Author Topic: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread. (Read 344374 times)

fohat.digs · « **Reply #1000 on:** Thu, 19 March 2026, 16:34:36 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Wed, 18 March 2026, 10:06:32

how BAD youtube bitrate is,

They have to accommodate the 20-year-old laptop on a farm with a dial-up connection ....

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1001 on:** Thu, 19 March 2026, 18:13:13 »

20 year old laptops should be able to decode 3-7MB/s video streams at 1080p.

Dial-up DSL can pipe it, Dial-up 56k, no.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1002 on:** Thu, 19 March 2026, 18:26:19 »

So, true, so true.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #1003 on:** Fri, 20 March 2026, 15:02:47 »

I found out a couple of months ago that DDR5 RAM price was through the roof, but has NAND PCIe skyrocketed now, too?

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1004 on:** Fri, 20 March 2026, 15:25:59 »

Yes, but most people don't need much nand.

Tp4 stocked up on the wd sn850x 4TB @ $221 a piece.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1005 on:** Sat, 21 March 2026, 01:41:52 »

Portal 2 graphx def holds up.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1006 on:** Sun, 22 March 2026, 12:38:51 »

Wow 4k 240hz is 6.8 GigaBYTE / second.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1007 on:** Mon, 23 March 2026, 12:35:37 »

Cleaned up 8bitdoo contro.

Feels gud, lubricated spring and loop. Krytox triggr. Made plastic washers to tighten tolerance out of packaging material.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1008 on:** Thu, 26 March 2026, 08:57:08 »

OMGOMGOMG

Hisense u8 2023 100"inch model for $1500

It does 1500nits, 144hz. OMGOMG.

MUST RESISTTTT...

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1009 on:** Thu, 26 March 2026, 09:26:27 »

WTH, 3770k are $50-60 now?

4790k used to be $40.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1010 on:** Thu, 26 March 2026, 10:33:02 »

Hrrrm... $1500... ghhaaaa. Does Tp4 really need this. hrrrrm.....

It's 144 hz, it's bright, it's got zones, it's 100 inches. sssssss....

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1011 on:** Thu, 26 March 2026, 13:26:31 »

AMD 9950x3d2

2x 8 Zen5 Core + 2x 3D vcache CCDs.

Now, 200 watt TDP.

A SINGLE 9700x for example can pump 175watt peak with PBO MAXed.

So, Really, if we wanted a MAXED out chip, we need 350 watt.

Which they probably won't allow since 230watt is pretty much the max any one gets on the 9950x.

Limitation is probably due to dissipation limit of the size of the die.

BUT what they can actually do is Reduce the thickness of the IHS or sell it delided to enthusiasts in a max 350watt edition.

You'd probably need a 30mm 3x140 AIOwater to cool it, BUH why not, it's enthusiast.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1012 on:** Fri, 27 March 2026, 16:37:05 »

U know, tried getting through Death stranding many times, just wasn't having fun.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1013 on:** Sat, 28 March 2026, 12:21:38 »

Really want to get the keychron m5 vertical gaming mouse.

It's got paw3950 sensor + realtek 8762g MCU, should be around 150 hours

So, it's a fairly power efficient MCU, but not as gud' as if it had the latest nordic nrf54L, 750 hrs.

But 98grams.

Coming from 60g mices, taping 6 quarters to it, it does feel quite heavy, for direction changes. There's really alot of momentum in +40g.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1014 on:** Mon, 30 March 2026, 08:46:21 »

Sigh. That $1500 100 inch U8K haunts Tp4. Electronics addiction.

"Think of the climate Tp4, respect the earth"

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1015 on:** Mon, 30 March 2026, 09:53:55 »

How is it that DVD drives are still best selling pc accessories?

Who's still buying these, to do what with?

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1016 on:** Mon, 30 March 2026, 12:34:53 »

Driving for 1 hr is 11kg of co2 emission (includes production)

Gaming at 1000watt PC + AC, is 1 kg

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1017 on:** Tue, 31 March 2026, 15:25:55 »

OMG,,, Budget Work laptops have gotten Soooooo Gimpped.

They don't even solder to a flat heatspreader-plate now, it's just Straight up the pipe, Not milled, nothing, just a rough, uneven surface.

Truly disgusting. You can barely call it flat. The photo is of the bottom part, that touches the cores.

When did they start doing this?? This is from a dell pro14 14250. Cheap laptop, but still, this is yikes.

In real world, if you drop this laptop hard enough, you can crush the pipe such that the fluid doesn't even flow properly.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1018 on:** Wed, 01 April 2026, 19:50:21 »

Finally downloaded Pragmata demo everyone's raving about.

It's got good GFX for sure, hair physics++, ~~HDR poor- not so well done, At the moment only the SDR looks put together.~~
Figured it out, Got to set the HDR config in the menu so it doesn't clip.

Gameplay, well... it's Ok, it's more/less a slower paced flat room encounter action game like DevilMayCry.

The RayTracing, welllll, yea it's got nice looking reflections.

GPU requirement, sigh.. Unfortunately Tpoor4 only haz 7900xtx, can only do 70-90fps at 4K, that's playable, but must use FSR to hit 120ish.

At least the FSR4 int8 optiscaler works, so not stuck with fsr3.1

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1019 on:** Wed, 01 April 2026, 21:31:53 »

Game streaming service.

People don't understand what they're giving up.

BITRATE. Max you can theoretically get from a service that Needs to be profitable is maybe 200mbit/s which is 25MB/s

Most services don't even offer this much, you'd be lucky to get 40-100mbit/s, 5-12MB/s.

Whereas, 4K 144hz 10bit, Native output on your pc is at 39.19Gigabit is 4898.75MB/s

That's not remotely the same. the Fidelity loss is ENORMOUS.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #1020 on:** Wed, 01 April 2026, 23:53:00 »

Hahahahahaha. Saw an online comment on Pragmata just now, "This, games like this is why 1r4nt wants to destroy america".

Kind of headscratch, it's only weird because it's japanese, and you know the japanese, hahahahah

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