Pippakistan's Psych Ward v3

[Hff201]

Mucho texto.

Very informative.

So anyway, fifth prebuilt go BRRRRRRRRR

 

[Dispirited Helmet]

Very informative.

So anyway, fifth prebuilt go BRRRRRRRRR

aw who am I kidding

 

[DTrp]

In solidarity with the cute dumb rabbit woman, my computer has conveniently decided to put two bullets in the back of its head today!

So, let's talk about the interesting world of PC building! While it may not be an interesting topic for any autistic female leporids lurking in the thread, there surely aren't any of those in here stalking people, right?

Also I actually do need to rebuild my PC oh god I think the MH:Wilds beta was the final straw and it's been so long I have a fucking overclocked Devil's Canyon in this piece of shit guys

Spoiler: PC autism

I've personally always built using PC part picker but don't buy the parts there. The site is a great service, but their prices include affiliate bullshit and I've saved hundreds by just using different sources for parts or waiting for sales. As an added bonus, people can share the links to their lists and show what they're putting into their PC builds. Kinda convenient if you're building for Pippa someone else.


I'm going to keep reusing my old case, a ten year old Fractal Design full tower. This'll be my third build using it, but honestly it's almost perfect for me. Just a big black box that can fit almost anything inside. Unless you're really strapped for space I would always recommend a full tower when you buy a PC case, it lets you do pretty much anything and makes for much easier space management.

For CPUs, I'm weighing options right now. The last I had heard, AMD's 7k chips are pretty much blowing Intel out of the water at this point. They run cooler than Intel and are much better for games. However, I'd kind of like to reuse my old DDR4 RAM, and the AMD chips can only use DDR5 or DDR4 whereas top of the line Intel chips seem to support both types. I'm also not sure if Intel would be better for things like rendering video and running extraneous programs. Like, say, Vtube Studio or something. Does anyone here know if any v-tubers have come out and said what parts of their build are the most important for streaming/running their model/playing games at the same time?

For motherboards, it seems like the latest generations for both AMD and Intel are out now but I'm not going to drop 1k and wait six months for the board to get here. Whichever CPU brand I decide on, I'll use the corresponding Taichi (or Taichi Lite if they have one for it). ASRock has never let me down, and you can get some surprising price points on those boards for what you get in performance.

GPUs are fucked. This is fucking stupid. 4090s are still king, good luck getting one. I'm probably going to pivot to a Radeon chipset for the extra VRAM, the AI people are buying up everything Nvidia and I'm not particularly interested in AI myself.

For PSUs, go big or go home. I still have my old Corsair 1500i and it still can run anything. Still under warranty, too. Cost me an arm and a leg when I bought it, but not having to buy a new one now that I'm upgrading is a big deal.

CPU coolers, I'm probably going to cheap out this time and get an air cooler. I have the space to run a big liquid cooler but fans have gotten so much better recently I don't want to pay for it anymore. I also don't really want to overclock anymore, It let me get away with cheaper CPUs in the past but I think it probably shortened the lifespan of my current build.

Everything else is small potatoes. RAM right now kind of depends on your CPU choice, though DDR5 is better; but I'd rather go budget with DDR4 if I can get a future-proofed CPU/Mobo that will run it. I'm just going to slap all my old drives and shit in my "new" PC build, but if someone had multiple dead PCs lying around for some reason they could rip those apart and make a bunch of zombie storage for backup drives and the like. If that someone were to have a particularly PC-savvy friend help them and they had a big enough case, you could set up a RAID system and an independent backup inside their PC without having to have a big external setup or anything (that's what I have, a RAID 6 backup inside my case along with an independent array of drives for daily use). Again, if you have the space for a full tower, get that bitch, it lets you do SO much you couldn't do otherwise.

As an aside, I'm fighting the urge to spam Pippa's twitter with different Part Picker builds. I forgot how fun it is to plan out building a PC....

Very cool! Keep me posted. I might just do a build myself now. If I find any good deals, I'll pass them your way, and I'd appreciate it if you could do the same

 

[Planetary Bombardment]

words words words

If you're re-using your case, what are you doing with the old parts?

 

[Dispirited Helmet]

Very cool! Keep me posted. I might just do a build myself now. If I find any good deals, I'll pass them your way, and I'd appreciate it if you could do the same

I am watching and waiting for Cyber Monday. The latest mobo chipsets just dropped, as have the latest gen of CPUs, so my hope is that the previous chipset standards will have a price drop before the holidays to clear inventory.

