PC Master Race

So back a few years ago the SK hynix Gold P31 was the GOAT for laptops due to the low idle wattages and low usage wattages. This allowed you to squeeze about 10% extra battery life out of your laptop.

I'm looking to buy an RX 9060 XT and was hoping to collect more sources comparing different models. I'm mainly looking for noise & temperature comparisons between the base models available.

I've already posted this on a forum on pcpartpicker but no one replyed;

This makes it much easier to set your screen's brightness to a comfortable level at each time of the day, and to save energy.

I'm coming from a Logitech G815.

I have a 3DConnexion Spacemouse. I bought it, and use it, for CAD work, but I'm drunk enough to think it'd be fun to play Satisfactory with. What do you think I'd need to do to map it to a controller or something? Am I gonna have to fuck around with the Python library? It's been awhile since I've fucked around with a Python library.

I have an MSI MAG x870e Tomahawk WiFi mobo, and the temperature LED is just, like, SO bright.

I have a B450 motherboard, 16gb DDR4 3200 RAM, 1660 Super gpu and a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU. I don't plan on updating the GPU this time, because I don't play a lot of games that require anything more, I'm playing a lot of older titles currently. The problem is this also makes me feel like I shouldn't update the pc at all.

Okay I need some ideas. Firstly, this is a work computer and I do not have admin privileges. Second I'm doing this solely for my convenience.

Writing this down because I'm not the only one having trouble with the unusual CMOS battery holder of certain HP OEM boards, in my case a HP Dorado OC Rev B motherboard from an Omen 30L or Omen 25L PC. Their battery holders are weird compared to others in that one cannot just push some lever to release the battery (cf. this Reddit thread). It turns out that the correct method apparently is to just wedge the battery out from below (there is ample of room between it and the board to fit a tool), as is shown in this video from minute 40:00 onward. It seems that a bit of force is actually necessary:

Sorry to have to make a post about this but it’s one of those things you need to be familiar with and I’m not.

Hi all. I know this isn't a support community, but Lemmy is only so big so I hope it's ok if I post about this here.

I needed a PSU that was efficient at 20W and so I consulted Wolfgang's PSU Low Idle Efficiency List, because it was one of the first results on YouTube. However, the first thing you may notice is that the reports it links to are no longer in the same place on Cybenetics' website. If you manually check the PSU model on their website, you actually get different numbers for 20W. After having this revelation, I scraped the entire website and found that Wolfgang's data is no longer current. I don't know why after a second evaluation Cybenetics had different results, but am inviting you to ask with me.

European here. I'm pretty content with my setup (Ryzen5 3600XT, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060... I play in 1080p) for the games I'm playing at the moment, and I don't plan on playing many AAAA games in the future. BUT. With the recent tariffs flying around, China denying rare earths, etc etc I fear we might see an increase in hardware prices like we had with covid, so I was thinking on upgrading at least CPU+VGA; more than FOMO let's say is Fear Of Being Overpriced. What do you think, should I upgrade now that things looks a little more relaxed? Will the whole mess involve only the USA or everyone cause globalization?

I haven't gotten the habit of doing it and it never got bad but I'm starting to notice some subtle spots in it if I shed light into the monitor. I remember a while ago (not on Lemmy) seeing people joking their monitor messed up after trying to clean it up and it just stayed black on some parts and some people were pointing out it's the way they probably cleaned their monitor so ever since this honestly put the fear in me of not worrying about cleaning it but now I guess I have to. What is the proper way to clean the monitor? Should I avoid what chemicals or chemicals altogether and only water and with/on what?

34" UW with a portrait 27" on the left, PC on the right.

So I've been planning this upgrade for a while but wanted to wait for the right price.

Please feel free to lmk if this isn’t the right place to be asking.

I'm concerned since my 2080ti is idling at 58c. I have that intake right next to an exhaust and I'm not sure.

I'm looking at buying a used reference RX 6800.

And I mean a true beast that can do anything from gaming, video editing, rendering and so on

Hey team,

Hello pcmr!

Hi there, hope this is the right place for something like this.

So today I enabled the hdr setting in windows 11 and everything seemed fine.

Hi there

Hi everyone, I am looking to build a new PC and would like some feedback. I researched the different components and I believe everything should be compatible and fit in the case I chose. For reference, I am coming from an i7 8700k and an RTX 3070. My use case is 4k or 1440 gaming with demandings titles like Cyberpunk, with at least 60fps (preferably without needing to use DLSS too much) and mid to high settings. I also do some light video and photo editing, with some stable diffusion use. Here are the parts I picked so far. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XHyYLc

Today my PC finally ate it. No POST, no disk activity, so I'm pretty sure the mobo has failed. I built this PC 8 or 10 years ago, and I'm honestly too old and out of touch to know where to start on a rebuild lol.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a modern designed case (preferably SFF) that has retro asthetics. Examples would be the SilverStone FLP01 and Ayaneo's Retro Mini PCs.

I'm upgrading from a 4770 to a 9600. This is my budget free living room PC build. I'm trying to keep everything even bottleneck wise.

So, I had some issues with installing the GPU in the case, and the GPU bottom (those metals things at the bottom) ended up scratching part of the motherboard. From what I can tell, there's a bunch of similar components all the way up, so I'd think there's redundancy, so I guess it's not that important. Here is a picture:

I'm planning to replace my RTX3080 here with something like that. Linux user also, and would like to not bother with Nvidia drivers too.