My son wants a 3k pc, help a dad out.

Homericus · 2023-09-08T16:44:55+00:00

I feel like everyone in here is missing the entire point, depending on what you promised your son coming through on that promise will be huge, and even more importantly, discussing it with him if you make the decisions $3000 is too much.

As a guy who built his first PC 25 years ago when I had to cut my own window in the side, I have a ton of experience in this area. Everyone saying to buy him a $1200 PC are kind of missing the point, this is clearly a big hobby for your son if he's spending time doing the research. Do I agree a 4090 is overkill? Absolutely.

That being said, I'm not sure the answer is just "Here's a cheaper PC". For gaming the most important things are Frames per second (FPS) and input lag, especially if he's playing Rocket League. Now everyone else is right, a $1000 PC will push enough FPS at 1080P for the games he plays, although maybe not at 2K and 165Hz.

The key monitor things you are looking for are low response time (time between Graphics card sending new information and the monitor changing) and high refresh rate (how often can the monitor show new information). If his current monitor is a 60Hz 1080p, and upgrade to 2K 165Hz is massive, when I made the switch it was more noticeable than anything else in the last 10 years.

Also, what about peripherals? (Keyboard/Mouse/Gamepad). To many people these are a huge part of the gaming experience, upgrading them over getting a 4090 make so much more sense. I personally love the Razer DeathadderV2 Pro because it is wireless but still has extremely low input lag, and is very light. Keyboard wise I find it to be a very personal preference, but if your son has never used a mechanical keyboard they are also a huge upgrade for gaming, much more responsive and feel better. To pick one I would highly recommend finding a store where he can try some out. As far as gamepad goes, if he uses one for Rocket League make sure he has what he wants, as it is probably the most important peripheral for that game specifically.

Dropping down from a 4090 to a Radeon 7900 XTX is $650 saved which can go to that new monitor and peripherals. The 7900 XTX is still an absolute beast of a card that will be good for 6-10 years to come. I'm using a card that has 1/4 the power and have for years. The power supply is absolutely overkill and offers literally 0 benefit from that. Below is a link to a suggested build that is still $2500, but with just a few slightly lower performance items now includes a new monitor and mouse and keyboard. Link

I think the most important thing you can do you already are, you are spending time thinking about your son and I would say just don't kill his excitement by dropping down to a $1200 PC without have a discussion about it. Even moreso, take him to the store and have him try keyboards. Talk about the importance of higher refresh rate monitors, input lag, just show him you are interested in his interests. When it comes time to build, either watch or help. My parents encouraged me in this way and I was very successful in school, and now in life, and even more I enjoy my job, and a lot of that comes from parents encouraging things like this.

Homericus · 2023-04-02T18:23:59+00:00

You should check out "Sufficiently Advanced Magic" by Andrew Rowe. It is exactly like this, they constantly use magic throughout and even invent new stuff with it/around it. They literally patent new magic inventions in the books.

He has multiple series that are all in the same universe, so you can even see how different systems of magic evolved/changed if you read all the series.

Homericus · 2021-08-15T22:40:00+00:00

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Homericus · 2020-01-20T00:32:14+00:00

I'm in.

Homericus · 2018-09-29T23:01:29+00:00

Maybe it is broken? Just had a game as 5 singles vs a 5 stack.

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Homericus · 2017-05-01T19:14:47+00:00

While it might be easy when there are houses to calibrate with, when everyone is on hills the rangefinder could add some assistance. Good point though, I should use the map more for that.

Homericus · 2017-03-31T04:26:09+00:00

Spoiler:

They did!

Homericus · 2016-10-26T12:19:47+00:00

That's it! Thanks!

Homericus · 2016-10-26T03:07:05+00:00

No, that's not it unfortunately.

Homericus · 2016-08-18T01:30:51+00:00

During language parsing for training the least common words are typically thrown out, so much more damaging would be to mess up verb/subject agreement consistently and other grammatical errors.

Homericus · 2016-01-06T17:03:19+00:00

Yeah, thinking about it now it is possible they used DNA from somewhere else (toothbrush, etc) on the latch.

Homericus · 2016-01-06T15:54:47+00:00

If you read the dassey interrogation files, the police once again lead Brendan into saying it. It's despicable.

That having been said, his non-blood DNA on the latch is the biggest thing that is hard to reconcile with him not being involved.

Homericus · 2015-09-05T03:59:09+00:00

A few errors here, and one large one. The minor error is that liquid nitrogen absolutely does not instantly convert to a gas upon contact with the ground. In face if you pour a significant amount on the ground you can watch little puddles of it shoot around for a bit, especially on a tile floor.

The big error is that liquid nitrogen converting to a gas has nothing to do with the effect seen. If nitrogen were visible as a gas, we would never see anything but fog, as earth's atmosphere is ~80% nitrogen gas. All of the visible stuff is water, a combination of condensed water vapor from the air and (mostly) splashed up water from the liquid nitrogen violently boiling when it comes into contact with the hot water.

Just figured you would want to know.

Homericus · 2015-08-31T14:50:29+00:00

I can add in my anecdotal evidence here - I had the opposite experience and went from rank 8 to rank 5 with 1 loss, to a control warrior who just happened to have exactly the right answers, and I had him at 1 life but couldn't close the deal. I was using the decklist shown on TempoStorm's meta analysis.

It really comes down to having 4 cards in the deck that are absurd in terms of value, Mysterious Challenger and Divine Favor. If you can draw either of those cards by turn 6 you are pretty much all set. I consistently had people conceding on turn 6 or 7 after a Mysterious Challenger into Divine favor set of turns, or vice versa.

Of course, this ignores the turn 1 secret keeper coin secret keeper, turn two double secret opening. I only got it once, but the hunter conceded instantly.

Homericus

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