>UPGRADE & BUILD ADVICE.Post build list or current specs including MONITOR: https://pcpartpicker.com/Provide specific use cases.State BUDGET and COUNTRY or you will NOT be helped.Building guide: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Build_a_PC>CASEmATX: AP201, Lian Li A3, O11 Air Mini, XT M3, CH260ATX: XT PRO (ULTRA), AIR 903 Base/MAX, Lancool 217, Flux Pro, Y40, Meshify 3, 4000D FRAMEDual Chamber: Y60/70, Vision (Compact), Antec C8AVOID: NXZT, 'Silent' cases, fanless cases, Corsair 6500>CPUBudget: 9600X, 7600X, 7500FGaming: AMD X3DWorkstation: 9950X, 9900XAVOID Shittel>COOLERAIO: Best Value: Thermalright Frozen Edge, Mid range: Lian Li GA II Lite, Premium LCD: TRYX PanoramaDouble towers: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE, Noctua NH-D15 G2>MOTHERBOARDAvoid ASRock AM5 boards, CPU degradation issues still reported.>RAMGaming: DDR5 2x16GB 6000CL30Workstation/high end: consider 2x32GB>SSD (OS drive)Budget: NM790Mid range: SN7100Premium: SN850XFlagship: SN8100>GPU1080p: RX 9060 XT 16GB, Poorfag Esports Gaming: Used GPU between $100-$2501440p: RX 9070 XT, RX 9070, Budget: RX 9060 XT 16GB4K:Used RTX 4090, RX 9070 XTWorkstation: Used RTX 4090 or RTX 3090 tiAVOID RTX 50 Series: False advertising "5070=4090 performance!!", unsafe power connector, broken drivers, overpriced compared to RDNA 4 in most regions, threatening reviewers, manipulating and faking reviews, evil anti-consumer company etc.ALWAYS pair AMD GPUs with AMD CPUs for SAM https://imgur.com/a/6XSNJ9b>PSUhttps://hwbusters.com/best_picks/best-atxv3-pcie5-ready-psus-picks-hardware-busters/>MONITORhttps://www.rtings.com/monitor>CASE FANSMeta: Case with good stock PWM fansMid range: Arctic P12/P14 (Max) (5-pack)High end: Noctua NF-A12x25, Noctua NF-A14x25 G2Prev: >>106970047
>News & RumorsRTX 50 Super: 2026 launch. 24GB VRAM for 5070 Ti & 5080 Super, 18GB for 5070 Super.>Product NoticePNY RTX 50 cards have QC issues (rattling fans, reports of 5070 & 5090 with blown capacitors)Gigabyte RTX 50 & RX 9000 video cards: thermal gel has QC issues, Gigabyte claims only early production batches were affected.https://www.igorslab.de/en/update-on-thermal-putty-on-gigabyte-graphics-cards-after-further-storage-oil-separation-to-an-alarming-extent-and-silence-as-a-strategy/>PSU Reviewshttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplieshttps://www.lttlabs.com/https://www.kitguru.net/reviews/?category_name=power-supplieshttps://www.techpowerup.com/review/?category=Power+SuppliesFor tier-list enjoyers:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akCHL7Vhzk_EhrpIGkz8zTEvYfLDcaSpZRB6Xt6JWkc/>Storage Reviewshttps://www.phoronix.com/reviews/Storage (Linux performance)https://www.tweaktown.com/cat/storage/index.htmlhttps://www.techpowerup.com/review/?category=SSDhttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/ssds/reviewshttps://www.servethehome.com/category/storage/>Monitor Hunterhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1illeNLsUfZ4KuJ9cIWKwTDUEXUVpplhUYHAiom-FaDo/
COMMON LIES BEING PERPETRATED BY TROLLS AND SHILLS ITT DEBOONKED 1/2>RADEON HAS BAD DRIVERS!!!They have been fine for years and have the same amount of problems that Nvidia drivers have or less. Most problems occur with productivity applications which is why Radeon gpus are not recommended for workstations. If you are just gaming you are unlikely to ever have any issues, especially if you only update to the latest driver when you need to.