Pulled the trigger on a new ground-up build. Figured my 11+ year old ATX full tower and PSU are due for retirement, and I’ve kind of lost faith in the PSU’s stability anyway.
Spent ~$900, which is about $250 more than the build strictly needed, but I wanted to hop on that PCIe 4.0 train so that I have a clear upgrade path for the next few years.
Only hold-over from my current box will be my GTX 1060 6GB, because that’s still okay-ish and should buy me a year to wait for a reasonably priced PCIe 4.0 graphics card option to become available.
Basic build info:
Ryzen 5 3600X
MSI X570 MEG Unify
2 x 8GB G.Skill DDR cas16 3600
Sabrent NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 500GB
NZXT M510 Black/White compact mid-tower
SeaSonic 550w SnowSilent Gold+ modular
Should be pretty snappy, but still give me room to grow when prices on higher end components dip. Only real extravagance is the Unify at $300, could have spent $200 on a X570 board and still have been pretty much on par for features. But the Unify has better reviews, slightly better specs on everything, and looks to be a little more user friendly if you need to diagnose a problem.
Bonus points to me for managing a zero RGB build, too.
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Hyper Light Drifter is free on the Epic store. Great game, well worth buying if you’re an Epic store boycotter.
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Nope, I would not even install their POS Loader.
If you are buying you are no longer boycotting, regardless if it’s free or otherwise.
They are still just going to use the transaction for their numbers.
I meant you can buy the game elsewhere. It’s currently $10 on GOG and Steam. My point was that the game is excellent and worth playing regardless of where you’re getting it.
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If I get it, it be most likely the Switch version
So agree with that sentiment about Epic, they are snakes
Epic have shown their true colours many times by calling both metro exodus and outer worlds epic exclusives, yet I guess to them that just means “not on GOG or steam” as I played both through xbox game pass for pc
You can purchase Outer Worlds on the Microsoft store. Though that might be something different since Microsoft owns obsidian
That’s how I played it… It’s rebranding slowly all to Xbox app. All the gaming utilities on pc will be xbox specific, but yeah it is in both the ms store, the xbox game pass, and the xbox store on pc atm.
Honestly I’m not sure who owns the Outer worlds brand but 2k games published it, so they get to say where that particular game is allowed to go, at least for now.
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I just waiting till Steam or GOG gets Outter Worlds, its already listed on Steam.
A free copy of Outer Worlds came with my 3600X. Mostly the reason I got the X over the plain 3600, which everyone says is the same chip for less money.
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If you overclock the plain 3600 you could have gained performance that matches the X. The only reason to get the X is for the better cooler, and slightly better binning.
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Yeah, there was only a $20 difference at the time and I figured I was going to buy Outer Worlds anyway so why not.
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Not sure if I’d ever bother OC my 3700x get nice performance out of it stock… Atm my bottleneck is my 1070
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I have an auto OC on my 2700x. It’s pretty mild but it gets the job done.
Got another question. I like having windows reopen my apps after a shut down/restart, but how come it doesn’t always do that? Did it shut down for too long or something? Bug?
I would like to know too, but Microsoft Windows is buggier than Bethesda games
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I am by no means an expert, but modern Windows maintains a partial hybernation state when you “shutdown” so that the system boots faster when you start up again. If something happens which causes or requires a true shutdown (like an interruption in power, or a Windows kernal patch), you lose the benefits of that hybernation state.
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Because it flushes the data in RAM on a reboot or during a prolonged power failure. You can always automate apps using start up/task scheduler to ensure they start with the computer.
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I don’t suppose anybody here has any recent experience with gaming on Linux?
I’m debating the merits of virtualizing Windows 10 on QEMU with gpu pass-through vs Proton vs good old fashioned dual booting.
Dual booting still seems like the most complete and least pain in the ass solution- is that correct?
Dual boot is easier because you do not have to deal with additional layers of complications when dealing with specialized software.
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