Aaron and friends build PCs (help) - Build underway!

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Bertie
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PostRe: Aaron and friends build PCs (help) - Build underway!
by Bertie » Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:40 pm

I’m surprised it doesn’t line up. The GPU is on the PciE
Slot. Lay the case done on its side with the window pointing up. Then try to get it flat and straigh and it should line up with the screw holes and the hdmi slots would be clear.

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PostRe: Aaron and friends build PCs (help) - Build underway!
by OldSoulCyborg » Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:56 pm

Bertie wrote:I’m surprised it doesn’t line up. The GPU is on the PciE
Slot. Lay the case done on its side with the window pointing up. Then try to get it flat and straigh and it should line up with the screw holes and the hdmi slots would be clear.


Yeah, it's really weird. I thought maybe the fact it's kind of resting on the fan might have something to do with it, but that's all the way on the other side of the case and shouldn't have that big of an effect on the back? I could move that fan to the other side so it's on the side where the pop-off front panel is. Airflow would be worse (probably?), but it would at least eliminate that as a potential cause of the issue and allow me to focus on other things.

The pci-e slots on the case are pretty small though, so maybe it's just an issue with the case?

Anyway, it's ddefinitely in the slot as the computer is now up and running (though I somehow managed to disconnect my HDD while putting it all together (which I think is where my keyboardd chattering fix startup app is located, because it's not running at the moment andd all these double inputs are driving me nuts!))

Edit: Played some Portal. Looks way nicer than I remember. Also seems somewhat more demanding than I remember. Weird. Anyway, back to my lo-fi 2D platformers and rhythm games at a totally unnecessary 1000fps or something.
(temps were good, getting to around 70°C at the highest)

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PostRe: Aaron and friends build PCs (help) - Build underway!
by Dowbocop » Tue Jan 03, 2023 11:27 am

OldSoulCyborg wrote:
Bertie wrote:I’m surprised it doesn’t line up. The GPU is on the PciE
Slot. Lay the case done on its side with the window pointing up. Then try to get it flat and straigh and it should line up with the screw holes and the hdmi slots would be clear.


Yeah, it's really weird. I thought maybe the fact it's kind of resting on the fan might have something to do with it, but that's all the way on the other side of the case and shouldn't have that big of an effect on the back? I could move that fan to the other side so it's on the side where the pop-off front panel is. Airflow would be worse (probably?), but it would at least eliminate that as a potential cause of the issue and allow me to focus on other things.

The pci-e slots on the case are pretty small though, so maybe it's just an issue with the case?

Anyway, it's ddefinitely in the slot as the computer is now up and running (though I somehow managed to disconnect my HDD while putting it all together (which I think is where my keyboardd chattering fix startup app is located, because it's not running at the moment andd all these double inputs are driving me nuts!))

Edit: Played some Portal. Looks way nicer than I remember. Also seems somewhat more demanding than I remember. Weird. Anyway, back to my lo-fi 2D platformers and rhythm games at a totally unnecessary 1000fps or something.
(temps were good, getting to around 70°C at the highest)

Didn't they do an RTX update for Portal? Thought I'd seen that on Steam recently.

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PostRe: Aaron and friends build PCs (help) - Build underway!
by OldSoulCyborg » Tue Jan 03, 2023 12:14 pm

Dowbocop wrote:Didn't they do an RTX update for Portal? Thought I'd seen that on Steam recently.


Yeah, that's what I was hinting at.

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PostRe: Aaron and friends build PCs (help) - Build underway!
by aayl1 » Tue Jan 03, 2023 1:24 pm

OldSoulCyborg wrote:
Dowbocop wrote:Didn't they do an RTX update for Portal? Thought I'd seen that on Steam recently.


Yeah, that's what I was hinting at.


In defence of Dowbocop I was also halfway through writing a post yesterday helpfully explaining why portal looked better and took up more resources before I realised "oh he's joking" haha.

Been very happy with my setup - had Control running on a lovely smooth 60FPS with all the Ray tracing and Ultra options etc. Good even get about 100fps but I limited it to save some GPjUice for streaming to twitch.

Will try to get some decent pics of the finished setup. It's not perfect but it's mine and I love it a lot. Big thanks to everyone again!

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