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lv4-poQOyoIn contrast for the first few months Blackwell had major driver issues that are only now mostly fixed. Premium day one GeForce buyers that paid the nviditax had a worse early adopter experience than Radeon buyers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTXoUsdSAnA>RADEON HAS CPU OVERHEAD!!!!It does not. Nvidishills likes to spam charts of cherry picked DX 11 games like KCD that do not play well with radeon but in reality if anything Nvidia has a worse overhead in CPU limited scenarios. Screenshot and videos below for proof.https://imgur.com/a/A5MIHM6https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiElNex2OC0&t=210sRadeon "CPU Overhead" in Warzone chart that the Nvidishill used to spam debunked: https://imgur.com/a/yy3MZRS>9000 SERIES MSRP AND SUPPLY WAS A LIE!!!Nvidia normally supplies over half of the market, this time they made almost no GPU's and AMD despite making a large amount of cards is unable to fufill all of this demand effectively. The result is a low supply high demand market and increased prices. However besides the US which is also impacted by tariffs the 9070 XT in many regions with some effort can be purchased for around 700 dollars or less. The card will likely go back down to MSRP around January next year when the Supers from Nvidia come out to remain competitive.
>>1069794282/2>FSR4 IS IN NO GAMES!!!Almost every game that has upscaling can be easily modded with Optiscaler to support FSR4. The result is better than native image quality in games with bad TAA. Cyberpunk 2077 before native support was added could be modded with Optiscaler, the game can run ultra RT at 80-90 fps and 50-60 fps pathtracing with good image quality using FSR4 on quality mode.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNzI-TBV--Ahttps://github.com/cdozdil/OptiScalerNative FSR4 integration will get better into the future with many games planned to have support added this year. Because of AMD's collaboration with Sony on Project Amethyst and PSSR it's likely that all future games with a console release will have FSR4 on PC.https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/the-amd-x-sony-collab-gave-us-fsr4-and-a-version-will-appear-in-playstation-next-year-too-having-already-started-to-implement-the-new-neural-network-on-ps5-pro/>WHERE ARE OTHER FEATURES TO MATCH NVIDIA AND WHY IS PT PERFOMANCE WORSE?!?!FSR Redstone which is coming out before the end of the year should noticeably improve Pathtracing perfomance and match nearly all Nvidia features such as Ray Reconstruction and AI Framegen.https://videocardz.com/newz/fsr-redstone-on-track-amd-promises-dedicated-presentation>ZEN 5 IS MELTING ON ASROCK!!!!!!!There is no conclusive evidence for what the cause is yet. Zen 5 and the 9800X3D in particular have sold very well and most people haven't had any issues. It's possible there was a bad batch of processors and ASRock motherboards have BIOS settings that are worsening the problem, or the fault may entirely be with ASRock, there isn't enough information to make any kind of conclusion yet. For now just avoid ASRock boards to be safe and you will likely be fine like the thousands of other people who have bought and used these CPUs for months with no problem.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFYPnT_AQLk
Just waiting for the tv and desk legs to come in. Then have to put the desk together and can start the build. Plan is for next friday then get my friend to help me setup the tv and connect everything on saturday. Then spend the next 2 months figuring out how to update, optimize and make it all work. The stupid tv alone has a whole google drive of guides. Man I miss my old hundred pound crt brick.
>>106979377I have a desktop that's kinda sitting around not doing anything at the moment with an old OS SSD in it that I still want to keep. I want to install a new version of windows and use it pretty much just for some CAD stuff. the computer can handle the requirements just fine but I want a new SSD to install win10 or whatever on. I don't have an m.2 slot so it needs to be SATA.What's the cheapest SATA SSD that's at least around 120GB that won't shit the bed within a year? I'm still in school so I'm fine buying something kinda cheap just to do some stuff on the computer until I get an actual job.
Do you think RTX 3060 12GB is still a good card for the near future? What do you recommend in that budget range?
