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Just curious what everyone is running. My setup is: -Ryzen 9 7900x (microcenter deal)

-AMD Reference 7900xtx

-Asus B650e-f mobo

-32GB g.skill flare ddr5-6000

-Acer Predator 1tb nvme 4.0-7000

-Inland professional series 1tb nvme 3.0

-Id Cooling 280mm aio

-Corsair Ax-850 Power Supply

-ThermalTake View 71 Full Size Case

-Lian Li Strimers (gpu and mobo)

-Antec Riing Fans

Dual booting CachyOS and Windows 11 at this time.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thinkpad e14 w/ ryzen 5500u

Not the perfect solution, my main PC is in storage currently. The thinkpad does everything I need it to. I can play age of empires 2 and 4, company of heroes 2, doom wads and WoW private servers. In fact, its managed to have good performance in every game ive tried save for Elden Ring and some AAA games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have a GL533VD laptop with an i7 and GTX 1050

  • Upgraded RAM to 32GB
  • Upgraded storage from 7200rpm HDD to 1TB SATA SSD and 500GB NVME drive
  • upgraded wireless card to an AX capable one (only use Ethernet at home anyway)

Runs Linux Mint 21.1 and usually using Steam's Proton for games, but have used HeroicGames for my epic library.

Usually I play Rocket League with forced compatibility in steam with the only issue being in-game voice chat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • Ryzen 7 5800X
  • B550-A Pro
  • 16GB ddr4 2133MHz
  • RTX 3050
  • Pop!_OS 22.04
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ryzen 7 5800X w/ be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 cooler

ASRock X570 motherboard

32GB (16GB x 2) DDR4 RAM @ 3200MHz. Corsair LPX

EVGA FTW 3 RTX 3080 Ti (snagged used for $615!)

1TB Intel 670p SSD (Windows 11), 500GB Samsung 970 Evo SSD (Manjaro), 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD, 3TB WD Red HDD

Corsair 750W PSU (I forget the model, and yes I know it's a little low-powered for my GPU. It's a holdover from when I had a 5700 XT and 3600X)

Fractal Meshify 2 Compact case.

Dual-booting Windows 11 and (as of today) Manjaro. I had been running good ole' Linux Mint for awhile but got bored and tried something else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine's not as insane as yours, but I'm content with it.

i7 8086k @ 5.1GHz
Reference 6700xt
32GB DDR4
Louqe Raw S1

Plays everything I need, and I'm dual-booting Garuda and 10.

Out of curiosity, why pick Cachy? Nothing against it, I've just not encountered it until this moment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very nice! I haved used garuda before and liked it a lot. I switched from garuda to cachy when I got the 7900xtx as I couldn't update llvm and mesa to experimental versions without breaking a bunch of dependencies to get the gpu working. Cachy already had those optimizations built in and ended up having a lot of optimizations I liked (BORE scheduler, etc) so I have stayed on it since.

Its a newer distro, but has good support and very friendly devs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does the change in scheduler help out in CPU-bound games?