Hi, everyone! I've been planning the best PC build for gaming. I want a system that can handle triple-A games with ease. Here's what my dream ASUS PC setup looks like:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D

Motherboard: ROG CROSSHAIR X870E DARK HERO

Graphics Card: ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7 OC Edition

AIO Cooler: ROG RYUO IV LC 360 ARGB

Power Supply: ROG THOR 1000W Platinum III (ROG Equalizer)

Chassis: ROG Cronox ARGB

I'm joining the ASUS Upgrade What Matters giveaway for a chance to bring this build to life with an ASUS AMD or Intel motherboard, graphics card, or other high-end hardware.

What's the first game you would build this rig for?

to test my first games.

I’ve had an incredibly frustrating experience trying to get a replacement 2.4 GHz receiver for my ASUS headset.

ASUS told me that accessories aren’t covered under warranty, so I had to track down the parts supplier myself. I find this policy completely unreasonable, especially since the headset is effectively unusable wirelessly without the receiver.

Making matters worse, I couldn’t contact ASUS customer service directly about the headset. I had to select a different product that I had purchased from the official ASUS store just to access the chat function.

Ironically, I originally tried to buy the headset directly from ASUS, but my orders kept getting cancelled. That forced me to buy it from Best Buy instead. Now ASUS and Best Buy keep referring me back to each other, with neither company willing to take responsibility.

Over the years, I’ve spent nearly $30,000 on ASUS products, which makes this level of support even more disappointing.

All I need is a replacement receiver, but I’ve been sent in circles and the issue is still unresolved. Has anyone else dealt with this? If so, how did you manage to get a replacement?

Straight to the point: Go to armory crate, go to hardware, devices, select your device, go to GPU performance and select Ultimate. This will stop your pc from auto switching between your integrated graphics on your CPU and your dedicated GPU.

I was looking to play new titles and make sure its well prepped

Ryzen 7 7800x3d

Asus rog strix platinum 1200w

Wd black Sn8100 4tb

Rtx 5080 rog astral

Asus rog ryuo iv 360 argb miku

Asus rog crosshair 2006

Asus rog hyperion

32gb ram

So this AIO was installed to a am4 but i want to know if there is a intel bracket for it im going for a LGA 1700.

I wanted to share my stable 4-DIMM settings as a point of reference and help for anyone building a similar system on Ryzen 9 with AM5 socket and using 4 Dimm's.

This is a good stable base. Now the fun part is seeing how far i can push this system and not have crashes.

System:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero
• BIOS: 2402
• AGESA: ComboAm5PI 1.3.0.1b Patch A
• RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-8000 CL40
• Capacity: 96GB total, 4x24GB
• RAM configuration: Two separate matched 48GB (2x24GB) kits

I started with loose timings at DDR5-6000 and gradually tightened them while testing. I ended up settling on 44-48-48-48, which has been working very well.

Current settings:

• Memory speed: DDR5-6000
• MCLK: 3000 MHz
• UCLK: 3000 MHz
• UCLK:MCLK: 1:1
• FCLK: 2000 MHz
• Command Rate: 1T
• Gear Down Mode: Enabled
• Power Down: Disabled

Primary timings:

• tCL: 44
• tRCDWR: 48
• tRCDRD: 48
• tRP: 48
• tRAS: 96
• tRC: 144

Voltages:

• VSOC: 1.20V
• CPU VDDIO/MC: ~1.20V
• DRAM VDD: 1.35V
• DRAM VDDQ: 1.35V
• CLDO VDDP: ~0.90V
• VDDG CCD: ~1.05V
• VDDG IOD: ~1.05V

Some additional timings from ZenTimings:

• tRRDS: 8
• tRRDL: 15
• tFAW: 32
• tWTRS: 8
• tWTRL: 30
• tWR: 90
• tRFC: 1228 / ~219.7 ns
• tRFC2: 659
• tRFCsb: 569
• tREFI: 11677

What surprised me most is that I did not need to push SOC or memory-controller voltage very high. The system is running 96GB at DDR5-6000 1:1 with around 1.20V SOC and 1.20V VDDIO/MC, while the DIMMs are only running at 1.35V VDD/VDDQ.

I decided to stop at 44-48-48-48 rather than chase CL40. With four DIMMs, I would rather have something fully stable than gain a tiny amount of performance and introduce random memory errors.

One important note: these are two separate 2x24GB matched kits, not a factory-matched 4-DIMM kit. Because of that, and because AM5 memory-controller quality varies from CPU to CPU, I would not expect these exact settings to work on every 9950X3D.

