IsaacG

Gotta trace those rays🤯😂!

Only really seems worth it for the games as imo the original Xbox one's size, performance, and experience going into next gen is not worth $200. Obviously a ps4 at that same price with games would be a better deal in many people's eyes in terms of console exclusives, etc. That being said tho, a freesync display might be a great addition to that Xbox one and make some of the worst offending games in terms of performance a lot better.

So i normally ghost forums and don't take the time to write much, but this is such a good community it deserved a post.
 
So i haven't messed around with building computers since ATX was a new thing (feeling old) but work, kids and life in general just got in the way. I've gone the easy route and just bought a pre-build one from a decent local computer place. Last fall i realized my monitor was over 10 years old, and thought holy .... this is somewhere i could really get some quality of life improvement. My wife agreed and got me a beautiful curved MSI monitor and that's where the trouble started
Getting a ultra wide screen obviously meant my old rig was struggling to keep up (load times were all ready abysmal, TW Warhammer II) so i thought i'd spoil myself with a semi-new processor to help its all along and just put it in my old rig and call it a cheap update, boy was i wrong haha.
 
Started googling a bit around and (this is where LTT got my attention) and found out AMD was kinda rocking now, who would have thought. Landed on a 3700x as it seemed like a cheap easy upgrade, however also learned i should get DDR 4 ram to go with it and that none of it would fit in my old motherboard, Challenge accepted! Got a Tuf x570, 2 sticks of cosair ram and the Rysen 3700x with a stock cooler (hey they give you a free cooler now wtf) This would have been the end of it if not for that bloody cooler, installing it i realized it had bloody lights on it (yeah yeah RGB, i've been out of the loop for a long time) i thought that would be cool to see. Around the same time my new monitor went on black Friday sale, i complained about it and got a gift certificate for the difference. Used that to to buy a Cosair Spec 06 RGB, and a 3 Corsair LL 120mm fan with a lighting node, yes i know i got bitten by the RGB bug. Transferred everything to the new case and thought i was done, but nooo iQUE dosen't play nice with the Ryzen stock cooler + that thing is bloody loude, so got a Cosair hydro 100i platinum to replace it and had to rewire the front of the spec case to play with iQUE. After that it seemed silly to not just finish the build so i threw in a modular power supply, a MSI RTX 2070 super, and a few more RGB strips.

So that the build:
 
Case: Spec 06 RGB
Motherboard: Tuf x570
CPU: Ryzen 3700x
Ram: 2x 8gb Corsair 3200 vengence
GPU: MSI RTX2070 Super
Hardrive: System is on a NVME, with a few SSD's for games and a HHD for storage.
The end goal for the Rig is the same as the previous one: To play Star Citizen if it ever comes out as a full game!
 
 
Now i started this journey out as a cheap upgrade, but it escalated so i learned a few things along the way.
 
1 - I'm stuck wishing i had gotten a 3800x CPU as this one seems limited on power draw when i try to overclock it (any suggestions or just leave it, because the boost is so good anyway?)
2 - The Tuf motherboard is good, but definitely not high end. I spend the first few weeks with the board not booting after a restart until i got a new bios update.
3 - RGB is awesome, but dont get dragged to far in.
4 - The MSI 2070 super its really loud when under load and radiates silly amounts of heat sidesways, to the point where the case glass is silly hot. I considered vertically mounting it, but I'm afraid to just choke it instead. Any thoughts?
5 - i only have 2 intake fans, do i need another one to help with point 4, or do i just need to bite the bullet and have an ugly case with the front panel off? (my wife will murder me if a spend more on another case now haha.
 
Thanks for reading through my journey of relearning how to build computers, it was a ton of fun to do but really appreciate all the youtube videos.

Has to be the fan, coil whine isn't ever really loud. If you were moving stuff near the cpu socket I would start by replugging all the psu cables as a sanity check.

So fans aren't even spinning and lights aren't coming on?

CRT basically has all the advantages of OLED, plus the advantage of not having square pixels.
I did use CRT long into the LCD era but I stopped once I got some decent IPS LCDs.
And today I just use OLED. If I want the CRT style effect I just take off my glasses and turn on BFI.

If the games it comes with are physical games that you would play that is a great deal. Digital games wouldn't be worth the hassle. Supposedly the series x is going to have no console exclusives for the first year, so why not get an xbox one.

My complaint/worry is strictly about the titles. I mentioned a few times that I understand & accept that asking for an end to the obnoxious thumbnails is too much, I simply threw that in there because I felt like voicing my opinion on the topic overall. 
As I said, I'm 100% happy with the thumbnail + "clickbait - actual title" paradigm. I don't think its perfect, but I think its a great compromise. The problem is that over half of these titles aren't conforming to that.

Don't have a vr headset already, but I figured the minimum requirements were for the Index as well as other headsets because it is Valve's own vr solution. The Index has a much higher resolution than the original rift, so I figured the performance difference between the rx 480 and rx 580 shouldn't matter too much because of the lowered resolution

I bet digital foundry will have a good analysis

Ok

Just saw the half life:alyx announcement trailer and am really excited to play it, but I don't have a huge budget. As of now, my plan for playing it is to buy a used original oculus rift in the neighborhood of $150, then buy the game for another $60, hopefully keeping the price around $200 in total. I recently upgraded my gpu to an RX 480 8gb that I got a good deal on used, and would greatly prefer not to upgrade it to play half life alyx, even though it is technically below the minimum spec of an rx 580. I figure that the performance difference between the rx 480 and the rx 580 is small enough, and the resolution on the original rift is low enough so that my computer can pump out those constant 90 frames per second. Is this accurate or will I have to upgrade?

Just finished. I need to do some more extensive testing to make sure the fan I added doesn't clip anything inside the case during long periods, but I managed to keep the original aesthetic.

I found the pinouts online and I am able to run all the fans off of the dvd drive as of right now. I haven't had a chance to try running a dvd in there, but I will update it when I do. I will also post a picture when I finish.