EDIT:

If you're re-using your case, what are you doing with the old parts?

Dumping them, probably. Most of the stuff is reusable but the core architecture is just too old to do anything new with at this point, and I want to play MH: Wilds quite badly. Again, I've been torturing this old i7 for a long time, and the GPU is almost as old.

EDIT AGAIN: If I can, I'm reusing RAM: definitely reusing PSU, reusing storage and all peripherals, reusing almost everything that isn't mobo, CPU + cooler, and GPU. Everything else is fine, probably.

EDIT 3rd: wait, I just realized I can't reuse the RAM. FUCK WHY DIDN'T I SPRING FOR THE HASWELL E

 

[DTrp]

oh, i found a way to convince pippa to build her own PC.
This case costs $4,300 smackeroos, + possibly a trip to japan.

Cooler Master has so many leftover Shark X cases that it's selling them at $4,300 a piece in Japan — the case is admittedly cheaper than the $7,000 pre-built PC that Cooler Master was offering

You can now buy the Shark X case separately. However, it'll still cost you a small fortune

www.tomshardware.com

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If you're re-using your case, what are you doing with the old parts?

those go into your OLD old case

 

[DTrp]

Super Surprise Presidential debate happening NOW! on fishtank

 

[Dispirited Helmet]

oh, i found a way to convince pippa to build her own PC.
This case costs $4,300 smackeroos, + possibly a trip to japan.

Cooler Master has so many leftover Shark X cases that it's selling them at $4,300 a piece in Japan — the case is admittedly cheaper than the $7,000 pre-built PC that Cooler Master was offering

You can now buy the Shark X case separately. However, it'll still cost you a small fortune

www.tomshardware.com

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those go into your OLD old case

Holy shit, I want i-

>Mini ITX

 

[DTrp]

Holy shit, I want i-

>Mini ITX

it'd be perfect to set up as an art piece on a end table and could be the brains of your home automation control center (openHAB or home-assistant), a network wide ad-blocking DNS server ( & DNS sinkhole) + DHCP server (https://pi-hole.net/), and i'd also probably write a cron job to easily automate the archival of pippa's chats.

Best use of $4300 i can think of at the moment.

 

[famous artist pipkun]

She provided context and now I just assume its some autism thing I don't get

E: So she just puts it in the bowl, then takes it out again to put in the soup? Yeah its a tisum thing

now we see why she fondled that raptor despite having super duper opsec

 

[famous artist pipkun]

If you're re-using your case, what are you doing with the old parts?

saving them to build a plex server. thats what i did and until a few days ago i was scratching my head over rebuilding it. its a rats nest of external and internal hhds. in the end i have to build a new pc. or hope for symmetric interet

 

[DTrp]

saving them to build a plex server. thats what i did and until a few days ago i was scratching my head over rebuilding it. its a rats nest of external and internal hhds.

hell yeah, i FUCK with plex! I use Kodi for the client though, because i like some of the apps for it. gives to me's shared library access. i want to see if you like anything good. Have you fucked with jellyfin or emby? Might be worth looking into if you're doing a new build. If you have a lifetime plex pass then disregard you're already all in.

in the end i have to build a new pc.

@Helmet-kun Backwards PC build gang has a new recruit!

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@Helkar mad orb activity in b3

 

[famous artist pipkun]

hell yeah, i FUCK with plex! I use Kodi for the client though, because i like some of the apps for it. gives to me's shared library access. i want to see if you like anything good. Have you fucked with jellyfin or emby? Might be worth looking into if you're doing a new build. If you have a lifetime plex pass then disregard you're already all in.

@Helmet-kun Backwards PC build gang has a new recruit!

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@Helkar mad orb activity in b3

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embys a broken mess, jellyfin requires stupid levels of work to get remote access and it causes 100% hdd speeds during a media scan. all at once.


no to the invite.

 

[Henrik Carter]

(((Bankers)))

 

[Dispirited Helmet]

@Helmet-kun Backwards PC build gang has a new recruit!

