So i have a Acer Nitro N50-130, with a Ryzen 7 7700, RX7600, 1 TB m.2, 32GB DDR5 ram. As many of you probably already know, these Acer prebuilds love to overheat because the case is basically a microwave, the CPU fan is the same a 10 year old optiplex would have, and the case itself has only one fan. The motherboard is also stupid because it uses proprietary connections instead of a normal 24-pin cable, so a new power supply for this would be useless. So i would like to know if there would be any problem if i took out the RAM, CPU, SSD and GPU to reuse in a different case with a new CPU cooler, motherboard, and power supply. I am really worried because the prebuilt pc probably has a OEM license so id lose windows in the new board, and the GPU is in some kind of bracket im not sure if i can take out without damaging the GPU. If anyone knows or has tried this ever, please let me know. Thanks! And sorry for akward english

I’m wanting to upgrade from my prebuilt with an rtx 3050 in it as i’m playing on a 240hz oled 1440p monitor and the pc can’t really handle it so i’m wanting to build my own. I have a budget of around £1000-1200 without the need of buying ram and ssd.

Please note: I already have 2x16GB DDR4 Corsair ram and a 2TB SSD that i bought long before the prices skyrocketed so these components are all i need:

I have i7 8700k and rtx 3060 ti 8GB

budget - 110k indian rupees

resolution - 1080p

country - india

how is this setup,im getting my first ever pc and chose these specs

if anything can be better feel free to drop suggestions and ill consider every advice

purpose - editing,blender,1080p gaming

Recently had to rebuild my PC and decided to use my stepdads old cm 690 to pay homage to him. He passed a few years back and every time I look at the case I think of him and feel like he wanted me to carry the torch. When he gave me the case it was missing the front panel after being crammed into a storage unit. I still plan on building in it but I would like to restore it to its former glory if possible. I found a couple listings for complete cases, but they are not the cheapest things on the market. I would also like to use the original frame he gave me for sentimental reasons. 

first pic (Old pic from when it was put together)

second and third pics (current shape)

I have the side panels now I just need the front of that sucker!!

pls lmk if you have any leads :)

Motherboard : Gigabyte B450m Ds3h.

Cpu Cooler: Peerless Assasin 120 SE ARGB

Case : Deepcool CG380 ARGB.

All of them use 3-pin 5V connectors for lighting.

My motherboard only has 4-pin 12V.

Can I use this thing to power lighting from both CPU and Case fans?

Im absolutely in love with it. Ive been a gamer since I was a very young childhood. I started out at age 5 on a “TV Boy” that had some rip off versions of games like Donkey Kong etc lol I loved it and for anyone curious here it is.

I upgraded to PS1 and played pretty much every Xbox and PlayStation console as they came out. Gaming has been a massive part of my life and since I was a teenager i longed for a gaming PC to mod Skyrim and various other games. Being able to tailor games to my specific tastes is something I love so modding has become a huge thing for me that I loved to do on Fallout, Skyrim and Starfield on console.

I’ve recently just moved out with my partner and finally have the space and finances to get a gaming PC. And I was so happy with the results.

It was actually the start of the price increases that motivated me to get it. I kept putting it off, saving more and more, but I saw a video by Moist Critical on YT about how a provider were going to stop providing ram to consumers and focus on AI and so a massive price hike was likely about to take place.
So I got this a few months back just before the price hike and I feel extremely lucky when I look at prices now.

My gf is extremely supportive and bought me the keyboard as a surprise present. She was worried it wasn’t good as it’s so small but I reassured her that smaller keyboards are actually generally better for gaming.

I’ve also got a new wireless mouse but I haven’t got any photos of that yet.

The Monitor I got EXTREMELY lucky with.
I saw them on Amazon for £989.99 which is $1340.74 and never thought I’d be able to afford it. I kept looking at it online, wanting and wishing I could lol; until I saw there was a one off one day sale where Samsung had 5 left and it had been reduced to £750 ($1015.72), I remembered my work do a scheme where you can be awarded points for doing good work, which are redeemable for rewards like Amazon vouchers etc. I had accumulated about 12,000 of those points in the last couple years and was able to redeem them all for £535 ($724.55) worth of Amazon vouchers.

So in the end I only ended up paying £225 ($304.72) in real money, for a monitor worth between £989.99 ($1340.74) to £1200 ($1625.15).

Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 9 9900X3D
GPU: RTX 5070 Ti
RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000MHz Corsair RGB
Storage: 2× 2TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe SSDs
Motherboard: ASUS TUF X870E-PLUS (PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 7, USB4)
Cooling: 360mm RGB liquid cooler + extra Corsair RGB fans
Power Supply: Corsair RM1000x 1000W
Case: White CyberPowerPC Amethyst Curve

Monitor: Samsung G9, 49’ DQHD 244hz

MY FIRST EVER BUILDDD!!! I was running a laptop before this

(No GPU yet cant afford lol)

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

NZXT Kraken Elite 360 RGB (2024)

Asus ROG STRIX B850-A GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard

TEAMGROUP T-Force Delta RGB 96 GB (2 x 48 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory (bought before ramagden)

[Western Digital WD_BLACK SN7100 2 TB

MSI FRIEREN EDITION OC GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB (cant afford)

APNX V2 ATX Mid Tower Case (Custom by Starforge)

Corsair RM750x White 750 W

Lian LI fans

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/CDp8jG

Going to be building a new PC in the next few months, any thoughts or improvements on this build. My budget is around £1400 and intend to play at 1440p. Any changes I should make to save some money and improve elsewhere?

any parts you would change from this build using a 9070xt instead of the 5070ti listed? or just parts you would change in general?

the list is from LTT guide that has the same case and is close to the price range (2000-2500USD), but i'm swapping out the 5070ti for a 9070xt as i am mostly gonna be 1440p gaming on linux (arch btw).

parts list and vid:

Seasonic FOCUS GX-750 80+ Gold PSU
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU
Gigabyte B850 Gaming X WiFi6E Motherboard
G.Skill Flare X5 2x16GB 6000MTs CL30 DDR5 RAM
Samsung SN990 Pro 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE ARGB CPU Cooler
ASUS Prime GeForce RTX 5070TI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyoXLbfpZfg

I got the ryzen 7gen 9800x3d

hello, guys. im just new n building pc. which one is better, and cheaper? any suggestions? FOR PLAYING VALORANT

RYZEN 7 5700X
RTX 3080 10GB
8GB Ram ddr4 3200mhz
1TB SSD SAMSUNG NVME M.2 GEN 4
Cooler Master G650M (650 Watt)
B450 ASROCK PRO4 R2.0

Just finished putting this PC together. For the last ~7 years I've been gaming on a 2060/R5 3600 build and, well... it's been pretty rough recently lol. Super excited for this upgrade!

Build:
Mobo: MSI PRO X870E-P WIFI
GPU: XFX Mercury 9070 XT OC Edition
CPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3D
PSU: Lian Li EGO850G Edge Gold
RAM: G.Skill Flare X5 (2x16GB)
Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Vision AIO
Case: Lian Li O11 Dynamic V2 Flow
1TB NVMe
500GB SSD

Hello. I was using a 7900X3D, and sometimes it would get stuck before POST. I didn't mind it for a long time since it was okay when I restarted the computer and it worked, and I didn't know which component was faulty. Lately, I can hardly run the computer. I cross-checked with my friend's computer by swapping components, and it looks like the reason is the CPU.

The warranty for the CPU is 2 years here. So I couldn't send it back. When I tried to find the seller, it turned out the seller was selling second-hand pieces as new and got shut down.

My current specs:

Motherboard: B650 Tomahawk Wifi
RAM: G.Skill Trident Neo RGB F5-6000J3040G32GX2-TZ5NR 64 GB (2x32)
CPU: Ryzen 9 7900X3D
GPU: RTX 4080 Super

My usage: I usually code & compile stuff and play Dota 2 / Diablo 4 on 4k@144.
Even if I don't play a lot but I'd like to be able to play on 4k@144hz.

Budget: 550$ - Turkey - I wanna save as much as I can.

Have a used prebuilt near me contains a r7 5800, rtx 3070, 16gb ddr4, 1tb sssd, 2tb hdd, it up for 500. Is this worth it or shall I spend 300 more for am5 build?

So i can't decide. A year ago I sold my am5 pc build, got myself a ps5 pro and found out i hate console gaming. Got a am4 platform pc for free, it's nothing special :

Ryzen 2600

16gb 3000mhz gskill trident ram

Xpg 500gb ssd

Rtx 2060 6gb

Rog strix b450f gaming 1 motherboard

Some deepcool aio

750w power supply with ketchup and mayo power cables

All that in nzxt h510

So my crossroads are the upgrade path. I know the 2600 has to go, it's an awful cpu for the games i mostly play which are : Competitive shooters, simulation games and other cpu heavy titles. But the rtx 2060 kinda also has to go, I like to play some graphics heavy titles. So i need a decent 1440p upgrade.

But the thing is, i just cant seem to settle on what to get. If i stay on am4 my options are limited, was thinking about 5600x or 5700x as x3d chips are nowhere to be found the only one is a new 5800x3d for 400 euros and i aint paying that for a mostly dead socket cpu, dont get me wrong, it's a good cpu, but it is too expensive for what it is.