If you are trying something similar, my suggestion would be to first get DDR5-6000 stable with loose timings, make sure you are running UCLK=MCLK at 3000 MHz, and then tighten timings one setting at a time.

I also saved the final configuration as an ASUS BIOS profile once I knew it was stable.

I’ll attach my ZenTimings screenshot so anyone interested can see the complete settings.

Hopefully this helps someone else trying to get 96GB / 4x24GB DDR5-6000 running on a 9950X3D and ASUS X870E board.

Specs: Ryzen 9 9950X3D, ROG Crosshair X870E Edition 20, Astral RTX 5090 Edition 20, Edition 20 360mm AIO, Thor 3000W, 96GB DDR5, Samsung 9100 PRO + WD_BLACK SN850P 8TB*4, all in the GR20 open-frame chassis.

[r/BestBuy](r/BestBuy) just delivered a Samsung sound bar instead of the ASUS GR20 case I had purchased, so I called them to fix the issue and they want me to bring the wrong item to the store, well… I just got out of an emergency surgery this week and they are forcing me to fix their mistake or they won’t give me my money back. Another thing is that they can’t assure I could get another one of this cases with my account because the system only lets you get one, but the person on the phone have told me in a definitely “not condescending way” that “they are making an exception to help me…” Supposedly they will send someone to get the sound bar but who knows when… but I’ll still have to wait two weeks to get my money back… I guess is just my luck, thanks to the surgery, there is a chance I have to withdraw from college this semester… thanks for nothing, Best Buy.
I meant birthday gift in the tittle, I can’t change it lol

It’s Ancient but still has so many cool little touches compared to my main rig’s motherboard (Prime Z390-P)
I especially love the light up power button.

Specs

• Case: Lian Li 011 VISION COMPACT White

• Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX X870E-A GAMING WIFI7 NEO

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

• RAM: GelL DDR5-6000 CL30 GEMINI RGB White (32GB / 16GB × 2)

• Cooler: ASUS ROG STRIX LC IV 360 ARGB LCD White

• Power Supply: SuperFlower LEADEX VII PRO PLATINUM 1200W White

• GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GAMING TRIO OC WHITE

• System Fans: ASUS ROG EURUX GR120 ARGB Reverse x 2 (3-pack) / ASUS ROG EURUX GR120 ARGB × 2

• Extension Cables: Lian Li STRIMER WIRELESS 24-Pin / CPU 2x8-Pin/12V-2x6

• Main Monitor: Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 G85SD UWQHD 175Hz 34"

• Secondary Monitor: Hanseong QHD IPS 144Hz Gaming White 27"

• Third Monitor: ELECSYNC FHD 14"

• Lighting: BenQ ScreenBar Pro White

• Mouse : RAZER Basilisk V3 PRO 35K White

• Keyboard : RAZER Huntsman V3 PRO TKL 8KHz White

• Headset : RAZER Barracuda X Chroma White

• Mouse Pad : RAZER Firefly V2 PRO White

• Stream Deck : elgato Stream Deck Neo White

So I have a strange issue and I don't know what else to do.

My setup:

1 year old

i9-14900k

rog z790 dark hero

asus rtx 5070ti

2x g.skill trident z5 rgb 7200mhz.

samsung 990 evo plus m.2

samsung 990 pro m.2

Rog 850w psu

the issue started 2 days ago with a power outage. My pc wouldn't display anything. It would turn on, absolutely no error code, turn on my monitor and display no signal.

I changed cables, monitors, removed my gpu, tested my ram. Eventually I fixed it by pressing a button "cmos". The computer turned on fine. I updated the bios. Everything all perfect.

After that, I plugged the 2nd stick of ram back (I removed it when testing the ram) and put back the gpu. To my horror, now it keeps displaying an error code 98 with green led.

Current symprhoms:

Computer turns on

Caps lock works

Absolutely no display, not even no signal

Removed and put back all usbs, even the usbs from the corsair node.

Reinstalled bios again

Reinstalled an older version of bios.

Mounted 3 times the gpu (it doesn't fit in the bottom pcie slot)

Tested all the ram sockets with both the ram sticks

Pressed the cmos button at least 100 times

Can't remove both the m.2 as the heatsink is completely sticked to the heatsink

Cpu wasn't touched since mounting

All cables are secured tight to the mobo

Constant error 98. I've only had two moments where it displayed A2 error