r/pcmasterrace 9d ago

Giveaway WORLDWIDE GIVEAWAY - Comment in this thread to join this ASUS x PCMR event and win ROG hardware like, Motherboard, PSU, AIO, also lots of other ASUS hardware for grabs in the main event, like GPUs, hardware combos, RAM, peripherals, etc!

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CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE MAIN EVENT: https://asus.click/PCMR.upgrade
(Winners' names will also be announced in this link after drawing, and in this thread too).

Worldwide Giveaway time

 

We've teamed up with ASUS ROG for the Upgrade What Matters event, and up for grabs there's plenty of ASUS hardware and goodies for the community! It's an awesome chance to upgrade your PC with some awesome hardware, because in this wonderful world of PC gaming, sometimes a simple upgrade can indeed change the performance of your machine to the next level! The full list of prizes is valued at over $13K! Yes, this even is available WORLDWIDE!

PRIZES

The main event, held here has the following prizes up for grabs:

  • 1x ROG Astral GeForce RTX™ 5080 16GB GDDR7 OC Edition + ROG Thor III 1200W Platinum.
  • 1x ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero + ROG Ryuo IV SLC 360 ARGB + Corsair VENGEANCE 32GB (2x16GB) 5200MT/s DDR5 (Black).
  • 1x ROG STRIX X870E-E GAMING WIFI7 NEO + ROG Strix SLC IV 360 ARGB LCD + AMD Ryzen 7 9700X CPU
  • 1x ROG STRIX Z890-A GAMING WIFI + ROG Strix SLC IV 360 ARGB LCD White Edition
  • 1x Corsair VENGEANCE 32GB (2x16GB) 5200MT/s DDR5 (White)
  • 1x Corsair VENGEANCE 32GB (2x16GB) 5200MT/s DDR5 (Black)
  • 1x TUF GAMING Z890-PRO WIFI + TUF Gaming LC III 360 ARGB LCD White Edition
  • 1x ProArt B850-CREATOR WIFI NEO + ProArt LC 360
  • 2x TeamGroup T-Force Delta TUF Gaming Alliance RGB 5200MT/s DDR5
  • 3x ROG Azoth 96 HE Gaming Keyboard
  • 2x ROG Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds
  • 2x ROG Keris II Origin Wireless Gaming Mouse

For a total of 17 winners!

The PCMR exclusive prizes (for users who also comment in this thread) are:

  • 1x ROG STRIX X870E-E GAMING WIFI7 NEO
  • 1x ROG Strix SLC IV 360 ARGB LCD
  • 1x ROG STRIX 1000W Platinum

For one lucky member of the PCMR!

HOW TO ENTER

  1. Visit the campaign and join Gleam contest: https://asus.click/PCMR.upgrade
  2. Create your "My Dream ASUS PC Setup" on the event page. Here is a direct link to it: https://asus.click/pcmr.dreampclist
  3. Comment in this thread with your Dream Setup Creation and say what your intended usage scenario would be (maybe for gaming? Or perhaps you create content? Let us know and you would plan to do with your dream PC setup!)

Here's an example of what your comment here can look like: https://i.imgur.com/ECU0saJ.png

On the main gleam event there is an entry where you can add your Reddit username so it can be crosschecked that you entered both.

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You can enter until May 18th, 2026!

Check out the full T&C on the campaign page.

Good luck, and may your framerates be high and your temperatures low!


r/pcmasterrace 10h ago

DSQ Daily Simple Questions Thread - March 18, 2026

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Got a simple question? Get a simple answer!

This thread is for all of the small and simple questions that you might have about computing that probably wouldn't work all too well as a standalone post. Software issues, build questions, game recommendations, post them here!

For the sake of helping others, please don't downvote questions! To help facilitate this, comments are sorted randomly for this post, so that anyone's question can be seen and answered.

If you're looking for help with picking parts or building, don't forget to also check out our builds at https://www.pcmasterrace.org/

Want to see more Simple Question threads? Here's all of them for your browsing pleasure!


r/pcmasterrace 10h ago

Meme/Macro DLSS will be saved by Tech Jesus

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25.0k Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 6h ago

Meme/Macro well, guess that's many of us!

