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Yeah he's thinking height. It's ~15.4" high and ~54.9" wide. It's pretty much 2 32" 4k panels curved and delivered all in one big chunk. I checked one out at microcenter a few times and wished it was taller. Or wider one time I was there. They had it rotated into portrait mode. If you...

My guts says Intel planned to dual source the compute tile from the start & what will be interesting is the 18A-P/TSMC 2nm ratio. If you think about the current political environment dual sourcing makes a lot of sense. All these tariff wars, plus China treats chips as being made where they are...

Next you need to put something in that space on the lower right of the TV stand. It looks empty and out of balance. Maybe some sort of disc player? Vinyl if you just rip everything, or perhaps a 4k Blu-Ray player.

I tend to base my choices on which one looks like it's easier to clean and feels good in the hand, particularly button placement. Actually it mostly comes down to cleaning these days. Many mice have gotten way too spiky with too many nooks and crannies. I just don't feel like there's much...

Pretty much. NV essentially cancelled the 5090. 5080s are up around $2k. Prices on everything else NV are way up and AMD and Intel cards are up too & climbing. Best I can tell the B580 is still being made but keeps selling out. Nowinstock.net says they had another drop today on Newegg...

If it's an HTPC/living room gaming rig, a drawer to store your remotes in. Maybe a wireless mouse too. Too bad a keyboard won't fit. Hmm... guess that's a custom PC case idea. Living room case that looks like furniture and has drawers for all the associated bits. Even better if it could...

True. I don't really pay much attention to how much power my gaming rig draws while gaming, but I do notice the heat it produces. My main rig probably pulls a bit under 1kW while gaming. 5090 + all the other bits. Don't forget the monitor. That's like $0.10 an hour. I'm not interested in...

The ARC Battlemage gaming cards seem to move when NV gets out of the way. They were in and out of stock all the time in early 2025 after NV discontinued the 4060 ahead of the launch of the 5060 and ran the channel completely dry. Judging from the stock history on nowinstock.net, it looks like...

I've seen stuff like this but I don't recall where. I suppose I could try to Google it for you but nah, don't feel like it. Some bits I remember - Intel ARC GPUs suck at idle power draw if you have more than one screen attached. Also less efficient under load, at least for gaming. NV vs...

Been there, done that with HDMI cables. The included cable is way too short, so I have to get another one. Cheap "Inland" 8k HDMI 15' cable from Microcenter worked most of the time... until it glitched. Again. I think that cable was evil. It was fine until I was just about to do a head shot...

That's not quite right. My Dell U5226KW flickers at a particular setting & hurts my eyes. This is totally different hardware so my point is just that yes it does happen, but my Dell screen flickers if I run it at less than 120Hz in "fast" mode. Fast mode for this screen is 5ms. Standard mode...

At this point the GOAT has been deprecated by the sheep. 3060 can beat a 1080Ti no problem. Faster, more vram, has ray tracing and DLSS support. But it's still supported and NV recently restarted production of 3060s so I'm guessing that getting one for $100 is a no-go. Upgrading vid cards is...

Also worth noting (from the Reddit post linked by TechPowerUp): B580 1080P, all Upscalers on Balanced Mode in Clair Obscur Expedition 33 I was wondering how times on AMD hardware compared so I tried digging around the net a bit. There are pretty big differences between AMD generations. RX...

It's also a short download and fast install, like less than a lot of patch Tuesdays. Not sure it does much. It's supposed to lower memory usage, but I didn't notice any obvious change on my 64GB and 32GB machines. My 16GB laptop is maybe idling a few hundred MB lower, but that machine isn't...

The game I was wishing CDPR had made is Bloodlines 2. I don't love Mass Effect or Dragon Age enough to use up a CDPR dev cycle on them. I'd rather have more Witcher & Cyberpunk. But some devs quit, started a new studio and made Blood of the Dawnwalker so that actually worked out way better...

Bioware started dying as soon as they sold out to EA back in 2007. EA let them release a few more solid games, but I can't think of anything good after the Mass Effect series. Zombie studio since 2012. Hopefully the Saudis sell off the rest of their IP. Larian did a great job with Baldur's...

Good chance of it. I mean there are random experiments you can run, like trying the other port or running with 1 screen, but I suspect board limitations are likely an issue. You have a higher end "gaming" board. Those are expected to be used with discreet GPUs. They didn't even give you an...

I'm not so wound up on games coming from US companies. My current favorite dev is Polish - CDPR. Lots of good stuff out of Europe and Japan over the years. The problem with Saudi ownership is they're going to mess up anything that doesn't comport with their viewpoints. Or just sell it...

Current performance level? What kind of vid card do you have in your current machine? Clobbering a 2500k is not hard these days. Those are what, 15 years old? The vid card is the question. A GTX 680 from 2012 can still keep up with some iGPUs. I don't have a real good sense of what sort of...

