You DID build your own PC, right?

I would really prefer it if you said I invented my own PC

>>714948857 (OP)
Can that thing grate cheese?

The only cards that will do 4k >60fps are 4090 and 5090 so this build is total bullshit, probably a r5 and a 5050ti/5060 with all MFG and DLSS slop turned all the way up.

>>714948857 (OP)
>Apple does thing
>everyone has to copy thing
why?

has anything changed in the sff hobby? looking to build one just for gaming but worried nothing new has been done about thermals

the obsession with 4K is dumb, you cannot run it natively at that price tag so it's a fake experience.
just invest in a machine that will run everything maxed out at 2K, you physically do not need anything more than that.

>building a PC is easy it's like lego-ACK!

>>714950949
>he didn't defang is pc cobra

>>714950949
what do i do if my PC order doesnt come with a cobra

>>714950551
1440p is a stopgap though.

>>714950949
>I want to bake a chocolate cake
>buy a vanilla cake
>buy cocoa powder
>cut open vanilla cake and try to shove cocoa powder inside
???

>>714948857 (OP)
i did watch this video and he says hes a console fag and "prefers" high resolution over high framerate, also he bought a used 3070

>>714951248
if you're talking about a 10 year long stopgap, sure
the hardware required to natively output 4K today just isn't economically feasible, which is why the 5090 is so comically expensive. I would even go as far as to say the 5080 isn't a proper 4K card.

>>714948857 (OP)
nah, I choose my components and then paid for assembling service. Quite a lot of my friends had to return their hardware cause it came with broken/bent pins or didn't work at all, why would you subject yourself to that if you can just throw money at someone and tell them that it's their problem, you just want your box working

>>714948857 (OP)
y-yes.

>>714948857 (OP)
You can't afford a 600+ dollar pc? Get a job

>>714950235
No one said anything about being higher than 60 fps. 30 FPS is all you really need in 4k.

>>714948857 (OP)
>also guys im reusing my 6090ti from my previous build

>>714948857 (OP)
I did and it was extremely easy

>>714950325
as much as I hate apple I have to admit they have a genius level marketing.
Not a single other company would be able to get away with as much shit as they do. However apple is going to win in the long race as tech literacy is getting worse and worse, as the favor goes to more dumbed down, flashy icons and words. Its the same what happened to mobiles when smartphones came out.

>>714951164
Despite what the shills say, you don't need a Cobra. Literally any snake (or even a legless lizard if you're on a budget) is good enough.

>>714948857 (OP)
Anyone who spends more than 2k nowadays for a high end gaming computer is intentionally getting fleeced

>>714948857 (OP)
I'm still buying the parts for my next build, not in a hurry.

>>714950551
I don't understand how we got here. I played in 1080p in 2008. 1440p in 2012. Why do we still not have native 4k as the norm? It's been 13 years.

>>714950235

5080 absolutely will do 4K at 60+

>>714948857 (OP)
No

>>714948857 (OP)
Nearing the point where I pull the trigger to be honest. I have an AM4 board from my previous PC that I'm going to reuse. With that in mind I'm thinking of maybe pairing a 5600 up with a 9060 xt. Bearing in mind I just casually play single player games at 1080p. I reckon that set up will do me 5 - 7 years maybe. Any thoughts?

>>714948857 (OP)
I've built my first sffpc recently
It's comfy, I'm thinking of converting my main PC to sff

>>714948857 (OP)
Yup. But for a little more than $596.

>>714950949
>not having a security cobra to guard your $3,000 GPU

>>714948857 (OP)
yes
Been doing so since quitting console after the 360 gen.
No regrets.

>>714950949
still better than mcafee

>>714951248
4k Is a stopgap

>>714949497
based colored child.

>>714948857 (OP)
No, I got a prebuilt like I've been doing for the last 20 years

>>714960248
Lol. Fag

>>714959895
Umm, no.
5K is not 5120x2160 it is 5120x2880.

>>714948857 (OP)

Nah I paid for it because i'm not poor you know?

>>714948857 (OP)
I did. It was actually fun and not hard at all.

>>714948857 (OP)
>PC looks like a fucking toaster
get with the times, gramps

>>714959895

>>714948857 (OP)
yeah and i regret it immensely. i shouldve just got a really nice gaming laptop.

>>714961650
you cant escape the food analogies.

>>714962053
hottie

>>714962053
hnggg

>>714953932
Moore's law has largely fallen off and it's getting harder to increase performance with the tech we've got, it's why all the new tech is leaning so heavily into AI and upscaling because native graphics performance isn't increasing.

I bought a ps5 and a laptop

>>714948857 (OP)
>4K
now turn off dlss

>need to replace my motherboard
>never done it before
Chat am I cooked?

>>714948857 (OP)
>4k
lol retard, imagine buying a 4k monitor

>>714948857 (OP)
nah I got a dell 8940 with a i5 11400 and 1650 super at black Friday 2021 and upgraded the cpu fan, ram and ssd and then put a 6650 xt in it in 2023 and it just werks

>>714959895
4k is a thumbnail apperantly.

>>714948857 (OP)
No, I paid some dude to build it for me.

>>714950949
Is this a better anti-virus than Malwarebytes?

Yes. This has evolved over the last 8 years to the current form and will continue to evolve as my whims and needs deem it so.

>>714962698
It's basically the same thing as building a brand new PC, it's ass and takes a long time

>>714959753
Dust that shit, bro.

