Previously @argv_minus_one@mstdn.party
7800XT, 2560×1080@60. Max settings in MechWarrior 5 usually results in 60fps. 10/10, no notes.
And no, I mean controlling costs. Paying $500 for a GPU is a once-in-a-decade splurge. Paying $1000+ is unacceptable. Paying $1000+ for a GPU that won’t even work on Linux in 10 years is pure unadulterated lunacy.
The only vendor I found willing to sell me a comparable build for a comparable price was a small outfit with a bad reputation.
It just occurred to me that, if I had not thrown away my old '90s Antec cases, I probably could have used one of them for this build.
But the airflow would have been atrocious. PC components didn’t dissipate a thousand watts in the '90s. I’d have had to drill a bunch of vent holes and somehow attach fans and a dust screen. Would’ve been a major pain.
On the other hand, it would have had an optical drive bay—several, in fact—which I really wanted for this build…
I do have one regret: I wanted a more retro-style case, both for fashion reasons and because they’re easier to work on.
Sadly I couldn’t find one that would ship in a reasonable time, including a nice-looking one from Antec. (I used their cases for my builds back in the '90s. Fond memories!)
So I went with a fairly standard glass-sided case from Corsair.
Heh. My story is basically the opposite of yours.
I was thinking I’d get a pre-built so it’d just work, but I couldn’t find anything pre-built whose price and components I considered acceptable except one builder that had been widely panned for shipping broken computers.
So, over a couple of days, I gradually became resigned to having to build it myself.
I did not end up regretting my decision. The machine came together without a hitch and works great.
10/10 would build again.
The nice thing about building a PC yourself is you can choose the components and therefore control costs *a lot*. I put together a competent gaming PC last December for US$1400.
My GPU is not as fast as yours (yours has a PassMark score of 36002 and mine’s is 24250), but it still runs everything at 60fps and is half the price.
Lol who the hell thinks Inkscape isn’t professional? Inkscape is the damn gold standard for vector graphics editing.
@FreedomAdvocate
Yeah, and I actually have it, instead of just daydreaming about being able to afford it.