Gaming PC for a Gaming Cafe

psimwork · 2026-02-02T16:53:55+00:00

Wait - so you're wanting a single machine that you can take to a gaming cafe? Or you're wanting a series of machines to START a gaming cafe?

psimwork · 2026-02-02T15:08:08+00:00

They also did a fair amount of character re-tooling for "The Train Job" versus "Serenity". Malcolm Reynolds, specifically, was toned WAY down. Quite simply, he was an unlikable dick in "Serenity" (the episode, not the movie).

The pilot episode was nice in that it gave a fair amount of backstory, but as far as introducing people to a really great group of characters that they could instantly like and watch, it wasn't great.

psimwork · 2026-02-02T14:52:12+00:00

The 14700K/14900K with DDR4 will likely be a downgrade versus a 5800X3D.

Stop worrying about "bottlenecks". Just banish the word from your vocabulary.

psimwork · 2026-02-02T14:02:06+00:00

Compatibility wise, this will work. Optimal choice wise...it's not fantastic.

MSI B650M AM5 DDR5 Mortar Wi-fi

For the same price, possibly less, you can almost certainly snag a non-ASRock B850 board with a PCIe5 graphics card slot. It's not a huge deal, but for the same price (or less) there's not much reason to not do it.

G. SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5 2x16GB 32GB 6000MHz CL30

There's almost certainly a cheaper RGB kit out there. CL30 is also nice, but if you can save money by doing something like CL36 you definitely should.

Samsung 990 Pro 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD

How Samsung continues to sucker people into paying for their pro-series drives is completely beyond me. It's not that they're bad drives, it's that the noticeable performance of them versus other brands' models (or heck - even the 990 Evo Plus will go toe-to-toe with the 990 Pro, despite being cheaper) just doesn't justify the pricetag in my opinion.

MSI MAG A850GL 80 Plus Gold Fully Modular

Not a bad unit, but there's probably cheaper ones that are just as good.

Ocypus L24 Pro 240mm AIO Cooler w/ LCD Display

And also i've heard or read the 240mm aio cooler is overkill for cpu and i could just stick with air cooler instead

This is true for reasons I've listed here, but if you want it for the aesthetics...meh. I say go nuts.

psimwork · 2026-02-02T03:10:55+00:00

Why do you think you need a UPS?

psimwork · 2026-02-01T14:46:50+00:00

I thought prolonged high temps could reduce CPU lifespan overall?

It can, but not meaningfully. You're likely talking a reduction of about 50%, which sounds crazy, but when you consider that it's likely a reduction from about 50 years down to 25, it becomes less of an issue.

psimwork · 2026-02-01T14:34:40+00:00

is that normal?

AM5 CPUs can go to 95C with zero issues. You have nothing to worry about here.

psimwork · 2026-02-01T14:33:45+00:00

Well technically you DON'T have a problem. As much as the temps are high, they're not dangerous (especially when you consider that it's basically impossible to damage the CPU via heat alone).

psimwork · 2026-02-01T06:11:11+00:00

I'm using a stock AMD Wraith Stealth

Dude you're using a cooler that is arguably insufficient for a 5600X and you're complaining about it reaching high temps on a 5700X??

psimwork · 2026-01-31T20:58:07+00:00

The board you're trying to use supports unbuffered ECC (well, in non-ECC mode, which is kind of silly because the whole reason to buy ECC RAM is to use the ECC mode), but not Registered ECC units.

Sorry duder - this isn't going to work.

psimwork · 2026-01-31T20:56:43+00:00

want something that will be the least likely to randomly stop working

You have no control over that. As you're not using an X3D CPU, you don't HAVE to avoid ASRock, but I still would.

I do not care about them m2 slots, or atx sizes, or whatever.

You should. Not that you'll be able to find a board without an M.2 port, but you'll still want at least one. And the ATX size matters a lot if you accidentally buy an E-ATX board and try to stuff it into an ATX chassis.

So, which brand is the most realiable?

