DannyBoy312

A proper build guide that I'd be happy to share with any first time builder without fear (unlike a certain other guide). Joking aside, this was very well done IMO and very approachable. Mods: please bump or direct me if in wrong forum section, still learning here! Thank you and appreciate the patience!

I'm in front of a screen most of the day (IT). I keep night light on in Windows all day and that helps a little but not much for me. Just ordered some 'Blockz' from Zenni optical (their version of blue light blocking lenses). I'll update here if you're interested once they arrive and I give them a go. As a side note, my Dell gaming monitor does have a 'comfort view' mode that I use that does seem to help particularly at night. Not sure exactly what is being done here but just wanted to mention it.

Stardew Valley soundtrack

Major Linus vibes. Context: people started an Xbox vs. PS argument on a Jacksepticeye meme. Love it. I really want Linus to see this ha ha.

Found this short video of a cute bird chilling with his gaming human. Made me think of Luke's WAN Show guest star:

My bad, thank you. Posted in a frenzy after finding out.

Here's the live stream

Hi everyone, wasn't sure if anyone posted a topic for this yet. Head over to UFD tech on YouTube and help at their GoFundMe if you are able. They are going through an incredibly rough time. Great Techtuber and incredible family. Kyle over at BitWit has already donated too.

Yeah, Gamers Nexus Steve said it's probably the worst stock cooler they've ever tested. I'll be waiting until next month when the AIBs slap on their better coolers.

You guys are right... I can't believe I let my common sense get plowed over by a new tech that's not worth it right now (or even in the near future.) Oy, I for real feel like I was so caught up in the hype and can't miss out syndrome. I am so glad you guys smacked me with truth. Save the $100 and get an excellent GPU that pretty much matches the RTX 2070 Super in raw FPS. Alright, well I will be giving my money to the company deserves it, AMD. All AMD build here I come!

I do agree, the AMD cards are the better deal. I personally, and say what you will, want to have Ray Tracing support. Call me a sucker and that I have FOMO but I guess my philosophy is that I'm buying a GPU that I want to last me at least 5 years and of course I could wait until 2nd gen Navi when AMD will probably have DXR support but I'd like to know that I at least have the capability to play DXR/RTX enabled games in the next year and going forward. My one fear is that, of course, AMD has a brand new architecture that is yet unproven which leaves the potential for performance gains through driver updates. Whereas Nvidia has had quite a bit of time already to optimize Turing drivers meaning they have most likely squeezed as much performance out of their architecture already.

Hello everyone! So I feel like I may already know the answer to this one but wanted to reach out and see what others' thoughts/speculations we're about Nvidia's willingness to drop prices on their new Super cards in the wake of AMD's pre launch price cuts. Does anyone think it's at all a possibility within the next couple months or would Nvidia have already done it pre launch if they were going to drop pricing? Or was the release of the Super cards the only amount they were willing to budge? Nvidia can be pretty stubborn but they've also not had any serious competition in this price tier for quite some time.

That was an excellent video from G.N., thanks for the share. Honestly with the core efficiency improvements and tighter IPC gap that the Ryzen 2000 series has brought I'd be fine with the 2600X's 6 cores (I don't plan on doing a lot of heavy editing.) I have a GTX1060 6GB card and I'm currently gaming on a 1080P 144Hz panel.

Hello everyone! The venerable, the mighty, the legendary Core i5 2500k. Barring the benefits of a new platform (m.2, USB 3.1, etc.) would it grant noticeable performance gains in games to upgrade to either the Ryzen 2600X or 2700X? If not in max FPS, perhaps at least the 1% lows would be minimized? I have a GTX1060 6GB at the moment and I do encounter noticeable stuttering in some games especially GTAV and Far Cry 5 (regardless of settings.) I know the Ryzen chips have a lower IPC compared to 8th gen Intel parts but from what I've read it's typically within 5-10% and given that I could get comparable performance plus an included stock cooler (I'm on a strict budget) that 5-10% wouldn't necessarily be missed. I've read article after article but I still would like first-hand/community opinions. So, is it worth it moving from my i5 2500k (which I've OC'ed to 4.5GHz?)