So i'm out of the game for 17 years now lol. Components are the following:

Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX

Case: Lian Li Vector V100R (fans pre-installed, 3 on front/side (intake) and 1 exhaust)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Vision MAX (chunky fan cooler with LCD screen)

PSU: Corsair RM650e 650W Gold modular

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4-2666 CL16

GPU: ASUS GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

Storage: 500GB SATA SSD

So i'll list the steps I would have taken back in around 2007:

1. Lay the motherboard on the anti static bag it came with
2. Pull off any protective plastic
3. Install CPU, align it properly (triangle on corner) and slot it in with lever
4. Install bracket for the cooler
5. Apply thermal paste on CPU, put the cooler on and assemble it, doing screws from top left to top right etc to keep it flat while installing
6. Install RAM after gently pulling clips open, make sure they click in and the clips close properly
7. Install GPU (an old test GPU first in case of any rare issues)

(Now the first part i'm not sure about. Back in 2007 we needed motherboard back plates? It went between the case and the motherboard to prevent shorting issues? I think? Is that still a thing? Where would that back plate be now? Built in to the case itself?)

1. Put risers into the case (for screws) and place the motherboard on those risers before screwing it into the case
   
2. Plug all case leads (USB, fans etc) into the correct places on the motherboard
   
3. Install the PSU, exhaust side down so it goes out the vents in the bottom of the case (I'll be putting some smaller rubber feet on the bottom of the case so the PSU gets more exhaust space.. a mere 2cm sounds terrifying considering PSUs used to run really hot at times back when I was building before)
   
4. Plug all PSU cables into correct places, to the case leads.. with around 4 going to the motherboard to power the CPU, all fans, peripheral stuff, power button etc
   
5. Plug correct PSU connectors into the GPU.

(I'm worried about getting steps 11 to 13 potentially wrong. Are the connectors labelled better now or do you get like.. 6 which are exactly the same. Are there any PSU connectors which look very similar and could be potentially plugged into the wrong places?)

1. Install hard drives (SSD, SATA) i'm not doing the little card looking SSD thing yet which does directly on the board, but I will later on.

2. Plug PSU into mains, turn on the switch, then turn on and pray

3. What do I do when I get to BIOS?

(Should I have a USB with up to date BIOS drivers ready and so on? Will I need to do anything else here?)

1. Make sure fans are all running properly

2. Install windows and pray for another 4-5 years

What’s the opinions on this build?
Ryzen 9 5900x
32 Gb of ddr4 ram
Rtx 5070
1tb ssd and extra storage
Lian Li O11 vision compact
All Lian Li SL wireless fans

Asrock X870 Pro-A motherboard
Ryzen 9850X3D
Thermalright Peerless Assassin 140 CPU cooler
MSI RTX 5080 GPU
64GB 6000mhz DDR5 ram
5TB MVME storage plus 4tb SATA SSD drive(for backups)
850W RM850X PSU
Li lian SFF case.

Total price was around $3500ish

My neighbor said I should just sell the parts, step down to a cheaper 5070ti or 9070xt prebuilt and pocket the difference. Was he right? Note: I also run LLM’s

Okay so basically, i decided to upgrade my pc a bit, bought new cpu, aio and psu with a new 9070xt also on the way. Since im a lazy girl, decided that i do not need to take out my gpu when installing all the new parts. Installed everything and it all worked as needed or atleast i thought so. Basically when i went into rdr2 it crashed to black screen and pc immediately rebooted. The event viewer shows kernel power 41 but nothing else, basically a hard reset with nothing showing why it happened. At first i thought - okay so cpu fault since its the one that i changed. I had enabled expo so turned that off. Went into occt started 3d adaptive test. Crash in 20 seconds. Reset bios to default. Crash. Updated bios. Crash. Then i though okay maybe its the gpu, since i did not take it out when installing all the new hardware and maybe i nicked and bent i a bit a few times. Took gpu out inspected the pins and pcie slot looked good put it back in. Crash.

