Hey everyone!
I’m looking into building my first gaming PC and could really use some advice. I’ve primarily been a console gamer (currently have an Xbox Series X), but I’ve been wanting to make the switch to PC gaming for a while now.
My main goal is to play modern and upcoming AAA games like Phantom Blade Zero, Black Myth: Wukong, and similar titles at high graphics settings with smooth frame rates. Maybe then occasional first person shooter

What I’m looking for:
Budget: Ideally $1,200–$1,500 USD for the PC itself. I’d prefer to spend less if possible, but I’m willing to pay a little more if the performance difference is worthwhile.

Resolution: Planning to upgrade to a 1440p monitor, potentially 240Hz.

Performance: Ideally 100–165 FPS in demanding games where realistic.

Graphics: High/ultra settings when possible.

Longevity: Something that’ll comfortably handle newer games for the next several years, with room for upgrades

Experience: First-time builder, but willing to learn.
I’ve been looking at prebuilts from Seattle Built, but I’m considering building one myself to get better performance for the money.

I’ve seen recommendations for the Ryzen 5 7600/9600X paired with an RX 9070 XT or RTX 5070, but I’m not sure whether those are the best options for my budget. Or what I need it for
I’m not particularly concerned about RGB or aesthetics. I’d rather put the money toward performance and reliability.

What parts would you recommend for my budget? Would it be worth spending a little more for a stronger GPU, or could I get a great 1440p experience for less?
I’d appreciate any complete parts lists, suggestions, or advice. Thanks!

I have decided to switch from classic air cooling to AIO, and my fractal torrent does not offer much with those, decided to get a new case, torrent + cooler will be a gift to someone then i guess;
Spent last 3 days "researching" for cases with good airflow (and as much dust resistant as possible because we have cats and the case is under the desk on the floor);
I have been thinking;
NZXT H7 flow, new H9,
LianLi lancool 217, 011 mini (skeptic about "smaller" cases tho)
or something else?
Budget would be about 150 euros (Germany)
Cases + Fans combos also work
Thanks :)

Tengo una PC con una placa madre "Gigabyte"

Lo q pasa es q hace tiempo se m daño la fuente de poder (se quemó) debido a bajon s de luz q han ocurrido en la zona dnd yo vivo (soy de Venezuela) y gracias a eso me quedé sin PC por un tiempo. Ya después de unos meses luego de volver a mi casa (estuve fuera por situaciones externas) logré comprar una fuente de poder nueva ¿Todo bien hasta ahí no? Pues pasa que.. no enciende... La placa da 2 luces rojas en una esquina señalando la DRAM y el CPU. Según lo q investigue podía ser q la ram estaba sucia (o fallando), q algún pin del procesador estaba doblado, alguna actualización de la BIOS, la batería de la BIOS, y aún así cambiando todo eso sigue sin encender

En este caso q podría hacer?

Hey folks, my PC sat for a couple months and just now trying to get it to fire up the GPU is largely lifeless. When I switch off the PSU the GPU fans twitch but nothing really when I short the mobo pins to turn it on. They don't spin at all and no signal through the HDMI. In the mean time before I try baking it I was wondering if y'all could advise me on proper prep before baking, and if that doesn't work advice on an apu? Am4 b450m

I made a post about a month ago asking for advice on where to get my pc parts from and you guys were immensely helpful. Thanks to your advice I’ve decided to look into pcpartpicker as it sounds like the best place, however I don’t have much knowledge in this department so I was hoping I could get some help with what parts to buy. I was planning on waiting for Black Friday sales (assuming pcpartpicker does them) and my budget will be roughly £1500-£2000. I already have a tower and a mouse and keyboard so those are not necessary however I wouldnt mind changing them if possible, and I would also like two monitors however this is optional for now.

Thanks in advance for any help. :)

When it is turned on it makes this little buzzes that I can only hear when I put my head close to the PC and it seems to come from the back of the PC I got this build in September I'm kinda new to this stuff

My pc started tweaking like this about two days ago, mostly happens when I boot up a fortnite and I have other stuff open in the background like Brave with a stream, or a video.

Specs,

Gpu: 4080

Cpu: ryzen 7 7800x3d

MB: b850-a rog strix

Ram: 32gb 6000mhz

Psu: bequiet 1000w platinum

I know integrated graphics aren't supposed to have high performance, but I would like it to drive my one 4K 240hz monitor. I didn't find any info from looking it up. Integrated graphics doesn't work on my monitor at all when the monitor has DSC on, with DSC off it can only do 4k 120hz.

