PC Build Advice/Review II: 3090 or Bust.

[Corrderio]

Anyway...

Does anyone have any advice for a PC on the ground? Was thinking of sliding mine under my desk for more room, but with a thick plush carpet I'm worried about airflow.

[octopus]

Just make sure your case fans sucks in air from the back and blow out from the top. Most fans are reversible anyway and you just screw in the way you want the air flow direction to be.

[Krandor]

It can look kinda ghetto, but propping up the case with some books or whatever to give it a little bit of breathing room can work well.

[Jamison]

I actually used an oven cooling rack at one time which wasn't too bad.

[DrClout]

Invest in static pressure fans for consistent air under those conditions.

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[Corrderio]

I was thinking of getting something like

https://www.amazon.com/Syba-Computer...VSQE8YJM5PQRJG

Probably overkill though

[Krandor]

17 bucks doesn't really seem like overkill

[Corrderio]

I meant more in terms of I could probably lift it with wood or something. Though I do like the idea of having it on something that rolls for when I need to get back behind it.

[DrClout]

I meant more in terms of I could probably lift it with wood or something. Though I do like the idea of having it on something that rolls for when I need to get back behind it.

Having my desk on wheels is amazing for when I need to clean and keep the general area dust free.

[Elizara]

I'd say that cart's a good idea. Having it on a rug..any rug..is bad for a pc. I found that out the hard way since that destroyed a old pc I had before I knew.

And yeah, if I can ever replace this makeshift desk I have (and milk crate setup) I'm going to make sure mine's easy to pull out.

[Arkanna]

Milk crate desk is win, I don't care what anyone says.

[Krandor]

If anyone is wondering, reviews for Kabylake CPUs are coming out and well... it's basically identical to Skylake. It gives you the ability to watch 4k Netflix (in Edge browser only) has slightly improved iGPU and power draw, but clock for clock its completely identical to Skylake.

So if you were waiting for Kabylake to upgrade, unless you REALLY need 4k Netflix support, there's nothing to see here. Until AMD really provides proper competition for them, Intel seems content to just sit on their asses for the folks our there who don't give a shit about iGPU performance.

[DrClout]

Been watching videos on Kabylake all day and you've nailed it pretty solid. A lot of people and articles are claiming this is aiming for people still rocking Sandy and Ivy bridge systems. If one were to assume the prices suggested by Intel to be at or slightly below Skylake, it's a great upgrade for those peeps on old school platforms.

If anything though, you get price drops on skylake processors and boards OR bank on Ryzen being lit as fuck!

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[Arkanna]

Speaking of computer hardware, where the fuck did Kalmado disappear to?

[Zetanio]

Speaking of computer hardware, where the fuck did Kalmado disappear to?

I don't know. He's popped in Discord a handful of times but I haven't seen him much. Might be work-related.

[Zetanio]

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/m4thematical/saved/xxkJxr

This is what my friend is building

Gonna be strictly 1080 with that 1060GTX seems like he's wasting a ton of money and I can't talk him out of it.

[octopus]

Agree for sure. Sounds like someone who doesn't know what he's doing (unless he's building this for something other than gaming). I bet he's buying this cpu but not even going to overclock it o_o

[Zetanio]

Oh that's guaranteed.

"It's a base for upgrading later"

Bruh you don't own a decent monitor and you play League and DayZ. If you're wanting a good base just scrap the i7 down to a i5 6600k and get aircooled. Spend the rest on a 1070 and buy a sick monitor.

[Krandor]

Honestly I'm more alarmed by the Intel SSD. You can find way better deals for a PCIE drive then that, especially considering that mobo has the appropriate m.2 slot

[Zetanio]

The Intel is a u.2 or something.