Gaming Computers at brick an mortar stores today

[Gameplayer]

Ok warning up front dont drink any hot materials while watching any of this guys video's cause problems and I dont want to be responsible for injury to your gaming peripherals.

 

 

I was thinking my old machine was getting aged but after looking through a bunch of these computers that bear the tag gaming machine...

 

So I can make my franken build SR-2 better...One day going to turn that thing into an arts project for mounting on the wall, but its still got some life in it for gaming and plays a mean Fo4, Skyrim, and a heck of a lotta games I really like.

Edited June 17, 2022 by Gameplayer

[legendarytoyou]

Most stock PSU's are not that great so this isn't really surprising, personally I prefer Seasonic.  Interesting tower design though but I imagine its thermals and cooling leave much to be desired.  I'll stick with my Lian L1 personally.  Also from personal experience the rig is using an Aorus Gigabyte MOBO which gave me no end of grief with chronic Event 41 errors.  Found out later it was due to a faulty northbridge heatsink that was the cause and what's disheartening is that there have been complaints of the same issue.  I would stick with the TUF x570 series Asus personally.

Edited June 17, 2022 by legendarytoyou

[Guest]

That case was made for that mid range GPU or lower. Pretty dumb to throw in a high end GPU in it when it barely has any room for airflow, And don't even get me started on a one stick ram card. I would've enjoyed if his GPU fried.

[Alessia Wellington]

3 minutes ago, 3G4 said:

That case was made for that mid range GPU or lower. Pretty dumb to throw in a high end GPU in it when it barely has any room for airflow, And don't even get me started on a one stick ram card. I would've enjoyed if his GPU fried.

 

His whole channel is about doing whacky stuff with computers. Some of 'em have the intend to blow up one or more parts in the process.

[Gameplayer]

Went ahead and bought some used, cheap, upgrades, that are here in the US, and take less than 2 weeks to arrive to my house.

Figured under normal times this was a dumb idea but times are stupid crazy so its not such a bad idea to get some affordable upgrades for this old rig while things either go to shit or get better.  I dont want to find out that 2 months from now my part is still sitting in a warehouse overseas because the port has been shut down the whole damn time.

 

Although looking at that gaming PC, I should have ran out an bought that just for the 1080...Then repack it with my old card and sell it at half the price even.

Heck, could have done that like twice if the 1080 in there can be SLI.

Edited June 18, 2022 by Gameplayer

[IBAGadget]

My 'Gaming computer' is a refurbished HP office computer that I bought at Walmart a year ago for $300 CAD, then chopped the rear frame out with a dremel so I could put in the used R360 graphics card that I bought on Facebook for $50 CAD.

 

handles my FO4 and Skyrim SE games just fine. 

Can't handle any new games, but honestly, there really isn't much of anything that is newer than FO4 that I'm interested in playing

[Gameplayer]

9 hours ago, IBAGadget said:

My 'Gaming computer' is a refurbished HP office computer that I bought at Walmart a year ago for $300 CAD, then chopped the rear frame out with a dremel so I could put in the used R360 graphics card that I bought on Facebook for $50 CAD.

 

handles my FO4 and Skyrim SE games just fine. 

Can't handle any new games, but honestly, there really isn't much of anything that is newer than FO4 that I'm interested in playing

 

That is the whole issue right there.

 

Not really enough good games.

 

Also the actual market of gamers does not have much more than 6 or 8 VRAM, in fact just about half the market has 3GB VRAM.

The games being sold reflects that as well, Elden Ring suggested 6GB VRAM better 8VRAM.

 

Also Win10, sucks eats up performance on boards completely shoved down the throats of gamers, which is why there is a modification groups out there back porting whole games to win7 compatibility.  Again Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077....Hello game developers your market is not on high end platform anymore because its cost prohibitive due to mining.  No one is going to sink that kind of money into a toy when that equipment is best suited for generating cypto coins equals money business.

Edited June 18, 2022 by Gameplayer

[myuhinny]

My new computer has been restarting whenever it feels like it. Looking at the event viewer it is showing a warning about something with power. Pulling the thing out and looking at it shows that it is a apevia 800w PSU and doing a quick search on the internet shows that it's one of the shit brand listed under the PSU brands to never buy from.

 

So I just order myself a Seasonic PRIME 1300W 80+ platinum power supply, full modular, 135mm FDB fan w/hybrid fan control, ATX12V & EPS12V, power on self tester, 12 yr warranty, SSR-1300PD and hopefully that will fix the restarting.