mumei

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[–] mumei 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You will have to look at the second hand market for sure, but you can probably get a decent 1080p 80-100fps medium/high build.

Something like (or equivalent):

Ryzen 5 3600

RX 6600

16GB DDR4

1TB SSD (probably not NVMe)

Whatever case

Whatever monitor, even if only 60Hz, for now

Whatever MoBo

Tier A PSU from the Cultists Network PSU tier list

You can most likely get everything used if you buy from a second hand shop that has a form of buyer protection (eBay and similar) and thoroughly check and clean and test everything you buy

[–] mumei 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see, thank you!

Gating it behind EoD was already not great, since it's no progression and all, but now asking a price for it..? Unless it's a trivial amount, like $2, I really can't see why would anyone pay for it. A real raid would be better in all conceivable ways, except the stress of course. You can acquire map knowledge on your own oflline raid, ad PvP against friends, while useful to an extent, without the actual risk of losing your gear won't be as good as real PvP.

[–] mumei 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

EoD has offline coop?

we removed the EoD version and some of the EoD features need to go back (offline co-op for example)

Not that it matters too much, as playing only against bots isn't what EFT is good for, in my opinion

[–] mumei 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Haven't seen this mentioned, but did you make sure to plug the display cable into the GPU and not the MoBo?

edit: nvm, just saw a comment with same suggestion

[–] mumei 2 points 5 months ago

Nitro+ worth it?

I guess not for that much more. A 10% increase is substantial, and I don't think the difference in actual performance is enough to justify it; but you also said that your region can get toasty in summer, and the Nitro+ has better cooling which could help. I don't think the Pulse will get too hot to work, but it may be something to consider!

DDR5

Those are one of the best performance to price ratio, and they're very inexpensive for what they are (plus full support for AMD overclocking, EXPO I think it's called); you can also go higher frequency, but prices will go up as well.

cooler

Good call then, AIO will probably perform a bit better with extreme high ambient temps

970

All good, a 970 Evo Plus might be cheaper so why not!

5.0

Yeah, there's no way gaming will saturate PCIe 5.0 anytime soon, no need to pay premium for specs you won't benefit from

Happy building and gaming!

[–] mumei 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

About RAM, Trident Z5 NEO @ 6000Mhz seems to be the best price/performance ratio.

About GPU, I'd personally go for a Sapphire as they're one of the historic AIB for AMD GPUs and I also dig a lot the design of the Nitro+ lol

See if you can save something on the MoBo (by getting a lower trim) and 2x2TB might be a bit overkill for gaming only (ofc it depends on your habits, but I personally don't have games installed for more than 500-600GB). Also, you picked two PCIe 4.0 NVMEs, so maybe consider a 970 Evo Plus if it's cheaper than the 980 Pro

About cooler, I'd prefer an old fashioned air cooler simply because it can't leak lol

[–] mumei 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I know, I feel the same for the most part, but I'm definitely itching for some more DJMax, I have hundreds of hours on the PSP games, and there isn't really anything else like it. Guess I'll have to pass though and keep consuming my PSP haha why did they have to make it always online, makes me sad

 

I'm not sure whether or not to get it because I'm not a fan of the always-online DRM (I just want to play by myself, like in the good old games, absolutely no interest in the multiplayer) and I already have that since I own all the PSP games.

I'd have to give a listen to the new songs I guess and decide based on that, since I can't play those any other ways.

I'd also buy the game and DLCs only on very deep discounts, 80% off and higher, since, well, it's basically a live service game, meaning I probably won't be able to play anymore once they shutdown the servers for whatever reason...

What do you all think?

[–] mumei 1 points 6 months ago

That sounds like good practice, thanks!

[–] mumei 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Thanks for the reply!

player speed

Tried that already, since GAMMA allows to modify it straight from the mod menu, but I can't go too low with character movespeed otherwise it feels very unnatural.

steam discussion

Thanks, even though that's for SoC and CS I also agree that it should be very similar for Anomaly as well. I'll check that out later, hopefully nothing breaks haha

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by mumei to c/stalker
 

I don’t like being able to outrun most creatures in the Zone (in what world a man carrying 30kg of equip can run faster than dogs?), so does anyone know of a mod to increase creatures’ running speed? Also, can I add it to a GAMMMA install without breaking anything?

Thanks in advance!

edit: if not a mod, I'd also take a way to manually edit a file where creatures' speeds are stored

[–] mumei 2 points 7 months ago

Sorry for late reply, app kept saying "this account is being verified" and I coulnd't comment or anything else.

Anyways, I kept them. One drive loss won't be catastrophic (got two mirrored and also spare backup), so I decided to go for it!

[–] mumei 1 points 7 months ago

Sorry for late reply, app kept saying "this account os being verified" and I coulnd't comment or anything else.

In the end I decided to keep them, considering the store provides warranty! Loving the gigantic storage amount I have now haha

[–] mumei 1 points 7 months ago

Sorry for late reply, app kept saying "this account os being verified" and I coulnd't comment or anything else.

