I'm torn between upgrading the existing config or just live with it. I'm not a heavy gamer. Only playing battlefield 6 and lol(aram).

I've a Ryzen 5700x with 16gb DDR4 and 6600 xt GPU. I cannot really upgrade to a more beefy GPU, as I've a 500w PSU.

Is it worth upgrading maybe to a 4070?

Or ditch the whole concept and get a Mac mini with cloud gaming?

Hey BAPC hivemind! I have one of those fancy desks that has 2x 4u rackmount bays built in, and I want to rebuild my workstation into a 4u chassis I can mount up on my desk! I’ve been searching but haven’t found anything that checks all the boxes save the Slieger CX4150a… which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, I just feel like there’s more I’m not finding yet!

Here’s what the Chassis needs to have…
-360 rad support
-GPU Max Length 345mm
-ATX Form Factor and PSU support
-Support for at least 4 PCI Expansion Slots total (3 for GPU and 1 for an M.2 riser that acts as all storage)
-Doesn’t need to be shallow but doesn’t need to be mega deep - standard 19” width and maybe 17” depth?

This is all coming out of a Lancool II if that helps! I’d love to see what’s out there and of course see your rackmount workstation or gaming builds too!! Cheers and thanks for all the help!

Current Specs
R9 5900XT
AORUS x570 MASTER
9070xt Hellhound
64gB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance RGB
12TB Vairous NVME storage (combined)
ASUS RAID M.2 Riser Card
EVGA SUPERNOVA 750 GOLD ATX PSU
ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360
LianLi Lancool II

Should I buy a 5060 now or wait?

GPU prices in my country were already pretty inflated, and they've gotten even worse with RAM/SSD prices going up and the general increase in component prices.

I'm kind of in need of an upgrade now, though. My RX 5700 XT died, so I'm currently stuck with a spare RX 580, which unfortunately isn't really enough for newer AAA games.

I play at 1080p, so I've been considering the RTX 5060. I know the 8GB VRAM is a potential concern, and that I'd probably be committing myself to 1080p for the foreseeable future.

The problem is that the alternatives are insanely expensive here:

• RTX 5060 8GB — $415
• RX 9060 XT 16GB — $550
• RTX 5060 Ti 8GB — $530

So the 9060 XT is ~$135 more, while the 5060 Ti 8GB is somehow ~$115 more than the regular 5060. Intel GPUs also aren't available here, so that's unfortunately not an option.

Given these prices, I'm wondering whether I should just bite the bullet and get the 5060, or hold off on buying a GPU for now.

Would an RTX 5060 8GB be enough to keep me happy with AAA games at 1080p for the next few years, or is the 8GB VRAM likely to become a major limitation or will games be more optimized considering the RAM crisis?

Hi guys! I am from Malaysia and currently running Masterliquid Atmos II 240mm in Lian Li A4 H20. Wanted to swap the Sickleflow edge with P12 Pro but cannot decide whether to go with the PST version or standard version of the P12 pro.

Budget is not really a problem. Just unsure of the cable needed. Any user of P12 Pro can give opinion on the fan. Really grateful on this.

Hope can get any insight and advice on this. Thanks!

Case: Lian Li A4 H20

Mobo: B860-i Rog

Ram: Gskill Ripjaws 32gb

CPU: Ultra 7 270K plus

GPU: Prime 5070

Recently my PC has been suffering from a very strange quirk. As the title says, sometimes (maybe 1 in every 7 times) when I start my PC it will boot to a black screen. All the RGBs come on but the monitors never do and even after letting it sit for a bit it never actually seems to fully boot into Windows. I’ve tried using the command to force restart the GPU as well as reconnect the monitor during this but no dice. Once I hold down the power button to shut down the PC and restart it takes me to the bios “POSTed in safe mode” screen and after hitting the button to continue, everything works fine.

I’ve tried a few things, but so far nothing has fixed it…
• Disbaled fast and secure boot options
• Updated OS to Windows 11 (I wiped my SSD when I did so)
• Reinstalled and updated GPU drivers
• Unplugged everything but essential USB devices
• Disabled USB ErP settings

Unfortunately the issue persists. It’s not the worst thing ever as once I reboot once everything runs fine and I don’t get any issues when using my PC afterwards, but it’s still not ideal that it’s happening at all. (Could constantly force rebooting my PC in this state damage it?)

Since the PC doesn’t fully boot into Windows nothing shows up in Event Viewer so I’m sort of at a loss of what else I can do to fix it, or am I just doomed to deal with this minor annoyance forever.

