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The 1070 TI is a decent card, even for 1440p but if you find compromising on some settings an issue (or want to get onto the ray-tracing bandwagon) the 650w PSU should give you room to upgrade the card. Is the PC struggling with anything? I'm always looking at a new build but have to keep...

If you can tell the forum what you main uses are and a rough budget, there are loads of people who could help you with specs and so on, to get the best fitting machine.

Whatever he was in, he had a talent for making you care about the character. A sort of kind earnestness that was really disarming. I think the last thing I saw him in was Dr Who and I thought: 'not great casting, I can't see this role working for him.' I was very wrong, he nailed it.

And so it begins... https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/24/chess-robot-grabs-and-breaks-finger-of-seven-year-old-opponent-moscow

Thank you both for helping! I think I'll pass on the under-volting, I'm lazy an it seems like too much work for me. I've heard of it, but never done it myself, so I'd need to learn. The AIO output wouldn't go far enough. I've lowered setting some - I do want to avoid more sacrifices there if I...

So... I know this might seem like heresy to some but with the hot weather I'm trying to limit my PC's performance to generate less heat. Partly because I have this week off so doing a lot of gaming and its hot enough already, partly because I'm trying to keep the fan noise down (don't want to be...

Aside from room-scale VR to rival the holodeck, I think this beast would live there somewhere:

Some old, but free ones to try: battle for Wesnoth and MegaGlest. First is turn based 2d strategy, the second is real time 3d. Simple graphics but what I love is the open-source fan support that's let them grow into decent games, with loads of extra content.

What's your field? I think the viva was the second most scared I've been in my life, after my wedding. Do enjoy it if you can, though, it will probably be the last time in your life you can talk for hours, in detail about your work to an audience that cares AND understands. I always think they...

Skyrim, Valheim, Dark Souls & Black Mesa are main main go to games so far. Most worked perfectly out of the box, except perhaps Valheim, which I tweaked to better use the menu system and Black Mesa which needed a few keys changing. Skyrim used a fan-made profile, which is really nice: when you...

Surely you can't be serious?

I never had a switch but mine has surprised me - I've taken to gaming with it at home, downstairs, just so I spend more time with my wife - sure we're doing different stuff but we chat and we wouldn't if I was upstairs on the PC. I also use it for things I didn't expect like watching stuff on...

From the (admittedly few) steam reviews, it sounds like the GOG version is better.

If Gloomhaven is your thing, that conversion from boardgame works really well IMO (maybe because the boardgame was so complex and the PC version has a better tutorial)

I'm having a lot of trouble with the Steam servers at the moment - sure I'm not the only one on day 1 of the Summer sale. Think it might be time for Satisfactory, maybe the new Pathfinder one too and some TWWH2 dlc I was missing. If anyone spots some good bargains that are steamdeck verified...

Jameson for day to day, Lagavulin if I'm being posh (even had the Ron Swanson edition, once or twice)

This is why I get so frustrated shopping for PCs at almost anywhere but PCS (I sometimes have to for work kit as they have 'preferred suppliers'). The amount of places that will tell you how much RAM there is, but its impossible to find out the speed or they'll say how large the storage is but...

I have a Roccat Vulcan that's well past its best - maybe it's time to look for something new. It will have to be durable, though - can you get keyboards with reinforced WASD keys?

Windscribe was about the same, I must admit I didn't shop around much. I tried their free trial and it all did what it said on the tin, others seemed a similar price and I'd read some good reviews.

I've heard good things about Nord, I'm on Windscribe at the moment - always seems to work well for me and you can use it on multiple devices.