>>106977791 #>or wait for tandem WOLED with a glossy finish.You mean the XG27AQWMG? That's what I'm deciding to trade my current monitor (G61SD) for, it looks promising. I can't find any downsides about it though, not sure if I'm being misled by something, seems too good to be true for its price ($599)
>>106979619anything under 9060XT is ewaste
>>106979622That price is most likely a limited, promotional launch pricing.Buy it ASAP if you can find one at that price and worry about QC, firmware etc later.
>>1069796195year old gpus arent great for the future5060, 9060xt 16gb are the budget options5070 is the mainstream option
>>106979698>Buy it ASAP if you can find one at that price and worry about QC, firmware etc later.The problem is that the return date for my current monitor is at 11/19, so I'm not sure. And I'm not exactly made of money. Do you think it'll be rare to find one at that price, kind of like how the GPU's sell? I'm hoping not, same thing already happened to me with the 9070 xt and it sold out before I had the chance to buy it at the same day.
>>106979619No, it's trash. Only used 3xxx cards you should be considering are the 3080 12g or 3080Ti, then compare the value against a 6800XT.If you are looking at a new 3060, shit nigga what are you doing.
>490 pro>k13 r2rmy ears have never heard such clear audiothe sad thing is some songs are ruined now because i can hear the mastering fuckups
>>106979377>AVOID ShittelAre you on here literally 24/7? You didn't even wait for bump limit this time
My 5070ti handles all games on ultra 4k very well. God bless DLSS!
>>106979788I am genuinely curious where they go with dlss 4.5 or 5.0. It's pretty good right now. I heard that reflex 2 and framegen don't work together though so that's kind of weird.
>case has a +$20 version that adds an lcd to the frontIs it worth it?
>>106979786how else will be cope with his Radeon buyers remorse
>>106979802You should be spending minimum 2k anyways for a new PC. 20 is nothing in that case. Get it
>>106979771>Only used 3xxx cards you should be considering are the 3080 12g or 3080TiThe 3090 is still an AI staple considering it's (fucking somehow) the only <$1000 green GPU with 24GB of ram
>>106979802depends, post pictures
>>106979619>What do you recommend in that budget range?2080ti. Any ampere card other than the 3080 or 3080ti aren't worth bothering with at this point.>>106979634Do you happen to own a 9060xt?
>>106979827no I own a 5090
>>106979833sure you do, Mohammad
>>106979839Ur gonna feel soo stupid when I get home and screenshot my GPU-Z
>>106979820Lancool 207I've spent the past week going through cases and this is the only one that checks all the boxesFor dudes who have an LCD on your case, do you actually look at it? How bad does it hit performance?
>>106979846Whatever you say, Aziz
>>106979793The final frontier of upscaling is handling occlusion artifacts, the distortion around edges of very distinct objects and surfaces, including UI. Dust particles causing outsized ghosting is related I think. Once they fix that though, literally nowhere to go except refinements and more efficiency. Kind of like PCIe 5.0 having so much bandwidth that you will never need an upgrade for a very long time?This is one topic that purely agnostic solutions like the Yellow Duck cannot deal with. I think to truly solve the problem the game needs to render part of the scene behind the moving object and feed that info to the upscaler.
repasted my 3080, thermalright heilos from aliexpress seems to work okay.UPSIREN Thermal Putty UTP8 was so annoying to apply that I wished I had went with pads instead. I used an entire 50g bottle and it wasnt even enough for all the pads, the pads I removed weighted around 32gaverage gpu temps went down a bit The hotspot temps went down significantly from earliermemory junction temps are relatively high so I wonder did I paste them poorly but its within limits
>>106979851depends on where your case isfor 20 bucks you might as well get it regardless though. penny pinching 20 bucks on a pc build is silly
>>106979759>Do you think it'll be rare to find one at that price, kind of like how the GPU's sell?It's a promotional pricing to get more launch momentum and hype, just like the matte 4th gen WOLED LG 27GX700A-B, which is now selling for $850.Amazon Prime & the official LG online store discounted it to $599 for a limited time.You're not completely happy with that Samsung OLED anyway. I'd use the old monitor if you still have it while you find a better OLED monitor.It's fine to live with that Samsung OLED if you can't deal with all this (returning, waiting™, tracking availability, etc.)