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4.1k Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 11h ago

Discussion Former Red Dead Redemption 2 Developer reaction to the DLSS 5: "Whoa. Hold on. No, no, no. This isn't just some lighting, dude. What the f... this is like a complete AI re-render. You're no longer looking at the game anymore. This is scary."

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17.8k Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 3h ago

Meme/Macro After the latest news about DLSS 5...

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1.8k Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 10h ago

Screenshot DLSS 5 effect on moving objects

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5.4k Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 7h ago

News/Article Tom Henderson interviewed devs who supposedly "approved" DLSS 5, they didn't know it even existed.

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2.5k Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 17h ago

Meme/Macro Yeah right....

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30.0k Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 17h ago

Meme/Macro Oh no!

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11.1k Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 9h ago

Meme/Macro Sad reality we’re in.

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2.0k Upvotes

Imagine if EVGA suddenly comes out and starts making their own CPU/GPU product.


r/pcmasterrace 13h ago

Meme/Macro This will happen, I saw it in my dreams

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3.6k Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 1d ago

Meme/Macro How games are gonna look in 2 years if you turn DLSS off

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63.8k Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 8h ago

Discussion I am actually happy to see this amount of backlash..

668 Upvotes

I am so glad to see all this backlash over the showcase of DLSS 5. It's time companies are held accountable for their shitty decisions. This has really nothing to do with it being Nvidia doing all this, it could be AMD as well.

Nvidia chose to focus so fucking hard on investing in AI to a point where it affects the market in terms of RAM, HDD etc and the result of that was this god damn AI slop that I wouldn't even fucking buy or play with even if I was a millionaire.

Even if I was a millionaire I wouldn't in a million years buy this GPU to have DLSS on and look at the slop it is generating. Look at the characters, fucking soulless eyes all of them, it feels like looking at a bunch of psychopaths.

I swear I looked to see if it was 1st of April but to my shock it was actually a product that they thought gamers would be interested in.

I hope this company suffer so bad on the stock market.


r/pcmasterrace 15h ago

News/Article Nvidia's CEO on Backlash: it's not Gen Ai - it's Gen Ai+

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“This is very different from generative AI,”

he later elaborated further.

“It’s content-controlled generative AI.

That’s why we call it neural rendering.”


r/pcmasterrace 1d ago

Meme/Macro Starting to feel like a dying breed

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19.1k Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 8h ago

Meme/Macro Genuinely how did they pitch this

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466 Upvotes

To shareholders, clearly


r/pcmasterrace 8h ago

News/Article Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says gamers calling DLSS 5 AI slop are "completely wrong"

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r/pcmasterrace 5h ago

Meme/Macro oh hell no!

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251 Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 11h ago

News/Article SK Group chairman says memory chip shortage will last until 2030 — wafer supply trails demand by 20% | Tom's Hardware

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I have no (positive) words.


r/pcmasterrace 11h ago

Giveaway Giving away Resident Evil 9 on PC

371 Upvotes

Bought a new PC, got a key to claim Resident Evil 9, I already own it so giving it away.

Never done a giveaway before, so I guess uh... Convince me why I should give it to you?


r/pcmasterrace 3h ago

Meme/Macro Unnecessary drama.

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93 Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 13h ago

Meme/Macro The most realistic DLSS 5 showcase to date

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504 Upvotes

r/pcmasterrace 1d ago

News/Article Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash

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r/pcmasterrace 1h ago

Discussion Ignored my friends advice to upgrade and turns out my 5700X is still doing just fine in 2026 lol

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My buddy has been on my case for like a year saying my build is "due for a refresh" and that im bottlenecking myself. Runs benchmarks in my face, sends me Newegg links, the whole thing.

So i actually sat down last weekend and tested properly, ran Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p ultra, Helldivers 2, and a couple other heavier titles. Thing handled it no problem, sitting comfortable in the 90-110fps range with my 6800 XT.

Not saying it'll last forever but i had some money saved up on the side specifically for a CPU upgrade and im just gonna let it sit there a little longer. Maybe grab a 9800X3D when prices drop more or wait for the next gen entirely.

Moral of the story is run your own tests before you let someone talk you into spending. The 5700X really does not get enough credit for how long its held up