Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread - Page 731

On August 01 2021 17:43 Cyro wrote:
It's ok, 5600x is just like 60% faster.

3300x is in short supply as well

On August 03 2021 01:45 WombaT wrote:
My new rig is running reasonably smoothly, did a clean install and advice in this thread was great.

Has one of those nvme SSDs, not sure if it’s really fast, or I was just used to my previous 10 year old rig.

I’m looking to (finally) have one machine with enough storage to hold my files, for years I’ve split things across rigs and various cloud services and hard drives. Plus have as many local games installed as possible.

Vague plan of action is another SSD to have games and programs on, and a big HDD for bog standard files and schoolwork/photos/music etc, and keep the boot drive reasonably light and tidy.

Is that a sensible course of action and if so, what are the kind of baseline specs I should be looking for for drives for these purposes.

Can post my overall build if that’s needed for advice.

In another more specific question, I’m having some issues trying to get my Switch Pro controller working. Took a while to even detect it (I had to disable my USB controllers power saving options), but it works fine with Steam games.

Unfortunately my kiddo is over and is much more interested in GamePass options, and it doesn’t map properly. I’m going with reWASD to try to get it to treat it like an Xbox controller. Unfortunately I think I need to set profiles for when an application is running, and to do that I need access to the WindowsApp folder or whatever it’s called.

I’ve found it as it’s hidden, but I’m still having issues altering the permissions so I can view the file locations, and despite me being the only user and administrator it’s proving difficult to change those permissions.

Any help appreciated, or if there’s an easier way and I’m making it needlessly complicated do let me know!

On August 03 2021 03:03 Purressure wrote:


In terms of storage, get a small (120gb) ssd for OS and perhaps office programs and whatnot, if you use any editing software you're gonna have to go bigger, or add another one for that if you can. Might be overkill but I'm a bit weird when it comes to that stuff.

1 ssd for OS and basic software
1 for heavier software if applicable in your case (editing/photoshop/movie editing/....)
1 for games.


Personally, I was on a budget (not really but made myself not go beyond a certain number) so I just put in a samsung evo 970 nvme drive (1tb) as my main and only storage drive. Guess when you go big and can keep about 30% unoccupied, I wouldn't worry. Not sure when too much is too much, but when I see my drive getting to like 300gb free of the 1tb I'm already curling my toes, totally unnecessary I'm sure but as I said before, I'm weird.


I have a Switch Pro controller myself, unfortunately, outside of Steam it's a mess to get it to work properly and would advice buying a cheap Logitech controller for PC, they're not the best but they do work without issue.

If you REALLY want to use the Switch Pro Controller outside of Steam.. try adding the game you want to play to Steam as a non-Steam game, that's the easiest fix and can be pretty reliable.

If you don't have that option, most emulators should be able to recognize the controller.

That said, you should exit Steam when using emulators as it messes up with the inputs.

There’s no need for 3rd party programs.

On August 03 2021 04:25 WombaT wrote:

Cheers man. It’s certainly not as weird having various files spread around 3-4 computers and cloud services as I had! Hoping to get it into one physical space so I can actually sort and clean everything up a bit too.

Yeah I am having the same issue with adding GamePass games to Steam, although I’m pretty sure that would work. I can’t navigate to the folder in which they live to find the exe files to launch. Trying to follow a guide to fix that but it’s proving irritating despite me sort of knowing what the issue is, what the guide steps are etc it’s just not playing ball… yet

On August 04 2021 02:53 Purressure wrote:


If you launch the game and go to its process in task manager you should be able to get into the folder of the exe file and copy the entire path or is that not working out either? It'll play ball eventually.

On August 04 2021 04:14 Lmui wrote:


Not really. the gamepass/Windows games folder is locked down pretty hard, local administrator can't actually override most of the permissions requirements because it's locked down through a security block which only the xbox game service can get through. If you ever have to mod the game, or want to modify saves etc in that folder, it's nearly impossible.

Best of luck, because I gave up when I had to get through that.

On August 04 2021 04:14 Lmui wrote:


Not really. the gamepass/Windows games folder is locked down pretty hard, local administrator can't actually override most of the permissions requirements because it's locked down through a security block which only the xbox game service can get through. If you ever have to mod the game, or want to modify saves etc in that folder, it's nearly impossible.

Best of luck, because I gave up when I had to get through that.

On August 24 2021 17:55 Cyro wrote:
Best not buy gigabyte anything these days

On August 27 2021 00:51 Aceace wrote:
This is going to be a weird one.

After 10 years and one divorce finally I manage to get a new gig. I really have to careful with my spending because you know... Lira is going down every single day. I have 2 options:

- Buy a Ryzen 5700G (or 5600G) and try to hold on its iGPU
- Buy an i7 10400F and use my old GTX 750 ti. This option is 250sh euro cheaper. I can add a GPU at Q3 2022. (250 Euro is a lot when you earn only 700 euro per month)

I'm an old guy who mostly plays RTS stuff (AoE2 DE, SC2, TW:WH hell even some 2D games. etc) but at the same time I want to try some new stuff (at lowest possible settings ofc. I didn't even had a chance to play some classic series like Witcher etc.)

I just don't know what to do... 10 years ago we were laughing onboard GPU's due to their abysmal performance. I knew GPU's become hard to buy and their prices are skyrocketed but I had no idea how expensive they have become. Now I'm totally confused and need some help.