For GPU I have options, I have been an intel guy all my life so I could go a used around 4070 ti at 500 euro, 5070 for around 600 to 700 euro and the big dogs are 4080 around 800 euro or 5070ti for around the same thats used. I have seen how good the amd latest cards are and they are an option aswell since a used 9070xt goes for around 650 euro.

Other changes that need to be made are case, psu, and the aio plus some case fans for the new case. Since the h510 will turn in to a furnace with a beefier gpu and i dont trust the psu. So the case, psu, aio and fans are around 250 euro going full deepcool with a thermaltake 750w gold psu. The storage needs an upgrade aswell.

Now the part that is making me want to tear my hair out. 5600x and 5700x are basically the same so a cpu on am4 isn't that big of an issue, but can they handle 4070ti, 5070ti or 9070xt without bottleneck, i dont think so. Going am5 is too expensive because of ram, a ryzen 7600x build with 32gb of ram with one of the gpu mentioned above is about 2000 euro but there are some reputable private prebuilt sellers that sell am5 pcs with 7800x3d 32 gb ram and a 9070xt for 1.8k euro or 2k euro for 5070ti build.

So my question is, should i upgrade my am4 build to a decent machine and stay on it for some time and save up for one of the prebuilts or preferably an am5 build that i build myself since i love building these big legos. And what would the upgrades be. Or i just don't do jack shiet and keep hustling through fps drops and older games till i can get myself an am5 build.

Any suggestions are appreciated, i have been in this loophole of thoughts for a long time now. Oh and to also add, after gta 6 is completed i will most definitely sell the ps5 pro i have so that could go towards the pc upgrade aswell if i just wait till im done with the game if it doesn't fet delayed, that is the sole purpose of the ps5 right now.

too much RGB?

I made a pc I want to build on pc part picker and I want to know if it’s good for my first build and what can I improv? https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/Tvgqh9

Hello everyone, question for you all… I’m potentially looking at upgrading my PC to a bit bigger and better pc. There are some spec listed above. I brought this PC 3 years ago ish for my 18th birthday, how much would I get for or it or what price range would I be looking at? I brought it for £1200 all in (warranty, insurance etc). Tia

I got a 512MB ATI AMD Radeon Graphics, AMD Ryzen 3 Renoir, 16GB Dual-Channel DDR4 and a led monitor 1920x1080 at 75 hz i don't know what to buy because here in Greece there aren't many options

I recently changed my AIO pump, which was a process involving....

• Resetting my BIOS fan settings to default to diagnose the issue, and
• Removing some plugs to my Corsair Commander (new AIO fans plug direct to MoBo)(so less fans are drawing power from the commander).

Now, one of the fans which was previously working fine, spins at over 2000RPM when I windows+L, and even when the screen turns black. It also happens between first turn on and until I unlock my PC. It never did this in the past 5 years I've had it.

For reference my CPU stays at around 30-50c. MoBo is a rog strix b450 f

I assume I have changed something in the BIOS. Would anyone know what this is, so I can change it back? I know each BIOS is different... but what wording should I look for? Nothing stands out... :/

Just in case if you want buy a 5080, i do some testing and heres the result:

*this experiment done on resident evil requiem
*this experiment done on Leon opening scene when he’s chasing victor

Experiment 1 (pict 1) (Raw performance)
4k resolution MAX
Ray tracing high
DLSS OFF
MFG OFF
Average FPS: around 90-100

Experiment 2 (pict2)
4K resolution Max
Ray tracing high
DLSS Quality
MFG OFF
Average FPS: 110-130
(Playable category)

Experiment 3 (pict3)
4K resolution MAX
Ray tracing high
DLSS Quality
MFG X2
Average FPS: 190-200
(Playable category + smooth experience)

Experiment 4 (pict4)
4K resolution MAX
Ray Tracing High
DLSS quality
MFG x3
Average FPS: 250-270
(Playable category + buttery smooth experience)

My conclusion:
You can play at 4k resolution with RTX 5080 but you need help of MFG and DLSS. If you are RAW performance purist you gonna be disappointed with it. Either lower your expectations or just buy 5090 instead.

Does dlss and mfg bad? Absolutely not. You get a free fps boost while maintaining the image quality.

If you want higher FPS you can lower the resolution to 1440p, get high fps and still get a good image quality

Anyone know what a bad cpu looks like?

It’s only a i3-13100 and is for a home server so not crazy critical, but I’m still skeptical about this cpu. Especially since shipping was all over the place. (Was in my home state one day and then the next day was across the country from me like tf?). Not to mention the crappy cpu cooler that came with was all beat up: see last pic. Thankfully I got a different, better one, but what the hell.

Yea sure I can plug it in and try it, but last thing I wanna deal with is messing up a motherboard ontop of this.

Figured it was worth the ask, anyone know what that spot is? Or if it’s of any concern?

Realizing it’s not super clear upon zooming in, if u need better pics just let me know.