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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/Celebration-Fresh on 2023-08-28 13:54:27+00:00.

Ryzen 7 5800X3D or Ryzen 7 7700X ?

Seems like the first would bottleneck the GPU at 1440p (15%) but would be perfect at 4K.

On the other hand, the second would be fine at 1440p but would not be at 100% at 4K (6% CPU bottleneck).

Checked on pc-builds.com bottleneck calculator.

Advice?

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/Crusader_21 on 2023-08-28 13:54:06+00:00.

i found out that 16gb isn't enough for me so i will go to 32gb anyways i found the same ram that i use and it's 32gb 3600 CL18 and i found another one with rgb with a little to no difference in price but it's 32gb 3600 C18 now i obviously asked google but didn't find an answer it only told me the difference and the meaning of the number after the c or cl so i came here to ask and find an answer is it ok to move to C18? because i want rgb or stick with the CL18 even tho the rgb in CL18 is more pricey. (sorry English isn't my first language)

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/rppohqixortwphu on 2023-08-28 13:07:50+00:00.

The only reason the prices are so high is because there's sufficient demand for GPUs at that price. Simply put, you charge what the market will bear and the market value of GPUs has just skyrocketed. Do none of you guys just have a "Okay, this isn't worth it to me" reflex when looking at 4 digits for a GPU?

Like damn, how consumerist can you get?

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/amalts0101 on 2023-08-28 12:36:51+00:00.

Currently building my new PC after 15 years. I really can't decide which mobo should I go for. I'm pulling my hair to choose a B650 Mobo.

These are my top 3 boards as of now:

1. Asrock B650E PG Riptide Wifi
2. MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk Wifi
3. Gigabyte Aorus B650 Elite AX.

MSI is the cheapest among these three with a 15$ difference other two are the same price.

The following are my concerns on each Mobo:

MSI: I've heard that the MSI is having longer boot times with the new Memory Context Restore option some users stated that they are having RAM Stability issues. Also the MSI is a 6 layer PCB so possibility of RAM Overclocking in future is slim to none I suppose. Also doesn't have a heatsink for one of the m.2 but I don't know if it matters.

Asrock: 15$ more than the MSI. Lesser number of ports but have a PCIE 5.0 Gen in x16 and as well as M.2. But I don't know if it is worth it for the 15$ as the Gen 5.0 is not that much of a thing to have now.

Gigabyte: Heard a lot of bad about the coil whine issues that the Elite AX is having. Does have a PCIE 5.0 Gen in SSD and I think it's a good to have. But don't know whether should I do the leap of faith and hope that it doesn't have the annoying coil whine that everyone is saying.

All of the three comes under the same price and features are pretty much the same but not sure which one should I go for. I had the Asrock in mind but lesser number of ports and 15$ more is that worth the price I'm paying for?

Any of the three will work. Help is much appreciated ! Thanks !

Edit: Forgot to mention that the cpu I’m going for is either the 7600x or 7700 whichever will be cheaper during the next sale on Amazon.

Edit2: Also had eyes on the PG Lightning and it is about 60 dollar cheaper than the riptide but doesn’t have a Wifi/bluetooth

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/exhibit304 on 2023-08-28 11:39:04+00:00.

Hey all

So I have a large budget to build a great pc. Probably 5k. However I want a silent build. I haven't built a pc for free years and always used the fractal r7 define for my builds. I don't care about lights or RGB at all.

I've always used air coolers. As I'm building a beast of a pc I usually see the 13900k come up but apparently air coolers don't cut it. So.. what CPU would be ideal for air cooling whilst packing a meaty punch?

Is the noctua still the best air cooler on the market ?

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/Tylzen on 2023-08-28 11:37:53+00:00.

Hello there.

I have been planning on getting a new PC, I thought of upgrading my current mid-gaming PC, but since the motherboard is not 4.0 PCI-E, and the PSU is not strong enough for anything bigger.

