TehPlayer14

Imagine thinking covid19 will ever end.

Oh! Actually I'll give the other side nobody seems to think happens.
 
My ex-boyfriend was a tech illiterate who would always stress me over how ignorant he was and even worse how he'd not take my advises at all resulting in rather hilarious nonsense like:
 
He was finally building a new gaming computer, I tried to help him come up with the parts however he ignored me entirely and went with his other friends much worse advises. I still wanted to gift him something for his birthday so I bought him a 550W BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 11 to use on the build but that same friend called me stupid and "you can't trust this to a girl" kind of offence telling him his rig needed 750W (it was a mainstream one that'd use no more than 500w ever) so he actually returned by gift and bought a CX750M which is a much worse PSU.
 
I'm glad my current relationship now with another girl, yes I gone lesbian, is with an actual network engineer who knows her stuff for real... we go along much better.

You're comparing a 15W CPU to a 65W CPU... obviously the desktop counter part is better.

And here I am... still wishing they'd sell the Single Player campaign stand alone version for like 15$ so I can play it through a weekend and never go back to it
 
Any ways the latest system requirements stated on Activision's official page lists 175GB storage needed so it doesn't seem all that off.

Those WD Blues are not NVMe... not that it matters much if any to a mainstream PC.
 
Just grab a good SSD for boot and a HDD for storage?

No, the Radeon 7 is a compute/workstation card not a gaming card, you'll be paying more for stuff you won't use so just go with the 5700XT

That's very insightful, thank you for letting us know that this old entry level APU is no longer adequate for web browsing.

It really depends on what game you're playing.

It is possible but the CPU may become a bottleneck.

Have in mind that CS:GO is still running on the very old Source 1 engine which is around us since 2002~2003... Source 1 has issue with CPUs from Skylake era and older (14nm), because of some changes in microcode, the physics engine actually works differently on newer CPUs than older, and that sort of broke HL2 speedrunning consistency a lot before new strats were found.
 
Even with updates to the engine some fundamental and core structures simply can't be changed, the only way to get it fixed is porting the game to an up-to-date engine like Source 2 but VALVe's too lazy to do that.
 
So what happens here is that when you use 14nm++ i7 9700K processor you're using a piece of hardware that has already "phased out" singularities of the software you're running, in this case Source/CS:GO, the results are very variable, among the many attempts to fix the issues you sometimes gets people who will run the game on expencted fps like 300+ for a processor like yours while others will just get stuck.
 
There is literally nothing to do here if you have encounter one of these cases, you verify it playing any other game like Fortnite or Overwatch... if your fps is super high on those as you'd expect than you just got unlucky your hardware combination is too "current gen" for the quite old CS:GO.

Yes it is possible albeit differences are indeed minimal, all hardware in use on your PC will produce heat, the Xilence is likely producing less than the old Chieftec... have in mind your inside case is still a box so heat can build up inside, reason why airflow is so important.

Yes it is, specially from a good quality unit like yours.

Whatever Aorus Z390 you can find.

Why are you so concerned about 2w~3w more consumption due to the higher clock? it really changes nothing.

Micron's fine.

G-Sync and V-Sync are not the same thing, they don't cancel on another and should be used together for the best possible experience.
 
G-Sync will match your refresh rate to your fps but that's it, there is no synchronization going on.
 
V-Sync synchronizes the framerate to the refresh rate making it smooth.
 
Therefore you have to enable both so say your game runs at 90fps you'll be at 90hz with V-Sync synchronizing it.

you should get another 8gb stick.

Consoles already uses octacores, have in mind that the OS is different and when porting the game from a console to a PC you'll never have it function the same way.
 
Not only that the Zen 2 based processor on the PS/Xbox is still significantly inferior, with lower cache and lower core frequency than the current octacore retail chips, so this preoccupation is needless.
 
Finding a PC game today that uses more than 8 threads is nearly impossible, with only a very very few exceptions like Ashes of Singularity, so with that in mind competent hexacore processors like the Ryzen 5 3600/X and say i7 8700K will remain adequate for high end gaming for a good couple of years yet.

You have insufficient funds to accomplish the PC you want.

Monitors aren't TVs to begin with.

I am afraid that an old used 120mm AiO is not what you should be using for an i9 9900K if you want to extract the full potential of the processor.
 
If you do buy a NH-D15 though then you can run it at 5ghz all day long.

It is hilarious that this game came out pretty much 2 years ago and they are still trying to "fix it" to this date.
 
Does any one even care? this is good for the rather small community that still plays it but I doubt *anyone* would want to get into it at this point. There's far better games of the same theme out there that aren't such cash grabs.

Too bad the video you linked is fake... like the greatest majority of benchmark videos with no hosts, no actual gameplay footage or anything just easy to forge graphs.
 
At least use a reputable source:

CPU usage is generally represented as a simple percentage of CPU time spent on non-idle tasks. But this is a bit of a simplification. In any modern operating system, the CPU is actually spending time in two very distinct modes:
 
Kernel Mode In Kernel mode, the executing code has complete and unrestricted access to the underlying hardware. It can execute any CPU instruction and reference any memory address. Kernel mode is generally reserved for the lowest-level, most trusted functions of the operating system. Crashes in kernel mode are catastrophic; they will halt the entire PC.
 
User Mode In User mode, the executing code has no ability to directly access hardware or reference memory. Code running in user mode must delegate to system APIs to access hardware or memory. Due to the protection afforded by this sort of isolation, crashes in user mode are always recoverable. Most of the code running on your computer will execute in user mode.
 
Source.