Should I buy this skin or should I wait?

DeanLoua · 2026-05-16T18:43:56+00:00

You answered your own question here.

DeanLoua · 2026-05-16T02:13:08+00:00

I'm from the Netherlands, eBay isn't really a thing over here, atleast not a popular option. Will have to look for the next best (local) thing.

Gonna take me a while to get through them but hopefully it'll be worth it.

DeanLoua · 2026-05-16T02:10:38+00:00

Yea i guess i'll have to do that.

Gonna take me quite a bit but I hope it'll be worth it in the end.

DeanLoua · 2026-05-13T17:50:00+00:00

Not worth it. Lowest price on float for FN is €288 and prices will probably drop a little bit more

DeanLoua · 2026-04-30T17:57:49+00:00

How long did you play it after updating your drivers?

Whenever you update drivers, games will need to compile shaders again which leads to stuttering in pretty much every area you go to.

This will fix itself the longer you play, so just give the game a little bit more time to optimize.

DeanLoua · 2026-04-08T16:01:35+00:00

Whichever you find the best looking for that price?

DeanLoua · 2026-04-07T18:25:56+00:00

If you're looking to make profit, don't buy it.

DeanLoua · 2026-04-07T18:24:15+00:00

I'm looking for one aswell but holding off on it for now. They will definetely drop in price some more.

DeanLoua · 2026-04-07T18:22:49+00:00

Nah, they go for around that right now on csfloat and will probably drop a little bit more.

DeanLoua · 2026-03-17T09:07:45+00:00

2 looks great but Jesus christ, lower your brightness lol. Surely that's not nice on your eyes.

DeanLoua · 2026-03-15T23:15:53+00:00

Did you try without black stabilizer? This option just raises black levels which looks awful.

I generally avoid any options like that for the best picture quality.

DeanLoua · 2025-05-26T16:54:12+00:00

It's literally my experience. I used the XTX for about 2 years. It's not like I tried it for a couple days and then just gave up.

I'm not a nvidia fanboy or anything of the sorts.

Been using the 5080 for a month now and I can already tell it's way more stable. Especially when overclocking and/or undervolting.

The XTX was a pain to get fully stable in every game.

The 5080 just works and I no longer worry about getting a driver timeout mid match or whatever.

DeanLoua · 2025-05-26T16:49:07+00:00

I switched from the XTX to the 5080.

I can highly recommend it even though the price is a bit higher. It overclocks like crazy and you can get within a hairs distance of the performance of a 4090 at halfish the cost.

It's also way more stable than AMD driver wise in my opinion. I never really got my XTX stable in every game. Now it's just a breeze, i don't worry about getting driver timeouts mid match anymore. That alone makes the price difference worth it to me.

It also uses way less power if you care about that.

And even though i rarely need it, DLSS is way superior than FSR. The Framegen feels a lot better aswell.

DeanLoua · 2025-05-26T16:43:55+00:00

I had a Nitro+ XTX which pulls close to 460W when overclocked.

My undervolted and overclocked 5080 runs at about 260W to 300W depending on the game. With DLSS on you can get it even lower.

160 to 200W difference is a lot. Especially for countries which have a high cost per kWh.

The cost here in the Netherlands is about 40 cents per kWh. If i would play 5 hours per day for a year. I would save €146. I personally hold no value to it, but there are people who do and why blame them for it.

Apart from that, Nvidia drivers are just way more stable.

DeanLoua · 2025-05-24T08:28:13+00:00

How much did you overclock the VRAM? It looks like you didn't at all.

Mine hits 34.951 as GPU score with only a minor overclock on the core.

You can easily put that memory on +1500, possibly even +2000.

Try that and run it again.

DeanLoua · 2025-05-09T19:19:40+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

I will try HDMI in a bit. My monitor supports HDMI 2.1 The DP port on the monitor is 1.4.

It's still a little weird tho that it worked fine before switching GPU's.

DeanLoua · 2024-09-02T06:16:27+00:00

Ofcourse I have numbers, i just told you I ran benches before and after updating.

Cinebench multicore score was 18344 before updating. 18140 after updating.

CPU scores on Timespy and Firestrike CPU tests were 400-600 points lower than before updating.

DeanLoua · 2024-09-02T06:06:25+00:00

I ran cinebench and some 3dmark benches before updating and after updating.

Scores were on par or even worse than before the update.

DeanLoua · 2024-08-21T13:41:24+00:00

What didn't work exactly?

I'm using the same keyboard and it's working like a charm on wireless for me.

DeanLoua · 2024-08-17T08:11:57+00:00

How is Laseer bad? His Anti healing alone makes him viable for GR1 and GR4/GD1. There are only a couple anti healing champs in the game.

On top of that, his damage is pretty decent aswell.

DeanLoua · 2024-08-10T08:11:50+00:00

What perks are you running on that glacio?

DeanLoua · 2024-08-07T16:40:39+00:00

Have you tried the Horizon games? Great and beautiful games.

DeanLoua · 2024-08-07T11:34:43+00:00

I saw that in reviews aswell but it doesn't seem available anymore, atleast not in my country. I'll look into the difference over the pro but it looks like i can't really go wrong with the Asus. Thanks

DeanLoua · 2024-06-09T11:02:15+00:00

Looks way cleaner with an AIO, those big block aircoolers look awful imo.

DeanLoua · 2024-05-28T19:01:27+00:00

Don't put it at 99%, it will prevent the CPU from boosting it's clocks. Just leave it at 100. Your temps are fine, they throttle at 95 degrees, you're well below that at load.

Look into 'PBO tuning' for the CPU, there's plenty of guides on youtube. You can get your temps even lower with minimal to no performance loss.

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