Retro1989

Loved the flying around, just a shame there wasn't anything else to do. Then there was the whole "let's make a looter game but constantly nerf the loot drops" thing.

When they announced the new laptops i jokingly said "how long until miners start strapping these together". I didn't think they would actually do it.

I like Massive Entertainment, The Division 1 & 2's open world is done well and there's no "You need to climb this tower to give your bird better eyesight" stuff.

"Tell us again grandad how hackers held your willy hostage"

Seems weird to put so much effort into making gaming laptops when the majority of the world can't exactly travel freely to make use of the portability.

Oh boy more laptops

Announce the out of stock 3080TI

I was going to send them back and try and get a dual rank pair but apparently any new stock of these are now single rank. Did look at the Tridents but they would cause issues with my CPU cooler plus they are about £40 more.

Crucial just got back to me. They sell these kits in both single and dual, i got the single rank version.

Brought a Crucial Ballistix memory kit (2x16GB) 3600Mhz CL16. Is there a way to tell if it's single or dual rank without installing it. It's for a new build and don't have all the parts yet. I know you could look to see if the chips were on both sides to tell if it was single or dual rank but apparently that's not the case anymore? S/N on the back is BL16G36C16U4B.M8FB1 if that helps.

Only 6 days into this new year and i'm already getting fed up with it.

Yeah it's either going to be the Corsair LPX or Crucial Ballistix.

Thanks, I'll make a note of that spec. Only listed the above ones because those are much easier to get hold of.

Budget (including currency): £2500 Country: Brexit Land aka UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Video/Photo Editing, Streaming and Gaming Planning this for March/April (If the Stock gods are kind to us this year) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 (Taken from my current build) Motherboard: MSI B550 Tomahawk Memory: Corsair 32GB (2x16GB) LPX 3200MHz CL 16 or 3600MHz CL 18 Storage: 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 + (1TB Sata SSD + External HDD from my current build) GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080TI PSU : EVGA SuperNOVA G2 850W (From my current build) Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Monitors: Acer Predator XB271HU 1440p 165Hz + Dell U2515H 1440p 60Hz (These monitors are from my current setup) M+K: Logitech G600. Corsair K70 (From current build) Total: £2250 (I gave the 3080TI a £1000 price tag, obviously we don't know the price yet) Notes: I usually keep my builds for 5+ years. CPU This is the only part i'm really unsure of. I know for purely gaming picking the 5600X is a no brainer but is it enough to do the other things (Editing and streaming) i want for years to come? PSU as mentioned i'll be using my current one which is 5 years old. I've had no issues with it and it's been kept dust free with regular cleaning so this shouldn't be a problem right? Any suggestions/recommendations are welcome. Thanks.

Looking through my Mi10 Pro there's certainly less "Own Brand" software on this than the last Samsung phone i had.