Recent content by Lil'John

Sadly, I'm 10 miles outside of nowhere(US) and further 20 miles to small somewhere with a Safeway:D As odd as it sounds, I've had good luck getting used computer equip off ebay.

No PS or case... so rated at 100MW of available power because of the nuclear plant I live in :cool:

Title is the short of this topic. My wife bought Skyrim and Assasin's Creed Valhalla. She will be playing on 1080p monitor. Low settings is fine. I have a 1050ti in hand so it will be what is used for now. I may upgrade to something else later on. I will be buying a case, MB, cpu, and...

Makes sense... @Hail The Brain Slug it is as you describe. Maybe a minute of image retention. The monitor was cheap($80) I was just starting to have PTST flashbacks of CGA and EGA CRTs burning it badly :p

I've got a ViewSonic VA1917A 19 Inch LED Monitor bought in Jan 2016. It is a plain jane VGA input only monitor. It has 1366x768 resolution and is used on a 2nd computer for security cam monitoring, Youtube watching, and mp4 movie watching. The tabs on the browser seem to do a partial burn in...

Not going to run 4k... maybe 2k in windowed mode on 4k monitor. Games I'm currently playing are Battletech(Roguetech modded, not a graphic hog), Mechwarrior 5 Merc(YAML modded, can be graphics intensive but playable), Mechwarrior 5 Clans(unplayable), Total War: Warhammer 2, Civ5, Shadowrun...

I'm looking at getting a GPU during black friday. I've semi-narrowed it down to the above based upon a pair of MSI cards that are within $30 of each. Specifically, I found MSI Ventus rtx 4060ti with 16 GB and rtx 4070 (no super or ti) with 12 GB to be close enough in price for me to eyeball...

Out of curiosity, where have you seen update on when 3dx being available? A couple weeks ago, I was getting ready to pull trigger on Ryzen 7 7800X3D when the price just went through the roof.

Good info. I just brought up the 1050 ti as my current card... not what I am trying to compare anything to ;) I'm not overly worried about number of power connectors or the like. I will buy an appropriately sized PSU thus I'm trying to figure out the card at this time. I'm in United States...

Those are just the games I'm currently playing around with at this time. I don't mind turning quality down for smoothness. The 1050ti was bought used last year:blush: Not looking at really a stop gap but I'll run a card for more than 2 years. The case and PSU I buy will absolutely support...

I don't really have a 'final' resolution in mind. As noted, my monitor supports up to 'generic' 4k. I've run down at 1080 and 1440. I'm not against running a used card... my current 1050ti was used. But it also wasn't several hundred at risk.

I'm going to upgrade my system to a Ryzen 7 7800X3D next month and will upgrade my GPU to be a better match closer to Christmas. I am running a 4k monitor but usually run in windowed mode. I am doing older or 'graphics lite' style games that are more turn based or strategy based...

After decades of almost being Intel only(one Cyrix and one AMD), I am locked in on going with an AMD 7800X3D next month and I'm 'lost' on the AMD motherboard choices/options. Primary use will be mid-level gaming that are locked more by single thread performance than having tons of threads. An...

Title is kind of it but to add some details. I currently have business class fiber optic for my internet. I've ordered up Starlink that I'm hoping to replace the fiber with. I'm not 100% convinced Starlink will do what I want so I want to run both at the same time so I can get some better...

I would somewhat respectfully disagree that there isn't a theoretical answer. Theoretical could go with ideal conditions; no walls, flat land, and mounted on a short pole for example. Then add caveats that a wall clad in drywall reduces distance by 50' or plywood reduces by 50'.(numbers pulled...