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After nearly 10 strong years, today I lay my baby back to her case.... My GTX 1070 Ti took on new games with open arms, and though i may have needed to lower settings, she always kept me playing. Today marks a sad but joyous day as we lay her to rest and acknowledge the sheer greatness of her journey. Thank you for the near decade of continuous grinding. May you rest in peace

I was so hesitant at first but I made the switch from ps5 to a 9800x3d and 5080. At first I felt overwhelmed with how much pc has to offer. I already built PCs before but never owned one myself. 7 months later and I’ll never go back to console. The freedom pc gives you is unbeatable. The biggest shock factor for me was path tracing and it still is. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Glad to say I’m here to stay on pc. I don’t use it for anything other than gaming but it’s nice to have if I ever need it for work

I TOOK BOTH SCREENSHOTS BTW

My feed is full of Forza games getting ported to windows and Mac, people playing gamepass on a PS5, ports here emulators there - like where is this boom suddenly coming from?

Which is it for you at this point?

I turned it off, came back to it after 5 minutes, and then everything worked fine. Does anyone know what that might've been? Could've just been a blind act of patriotism, but I just wanted to run it through this subreddit to double check.

(9070xt, 9800x3d)

R.I.P Granpa, thanks for everything.

This is just a post to honor the man who got me into computers and maybe you all will enjoy his epic setup.

Thanks to you all, I learned a lot about the do's and Dont's when it comes to building a PC. I posted a while ago how I became extremely frustrated as a long time playstation owner and now I feel much better about my future experiences with gaming.

I've been using my PC for about 2 months, no issues.

Here is the build:

9070 xt hellhound gpu
12700 i7 cpu
64 gb ddr5 ram sk hynix
Artic 360mm liquid cooler
Montech case
Msi 850 watt psu
Msi mobo

Edit: the ram and cpu I was able to get for free from work sources

I might upgrade the cpu to the newer Intel chips for this lga1700 socket when it releases early next year, so I sorta lucked out there. I use this right now for 1440p gaming.

Thanks again

Long story short:
I recently purchased an open-box excellent condition Astral 5090 OC from Best Buy. Upon receiving, I took all precautions necessary to verify the GPU, and its hardware which thankfully everything checks out.

I took it to a computer store where they ran furmark stress tests and noticed the 2 outter side fans do not turn on. All variables were taken into account from checking both bios (performance and quiet) modes, to checking all settings on ASUS GPU Tweak III.
From testing on a test bench to testing at home on a Minisforum Deg2, 1000w connected to a Z13 Flow 2025 and still the same result, aside from the performance decrease due to thunderbolt connectivity.

Under load during Furmark via test bench, the temps reached between 70c-75c and the two outter fans never turned on. Post score on 1080p was 30003 (499 fps).

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Resolution:
ASUS technicians confirmed that my two side fans were defective and those fans were replaced.
My 5090 Astral now functions properly, and passed both Furmark and 3Dmark stress tests that ASUS performed on it. ASUS has provided me my shipping tracking information and my GPU will be returned to me soon.

In conclusion, thank you ASUS for repairing my 5090 Astral. The experience I had was exceptional and I can’t be anymore thankful. Despite the stories i read online that made me concerned, I am happy to share the positive ASUS RMA outcome.

Timeline:
Friday, October 2: Received my 5090 Astral open box excellent condition from Best Buy

Friday, October 2: Unboxed shipment at Best Buy to verify that the GPU was in the box and in tact

Saturday, October 3: Took the 5090 Astral to be professionally inspected and tested to verify its functionality, VRAM & ROPS. It was then discovered that the fans were inoperable and everything was documented.

Sunday, October 4: Went to Best Buy to inquire about RMA as Asus requires customers who bought from Best Buy go through the retailer for initiating the RMA. The manager and rep had no idea of that policy but confirmed it through ASUS’s website when they entered my serial number. As this was Sunday, nothing could be initiated under the next business day.

Monday, October 5: I contacted ASUS directly instead of going back to Best Buy to see if they’ll help me despite what their automated RMA system directs me to do with the retailer. On my first attempt, I got through to an ASUS representative fairly quickly. The rep happily stated he would initiate my RMA and began documenting all the details I provided. After 15-20 minutes, I had my RMA reference number and instructions to wait for the next steps of returning.