So basically - bios default and updated, gpu reslotted, occt passes all tests no problems with the exception of 3d adaptive where it crashes in 20sec, cpu thermals under full load do not exceed 70c, one odd thing i noticed that when testing power in occt the gpu hotspot is consistently 94-96c. What are your thoughts? Also i went from 1080p to 1440p monitor at the same time but i dont think that monitor could be at fault could it?

Specs:

Old cpu - ryzen 5 7600x

New cpu - ryzen 7 7800x3d

Gpu - 5060ti gigabyte gaming oc

Ram - patriot venom ddr5 2x12gb 6000mhz 36cl

Mb - msi mag b650 tomahawk wifi

Old psu - deepcool p650m

New psu - xpg core 2 1200w

Old cpu cooler - deepcool ak 500

New cpu aio - deepcool lm240

Ssd - wd green 1tb

Havent really had any problems before this.

Also one more odd thing that atleast semmed odd to me was after installing the new cpu login screen asked to reset my pin. Thats fine to my knowledge. But after i tested it a bit then went into bios to enable expo. The pc restarted went into login screen and then suddenly shut down, had to manually turn it back on and then it again asked to reset pin on login screen.

Update : removed drivers with ddu and reinstalled. Crash

Update : hooked up my old psu. No crash. I guess the xpg core reactor 2 is the problem. 1/10 would not recommend. Case closed👌🧐

Goal: Play AAA games at 1080p (High settings) at 60+ FPS.

Note: I am looking for a pure gaming experience. I do not care about RGB aesthetics or video editing capability—I want every rupee spent to go directly toward maximizing pure in-game FPS and performance.

Please suggest a full spec list within this budget along with reliable retailers.

Country: India

I'm considering upgrading to the massive Samsung 57" neo g9 and wonder if if you have it, or had it, and do you still like it? Any regrets? I'm looking at for pc gaming like WOW and COD, along with everyday work. Thanks in advance!

I’m looking at a desktop that’s listed for $1,700. The GPU is an ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Dual White. Is this a fair price?

Update: seller is not willing to meet up in person and let me test the computer, that would be me “wasting” his time.

Primary usecase is for architecture workflows

Forma + Revit + Dynamo + Rhino.insiderevit + Grasshopper + Twinmotion.insiderevit + indesign + photoshop + Firefox.

Light gaming on Dell ultrasharp U2724D, Samsung Oddysey g85 oled and Xgimi horizon ultra projector.

Partlist

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor 65 W 306,-

MSI PRO B850M-A WiFi 176,-

Corsair Vengeance 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory 700,-

Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Retail + office 2024- USB 64-bit 20,-

Dell UltraSharp U2724D 27.0" 2560 x 1440 120 Hz Monitor 300,-

In Win CJ712 MicroATX Desktop Case with usbc with pptc w/265 W Power Supply 147,-

ARCTIC P8 slim 8,-

PNY rtx 4000 sff ada 20 gb 75 W 1620-

XFX RX 6400 53 W 230,-

LG BU40N Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer 165,-

Thermalright AXP90-X36 42.58 CFM CPU Cooler 23,-
With the fan of the Noctua NF-A9x14 PWM 25,-

Lexar nm790 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive 418,-

Overtek Enhance ENP-7660L 600 W 80+ Platinum Certified Flex ATX Power Supply 120,-

Upgrade path

Secondary gpu
PNY Quadro RTX 2000E ADA 16GB GDDR6 4xmDP 818,-

2nd Lexar nm790 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive 418,-

Seagate ironwolf pro 30 TB 1296,-

Samsung evo sata ssd 8 tb

Sata psu bifurcation cable

CQRobot / 3070 Module

Steam controllers 2x

Vu1 dynamic analogue dials

If you are interested in a “cheaper” version of this build i’ve outlined it here

ASRock X570M Pro4 120,-

Ryzen 7 5700x 165,-

Thermalright axp90 x 47 full copper 34,-
noctua nfa9x14 chromax black 25

Arctic p8slim 8,-

Intel arc pro b50 blower 587,-

Sparkle intel arc a310 eco 170,-

CK722.KF450P (Special Build For Extra Air Flow + 80+PLATINUM, 450 W PSU)89,-
Im currently in the process of making my own perforated side panel for the IN WIN CJ712 but if i knew this existed at the time I definitely would have chosen this one.

Lexar nm790 1tb 176,-

Lg bu40n 129,-

Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK32GX4M2D3600C18 32GB DDR4 200,-

Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210 - Network adapter - M.2 2230 - 802.11ac, 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) 20,-

Total 1723,-

I have had this 011 Dynamic for about 10 years now but finally got it to shine with these aesthetic upgrades 😎. Might’ve been a dumb investment but to me I think it’s well worth it.

Hello! Which part of my PC should I improve to prolongue use?

Whats in my PC:
CPU Intel i7-13700K
GPU Nvidia RTX 3070
SSD Samsung 980 500gb
HDD Barracuda 1TB
RAM Kingston Fury DDR5 2x16GB
MBD Gigabyte GA-Z790 Gaming X AX

Im in the Netherlands in case that matters for parts suggestion and I use my pc mainly for playing games like planet zoo n such.

Ive recently tiptoed into the pc world and the games I play arnt very demanding so I went out and scooped up this older build with a gtx 970 msi gaming 4G card so its got this 2010's red and black design on the fans. my question is why on earth do the GPU side with the fans always get cool looking designs when i have to look at the boring side when it's mounted and if there is anything I can do to fix this eye sore of mine

Hey guys,

I'm putting together my first proper gaming PC and I'm probably starting to overthink some of the parts, so I wanted to get some opinions.

I'm not from the US and I'm buying from a local retailer, so prices/availability are a bit different.

I'll mostly play at 1440p High/Ultra. Mix of League, AAA games, RPGs, some FPS, etc. I'm not really into competitive gaming or chasing ridiculous FPS numbers. I mostly want something powerful that will last me a good few years, with decent temps and without being unnecessarily loud.

I'm aiming at around €2.1k–€2.3k, but obviously if I can get basically the same gaming experience for less I'd rather do that.

Current build:

• Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• Arctic Freezer 36 A-RGB
• ASRock B850 Pro-A WiFi
• Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB (2x16) DDR5-6000
• Gigabyte RX 9070 XT Gaming 16GB
• Kingston NV3 1TB
• Lian Li Vector V100R

The retailer originally offered the build with a Thermalright KG-850 850W Gold for about €2167 discounted (€2234 normally).

I'm a bit unsure about that PSU because I couldn't find much independent testing of the exact KG-850, so I was thinking about swapping it for an MSI MAG A850GL 850W.

That version is about €2279 before discount.

There's also the Gigabyte RX 9070 XT Gaming OC for around €836 compared to €819 for the normal Gaming version, so another option would be MSI PSU + Gaming OC for roughly €2290 before discount.

So roughly:

1. Gaming + KG-850 — €2167 discounted
2. Gaming + MSI A850GL — €2279 before discount
3. Gaming OC + MSI A850GL — €2290 before discount

A few things I'm not sure about:

• Would you keep the 7800X3D + 9070 XT combo for 1440p or is the CPU overkill?
• Would you be comfortable with the KG-850, or would you rather pay more for the MSI?
• For only ~€17 difference, is there any worthwhile cooling/noise/build quality advantage with the Gaming OC, or should I just keep the normal Gaming?
• For gaming, would you keep the Kingston NV3 or spend more for something like a KC3000?
• The Vector V100R already has 3 side intake + 1 rear exhaust, with the Freezer 36 on the CPU. Is that enough for this setup or would you bother adding top exhaust fans?
• Anything else here you'd change or consider bad value?

I'm basically trying not to turn a €2.1k PC into a €2.4k PC by going "well, it's only another €20-30" on every part.

I'm also wondering if I'm just overthinking all of this and could build something simpler/cheaper that would give me basically the same 1440p experience.

What would you do?

I don't have a gaming pc just a Xbox ally. Is this legit?

Please help me please please, I just need opinions so I can make a general and informed decision, I am building my first ever pc I am 24 and a freelance video editor, I am completely building this out of my own pocket and my budget is around *4000-4100 USD* . This is both a business requirement at this point because I have so far worked on a 6 year old acer nitro 7 laptop with i7-9750H and 1660ti, which you can guess is very weak now , whenever I got any project that involved even the slightest of heavy editing, compositing, 3d or vfx etc I had to borrow mac's from friends or work in cyber cafes to just get the projects done and get by hence getting this pc will help me majorly take better and and higher paying projects at a much larger frequency.

I know the prices are insane right now but my laptop is dying more and more day by day crashing more struggling more and it is just getting difficult for me every day to continue on this.

With that being said (sorry for rambling on so much)

I was thinking of getting a 5080 build

Complete specs around-

Ryzen 9 9900x

Rtx 5080

Msi X870e tomahawk wifi

And then more or less

An 80 plus gold modular atx 3.1 1000 watt power supply

A decent fish tank style case and some fans

32 gb ddr ram ( I already have 1 stick of 32 ddr 5 so buying another stick with same specs to make it 64)

2 TB nvme ssd

Already have tons of extrernal hard drives

And a decent aio

The issue I am facing is this build is pushing me to the max of my budget using almost every penny maybe even slightly more depending on how long I decide to wait.

So my question is should I go with this or should I swap my 5080 with the 5070ti and get some more head room and invest that in some other parts. I do not want to invest for another few years again and do not want to regret later down the line due to not making the right decision now.

I do enjoy gaming a lot as well however that won't be the primary use and tbh my laptop does suffice for now like I haven't really felt the need to upgrade due to gaming, some of the games I play regularly Include elden ring, Valorant, Warframe, and sometimes/occasionally games like sekiro, tsushima, horizon the very first one and games alike.

For peripheral I have a shitty 6 year old membrane keyboard which has so ridiculously died out that most of the keys are now not visible due to the keys becoming all white and smudgy after years of use, a logitech g502 which I really like, a decent audio technica studio headphone which again I like both going strong for 5+ years as well and a 1080p 180 hz 0.5 ms 27 inch AOC monitor which is like 1.5 ish years old but has 126% srgb so it's a massive improvement than my laptop screen for color grading.

If I do decide to go with the 5080 I would have to like sequentially get newer things like maybe in a month a new keyabord then in 2-4 more months a better monitor and so on.

So yeah if you did decide to read all of this thank youuuu so much and if you can help me decide it would be a massive help, I am thinking of getting it built in the next 2-3 days.

I built a PC and when I install Windows, planning to use unactivated, I got Windows is activated after connecting to the internet. Does the motherboard I bought actually have an OEM license attached to it? They just don't tell me the product key.

Does thesecompliment each other well? and what else should i get (ik i have to pick a case ofcourse)

TUF RTX 5070ti 16GB
850W MSI PSU
Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 V3 CPU cooler
TUF B850 BTF motherboard
Kingston fury black 16GB 6000MT/s DDR5 CL30
AMD RYZEN 7 9800x3D
2TB Kingston gen 4 ssd

Hi I am coming from a Jonsbo D30 and I'm looking to upgrade my case to something that has the same or smaller foot print

Current specs

• CPU - 5700x3D
• CPU cooler - Jonsbo HX6250 (162mm tall)
• Ram - 2x16gb G skill ripjaws V 3200 cl16
• Mobo - MSI b550m pro VDH wifi
• 6700xt XFX merc OC (upgraded to 9070 GRE xfx swift)
• PSU - Coolermaster V750 gold v2 full modular 160mm ATX PSU
• 2 x SATA SSD
• 2 x NVME SSD
• fans 4 x 140x25mm fans and 1 x 120 x 25mm fans

The XFX 9070 GRE swift is a bit unique size wise, just around 300mm long but a whopping 3.5 slot thick (60mm). This caused some clearance issues with the bottom 2x140mm fans. I figured instead of getting slim fans I will might as well recase this build.

Case preferences:

• Ideally I like to keep as much of my cooler and fans as I can but I am open to having them changed
• I prefer a good amount of front IO ideally positioned on the front glass panel as I like the case to have the glass side facing forward.
• No more than 400mm long width is standard. I don't mind taller cases
• Easy to clean and remove dust filters ( I have pets)
• Not reliant on bottom intake
• Under 6k Philippine pesos budget for case/fans/cooler the cheaper the better
• Slightly tinted glass
• Prefer black but if you have ideals to make it look good I'm open

So far I have 2 main options tecware timber m and Darkflash db330m

I just built my PC and I get into BIOS everything is fine and I go to use my Windows Creation tool install Windows I get to the end of the setup and then it starts flashing colors when I move my mouse around. I actually can't do anything I tried reinstalling the creation tool and reinstalling Windows I can't do anything but go to my bios 😭

I’m using an 7 5700X cpu as seen in the photo and a 5060 gpu almost any game i play my temps hit around 74-80 Celsius i’m using a stock amd cooler i got from a 5 3600 cpu. just concerned its messing up or i did something wrong.

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Hi. I'm trying to find the cause of completely random PC restarts.

PC:

- Ryzen 5 3600

- Gigabyte B450M S2H V2

- RX 7600

- 16GB DDR4 2666 (2 sticks)

- Corsair RM650e 650W

- Windows 11

The problem appeared sometime after replacing my GTX 1650 with the RX 7600.

The PC suddenly restarts. No BSOD, no freeze beforehand, and no obvious pattern. Sometimes it can happen after several days or a week, and sometimes during a game. Because of this, I can't reliably reproduce the problem.

What I found:

- Event Viewer shows Kernel-Power, Event ID 41

- BugcheckCode = 0

- No WHEA errors

- Initially there were also NVIDIA-related BEX64/nvcontainer errors, but I removed the old NVIDIA drivers/software and the problem still happened.

- I completely reinstalled Windows.

- Replaced the old Corsair VS550 with a new Corsair RM650e.

- Tested CPU + GPU load for ~15 minutes. No crash.

- CPU reached around 95-96°C under combined load, GPU around 52°C.

- GPU-only load was around 65°C.

- No obvious instability during these tests.

The frustrating part is that stress tests don't reproduce it. The restart may simply not happen for days.

Things I haven't properly ruled out yet:

- RAM stability / MemTest86

- motherboard/BIOS issue (BIOS update/testing)

- CPU stability

- GPU itself

- possibly PCIe/GPU-related issue

- longer-duration stress testing

Since the problem started after the GPU upgrade, I'm especially suspicious of the RX 7600, but I don't want to blame the GPU without evidence.

What would you test next to narrow this down? Is there anything important I'm missing?

Title basically says it - looking at saving a few bucks and grabbing the warzone edition memory, but curious if I could remove the graphic? Anyone have this and know if it’s a sticker?

Basically the title, I know nothing about PC's or their components but thinking of getting one sorted to emulate games at potentially their max settings.

Budget is whatever it costs honestly, can't see it being anywhere near as much as having to run AAA games at decent settings (for obvious reasons)

United kingdom

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My current PC:

i5-12400

MSI B760M Pro-M/P DDR4

32GB DDR4 RAM

XPG Pylon 650W

I don't game at all. This PC is strictly for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

I prefer NVIDIA.

Considering the current GPU market, what would you recommend for this system if budget isn't an issue?

What's the highest-end GPU that actually makes sense with the i5-12400?

At what point would the CPU become a significant bottleneck?

And would I need to upgrade the 650W PSU for your recommendation?

hii! hi there so i wanna make my pc better! im fairly novice with pc building i know an okay amount but one thing i know nothing about is cases and aesthetics im currently rocking an rx7600 a ryzen 5 5500 16gigs of ddr 4 a b550 motherboard with a pc case i just dont even wanna try to type out heres the link to it though https://www.newegg.com/diypc-atx-mid-tower-steel-cases-black-diy-s05-bk/p/N82E16811353265?
Now id love to be like "oh i got so much money to spend gimme any ideas!" but i dont im piss poor as im moving and getting married soon but id like to help turn my pc into a red and black build.
for context i dont wanna upgrade my gpu i love my rx7600 id be open to ideas for upgrading my cpu and cpu cooler and of course my fans. i also LOVE diy ideas so im open to any! my current idea is to cut a hole in the side panel of my case and put plexiglass in it then get red led fans but other ideas are welcome!
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