But yeah AMD's new APUs are pretty decent

Intel is always improving the HD graphics on its CPUs, too.

But are still ass compared to AMD's integrated speeds

Like you are getting gt 1030 speeds on these integrated gpus

While intel is stuck before then

I heard that Battlefield 5 uses ray tracing.

But only in small places

And that it's noticeable even to a casual gamer.

I've not yet used an AMD CPU or GPU. I did have an ATI 2d card on my Pentium 120 MHz machine back in 1996.

My favorite AMD card that is a little dated as of now is the R9 fury those things have some power and are going cheap on ebay

And ATI got taken over by AMD in the mid-2000s.

They are just as fast as a gtx 1070

I usually find the r9 furys for around 120 dollars

gtx 980s are also another good choice

I bought a GTX 1070 in late 2016 only to learn within a month that it suffered an overheating issue that required physically installing a heatsink on it to rectify. The firmware update didn't help me.

I eventually had to RMA it after I noticed my machine overheating.

Now I'm running a GTX 1080 with 8 gigabytes of VRAM (same as on the 1070).

yeah I have a gtx 1080 as well

I got mine for 300

It is a trifan aorus card

Cool! I got mine with a system I purchased in 2017 from Best Buy. It was originally a Cyberpower PC with a 7700k and 32 gigabytes of system RAM, but that machine failed within a month (bad RAM was my educated guess), and Best Buy's Geek Squad apparently couldn't repair it, but they did offer a trade with an Alienware Aurora R6 they had in stock with slightly lower specs (7700 without the k, 16 gigabytes of system RAM, and an SSD with only 256 gigabytes of storage). I upgraded the RAM and SSD separately to 32 gigs and 512 gigs.

The Cyberpower PC had a window on the tower's left side, with a pulsating light that cycled through various colors.

*right side.

Gotcha

I'd read that Cyberpower machines often had poor construction, and that the company's customer service was often unsatisfactory, and in my case the former turned out to be true.

Nice tower and multi-monitor setup!

Yeah cyberpower are ass I told a friend that and he didn't believe me he was only listening to the specs lel

Thanks!

Cyberpower and Ibuypower (which I am convinced are the same company) have nice advertisements in the gaming magazines with very reasonable prices.

But I got a lemon, while the replacement Alienware machine has been running fine for nearly two years now.

So I guess Dell didn't entirely ruin Alienware after all.

Well they both used to be chinese companies before

They still sell chinese junk

Like nock-off keyboards etc

I'm using a Microsoft Sidewinder X6 keyboard that my brother gave me around 10 years ago. The detachable keypad can fit on either side!

Prior to that, the only Sidewinder product I'd ever owned was a gamepad (Playstation style) that connected to the parallel port.

hmmm

Found a 10 pack of thermal paste on ebay for 2 dollars

From china but still