Recent content by Voeille

Cool, thanks for the info.

My pre-ordered Asus ROG Strix XG27UQ is due to be delivered in January (or possibly later depending on stock), and for the time being I'm using Samsung C24F390 for both gaming and casual apps. It's a 1080p 60Hz monitor, and given that the RTX 3080 can output a lot more than that, I want to limit...

And the waiting time might not even change, I asked PCS to change from Intel to AMD after almost a month of being in pre-production (not the best time to ask for advice but later is better than never!), and that didn't influence my waiting time because of the 3080. It may depend on your payment...

So I ran Substance Designer and opened one of the materials I made a while ago, and it's incredible. I can finally use the ray tracing preview without it taking ages or crashing. I also made it re-render the massive graph of that material into 8k texture resolution, and it does not hesitate to...

It's here! It arrived right after 7AM (both me and my better half were asleep but I heard the doorbell), which was very unexpected, so now I'm having fun installing Windows updates. But even such basic things like opening folders etc. are so fast compared to my laptop that it's just...

Can you see 240Hz though? Most humans can't see past 120Hz.

Maybe you should actually write a complaint? Stock shortages are one thing, but broken promises are another, they shouldn't tell you a build date and then not stick to it. Perhaps the customer service people don't have the up to date information from the production team, which is an issue they...

< £400 is not enough for a monitor suitable to pair with the 3080. I had no idea how monitor pairing works, but I learnt that a card's output is tied to resolution and refresh rate, and 3080 is capable of outputting 144Hz at 4k. It will work perfectly fine with anything less than that, but its...

Just found it funny that apparently they ran out of welcome books too, perhaps it's related to the missing stickers issue from a while ago that pushed everyone's order date to 25th of November and they had to resend the automated emails to correct this. I waited 2 months as I'm still from the...

Despite showing as awaiting dispatch on the order page, I also got a DPD email with an estimated delivery date of Friday, and curiously this email from PCS too: Looks like nothing can avoid stock issues these days...

If you've been a while in pre-production, it's worth contacting PCS for amending components you can't change yourself in the configurator. I only ended up incidentally posting my build here when I asked about a monitor after approximately a month in pre-production (RTX 3080 is not easy to get)...

I will probably be excited even by Windows booting, I've never even had a regular SSD and now I'm moving to Samsung 980 Pro M.2 drive, it's going to be a huge difference. I don't think much can be happening in the awaiting dispatch stage, so maybe tomorrow or Friday is the day. I'm glad I...

There are times at work when I basically do nothing else but flex for the whole day... My order is awaiting dispatch now. That spectral PC I ordered a long time ago is finally becoming a tangible being.

If I can recommend something, it'd be moddable games — you can basically turn them into anything you want within the engine limit, and it's just so satisfying to see your own work in the game, even if it's a small script or texture edit... I've spent over 3k hours in Skyrim (out of which only...

I amended on the 5th to 5950X. I believe these are less sought after than the 5900 so perhaps they got a few and that was enough to cover my order.