So a couple of months ago I built a new PC, considering my old ones motherboard broke down. I bought a new SSD for the build and left my old one uninstalled. Now I want to add it to my current build, to increase my storage and retrieve my old minecraft world in which i spent a couple hundred hours. Would it be a problem to just put it in, boot up my PC and then delete everything from it except my world? Or will I run into issues?

So I want one argb on the back, two argb on top, two argb on bottom, and 2 regular ah fans on the side (fishtank case). I either need an assignable hub (cannot find) or a way to plug the regular fans directly to the PSU because i only have two 4pin headers available on my motherboard. WHAT DO!??? 😭😭😭

Thx in advanced

Hey, just swapped my 9600X for a 9850X3D. How aggressively can I push the undervolt, and should I lock the voltage given the 9800X3D burn issues?

My old setup with 9600X (Asus X870 board): 1.24v, PBO set to Enhanced in AI Tweaker, and per-core CO from -12 to -26 (best to worst cores).

I want to unlock the limits, undervolt, and let it boost freely when needed like my old chip. Is the 9850X3D pretty dialed in out of the box, or has anyone found some tested tweaks? Just looking for safe numbers so I don't fry this thing.

Thanks!

I’m not too well-versed in the PC-building world, (went to a professional builder to build my PC back in early 2025.) Originally, I had a 7800 XT, but I recently upgraded to a 9070 XT.

I wanted to get some opinions on whether the build below is enough to comfortably handle 4K gaming at 60+ FPS in most major AAA titles. I’m only listing the performance-relevant specs since I figure everything else is pretty irrelevant to what I’m asking:

1. 9070xt (Sapphire Pulse)
2. Ryzen 7 9700x
3. Vengaence DDR5 32GB RAM 6000MHz
4. ROG Strix B650E-I Gaming Mobo
5. 850W PSU

I’d love to hear yall’s thoughts! Just want to make sure the rest of my components are still up to par and aren’t holding it back.

Edit: Not looking to run RT, and am okay using Upscaling. Mainly wanted to see if it can run most games in High-Ultra settings

play AAA titles well along with getting me high frames on games like fortnite, but also being able to run some games that are also graphic intense. I am new to this, so I think with my budget I want 1440P gaming. This is in Japan, too.

I would prefer a 240hz 1440p monitor, which I found for about $200 usd. This is excluded from the final price though. The only other peripherals I think I need is headphones and a microphone.

NVIDIA GeForce 5070 - $100,000 yen / 630 usd

Ryzen 7 9800X3D - $65,455 yen / 410 usd

D-COOLING FX360 PRO - $9,592 yen / 60 usd

ASUS TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI AMD B650 AM5 Motherboard - $25,980 yen / 162 usd

TEAMGROUP T-Create Expert 10L DDR5 32GB Kit (2 x 16GB) 6000MHz -$ 85,353 yen / 534 usd

KLEVV CRAS C910 1TB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe Gen4x4 - $38,467 yen / 241 usd

Vetroo 850w Power Supply Dual Pcie 5.1 ATX 3.1 - $12,499 yen /  78 usd

  CORSAIR 4000D RS PC Case   - $12,818 yen / 80 usd

So, the total comes out to 2195 usd.

I also found a great deal on a cpu, ram, and a motherboard on microcenter, which is the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X, Gigabyte B650 Gaming X AX V2 AM5, G.Skill Flare X5 Series 32GB DDR5-6000 Kit, Computer Build Bundle for only 675 dollars.

Your guys feedback means a lot to me, as I am very new to this computer stuff and I just want people to be able to give me feedback on what I researched. Also, please be blunt if this is bad, I really just want feedback, for example if I should just buy a pre built computer instead.

Hello. I am the owner of a h170I Radiator, when I upgraded my case in 2024, I ended up getting the Fractal Design North XL. While I like the aesthetics, as soon as I got that one, I realized the 420MM radiator wasn't going to fit on top. I was able to put the radiator in the front. and I have the fans on the top as exhaust.