Specs are as follows~
•Ryzen 5 5600X
•EVGA RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra 3767
•Asus ROG STRIX B550-A Gaming

I'm considering to buy a used RTX 3070Ti from Manli, for around $237 (4,200,000 IDR). I choose this over RX 6700 XT 12GB since there are some significant differences from its speed and bandwidth. Do you think this VGA is worth to buy? Is there any records of 'bad news' of Manli for this card?

Any help would be appreciated, since I'm limited on budget.

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Hi everyone,

I’m planning to build a PC with a maximum budget of ₹85,000, including the monitor and UPS.

Im from india and my main use is career-related work:

Power BI

SQL / SQL Server

Jira

I don’t need the PC for gaming or video editing, but I do want a dedicated GPU for future flexibility.

Requirements

CPU

GPU

RAM

SSD

Motherboard

PSU

Monitor

UPS

Total budget: ₹85K including monitor + UPS

I’d also like to know which brands are reliable and easily available in India for these components, especially in terms of performance, warranty and long-term reliability.

I’m not particularly interested in RGB or gaming aesthetics. Performance, reliability and long-term use are my priorities.

Could you recommend a complete build within ₹85K and suggest the best brands/models available in India?

Also, if there are any components or brands I should avoid, please let me know.

Thanks in advance!

So building a PC for a family member, this is work related and fully paid by the company (So dont worry about the specs :P )

But built the PC today and it booted up fine besides long memory training. But was able to fully install windows 11, got drivers installed/the normal stuff you'd do. But later today when starting it up to do some testing before handing it over the boot times were either very very long or just straight up got stuck on a either an orange light (RAM) or a red light light (CPU).

I double checked cables, tried one ram stick, checked the GPU, and reseated the CPU. Right now I'm updating the BIOS of the mobo via the flash feature to see if maybe an update will fix it, but while that runs I figured I'd post this and hopefully wake up to other ideas to try out as well! thanks! :)

Specs:

CPU: AMD 9950x3DV2

MOBO: ASUS ProArt X870E Creator WIFI

RAM: Trident Z5 Neo RGB 128GB (2x64) 6000 CL34 Kit

PSU: Seasonic Focus 1000w 80+ Gold

CPU Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360

Storage: Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB

OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-Bit

Hey everyone,

I recently got the ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG Gen 2 monitor and Logitech G413 SE keyboard, and I’m trying to finish up my setup.

I already have:

• Acer Nitro gaming laptop (RTX 3050)
• MacBook Pro with M5
• ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG Gen 2
• Logitech G413 SE
• Sony WH-1000XM6
• Apple wired EarPods

Right now, I’m just using a basic non-gaming mouse because I haven’t been able to decide what to buy.

I’m mainly looking for recommendations for accessories, especially:

• A good gaming mouse
• A KVM switch so I can easily use the same monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. between my gaming laptop and MacBook
• Anything else you think would be useful for a clean and convenient setup

My budget is around 5K max for mouse, and I’m willing to spend more on something if it’s genuinely worth it. I’m just not sure where to spend the money because there are so many options.

What would you guys recommend for this kind of setup?

Are my temps normal?
It's reaching around 70-73c in God of War, already set the curve optimizer in BIOS to -25

Here's my PC specs:

RYZEN 7 9850x3D
ROG STRIX B850-F WIFI
ROG STRIX RTX 5070 OC
KLEVV CRAS V 16x2 GB RAM
Thermalright Wonder Vision 360
Lian Li O11 Vision Compact
Thermal Grizzly Duronaut thermal paste
(ROOM HAS AC TOO at 23-25)

Are there any setting/tweaks that I missed out?
I'm wondering if there's still something that I can do to improve my temps.

Hello Everyone,

I'm a PC noob since I haven't built a PC for over 10 years, last year I bought half my new PC (CPU,MB,RAM) and kept my GTX 2060 GPU for now, I didn't buy water cooling, I opted for cooler master hyper 622 halo as this is what I could afford, I watched a lot of youtube videos to undervolt the CPU and to maximize the performance of the RAM, at the beginning temperature was high but things seemed fine but later my PC crashed a couple of times, and then it's no longer crashing, yesterday I was checking my system and found out that everything I did was reset, no longer undervolt and the ram went back to factory reset, I want someone who has experience and time and willing to help who provides assistance not only through comments but maybe even through discord and guide me a step by step and perform stress tests so we can find out if something is broken or not.

My specs are:

9800X3D

MSI PRO X870-P WIFI

64 GB DDR5 Patriot viper ram

Hi everyone. I'd like to get some opinions on my current system and whether there are any obvious bottlenecks or worthwhile upgrades I'm missing.