Does the 5080 have melting connectors like the 5090? Just bought one
Here's the real /pcbg/ btw>>106979878>>106979878>>106979878
>>106979890Just let this 20-year-old kid waste one of the best phases of his life making /pcbg/ OPs every day.
>106979890>Here come use my brand war thread that I also made insteadKill yourself
>>106979903
>>106979900That thread is even worse bro
Spinning off a separate amd general when?
>>106979864>It's a promotional pricing to get more launch momentum and hypeHow long do you think that'll last? Do you think stocks will go by quickly? I'm fine with waiting™, but it would suck to not have a good monitor, although I am also using a secondary monitor (1080p 75hz) right now, so I'll obviously manage if everything goes fine. I just don't want to miss something since I bought the Samsung monitor on sale, then I'll have to wait for another sale, or just cuck myself and buy the coming monitor above MSRP which would suck and take away too much money
>>106979879You have to be either extremely unlucky with a flawed batch or pretty retarded to cause the power connector to melt on that 5080 (360W Stock, 390W maximum). It has enough safety margin.Even the RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Server PCIe card is spec'd to draw 600W from that connector.
>>106979852Gupreet, just because the best thing you can afford is a used RX 580 doesn't mean other people in white countries can't afford anything decent
>ram I was going to buy jumped by $50 in a week
>>106979879Cables don't burn on the 5090 either
>>106980014>waitniggers getting btfod Based
>>106979742>5year old gpus arent great for the futureI have a 7 year GTX 1080 that lasted me until this year before it struggled to play the latest gamesThat may have made me overly optimistic
>>106979855>UPSIREN Thermal Putty UTP8 was so annoying to applyYou roll it into a ball or line and squish it on a chip?It's friggin play dough anon
>>106976995https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTHCPsM5ECwThanks for posting this now I'm having another mental breakdown. For all the time I've been doing this research everyone said the arctic LF 3 pro was the best aio hands down. But this video says it's actually one of the worst. How can his results be so different from everyone else? I'm considering sending it back and getting something else but how can I know if this guy is lying or what?
>>106980079it doesnt stick easily to the chips, it likes to move wherever to the plastic tool and the gloves
>>106980050the joos froze my account to make me suffer increased ram prices.whats the point of waiting for black friday sales if prices are going to keep skyrocketing.
>>106979973>How long do you think that'll last? Do you think stocks will go by quickly?It will sell quickly @ $600, faster than the matte LG.Samsung needed to supply cheaper 1440p HDR TrueBlack 500 QD-OLED panels this year, and sell some 4K TB500 panels.XG27AQWMG is scheduled for a November or December launch, so you might get lucky with availability & the return deadline for your Samsung monitor.
>>106980071I'm sure if you got a 5080 or something it would last just as long. Really I think any of them as long as they aren't 8gb should be usable for a whileThe radeon gpus it'll probably be sketchy sooner
>>106979428>>106979436If Radeon is good why do pro players never use it? Nvidia reflex is just too good to give up for competitive
why do the best not sponsored or bribed e-sports players have Radeon GPUs in their home systems?probably because they know Nvidia GeForce is nonviable for competitive games due to frequent crashes, stutters, poor frame pacing and driver timeouts that make it impossible to compete
>>106980080I believe they tested three different Liquid Freezers (one they owned, one they newly bought, and one sent by Arctic).It's not a disaster given the price, build quality, and overall customer service.It could be the shape of the cold plate that may have prioritized Intel IHS.Ryzen being this popular among gamers is a relatively new thing; most of the CPU cooling R&D went into optimizing Intel CPUs.That's also why it took so long to get an Apex motherboard for an AMD platform.
