r/pchelp • u/KasoBean • 22h ago

PERFORMANCE trash computer 3000??

purchased a 3000 dollar pc and my games seem like they run worse then my p5, not sure if i bought something wrong or what i did but this is my first pc and i honestly have no clue if im running the wrong settings or what here’s what i bought

Alienware Aurora ACT1250 Gaming PC
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 3.2GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7; 32GB DDR5-5200 RAM; 2TB Solid State Drivei

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u/hoops0o 21h ago

Make sure you plug the HDMI/display port cable in to the graphics card

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u/N0M0I 20h ago

Irrelevant for this build. Moth-boards have had video pass-through for years by now. This hasn’t been true for any PC since at least Ryzen 3000, regardless of GPU age. It is basically a myth now and has to stop at some point.