Monday, 30 October 2023

Budget gaming PC build for the kids

I'm planning to build a budget gaming PC for my sons (age 6, 10, and 11). We currently have two Xbox consoles, but the boys need the capability to play simultaneously. At the moment, their game preferences mainly include Fortnite, FIFA, and Rocket League. However, I anticipate that their gaming tastes might evolve to include more demanding titles in the future.

As someone with limited experience in building PCs, I'm aiming to be cost-efficient without sacrificing too much on performance. The total cost of the build as it stands now is $734 / £691.

Any recommendations or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i3-12100F 3.3 GHz Quad-Core Processor 688.00kr
Motherboard Asus TUF GAMING B660-PLUS WIFI D4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard 1299.00kr
Memory TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory 292.00kr
Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive 259.00kr
Video Card MSI MECH 2X OC Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB Video Card 1849.00kr
Case Deepcool CC560 ATX Mid Tower Case 399.00kr
Power Supply Inter-Tech Argus APS 720 W ATX Power Supply 369.00kr
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total 5155.00kr
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-10-30 19:32 CET+0100



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Thursday, 26 October 2023

Al fin!!!!

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Conta de luz de R$ 720

Desculpa mas eu preciso desabafar.

Moro eu e meu namorado num apartamento. Na maior parte do dia sou eu em casa, trampando home office. Apenas eu, meu celular e o notebook. Quando queremos descansar, as vezes ligamos a TV e o Xbox pra ver algo no YouTube. Única coisa que usamos com frequência é um ar condicionado portátil porque o namorado é calorento. Morei sozinha por quase 1 década e tenho todas as contas de luz, água, emails e boletos de alguel de todo esse tempo. Claro que as cidades onde a empresa de luz é privatizada sempre foram mais caras mas nunca vi algo assim.

Mudei pra Brasília tem exato 1 ano, pra esse apartamento que estou. Luz sempre variou entre 250-350. Paguei chorando mas paguei, fazer o que. Mês passado chegou em 510 e eu comecei a suar frio. Fiquei uns 4 meses no desemprego por causa dum layoff e desvalorização do meu trampo e agora tô até o pescoço de dívidas. Esse mês veio ~720 e eu real não sei o que fazer.

Vendo foto de pé? Faço rifa? Bolo de pote? Procuro gato (é possível gato em apartamento?)? Engulo o choro e pago?

Já viram subir a luz tanto assim? Faz sentido tentar descobrir o que tá causando essa crescente, se pode ser um fator externo ou se o ar condicionado tá acabando com a gente?



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Rockstar acaba de twittear esto 😱

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i found the code name for metrial you on youtube

by my geuious hacking skills i found the codename of the nee youtube layout in late 2022/2023 but before we get on to that did u know that i leak consoles like for exzample xbox 720 and the ps6 looks like there gonna come out next yearz and with 69k with 1m FPS also the wii phone is gonna surpassed the switch amd pornhub 2 might be coming soon alright now the codename for metrial you youtube is "METRIAL ASS"



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Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Friday, 20 October 2023

back to the fog?

After a few years of not playing cod I finally got back into in for the halloween event. To brush up on my skills I finished campaign and Co-op with no problems. Now i'm ready to drop into warzone annnnnnnnnd i cant see a damn thing. everything is so foggy! I play on xbox One, I have tried all optimization setting and lowered the rez to 720 to no avail. whats going on? is there a fix or is this game just crap on xbox



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Thursday, 19 October 2023

Steam & Switch Versions Out Today + Ecto Edition Release

Haunt or Hunt as IllFonic’s GB:SU Possesses STEAM and Switch Platforms with the Ecto Edition.

https://reddit.com/link/17bvzf9/video/8so5gydvm8vb1/player

Prefer YouTube? Watch the trailer here.

October 19, 2023 (Lakewood, Col.) - Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed - Ecto Edition, a 4v1 haunt-or-hunt action-packed video game from the asymmetrical multiplayer experts at IllFonic, has joined both the STEAM and Nintendo Switch family today on October 19, 2023. Rated E10+, the game is available in the STEAM Store here and the My Nintendo Store here for $19.99. A physical version of Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed - Ecto Edition will be released from our physical partner, Nighthawk Interactive, later this year. Fans of Ghostbusters, STEAM, and Nintendo will now have the chance to unite forces or rally against current PC/Epic Games Store, PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One users as the game supports crossplay across all platforms.

“We are super excited to bring Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed to all gaming platforms.” IllFonic CEO & Co-Founder Charles Brungardt shares. “As a lifelong fan of Ghostbusters, IllFonic has been hard at work to bring busting and haunting to all fans with the Ecto Edition. We are expanding the story, adding new maps, ghost types, and more.”

