Already set. I'm not that competitive player and my reflexes are worse than a sloth's. So I didn't even bother to buy a higher refresh rate monitor than 60.

[–] Hootz@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is why I do love that my PC is powered by renewable energy. It blows my mind how expensive power is everywhere else, plus I don't wanna game if it means I gotta roll coal like huge parts of the world.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Quebec / BC moment

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

[–] Sophocles@infosec.pub 9 points 7 months ago

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 2 points 7 months ago

Nice cucumber you got there.

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

*drooling*

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I game on lower resolution because a lot of modern games are too hyper detailed for me and I get lost in the crisp information density. That and I hate the sound of computer fans

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I get lost in the crisp information density.

Man you're gonna hate this thing called the real world. I hear the pixels are mere nanometers across

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's the crisp part. A lot of modern games seem to be obsessed with making every single pixel pop out at you. Rummaging around outside is not like that it's softer. A real world comparison would be something like malls which are obsessed with making every inch of visible space distinctly pop. I also hate being in malls

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Oh like too saturated and colorful. Yeah I get that

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Buying Noctua NH-D15 because it keeps the CPU the coolest
Buying 360mm AIO because it is the most silent

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I have a Watt-Meter right on my PC plug next to my monitor so I can always see how much I consume. It's crazy how much the monitors alone take up, it's kind 40 KW/h each. I'm considering removing one of them.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

Do you mean kW or kWh?

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

A typical wall outlet can only draw 1800w (1.8kw) no way is it drawing 40kwh (kw/h is a nonsense unit in this context). If it's drawing 40wh ghats actually quite low, a typical monitor is closer to 80-100w while powered on.

Where I live electricity is about 10c/kwh (cheap I know) so a 100w monitor is costing me about a cent an hour. More than worth it imo but you make your own decisions.

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

But seriously though, I cut off a good 30-40% from my GPUs power limit and would you look at that, I still enjoy the games I play.

Have to run most of them at low to medium settings anyway, so might as well.

Only thing left to improve it further would be undervolting, I should try that at some point.

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Undervolt it too. Depending on what GPU you have, you might drop an additional 20-40% without a performance hit. An older GTX1070 I used to have dropped power consumption by 40%. The energy savings weren't that big, but it was nice and quiet

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Currently using a GTX 970 on EndeavourOS, I believe tuxclocker can do undervolting, haven't tried it yet

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Undervolting has the added benefit of reducing silicon degradation. I don't know how much it'll help your GPU, considering it's age, but it's something

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

I've put it through absolute overclocking hell, and it still runs as happily as it always did, so there's that.

[–] ooosssay@ani.social 2 points 7 months ago

Current state of the world

[–] Jourei@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Games that drop framerate when game loses focus are fun. Something like Wurm or RS don't need fancier framerate when I'm not even looking!

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

I paid for the full 7700xt I am going to use the full 7700xt