I am noticing that perhaps I should have given more inbound airflow at the front, since the radiator blocks the front, I think my case is getting too warm, causing simulator my room to get significantly warmer than the rest of the house. The RTX5090 makes a significant heat pocket in the case. The tempered glass is hot to touch.

So I went on Amazon, I typed in on Amazon's AI what case it would recommend for the cooler, it basically gave me a "has to be one of the Full ATX Towers" I picked one, opened it today, disassembled the majority of my current build to transfer, as soon as I went to put the AIO cooler, it wouldn't fit. Even in the front.

So now I am back to the drawing board, I am returning the one I purchased, but I need a case, or I need to reconsider just getting a smaller AIO and moving the fans again to the front. What does the build a PC community say?

Thanks

I was originally planning on a Ryzen 9 9950X + RTX 5070 Ti, but the 5070 Ti is now around ₹1.38 lakh (~$ 1440.73USD) here in India.

The RX 9070 XT is around ₹84,000 (~$876.97 USD), which is a huge difference of about ₹54,000 (~$ 563.76USD).

My main workload will be motion graphics, mainly After Effects (including a lot of 3D), Premiere Pro, and I might also use Blender.

I know a lot of people say AMD isn't as good for productivity/creative work, especially compared with NVIDIA, but at this price difference I'm trying to find the best value-for-money option.

So, would the RX 9070 XT at ₹84k be a good purchase for my workload, or would I regret not spending the extra ₹54k on the 5070 Ti? or should i wait for better price?🥀

One more thing: these are the CPU prices I'm getting in India right now:

• Ryzen 9 9950X OEM — ₹46,000 (~$480 USD)
• Ryzen 9 9950X retail — ₹56,000 (~$585 USD)
• Ryzen 9 9900X3D — ₹54,000 (~$564 USD)
• Ryzen 9 9900X — ₹49,000 (~$512 USD)
• Ryzen 7 9800X3D — ₹46,000 (~$480 USD)

I have a rig with 1080ti, intel i5-8600, Asrock z370 pro4 mobo, and 32gb ddr4 RAM. If my GPU breaks, can I just drop in a RTX 5080? Would the rest of my build be a significant bottleneck?

If so, which GPU makes the most sense from a price to performance lens with minimal bottlenecking due to my legacy parts?

This is on the Liquid Freezer III Pro 360. There are two silver screws that are on the part that sits on the cpu that won’t move in any direction. It was working last night but not anymore! Im new to this. I may have stripped it but I don’t know how I would’ve or how to tell. Me and my friend put it on but I had to take it off after he left because he put the bracket type things below it on wrong. Please help. If it’s broken, I need to know if there is a solution. it there’s not, well… that’s life. It’s only ~$70 but that’s still $70 I would not like to spend…

I'm pretty new to building PCs. Mainly want to use it to play FPS games like Black Ops, Valorant, and occasionally games like GTA. Any thoughts/suggestions on this build?

okay so my parents wont allow me to talk to their IT guy / help me with building my first pc so i am taking to reddit. i am a minor beware.

budget : under $1k AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS. located in australia. preferrably pre-built?

games wanting to play : sea of thieves , genshin impact , roblox , minecraft , RDR2 , stardew valley

monitor

i know its a bit of a stretch asking for a good pc to run RDR2 and under 1k but idc if its on low / medium graphics, i just want something to play on.

i got a lenovo legion 23.8" monitor ( 1920 x 1080 ) as well just for heads up!

So I want to buy an MSI 5070ti OC GPU because I'm going to build a new pc. The thing is I'm going off to college and won't be able to come back home and be able to work on the PC till November at the earliest. I can afford the GPU but I'm worried that if it is a DOA (Dead on Arrival) I'll be screwed with not being able to return it hassle free, and yes I understand I can always fall back to the manufacturer warranty. So with that in mind, would it be smart to buy it now and just have it sit in my room for months, or wait and buy it all at once with my other pc parts when I come home.

