Someone has been doing some upgrading round here...

My computer got here today. We are spoiled by how simple modern computers are. I was worried the 4080 Super might shake loose or something, they have a piece of foam that held it very secure.

I ordered a PC with a 1tb SSD I had no intention of using to save money.......they sent me a 2tb SSD.

Signed into the PC and imported settings. Then I shut it off, pulled out the 2tb SSB, swapped in the 4tb SSD out of my laptop, and turned it on. Booted up and said "installing devices" when I got in Windows GeForce Experience updated my drivers. Restarted and working fine.

I fired up Cyberpunk 2077, maxed everything out. Looks amazing however with Frame Generation on when going fast on a motorcycle on a highway stuff starts to look kinda plastic with an outline. We are in the early days of Frame Generation and I know as the years go on it will look better and better.

I was debating pulling the AIO off and putting liquid metal on the CPU. My temps are so crazy good I don't know if I will even bother.

EDIT: One thing I don't know how to do is turn off all the RBG. I need to dig into the settings more and figure that out. It looks cool and all but a little but obnoxious.

I figured it out. I have an MSI motherboard with an MSI 4080 Super. I just downloaded MSI Center and it works fine. Been using MSI Afterburner 5+ years but never actually had an MSI videocard till now. I have no desire to mess with the voltage on the card but I might at some point.

Enjoying my new desktop, before I got it and my new OLED HDR wasn't even on my radar. On PC side there are many competing standards. It appears SpecialK is the best quality, even then native HDR if you take the time to set it up.

Right now I am just using some ReShade plugins with Cyberpunk. Later I am going to dig into SpecialK more.

For some reason auto-overclocking in Intel XTU isn't working despite everything being set to auto in the BIOS. Coming from a laptop I was used to overclocking software being locked down, however being on a K series CPU I thought all of it would work.

Been too busy to dig into it besides checking some BIOS settings.

Turns out you can't overclock on a B board, I had no idea. Its been so long since I built a gaming PC, 2007, I don't think that was a thing then.

My CPU is the 5th ranked on Userbenchmarks so I doubt it will be slow for a while, the question is do I want to upgrade my motherboard down the road and overclock or just get a new CPU?

If it was "sold & shipped by Amazon" they typically issue a refund the same day you drop it off at the UPS store. But I've never bought and returned a refurbished item from the before, only new. It also depends on the return reason (excuse) you give them. If u pick one that's worded like it's not your fault, like "item arrived late," you get refunded right away. If you pick "I changed my mind" or something that sounds more like your fault, you just F'd yourself into playing the waiting game.

Working from home today so I took the time to put liquid metal between my CPU and AIO, I have not delided my CPU. I've actually never done that and I am not sure it is something worth doing in 2024.

In benchmarks my CPU will hit 87c max on all cores, with the liquid metal its hitting 87c but not on all cores. I used a bit less liquid metal then I normally do because I was reading less is more. In a month or two after it has time to react to the copper I will add more.

IPS on the left, OLED on the right

www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/s/Xx9sWWSntf

I updated my desktops BIOS with no UPS, that was mildly nerve wracking.

Supposedly CyberPower UPS are garbage, you get a power outage and your desktop shuts off..............so what is the point of the UPS?

I bought this guy because I thought it was a decent compromise between price and performance. Not the cheapest, nor the most expensive, just got here today:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0B39RJHJ8?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

That ridiculous SSD heatsink got here today:


Putting it together was easy, I pulled the sticker off of my SSD to make sure the thermal pads got direct contact on the flash chips.

Had a little difficulty getting the screw back in, I had to put the screw and screwdriver in the position I wanted then push it into place. I wouldn't mail my PC with this thing on for sure.

Playing Diablo 4 over the weekend with 99% GPU usage the SSD would get up to 51/52c doing little work.

With the heatsink on its hovering at 39/40c, it will spike up higher from time to time and go right back down. So mission accomplished.

Here it is mounted. Awkward angle:

Yeah I was just thinking about how simple PCs are now compared to my 1990s or early-2000s PCs. I remember when I had to drill a hole in the side of my case to install a fan with my friends Dremel tool.

I have no regrets on the pre-built I got. Its not even on neweggs website anymore its so back ordered.

Learned something new, I have been using Low Latency Mode - Ultra in the Nvidia control panel for ages. I figure anything that gets me an advantage in a competitive game.

Turns out turning Low Latency to Ultra can mess up your frames and greatly increase 1% lows, also it can by counter-intuitively increase latency sometimes.

Apparently its better to just let Reflex do its thing or keep Low Latency to On not Ultra. I have it off now.

My mouse (Logitech G402) goes up to 4,000 DPI but I never go above 2800 or so.

oh yeah then 4000hz polling rate is nuts. I'll have to check mine to see how high it can go.

*edit* it shows 1000 report rate per second, not sure if that's the same as hz or not.

I can adjust DPI on the fly on the mouse itself, but not the polling rate.