can i hear from anyone who actually does pc gaming and also owns a ps5

is it worth it

be honest

#ps5 #pc #gaming

Maingear’s New PC Came Out of a Time Machine https://petapixel.com/2026/01/29/maingears-powerful-new-pc-looks-like-its-straight-out-of-the-1990s/ #maingearretro98 #photoediting #videoediting #Technology #computer #maingear #windows #nvidia #News #amd #pc

Should I buy an ATI Radeon HD 4870 GPU to build a period accurate Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Linux gaming PC?

#Radeon #Intel #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming #PC

📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/d3zmFAHLMtshR2WsiF6MM8

<span style="color:#1b5e20; font-weight:bold; font-size:21pt; line-height:1.2">Formation Z : Lancement Multiplateforme Annoncé pour Mai 2026</span> <span style="color:#2e7d32; font-weight:bold; font-size:18pt">Un nouveau jeu d'action-aventure se prép

#news #pc #platform #release #fzformationz
Enjoy

This is basically where I am reviving this old PC (not that old, but still 7 years at this point)

It hasn't been booted up for at least three years now. At first it showed white LED with 97 error code on the motherboard... Which usually means VGA error so something wrong with the GPU (GTX 2080) the monitor didn't have any signal.

(By the way, those monitors all use DC power input and they are all in different voltage... I used the wrong power adapter at first...)

I tried to clear BIOS (Asus has a button) and the error code became b2 (at first I thought it was 62...) The interweb says it's some jibberish stuff about it...

At this point I'm just going to mess around... I decided to completely disconnect the CMOS battery but damn it's under the GPU 🥹 at the same time I moved the GPU to another PCIe slot... After all these it finally booted up into safe mode. And then I turned off "fast boot" and secure boot. Upon restarting it went straight into BIOS again... I was like, what the fuck, isn't there a stupid Windows 11 on it??? But I checked SATA configurations in BIOS - all empty including m2!

I thought there must be some connection issue on the m2 slot so I opened it up and it was EMPTY! Now I recalled I moved that m2 SSD to the machine I'm using now..... Damn it

Then it occurred to me that while I was looking for a USB stick to dd the fedora server ISO into, I saw a Samsung 2.5 inch SSD in the drawer. At the time I was thinking, this is random, where does it come from lol

Now I can use it! Problem is, 2.5 SSD needs SATA power cable 🥹 so I dug out the big box I throw all computer parts in and found the bag where all PSU stuff are... And I do still have two SATA power cables! Another box has a SATA data cable! What a miracle 😂

#homelab #diy #pc

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Ich habe mir ein #Linux #PC-System aufgebaut, welches als Server dienen soll – im Betrieb ohne Tastatur und Monitor.

Nun musste ich feststellen – ohne einen über #HDMI angeschlossenen Monitor geht nichts. Ein #boot Vorgang erfolgt nur wenn der Monitor angeschlossen ist.

Kennt jemand eine Lösung für den System-Start eines Servers (ohne Monitor)?

#pcgaming needs a #PC and I've got a #desktop #GamimgPC I'm very proud of: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/NaClKnight/saved/XYzfmG

I name a lot of my gear: PCs, phones, car, etc.
When my wife introduced me to desktop PCs, i was so excited that i named it "Infinite" for obvious reasons.

When i built a brand new PC near the beginning of the panini, i had to call it "Infinity +1" like the TV Tropes article (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InfinityPlusOneSword)

I've tweaked it enough that this is currently Infinity +3 lol.

I'm a little bit of an #AMD stan (underdog + red theming? Damn.) so it's a #Ryzen 5800X3D #CPU and a #Radeon 7900 GRE #GPU.

It's a showcase build, so i use two 55" 4k 120Hz TVs as monitors since i play from the couch and we use this setup as an entertainment center too.

That custom cooling loop is cool AF (yeah i know) and also more expensive and troublesome than it's work but damn it's cool.

I'll post my wife's build too soon. Hers is a different kind of wild.

I promised to post my wife's #pcgaming #PC. You've seen mine, aka Infinity+3. Now check out OWLSZN-Wavy. a #desktop #GamimgPC @AllKeysGDS and I are very proud of: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/NaClKnight/saved/th9t3C

My wife taught me how to build a PC back in 2016. I was a console and laptop guy before her. I built my first PC based on hers at the time, and then just kept building .

Unlike my overly optimistic ass, she values stability over theoretical performance and is old enough to have nightmares about manually overclocking things. She held on to her old build for years until she finally acquiesced and, moved from an #Intel 4790K to a 13400F #CPU. She skipped DDR4 entirely and hopped from DDR3 to DDR5. She paired that with an #NVidia 3070 Ti #GPU

I'm an #AMD stan (underdog + red theming? Damn) so she stuck to Intel/Nvidia so no weird bugs would affect both builds

That custom cooling loop is more expensive and troublesome than it's work but damn it's cool.

She didn't want a vertical GPU (yet) or a sensor panel to monitor temps, but she WAS interested in wall mounting this beast since the case (Thermaltake P6) supports it.

It was a pain finding a wall mount that would suffice, and then bolting it to the wall, but that look? *whistle noise*

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A photo of a turquoise desktop PC mounted to a white wall behind it. The internal components are illuminated by blue and purple lights and tubes run from the reservoir on the bottom to the CPU on the top left. A PC monitor is partially offscreen

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A photo of a turquoise desktop PC mounted to a white wall behind it. The internal components are illuminated by blue and purple lights and tubes run from the reservoir on the bottom to the CPU on the top left. Two PC monitors are wall mounted to the right of the PC, below paintings of black people. A wood desk lies below, partially offscreen

»Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption #key if asked—you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that:
#Windows 11's online Microsoft Account requirement means your #PC is automatically backing up its data #encryption key to the #cloud, and #Microsoft says it will hand those over to the #FBI if requested via legal order«

Which companies have no #ITSecurity to hide and are then amazed that they have been/are being "hacked"?!

👉 https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-bitlocker-encryption-keys-give-fbi-legal-order-privacy-nightmare

So, Windows PC users using iPhone, what are you using to save / archive your photos? Where is your gallery -- entirely online in iCloud or is your PC your primary go-to storage?

How do you interact with them / edit them on your Windows PC?

My poll from the other day ended:

#Windows #PC #Android #iPhone #phones #cellphone #mobile #tech #poll #Google #Apple #photography #photos #gallery #imageeditor #askMastodon #question #tech

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Poll asking Windows PC users what phone they use. It shows 42% iPhone, 53% Android