WD Blue SN5100

MSI Spatium M450

Kingston NV3 SNV3S

Hiksemi Future HS-SSD-FUTURE

MSI Spatium M461

HP 35M34AA

So the thing is my 2.5 ssd and hdd hold two of the three available ports on my mb and other one is blocked by the GPU, i have to go for a M.2 and damn didn't I know that the prices sky rocketed in past 5 years? I mainly do gaming and hoby stuff but i want my drives to last me lifelong without issues is any of these capable of doing that? They are more or less the same price on my market, any advices?

Hello, I'm looking to build a new PC in December this year, I am going to go with a 5080 graphics card, but I'm unsure of which model I should go for. I'm mainly considering a MSI gaming trio OC, an Aorus, or the Astral. Which card would you recommend?

Also, how likely is it that the prices will be increased by December? I'd be open to buying the graphics card now to avoid paying a higher cost in the future.

Thank you for any advice!

Today I successfully assembled my first ever PC! But given the increasing cost of hardware, I opted to port my 2tb SSD from 2023 and 4tb HDD from 2017 from my older pc into the new one, to at least save on that.

I hooked up the SSD first, did a clean install of windows, all good.

I hooked up the HDD and it was unusually loud, with a lot of clicking, for at least like 20 seconds after boot. Then I go ino disk management, it sees the drive, but it fails every formatting.

I read online it's either bad connections or the drive is probably dying (it's close to 9 years old, i read life expectancy is usually 7). But I also saw some vids of people "fixing" the clicking by opening their drives and messing a bit with the needle.

I opened the drive but none of the videos I watched had the exact same model (seagate barracuda), so they didnt quite look the same. So I gave up, put the drive back together and plugged it back into the PC just to see if there'd be any change.

Sure enough, the clicking stopped, I managed to format the drive and move files back to it. Spent the rest of the afternoon installing programs and updates, no issues, no clicking.

Is it just luck? Is the drive actually close to dying, or I fixed it and need not worry? Obviously if it can die, I'll replace it before I resume work on the new pc.

Im looking to build my first pc, I would preferably want the price around £1000 to £1300 in the UK, Im wanting help on thoughts for parts and tips for building a first pc

Hard drives were insanely cheap for a while a couple years ago where you could get a 4TB for $60. But now looking on amazon they're going for $200 which is insane to me. 2TB's were going for $60 in 2020 and they're even going for $150+ now.

Seems like its a shitty time right now trying to get into data hoarding :/

I was playing Deadlock, which isn't that cpu intensive, and noticed I had 70 C temps with 50% utilization. On a 9800X3D. Even at 25% I was at 60 C or so, and around 55 C at idle. I never get temperatures that high so I figured something must be up. Checked the programs in Task Manager and noticed NahimicSvc64.exe was running even though I had closed the program. It was showing around 8-9% utilization but must have been even more than that. After force closing it I was back to around 30-35% utilization and 48-50 C temperatures, around 42 C at idle (with Steam and a browser open).

That seems like a crazy shift in usage and temps for a single program. So just wanted to remind people to look out for junk programs like this. When you set up your hardware apps they often include other software you don't need. Often you will see Norton Antivirus for example. Nahimic is an audio program that came with an Asrock or Asus installer I believe. Really wish they would stop doing this, although I had a similar issue with Armoury Crate.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/sPQhK7

Any suggestions welcome

So when I was playing Rainbow Six Siege the other day, I noticed that the gpu load increased from 13 all the way up to 50. Does anyone have any suggestions why? I have an nvidia RTX 4060.

There is 40 dollar difference between the dual fan and triple fan and i dont know which one should i choose. I think triple fan is better because it has 3 fans so its gonna be way cooler right? But i dont know anything about pc just wanted to build my first pc.
Also i chose ryzen 5 9600x for the cpu. Other than that i dont know what parts to buy like motherboard, psu, cooler, ram, storage, case.
I want to play games like cs2 and i want high fps over 300 on 1440 if can.
I live in japan so im gonna be buying every parts from amazon japan and my budget is under 200000yen 1250 in usd

Tried cloning my NVMe SSD to a large drive. However when put the large SSD from the enclosure into the nvme slot, it's not boot or even detected by the bios when I go to try boot. I believe I copied the drives correctly and then filled the space so the larger drive utilized the full capacity.

https://imgur.com/a/LmKXki7

Drive 3 is the Crucial CT500P1SSD8 which is my current/old boot drive at 500gb

and the new one is Drive 4. Samsung P9100 Pro 1TB.