>>106980093I guess my laird tputty maybe a little different. It stuck itself to most anything I threw away the little ball I had cause I kept fucking with it
>>106979555nevermind, it's clear to me now after perusing this thread that the posters here are retarded 12 year olds or pajeets. I'll figure it out myself. At least I got trips.
>>106980143From his video I'm looking at these three, they were all top tier in the tests far above the LF 3. The Lian Li was the best by far but he warned that they had problems with previous versions so I'm sort of afraid on that one. Of the three do you think any of them are worth getting instead of the LF3?
>>106980168The Corsair Nautilus, their test shows this one keeps the 9800X3D a bit cooler than the Cooler Master at all noise levels.The Corsair RS fan is relatively new, too
>>106980133>why do the best not sponsored or bribed e-sports playersName 5
is the R7 9800x3d idling at 43c running at 2.96GHz normal? my last cpu(3700x) would idle at 34-36c
>>106980164Some of the cheap SATA SSDs have terrible total endurance ratings.Samsung 870 Evo is still the best SATA SSD to get, and the rest don't appear to make enough SATA SSD to be affordable.https://pcpartpicker.com/product/mRpmP6/samsung-870-evo-500-gb-25-solid-state-drive-mz-77e500bam
I finally caved in and bought all the parts, finally I went full apeshit, now...How do I build PC? Anons, what should I read or watch before I build it? Any advice? What is the most common/retarded mistake ever that I should avoid?
>>106980214all the actually good players get sponsors geg
>>106980133why does the best player in the world at counter strike use geforce then?and no good players use Radeon, shouldn’t they have an advantage?
>>106980374Shout out to all my sponsors.
I will never go back to amd. Dogshit cards have no longevity.
>>106980369Watch a youtube video to familiarize yourself with the steps. Have it ready on your phone to refer to.Some stupid problems people are not removing cooler protection plastic. Installing cpu wrong way.Bending pins from mishandling or dropping am4 cpu. Spreading thermal paste on the wrong side of cpu.Failing to plug everything in correctly, using force to plug something in incorrectly which either ruins the component or the mobo socket.
the answer is simple, radeon is incapable of achieving competitive framerates in counter strike due to a catastrophic lack of GPU horsepower
>>106980414Radeon managed to make a GPU that loses to the 3080 while chugging more power with a 2 generation process node advantage, the incompetence of the Radeon engineering team is only eclipsed by the incompetence of radeons software development team with 5 second long macrostutters, driver timeouts and blackscreens plaguing users it makes perfect sense why their market share has plummeted to a horrendous 6%, gamers are smart enough to only be fooled into purchasing a Radeon product once
Hmmm, interesting...
>>106980414why was the 5060 excluded from this list?
>>106980473you're unlikely to use it at 4k
>>106980473wasn’t released at time of review
>>106980369
This is what my fan setup looks like. I have no liquid or radiator on top.Should I install top exhaust fans?
>>106980750You put an AIO there and you keep a strict max limit on the rear fan so that it doesn't throw out air it doesn't need to.
>>106980781>You put an AIO thereNone of my stuff uses liquid. I might upgrade to a 5090/6090 next year, though, so maybe then.Are you saying I should just install three fans there anyways?>you keep a strict max limit on the rear fan so that it doesn't throw out air it doesn't need to.Any where I can learn more about this?
>>106980788>Are you saying I should just install three fans there anyways?You put one at the rear top so that it assists the air cooler. If you must, one facing inwards at the front top to minmax. Otherwise leave the top middle and front empty or put a plastic bag there (held by some top cover or magnetic mesh) to force the front fan air to never escape early.>Any where I can learn more about this?It's called your brainIf using an AIO you want as much as possible to go up into the radiator, instead of passign through to the back and doing nothing.
>>106980817>If using an AIO you want as much as possible to go up into the radiator, instead of passign through to the back and doing nothing.Maybe I'm stupid, but my brain is telling me the opposite, isn't it? Why do I want the air to linger inside the case? Don't parts heat up proportionally to ambient temperatures? So I'd want to replace that air as fast as possible. It's not like I'm filling a bucket and need to wait for it to reach the brim, and it's not like I have a limited supply of air, right?
