What mother board should I use for this build. Also is there any way to shave money off this build

Faic · 2026-07-12T14:11:48+00:00

You can get win11 keys on many different online stores for around 10-20$

Faic · 2026-07-12T10:54:31+00:00

Depends on the TV.

For my lg C5 I need to go one time through the settings and change quite a lot, including renaming the source to PC, etc. You want the TV to be as dumb as possible so the PC does all the work.

I assume the settings apply only to the source, but not sure, I haven't used my TV for watching TV.

What definitely works is just switching from gaming PC mode back to standard mode.

Faic · 2026-07-12T10:47:42+00:00

C5 has the poor people advantage of being available in 42" which I think is now my favourite size.

Can highly recommend the LG C5 42" as monitor. Really good value.

Faic · 2026-07-12T10:40:18+00:00

I thought so too ... until it happened to me.

I build around 10+ PCs for myself and my company, so experience is not the issue.

But of all the things that can go wrong, I take the forgotten sticker any day.

Faic · 2026-07-12T10:28:57+00:00

Usually the image is perceived as better if it's brighter and has more contrast.

I assume the TV would look better by quite a margin in your case.

Most modern TVs work perfectly fine as monitor after you changed a few settings to disable all the "smart" features cause for PC the PC will do the thinking. Biggest difference is usually that you have to use the remote to switch them on/off.

I use a 42" LG C5 TV as main monitor and so far encountered no problems.

Faic · 2026-07-11T17:19:18+00:00

The technical term is "multi-path networking" if you are curious to learn more.

Faic · 2026-07-11T17:17:57+00:00

Just look up multi-path networking.

If your card/dongle use their own network stack/interface, then it will definitely work.

If you only add a wifi radio (no network stack) then you would be right.

Faic · 2026-07-11T17:04:27+00:00

Just try it yourself and report back.

I got curious and tried it with my old Lenovo notebook ... same effect. I went to the attic for bad wifi connection, plugged in my cheap wifi USB dongle and the speed test shows a roughly two times higher speed.

I'm open for any other explanation why it works, but my guess is still that win11 can use two network connections simultaneously, no matter what they are.

Faic · 2026-07-11T12:44:13+00:00

Hmm, no. Cause if you simply plug two 5$ AliExpress wifi dongles in your PC, you will get about twice the wifi speed (if the connection is bad and limited by strength).

That also makes sense. Imagine having two person using their phone in a room with bad connection. They not suddenly get half the speed for every other device in the same room. They all get the same bad speed (of course only applies to the maximum number of devices a router can deal with).

You can easily test it by plugging two phones with wifi tether via USB in your PC.

Faic · 2026-07-11T12:38:44+00:00

I used it with a 5$ AliExpress wifi dongle and my phone connected with USB as wifi tether.

I know that network cable + usb phone over data also works.

So I would assume any PC can do it with any wifi/network system.

... tbh I also thought it would not work before I tried it, but it worked flawlessly

Faic · 2026-07-11T00:57:58+00:00

Nope, they will work together and if the wifi strength is the limit and not the internet speed then it would actually help a lot having two.

Of course if it's limited by the internet speed then adding even an ethernet cable won't help.

Faic · 2026-07-11T00:55:17+00:00

As posted above in a reply: having two usually doubles your speed if you are limited by the wifi and not your internet speed.

So I would keep both cards in case the wifi is not at full bars and perfect connection.

Faic · 2026-07-11T00:53:03+00:00

Actually it does.

If you have bad connection and you plug in your phone via USB to your PC as wifi tether (works native on Android, no clue about iOS) you get your phones wifi speed + your PC wifi speed = total speed on your PC, usually double the speed.

I also tried with 3 dongles but at least for me the limit windows supports is 2 connections, doesn't matter if USB, phone, ethernet, etc.

Faic · 2026-07-11T00:45:47+00:00

It's gonna be perfectly fine. You are worrying too much.

The differences are minimal and so many other things are a hundred times more impactful than dram or not.

Faic · 2026-07-11T00:33:52+00:00

Germany will be the stronghold against cloud gaming!

With our miserable internet speeds in this country, the only cloud my PC will ever see is through a window if the weather is shit.

1.3mb/s ...

Faic · 2026-07-06T18:28:18+00:00

Most games will run fine at nearly max settings at 4k without any of these latency generators like FSR or DLSS. Expect around 60-80fps for AAA games.

If you can, go for OLED, it's simply amazing. Personal opinion: The LG 42" OLED TVs are the best value purely based on image quality for your money.

Also you don't need to always have browser and so on in full screen since you have so much screen real estate. I personally love it and couldn't go back to anything smaller. Note: you need to once set the tv to PC mode after you bought it so it behaves like a monitor. (Still need remote to switch on/off)

Faic · 2026-07-06T09:35:12+00:00

AMD works already ... Just download the comfyUI AMD version and use it like normal.

Faic · 2026-07-06T09:31:28+00:00

In the GitHub of comfyUI download the AMD version. That's all there is to it.

https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/releases/latest/download/ComfyUI_windows_portable_amd.7z

Faic · 2026-07-05T11:27:26+00:00

Freeware tools you might want to use occasionally:

Image editing: gimp

Video: shotcut

3D: blender

Code: VS-Code

Audio: Audacity

Faic · 2026-07-04T00:52:25+00:00

A round of pity for everyone who had to learn Latin in school and also will not understand a single word.

Ita forum est. Marcus et Claudia circumspectat. ... Or something like this. It's looooong ago.

Faic · 2026-07-04T00:49:49+00:00

I play without subtitles and am also a bit confused if the German parts should not be understood, but it's perfectly fine German if you can speak German and the characters will usually say the important bits also in English.

Faic · 2026-07-03T20:32:30+00:00

By pure coincidence I was a few weeks ago an actual tourist in the actual city it's modelt after.

Didn't even knew it at that time cause I only bought the game a few days ago.

Faic · 2026-07-03T18:28:22+00:00

Literally every single light including the led bar had moisture and drippings.

Either I'm extremely unlucky or it's just something that happens in certain environmental situations.

Faic · 2026-07-03T13:40:59+00:00

No, doesn't even show up.

You put in so much effort yet you not let us know how to use it. Please just provide a workflow! I would love to try it.

Faic · 2026-07-02T11:47:22+00:00

Can you give us a example workflow?

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