IMHO 60Hz isn't a big deal unless you're gaming. More makes the desktop look a bit smoother if you're not. I guess it depends on what you're doing. Some people really like it, I really don't care. I run my main and gaming screens at 120+ on the desktop because I can, but the 60Hz monitors at...

Not really, especially when you have 32GB ram. UT '99 runs fine on Win11. Last time I played it was on a Ryzen 5 9600X system with 32GB ram and an Intel ARC B580 vid card. Ran at hundreds of fps at 2560x1440 using the community patches. You might also want to think about getting a laptop...

I started watching Dune 2 last night, and this time I didn't have to make sure I had the right disc. Dune 2 only came with a 4k disc. I don't see a lot of difference in the picture. Both look obviously better than streaming and broadcast TV. Upscaling might have something to do with that...

So I finally got around to buying a 4k player and a handful of movies. Movies were just a few things I picked out from what Amazon had for next day delivery. Dune 1 & 2, Oppenheimer, and a Lord of the Rings set. Then what do I do? Screw up and watch Dune 1 on regular Blu-Ray. Sat there the...

Lack of game support. All the NV app can do for game settings most of the time is just edit config files. I don't think this should be enabled by default. AI assisted performance tuning would be a nice feature for the clueless, but to really be useful the AI agent would have to be built into...

High end CWT unit. A bit cheaper than a Seasonic Prime TX-1600. $490 vs. $560 on Newegg. Should be good. Most of Corsair's good stuff is made by CWT.

My biggest beef with "no disc" doesn't have anything to do with games. Usually I play them once or twice, then forget about them. The thing that makes me mad about discs going away is the low quality replacement for Blu-Ray. Streaming bitrates stink. I think MS should include a disc drive on...

That's one thing I really wish AMD and Intel would do for gamers - stop tying the fastest clocks to the biggest chips. Why do we have to get "9" chip core counts to get max clocks? Just make a "gamer edition" or whatever "7" and/or "5" chip with max clocks and charge appropriately. And of...

+10 to that. I'm in a similar position. Back in late 2024 I was working on a new build while waiting for next gen cards to come out. New build would leave me short a vid card. Somehow Microcenter decided that to let people order ARC B580s for pickup on launch day. So I bought one. It was...

+1 and... Top mount or bust!

One up side with that is the extra cache should reduce the need to get higher clocked ram, at least for gaming. It'll make the big cache Intel chips act more like AMD X3D. So our 6400 CL32 won't be too bad. Sure faster would be nice, but how much do you want to pay for a few %?

TechSpot ran some performance tests on the remaster and got some interesting results. They ran their tests in Novigrad and noted that performance was a better outside the city. Looks like there's some sort of bottleneck with ray tracing and path tracing. PT tops out at about 60fps and RT just...

I voted no because I think the Steam name is more likely to stick around. I think it's unlikely either one of them will just disappear. Even if Valve or CD Projekt went bankrupt someone would probably buy their assets. Stores get merged and you still have your games. I think the Steam name...

Yeah, you need an i7 or a 1600 Xeon (single socket only) to do a multiplier OC on X79. Xeon 1680v2 is kinda the ultimate OC chip for that platform. 8 cores & you can use the multiplier. X79 boards can run 2600 series dual capable Xeons, but those are multiplier locked. Alas, 1600 only goes...

There's a series of "Post your Workstations" over in Cases & Case Modding > Case Mod Gallery 2026 version is here.

A couple years from now prices will either be worse or we'll have a massive AI crash, lots of spare HBM all over the place, the return of Vega (sort of - higher end gaming GPUs using HBM), and slow sales for gaming cards because there's a recession and people are broke? Personally I'm expecting...

That's pretty close to spot on. It's an enthusiast build. Custom build by a 48yo (at the time) software engineer. It's not new, and now I'm almost 50. The hole in the side fan cage is there to avoid putting too much strain on the 12V-2x6 cable. The cut sucks because I suck at using a...

No, it's not a big deal at all. I was asking That_Sound_Guy who builds a rig like this because he said he could pick out the type of person who builds a rig based on a picture. So I figured it'd be fun to post my rig and see what he comes up with.

Ok, I'll bite. Who builds something like this?:

Ah, well, at least we got that out there. I don't see anything in your original post about a particular budget or that you were thinking used. Got any guidance on a budget? I probably won't have any useful suggestions but it'd likely be helpful to anyone who does.

No idea what to suggest but they do make low end x86 NAS boxes. Not sure about getting 1x3.5" but a quick search brought up some 2 drive models. Some of them might actually be a little weak for occasional browsing. Like one had 4GB ram. Chrome would be displeased. Might be easier than...