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13900kf / 3070 / Arch
Planning on migrating over to water-cooling once again but need to figure out runs / radiator placements in my Jonsplus i100 again as this CPU is another beast.
Mostly playing Risk of Rain / Rimworld so not really pushing the system that hard.
See image when I was running my system as 9900k / 3070 under water.
Endeavouros, 3070ti 12600k 32gb ram
Updoot for EndeavourOS!
Wow, that is quite a stunning setup!
Ty! it wont go even further here I guess, but my bank account seems to be happy it seems to be finished for a while. Or maybe I need another chair?... Argh here we go again
My pc died so im just on my steam deck for now
You and me both.
Workstation + Battlestation combined.
Don't underestimate the 1070 Ti. Just finished Ghostwire: Tokyo (on dual booted Win 11) at 1440p 60 fps locked.
1070 TI is a fantastic sleeper card. I had the MSI Armor one that was undercooled, I kept the heat plate but removed the shroud and cooler and installed an Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV. Been using it since just after it released, and even after upgrading my gaming rig to an RX 6700 XT, I swapped the 1070 TI into my desktop machine, still runs and games great.
I just built this machine a couple of months ago and am really diggin' it.
Ryzen 5950X, AMD Vega 64, 32 GB DDR4. Running KDE Wayland nicely for the past few weeks!
My current setup.
FX-8350 at 4.6Ghz, RX580, 24 GB of DDR3-1866, 1 TB SSD, and 512 GB HDD running Mint 20.3 Yeah, it's getting a little "long in the tooth", but I end up upgrading my kids' computers instead of mine.
Upgraded last year to a Ryzen 5 5600, 16Gb 3600 RAM, 2x 1TB NVME, AMD 5700XT graphics card. So far ive been very happy with it.
It's such a leap from my old fx8350. It's a joy to use now as its so fast.
Cpu: Ryzen 5800X3D
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 32 GB
GPU: Palit RTX 3080ti
PSU: BeQuiet 800w
Storage: 2x Samsung 980 nvme 1tb
Filesystem: btrfs 2tb span across the two drives
OS: Fedora 38 with kde plasma
Am really happy with it thus far. unfortunately I bought the GPU before making the switch to Linux. Otherwise I would have bought a rx6800 or something similar
I'm gaming on a NUC 11 Extreme kit with a Sapphire Pulse Radeon 6700 XT running ChimeraOS.
Currently it is doing really well, though some games appear to not be using anti-aliasing and I'm not sure why. But aside from that I am super impressed with how well Proton and Lutris have come along!
My pc desktop: R7 5800x, AMD RX 6700XT e 32 GB DDR4, Kde wayland with a multimonitor setup. And then my steamdeck
i3-10100F, 32 GB RAM, Nvidia 1050 Ti, 23" acrylic Cinema Display
The tenth generation i3s are surprisingly capable, similar performance to the old staple i7-4790k with much lower power requirements. And I like running graphic cards that don't need their own power cable.
It's enough for Skyrim, Witcher etc.,
I've been with the same platform since about 2015, save for GPU and disk upgrades. i7 4790k and a 6600XT, about 16 TB of slow storage and 3 TB of faster stuff. Running Pop for about a year, because my girlfriend and I share the PC (it's a living room TV PC).
Tbh, I'm still really happy with it, though I've been eyeing a mobo/CPU/RAM upgrade. With the games I play I haven't felt the 4790k too much --occasionaly a tweak here and there, but at 1080p and with the games I play, the GPU always gets most of the load.
My (non-work) laptop is running Arch and Hyprland. Kind of love it so considering a general switch with the impending upgrade.
If it's affordable for you, I would say take a look at the NUC Extreme kits for a living-room PC upgrade. Custom small form-factor that was designed for standard GPU sizes (check the dimensions carefully - my Sapphire 6700XT fit the specs but was still a tight fit), and it's fairly quiet even with graphics settings set up to high.
My wife has been happily playing her games in the living room this past week, and I've been able to sneak a few hours in between.
Thanks for this suggestion. Even though it's a living room PC, I don't really have a small form factor requirement -- the machine itself sits in a rackmount behind the wall behind the TV. Thanks to that it also pulls double duty as a regular PC in the next room over, though I use it less over there. But I'm planning to upgrade with a full size ATX mobo.