>>106980833When an AIO is stuck to the top it IS the exhaust fan array. Three of them pulling upwards is quite a lot of evacuation, the one at the back is only capable of helping with getting the waste heat from the GPU instead.>Why do I want the air to linger inside the case?Air is being taken in from the front, it can not be lingering unless you have zero RPM on every case fan. It will find its way out on its own; this is known as positive case air pressure, which helps to reduce dust buildup as the air will blow out of every hole and crevice it can escape from. A higher pressure behind the AIO fans will also help it push through the radiator fins, which are a source of air resistance.
>>106980880Right, but how does all of that add up to me needing to limit my exhaust fan? If anything, wouldn't I want it working as hard as it can while maintaining positive pressure (and it's currently 5-to-1 so that shouldn't ever happen)?
>>106980369have internet access, the bigger the screen the betterwatch a bunch of videos of people building pcs on the same case you bought, unless its some obscure chinkshit there will be understand why shit is done, understand why that cable goes there and that other one goes to the other part of the motherboardfamiliarize yourself with the psu cables so you know before hand which cable is for what piecesdont sweat cable management (too much)
>>106980750picrel is what noctua recommended a while ago, we used to meme about that image a lotits how my current setup is set nowim not gonna pretend any anon knows better than fucking noctua
>>106980750for me its this one
>>106980750exhaust fans are a meme
Would it be worth it to buy a portable icemaker that dispenses cubes in front of my intakes? I have carpet so I don't have to worry about the mess.
>>106980894Reducing the pressure around the final AIO fan, taking away perfectly cold fresh air that just entered and has done nothing from being used by the AIO. Again, the AIO fans when mounted on the top is the primary exhaust. Any "ambient heat" from other components goes out that way just fine. If a hot GPU and SSD causes the CPU to heat up a bit because the radiator is now getting warm air passing over it, that will just trigger all the fans to ramp up and solve the issue. It causes the AIO radiator to function as a general temp sensor for the whole system.
>>106981235>taking away perfectly cold fresh air that just entered and has done nothing from being used by the AIO.But it's being replaced with more perfectly cold fresh air.
>>106979377My wife AMD-chan
>bought a new m2 ssd because running out of space>2nd m2 slot is underneath pcie slot and can't be accessed without removing the gpu>gpu is held by a latch and is obstructed by the cpu coolerthat's a painful 30min trying to install a ssd
Is everyone and their mother a video editor nowadays? Why is every build question online asking for a build for "video editing and gaming"?Bonus points if they also ask for a good build for "coding", yeah right, as if you can't write and compile code just fine on any old toaster. You're probably doing React anyways and that shit's meant to run on the lowest common denominator's Android 4.3 smartphone with half a gig of RAM and a chrome version from a decade ago.
>>106981508maybe you just imagined all those posts wanting a build for video editing
I think the building guide link in OP uis broken. Maybe it should be https://igwiki.lyci.de//wiki/Build_a_PC ?
>>106981528I'm talking about the /new section on the build a PC subreddit. I'm bored out of my mind at work and shitposting there helps as it's more active than this thread.
>>106979377Reminder to clean your PC regularly and re paste your CPU/GPU every year My GTX 1080 temps literally goes from 80C to 65C on full load after doing a deep cleaning
>HDD prices fucking doubled compared to March 2023what the fuckwhy?
>>106981630>re paste your CPU/GPU every yearevery year is retarded, I'd give it about 3 yearsthermal pads last even longer, potentially even forever (in terms of useful hardware)
>>106981660Those dust aint gonna clean itself
>>106981630Re-pasting your stuff so often isn't a good idea unless you are using some strange TIM.For GPUs you would also had to worry about thermal pads, fuck that.