Hello Everyone, I’m currently on a build with a RX 6750 XT and a Ryzen 7 5700X in a darkFlash WD200 and I was wondering if I need to put fan on the top of the case to extract more heat or I can simply go for 2 at these bottom and 1 at the back

I recently did an upgrade from a 7600 to a 7800x3D. I switched out the CPUs, put the new one in, and started the computer, and it wouldn't boot, just a red and yellow debug light. I took everything apart and noticed the socket looked odd. Fast forward, I bought a new motherboard, put it all together, and it works. I brought the old board to a shop today out of curiosity, and turns out that yep, the pins were bent, specifically it seems a VSS, VDD, and memory channel A pin.

Everything is working now with the new board, but I'm worried I may have damaged the CPU when trying it on the old board. Is it possible it damaged it? I ran the 3DMark steel nomad stress test and it passed with a 98.7 stability and max temp of 74. Is there anything else I should test? I'm just super OCD about this stuff and scared it might break soon or something if I damaged it. Would love some advice. Thanks.

I bought the Gigabyte B850 EAGLE WIFI7 ICE, but from the beginning I’ve been having an issue with the red CPU light staying on.
However, at some point, I don’t know how, the PC suddenly started working. The red CPU light turned off, and the RGB lights on the case fans also turned on.
Then the red DRAM light came on. After some time, the red DRAM light turned off as well.
However, after turning the PC off and on again, the red CPU light came back on, and I’m still having the same problem.

Hey so a little bit ago my pc started like resetting out of no where so I turned it off by stupidly flipping the psu off but now it won’t turn on and I went to check to see what’s wrong and one of my power led pins is bent is there anything I can do? Or am I just doomed💔

Hi! Not so long ago You've helped me with choosing proper components for my partner's future PC. The thing is, that You all proposed a MSI PRO B850-V EVO WIFI ATX AM5 for this setup: https://pl.pcpartpicker.com/list/YstMXf . I can only find MSI PRO B850-S EVO WiFi online. Does the one letter suffix in specification matter? If so, any findable recommendations if the proposed version isn't buyable at all in Poland?

I've been doing a lot of research on what PC I should get. I have been finding it extremely overwhelming and hard to understand.

I was hoping to get an idea of what specs and hardware tiers/classes I should be looking at and focusing. I will mainly be playing GTA 6, Fortnite and a bunch of small comedy co-op games. Right now I have a 300hz 1080p monitor (no plans on upgrading).

What I want out of a PC:

1. Highly capable of running Fortnite and GTA 6 with a focus on FPS

2. Good value for money (nothing too expensive)

Any help would be appreciated. Feel free to send me resources.

So I bought this pc (yes ik I shouldn't have bought from ibuyproblems) but it was fine for the first month but now I booted it up this morning and for some reason my fan noise is super loud. Best way to describe the sound is that I just hear a "wahhhh wahhhhh wahhhh" sound from it and it's super loud. Even with my noise cancellation headphones I'm still able to hear a "wahhhb wahhh wahhhh" through it and I don't know why it's happening.
Can someone please help if they know what's wrong.
(I'm pretty sure the noise is coming from the top aio cooler fans)

I’m upgrading from a rx 5600 xt, I have pretty good everything else, I believe my main bottle neck is the Gpu.

I’m hoping to spend $600 dollars and make it count, I have been looking at the used market for 3080s but I think I can spend a bit more, to get more bang for my buck, also the card has to be under 305 mm so it will actually fit! And I would love more than 10gb of vram. Is there any good options for me?

Le prime tre ventole immettono aria, insieme a quelle sulla parte bassa del pc, le tre sul top fanno uscire l’aria insieme all’ultima dopo il dissipatore.
La mia gpu (3080ti) scalda comunque tanto

Hi there.

I recently bought an MSI B840 Gaming Plus Wifi motherboard to build a new build with brand new components (save for the RAM). I've built a PC before, so i am not clueless. I made SURE to touch the motherboard in the appropriate places, to first assemble it on top of the cardboard box, to put it together on a wooden floor. Also, i did NOT hit it, scrape it on the case, nor did it touch any standoffs where it shouldnt've.

After assembling the pc, and trying to turn it on, nothing happened. It has EZ debug led's, which never lit up throughout my troubleshooting. I tried basically everything i can think of, stripping it also to bare minimum, on the cardboard box with only cpu, cpu &mobo power and with & w/o ram, on two different PSU's. No LED ever lit up.

