>UPGRADE & BUILD ADVICEPost build list or current specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/Provide specific use casesState BUDGET and COUNTRY or you will NOT be helped>CASEmATX: AP201, Lian Li A3, O11 Air Mini, XT M3, CH260ATX: XT PRO (ULTRA), AIR 903 Base/MAX, Lancool 207, Flux Pro, Meshify 3, 4000D FRAME, X50Dual Chamber: Y60/70, O11 Vision, Antec C8>CPUGaming: 14600K, 9/7600X, 7800X3D-Budget: 12400, 12600K, 7600XWorkstation: 265K, 285K, 9950X3D*Avoid Asrock motherboards on AM5*On Raptor Lake microcode updates should be considered mandatory, avoid second-hand>COOLERAIO: Thermalright Frozen Edge, Lian Li Galahad II Lite, Corsair Nautilus RS, Cooler Master Atmos, Liquid Freezer 3/Pro (unhandy mounting solution)ITX/>42mm RAM: Mugen 6 Dual Fan, AXP120-X67TIM: MX-6, MX-4, Duronaut>RAM*Prices and therefore recommendations are for the time being in fluxDDR5: 2x16GB or 2x24GB, 6000CL30 (AM5), 6400CL32 (LGA 1700)Workstation: 2x 32GB (budget), 2x48GB or 2x64GB (high-end)>SSD (Keep firmware updated)Budget: SN7100, NM790High-end: SN850X, 990 Pro (Windows)Premium: SN8100https://borecraft.com/>GPUBudget: Arc B580, 9060xt 8gb (~$270)-Used: 2060 Super, 2070, 2080ti*8gb has become a major constraint even at 1080pMidrange: 5060ti 16GB, 5070-Used: 3080, 3080ti4k : 5070ti, 9070xt-Native: 5090>PSUBuying guide:https://hwbusters.com/best_picks/best-atxv3-pcie5-ready-psus-picks-hardware-busters/>MONITOR1080p: 24" 165/180hz, KTC H25X71440p: 27" 180hz IPS, KTC M27T6 (miniLED), Gigabyte MO27Q28G or LG 27GX700A-B (WOLED)4K: KTC M27P6 (miniLED)>OSActivate Windows @ >>>/g/fwt>CASE FANSMeta: Case with good stock PWM fansMidrange: Arctic P12 Pro, P14 Pro (5-pack, loud @ higher RPM)High-end: Fractal Momentum, Noctua G2 (140mm or 120mm)
>>107109380How about you build my balls in your mouth
>News & RumorsRTX 50 Super: 2026 launch. 24GB VRAM for 5070 Ti & 5080 Super, 18GB for 5070 Super.Nova Lake 2026Dual 3d cache "9950X3D2">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 Reviews https://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/>Omissions-9800X3D: Not usually a significant improvement over a 7800X3D in gaming-3060: Contrast pricing with 2070 (similar performance, 8gb) and 2080ti-7700: Region dependent, at ~$250+ you'd likely better served elsewhere-9060xt 16gb: Performance variable compared to 5060ti, buy only if $350 is the absolute max budget and you can't consider used-9070: Only worth considering if cheaper than the 5070-"Futureproofing": Nvidia gpus in general have been aging better than Radeon regardless of vram or marginal differences in raw performanceLeave any constructive suggestions for edits to the op. Pic:>>107096688Previous:>>107101366
>>107109388i'll build in your ass if you don't watch your mouth
How does the ryzen 7 5700x hold up? found a good deal on it
>>107109459not great compared x3d
>>107109459its fine for most games assuming you're not aiming for super high refresh rates
>>107109396>>RTX 50 Super: 2026 launch
>>107109459Pretty okay all things considered, some ue5 games would be kind of cancerous but you could probably coast with it until new platforms or the start of the next console gen.
i have a ryzen 5 5600X with a RX 6600which should i upgrade first? considering i'm not changing mother boards any time soonalso my monitor is still 1080 (albeit 2560x1080)do i even need to change atm?
>>107109459>How does the ryzen 7 5700x hold up? found a good deal on itStarting to show it's age. Considering a far more powerful 14600K is ~$200, a fair price for it would be about $145 today.
>>107109486youd be looking at 600€ for a am5 mobo, ddr5 ram (lmao prices), new cpu+ 600€ for a better gputhe gpu is by far the best upgrade now, look at 5070 or 5070 tithen after that look at 1440p oled monitors, glossy tandem is best
>>107109500https://www.displayninja.com/best-oled-monitor/ has the specific model names
>>107109486I fully agree with >>107109500 & >>107109500 except I consider QD-OLED to still be both better performance and value atm if you have ambient lighting control. Your CPU should still be less bounding in games than that GPU.
>>107109486gpu. Might as well just put off any cpu upgrade if you're not changing sockets + ddr5 pricing is fucked at the moment. Missed the boat on am4 x3d
Has Arc Celestial dropped yet? It's rumored to be 2x as good as the rtx 5090 super.
