GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.

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Agent Abe Caprine said:
The trainer that helped me train my dog wanted me to help her set a website up. I guess I could use it for that. An i5 8400/16GB RAM/2070 Super is probably major overkill for a basic bitch(pun intended) website that says "I train dogs!"
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Fuck that noise, just get some cheap web hosting. There’s no way you want her website 1/ Hosted on hardware it’s your job to maintain 2/ hosted on software that’s your job to maintain 3/ hosted on and causing inbound traffic on your (no doubt residential) internet connection.
Grab a couple cheap 1TB SATA ssds or NVME mirror the fuckers and stick proxmox on there and homelab!
 
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The Ugly One said:
and they generate far less load on your computer
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>displaying some basic HTML/CSS
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>displaying some basic HTML/CSS after ML upscaling via GPU
idk sounds like you're putting on more load on your computer for zero practical gain.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
Reflexes also depends on age.
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They do, but realistically as a male your reflexes are not going to significantly decline until your late 60s (assuming no serious drug abuse and/or brain damage).

And even then, 90th percentile is ~155 ms (this is where I am despite paradoxically only playing RPGs and VNs) which is still a reaction time of 9-10 frames at 60fps. Age and individual variation do exist but the speed at which a GPU is able to draw a frame and your CNS is able to process external stimuli exist in completely separate orders of magnitude even at the top end of human ability.
 
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Fcret said:
They do, but realistically as a male your reflexes are not going to significantly decline until your late 60s (assuming no serious drug abuse and/or brain damage).

And even then, 90th percentile is ~155 ms (this is where I am despite paradoxically only playing RPGs and VNs) which is still a reaction time of 9-10 frames at 60fps. Age and individual variation do exist but the speed at which a GPU is able to draw a frame and your CNS is able to process external stimuli exist in completely separate orders of magnitude even at the top end of human ability.
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Shit, I did not see that one coming! Fucking piece of crap 60fps forum.



Is this old age frame doubling or lag? asking for a friend...
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
Shit, I did not see that one coming! Fucking piece of crap 60fps forum.



Is this old age frame doubling or lag? asking for a friend...
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It's actually a cache miss. My talking point wasn't in L3 and I had to cross the system bus to get it.
 
The Ugly One said:
That's what you get for reading this forum without 3D V-Cache.
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I've got cache for days.
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I’m looking at upgrading my entire setup and I’m a bit torn on what type of monitor to pick. For reference I’m currently using two 24” IPS Dell generic office-tier displays that have been basically running non-stop for the last 10 years without a hitch.

Contemplating getting one big 32” IPS screen, and I’d like to know if that’s a mistake, considering I mostly play older games that simply don’t support big-ass modern resolutions, would you in that case just run them in letterbox with gigantic black bars on the side, wouldn’t 1080p content look like absolute ass on a screen that big?
 
4090 Chad said:
27” is the biggest I’d go for 1080p
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With 27" you wanna go with 1440p to match PPI of 24" 1080p screens. It's still a light enough jump to not suffer too much on performance and/or quality. 1080p is 2073600 pixels, 1440p is 3686400 pixels, so ~1.7x of 1080p. and 4K is 8294400 pixels, AKA 4x of 1080p. Also, if you have an Nvidia RTX card, Super Resolution does a great job at upscaling video to bridge the gap between 1080p and 1440p. It already does well with upscaling lower resolutions to 1080p.
 
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Lady Adjani said:
I’m looking at upgrading my entire setup and I’m a bit torn on what type of monitor to pick. For reference I’m currently using two 24” IPS Dell generic office-tier displays that have been basically running non-stop for the last 10 years without a hitch.

Contemplating getting one big 32” IPS screen, and I’d like to know if that’s a mistake, considering I mostly play older games that simply don’t support big-ass modern resolutions, would you in that case just run them in letterbox with gigantic black bars on the side, wouldn’t 1080p content look like absolute ass on a screen that big?
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I did exactly what you did. I had two 24" 1080p Dell IPS monitors, and switched to a 32" 1440p monitor. I am glad I did. I frequently play shitty old games that only run at 640x480 or 800x600 or some old 4:3 resolution, and they look fine. I was able to move my monitor back a few inches on my desk as well. You won't regret getting a bigger screen at all.
 
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FishStomper88 said:
sorry if this is not permitted, but would this be a good deal since its on sale for $929?
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This is half the point of this thread honestly.

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Well, it's about $100 cheaper than the components that are in it, so technically yes.

The weak links are the motherboard and maybe the power supply.

Depending on what you play and what resolution you play at, the GPU may or may not be an issue.
 
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FishStomper88 said:
sorry if this is not permitted, but would this be a good deal since its on sale for $929?

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I haven't priced it out but I guess it's OK. I was going to recommend downgrading to the 13400F option but then I noticed that it switches from DDR5 to DDR4, so not worth it.

The RTX 4060 with 8 GB VRAM is the weak link, but you can likely cope with it by turning down resolution/settings.

14400F has a chance of being based on an Alder Lake or Raptor Lake die, but with the latest microcode updates and the fact that it has less cores and lower clock speeds, it probably won't suffer from any instability issues long term. If the machine is working fine a few years from now, you can replace the RTX 4060 with something better.
 
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FishStomper88 said:
sorry if this is not permitted, but would this be a good deal since its on sale for $929?

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For the parts and convenience, seems like a reasonable deal. I got something kinda like this about 8 years ago, in terms of a prebuilt on sale with okay specs, and didn't regret it. I did end up replacing the GPU a couple years later.
 
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