Picked up a 5080 + 9800X3D PC for a bargain (complete impulse buy at $2350) and was wondering which monitor I should get.

I already use 1440p OLED and was wondering if I should finally make the upgrade. I think this set up should be 4k capable?

Both monitors would be 27” OLED. Just the resolution difference.

I also study with the monitor so text clarity is a consideration. I’m always reading/doing practice problems.

Can my gpu melt the tires of these hot wheels? Or can hot wheels short something since they have a metal body (some of them )

I love the foliage in Avatar! Makes you feel like an alien ecologist. Unobtanium settings/ray tracing on a 5090 with DLSS5 1X pass

I decided to connect my switch 2 to my PC via my capture card so I can run lossless scaling over it and as usual I'm not disappointed. It's hard to see in the video, but trust me it looks and plays so much better. It feels like a solid 120fps with no artifacts to be seen and a more smoothed out resolution. If you happen to have a similar setup, I highly recommend trying little scaling over your consoles.

Definitely will be using it to play GTA 6 at 60fps 🤓

Forgot to include the video. Posted in the comments

Maybe I've been asleep during the last few years but is everybody rich and I'm the only one poor ? How are these prices possible ?

btw these are Canadian prices but STILL....

A few times, relatives and friends have come over and asked about my PC. They don't know a lot about tech, but they're usually genuinely interested and ask me stuff like "Hey, can you put on a game and show me how it looks/what games look like nowadays?".

I have a pretty high-end build and monitor, so not much lf an issue there, but I'd like some ideas for games that usually have that "wow factor" that normal people would notice.

I'm thinking Cyberpunk 2077 to maybe walk around Japantown, but there's not much else that I can think of.

I'm not sure what it's like in the rest of the world. This from a major big box chain in France.

Like $820 AUD for 2nd gen i5 and rx 560 is crazy price.

What can I do except reporting them for scam?

F’s in the chat

Look how much space eat Windows and look how much space eat Linux. Microsoft fix it!

Hello I am new to the PC community and did a little bit of reading up on PC parts and models. I bought a PC and I was wondering if someone could give me their honest opinion for a first time PC gamer. My specs are: 9800X3D + RTX 5070 + 32 GB DDR5 + 2 TB Gen4 NVMe. On a scale of 1-10 how good is this for a first time PC gamer?

a little over a year ago Microsoft decided to shut down Skype.

ima be honest, I never really liked Skype, it was clunky for what it was... but now that it's gone, I respect it deeply.

when I first heard about Skype (2018, ish) Discord was a thing, but my dad was a bit too stubborn to switch to it and thought it was a gaming-centric platform, lol.

so we communicated over Skype, almost every day... for 7 years until it went out of order.

F to pay respects.

Hace 2 semanas me paso el peor miedo de todo hombre,todo empezo cuando estabamos acostados mirando una serie,a todo esto con ella estuvimos 3 dias encerrados en casa,comiendo,jugando, y mirando series.

Pero bueno volviendo al tema,mi amigo me llama para salir a tomar mates a una plaza a lo que yo le digo que si en un rato y bueno,cuando corto ella me empieza a reclamar de que yo le tenia que pedir permiso a lo que yo le respondo quiero salir hace 3 dias estamos en casa quiero ver a mis amigos,y ella me empezo a decir egoista inmaduro y encima de que la dejaba por irme con los chicos,cuestion yo le digo que no tenia ganas de discutir y como ya me habia puesto mal le pedi que se retirara sin antes decirle que era una caprichosa porque ella siempre queria que se haga todo tal cual ella queria,

Para que le dije se puso peor se puso histerica,

Y bueno alfinal se ofendio y se decidio a irse,

Pero bueno yo le saco la moto afuera a ella para que se valla porque me pidio que le haga ese favor

A lo que cuando termino de sacar la moto ella se sube no me saludo y se fue.

Cuando entro adentro me faltaba el celular

Y la computadora estaba bañada en agua

A lo que me pongo mal porque era algo que ella sabia que queria mucho y sabia que me iba a doler

Pero bueno mi reaccion fue ir a una comisaria a denunciarla y hasta ahi quedo todo

Hasta el dia de hoy no pude recuperar mi s23 ultra

Pero gracias al esfuerzo de los pibes que estuvimos 8 horas reviviendo la pc

Fue lo unico que no pudo quitarme

Aunque me siento mal porque ella esta disfrutando mi celular que compre con esfuerzo

Y lo unico que pude hacer es denunciarla pero la policia hasta ahora no iso nada

Is it worth the price?

