or solid panels.) + https://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/accessories/connect-d1 should hit most of your needs. Got no idea about pricing though. You have to check that yourself ?

since Cpt. Obvious said so!

hard to get something decent within that price range. have a look here - they got a decent search function: https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/erweiterte+suche/notebooks+erweiterte+suche

sounds illegal and not like "random thoughts". With that being said.. There are tons of keyloggers out there for about any need. Google is your friend.

I twill handle 4K video, but it got a 1920x1080 screen, guess you know that though.

Idle Champions

so you got 2 different keyboards on which the same keys are not working? did I get that right?

yep as expected - you are running out of VRAM which explains your problems. Sorry.

As I thought. Sounds like your GPU can't keep up. It's not a problem with your drives. Sound and Graphics come from the same source, your GPU, sound cutting out and certain graphics not loading in time points towards the GPU only. You can track VRAM with various programs, to start of easy use Windows Taskmanager: if that thing is close to 3 GB all the time, windows will start to shuffle Data to your System RAM, which of course is way to slow compared to VRAM which results in odd things, like the ones you describe. "Nobody needs VRAM, until you run out of it" TheDuck - 2018

rather odd thing... What stands out to me that you don't have problems in Overwatch (low demanding title) but got problems in Destiny2 & FF (more demanding titles). Tried to reduce quality settings to make it easier on the GPU? Also how are your speakers connected and which audio device is used? Too me this looks more like a GPU problem than a disk problem.

Well I don't have a working crystal ball of future telling right now, but I'd wait, and if doesn't show up on sale by it anyway ?