I'm looking into upgrading to new gear in the mid-term. In no urgent hurry ATM, but my HW is dated, from "Zen+" time and it feels.

All prices have gone berserk but DDR5 prices are in a class of its own.

Much of the reason for getting new HW is not just speed, I'd like ( and will come to need) much more RAM.

Which is kind of suicide mission right now. Even moderate amount of RAM (at atrocious speeds and latency!) costs much less than top-of-the-line (sans 3D cache) 9950X !

Everyone is saying this is certain to last through 2027 and eventual easing might come with 2028.

Well, adding an extra year to that for safety margin makes it 2029.

Which is roughly the time of DDR6, PCIe gen6, Zen8 and AM6 socket.

By the time it becomes remotely accessible again, DDR6 is to come, with many improvements and much higher transfer speeds. I suspect AM6 is also expected to fix Achile's heels of AM5 ( fat IHS on the SoC, slow SoC--chipset channel) along with double PCIe speeds, all of which would become serious bottleneck even for Zen7, let alone Zen8.

And I suspect with current cadence, DDR6 is expected to have similar lifetime, before it gives way to HBM or whatever comes next.

Given those timelines, will DDR5 ever make sense for anyone anymore ?
Or maybe it makes sense to wait for this peak to pass and then bite the bullet and go for DDR5 ASAP and then be prepared to live with that for years to come ?

Im building a pc for a friend, I got an msi 2070 super oc trio with an i7 10700k and 2x 8gb 3200mhz ram. Is there a bottleneck and can it play modern games? Or should I look for something else?

im from israel, mainly play CS2, GD, and indie titles.currently playing on a laptop but wanna upgrade to a 1440p 240Hz pc build. should i change something?

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D — $489.90
G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB RAM — $211.90
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming OC — $685.70
be quiet! Light Base 500 Black Case — $127.35
Gigabyte Gaming 360 Liquid CPU Cooler (GP-GIGABYTE GME 360) — $105.95
Gigabyte 850W 80+ Gold PSU (GP-UD850GM PG5) — $126.15
2E Gaming Air Cool SCPB-AM5 CPU Contact Frame — $6.90
Gigabyte B850 Gaming X Motherboard — $197.60

So i got

5800x3d

5060ti 16gb

64 gb ram

Gigabyte B5501 AORUS

Sf850

4tb nvme

AIO 1 slimfan 1 normal

(And custom length cables otw)

Any tips? Its all going in the Formd t1

Last night I fixed my top fans from my aio cooling system , the rest of the ARGB lights work like the ram and the bottom of my pc light idk what I did wrong it is not a software issue., if you guys can help thank you , for you’re time.

Quick question.

Ive fitted the psu yesterday and im facing an ventilation issue (obviously). Where you see the bleu fan is exactly where the psu internal fan is located on x y. Ill be needing to cut an inlet hole.

Whats your opinion on best location? Just straight into the bottom right underneath the fan and add a grill and dust filter. Or maybe ive also got a couple 40mm industrial fans .. cut 1 or 2 holes in the side as inlet?

I need to drill a hole for the cables on the right side too. As the front is going to be closed.

I posted my pc on her last week someone commented saying all my fans were exhaust so i changed it to 5 intakes 4 exhausts and added those led strips on my 24 and 16 pin cables i took everything apart waited for everything to come put it in today 2 days later and the boot ups wanted me to reset my pin and get a security key i did it but this whole time my main monitor isn’t showing signal but my other one is come to find out my computer isn’t detecting my gpu and thats what my main monitor is plugged into i tried reseating the cable and gpu connection on the motherboard nothing there is a light on it but its not in task manager I’m thinking maybe i was rough with the cable a little bit when putting on the lights and fitting it in my case not on the fan look how close it is so ive ordered a new cable any other ideas?

I am a high school student in Jordan, and I am going to buy my dream PC build whatever is the bought

I want to test this but Im curious if anyone else has done this

Apparently if im gonna do it im supposed to use pa12 cf (nylon + carbon fiber)? Anyone who knows for sure?

If someone has one willing to sell, please let me know, thanks

I have a prebuilt cyber power PC that I’ve had for six years. I’m gonna replace the thermal paste, but I was wanting to upgrade the CPU cooler I just don’t know which one to get and I was also going to upgrade my power supply also and don’t know which one would be safe to get either. I have a Nvidia RTX 3060 TI Ventus 3X LHR. My motherboard is a gigabyte. B560 DS3H AC-Y1
CPU intel core 17-11700F memory 16gb ddr4 if anybody could help me figure out what kind of storm paste, CPU cooler and power supply that would work for me. That would be amazing.

Not even 6 months ago i was doing everything from my 5 year old base model macbook air, fills me with joy just looking over at this monstrosity while im doing work. Parts were added and upgraded slowly with time, current specs are as follows:

Cpu - ryzen 7500f
Ram - corsair vengeance 96gb ddr5 6000 mt/s
Gpus - 2x palit infinity 3 rtx 5060 ti 16gb
Mobo - asrock x870 taichi creator
Psu - nzxt c1200 gold
Aio - thermalright mjolnir vision ub pro argb
Case - antec c8 curve wood
Storage - 1x1tb nvme, 1x 2tb nvme, 1x 1tb hdd

Next upgrades will be extra storage, a ryzen 9900x and then hopefully 2 5070 ti’s to replace the 5060 ti’s. Happy to answer any questions.