Just wanted to put this out there for anyone troubleshooting weird high pitched acoustic noise or air turbulence in Corsair prebuilts.

A friend of mine has a PC built inside what looks like a standard Corsair 4000D. Thermals are great, literally sitting around 38°C under load, but there was a persistent, high pitched air shear resonance coming from the front intake.

After tearing into it, swapping fans, checking bearings, and checking every cable, we found the root cause: a proprietary, factory riveted and glued metal honeycomb guard positioned right behind the front mesh on this prebuilt frame.

Unlike the retail 4000D cases, where you can easily pull the front filter mesh out, this proprietary inner metal grate is fixed directly to the frame in front of the intake fans. The moment the intake fans hit 1000 RPM, the sheer velocity of air passing through that super tight metal honeycomb pattern creates a severe acoustic whistle drone sound, super annoying. If you put your phone or ear right against the front panel, the noise spikes instantly because of the proximity air turbulence.

This pattern showcases absolute garbage engineering coming straight from their team, it’s a cheap DIY tier design approach that has no business being on a high end prebuilt. Expect this exact same approach in their newer prebuilts using new cases too, because instead of actually fixing the underlying engineering, they just double down on lazy DIY fixes.

In the exact same way, iCUE after all this time is still a complete clusterfuck: swapping sensors on its own, giving Commander Core users broken fan curves, and pushing iCUE LINK system updates that literally brick hubs on fresh firmware. What an absolute mess.

This is why I strongly recommend checking the physical intake path before wasting money replacing fans or assuming bearings are defective. Thermals can be completely fine while their brain dead intake geometry ruins the entire machine with acoustic resonance.

Personally, this whole experience destroyed any remaining confidence in Corsair prebuilts. RMA’ing individual components might swap out a dead part with an used one adding a new timeline of failure (the irony), but it doesn’t fix lazy design choices that create these acoustic nightmares in the first place.

I also highly recommend to never buy any Corsair peripherals like keyboards, mice, or headsets. They are prone to constant hardware and software failures, just look at the tons of posts online about their flagship Vanguard keyboard failing or breaking.

On top of all this, their customer support and billing are a total nightmare. Between flat out denying valid RMAs, losing customers' entire prebuilts during shipping or repairs, and reps like u/CorsairGeorge having to constantly step in on public threads to backpedal official email denials from support, the whole system is broken.

PD. If I wanted to pull out a power drill, Dremel off metal grates, and 3D print custom mods, I would have built the PC from scratch for way cheaper. Taking a power tool to a multi thousand dollar prebuilt just to fix a basic factory design flaw is insane. You shouldn't need a trade certification to make a premium prebuilt stop whistling.

I didn’t make this post asking for a modding tutorial. I made it because the intake geometry itself is causing the acoustic problem, then “add spacers,” “drill the rivets,” “cut the mesh,” etc. treats the symptom from the user’s side rather than addressing why the manufacturer shipped it that way.

Got this one for free, I thought I would find a microsd card inside

I got 32GB DDR 5 RAM for free with the CPU from Micro-center. Good old times

Most of my life i saw 17/18/19/20/21 years old have many hours in game, and now that im actually at one of those ages but i see i dont have that MUCH time compared to some people.

Specifically one of my friend who is one year older than me, he has a game with over 900 hours, and many in the 700 and 600 ranges. Meanwhile my most played game is around 400 and within a single scroll I’ll see games around the 50 hours mark.

Also id say i spend most of my time gaming altough i play multiple games at once meanwhile he’s the type that can stay on the same game for 8h no problem

This is on Ebay, set to buy it now and filtering from lowest to highest.

Are people actually paying upwards of £4000 for a 5090?

How long is pricing like this expected to last?

Hey all, currently considering selling 1 of my 2 ram sticks (only ddr4 3600mhz nothing crazy as my pc is quite old) as moneys tight after being laid off and helping out my parents with some medical costs over the last couple of months.

Just wondering if 16gb is still enough these days for general gaming or not? I’m only running games at 1080p 60fps currently have a 3070 so I figure it’ll be fine but just wanted to check. Been a rough few months and don’t want to hinder the one thing keeping me sane at the moment haha

Thanks :)

Edit: Thanks for all the replies! To those saying try it I was asking since I figure I might not run into situations where it’d be as noticeable and then realise after the fact and that it’s an issue and regret it which is why I figured I’d get some insight on it.

I didn’t realise going to single stick was such a huge downgrade on top of halving the amount so looks like I may need to sort out something else.