Spartanburger wrote:MELE runs on modified Unreal Engine 3. It's pushing the engine to the limits, but much like the OG ME games, they will push your GPU far more than they will your CPU. The system requirements EA put out are, by my estimate, an overestimation.
The main thing to remember with any computer thing is that it's just expensive legos. In terms of breaking things, the most easy thing to break will be a bent pin on the CPU or motherboard. As long as you can set that right, and take everything slow and patiently, you should be safe and not break anything. Other than those pins, computer components are harder to break than you'd think. Just don't drop things, take it slow, be ready to google things to troubleshoot, and have some fun with it. Don't need money to learn as you're going, just curiosity, patience, and confidence.
I have heard that.
Luckily when I have the money (and by the time I get it it may be i stock) I am gonna get a 3080 as it'll see me through the next 5+ years.
It's more parts compatibility I am stumped on.
The technical details/putting together I can find tutorials for, but actually understanding it is harder.
I really do have a "bash it together and see if it works" type of learning process. Which if it means a PC being clunky as fuck when running it means I didn't do right and spent too much money learning the failure.
magnuskn wrote:The most troublesome thing to put together in building a PC is plugging the right cables in the right ports, has been my experience. Also, take care to look that installing the CPU fan/cooling unit doesn't block you from properly plugging in the RAM bars, i.e. plug those in before you install the CPU fan. And don't forget that if you got two RAM bars and four slots, normally the proper slots to slot in dual bars are marked.
Oh, yeah, I did that last time.
But I have an all in one liquid cooler so the big old fan block being in the way isn't as much as a problem for me the next time I upgrade.
The most problematic thing about the next upgrade is switching CPU's, removing thermal paste and reapplying on a new CPU.
But it's relatively simple in theory, just gotta get the practice of it.
Ragabul wrote:One thing I did to get better at it was to go find a piece of shit non-custom computer somewhere that will at least still boot. Then just find that manufacturer's tear-down guide and/or a YouTube tear-down guide. Completely disassemble the thing and then put it back together. If you screw something up, it's a piece of shit so the consequences are nil.
*Edit* Also a totally worthwhile thing to make transfers between hard drives less of a headache is a cloning dock. They cost like $30. It can cause problems with OS licenses if you are moving from one motherboard to another but if you are just upgrading to a new drive, they save a lot of time and bother. Caveat that most require drives to be the same size. There's also software for this but it is pricier and usually locked to one drive so the license lets you only install it once. I've actually cheated it before by just taking the drive with the software out and putting the whole thing in another tower. The software can let you clone between drives of different sizes.
It's probably not worth it if you hardly ever change your drives, but I have found myself changing drives or wanting to make major changes to partitions without data loss or whatever enough that's it has been worthwhile for me at least.
Yeah, that stuff is harder to find in the UK at the moment, but it's on my list of things to try and do once everything is redecorated and tidied, lol.
That and getting back into some miniature painting in the summer when light is, not grey (thanks England!).
Well, shit, that would have been simpler. Too bad I've done it the hard way round now, but I'll definitely keep that in mind for next time!
Thank you.