>>106981665I've no idea where you live where you get a heavy dust buildup within a yeareven then, it's not like the dust is between the chip and the heatsink, and disassembling everything instead of just blowing at it seems rather excessive
>>106981665dust isnt same in every place I have very little dust in my apartment and filters do good enough job that theres very little build up in the fins
>>106981669Just clean the GPU processor only and skip the thermal pads. If your heatsink glued into thermal pads..... you got shit GPU anon....
>>106981630I used my old PC for 7 years straight only undusting it occassionaly and never had temperature issues.
dust adds character and is proof of performability
>>106981630strong contender for most retarded post on the whole /g/ right nowkeep it up anon
>>106981686Some GPUs have very fragile thermal pads or ever thermal putty.Also thermal pads degrade over time.
Okay lets say i want to dust my pcI unplug all the shit and wait a few mins to make sure all the magic energy that powers it is gone and the machine spirit has calmedThen what?I open the side door and use a clean brush to get the dust out of the parts while keeping the vaccum cleaner pointed towards where im dusting? to vaccum the dust particles as i coax them out with the brush?I have no compressed air access nor the will to go to the hardware store and buy a can
>>106981709>Dont clean your pc until it die from overheat after 5 years bro.Dont come crying to /g/ when you got it
>>106981708>t.
>>106981745dont brush stuff thats how you'll break itdont force air through fans so they spin at high speedget a duster fan and never buy canned air again
>>106981757This is why the desire to move all the cables to the rear of the case is a good and moral thing. A smaller amount of cables in the way of air means less surfaces to stick to, and the higher velocity makes it easier for dust to get blown off and not adhere to the remaining open surfaces. The only concern for the future is if cables get hot enough that cooling them becomes a genuine consideration.
>>106981770I read somewhere that these fans can bleed static electricity into the dust particles that pass through as it blows, anecdotally my PC behaved strangely for a while the day after blowing it once.
>>106981770anon if im not buying a can of air im not buying a "duster fan"
>>106981772>the future is if cables get hot enough that cooling them becomes a genuine consideration12VHPWR is already here.
>>106981745I use mini vacuum cleaner, SOFT toothbrush, tissues, my mouth
>>106981782>my mouthI can imagine how you lick those PCBs and heatsinks.
I once had my real old gpu stop working from dust, it had 1 fanI think the 3 fan designs where the air moves sideways immediately will have less dust build upTheres more intake and surface area for the limited amount of dust flowing in the case, and higher pressure so theres less build up
>>106981777anecdotally that sounds like bullshit and I've used it several times with no issuesagain, dont force the fans to spin at high speed or it pushes voltage back into the motherboard
>>106981790vacuum cleaner for heatsinkstoothbrush for fanstissues and blow from your mouth is for PCBs
>>106981795I'm not dumb enough to blow on components without holding the fans. It still behaved funny afterwards. Maybe if its some kind of really dodgy Chinesium minimum-cost design.
>>106979377Is the price premium for a chipset that supports PCIe 5.0 over 4.0 really worth it in terms of gaming performance?
>>106981851It is for future proofing. Nvidia recently seems to like to use x8 PCIe cards if it is an entry-mid tier card, which can choke on a 4.0. If any manufacturer makes a card in such a segment that happens to be the value king then you might get hurt by a 4.0. Meanwhile a 5.0 has double the bandwidth of 4.0, so this safety margin extends for many generations ahead.
>>106981851Only if you have PCI-E gen5 GPU and you care about 1% lower performance.
>>106981865>>106981866Currently putting together an upgrade with a 7800/9800x3d and a 9070 xt and trying to figure out what's overkill and what isn't
>>106981777Some anon fried his mobo with this shit. Can in the air is still best bet.
>>106981649its child porn season.