I thought it would be easier to build a brand new one, and keep this current one as a spare LAN gaming :D

These are the parts I have picked for the new PC, and I would love to hear if I have overlooked anything before I order the parts.

• Case (already have an old case it can fit in)
• Motherboard: MSI B550 Gaming Gen 3 - 767 kr. (102,91 €/111,27 US$)
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 - 5600X (cooler incl.)- 1.198 kr. (160,74 €/173,79 US$)
• GPU: Powercolor Radeon RX 6700 XT Fighter 12 GB - 2.759 kr. ( 370,18 €/400,24 US$)
• PSU: Corsair RM850X 850W (Gold) - 1.170 kr. (156,98 €/169,73 US$)
• SSD: Samsung 870 EVO Series MZ-77E2T0B 2TB - 879 kr. (117,94 €/127,51 US$)
• RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V Black DDR4 3600Mhz 2x16GB - 479 kr. (64,27 €/69,49 US$)

Total (by 28-08-2023): 7.273 dkr. (975,82 €/ 1.055,08 US$)

All my PC have been Intel and Nvidia, but they are so pricey, like almost double the price.

Should this work?

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 on 2023-08-28 11:35:19+00:00.

Disclaimer - not actually building a new PC, looking to upgrade my laptop, but idk where else to ask so

I want to upgrade from my current 256GB SSD to a 1TB SSD, I'm planning to dualboot macOS and Windows (75% of the drive going to macOS, the rest going to Windows). Does anyone know a good cheap 1TB NVMe SSD?

If it's relevant, the laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad T480s (Intel Core i5-8350u, 16GB DDR4, 256GB Intel 7600p, Intel UHD Graphics 620, macOS 13.5.1 Ventura with the OpenCore 0.9.4 bootloader, Windows 8.1)

If you post a link, please make sure it's for a site that ships to Canada! I live in Canada, not the US.

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/OperationMiddle6976 on 2023-08-28 11:28:56+00:00.

Planning to pair the case with an atx mobo and the 6750 xt so need a built in support bracket and an good airflow, actually i can increase the budget haha

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/MeideC on 2023-08-28 10:57:05+00:00.

So I just bought Baldur's Gate 3, and poor old GPU crashed immediately after going through the character creation... So I thought now that I've committed the 60€ for the game, I might as well spend another 1k+ to be actually able to play the game :).

Now I'm not a HC gamer, rarely playing AAA games, and nowadays I often prefer games that I believe to be CPU-heavy (for example Satisfactory, CIV, Cities Skylines), which is why I've tried to invest a bit more in the CPU vs GPU in the build. Monitor is 1440p.

Note that I'm from Finland, so the prices reflect that. Here's what I currently have selected, they are mostly gathered from other posts here, and by whatever had the most reasonable prices at the store that I intend to buy from (). Budget is not necessarily set in stone, but need some good reasoning to increase it..

PCPartPicker Part List

Type|Item|Price

:----|:----|:----

**CPU** | AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor | €254.90 @ Jimm's

**Motherboard** | ASRock B650M Pro RS WiFi Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard | €176.90 @ Jimm's

**Memory** | Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5600 CL36 Memory | €109.90 @ Jimm's

**Storage** | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive | €124.90 @ Jimm's

**Video Card** | Asus DUAL OC Radeon RX 6750 XT 12 GB Video Card | €399.90 @ Jimm's

**Case** | Aerocool Trinity Mini V3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case | €62.90

**Power Supply** | SeaSonic G12 GM 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply | €89.90 @ Jimm's

| *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |

| **Total** | **€1219.30**

| Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-08-28 13:32 EEST+0300 |

In addition, I intend to move my 2 hard drives from the current pc.

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/whatisthepointofallt on 2023-08-28 10:54:11+00:00.

