MaxMatti

Hi, I currently have a 4K monitor with 141 dpi and two vertical 1680x1050 monitors on the sides but the fact that they have a different dpi and are much larger than the main monitor is bothering me. I was looking into upgrading but couldn't find any high-dpi monitors at all for that resolution or similar. Are there any smaller monitors that might work with this or should I just get an ultrawide monitor instead? Thanks, Max

Yes I did, sorry for the late reply. And I haven't regretted it yet.

Thanks a lot for the quick and clear responses! Now I just gotta figure out whether or not I can/want to pay the 680€ for it

So Steam finally messaged me that I should confirm my Steamdeck purchase and I get the feeling that it's been a bit longer than planned. I mainly wanna game on my 4h train trips that occur every few weeks, maybe using ssh every now and then. Is the steamdeck still the best for this or are there better alternatives?

Thanks for the recommendation! I would use wired headphones if I saw any way to not have the cable in the way most of the time because that's what really annoys me at the moment. I have the cable as far back as possible but when I put my headphones down it still hangs down from the front of the desk and catches on my knee or similar. And then when I want to stretch (while sitting at the pc and leaning back) the cable pulls the headphones off from my head because it's too short. So if there's a better solution for that I would obviously choose that as I'm generally happy with my current headphones for everything except the cable.

I really like my Status Audio OB-1 which I currently use for work with my Modmic, however the cables are just too annoying. I've been looking around a bit but I haven't been able to find any over-ear open-back headset. Technically it doesn't have to be a headset, but I haven't really found a different solution for online-meetings or gaming. So to sum up my requirements: over-ear comfortable for >8h sessions usable while charging or >12h battery life open-back preferred (I want to be able to understand my gf when she's talking to me) should cost less than $200 if possible a removable mic would be great but not necessary Now that I write it out it almost sounds a bit too ambitious. Is there anything that fits these requirements?

So this means that the 2070S is better when it comes to performance per Watt than the 2070 or 2060(S)? I always thought the improved performance within one generation comes at the cost of dissipating more heat due to the higher power demand (and spending more money, of course).

But if I get a 2070S and undervolt it until it performs like a cheaper card then I could have just gotten the cheaper card in the first place? Or am I missing something there?

Would you mind sharing a link to those or giving me a hint on proper search terms? Because I just wasn't able to find anything. And the builds with 2080s that I found almost all throttled under load, so I don't really know whether that's also the case with the 2070S.

Hi, not sure if this is correct subforum, sorry if I screwed that up. I'm thinking about building a pc with a Node 202 case and an RTX 2070 SUPER GPU (paired with a Ryzen 3700X if that's relevant) and was wondering whether anybody here tried that (or something similar) and can report thermals. So far I couldn't find any real numbers on that, just guesses and estimations. I'd like to hear from somebody who actually tried putting a 215W GPU into this case. Thanks in advance! Max

In the long run yes, I'll buy a CPU. But that will probably in a year or later. Currently I try to get a basic overview of the market, especially how Ryzen-CPUs compare against each other and against Intel when it comes to performance. Not just the basic "which is the best CPU (for me)" but rather an overview on what I can expect when I read a certain CPU number, so that I don't have to look each specific CPU up when browsing used pc(-part) offers.

So I found this scatter graph that plots CPU performance and price: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html#xy_scatter_graph However there's no zoom function and the faster/more expensive CPUs cause the graph to be quite hard to read because all other CPUs are essentially bunched up in the lower left corner. Does anybody know another resource of similar graphs? It doesn't need to use the same benchmark for the performance axis, anything that represents actual performance in some way would work.

For some games wine might work just fine but for most games I had a lot of problems and fiddling around getting them to run the first time. Did I just use the wrong packages or settings there? When I install Windows in a virtual machine I might have the benefit of being able to run my Linux programs in the background and thus reducing the amount of Windows programs running but I still have to install Windows and deal with all that driver shit that (for me) for some reason never really works. Also I'm not sure if my CPU will be a bit tight bottleneck in that setup.

Hi, I'm new here so I'm not sure if this is the right spot to ask or if I'm the 10000th guy to ask this. If that's the case sorry in advance, please just point me in the right direction. tl;dr: (how) can I play "Windows only" games on Linux without having to deal with this massive pile of shit called Windows? Today I wanted to play Far Cry 3 with a few friends so I booted up windows and started steam to check if I need to download an update and my original plans were to play 10 minutes later. Then followed 4 hours of problems with windows and now my friends went to bed and the only reason I'm still up is to prepare my machine so I can play tomorrow without having the same problems again. I don't want to have my pc freeze or crah 3 times while I'm trying to download and install the drivers for the PCIe device I installed (which just works when using Linux). I don't want every single one of my programs to wait until I start them to tell me about updates - on Linux I have all my updates (well except the programs of which the maintainers are too dumb for that) in one Place. I also don't want to have to run every single one of my programs in the background just to be able to see if there's an update. I don't want any more problems with drivers that "need" to be updated immediately in order to just play the fucking game that already worked quite a few times with the old driver version. Now I'm not saying that I don't have any problems with Linux. But the problems I have with Linux do not require immediate action when I just want to do something else. In a WAN show a few weeks ago Luke mentioned, that I could use Unraid to run Windows and Linux at the same time and then use Steams in-home-streaming feature to play Windows games on a Linux machine, however I think this might still require me to deal with all the shit that Microsoft throws at me for using their OS while only having the benefit of being able to run my Linux programs parallel to the game. I know that some games run just fine with Wine - some older ones run even better that on Windows 10 - but most don't and my not that big PC (i5-4460k+gtx750ti) is not able to handle the performance overhead that comes with running most newer Windows games with Wine. I am not interested in the latest AAA-titles but for games like Far Cry 3, Mirror's Edge, Space Engineers I still need to boot up Windows and I'd like to avoid that. Regards, Max