600W power consumption btw
I have a cutting laser that's only 40W, how the fuck do you consume 600 with vidya
By scaling horizontally. Instead of doing a thing faster, you can do a thing about as fast but do many more things. It turns out you can quickly use a lot of power doing that.
My uv ligth i use to generate ozone to get rid of bad smells and covid is 18 w
10K Geraldo ass cheeks, 10x map speed at 24fps, and Ray Tracing Minecraft
Just do what truck drivers do. Take up two spaces in the computer chassis
I'm not sure my case would fit that even if I removed all the other components and shoved it in loose.
Should i just skip this gen and upgrade to a 3070 or something
My 3070 felt like a good deal at 500 dollars 2 years ago amidst a massive hardware shortage where my PC's parts had doubled in price since I'd built it over a year earlier.
2 years later it's still 500 dollars.
Hardware prices are a fuck.
Lived up in the midwest for a while and that was one of the only benefits of having a AMD gpu was that it acted like my own personal space heater during winter.
I have one with 1/4 of the tdp of that card and my room is a few degrees warmer than the rest of the apartment after I leave the pc on
Just as the itx market was getting better and more affordable too :deeper-sadness:
Does anyone else remember the housefire memes of when the halo Fermi GPU used a whopping 300 watts? Not even 15 years ago.
:agony-mescaline:
GTX480 was around 250w IIRC.
Mid range by today's standard, and was nicknamed "Thermi".
I just want the 250w days back.
The card on the right isn't small either, both dwarf what I was running 10 years ago. Wild
yes, the one on the left is the overclocked 4090. Founders Editions is "only" 450w.
the highest end card just 3 generations ago (1080Ti) had a TDP of 250W
and how often are you gonna hit peak load on that thing if you're not doing legit use-case stuff like rendering cgi for indie films?
that's so dumb framerate beyond a certain point is imperceptable to humans. That's like insisting on the computer storing all the colors that are in nature but can't be percieved by human eyes
Usually IME letting it cap will fuck up my performance. I don’t need 70+ fps but it’ll stutter if I keep letting it hit 60 and 59
yea, the second review i linked has it running Cyberpunk at 1440p at Ultra and still hits over 450w.
also, 360Hz monitors are slowly starting to take off among rich gamer nerds.
no framerate or resolution listed, no idea what they think "typical" is
It's like 6 60 inch flatscreen TVs in terms of power consumption
If you use it only for it's space-heating functionality, it'd be enough to heat a 10x10 shed when it's in the 30s.
Yeah. The PC that I built 10+ years ago and only retired earlier this year was running with a 650W supply for the entire system (and that was with some overhead and a 1070).
Power consumption is fucking bananas now.
That used to be enough to run all the components in your PC. I think mine is like 750 all in.
To pile on: when building a PC a critical part is a power supply unit or PSU, which is just a big AC/DC adapter for all the parts of the computer. You can see a list here: https://www.newegg.com/Power-Supplies/SubCategory/ID-58?Tid=7657 You'll note the are rated in Watts they can support.
Time to just affix everything else directly into the gpu and call that your pc
RX6600XT would do fine for most VR games I think. i think 90fps is recommended for VR tho, 60 results in motion sickness.
My 1060TI ran VR at reduced resolution for years. I actually ended up getting motion sickness for awhile when I switched to a 3070 and 2160x2160x2
Another data point: I got into VR with a GTX 1070. It ran games made for VR (half life alyx, VTOL vr, skyrim vr, beat saber, pistol whip) at 120hz full resolution with minimal issues - but games not well optimized for it (ie DCS) were basically unplayable even at the lowest settings.
I have since upgraded, but even the hot shit card I bought specifically for VR sucks at running anything not specifically made for it :agony-shivering: . If I had known what I know now I would have kept the graphics card the same and just gotten a new motherboard + more RAM.
At mostly max settings, Alyx ran 90hz smoothly, except in The Quarantine Zone and a few other spots.
It runs PavlovVR fine, Beat Saber is fine except for a few absurdly detailed custom maps, VRChat is as reliable as it is in flatscreen, SkyrimVR and FO4VR are a crapshoot, VR modded RE2/3/7/8 are mostly good, VR modded Alien Isolation ran solidly.
For the life of me, I can't find a way to watch a 3d movie in VR that doesn't look like garbage.
btw, Alyx was kinda mid. Like it's not bad, but I've had a lot more fun with custom content in pavlov or VRChat.
It came around at a time that VR controls weren't quite standardized so switching guns and fire modes isn't intuitive, guns stick to your hand, you can't switch hands, and their actions are weird, grenades never go where you throw them (this is somewhat remedied by carrying around a bucket full of grenades, health, ammo, and vodka).
Also, IDK if it's just me, but HL games have a weird sense of loneliness and isolation.
I just wanna build a PC than can play oblivion and RDR2 for less than $10,000 :sadness:
