Nvidia 50 Series

[Raggamuffin]

It feels like over 50% of the GPU's, RAM, and all in one coolers have RGB as standard.

I like to put all my non-RGB kit into a simple, noise dampened black case, with no windows and silent, unlit case fans.

Ed

 

[Judge]

It feels like over 50% of the GPU's, RAM, and all in one coolers have RGB as standard.

I like to put all my non-RGB kit into a simple, noise dampened black case, with no windows and silent, unlit case fans.

Ed

My only reservation about this one is that airflow seems nominal at best. Often reading reviews citing the "air" version is a better deal. Though I still like the "silent" version. I also have no interest in RGB anything with the computers I build.

If I really wanted RGB I'd just go out and buy a well-adorned Christmas tree.

Pop Silent

 

[Raggamuffin]

Touch wood, but my PC is 8 years old, asides from the 3070 TI upgrade. And still on all original components including AIO cooler. I enjoy a quiet machine, it's very nice.

Similar to @Jonn I used to build a high end PC every 2-3 years. But when I finally got out the other side of a life long video game addiction, I simply stuck with the PC I'd built all those years ago.

I play Phantasy Star Universe, which could run on a toaster. Phantasy Star Online (which is even older). And occasionally Fallout 3, New Vegas and 4. Admittedly the FPS on 4 saw a huge jump going from a 1080 GTX to a 3070 TI. So I can't justify a new build other than wanting a larger monitor and faster M.2 and a more capable processor. But seeing as that's a lot of a new PC build, I figure I'd just build a brand new machine.

I'd like to play No Man's Sky flawlessly. I even got the top end Xbox to see if that'd be a plug and play option, but the framerate was diabolical compared to my PC. Same with Fallout 4, no matter what (limited) settings I changed on the Xbox settings, it ran like it was playing in slow motion. Very frustrating.

I sold the Xbox within 2 months of owning it. It even had the terrible framerate issues on Skate 3 which is a Xbox 360 game. The original game on 360 didn't have the smoothest framerate in places, but I expected more from the latest Xbox given it's impressive specs (for a console).

Ed

 

[Judge]

I enjoy a quiet machine, it's very nice.

Me too. Though always pursuing a relatively quiet system continues to be the bane of my existence in building PCs. Inevitably having to compromise given thermodynamic issues.

Definitely incentive in avoiding playing or wanting contemporary video games for the pc. Though the greatest incentive in avoiding gaming continues to be Microsoft alone.

One thing for sure though, with Linux Mint 22.0, Nvidia drivers continue to be problematic for me, even with a GTX 1660Ti. Still trying to chase down the random freezes. Recently rolled back to the earliest driver and added a new command line in the GRUB. Still waiting to see if it crashes again.

 

[WildCat]

Much like when I tuned my cars, with a PC I'm all about the sleeper look. This RGB nonsense is vile and childish looking imo.

Ed

Just from browsing parts, I'm seeing a LOT more of this lately and I wholeheartedly agree. Started almost 2 decades ago (since 2006) building PCs from scratch, when LED lighting on everything was not trending, and now there's LED lighting on RAM, CPU coolers, GPUs, and what's next? Did I miss out on the rainbow edition (insert part here)?

I want to build a PC for goodness sake, not build a bowl of Froot Loops.

 

[Slyfox]

I'm seriously considering going all red (AMD) for my next build, mainly for the budget. I'm going to have to upgrade sooner or later since my current build is starting to age with some possible hardware and/or software problems I still can't figure out, and support for Windows 10 is ending soon.

Most of my previous builds were Nvidia and Intel, but next build I think I'm going to explore what AMD has to offer. I'm sorta out of the loop and a little rusty, but still got it and know what I'll need. I can carry over some parts from my current build as well, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Nvidia and Intel may still be leading in performance, okay, but I don't understand this concept of shelling out extra money for...what? A $500 or $1000 bump in price gets you how much more performance? How much more per dollar? I'm not one of the types to game to witness the latest trend in computer graphics, I game to game. I don't need a 16-core CPU with hyper-threading and a GPU 10000 for my favorite games (many emulated games only need a fraction of that kind of power, mind you), and they're not my favorite games because of the eye candy, they're my favorite games because of the gameplay.

im likely going amd for foreseeable future until intel can fix their design flaw. given they didn't find it until tale in of last gen and current gen suffers from it to. it seems likely it's too late to design it out of 15th gen cpus. I was about to buy a laptop until I saw it was 13th gen intel. cant find any 12th gen and doesn't seem bestbuy really stocks any amd laptops.