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I thought you would be tallergratz mate.
I hated those before meYDAY???!!!?!?!?! I literally hate you!
It's a bit like modding cars, only with a somewhat different mindset (easiest analogy for me).
I don't quite understand the point of spending lots of money on various aesthetic (non performance related) mods for vehicles. If I was going to do any modification, it would be performance orientated and nothing else. Because for me, I don't spend time outside my vehicle staring at its every detail all that often, I spend my time in the driving seat and care much more how it feels to be in that seat & the feedback/emotions it offers me. I choose my vehicles based upon how they make me feel driving them & their looks is a distant consideration. I would happily drive the ugliest of things if it happened to deliver the most rewarding set of feelings where it matters most.
For aesthetic mods, I would much prefer to just keep those funds to the side & put them towards the next change of vehicle.
Quite a lot of people spend a lot of money making their basic model vehicle look perfect to them on the outside. But when they're driving it, they don't get to appreciate it for themselves... perhaps it some form of peacocking mentality, I dunno.
When it comes to computers, I really like putting the effort into making it look nice. I like to stick my case on top of my desk, next to my monitor, even if it takes up useable workspace & once in a while I can look over and appreciate that I put that thing together and I quite like how it looks. It's different for me to the above, because I get to appreciate the aesthetic for myself and it offers enough personal reward to be worth the effort and expense.
I've known a few people who would even sacrifice the performance level of their components in order to leave more budget to make things look just right.
This wouldn't be me, if the choice was between looks and performance... I'd always choose performance.
I am not going to claim to be able to put together anywhere near the prettiest or cleanest of builds like some can and I'm not the most artistic person, but to me, it's a little bit of artistic expression that I made for myself and I'm the only one who needs to be able to appreciate it. One of the geekiest forms of art around, for sure
That's my reasoning at least, sounds to me that your opinion of aesthetically modding PCs is more like my opinion of aesthetically modding cars, redundant.
But I'm with the other guys... that EVGA card has to be one of the ugliest behemoths I've seen in a long time
. And I suppose if I am honest all other things equal I would pick the more attractive part. I just would not pay more or sacrifice performance for it.
Yeah good points
As for the car analogy
I used to have flashy cars.... Then I had a child. Now I have a 1.5 diesel quashqai
Haha, done all that this morning to get in her indoors good graces
Cheers Fella
. Managed to hit 2100MHz in Time Spy with no issues so thinking maybe 2150 might be doable (still had plenty of thermal and power available).
GratzArrived Thursday, too busy testing but finally got round to posting
Hopefully many more like you left their MSI orders for some immediate stuff so I can finally get my hands on my Duke (in days or weeks)
The RTX wasn't the only card with 4K/HDR
The 1000 series cards came with it so nothing new to jump about the only part that is new with 2000 series is RT & DLSS.
The RTX wasn't the only card with 4K/HDR
Yay!!! It is here and installed. Now to play some much needed games
Arrived Thursday, too busy testing but finally got round to posting
Oh go on then.
Arrived Thursday morning.
Cool story bro.Uhhh had helluva time setting up my wife's machine this morning - took out her two other GPUs (980 Ti liquid cooled and 580Ti) and her fan controller (got her a nice new fan controller as well because the other one she had was crap) put in the new 2080 Ti, rigged up all the fans, did the cable management and fired up the machine...nothing - black screen. I hadn't switched the BIOS to boot from Intel GPU and had no way to get in to the BIOS to do it - had to rip everything apart again, install the old 980Ti again to get output to the monitor and then change the BIOS. The undo everything again, reinstall the 2080 Ti and bam - working.
Now working on my machine - had to rebuild it from scratch due to a recent incident with lightning, and reinstall windows 10. Current updating Windows 10 over 4G so I don't mess up my wife's streaming over the ADSL - once windows is updated I will install the Nvidia drivers and hopefully I haven't accidentally given my wife my good HDMI cable and can still hit 60hz on my 40" 4K.
Got a nice OC out of my wife's 2080 Ti - +175 GPU clock and +700 memory. I could probably squeeze more out of it (Nvidia OC Scan gave me +177 GPU) but she was grumbling about me taking too much time so that is what she gets for now
If she got better bin than me, that is coming out of her machine tomorrow morning at 6am when she is still asleep and going in my machine - will see how mine OC's once I finish doing all the updates
At this point I am very happy I have an H100i v1 so I can plug my HX850i into it since I only have 2 USB2 headers on my motherboard
AMDs Fury Xs were the first 4k gaming cards