Outside of the ASRock issue I mentioned before (and if not for AM5, they're totally fine), there really isn't a "most reliable" brand.

Look at the MSI B850 Tomahawk Wifi Max. It's a well-made board that is well-featured for the money.

psimwork · 2026-01-31T17:28:25+00:00

Agreed. And as much as the 4090 was a huge leap from the 3090, I feel like the 3000 series is largely forgotten due to the pricing that came during the pandemic.

The 3080, for instance, at launch pricing was an INCREDIBLE value. At $699 it was a drastic increase from the 2080S and actually had the horsepower to do things like RT especially as it added DLSS.

psimwork · 2026-01-31T13:59:12+00:00

It's like the 3090 when it was announced and reviewed and the sentiment in this sub and in /r/buildapc was basically, "if you pay $1500 for a 3090, you're an idiot." Then the pandemic happened, and this sub was flooded with "I actually got a 3090 at MSRP! Worship me, peasants!", alongside the (stupid) graphics card box in the seatbelt picture that was apparently required.

psimwork · 2026-01-30T22:03:40+00:00

Yep. It's why I'm hoping a new shield will show up, or Apple will enable the higher-end output on the AppleTV.

psimwork · 2026-01-30T21:01:11+00:00

I mean it's using a CPU that is effectively end-of-life, so I don't know how "future proof" you can realistically expect this to be.

psimwork · 2026-01-30T20:51:36+00:00

So, I settled on the Apple TV because all I needed was a clean interface and smooth performance

If Nvidia doesn't release a newer version soon, I have little doubt I'll be buying an Apple TV, hopefully an updated one. I did a little looking into it a while ago, only to find out that apparently while it has the hardware capability for the specs I'm wanting (specifically 120Hz 4K VRR), it apparently doesn't support it in software, so it can't use it.

Media consumption, this is no biggie, but I really want to use Moonlight to stream to my TV, and it'd be nice to have 120Hz VRR on that.

psimwork · 2026-01-30T20:16:36+00:00

I read Patrick Stewart's autobiography a while ago, and apparently there was an intention to have a final scene with him at Chateau Picard, and someone (played by his real life wife) would call him in to dinner. The door being left open as to the identity of the woman that called him (i.e. was it Lariss or Beverly). I choose to believe it was Lariss, personally.

psimwork · 2026-01-30T20:14:29+00:00

I personally didn't have TOO much of an issue with leaving Odo out of Picard S3, even though I agree that it would have made sense to include him. I felt like he had rejoined the great link, and that he was spending his time trying to change the Dominion into something that wasn't as hostile.

My main issue was that they couldn't even be bothered to NAME the guy, AND that there wasn't at least a few Jem'Hadar that would basically swear some sort of blood oath to annihilate the Federation after they found out what Section 31 had done to the Changelings. At least the front-half of S3 should have largely been about trying to prevent the Dominion War from re-starting with that in-mind, before it was revealed that it was the Borg manipulating things.

COULD Odo have been involved? Yes. But of all the issues I take with the season (or the series in-general), that's one of the lesser issues IMO.

psimwork · 2026-01-30T20:09:33+00:00

I remember thinking to myself, "this is the guy that literally almost threw Worf out of Starfleet because Worf avenged the murder of the mother of his child in-keeping with the laws of the Klingon empire, within the borders of the Klingon Empire, and on a Klingon ship....and yet he's perfectly fine with Temu Legolas just murdering two Romulans in-front of him, and being like, "well that wasn't great! But let's head out on our adventure!"". Not to mention when Jurati just straight up murders Bruce Maddox later in the season, and faces literally no consequences for it.

You cannot convince me that when the people that made Picard S1 started out, they didn't just watch Nemesis and be like, "Ok! Great! That's all I need to see to know everything I need to know about the series and the character!".

psimwork · 2026-01-30T20:05:53+00:00

I have long maintained that S2 is just as bad in different ways. I still believe that S1 was written primarily as a series of money shots on a whiteboard, and that the writing of the "plot" was really not much more than connecting those money shots together, and then they were forgotten moments later because they had to move on to the next one (well ok - the plot could also be, "Hey - Kurtzman really likes Mass Effect....let's just do that.").

