Highly active gaming PC forum?

[Todd Smith]

Can anyone recommend a highly active gaming PC forum? I'm looking to get a gaming PC and just have some general questions and this forum doesn't seem very active.

[red_5ive]

Although I haven't really visited much in the last so many years, I've always liked AnandTech. I just took a peek and it still looks pretty active.

But there are still a few here that know enough to answer most questions.

[Todd Smith]

Originally Posted by red_5ive

Although I haven't really visited much in the last so many years, I've always liked AnandTech. I just took a peek and it still looks pretty active.

But there are still a few here that know enough to answer most questions.

Sorry, I should have just asked here as well since I know there are many very knowledgeable folks.

My questions are.....

1. Anyone know of a better pre-built for around the money of the corsair Vengeance i7400 right now? Not interested in building myself.
https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Catego.../CS-9050047-NA

2. I'll be hooking this PC up to my HT projector and preamp. I assume I can run video out of the HDMI 2.1 and then use one of the display ports for lossless audio to my preamp if I get a display port to HDMI adapter?

3. Is it possible to set either a 60fps or 120fps cap for all games? My projector is 120hz capable so games where I can hit 120fps or more I'd like to use a 120fps cap, but games where I can't hit 120fps consistently with max settings and 4k res I'd like to set a 60fps cap. Is this possible on PC?

Probably a few other questions I'm forgetting right now, but I'll ask those if they pop up.

[red_5ive]

Originally Posted by Todd Smith

Sorry, I should have just asked here as well since I know there are many very knowledgeable folks.

My questions are.....

1. Anyone know of a better pre-built for around the money of the corsair Vengeance i7400 right now? Not interested in building myself.
https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Catego.../CS-9050047-NA

I never follow pre-builds so hopefully someone can jump in on this one.

Originally Posted by Todd Smith

2. I'll be hooking this PC up to my HT projector and preamp. I assume I can run video out of the HDMI 2.1 and then use one of the display ports for lossless audio to my preamp if I get a display port to HDMI adapter?

This should be feasible. The only caveat I can think of is if you'll be running the HDMI for video to your processor, and then also running the Display Port--> HDMI to your processor for audio. In which case, your processor will need to have assignable video/audio inputs from 2 different HDMI sources, which I have never seen on an AVR or pre-pro.

Otherwise if you'll be running HDMI directly to the projector for video, then DisplayPort-->HDMI to your processor for audio, that should be fine. I'm doing something similar now. Although you may run into some timing issues and may need to adjust lipsync in your processor settings.

Originally Posted by Todd Smith

3. Is it possible to set either a 60fps or 120fps cap for all games? My projector is 120hz capable so games where I can hit 120fps or more I'd like to use a 120fps cap, but games where I can't hit 120fps consistently with max settings and 4k res I'd like to set a 60fps cap. Is this possible on PC?

Probably a few other questions I'm forgetting right now, but I'll ask those if they pop up.

FPS cap is often an in-game setting. I've otherwise never checked if there is a global setting for this from the graphics card or OS so I'm not sure if that exists. But technically yes, you can do this with most games.

Edit: I just looked it up, and my graphics card (Nvidia) has a global "Max Frame Rate" option to set the max FPS. It's basically a slider bar with a range from 20 FPS to 1000 FPS, although I'm not sure if that will vary by model. But regardless, that should get you what you need with any modern GPU. At least with Nvidia anyway. Not sure about AMD/ATi, but I don't see why they wouldn't have that if Nvidia has it.

[Todd Smith]

Originally Posted by red_5ive

I never follow pre-builds so hopefully someone can jump in on this one.



This should be feasible. The only caveat I can think of is if you'll be running the HDMI for video to your processor, and then also running the Display Port--> HDMI to your processor for audio. In which case, your processor will need to have assignable video/audio inputs from 2 different HDMI sources, which I have never seen on an AVR or pre-pro.

Otherwise if you'll be running HDMI directly to the projector for video, then DisplayPort-->HDMI to your processor for audio, that should be fine. I'm doing something similar now. Although you may run into some timing issues and may need to adjust lipsync in your processor settings.



FPS cap is often an in-game setting. I've otherwise never checked if there is a global setting for this from the graphics card or OS so I'm not sure if that exists. But technically yes, you can do this with most games.

Edit: I just looked it up, and my graphics card (Nvidia) has a global "Max Frame Rate" option to set the max FPS. It's basically a slider bar with a range from 20 FPS to 1000 FPS, although I'm not sure if that will vary by model. But regardless, that should get you what you need with any modern GPU. At least with Nvidia anyway. Not sure about AMD/ATi, but I don't see why they wouldn't have that if Nvidia has it.

Great info and much appreciated.

I should have been more clear, but I meant HDMI out of the PC directly to the projector for video and display port to preamp for audio. Sounds like this should work great.

Very cool about the global max frame rate! I'm going with an Nvidia 4090 so I am happy to see this option available.

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