I was wondering if I should add top exhast fan for this finished build

• Part List

Case has 1x120mm bottom angled intake fan 2 x 140mm front intake fans 1 x 120mm exhast fan at the back

Does it have too many intake fans? I can still add maximum 2 x 120mm exhaust fans at the top, but because the huge Noctua NH-D15 is taking a lot of space, I don't know if adding more fans at the top would improve the airflow or make it worse. Please Help

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/chaosPudding123 on 2023-08-28 10:48:46+00:00.

Similar to HWU and GN for CPU/GPU or Monitors Unboxed for Monitors, where can somebody find good reviews for gaming keyboards? I am looking for a good budget one.

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/PCNoobstickle on 2023-08-28 10:43:42+00:00.

Someone told me that it's best to get rid of my old ram and replace it with the new upgradeable ram, but why? I have 16gb of ram and I wanted to add extra, I already know which type I need as I checked the motherboard capacity etc... there are 2 extra available slots, so I can't just add on ram to my existing ram?

I have DDR4 Ram CL16 (16GB ram)

If I buy extra ram with C18 would it not work? (from Bestbuy) I don't trust Amazon with Ram, especially Ram that's on sale. I'm sure it's good, I'm just saying I DON'T trust it. Last time I got something "on sale" and it was just poor quality.

Sorry I'm just new to upgrading to a higher performance, I don't want to fry anything and then cry about it after.

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/bigbear4our on 2023-08-28 10:17:54+00:00.

I know that everyone is hating on the 3070 right now because of the 8gb of vram, but I feel like everything has it's price.

I was curious on other people's thoughts on this deal. What price would you put on a 3070.

I also got a broken z490 motherboard for a steal and it was still under warranty so I got it fixed for free :)

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/YungSkrooge on 2023-08-28 09:39:17+00:00.

I planning to upgrade my gpu from a rx 570 and in my country I can find the RTX 3060 12GB and RX 7600 8GB for the same price and is the max that I can spend. I wanna know if the 4gb of vram is really that important for 1080p gaming.

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/rynoster on 2023-08-28 09:05:54+00:00.

Currently, my setup comprises an Intel 9600K CPU coupled with an RTX 2060 (not the Super variant). My upgrade strategy involves a phased approach, commencing with the graphics card. I've set my sights on the RTX 4080. Acknowledging that my CPU may serve as a bottleneck for the new card is clear to me but I'll be using my 1440p monitor for the time being, I anticipate it should be fine in the interim, until I eventually revamp my Mobo+CPU, in about a year from now, when I intend to go 4K.

The primary utilization of this rig encompasses gaming and dabbling in AI, stable diffusion + local GPT. My preference initially leaned towards the 4070Ti; however, I'm cautious of potential VRAM limitations down the line with its 12GB configuration.

Any other caveats or pitfalls to consider, or perhaps even another recommended approach?

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/Ashamed-Quarter-113 on 2023-08-28 08:44:50+00:00.

For Ryzen 5 3400g

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/Specialist-Fudge-303 on 2023-08-28 09:00:33+00:00.

Hello, recently I upgraded my pc from a b450 asus prime plus mobo to gigabyte b550m aorus elite and added a rtx 4070 to my configuration. I kept the ryzen 5600 because for now because i didnt think there would be any bottlenecks considering my resolution is 2k ultrawide. My question is, is an upragde to the ryzen 5800 x3d worth it? As far as i can tell it would also involve new cooling (currently running a small deepcool gammax 400 v2 cpu cooler) and the performance increase depends on the title. Has anyone performed this upgrade and seen visible performance boosts? I just want to get 100% of the gpu.

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/flickyuh on 2023-08-28 02:24:24+00:00.

My Brother just got a new PC and gave me his. I got $800, is there anything I can do to this build to max it to its peak or replace to make it better?

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Gaming OC 8gb

12th Gen Intel i5-12400

32 DDR4 GB Ram 3200Mhz

B660M DS3H DDR4

2 TB NVME M.2

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/Coolers777 on 2023-08-27 20:12:19+00:00.

Hello everyone.

