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Thinkpad e14 w/ ryzen 5500u
Not the perfect solution, my main PC is in storage currently. The thinkpad does everything I need it to. I can play age of empires 2 and 4, company of heroes 2, doom wads and WoW private servers. In fact, its managed to have good performance in every game ive tried save for Elden Ring and some AAA games.
I7-6700, gtx 1070, 2x8gb ddr3 1600mhz. Running Arch Linux
Ryzen 7 5800X w/ be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 cooler
ASRock X570 motherboard
32GB (16GB x 2) DDR4 RAM @ 3200MHz. Corsair LPX
EVGA FTW 3 RTX 3080 Ti (snagged used for $615!)
1TB Intel 670p SSD (Windows 11), 500GB Samsung 970 Evo SSD (Manjaro), 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD, 3TB WD Red HDD
Corsair 750W PSU (I forget the model, and yes I know it's a little low-powered for my GPU. It's a holdover from when I had a 5700 XT and 3600X)
Fractal Meshify 2 Compact case.
Dual-booting Windows 11 and (as of today) Manjaro. I had been running good ole' Linux Mint for awhile but got bored and tried something else.
Steamdeck
ryzen 5800x, radeon 6800xt, 32gb 3200mhz ddr4, EndeavourOS
Mine's not as insane as yours, but I'm content with it.
i7 8086k @ 5.1GHz
Reference 6700xt
32GB DDR4
Louqe Raw S1
Plays everything I need, and I'm dual-booting Garuda and 10.
Out of curiosity, why pick Cachy? Nothing against it, I've just not encountered it until this moment.
Very nice! I haved used garuda before and liked it a lot. I switched from garuda to cachy when I got the 7900xtx as I couldn't update llvm and mesa to experimental versions without breaking a bunch of dependencies to get the gpu working. Cachy already had those optimizations built in and ended up having a lot of optimizations I liked (BORE scheduler, etc) so I have stayed on it since.
Its a newer distro, but has good support and very friendly devs.
Does the change in scheduler help out in CPU-bound games?
I think it does. D4 and Halo seem to be on par or slightly ahead of windows. Also basic tasks, web browsing, etc feel more "snappy" on the same hardware than garuda, which used the zen kernel.