Pippa's curse has begun to spread, hopefully the Pippaposting quarantine holds or else the entire site shall fall

But all memeing aside, holy shit I guess it is actually an opportune time for the capippalists to be building PCs, I've already found a couple new tricks I want to try after researching parts today. I do wish GPUs weren't still a thousand dollars, but there are worse things to waste money on. Like gacha. Or Magic cards. Or that tequila shot wheel thing. Or prebuilt PCs. Or-

 

[PassiveUnaggressive]

Pippa's curse has begun to spread, hopefully the Pippaposting quarantine holds or else the entire site shall fall

But all memeing aside, holy shit I guess it is actually an opportune time for the capippalists to be building PCs, I've already found a couple new tricks I want to try after researching parts today. I do wish GPUs weren't still a thousand dollars, but there are worse things to waste money on. Like gacha. Or Magic cards. Or that tequila shot wheel thing. Or prebuilt PCs. Or-

You really don't need to spend a thousand bucks on a GPU, unless you really want to crank things on 4k for some reason. Only reason I wish I had the extra money to splurge on a different system atm is I want Linux based stuff to be a bit less painless. I want an iGPU so I can try passing through the discrete GPU to a Windows VM; as-is, I just have a dual boot setup. Otherwise, my Ryzen 5900x serves just fine, maybe I want to switch from RTX 3080 to RX 7800 XT for linux reasons also (drivers work just fine now, though, it took some setup).

I even got the Wilds beta test to boot/run in linux, but there was weird graphical problems with textures missing/in the wrong places, vertices being stretched weird ways, etc. Worked perfectly fine in Windows, though, so it was a matter of software translation (for reference, with DLSS quality 1440p monitor res, lowest was 45-50 fps in base camp area with everybody loaded in)

 

[famous artist pipkun]

Pippa's curse has begun to spread, hopefully the Pippaposting quarantine holds or else the entire site shall fall

But all memeing aside, holy shit I guess it is actually an opportune time for the capippalists to be building PCs, I've already found a couple new tricks I want to try after researching parts today. I do wish GPUs weren't still a thousand dollars, but there are worse things to waste money on. Like gacha. Or Magic cards. Or that tequila shot wheel thing. Or prebuilt PCs. Or-

you dont need a 4xxx card. 1080tis are still great and like $400-500. i got a 4xxx card for the h265 encoder (plex) which is better than the 2xxx and 1xxx cards.

if youre 1080ping than 1xxxx cards are fine, even 3070-4070 card will play 4k games.

 

[Dispirited Helmet]

You really don't need to spend a thousand bucks on a GPU, unless you really want to crank things on 4k for some reason. Only reason I wish I had the extra money to splurge on a different system atm is I want Linux based stuff to be a bit less painless. I want an iGPU so I can try passing through the discrete GPU to a Windows VM; as-is, I just have a dual boot setup. Otherwise, my Ryzen 5900x serves just fine, maybe I want to switch from RTX 3080 to RX 7800 XT for linux reasons also (drivers work just fine now, though, it took some setup).

I even got the Wilds beta test to boot/run in linux, but there was weird graphical problems with textures missing/in the wrong places, vertices being stretched weird ways, etc. Worked perfectly fine in Windows, though, so it was a matter of software translation (for reference, with DLSS quality 1440p monitor res, lowest was 45-50 fps in base camp area with everybody loaded in)

Using my iGPU is, funnily enough, possibly what injured my computer...



See, I got the Wilds beta to run in a windows VM (I wasn't able to figure out a workaround for Proton or get my Steam Deck to run it), but even just starting the character creation screen was obviously pushing it and when the opening cutscene started my CPU cooler went nuts, and then died completely. Haven't been able to get anything out of it since, and since I've been cheating by constantly overclocking a i7-4790k for a very long time I don't dare do anything else gaming related for the moment. May just have been coincidence, and I could just buy a new cooler and see what happens, but... like I said, it's been a LONG time since I've completely replaced the base chips in my PC. This isn't the first time I've felt the limits of it.

As for the GPU cost, I am looking at cheaper chips, but what got me as far as I've gone with this system was overengineering. My PSU is still completely usable with any modern system because I overspent on it, my mobo and CPU lasted through my last GPU upgrade and have done admirably up till now, and pretty much everything other than the RAM is still reusable because I bought good shit the first time. If chips keep getting more expensive, I'd rather have a good AMD (I will not pay what people are asking for 40 series Nvidias I am not insane) that will hang in there for a while rather than needing to buy another one in a couple years after prices have spiked again...

I don't know. Even the second-tier GPUs are very expensive, and I haven't made up my mind yet.

 

[Realticule]

I miss the Pippa.

 

[Tamavitch]

Guys sometimes I feel like...nah. Nevermind. But it's as if...no. But it's like Pippa reads this place. I know there's no way but...