>>106981875>figure out what's overkill and what isn'tWell that confirms what principle you're working with. The choice between B650 and B850 nowdays is whether you are trying to scrimp on every last penny or not buy something with more features than you need. Personally I err on the side of getting the most advanced tech available. For you I guess it will depend on how big the price difference the B850 has over the B650 in your area. Also consider that if you're buying a class _800x3d Ryzen then is a little bit more to get a modern chipset really that much?
how did she afford 128gb ram with the current prices
>>106981893>then is a little bit more to get a modern chipset really that much?You're totally right although I tend to then apply that to everything in a feedback loop, escalating up to128gb ram etc.Prices are actually just about 30-50€ more here, so probably worth itThank you anon
>>106981875You mainly want higher end chipsets for better IO like more m.2.If you look around you can find cheaper X670E or B650E boards if you care about more about just PCI-E 5.0 over Wi-Fi 7 or USB4.0.Also remember AMD did AyyMD thing and re-released the older chipsets under the new names but they also changed their tiers.
>>106981745ordinary vacuum cleaners can create huge static electricity anon especially on a dry day.
>>106981940>care about more about Eh, this is what I get for not reading the whole post before posting.
>>106980284Yes
what is the best airflow if the pc case is like this
>>106982177Exactly how it is.
>>106982177rear intakebottom intaketop exhaust
>>106982177You'll want to make sure all fan-motor-polarities are such that they're blowing out since you want to create underpressure within the case to suck the heat out
>>106982177Flip the bottom fans to intake they're exhaust.
>>106982177doesnt look like you can swap the bottom and top panels. if you have a 3d printer, you can consider deshrouding the gpu cooling and it with the bottom fans by exhausting its heat out of the case.
>>106979377How is this for 1440p gaming:https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/4tHk2xBudget 1500-1750€ in Germany.I'm keeping my old case and some big HDDs
>>106982177zesty
>>106982177i assume the front is for hard disks? never understood why there's no fans there to cool them
>>106982289250 eurobucks for ram what the fug
>>106982177Your graphics card probably sucks air onto the card and out of the back, so the bottom two fans should pump air into the case. Similarly, your cpu fan is probably blowing right-to-left in your image so the fan in the back should suck air out.You can also just experiment, flipping the fans isn't so much work.
Hey bros, my PC of 13 years recently died and I've been ordering parts for a new build and they're almost here but I'm not at the point of deciding what to do with my OS. It seems like W11 on a new build just makes sense even though I'm very much not a fan but the idea of paying another $140 for an os I don't even want to use doesn't sit right with me. What is the cheapest legitimate way to get windows 11 and do people still use loaders? I have a bunch of old w7 keys lying around but I guess they don't let you upgrade from there anymore. Anyway thanks.
>>106982315RAM prices are fucked atmIt's 64 gb with good latency, could be convinced to go to down in latency or size
>>106982315>He doesn't know.
>>106982342>>106982350my 32 of the very same corsair ram was like a third of that price last year
>>106982220>>106982229rear intakebottom top exhaust orbottom intakerear top exhaust?which one is it >>106982300yeah its hdd 3.5
>>106982359Even if you bought your stuff month ago you would pay way less.
>>106982330OPEN WIDE ANON SAY AAAAAAHHHHH>>>/fwt/>>How do I activate Windows?>HWID2 generates and registers a permanent legitimate license on MS's activation servers github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scriptsas legitimate as you can get (kind of legitimate) for as little money as possible (free of charge)
>>106982330with a quick of search of about 20 seconds i found several windows 11 licenses for about 15 euros
>>106982289Perfectly fineConsider a 7800x3d as the current consensus of the council of anons is that the bump in price doesn't match the bump on performance on the 9800x3dYou probably dont need 64gb ram but it wont hurt and since prices are going up maybe you are saving yourself money there in the endIf you are keeping some old storage you could also downsize to 1tb nvme and use it for system and programs while the older storage is used for well... storage but 2tb doesn't really seem overkillAnd lastly i dont know how old is your case but cases has seen a massive improvement in the last... 5-6 years.Anyhow the build is perfectly fine, i just wanted to help you reconsider those points just in case
>>106982379Alright I'll probably just use a loader then, thanks
>>106982330you can get it for free on /fwt/ or buy a key on any gray market key site, i remember there also was a subreddit that sold w10 keys for like a dollar but it got bannedRemember to run a debloater after install to remove a bunch of the superfluous shit