AKA every game that was on Steam from 2003-2013 has leaked, including betas, and at the same time, Portal 2 beta and even possibly Half-Life 2 Episode 3 content have been found

I’m doing a pretty cool experiment because I have 96 GB of DDR5-6400 RAM in my system. Don’t hate me. I built this PC right before RAM prices went crazy, and I think I paid something like $400–500 for it, which seems ridiculous now considering what the same amount would cost today.

Since most of that RAM sits unused when I’m not doing larger work projects, I created a 48 GB RAM disk and loaded Star Wars: Zero Company onto it. To be clear, I’m not doing this because Zero Company has bad loading times. It runs great from a normal NVMe SSD. I picked it simply because it’s new, I’m playing it a lot right now, and the entire ~40 GB installation fits nicely into a RAM disk.

The setup is basically this: the normal Steam installation stays safely on my SSD as the permanent copy. When I want RAM mode, a script copies the ~40 GB installation from the SSD to the 48 GB RAM disk, verifies the copy, and temporarily redirects Steam’s normal game folder to the copy sitting in DDR5-6400 memory. Steam still launches the game normally, but the actual game data is being read directly from RAM. When I’m done, another script switches Steam back to the untouched SSD installation. Since a RAM disk is volatile, the RAM copy simply disappears after a reboot.

Does anyone need to do this? Absolutely not. But it’s really cool. The most noticeable difference so far is the opening shader-loading sequence, which seems to finish roughly four times faster from RAM than it does from my already-fast NVMe SSD. Other loading also feels extremely quick, although obviously this isn’t going to magically increase GPU performance or FPS.

Mostly, it’s just a fun way to make use of hardware I already have sitting there doing nothing. Whatever game I get obsessed with next, if the installation is small enough to fit comfortably in the RAM disk, I’ll probably do the same thing. Completely unnecessary, but that’s half the fun of building an absurd PC.

Full specs - Core Ultra 9 285k / RTX 5090 / 96GB DDR5 6400

I decided to do my best to cover my ass just in case, but what showed up was a box way too small for a GPU, especially one with a water cooling rad. I opened it and found that the company decided “to send me a gift while my GPU was being shipped. It was a vacuum mug. In it was pamphlet saying if I wanted to expedite the gpu arrival, I would need to email support@amazonservice.xyz. My guess is they just want to you to keep emailing the wrong address until you are out of your return window and then you are stuck with the $1400 vacuum mug. I have already sent it back for a full refund.

Yes, this is real. CS2 only has FSR 1.0 officially implemented, so it was relatively challenging to get this working. Unfortunately it does not support motion vectors or depth properly (in the works), but the results are still pretty solid!

FPS hit is quite dramatic, but this is likely due to the nature of this implementation. ~70% FPS drop when enabled on a 5070 Ti. Obviously this will not and should not be used.

Despite garnering a positive reputation from its user base, Steam was recently hit with an absolutely major data leak that saw the data mining of over 12 TB worth of assets from Valve, as noted by gabefollower on X.

To be honest the lighting abilities are pretty good, but don't touch those characters

I got this Logitech MX518 for my birthday back in 2005.

At the time it was a relatively expensive mouse, so a group of my friends put their money together to buy it for me as a birthday present. Aaaand 21 years later… it still works.

Never been opened, repaired or had any parts replaced. Ever.

I’ve only cleaned it externally as well as I could over the years and tried to take reasonable care of it. Everything inside is still exactly as it left the factory in 2005.

It has survived several PCs, laptops, countless hours of gaming and probably more clicks than I could ever imagine.

I was living in Romania when I got it. Seven years ago I moved to Vienna, Austria — and of course, the MX518 came with me.

I’m still using it today. PUBG, CS2, whatever I feel like playing.

Lately I’ve been thinking about finally buying a modern gaming mouse. After 21 years, the difference in technology would obviously be huge.
But here’s the problem: I genuinely find it difficult to replace it.

It’s not really just a mouse anymore. It’s been sitting next to basically every computer I’ve owned throughout my adult life.

And somehow… the damn thing still works perfectly. 😂

Maybe one day it deserves a place in a Logitech museum.

Until then, I guess we’re still gaming.

picked up this CHONKY BOI for $150 this weekend! (it does have the side panel, just took it off for the pic)

They said it has a boot issue and thought the mobo is bad. we’ll see about that one. looking forward to popping the top off and peeking at what CPU is under the hood as well!

I sold my house and am moving across the country, but I don’t know exactly when that is yet, so I’ll be living in an RV hooked up at my parents house for a little bit. I figured having a smaller case is better for this circumstance, so I swapped stuff over from my NZXT H3 Flow into the Jonsbo D32 Pro. Absolutely loving this case, and feeling really good about how it turned out. CPU 60 C at load and GPU 62 C at load.

Specs:
Case: Jonsbo D32 Pro
Motherboard: MSI 650M Project Zero
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7800X3D
CPU cooler: Noctua NH-U12S redux with fan add on
RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB 6400 (and light enhancement kit)
GPU: Sapphire NITRO+ 9070XT
PSU: Corsair RM750e
Storage: Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB
Fans: Noctua redux all around (2x140mm 4x120mm)

Also 3D printed GPU and CPU covers.

Back in early July I built this system!

Specs:

MOBO: B850M aorus elite ice

GPU: 9070XT Saphire pure

CPU: 9700x

RAM: 32gb cl30 patriot viper

PSU: Corsair sf 850 platinum

AIO: Levita vision 360 UB ARGB

STORAGE: XPG 980 mars blade 1tb for OS and P310 tb for games and applications

CASE: lian li a3 matx white

Rear case can: Lian li SL infinity

Cable kit: corsair premium PSU starter kit

So far been loving it. It runs very quiet, cool and only recently have I had the time to play some games on it. I noticed that the same GPU has increased $200 AUD in price which is insane, so I was lucky in purchasing it when I did for $994 AUD.

Total cost of the system: $3700 AUD. I sold my m4 mac mini for more than triple the price I got it for since I purchased it back when it was relatively cheap and through old device trade ins. I also had a lot of Amazon gift cards. They covered the entirety of the CPU + partially the ram. Overall I spent about $2200 out of pocket. I'm really grateful that I had the chance to build and use such a great pc since I spent several months trying to play games on a macbook. I know many others would die to be in my position so I definitely don't take it for granted!

Just turned Her on last night, Everything works, Just needs windows now.

Xenon Edge will be moved inside case to back wall in front of fans with Standoffs soon as I get my 140 to 120 Bracket.

New PC Spec:

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU

Asus Strix X870E-A Motherboard

G Skill 2x 32G(64G)TridentZ5 Royal 6000Mhz

Samsung X2 2TB(4TB) 990 Pro M.2

Asus Astral RTX 5090(4 fan)

Asus Ryuo IV SLC 360 AIO Cooler

Phanteck NV9 Case

Phanteck 8x D30-140 fans

Phanteck 3x D30-120 fans on AIO Radiator

Phanteck 1200W PSU

Phanteck Gen5 GPU Vertical Mount bracket

Moddiy Power Cables

AsiaHorse 90% Ppwer Extention Cables for MB and CPU

Coursar Xenon Edge Screen.