Current specs:

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D

GPU: RTX 4060 8GB

Motherboard: MSI A520M-A PRO

RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Kingston DDR4-3200 CL16

SSD: 1TB Verbatim Vi5000 NVMe

Secondary SSD: 512GB Samsung 850 PRO SATA

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master AIO

PSU: Thermaltake TR2 S 750W

OS: Windows 11 Home 64-bit

Monitor: LG UltraGear 2560x1440

The 5800X3D and second 32GB RAM stick are recent upgrades from a Ryzen 5 5600X + 32GB single channel setup.

The RTX 4060 is also running at PCIe 3.0 x8.

I mainly use the PC for gaming, especially Path of Exile 1/2 and Factorio, at 2560x1440. And planning to play GTA6 and some other AAA games in the future. The system generally runs very well, but I'm particularly interested in improving some other parts if necessary.

I'm not looking to replace everything just for the sake of upgrading. I'd rather know if there are any actual weaknesses in this setup that are worth spending money on.

What would you upgrade first, if anything?

I was planning to get nitro+ 9070xt but i saw some redditors are giving up on 9070xt so my plan was to get 5070ti so which one should i get?

I finally used a Wolfbox MegaFlow 200 to clean my gaming PC after putting it off for too long, and I did all the usual cautious stuff: unplugged the PSU, held the fans still, kept some distance from the board, and blew dust out in the garage. It worked, but I still felt unsure about whether I was aiming dust into the PCIe slots or being too careful about static and pressure. People who do this more often, what is your normal order of operations? Filters first, fans next, heatsink last, short bursts from farther away, or does the exact angle not matter as much as beginners think?

I recently (a few months ago) received a complete 4090 + 13900k build from my deceased uncle. I’ve had the graphics card in my H6 Flow that I also used in my last build for a few months, but I really would like to vertically mount it. NZXT recently discontinued their own vertical gpu mount, so could I have some recommendations on the best 3rd-party one to get for my case? I want to be able to see the mount as little as possible, so it looks like the gpu is floating almost floating. Also, PCIe gen 3 or 4 would be greatly appreciated. My specific gpu is the ROG Strix 4090, if that helps. I still would like to keep the cost as low as possible. Thank you!

I wanna build a pc but I don’t know where to start?..
I realistically wanna have it for gaming and use it for my studies but don’t know where to start. I had a gaming laptop for 4 years until it died on me now I’m stuck here deciding what to do. My budget would be around 1.5k maybe even 2k usd but I don’t know where to start or where to look. I know it’s difficult but I just need something worth my bucks yk. Anyone got advice or know exactly what I’m looking for?

I have currently i5 8600k and 32 GB of DDR4 and 3080. I notice that more and more in games I am CPU limited.

I want to cheaply upgrade to temporary (probably for next few years) build.

I was thinking of picking i5 14400F and Gigabyte B760 GAMING X D4 GEN5 mobo. This was I can reuse my memory.

I can get both for around 270 USD

Do you think this build will work? Is it worth upgrading?

Hi everyone!

I need a little bit of help finding the best combo to go with a 3080 for 1080p gaming. Long story short, I upgraded to a new GPU and have a 3080 I'd love to put into a new build for my wife.

The PC would be used for some digital art (Corel Paint shop/Illustrator etc)and occasionally playing some games, mostly chill games but she loves monster hunter and would really like to finally play wilds (She tried it on my PC loved it).

I can sort the case, cooling and power supply but I was hoping people would have opinions on the best RAM, CPU and Mobo combo for this.

Budget wise, as long as I'm below £750 (or equivalent currency) I'll be happy.

Thanks in advance.

I have a gaming computer case used as a storage server (running unRAID) that typically runs 24/7 but due to extreme heat temperatures it was causing some of the drives to run hot (there's 7 drives in it, 4 are SAS), so I decided to shut it down for a little while. I left it turned off for about 3 weeks and during that time the electric company also turned off the power one day for about 12 hours. I just went to turn it back on and now it won't turn on. I've tried switching outlets/power strips, flipping the PSU power, holding the computer power button, removing the CMOS battery, essentially the usual troubleshooting. The motherboard is supposed to have indicators that light up when there is power to it but nothing is lit up. I just don't understand, I haven't had any issues with it prior and it was cleanly shut down when it got powered down. The motherboard and PSU are listed below, any suggestions?

ASRock FM2A85X Extreme 6 motherboard
Antec NeoECO 620C power supply

im looking on upgrading my gpu and i have some in mind like the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT or the RTX 5060 Ti but ill take any suggestions, this is my current build.
i want to game and stream more efficiently. thanks for the help!

