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The quality was ok for the virtual meet. What I would recommend you get is a decent microphone

It is just in the wrong place for work.. i try and work on a large screen, so ideally want the cam there..

Ok... what should I look for in a mike

Tried it. Performance was ok. Didn't seem that impressive until I turned off rtx. The difference is notable, but it's polish on top of 20 year old early 3D assets...

Water looks good though.

For the right amount, they'll be any name you want.

Had a quick bash at lunch, it ran better than I was expecting (around 40-45FPS with ray-tracing turned up to max at 1080p), but I wasn't that impressed really, I think part of the problem is that game developers have got so good at other lighting effects over the years, that proper ray-traced elements don't seem that much different, except they come at a massive computational cost.

As for the game itself, well, the less said about that the better, let's just leave it in the past.

So yeah, it held my attention for about 10 minutes.

I use a headset with a mic on. I find that eliminates most of the echo you'll get from using a normal mic in a large room.

Yeah I wasn't a huge fan of Quake RTX. I actually bought it, but it soon got very boring.

Control looks amazing in places, but some of it looks very, IDK? "bitty"?

It's DLSS2 I am interested in. It looks great and boosts performance.

I spend too much time on calls for that to feel comfortable..

Something like this would be an improvement.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microphone-iGO ... r=8-4&th=1

Going back and looking more closely, it's basically the reflections and shadows that have had an upgrade. It's not the kind of thing you could really do with existing hardware. Particularly the shadows.

And say what you will about the game, but at least you don't run out ammo every time you sneeze with your finger vaguely near the gun trigger.

Cheers...

I highly recommend the Hyper X headset.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SAYCXWG/ ... REbBRB0MKV

I wore them for about six hours so far today, and will probably have them on for another six hours tonight.

I also have this. Unless you have a DavPaz sized head, I can't imagine it causing any problems.

my son needs a new laptop for school, and we're making it a gaming laptop since he is introducing his savings.. so we're aiming at 700-800 euros... (600-700 pounds these days?)

Thinking about

https://www.coolblue.nl/product/831010/ ... 09hmh.html

or
https://www.coolblue.nl/product/841950/ ... -r585.html

Any ideas if these are good or another recommendations?

Look at my sweet sleeper build

Looks like an old nokia phone

I think it's meant to. 8210, I'd say (which is officially the best ever Nokia)

It was indeed supposed to look like a Nokia phone. I've been trying to pull together a load of crappy old parts to make my son a PC he can do his homework on. Thought I was doing ok with above PC, but I can't get it to connect to the network. Might have to roll it back to Windows 7 to get some working drivers.

The ironies.

I stupidly ran some work courses in my own PC and must have hit ok too many times without looking.

This allowed corp group polices to be applied to my own PC.

I decided to rebuild as I had not a clue about removing these policies.

All went well, but I noticed this (see pic) had stopped working when I wanted to copy my files to a spare HDD.

There seem to be a lot on amazon, is there a better / different alternative?

Fuck me, that's had some love. So what's stopped working, the DVD drive? The USB drive? The entire PC?

The case has been round a while.. Like triggers broom.

It has had new
PSU,
RAM (8GB),
CPU Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 3201 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Motherboard (ASROCK Z75 Pro3),
SDD HDD.
Graphics - XFX R7800

It is a a little large, but not found a reason to buy a new System yet.

The drive thingy below the DVD drive. It has a space for 3.5 and 2.5 inch HDDs. Is a bit flakey now

I use one of these for that sort of shit

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TeckNet-Dockin ... 153&sr=8-3

Having a bit of a nightmare with PC headsets. Used a wired Plantronics until the cat chewed through the cable.

So decided to go bluetooth, getting the MPOW HC500, plus the bluetooth dongle apparently containing its drivers.

Whatever I do, I can't get it to reliably appear in my audio and mic device list in my video conferencing software.

So I think I'm on the hunt for a new headset.

Anyone got any bluetooth headset recommendations? And I'm happy to go back to wired, but the cable needs to have a bit of girth to it

£100 max, ideally around the £50 mark.

Thanks to IT support at work I've now got a pair of these clandestine cans. People won't even know I'm wearing them. Tres discreet.

You appear to have posted the wrong picture. You are not wearing headphones in the picture

Where do you work? A Lancaster bomber?

Findus, were you wearing that same T-shirt when you posted a picture before?

Helicopter.

Just checked! It was a different t shirt but red stripes. I'm quite fond of stripes.

Markg, my wife's first comment was "are you going to land a fucking aircraft in those?"

Subtle. Understated. I like it.

I have this, BTW!

It took a little getting used to, but I love it. The perpetual scrolling mouse wheel is a thing of mechanical beauty.

I'm yet to use many of the other features, but need to build them into muscle memory. It's a lovely thing though.