Abyssal Radon

So basically Dbrand is giving Sony the finger lol?

Holy shit lol, I just use the 'aggressive' fan curve in Precision X, but there's nothing wrong with your fan profile. TBH it's all about personal preference. During the day I use my speakers and at night I use my headphones, so my GPU constantly running it's heatsink fans doesn't bother me. Like I prefer a cooler GPU temperature, and my computer case has noise dampening material inside of it, so like most of the time I can't hear my GPU's fans spinning lol.

nVidia has been on a two year trend for quite some time. Although it'll probably be at least 4 years before I upgrade from my 3080 TBH.

Where do you buy these mouse mats? Kinda want to get one for my work desk and I want one of those huge mats that runs across the desk.

My Corsair SP2500's that I bought back in 2011. They still sound really damn good, wouldn't say it's something that I want to see go lol. Really good gaming speakers for everything I do on my computer, but I keep my HE400i headphones plugged in (at night) and they seem to drive my cans fairly well.

So, for that amount of money for a projector, I would rather purchase a TV. Projectors IMO look 'big', but the color's and image quality looks pretty bad when compared to a similarly priced TV.

Kind of a weird thread. However, as a 25 year old, luckily I just don't go into my computer room when a girl is over lol. If she walked into my computer/office room, I honestly wouldn't give a shit what she thought.

Long story short, I took apart everything and voided my PSU’s warranty lol. Nothing, popped or melted. Something tells me something loud hit our house today. Windy Colorado weather. I ran Unigine Valley benchmark for about 2 hours without any artifacting or shutdowns.

Have you tried DDU? I had to do that when I got mine and it’s been fine.

Gonna do that as soon as I finish eating dinner. My gut is telling me it's the PSU... thanks for responding to my question. I just ran Superposition benchmark and got 10759 score (1080p extreme preset) which is roughly where it was before this happened. So I'm gonna pull my PSU out and see if I smell/see popped cap or whatever I find. Just makes me wonder how it can still function with a PSU with a popped cap, I thought the system would've shut off or something... thanks for responding to my question.

So I was playing some Halo MCC: H2A on my PC. Then literally out of nowhere, I heard a really loud popping noise so loud that I jumped out of my seat, then my GPU's fans speed up then slowed down. No arti-facting or crashing or anything, the GPU seems ok. Did my PSU just blow a cap or something? How do I determine what popped? I'm hoping that the PSU did something stupid and my components are ok. I'm thinking I should pull out my PSU and see if I can notice any soder smell or anything. How should I test my GPU to ensure it's ok? Game on it and see if something weird happens? Kinda need help he

So let me get this straight. OP is disagreeing with the fact that companies send out products for reviewers to make videos/articles about? Like I don't understand OP's point here, I mean if OP wants to become a tech reviewer to receive free "high end" GPU's or whatever, OP should start by building an audience then companies might take notice or however this stuff works. Personally, I think OP has a tad of jealousy creeping out on this thread. Otherwise, can someone help me understand what the hell is OP talking about? What is his point? Seems like incoherent arguing lol.

Personally, I believe that owning a 5950X or 5900X, 10900K or 10700K, 3090 or 3080, and 6900XT or 6800XT isn't considered 'main stream' hardware. Like any hobby, you have to pay to get the best performance/experience. nVidia has always been expensive, now I do see your line of thinking. nVidia's last 'best' single GPU for consumers was the GTX 680 with a $499.99 launch price. Which was nearly 9 years ago now, fast forward to today, now your looking at a $1499.99 MSRP for the 3090. So take into account inflation from 2012 to today, ~$567.00 for a GTX 680 compared to a $1499.99 RTX 3090. Anyway,