Friday, October 9: I securely packaged my GPU following ASUS’s guidelines. It was advised not to send any original boxes as they would not be returned back to me. I wrapped the GPU in an anti static bag, with a lot of bubble wrap around it. Placed it in a box I layered with more bubble wrap. Secured it with tamper seal tape all around it. Then placed it into another larger box with more bubble wrap and tamper seal tape. The package was then dropped off at Fedex.

Tuesday, October 13: ASUS confirmed via email of receiving my GPU and it was currently undergoing diagnostic testing.

Thursday, October 15: ASUS informed via email that my package is ready and awaiting courier pick up. As my RMA tracking has not been accessible likely due to the Best Buy automated flagging of purchase. So I called and the rep confirmed it was repaired due to the defective fans and is now being returned to me soon.

Saturday, October 17: My 5090 Astral was delivered to my house. ASUS boxed it perfectly and securely with a foam fitting insert around the GPU along with it being wrapped in a static bag. The package was double boxed with extra bubble wrap. My GPU is in the same like-new condition as it was when I sent it to ASUS. I tested the GPU and all fans work properly.

After saving up for a while I finally pulled the trigger today and built my first Desktop PC!! I'm so happy!

PC:

-Ryzen 7 9700x

-ASUS TUF RX 9700 16GB

-Gigabyte B650

-T FORCE 32GB DDR5 6000MHZ

-Team Group 2TB SSD NVME

-ThermalRight A240 Elite 360mm

-ThermalRight 750w 80 GOLD PSU

-Jungle Leopard MS-01 Case

Final price: $1,700 USD

Monitor:

-MSI G274QPF E2 - 1440P IPS 180Hz

Peripherals:

-Attack shark R5 ultra Mouse

-Steelseries Apex 7 TKL Keyboard

-Logitech G Pro X (LoL edition)

https://github.com/cranebeaker/coop-anything

I have been busy adding FULLY functional co op to the CLASSICS of our childhood. I've made a co-op-anything repo, in the style of the REA one that is for making ANY game co-op.

So far I have completed: Deus Ex (fully support online co-op), Dungeon Keeper, Stalker SOC. Currently wip is: Ocarina of Time (very close to 100% synced) and Fallout NV (is WIP - goodsprings quests are fully tested and working so far and the rest is done but needs QA tested)

There are two paths essentially:

1. Finish what exists. It first researches and will help map out any half-done mods, then dig up their bug reports by scraping discord and forums etc, fixes them, and has automated tests for it with bots and scripts running real game clients to automate much of the QA testing.
2. Build it from zero. Most games run on a handful of engines (Unreal, Unity, Source, id Tech, Bethesda's Creation Engine) that modders have already mapped out. It can re use information known about that engine, and reverse engineer the rest using tools like REA and Ghidra, then it builds co-op the way mods like Skyrim Together and sm64coopdx did.

Hey everyone, my wife works at PlanetPlay and they've put together a charity game bundle supporting UNICEF. I bought a copy to support her and the charity, then bought another few full packs to give away here.

I'm proud of her and wanted to help get a few more eyes on it. Hopefully someone here gets some games they'll enjoy out of it too. Two people will get all 10 games and then I have Peak and Vampire Crawlers to give away from my own bundle:

• Assetto Corsa Competizione
• Bahamut and the Waqwaq Tree
• Blue Prince
• Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
• PEAK
• Riders Republic
• Roombattle
• Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
• Train Sim World 6
• Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors

They're global Steam keys, and I paid for the packs myself, not given or anything.

To enter, just leave a comment saying which game you'd play first and something you're grateful for in your life. One entry per person.

I'll randomly pick two full pack winners and one of each my keys, mention if you want Peak or Vampire Crawlers on 10/18/2026 at 3 PM EST.

I'll PM the winners the keys and update this post once everyone has been selected.

Here's the bundle if you'd like to have a look. PlanetPlay is donating 100% of its net profits from it to UNICEF's work for children.

https://planetplay.com/us/campaign/unicef-playforeverychild-charity-bundle-2026/

If there's something in there you'd enjoy, I'd really appreciate you supporting it too.

You don't need to buy anything or visit the site to enter. I just wanted to help my wife out a bit and share some games with you all.