I am trying to troubleshoot my newly built PC. I have been trying to install windows on it, but I've been unable to get to the windows install screen. What ends up happening is I get to the mobo manufacturer logo, followed by the PC powering down, and this cycle keeps repeatings. I have reduced the points of failure to either the SSD or my mobo.

To figure out which, I want to know what would happen if you ran your PC without any storage (SSD, harddrive etc.). Does your PC also loop between the mobo logo and powering off?

My mobo is B650M DS3H from Gigabyte. It was on bios F2, but I've updated it to F9c.

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/ElephantSilver2220 on 2023-08-28 03:29:31+00:00.

My pc is around 5 years old now the current config is: Pentium gt4560 Gt 1030 16gb ddr4 2400hz ram

I was thinking of upgrading my pc on a budget, and after some research it seems like it might be worth it to get a ryzen 5 5600g without a graphics card. After selling the current setuo upgrading shouldent cost much, I would need to get a new power supply, case, motherboard and the cpu.

Is that worth it? since Ill be getting a better cpu a better motherboard since my current one doesnt even have an nvme slot and in the future I could buy a graphics card, Im just not sure if the integrated graphics would actually be better or at least not worst then what i currently have.

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/a4955 on 2023-08-28 02:25:01+00:00.

I wanna make the most of what I've got, but I don't have the ear to tell which is the most accurate sounding, only that they're slightly different. Using a Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact for the case/front panel, an ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX LGA1700 motherboard, and a Dell G2723HN Gaming Monitor connected to an RX 6800 XT with DisplayPort 1.2.

From my understanding, the most important thing here is the DAC, so it would be a matter of whether the Motherboard, Front Panel, or Monitor has the best DAC. Followed by a matter of distance of the analog signal, meaning the motherboard and monitor would be better as they don't have an extra cable to go through. Is this correct? The digital signal is the same from my motherboard as from my graphics card DP port?

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/IWontChangeMyUser on 2023-08-28 02:19:10+00:00.

(I’m new to building my own pc so I’m a little nervous) I was recommended this site by someone but I want more opinions to see if I should buy a pc here or take my money else where

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/nvo349 on 2023-08-28 01:49:37+00:00.

Hi folks,

I plan on upgrading my rig and pretty interested in hearing which GPU I should go with.

My current setup is CPU Ryzen 3600, 32GB RAM, RX 580. I'm locked in on getting the 5800X3D. I bought a second hand Reverb 2 VR that I plan on using, and mostly game on 1440p monitor. My main concerns are:

1. Will the 5800X3D bottleneck the latest flagship GPU.

2. Which GPU from the list power the VR adequately.

What are your thoughts?

6950XT $580

7900XT $750

7900XTX $950

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/swampmonsterrrr on 2023-08-28 01:32:52+00:00.

Is it likely the 7800XT will deliver much more power than its predecessor? Not sure what to do as I wasn’t expecting AMD to launch the next gen cards so soon

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The original was posted on /r/buildapc by /u/Senpai_Mario on 2023-08-27 22:55:57+00:00.

Hi! I have a IBP PC that I got back during COVID shortages since it was the only way to get a GPU basically lol.

Specs are the following

Motherboard: MSI B550+

CPU: ryzen 3600

GPU: 3060TI

RAM: china ram

NEW air cooler: thermaltake peerless assassin

The IBP water cooler failed, so I had to replace it. It wouldn't boot to bios when I first put the fan on which was weird. Now even without the fan it won't boot

Things I've tried: Taking CMOS out for 5-10 mins (2 times)

One stick of ram only, in each slot.

New CPU (ryzen 5600x, motherboard is updated and compatible)

A fan connected to cpu_fan (I've heard sometimes prebuilts won't boot to bios if there is no fan)

Nothing plugged into USB ports.

Reseating CPU multiple times

At a loss here honestly, starting to wonder if it's my motherboard. Pictures attached.

Edit; had the wrong IMGUR link, now there is 5 pictures.