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed - Ecto Edition is truly the full game package for new players with the digital version for only $19.99, and current players will receive all of the following with a FREE update.

The Ecto Edition will include:

  • Main Narrative Story Expansion - several new story acts to the narrative progression of Spirits Unleashed. New twists and turns give the occupants of the Firehouse a new, challenging adversary to contend with, along with new conversations to have. Level up to unlock and enjoy the updated and extended narrative.
  • New Ghost -
    • Overlord Ghost Type - The Overlord. An unrelenting spectral force. Unlike other specters who prefer to hide, the Overlord SEEKS. Born of pain, fear, and darkness, the Overlord is as mighty as they are clever. They’re imbued with never-before-documented passive abilities that make them even more difficult to tether. The Overlord’s aura emits a looming dread, compounding a creeping sense of fear within anyone in range. Alas, don’t expect Overlords to “slime” or “shock” those in their way; rather, they devastate them by swinging their deadly claws and hurling any physical objects they can sink their P.K.E. into. Wrangling with an Overlord is quite a horrifying challenge, any way you set it.
    • Overlord - Samhain Variant - Behold the Ghost of Halloween! Samhain is pure malevolence, driven by the unholy desire to create a sprawling legion of darkness under his evil command. The earliest accounts of Samhain date back to the seventh century. The Celts held massive feasts in his name, though whether to entice or deter him is somewhat unclear. Regardless, his immense power and command over other creatures, living and… nonliving, is irrefutable. On the very rare occasion that Samhain has been defeated and imprisoned, he has broken free from his shackles and risen again. Stronger… and angrier.
    • Overlord - Darklock Variant - Anguish is a feeling many are aware of, but few have truly experienced. Well, be assured, it is the goal of the Darklock to guarantee EVERYONE becomes intimately familiar. As long as suffering has existed, so too has this twisted type of Overlord. Facing off against the Darklock is harrowing, indeed, not only because of the pain it can inflict but also because of the twisted sense of euphoria it emanates while feeding off the foolish few who try to stand in its way.
    • Overlord - Gravebringer Variant - Human fear of death manifested, the Gravebringer drinks dread the way the modern-day skin bags imbibe pumpkin-spiced lattes; guzzled by the gallon! The Gravebringer seeks to unlock true darkness within the heart of the hopeless. Brave men and women have been left nothing more than quivering husks after only a few moments in the Gravebringer's presence. Isolating the weakest link in the chain and dismantling one’s resolve is a favorite pastime of this corporeal monstrosity. No other creature in any realm sends a chill up a spine like the Gravebringer.
  • 2 New Maps -
    • Petey's Pirate Cove - ‘For libations and fun, don’t walk, but run to Petey’s Pirate Cove!’ Scallywags and buccaneers alike will find games galore, grog by the gallon, and more ghostly apparitions than a sunken shipwreck. Shiver me timbers, indeed!
    • Galway Station - Subway patrons report sightings of ghostly old-timey train cars and encounters with tormented apparitions in the underground, particularly around Galway Station.
  • Ghost Bounties
  • Character and Gear Loadouts
  • New Gear Shells to Unlock
  • New Cosmetics and Added Tenure Level
  • Countless UX, UI, Gameplay Improvements, and MORE!

Technical details on the Nintendo Switch:

The team has been hard at work adapting the game for Switch. Performing at a dynamic resolution from a range of 720 (handheld mode) to 1080p at the maximum, 30fps (industry standard for Switch). IllFonic is constantly tuning the game to push its limits. 



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[Consoles] Halloween Event and New Ranked Now in Game!

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Friends!

The latest update brings a terribly exciting Halloween event “Cyberheim” with a new cyborg mode “Corruption”, a new device “Adrenaline”, a reworked Ranked Matches system and bug fixes.

Note: upon logging into the game, you’ll be getting an additional daily bonus of 10.000 WF$ until October 26th.

New Content

Content Changes

  • Added progressive bans for the Ranked Matches. Now, the ban time will increase with every left match: instead of the fixed 30 minutes, the ban times are now 5, 30, 60, 180, and 720 minutes.
  • Updated contract UI.
  • The crafting card window has been disabled.
  • Added the themed loading screen and music theme.
  • Added thematic Halloween maps.

Bug Fixes

Important

  • Fixed the 3PCs issue which caused kicks in PvE.

Weapons and Gear

  • Corsair HK433: fixed a bug due to which the character’s hand overlapped the weapon textures when using the iron sight.
  • Highwayman Famas F1 Special: fixed a bug due to which the weapon sight could sometimes work incorrectly.
  • PKM Zenit: 

- Fixed a bug due to which the weapon silencer could work incorrectly.- Fixed a bug due to which the weapon had no reloading animation in the third person view.

PvP

  • Manor: fixed an issue due to which some objects on the map could twinkle.

