I’m half-way through buying all of my parts.

Pretend that my selected graphics card is the Lisuan G100. Because fuck AMD and NVIDIA.

My usecases are playing around with DaVinci Resolve and GIMP, small-time Godot game dev’ing, playing indie games, self-hosting (e.g. a Jellyfin instance for my movie/tv show for my LAN streaming needs) and just general browsing lol. I don’t intend to overclock, so 600-650W seems fairly plenty.

I had previously struggled with H.265 video formats, my previous setup with the i5 4670k and NVIDIA 750ti were barely keeping up with anything new, never mind newer standards (somehow runs Ghostrunner 2 @ 1080p 40fps in most terrains!). They held their weight pretty nicely over the years though.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Built in… I think 2021? Maybe 2020? Would have been October-ish. It was right as nVidia’s 3000 series came out and no one was able to get ahold of them, or any other GPUs, at MSRP.

    • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (came with CPU cooler)
    • Mobo: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS ATX AM4
    • RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16
    • OS and games that need fast loading drive: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2
    • Drive for everything else: WD_BLACK 2 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM
    • Also misc USB 3.0 drives, around 20TB total for media, emulation, backups, old games where load speed doesn’t matter, etc.
    • GPU: Asus DUAL EVO OC GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (Tried to hit a sweet spot on price vs power, and then find the best performing card of that type. But mostly this was just snatching up whatever I could grab at MSRP. No one was getting GPUs when I built it, but I lucked out with an alert from NewEgg)
    • Tower: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower (came with two fans)
    • PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3
    • Additional fans: Two Noctua A14 PWM chromax 82.52 CFM 140 mm

    Use case when built: Gaming at 1080p with settings maxed out (or close), pimping old game graphics using reshade, running a home virtual server lab for learning, never having to close out of applications or browser tabs to ensure other programs had enough speed. Programming using RAM hungry IDEs (Jetbrains and VSCode).

    Use case now: Mostly the same, but gaming at 1440p (upgraded my monitors) with high frame rates requires bumping down settings at times. Don’t play too many recent AAA games either, so it’s mostly fine for my needs, but the GPU is finally starting to show its age. Thankfully my eyes are pretty “console-ified” so with variable refresh rate I don’t usually notice framerate until it drops below 30. Little less use of the virtual homelab stuff. Still program at home occasionally, but again, not as often anymore. Use as a lazy man’s media server to share media folders to Kodi across the house.