Recent content by Zed Clampet

He asked what was most important, and for games that's the GPU by a longshot. The majority of games will play just fine on any reasonable CPU. By your reasoning, I should have also mentioned memory, storage, motherboard, cooling and power supply since you can't play games without them.

For gaming, the GPU matters most. For AI, the GPU For everything else, the CPU matters most What you need really depends on all the ways you are going to use it. Thirty-two GB of RAM is a little better than 16 in most cases, but RAM is so expensive right now that I'd likely just go with 16...

Well, I just learned something interesting about pretzel salt. I thought there was really no difference between pretzel salt and regular coarse salt. They are both just salt. But once I actually used pretzel salt, I realized there was a big difference. I happened to have some (long story), and I...

I missed that Monster Train 2 had be rebalanced to be more difficult. I was confused when I went on a long losing streak, which I finally broke yesterday. Covenant 10, the highest difficulty, is now truly brutal, which is as is should be. Also, there is another whole part of the game that I've...

Because I need some place to ramble on endlessly about games like Monster Train 2 without filling up the monthly thread.

This game doesn't have a demo, sadly, but is made by the Pal World devs, and is, appropriately, the most bizarre-looking deckbuilding game I've ever seen. https://store.steampowered.com/app/919370/Overdungeon/?curator_clanid=41648656

Oh god, I don't know how I missed this, but friend of Nintendo, PocketPair (Pal World) has announced an Animal Crossing-like spinoff of Pal World. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4031890/Palworld_Palfarm/ Anxiously awaiting the lawsuit that claims farming is owned by Nintendo. Pal World...

Holy $h!t. I woke up, came down to my computer. I woke it up to check the time, and it was 3:40 pm. It was probably 6 or 7 am when I finally went to sleep, but I expected only to sleep a couple of hours. My sleeping problem is mostly over. I'm back to having my normal level of insomnia. Unless...

This is kind of cool: A computer inside a keyboard, which is kind of how I started out with computers using the old Atari...

Personally, I think this is amazing: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-pcs/asus-goes-all-out-with-its-new-rog-g1000-gaming-pc-the-worlds-first-to-have-a-holographic-fan-system-built-into-the-case/

If you need to catch up: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/live/news/ces-2026-announcements/

Oops. I looked at the video and mistook the upgrades for cards. Obviously, I needed to be more careful when making this thread.

I'm having a hard time finding a wireless mouse that gives stats for when it's plugged in, but it makes sense that it would be very slightly better. I actually am using a mouse this way, but only because they didn't offer a wired version. One thing you need to know, however, is that in order to...

The 5090 apparently runs 8k fairly well, so I assume it would run 6k. At current prices, though, I no longer consider the 5090 a consumer card.

Steam tags for the win. Since they were all listed as deckbuilders, I just opened the store page and looked at the screenshots to see if there were cards or similar. I saw a hockey manager game listed as a rougelike autobattler. It irritates me that this is actually correct. Speaking of sports...