See you in the game!



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Sunday, 15 October 2023

Guys I found the prototype for the new Sony handheld

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Do you think Tim is right about digital games and next gen?

On Friday’s KFGD Tim stated that he thinks the next gen of consoles (ie PS6) will be digital-only. I’m curious whether everyone agrees with this prediction?

For me personally, I don’t think it’ll happen. I think it’s just too big a market to give up on yet - even if physical is only 30% or something of the potential console market, that’s a lot of sales to give up on for Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. I don’t disagree that digital (including cloud gaming) will continue to take up market share, but I think 2027/2028 will be too soon to give up on physical media altogether.

I also feel like people have been predicting this about upcoming generations for years. I even remember people in 2010 or so thinking PS4 and Xbox 720 would be digital-only.



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Saturday, 14 October 2023

Wumpa coins farm during weekends (Xbox platform)

If anybody plays this game on xbox and want to farm coins, please add me (GT: Eric Mayers 102) so we can help each other out on that matter. Most of the fanbase is on playstation, so it's kind hard to find people to farm, and playing with random the server is just way too terrible...

During weekends we can get the most amount of coins (x2 + x5 multipliers) which is around 720-800 coins per race on Eletron Avenue, for instance.

Thanks in advance!



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Thursday, 12 October 2023

720p streaming Lightstream Studio, what resolution for overlays?

Hey everyone. I tried using the search function to nail down an answer to my question, but no luck, so here I am.

I’ve recently started streaming from my Xbox on Twitch, and decided that I hate that I can’t have all the fun extras that come with using a PC/OBS, like overlays and alerts at a minimum. Unfortunately, due to my current financial situation and house setup, I’m not in a place to upgrade my setup yet (maybe if we move, possibly, but right now it’s not an option).

I’ve looked at Lightstream Studio and can deal with the fact that I’d be streaming at 720p 30 fps, and I’m okay with paying $8/month to spice up my stream a little while I’m figuring out the PC/setup situation.

I plan to design my own overlays, but the question that I can’t seem to figure out is what resolution the overlays need to be in. Every video on YouTube about designing your own overlays that I’ve seen, everyone is using 1920x1080 for overlays, and I’m assuming they all are streaming using PCs. If I stream in 720 using Lightstream, would 1080 resolution for an overlay downscale accordingly, or would everything look a mess, and I’d have to make the overlays also 1280x720 for it to work? Appreciate the help in advance!



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Pound cable cutting out fix for Samsung TV

All right guys I was troubleshooting this for a while today and figured out how to stop my signal from randomly cutting out.

First set TV video to 4:3, then adjust your Xbox video settings to the following

480 yes 720 no 1080 no

I am using an older Samsung LCD TV from about 15 years ago as well as a 7 port HDMI switcher and mClassic scaler

Edit: I'm supplying the pound cable with the additional 5v 1A power cord



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Monday, 9 October 2023

Sunday, 8 October 2023

Monday, 2 October 2023

Screen tearing/lagging using Pound HDMI adapter

Dug my Xbox out of some moving boxes after it's been sitting there for a few years. TSOP v1.1 with the clock cap delete, SATA HDD with a startech and 80 wire cable. Xbox was bought non-working but it was just a single 120V connector pin that somehow unsoldered. Bios is Xecutor but unsure of version right now. Pound adapter is running off of USB power. TV is set to Game Mode which I've heard is better for the Pound adapter.

Essentially what is happening is after loading up XBMC v3.5.3, I'll load up a game like Halo 2 or COD 3 and will see some weird jagged line at the top 20% of the screen. Anything above that line will be slightly delayed from what is below the line. There are a bunch of things that could be tested but right now I can't find my composite video cable and don't think I own a TV with composite input so I'm stuck using the Pound adapter for now. When I turned off 1080 and 720 in XBMC and ran Amped 2, I noticed no tearing but didn't test Halo 2 again (I'll test more tonight). I don't see any tearing in XBMC regardless of video settings but I think that's just due to the menu system being pretty static above that 20% line on the screen so it's not obvious if it's tearing.

Is this an HDMI adapter problem? Is this a PSU cap problem? Motherboard cap problem? Other issue? Looking at reviews, it seems like the Pound adapter isn't as highly reviewed as it was when I bought it when it came out so I'm leaning towards that being broken but don't want to start throwing money at this until I'm sure. I've worked with building VGA interfaces on FPGAs in the past and it reminds me of an incorrect pixel clock or some video buffer problem. Also the fact that I bought this Xbox with strange damage to a power connector pin suggests that maybe it received a power surge that could have done further damage. There were no problems with this Xbox when I last used it so it's certainly possible a cap went bad while stored.

I'll attach a photo tonight if I can replicate it.



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