Costco has for their
Members: MSI Aegis ZS2 Gaming Desktop (Aegis ZS2 B9NVV-1409US) for
$2399.99. Shipping is $14.99.
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Eragorn for finding this deal.
Specs: - AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Processor (12-core)
- 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 6000MHz RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB Graphics Card
- 1x 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD
- Microsoft Windows 11 Home (64-bit)
- Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3
- 360mm Liquid Cooling
- 850W 80 Plus Gold Certified Power Supply
- MSI Mechanical Keyboard
- MSI Gaming Mouse
- Ports & Slots:
- 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C 5Gbps (Front)
- 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A 5Gbps (Front)
- 1x Headphone/Microphone Combination Jack (Front)
- 4x USB 2.0 Type-A (Rear)
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen1 Type A 5Gbps (Rear)
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type A 10Gbps (Rear)
- 3x DisplayPort (Rear)
- 1x HDMI (Rear)
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On the other hand, the Dell gives you a higher wattage PSU (1000W vs. 850W) and includes a Platinum-rated PSU versus Gold.
Another plus for this system is the 2-year warranty, which offers longer coverage compared to Dell's standard 1-year.
Overall, you're getting more performance and value with this build. Unless you have 10% coupon for dell and CB. Then dell can be had for around 2k flat.
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There is a performance hit when you encode and game at the same time. That's why you want to offload all the encoding on a dedicated encoder. But for plex thats a different story.
NVENC at least operates locally on GPU memory, if you want to QSV encode the contents of your framebuffer it needs to get copied out to system memory which will likely cost you the same 5-10% hit. Desktops with an iGPU don't operate like Optimus Advanced laptops.
It gets complicated. Most games released on PC support 4K if not 8k. For a while there was the idea of running 4K and downsample to 1440 or 1080. Now it's all about upsampling and frame image insertion. Fake pixies and fake frames you don't even need real underline texture at that point.
No HDR on a game … no problem windows build in HDR…
Game not supported by windows HDR
No problem you can mod window hdr to support all game.
Nvidia HDR… another alternative.
No Ray tracing … mods mods mods….
Anyway I abandoned the PS5/Series X and moved over/back to pc. Sure I pay a premium but I no longer subscribe to Xbox live or PlayStation plus and I get the best possible visual fidelity and thats added value you cannot get back.
I may not get 1st party from PlayStation Day 1 but my backlog is huge and with subscription to Humble Choice, Amazon Prime Game, and free game from Epic. I don't think I am going to be missing much.
Hope that address your question.
But the upgrade nonsense where PlayStation and Nintendo try to pull on game for console generation is nonexistent on PC.
The only drawback is typically new games that releases put your pc to shame if you haven't updated in a few years. And the game is less optimized because dev puts it on you to have the latest and greatest.
Or with monster hunter wilds, capcom was being cheep and refuse to spend the money and use Unreal 5.
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If you plan on using it with wifi or bluetooth extensively, Intel gives you better options (the Intel BE200 wifi 7 cards require an Intel CPU, the current Qualcomm and MediaTek alternatives for AMD are not as stable)
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Same reason some streamers use bifurcation and use a secondary GPU to do encoding.
Same reason some streamers use bifurcation and use a secondary GPU to do encoding.
I trust your experience here. I just think for 99% of buyers, the presence of lack of Intel QuickSync is probably not a important factor.
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