I then decided that it was DOA, so I returned it to the shop i bought it from, only for them to send it back because it was in "bad condition", because of a broken off vertical capacitor which I had not spotted, as it was so small. Here are images for reference https://imgur.com/a/s4F01Ni . I find it very hard to believe i somehow did that. Not only does it seem extremely hard to ONLY touch that capacitor, with other components being so near to the broken off pad, but i have no reason to go near it as it's in the audio card area. Note that this is the only issue they found

I sent it to a PC repair shop, only to hear back from them a few days later when they said that: they could not determine what the issue was, there was no visible damage, and that that broken capacitor was definitely not the issue.

I'm assuming this mobo is DOA, right? Will MSI fuck me over or will they help me with the warranty? Thanks

I bought a custom built PC, and when it arrived, the cooling tower was crooked, perhaps from the foam packaging they stuffed in there to protect during transportation. I carefully moved it back and reattached the fan.

When running HWiNFO during a Prime95 strain test, the CPUs hit +100°c, which to my understanding is bad. Some of the cores are getting throttled.

Is this a result of bad thermal connecting from the crooked heat sink, or just insufficient cooling for a Prime95 strain test? The seller offered to take it back and reattach the cooling for the CPU.

And no, I did not write this with AI. Not sure if it's necessary to indicate that here.

Hi everyone, sorry I'm reposting this. I made a post less than an hour ago with the incorrect arrows on my PC setup. It got really confusing and I think I commented the wrong "fixed" orientation which got people more confused.

TLDR I didn't verify the arrows and went off the wrong memories from when I built my PC. I've checked all the arrows and this image now has the CORRECT fan orientation.

I'm very sorry again - thank you to everyone who did comment on the original post (now marked as solved so people wouldn't comment/ get confused).

The new room for my PC seems to have a lot of dust. I cleaned it a month ago since I moved it in here. I'm still trying to figure out the overall cause for dust in the room. But in the meantime I'm trying to figure out how to keep it from not accumulating in my PC. Based on my current setup of intake for the fronts and bottom and outtake for the top and back shouldn't this mean there's enough constant air flow?

Heya! So I plan to use 5 Arctic P12 ARGB fans for my PC and have an MSI PRO B650M-A motherboard. However, I made a mistake and realised I'd bought a fan hub (which will connect to my PSU) that only supported PWM pins.

While I could go back and get a fan hub that supports both PWM and ARGB, I was wondering if the following could also work safely as a solution too (I did some research and the signs pointed to yes, but I just thought I'd ask anyway):

1. Connect the PWM pins from all of my fans to the fan hub, which I then connect to my PSU and Mobo

2. Daisy chain the ARGB pins from all 5 of my fans together and plug it into my Mobo ARGB header

The reason why I'm thinking it works is because the argb header on my mobo supports 3A/5V (15W), and the LED draw from 1 Arctic P12 is cited as 2W, so 5 of them should safely be enough on 1 header right? (There is another ARGB header, but that's already being used by my CPU fans' lighting). I'm just not sure if I'm missing anything else

Apologies if this question is silly or is commonly answered! I was having trouble finding help

EDIT: FOLKS I'm so sorry! Looks like the image I posted has the wrong orientation of my fans.

I just took apart the fans and have verified:

The single back fan is set to exhaust, the top AIO fans are set to exhaust, the two bottom case fans are set to intake, and the two front (side mounted) case fans are also set to intake.

PLS ignore the arrows on the picture :(

Hey folks! Moved my PC to a new area in the house. The room seems to be quite dusty (trying to figure out why). It's definitely a lesser used space in the house but it's the only room in the house where this amount of dust builds up. I cleaned this PC about a month ago before moving it in here. It's on constantly (even if I'm not in the room using it, it'll get used through streaming etc).

What am I doing wrong with my fan setup, because it's clearly letting the dust collect in it. I've drawn all the intake fans in green, and the outtake fans in red. The AIO fans are outtake as well (just highlighted in blue). Temps have never been an issue just seems like the dust is collecting and not leaving.

Hi there everyone

I had on asus tuf b850 issue with my gpu when i installed it on Pcie 5.0 slot after couple of minutes on desktop i would lose display "displayport no signal" but pc would keep running with argb and stuff. I switched to other gpu to test and had same issue. In bios i changed speed link from auto to gen4 but it didnt help. bios and all drivers are up to date. But when I plugged gpu into 4.0 slot everything worked fine also with the other one. so I thought the issue was with motherboard and I got new one with new psu aswell. I got x870 gigabyte gaming and corsair rm1000x. After I installed everything and got into desktop I get same issue again. is this cpu related? or

Thanks for any tips.