Stickman posted:

Just get a $300 27” and sit 15% closer

TorakFade posted:

I recently got one at the office (60hz non-gaming of course) and going down to 27" from 32" was not as bad as I thought, despite my eyesight not being that great

but at home I like to recline my chair and play games with a joypad, I really don't want to stay hunched over the desk if I can avoid it, which would not be great with a 27" monitor

just in case, I'll be taking a look at new monitors but only after a GPU upgrade, my current 1080 can barely run the newer games @1440p 60FPS anyway

orcane posted:

do you sit 3 meters from your monitor

Taima posted:

And sure it's expensive, but he said that display options are terrible at 4k/120, which is patently false because combining 4K 120 with OLED contrast/HDR and HDMI 2.1 VRR is obviously incredible/the best.

K8.0 posted:

You misunderstand. Nothing can cool itself if it's stuck in a box that denies it airflow. I jokingly half-suspect MS has deliberately designed this thing to NOT fit in entertainment centers, so that it has to be left out where it can breathe.

Taima posted:

That's a good point. I mean 4K/120 for current titles, in the sense that a 2080ti, for example, can run red dead 2 at high settings 4k/60, I wonder if 4K/120 would be possible in RDR2 with high settings on a 3080Ti.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U scores leak on 3DMark: 15W Renoir with Vega 7 iGPU wrecks 25W Nvidia Geforce MX250

loving FINALLY, some potentially good news.

Seamonster posted:

*with dual channel DDR4 3400 or better only (?)

Dickhead manufacturers are just going to underwhelm with mediocre speed, single channel implementations and you know it.

Seamonster posted:

*with dual channel DDR4 3400 or better only (?)

Dickhead manufacturers are just going to underwhelm with mediocre speed, single channel implementations and you know it.

K8.0 posted:

I think I remember hearing that the really high performance low power ram is only available as soldered packages. Kinda makes sense, if you're riding the low voltage limit of what you can manage electrically, it's ideal to not have extra connectors and such.

K8.0 posted:

With the new nvidia drivers there's no longer a need to use RTSS to limit frames, the new Nvidia frame limiter is good.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

I am less-concerned with that, it is no big deal to swap out some SODIMMs.

Except for Lenovo and their habit of soldering a stick to the board and leaving only one channel as user-servicable, but then again, you couldn't make me use a Lenovo laptop, not in this life or the next.

Krakkles posted:

(sorry to post twice for seemingly no reason, but I remembered my question!)

If I'm looking at getting a new video card, and something in the 1060 realm (1080 is still too $$$ for me, but I'd like something relatively performant), but I have a freesync monitor, am I better off buying a 1060 or a freesync video card? I'm looking at a probably deal on an MSI 1060 6GB, but I don't know if having freesync around the same price point (call it $200) would be better than having the nvidia card (which I understand to be relatively more powerful).

ItBreathes posted:

It's probably also slightly cheaper not to put a connector on the board.

Stickman posted:

10xx, 16xx, and 20xx all support freesync over DisplayPort now, so it’s moot unless your monitor only has hdmi.

That’s a terrible price for a 1060, though, get a 1660, or better yet, spend the extra $20 for a 1660 Super.

E: If you’re not in the US, prices might be different. I’d still check 16xx prices first.

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

Don't get a 1060 at this point, get a 1660 Super so you don't have to make the choice between freesync/gsync.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Huh I use a Lenovo as my laptop

What is a good laptop brand? The only other one I have experience with is HP and I don't know I always thought they were the ones that weren't so good

SwissArmyDruid posted:

I'm kind of the opinion that there are no good laptop brands, there are only bad laptop brands and individual laptops that approach tolerability.

Krakkles posted:

Added note of hilarity: Newegg still has order details from when I bought my old car, and I actually paid more (back in 2012) for a 560Ti 2GB than I did today for that 1660Super 6GB.

Obviously, technology and currency changes, so just an amusing tidbit.

Krakkles posted:

(sorry to post twice for seemingly no reason, but I remembered my question!)

If I'm looking at getting a new video card, and something in the 1060 realm (1080 is still too $$$ for me, but I'd like something relatively performant), but I have a freesync monitor, am I better off buying a 1060 or a freesync video card? I'm looking at a probably deal on an MSI 1060 6GB, but I don't know if having freesync around the same price point (call it $200) would be better than having the nvidia card (which I understand to be relatively more powerful).

gradenko_2000 posted:

Huh I use a Lenovo as my laptop

What is a good laptop brand? The only other one I have experience with is HP and I don't know I always thought they were the ones that weren't so good

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

Hmm, I got a 560Ti 1GB in 2011 for about a hundred less than what the 1660 Super is going for, but I'm in so who knows what's going on.

The real hillarious part is I bought a 64 GB SSD on that order that was $130 CAD. Imagine my surprise when I started looking at PC parts 7 years later!

Paul MaudDib posted:

for a 1060-tier card the RX 580 is still king of that price range, you can find a 580 8GB for around $125 off ebay (at least in the US) and it doesn't have the driver problems of Navi (or at least, there exist some stable versions for it).

or I guess the 1060 6GB is around $145 which isn't that bad either. If you want to hold open the option of GSync (note that 10-series does support FreeSync too) then that's an option too.

Unless you have a specific plan for GSync though, it's not really that big a deal anymore though. All the new monitors are GSync Compatible which is the same as FreeSync. So the only situation you'd really run into it is if you were buying a used monitor that happened to be GSync.

Krakkles posted:

It was a 2GB Twin Frozr II, for whatever that's worth, and probably more likely the cause: I don't recall shopping around at all (I'd just decided to build a fancy shmancy computer with newfound disposable income). But yeah, prices vary for a lot of reasons.
Thanks! Only thing is, I already have the monitor, and it's FreeSync only, as far as I know, but the 1660Super should support Freesync as well, so nbd. (I admit I know nothing about G or Freesync, just going based on what's been said here.)

HalloKitty posted:

I've always been partial to Dell as a brand in general, but that's just me, I guess. I also have a Sony Vaio Z series laptop that's an old but lovely piece of kit.
I'd like to see a return to user-upgradable RAM and general easy accessibility to parts (like the old Dell Precisions.. one screw, whole bottom slid off).
But then again, I can see the desire to have thin and light laptops. That said, I'd point back to the Vaio Z that was thin and light and had user-upgradable RAM.
Furthermore, I'm pretty intolerant to messing up keyboard layouts and removing keys (I'm looking at you, HP "EliteBook" G5/G6, with your stupid new keys in the function row, removing ones I actually used..)
I desire a decent port selection too. Oh well, you can't have it all. That was a barely coherent rant; sorry

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

Hmm, I got a 560Ti 1GB in 2011 for about a hundred less than what the 1660 Super is going for, but I'm in so who knows what's going on.

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

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