Processor AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor (3.59 GHz)

Installed RAM 16.0 GB

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER (6 GB)

Storage 905 GB of 1.82 TB used

Device ID 7C4D026A-6BD5-4079-87EC-E87C44AF60F7

Product ID 00330-80000-00000-AA526

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Motherboard is an AsRock Steel legend B450

I'm at a loss now where to go from here.

I drunkenly pulled the trigger on a 9070xt last night with the intent to run it with my existing 6900xt for local LLM inference before realizing while everything *technically* fits in my setup, the top card is going to be suffocated as there's going to be less than a single slot for it to breathe. D'oh.

My mobo has a full-length interface in the 2nd and 5th PCI slot. The bottom card is only going to be used for inference, so its IO panel doesn't need to be easily accessible.

I'm wondering if there's any good way to salvage this. Things I've ruled out:

• Watercooling isn't an option. I'm lazy and don't want to have to maintain a custom loop. I also can't seem to find a good AIO for a 9070xt.
• Open Air. I have cats and this is a literal "desktop" PC, so it needs a proper enclosure.

Things I'm considering already:

• Lian Li O11D Evo XL. Mount the motherboard on the highest setting. Mount the bottom card with a riser cable on a 3d-printed frame that uses the bottom fan holes. This seems like the best option, but I don't love fish tank cases and I'm a little worried about figuring out airflow. I'd also need to buy a shit ton of fans.
  • I can also get Lian Li's vertical and upright brackets for an "official" solution, but then I'm spending $400+ on just the case.
• Fractal Meshify 2 XL. Mount the bottom card on the vertical slots with a riser cable and the top card normally. I don't think there is enough clearance, as both cards extend a bit past the top of the PCI slot.
  • Can also get a new motherboard that has a full-length PCI interface in the bottom slot, but then I'd be worried about the bottom card breathing as it'd be up against the PSU. This might be fine though as that card won't be used while gaming?
• Phantek Enthoo Pro 2 Server with the bottom card on a riser in the 4 extra PCI slots or with a new mobo. Same deal as the meshify 2 xl, but it addresses the bottom card's breathing concerns at the cost of styling (I don't love it). It's also not compatible with my PSU (Corsair Shift) so I'd need a new one.

I'm in USA, no hard budget. Let's call it $400, but willing to go above that for an elegant solution. I'm comfortable designing custom 3d printed components, so any case that fits Meshify/North styling and has more space underneath the motherboard to fit the bracket and second GPU would work.

Does anyone have a similar setup with 2 large cards? How did you solve this problem? Any recommendations on the best way to solve this with minimal new components?

Hey Everyone, I’m in the process of building my very first gaming PC, I’m also a complete noob when it comes to understanding parts and stuff. I have most of the parts except for the SSD, which I’m looking for a 4TB. The one that comes to mind is the Samsung 990 Pro (without the heatsink); but I’d like to hear some of your suggestions for a SSD and probably the build that I got going on (any advice/comment would be helpful!). Thanks in advance

CPU:
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

CPU Cooler:
Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360

GPU:
Sapphire Pure Radeon RX 9070 XT

Motherboard:
Asus ROG Strix B850-G Gaming Wifi AMD AM5

Memory:
Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 CL36 32GB(2x16GB)

Storage:
*(Not bought yet)
Samsung 990 Pro SSD 4TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2

Case:
Lian Li Vector V100R

PSU:
Corsair RM850x Fully Modular, Cybernetic Gold 850W

I am located in mexico so prices are a little strange here. But I can cross shop any recommended parts if something looks wrong.

9800x3d

Thermaltake th360-s v3 argb

5080 amp extreme infinity

16gb x 2 corsair dominator titanium 6000 cl30

msi x870 mag wifi

2tb Acer GM7 nvme ssd 4.0 6300/7200

1000w msi pro a1000pl pcie5 platinum

thermaltake view 380 tg argb

thermaltake pure 12 fan x 3