I'v been looking around at PC Building Sites for ideas and prices entertaining both buying a pre-built to picking the parts and now even thinking of trying a build on my own. I even went thru a sort of Check List for parts from Case to MB's to CPU to Power Supply to Coolers and then got to GPU and that's when it fell apart.

So I decided to check videos on actual builds from ground up and then focus on best CPU & GPU Combos. I just find it hard to imagine paying for a video Card that's equal to almost 40-60% of the total cost of the PC. But I found one when looking for a sort of Best Value and Cost per FPS video here and it's actually fascinating when he mentions the current state of insane prices of the mid high to high tier cards where it's basically all scalpers. But it's no longer just restricted to the Nvidia's 50 Series cards as it's now gone into the older 4070 to AMD 7900 and 7800where those prices are 20-30% higher than just a few months ago. Watch at around the 4:30 mark and on...he brings up one supplier who put in they are raising the 5080 Price from $1000 now to $1264....he believes the Suppliers and Manufactures are seeing the insane scalper prices and people willing to spend are looking for excuses to raise the prices and get their cut and not just scalpers.

Still doing on & off looking but this past month, videos to articles are just laying into the current state of GPUs especially Nvidia with 50 Series cards. The new 5070Ti just got released and about every one I've followed in regard to PC Talk & tech is lambasting this card, Nvidia and generally the current state of GPU's. Guess I'll hold off for a while longer.....

This might end up being nothing but vaporware, but I hope it ends up being real and succeeds because we really need competition in the GPU market (even though Intel tried and has been all but ignored).

From the Tom's Hardware article about it:

"There is one major catch: Zeus can only beat the RTX 5090 GPU in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads because it does not support traditional rendering techniques. This means it has little of no chance to become one of the best graphic cards."

So it's basically the Cell Processor of GPUs?

After looking at the comments in the video, I saw these two very important bits of information.

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They "simulated" it by calculating how long it would take to complete one operation and multiplied it by the number of cores and IPC (oversimplifying). It's all just hypethetical at this point.

For those looking to put together an all-AMD build.

that's about spot on what I'd like to have. heck with those Nvidia 50 Series Cards. AMD let them make fools of themselves and came in and shocked everyone. That AMD CPU is a killer on top of it. great looking and sounding build.

Decided to build a new PC, 2016 PC build wasn't cutting it anymore for 4k gaming, so I opted for the following components:

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/alfred...d/#view=Zq3CFT

Also bought this 1050 for old PhysX games (since 50 series drivers no longer support 32-bit PhysX). Had to get this one as this was single slot and was the only one able to fit my setup.

https://www.newegg.com/SRhonyra-SR10...9SIBJXUJM67970

I have to say, if anyone here is looking to get an ATX Mid Tower case, I highly recommend the the NXZT H7 Flow, best case I've ever had, hands down. Sleek design, lots of velcro straps in rear to help organize your wires and easy snap off sides.




I also didn't realize newer motherboards come with heatsinks now for the M.2 drives, got a drive with a heatsink, should have done my due diligence, but oh well.

I have the same case. It's a good one, yeah.

Over 5 grand? Jesus Christ...

$2900 of that is just the graphics card.
The CPU is also the best you can get now.

Im a little jealous

Newegg has an MSI 5090 OC in stock for "only" $2469 if you want to save $400.

It was actually around 4 grand (still a lot, I know), was able to get the ASUS TUF 5090 at retail price through NewEgg (used "Hot Stock" app to get notified when in stock)

I'm looking for a new monitor for my PC. My current monitor is over ten years old. There's a couple on sale for Black Friday.

LG 27" UltraGear FHD 144Hz Overclock Gaming Monitor with AMD FreeSync, 27G411A-B: https://www.walmart.com/ip/LG-27-Ult...9383&sharedid=

ASUS - TUF Gaming 24" FHD IPS 180Hz 1ms Gaming Monitor with FreeSync Premium
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus...5V/sku/6572364

Should I buy one of these or wait for another sale? I'm really not up to date on the best current monitors.

I guess it depends how powerful your pc is, but at 27”, I would absolutely go QHD (1440p) instead of FHD (1080p), and not bother with 144Hz or 180Hz unless the price is about the same as 120Hz. 4K is probably overkill.

Can’t say much about other factors though. I suggest checking with rtings.com to see what’s the best bang for your buck within your price range.
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/

I only have a GTX 1660 Super GPU. I'm not terribly interested in 4K since HD is going to be a big upgrade for me.

In that case, yes, a FHD monitor will do you just fine. No need for 1440p unless you’re changing out the GPU in the near future.

Of the two you listed, I’d go with the 27” LG, which should be comfortable. 24” is noticeably smaller, IMO, but I use 27” monitors at home and work.

My current monitor is 24. 27 will be an upgrade in size.

Yes, it's an AI filter. Won't someone, please, think of the children?! Blah blah blah. Not gonna lie, it looks good.

Bought parts to re-build my pre-COVID gaming rid. Thankfully, already have plenty of RAM and NVME drives. The MB I was using wouldn't even allow me to install Win 11 without some crack workaround. And I wanted to upgrade before Horizon 6 comes out.

New MB, Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 5070 Ti, 750w PSU, and case incoming.

I don't know if retail has started to plummet, but RAM manufactures are getting slammed with stock value cratering this week.

Apparently OpenAI didn't actually buy the futures of 40% of RAM manufacturing like they had said. They were only intent letters, which now will not be converted to orders with Sora shutting down and the general market for AI slowing. I hope the manufacturers learn from this. But it should mean retail prices should started to get back to normal.

Edit: Also, the NVME drive I bought last May for $249 is currently $619 at Amazon (same seller). Fuck AI.

Everybody is getting slammed this week because [Removed to Political Forum].

I wouldn't put too much ... stock ... into it.