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Pc gaming general thread. Thinking of buying a glass mousepad, bros. The current one I have has collected a lot of dead skin over the years and it won't wash out. Glass seems like a good material since you can just wipe it clean. Also, I've purchased a hall effect keyboard that will be arriving soon as my current one is all f'd up after years of gaming. Lastly, I've been on the hunt for an msrp 5080/5090. It will be a rough wait, bros...
 
Pc gaming general thread. Thinking of buying a glass mousepad, bros. The current one I have has collected a lot of dead skin over the years and it won't wash out. Glass seems like a good material since you can just wipe it clean. Also, I've purchased a hall effect keyboard that will be arriving soon as my current one is all f'd up after years of gaming. Lastly, I've been on the hunt for an msrp 5080/5090. It will be a rough wait, bros...
I use a book as a mousepad
 
I used to use my old Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop for PC games, otherwise I stuck to consoles because it was easier to just mod my existing consoles and run emulators on them, than it was to dish out hundreds of dollars to build a PC that could play what I was already able to play for no additional costs. I will seriously consider PC Gaming *if* my old consoles all start breaking down beyond repair, since by then, it would almost certainly be cheaper. However, I would only do that if I didn't outright quit playing video-games by that point. Most of what I play is older, and even stuff like Xbox 360 can be emulated now, but the older consoles are so cheap that I would be significantly better off picking up an old console and modding it, as stated.

In fact, I recently did get an Xbox 360 S, which I may consider modding in the future. For now, I can just use it as expected, but if I ever decide to mod it, I'll gladly get a ton of extra usage out of it. The Xbox 360 S was $30 off eBay, and I got a powercord for $15 which should arrive soon. 5 USB ports, 2 of which are on the front meaning I could use those for a 4-port USB hub to have wired controllers. The other 3 USBs are for whatever else is used, perhaps some accessory I forgot exists, otherwise I could just get some 16TB HDDs hooked up after modding, otherwise 2TB HDDs. If things got particularly desperate, I could run Linux on it and turn it into my own home-computer of sorts, given how lax storage limits are. However, that seems like more of a "for fun" thing than a "this will be necessary".
 
Be careful. There are reports of the cards overheating and exploding.
I'm aware, from what I've seen this happens to be an issue with mostly the FE, and it is rare. I will still try to buy it despite these warnings, because I trust in the warranty process and myself to fully insert the cable.
 
What's crazy to me though, is that the 5070ti is fucking $1,000. This is insane, hopefully prices settle in a month or two.
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Lately I’ve been considering purchasing a pre-built PC. Good idea or no?
If you simply want to avoid the hassle of building a computer yourself, it's not a horrible idea. Nowadays the price gouging isn't so bad. You'd probably pay a couple hundred extra if you purchase from a good seller, others may scam you heavily. If you can spare a couple hours to do some research and figure out how to connect all of your parts together, you can save yourself the money you would've overspent on a prebuilt.

What would be your budget, I could help you look for a prebuilt or parts to buy.
 
What about the risk of messing up the motherboard? I can be clumsy sometimes.
I don't think that'd be a huge issue, I would just say do things slowly if you're scared of something breaking. Otherwise, seems mostly easy or at least rather hard to screw up, especially now.
 
Thanks. I have 800 US dollars to spend.

What about the risk of messing up the motherboard? I can be clumsy sometimes.
The market is raped right now because of the blackwell launch, unless you want a 4060 in your system I'd just wait. I think prices will be alright within 2 months. Check your local used marketplaces (like facebook) in case you can find a good deal in the mean time. Don't worry about messing up the motherboard, computer PCBs are a lot tougher than you think they are. Building a computer is just like putting a lego set together, just look at the instructions.
 
I've bought a glass mousepad. Immediate improvement in tracking aim, headshot percentage increased, but microaim worsened a bit. Happy with it.

More importantly...
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If they stay true to around the $600 price mark, I'll buy one. Like look at this sapphire card's design, so sexy:
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Would you say now is a good time to purchase PC parts?
Potentially, depending on your budget and preference (used, new). The graphics card market is absolutely fucked, but a lot of people are offloading their old hardware to upgrade on the used market. Also, it depends on where you are. In the US, Trump's tarriffs might be hitting. I'm not educated enough to know, but regardless of whether or not they're actually here, some pc part manufacturers have raised prices blaming the tariffs. For your $800 build, I'd look around the used market. If you want to buy new, I'd suggest upping your budget by a couple hundred if you don't want to wait and making the 9070/9070xt your graphics card. It'll perform similarly to a 7900xtx/RTX 4080, but with improved frame generation. Otherwise, NVIDIA's 5060 and AMD's 9060 series of cards will be here Q2 2025, with NVIDIA's cards likely coming sooner. Those cards will probably cost around 300-400.
 
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