>>714950949
Weird looking water cooler, but I'll take it

>>714962876
Its norton anti-virusssssssssssssss

>>714962798
Why you gotta bust my balls

>>714949497
>>714959905

>>714950549
I think that air-cooling has seen a tiny popularity boost - a veeeery tiny one - because of how often people see SFF content creators using low profile Chinesium coolers on things like the 9800X3D.
Partial pre-builts (like that NR200 SKU that comes with a PSU and an AIO) are a thing now, but they're mostly for people who don't want to tinker/do too much research.
Other than that, I can't think of anything else that's fundamentally changed much.
New people still go for overkill AIOs, etc. etc. etc.

>>714950235
My 7900 XTX does 4k 60+

>>714963093
>732x410
actually realistic considering thats the real resolution modern 4k is rendered at.

>>714948857 (OP)
i bought a prebuilt years but pretty much upgraded every componont inside the case over the years and took the motherboard apart multiple times so i guess i kinda did?

>>714948857 (OP)
Yeah I did was easier than expected like the instruction booklets are basic foolproof.
Only thing I needed help with was the cables because I choose the wrong case.

>>714948857 (OP)
Why does anyone pretend building is hard? A 8 year old can put a PC together.

>>714950949
Do you think I could run water cooling trough a snake?

>>714964129
>Why does anyone pretend building is hard?
Because it literally is for most people.

>>714950949
look at that little guy

>>714948857 (OP)
I can just get Switch 2

>>714961650
that is kind of cool
how old is this ad?

should i upgrade my 6600 8gb? is like 2 years old

>>714948857 (OP)
obviously. it's cheaper to build it yourself if you're looking for the best bang/buck such as used components. buying a prebuilt can be cheaper if you're buying new in some cases though.

>>714948857 (OP)
No, my boyfriend did. :3

>>714948857 (OP)
PC building is more fun than actually playing the games, honestly. I want to dig around for old parts just to throw them together and fuck with them. Maybe use them for random shit on my network, or learn troonix.

>>714953456
>not mentioning eels
shill

>>714962953
Nah it's fine.

>>714962698
Huge pain in the ass, double check compatibility with your other parts too

>>714948857 (OP)
You're not building anything you're just adding premade pieces together
Come back when you'll make your own cpu, your own motherboard and co

>>714959895
>4k
>Doesn't even reach 4000 pixels either vertically or horizontally

>>714964298
Oh right... Putting 9 pieces of adult lego together is difficult.

I refuse to believe anyone has actually bought components and failed at putting it together and if you have reveal yourself now.

>>714966078
retard

>>714962698
If you're replacing with same model motherboard, just photograph where everything was before disassembling. And make sure you have paste for CPU and don't bend the pins when seating it into socket

>>714962585
it feels like moore's law dying is more a symptom of this golden goose LLM dogshit running down the industry though. having two gimmicky economic bubble-like moments hit the tech industry back-to-back, after a global pandemic held back the semiconductor industry for years seems like the perfect recipe to enable stagnation and pivots that wreck the idea of making our technology meaningfully more powerful.

>>714966078
go back to sucking dicks on redit

>>714948857 (OP)
Yeah I selected the parts and let it be built for me. Everything works perfectly

>>714948857 (OP)
If you upgrade the parts of a PC, can you make it available for windows updates?

>>714948857 (OP)
>I'm new at this tehee
Always a complete lie.

>>714966295
>>714966160
Guess you two failed the iq test

>>714966597
The only hard requirement is TPM 2.0 and if your CPU doesn't already have it (it might just be disabled in the BIOS) you'll need a new CPU and most likely a new mobo. This might also require you to get new RAM and maybe even a new CPU cooler.

>>714948857 (OP)
Not this time, bought a prebuilt with a 5090 in it. No regrets, they did a way better job than I would have.

>>714965915
do you not understand the concept of scaling or do you think a globe is as big as the world?

>>714962698
I have never had the IO shield snap in place the first 50 tries, easily the worst part.

>>714957389
>Any thoughts?
I can't understand the mentality of people still playing at 1080p, so I can't give you any advice, sorry.

>>714948857 (OP)
This nigga literally spent like 1000$ total just to build a mid range 500$ pc, but hey, he at least got his money back in youtube ads.

>>714968080
Would it just be worth getting a prebuilt for a base then to build on top? My PC Card isn’t even in the 1000’s

>>714953932
because poor niggas accept 1080p as the standard

>>714953932
A few reasons
Nvidia abandoned gaming in 2020 and never looked back
4K monitors with high refresh rates are expensive and poorly supported (even cables are hard to source)
The industry itself gave up on actually trying to do 4K and went for AI upscaling and interpolation
Several places, namely California, put outright bans on maximum power draw on new PCs. 4K regularly blows past it with the GPU alone
Game studios are imploding under the cost of 4K content creation

>>714963113
Wow, what a clever boy!

>>714960661
>Umm, no.
I hate you and I hope you die

>>714962585
Bullshit, software making is sabotaged.

>>714948857 (OP)
I clicked on that video and the whole time the retarded apple, capeshit fanboy was making me cringe.

>>714950549
GPUs are too fucking big now and they keep getting bigger

>>714950949
>PC is cold-blooded now
>overclock that shit

I don't care about 4k

>pc keeps making clicking noises at night even thought I always turn it off

>>714959510
wow now I can take my 4k gaming pc to the barbecue

>>714972514
did you clean the tar up?

I sure did. In fact I also rebuilt an old gaming PC which was in parts today to see what kind of 7z benchmark the old CPU could do and compare it to a newer one.