Anyway, yes, the store I bought them from is a legit store and provides warranty, so I decided to keep the drives!

 

I admit they were way too cheap for what they are (like 15% cheaper than same-size Ironwolf), so I gambled it haha there were no indications that these drives were OEM or similar.

Back to issue at hand: since I can't personally have the five years warranty on these, only the original purchaser can, and I have no way to know who they are and when they bought them, I should just return them, right? And maybe buy the next ones only from authorized sellers?

edit: also, now that I think about it, and before I make the same mistake twice, there's no way I can get enterprise drives as a normal consumer, can I, at least not brand new? I expect any enterprise drives I can find will have the same issue, i.e. bought by someone else for servers or similar, and then resold, correct?

edit 2: actually WD sells enterprise drives on their website, so my previous assumption about it was wrong

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by mumei to c/[email protected]
 

I want to setup a NAS (mainly for storing games and videos), that I'd also like to use to watch said videos on a WiFi TV and to install games on a separate PC connected via ethernet. This is the part list I came up with (plus whatever GPU I can get for as cheap as possible, I can probably get a ~~GT 730~~ GTX750 for free). I also don't need it to be on 24/7, if that's OK. I can place it in the same room as my main PC and hook it up to the same monitor to turn it on and start it up.

What's wrong with it?

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor $50.00
Motherboard ASRock A520M-ITX/ac Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard $99.40
Memory Kingston Server Premier 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory $36.00
Memory Kingston Server Premier 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory $36.00
Storage Samsung 860 Evo 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Purchased For $0.00
Storage Seagate IronWolf NAS 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive $118.00
Storage Seagate IronWolf NAS 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive $118.00
Video Card Gigabyte GV-N750OC-1GI GeForce GTX 750 1 GB Video Card Purchased For $0.00
Case Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case $117.70
Power Supply be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 400 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $58.10
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $633.20

PCPP says that R3 3100 isn't compatible with the RAM I picked (although I can't find why); it also says MoBo doesn't support ECC RAM, but on the producer's website it says it does (https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A520M-ITXac/index.asp#Specification) , so I think PCPP is wrong.

I tried building around LGA 1150/1151 but motherboard prices are way higher (although CPU prices are lower).

I don't think I can make it much cheaper than this, since I'm buying everything, but if you can point me in a cheaper direction, feel free to do so!

Thanks in advance

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor $155.50
CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler Purchased For $0.00
Motherboard MSI B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard Purchased For $0.00
Memory Kingston HyperX Fury 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL16 Memory Purchased For $0.00
Storage Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive Purchased For $0.00
Video Card Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB Video Card $925.00
Case Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case Purchased For $0.00
Power Supply SeaSonic FOCUS PLUS 850 Gold 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $129.00
Monitor Gigabyte G34WQC 34.0" 3440 x 1440 144 Hz Curved Monitor $390.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $1599.50
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-10-16 05:42 EDT-0400

~~Ignore prices: I'm going to buy from different stores and I couldn't bother inputing prices manually~~ actually went and edited prices, also removed unnecessary bits as they were causing some confusion haha

This part list fits my budget and it's unlikely I will make changes to it, unless there are big issues with compatibility in which case the only change I can make is to go for a 7800XT instead to open up some of the budget to fix those issues.

Objective is playing AAA games at 3440*1440 100+ fps (ideally 120+), high-ultra with no RT and hopefully no FSR; what I'm keeping from current build are RAM and MoBo (plus case, CPU cooler, fans, and drives, but these shouldn't cause any issues). ~~I listed current drives, fans, etc. just to get a somewhat accurate total power draw to pick the right PSU.~~

I know about case GPU length restrictions, that's why there's a slim fan in the list that will be mounted front bottom, to accomodate the long GPU (Fractal's website says maximum GPU length with front fan is 315mm, standard fan is 25mm deep, 7900XT is 320mm and the slim fan is 16mm deep, so I should have 4mm of wiggle room!).

My main doubt is about huge bottlenecks with either RAM or MoBo. I'm keeping those and I'd rather not change them, because that would mean having to get a 7800XT instead (I know, for example, that a faster and lower CL RAM will give me slightly better FPS, although my current sticks are running at 3466Mhz and CL18, so not too bad, but I'm not looking to min-max to the last minute detail), unless such dated parts would cause huge bottlenecks that would make that GPU a total waste.

PC will be used exclusively for gaming.

Thanks for any and all suggestions!

edit: after a bit more researching, I ditched the AOC U34G3XM and picked this Gigabyte after watching the video by Hardware Unboxed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FunMmbztw

The only bottleneck I see is the PCIe on the motherboard, which is only 3.0 x16, while the 7900XT is 4.0 16x. Not the end of the world, though, so I will pull the trigger in the next few days. Thanks everyone for your help!

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