I finally have some stability at my job and earning a little extra on the side, so I decided to make myself a nice gift for my birthday and also something to keep me inside the house all winter.
This is my gaming setup. All clean and black with David Bateson’s autograph hanging up like a religious item.
I choose this particular chair because of the brand. Razer really appeals to me, and for other 2 important reasons that being one the chair is in fabric. I had experience with leather chairs and despite they look nice in summer with just so little sweat your skin literally sticks on it.
But most importantly two, I bought it for the lumbar support and I have to say that this thing saves your back. I’m already suffering from back pain and most of the time I get the feeling this chair is adjusting me. I sit so comfortably and relaxed that my passion for gaming has finally come back.
First game I played was and still is Hitman. I’m doing a marathon of the trilogy trying to approach every mission differently and reading all the bios.
Of course I already did that many times but there seems to always be some particular I forgot or missed.
I bought it from Amazon with a monthly fee plan. Like I said, I’m having a big stability now at my new job and I’m scaling the positions pretty fast. Bosses are very pleased and so am I.
Their prices were quite steep. The order itself, shipping, and conversion rates all totalled to over $134 NZD in my country. Furthermore, my bank and invoice reads that I made two separate money out payments from two separate currency conversions.
Eventually the $73 USD one bounced back into my account. At first I was paranoid that I may have overpaid twice for the same thing. I’m not too fussed about a swift resolved issue where I don’t have to contact support in the event that I’d never see that $73 again.
I’m probably reading this incorrectly, but it raises the question why I was charged twice in the first place. Bear in mind those were two separate payments, with two separate currencies according to my invoice and bank. My bank reads both statements as NZD, but why would the invoice payments both be in USD and NZD? Why would a conversion rate be its separate payment when it would’ve been included in its respective currency?
I guess if Ringside is going to send it back to my account, I don’t see any reason why I should bother on a resolved oversight. But I can always be proven wrong otherwise.
Now commence the future me when it arrives in four weeks or so:
Well, It’s finally complete minus the graphic card that comes out next week. I’m using a 3090 RTX in the meantime and the 4090 will look very similar when I finish things up.
Hardware Used:
AMD 7950X CPU (16 cores / 32 Threads) 5.9Ghz single core / 5.350Ghz all core with OC
MSI MEG X670E ACE motherboard
64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum. DDR 5 6000 Mhz 30,36,36,76
Samsung 980 Pro NVME 4.0 2TB
Samsung 970 Evo NVME 3.0 2TB
Samsung 950 Pro NVME 2.0 512GB
EVGA 1600 watt T2 Power Supply 138amp 12V rail
Corsair 150i Elite 360 AIO with programable LCD pump head and fan controller hub
Fractal Define 7 mid tower chassis.
Nvidia RTX 4090 24GB GPU
When I get the 4090 I’ll max out Hitman 3 and post some benchmark results. Hopefully IOI will implement Nvidia’s new DLSS 3.0 so we can get some real performance boosts in RTX heavy areas.
Amazon’s got a small few early Prime deals – was gonna get the New Pokemon Snap game – but the sale price went out of stock as I was in my cart, fiddling with the shipping address! Was unable to complete the order! That is the worst luck I’ve ever had buying something!
I’ve even saved a 50$ gift card I got quite a few months ago for this specific game’s sale, only to get it ripped out of my hands at the finish line… if I’d done this an hour ago I probably would have gotten through… damn
UPDATE: Seems like they just went out of stock from Amazon, the price shifted to Third-party sellers! But slowly, the games returned back to the 55$ Prime deal, and I got it! Game secured for just 12$ total on my end!
Update Update: Game’s arrived now! Yay, so it really was fulfilled! Good.
Checking out the box, and I’m super weirded out that Bandai Namco’s logo isn’t even on the box! They’re the main developers, noted in fine print on the back, but otherwise there’s no indication it’s made by them – just the usual Nintendo/Pokemon Company branding on the box as usual.
I got my best friend who’s a bit of an alcoholic, drinks a lot of beer, so I bought this to have at home when he comes visit.
Usually we make sleepovers drinking and playing Warzone. I searched a lot for something different from the usual beer glass and came across this.
All the reviews are excellent.
I went to the mall today and bought this deadpool tshirt, Spiderman graphic novel, and won this pop doll in a claw machine so if anyone could tell me the fuck is this thing I’d be more than happy
As promised I’m back with a few benchmarks. It’s important to note that IOI appears to have a problem in their game engine with regards to ray traced reflections at the high setting. My game has constant stuttering as if it’s hitting some kind of bandwidth limitation. I checked and no CPU cores were maxed out, system RAM and video RAM were not being pushed past there limits and frame rates appear playable other than the strange stutter problem. My guess is that the Glacier engine has some sort of data throughput limitation that makes it unplayable even if you do have hardware that can push it.
So with that out of the way these screen grabs were run at 4k with quality DLSS mode and all effects maxed. RTX shadows are enabled on high and RTX reflections are enabled on medium. HDR is also enabled so the screenshots look kind of blown out.
100+ FPS is very solid. If IOI fixes whatever problem they are having on the high reflection setting the game would run a bit slower. If IOI were to add DLSS 3.0 support with frame generation it would probably push the game to 150FPS or more maxed out at 4k which is insane.
Personally, I tend to prefer Canada Dry, but Vernors is an institution around here and it’s the first time they’ve put out a new flavor in 150 years, so it’s a weirdly big deal. (Seriously, people are selling 12-packs for $40 and 2-liters for $25 on Amazon. )
At the start of this year I bought a new pair of headphones. I went from a wireless pair of steelseries back to Sennheiser gaming (now just called EPOS). I bought the bulky and less discreet GSP 500. I mainly choose Sennheiser due to my great history with the G4ME Zero (horrible name) headset that was based on the HD380.
While the GSP 500 had a great sound profile. The bulky design sadly made them uncomfortable to wear. Then yesterday I began to notice a lose connection. It would come and go. It made playing R6 almost impossible.
I decided to return them and go back to where my love for Sennheiser began.
The Sennheiser Game series. (now just Game and not G4ME, my biggest grip with series) I choose the Game One this time around, due to them being open back. This is the most comfortable pair of headphones I had the pleasure of wearing.
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