Building A Gaming PC - Parts Advice Needed

SSD installed.. Had to fiddle around and swap over Sata cables with the hdd as the ssd wouldn't appear in the boot sequence.

Windows load times:
Original - 1m 10
With 8gb ram instead of 4gb - 40secs
From ssd - 25 seconds

Not bad!

The gt 710 I looking at went for £40 😮...so going to have to wait.

Go for the 740

Managed to make my 3080 produce coil whine the other day. Thought it had developed a problem at first, which would obviously have been a disaster, but I was playing the original F.E.A.R. and it seems it was just trying to pump out like a million fps, despite me having 'just' a 120hz screen. Turning on v-sync fixed it straight away, but it was interesting to see it happen. First time I've heard it too, in maybe 8 or so years PC gaming? What an annoying noise, lol

Hi all

(Attempting) to fix a computer for a friend

He has a aerocool gt case

The front panel IO needs replacing as the USB wire is shredded and the headphone socket is loose.

Question is how do i get a replacement wire which will fit the case I have?

Also one of the front panels is missing (blanking plates?). How do I get a replacement which will fit the case?

That's not just OLED it's Quantum Dot OLED... Brighter than OLED and with supposed amazeballs viewing angles and better blues/colour accuracy.

I expect it will be very expensive. The first QD OLED coming thru is expected to be like $10k (early guestimates...).

Lol at the power draw for the 3090TI. The 4000 series is going to be ridiculous if Nvidia keep going down the route of just pumping more juice into their cards.

HDR 600 is pretty damned good for a PC Monitor. Most HDR PC Monitors only do 400. 1000 is probably absurdly bright for the normal PC viewing distance.

Long story short, there's no monitor which meets your requirements right now. PG35VQ is VA so that'll have black smearing all over, which you should see in person before you work out whether you can tolerate it.

Might be worth waiting and seeing what the Dell AW3423DW will be like if you absolutely must have HDR (albeit at massive cost, 3k will be the absolute minimum on that one if you can get it at all as it'll certainly be in extremely short supply), otherwise I'd just leave it for this time around, concentrate on getting a decently fast and clear screen in the size that's best for you.

On the 34GP950G you might want to double check and see whether the G-sync Ultimate monitor doesn't make any noise as in other monitors it's actively cooled. I don't think the 38 has the module so you should be clear there. I briefly had the USB-C equivalent with the same panel before I had to send it back twice for dead pixels and it was nice and fast with no noise I noticed but it did lack an SRGB mode so that might be frustrating on the desktop to have oversaturated colours. It was great for work though, massive desktop!

If you're not going to use it for desktop work at all then consider the LG C2 as that now comes in 42 inches. The main drawbacks you'll find will likely be the automatic brightness limiter and the WRGB subpixel layout, both of which are most noticeable on the desktop. There are a few monitors announced at CES which use that same panel but I think you'll run into the same issues as it's a panel limitation, not a processor one. The Alienware's Samsung OLED panel apparently has better brightness due to the true RGB pixel layout and a three year burn-in warranty so it should sidestep those issues but Samsung are also the people who came up with 'QLED' so we'll see how fraudulent or otherwise it is when reviews appear.

I went through a few months hunting for a new monitor last year (one of mine is starting to get worse with image retention and the other's being quite grumpy on starting up) and I ended up buying and returning three monitors, all around the £1000 mark, for stuck pixels. Hopefully this year's new models will be better for it as at that price point I expect better.

On the subject of monitors, I started a new job recently and the office (100% hot desks) is full of ultrawide monitors, and a fair number of curved ultrawides too. I can't imagine they're very high spec (a smattering of LG and Samsung screens) but boy oh BOY are they amazing for development work. I can't believe I'd put off trying one until it was thrust upon me.

So now, I must own one for home (and have a contribution of £400 from work to kickstart it). Realistically I'm going to game on it at some point, but 95% of the time it's gonna be Xcode on one half and VSCode on the other.

Anyone got any particular picks for that kinda use case?

That link took me to laptops, but I'm hoping you're pointing towards the Alienware I think I've just settled upon ... AW3821DW

In terms of pixel response it's a little slower than the GN950, and it does have the G-sync ultimate chip in so expect some degree of fan noise, depending on how sensitive you are to it. It also lacks an SRGB mode, but the Dell panel warranty does cover stuck pixels which is very good. In terms of pricing it was hovering around 1100 in the last lot of sales and I'm sure it'll come down again some time soon. I nearly pulled the trigger on it a few times myself.

I did have an RTX 2080 but it wasn't hitting the FPS I wanted. I could of course dialed stuff down and it would've been fine but I didn't want to do that.

I now have a RTX 3090 (or as I like to call it 'the 3080 Mugs Edition) delivering the pixels to it 

That's a cute cat.

Nvidia be scakling again with the silent 3080 12gb launch. I can see them ending the reference cards now.