Just rebuilt my PC with twice the RAM and a new case.

Jayro · Oct 23, 2020

I love the rainbow puke lighting everywhere, I've never had it before so I went all-out. I'm easily entertained by colored lights. So is my girlfriend, you should see the setup I just built for her:

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Silent_Gunner · Oct 23, 2020

@Jayro I've always wanted to set up RGB in a sort of way that sync'd up with whatever you want for both in and outside of the PC, be it music or whatever!

RichardTheKing · Oct 23, 2020

@Jayro Yeah, that's exactly what I was talking about. In my opinion, that just looks..."ugh, why?" - it's distracting, it's unneeded, white light would illuminate things enough without being an absolute eyesore.

I just can't understand the fascination with constantly-changing colours.

Aside from that incomprehensible annoyance, the setup looks quite good, honestly - though why not have the case on the floor, so you've got more desk room?

Jayro · Oct 23, 2020

My girlfriend's setup is cool because I have her case fans synced to whatever pattern she sets for the infinity mirror, instead of the motherboard's sync. And computers that look good don't EVER belong on the floor... *scoffs*

That's for beige-box builds... computers you don't care about getting kicked, filled with dust, etc. My computers never go on the floor... Ridiculousness.

Lostbhoy · Oct 24, 2020

As an ex dj/raver...... That is freakin awesome... Get the lights out!!!

And any pc should NEVER, EVER be on the floor unless you want it to be filthy inside. There's a reason we have vacuum cleaners and mops wink wink!

Jayro · Oct 24, 2020

My girlfriend's specs are:

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600X with stock Wraith Spire cooler, and stock-clocked.
Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming Plus Wi-Fi x570 (Dead Ethernet on arrival, but added a cheap Ethernet card)
RAM: 32GB of G.Skill Trident Z Royal (Silver) CL16 3200
GPU: Evga K.O. RTX 2060 6GB
Screen: Gigabyte 1440p (2K) @165Hz VA panel with HDR, 1ms gtg
Case: GAMEMAX Abyss-TR Infinity mirror full-ATX case with tempered glass windows.
Keyboard: Razer something, I forget.
Mouse: Razer Mamba Elite
Speakers: Generic soundbar from ebay.
OS: Windows 10 Pro, pirate from {Generation2} piracy group.
SSD: WD Black 1TB, but more will be added as she needs it.

Mama Looigi · Oct 24, 2020

What exactly do you do with 32GB of RAM? OwO
I have 16- and I... Never actually check how much is used when I do anything

Jayro · Oct 24, 2020

I use a shitload of RAM in my large Photoshop projects, and I also keep a portable version of Photoshop CC "installed" on a RAMdisk. When Windows boots up, it loads the RAMdisk image from the NVMe into ram, mounts it as drive P:/ and it sits there ready for me to use. I get 12,200MB/s~ reads, and about 8,400MB/s writes. I also have Minecraft Java edition installed to my M:/ RAMdisk. I'd go 64GB if I could afford it, trust me.

Jayro · Oct 24, 2020

I also have Rainmeter running, showing my RAM usage close to real-time.

Silent_Gunner · Oct 24, 2020

@Mr. Looigi Well, it's either as @Jayro outlined, or as a backup in case a game seriously wants to use that much RAM in the future, AKA futureproofing, or, as JayzTwoCents prefers to call it, future compatibility!

Jayro · Oct 24, 2020

I always go slightly more overkill than I need, except for graphics. That usually just boils down to what the best nvidia card is that I can buy for my $300 budget. (I never spend more than $300 on a CPU or GPU, just my personal guideline of performance to money ratio)

Silent_Gunner · Oct 24, 2020

@Jayro There's also the factor of the video card being one of the easier parts in a PC build to swap out than, say, a CPU or a motherboard.

Jayro · Oct 24, 2020

Yeah, but only motherboard swaps really bother me. PSU swaps too.

linuxares · Oct 24, 2020

"turbo mode"

In my days, that turbo mode/button was the opposite of Turbo

Jayro · Oct 24, 2020

When I pushed the turbo button on my old Intel Pentium Overdrive chip, it would change the frequency from 66Mhz to 99MHz. (It actually went to 100MHz, but the led display only had 2 digits)

And the turbo button actually either ran normal full speed, or under locked to 66MHz. So it was a bit of a white lie in terms of how it really worked, lol.

RichardTheKing · Oct 24, 2020

@Jayro How can you tell that? I've never used a computer with a Turbo button, so I'm unfamiliar with them.

The Real Jdbye · Oct 24, 2020

Might wanna reconsider that $300 budget this time around, since both the 3070 and 3080 are *extremely* good value.

Jayro · Oct 24, 2020

@Richard I used the game Carmageddon as my test bench game because it's fully 3D-rendered using DOS software rendering. The chip normally runs at 100MHz at all times. The turbo button just underclocked the chip, and would make the game run sluggish at 66MHz. Old computers were weird. But then again, those 486 Pentium Overdrive chips were weird too, in the sense that they came out when the 486 socket was dying off for a Pentium socket. It was a chip to help those with old 486 SX/DX computers get one final upgrade, and give them a taste of what a Pentium 90 (or better) could offer. To bridge the upgrade gap, so-to-speak.

Jayro · Oct 24, 2020

@The Real Jdbye I'm considering the 3070 hardcore, but I might wait for rev 2, when they get all these power delivery problems sorted out and the prices might go down by then.

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