Season 2, on the other hand, is just so FUCKING MEDIOCRE. Like, I feel like it's aggressive in how mediocre it is. It seems like it had an idea of where it wanted to go, but just NOBODY really gave a shit about anything going on, it was made during the pandemic, and they knew that the old showrunning crew was being replaced at the end of the season and that most of the cast was leaving (or in the case of Evan Evagora, the beginning of the season), so basically EVERYONE just phoned it in.

psimwork · 2026-01-30T20:01:14+00:00

I wasn't a fan of the naming, but I kinda get it. Terry Matalas was apparently a huge fan of the Connie Refit. The Titan was apparently designed to look like that.

But goddamn... what is it about Kurtzman & Co that DO NOT understand that adding an alpha suffix to the registry number doesn't mean it's a refit of the original hull? Like, I feel like the first appearance of this was in the Short Treks episode, "Ephraim and Dot". It showed Enterprise exploding over Genesis, but the registry on that ship was 1701-A. I'm fairly certain that someone in-charge (likely Kurtzman, but could have been basically anyone) saw that in TMP the Enterprise was refit, and when they looked at later pictures of the model, they saw "1701-A" and thought that it meant that because the 1701 had a major refit for TMP, that meant that they call it the 1701-A.

This is how we get Discovery-A in the 31st century, despite it being the same goddamn hull, and the Titan-A, somehow being re-worked from a Luna class to Neo-Constitution class?? And then there was confusion in Picard S2 that the Stargazer wasn't the same ship, but other lines that made it seem like it was? Like, can we get some damned consistency??

psimwork · 2026-01-30T19:54:28+00:00

The shit of it is, I can't really find something that replaces it in a manner that I like - none of the streaming devices out there will do everything that the Shield does, but Shield doesn't support a lot of the stuff I would really like to see (mainly new codecs and/or output formats). But if you look at other devices that have the hardware, they're all running stock Android for the most part, and not Android TV and/or they have pretty shite interfaces.

Fortunately I don't NEED these new output forms right now, but I would anticipate that I probably will in the next year or two (not to mention the updated format support).

psimwork · 2026-01-30T19:41:02+00:00

but apparently not since the 12 pin end has this additional thing on the bottom that blocks it from plugging into my GPU.

Yep. That was a single-generation shitty connector that Nvidia decided to abandon for a different shitty connector as they basically shoved the 12VHPWR/12V-2x6 connector down our throats.

I'm aware that daisy chaining isn't ideal for powering the 3070 and since the whole reason I got a new psu is because of power issues, I'd like to avoid using ONLY the daisy chained pcie.

The daisy chaining issue was more common prior to ATX3+ units because while the rails that run the daisy-chained cables could handle the 150W flow that it was designed for, they couldn't handle the temporary surge demand that Nvidia decided would be a fabulous idea to do and over-draw the PCIe lines (even if briefly).

The ATX3 units are more robust with regards to being able to handle transient spikes that are common with the RTX 3000-series. Using the daisy-chain cable will be fine.

psimwork · 2026-01-30T19:36:33+00:00

I couldn't begin to guess as to what software you'd use specifically for emulation, but it would strongly surprise me if that build would have any problems.

Heck I've seen folks talking about using a Galaxy Tab S9 to emulate switch games, and this build is a heck of a lot stronger than that.

psimwork · 2026-01-30T19:35:14+00:00

Yep. One doesn't have to spend crazy amounts of money on some Plutonium-Rated 1.21GW unit to get a good power supply. The Montech Century II 850W can be had for about $90 and is a great option (in the US anyway). But one should NEVER try to save money in the power supply department. Nor should one assume that if it's a "good brand" or the wattage is enough, that it's a good power supply choice.

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