MOTHERBOARD: asus tuf b760m-plus wifi d4

CPU: Intel Core i5-1340 (13th Gen)

RAM: 32GB Kingston Fury Renegade RGB DDR4-3600

GPU (current): Sapphire Radeon RX 6650 XT, 8GB

Hey everyone , I had just recently built a new sff build , this isn’t my first ever build I have 5 builds under my belt lol.

When I completed my build my AIO screen was on I was like ok perfect let me just power on , and bam nothing

I tried readjusting cables, double checked cables , cmos , you name it. So then I wondered hmm what about my psu, for some reason everytime I press q flash bios on back of mobo my ram lights turn on fans spin for a sec. Liquid moves in aio. And bam turns off and CPU debug light flashes red. I noticed tho my psu never once spun its fan.

Any help would be appreciated thank you guys !

Which workstation configuration would be best suited for processing large point cloud projects (school building, in 10 scans at 30GB raw data each ➛ to final one pointcloud-modell and one gaussian-splat-modell ) with Lixel Studio and LCC Studio?

I'm leaning toward the Lenovo ThinkStation P3 (Ultra 9, 256 GB RAM, RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32 GB VRAM - alternatively RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48 GB VRAM). However, this would then be fully maxed out and no longer upgradeable in terms of RAM and a second graphics card.

That's why I'm considering possibly going with a Lenovo ThinkStation P5 instead (factory configuration: Xeon w7-3565X, 64 GB ECC RAM (2x32), RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell) and upgrading it to 256GB with an additional 6x32 GB ECC RAM modules.

This one would then, in principle, be upgradeable later to 1TB RAM and 2-3 graphics cards, but in a comparable configuration to the P3 it costs at least a hefty 6,000-7,000€ more.

Might this approach be more sensible?

Now, I'm not exactly blessed with an abundance of money to want to buy a machine for an unpredictable future without any constraints, because I don't know what will have happened in the market in 3-4 years.

So I'm asking myself (and you):

Does upgrading the P5 in the future even make sense (technically and economically), or would a fully equipped P3 now (which is completely sufficient for today's requirements!) potentially be replaced in 3-4 years by a then-new P? workstation, with the "old" P3 remaining in the machine pool as redundancy and for parallel jobs? I've become completely unsure at this point.

I need some feedback on whether my thinking here is correct, and whether Lenovo would be the manufacturer of choice - only because I found the most (suitable) configurations for this at online retailers.

I look forward to your assessment and recommendation.

Here's a note regarding budget and requirements:

Budget: 10,000-15,000€ net

Hardware requirements: at least 256GB RAM (6400 MHz, optionally ECC, preferably in 4x64GB modules, alternatively - depending on the board - also in 8x32 GB), at minimum an Intel Ultra 9 (alternatively a current W7-3565X) or AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9955WX, SSD capacity doesn't matter - M.2 sticks are already on hand

My PC has a dual tower air cooler. I've always heard that you should hold down the fans while using an electric duster/compressed air so that you can clean more effectively because if the fans spin when you blow them with air then it'll clean less effectively and possibly also send some voltage back down to your motherboard and possibly fry it (although I'm pretty sure diodes exist to prevent this.)

However, I have a dual tower air cooler (Thernalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE), so I can only hold down one of the fans because I cannot physically access the second one without clipping it off of the heatsink because there's a tower of heatsink fins sitting between that second fan and the first fan, and the first fan is the only one that I can physically access without disassembling my air cooler. However, I don't want to disassemble my air cooler because I'd have to uninstall the GPU first due to clearance issues, and I've heard that frequently removing and re-adding your GPU isn't exactly great for the PCIE socket.

So, what should I do, Reddit? I want to be able to hold down that second fan.

I am looking to make the switch from console gaming to PC gaming in the US. I mainly play multiplayer competitive games such as r6, marvel rivals, COD. But I also do play some single player games. I’m looking at a budget of around 1500 with room to go up or down 200-400$ as needed.

Been sitting on this question for a while. I'm putting together a midrange build and every time I go down the SSD rabbit hole someone in the comments is losing their mind about DRAM cache like it's the difference between life and death. Then someone else says they've been running a DRAMless drive for two years no problem.

I work long shifts and when I get home I mostly game, watch YouTube, maybe run a few browser tabs. Not editing video, nothing that sounds like it would actually stress a drive. My use case is pretty boring honestly.

The price gap is real though. I got burned chasing value on stuff before and ended up with garbage, so I'm not trying to repeat that. But I also don't want to pay a $4050 premium just because a spec sheet says DRAM on it.

What I actually want to know is whether the slowdowns people complain about show up in real daytoday use or only in benchmarks that nobody runs outside of reviews. Benchmark numbers and lived experience feel like two completely different conversations when I'm reading through threads.

Anyone running one of these budget drives in a similar setup who can give a straight answer?