>>107109486>also my monitor is still 1080 (albeit 2560x1080)If it's been like 5+ years sureSpecs that were ultra expensive at that time now come super cheap
>>107109526you forgot your meds anon
>>107109511reason Id say tandem oled is good is how it should have less brightness limiting when you use it normallythe qd oled still has way better color volume but it might not be noticeable in most content
>>107109500>>107109511i'm brazilian so i cant afford all those things hahaonly one upgrade at a timei use linux, so i'd rather stay in a full amd environment for compability (and also prices)i've found a RX 9060 XT relatively not too expensive just north of 500usd (for reference i make a little under 400usd a month)the cheapest 5070 in comparison is 760usd
>>107109534oh I have "buy gold chain" on the calendar.
>>107109544Are you experiencing low framerates with your 6600 with the gpu at 99-100% load?
>>107109524>Missed the boat on am4 x3dyeah, i only just found out about it.i built my pc in feb 2022 and never looked to upgrade until now.>>107109528i got it around late 2022, its a nice big ultrawide. for me its more about the size of the screen than actual resolutiono so its probably gonna be the last thing i ever change
>>1071095445070 is likely the best optionits more powerful, relatively cost effective and will work better at 1440p for the futuredlss has wider support than fsrso pirate windows and buy 5070 even if you have to save a bit, the cost difference vs 9060 is worth
>>107109574Multiply your monthly income with 2 and think whether you should spend it on a 12 GB gpu. The answer is NO.
>>107109562i get about 50fps on elden ring, and between 30~40 on HD2 on medium settings unless i use scalingi can only play cb77 on medium on low, don't remember fpsi can't say the load on the gpu as i don't think i ever bothered checking, but i do remember that it got really hot sometimes, like 90ºC maybe another factor for me is how much power is it gonna draw compared to the 6600, because electricy bills are really expensive in the country right now
>>107109582you'll be running most games at balanced transformer model dlss the extra vram of 9060 doesnt make your gaming experience better with worse fps, and not having fsr4 is a not of games + all the other software benefits nvidia has
>>107109596You are stupid.
>>107109606how are you gonna buy an oled monitor with amd gpuyou wont have video hdr
>>107109613What are you talking about? Would you spend double your monthly income on a video game toy, yes or no?
>>107109620the price difference between 9060 xt and 5070 in brazil is apparenly like 20%?
>>107109631>500usd (for reference i make a little under 400usd a month)>the cheapest 5070 in comparison is 760usdThat's 50%.Didn't make it to sixth grade yet Nvidiaboy?
>>107109642>i've found a RX 9060 XT relatively not too expensive just north of 500usd kys
>>107109537Fair. I'm just personally biased toward critical viewing.>>107109593>>107109544I would hold out for a 9070 (doesn't have to be the XT version). There's a lot of unreasonably expesnive-midrange slop cards that it sits with, while the 9070 is more than twice as powerful.
>>107109593Use upscaling, don't waste so much money on a low end card
>>107109644anon lives in brazilthey don't get market prices like us or europe
>>107109574At least one of those prices is hiding a crack pipe.
moral of the thread so far: don't be brazilian
>>107109574also, you actually want to calculate your own personal uplift.$ per uplift frame = prospective_cards_price/(prospective_cards_fps - myfps)This is why actually the "best value" is a garbage value, maybe, FOR YOU.
>>107109680I disagree, I think you should always wear flip flops and keep a glock in your underwear.
>>107109544>(for reference i make a little under 400usd a month)Jesus christ
>>107109690>glock in your underwearFront or back?
>>107109544>>107109593Keep saving, if you go for a budget gpu it will last you 3 year max but if you spend a little bit more you'll get something that can last you up to 7, specially if you can hold on until the next gen as new consoles will be out so they'll be significantly more future proof than current hardware
>>107109574>First gpu with no major strings attached or a made up price is the 5070Nvidia bros we fucking won>>107109699In the front with my team-red clitty uwu
>>107109644>>107109672>>107109677we have 92% tax on all imported goods (of any kind) plus a load of other taxes on tech goodsthats why its so expensive>>107109693sigh... yeah...
>>107109725do people routinely get someone to ship them goods bypassing the taxes
>>107109733not that i know ofmaybe rich people who know people who can afford to travel
>>107109777I mean you just need a guy abroad buy the thing, then package it as normal postage to you.what are the customs gonna do about it?
>>107109785you would still got to pay tax on those. everything is retained by the government and only released after they checked the goods and the receiver has payed any taxes they deem to be owned on it, even if it is a "personal package" like a gift instead of a purchase
the ram sticks I bought for my PC last month doubled in price what the helly
>>107109794line going up for stupid bullshit must go on, please understandUpdoots to the left :)
>>107109791but the guy buying it abroad paid tax alreadyyou cant tax stuff twice
>>107109816>you cant tax stuff twiceHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAtry telling that to the brazilian goverment lmaofor example, every year a car owner must pay tax on it, 4% of the total value of a brand new of the same model. thing is, that price already has over 60% tax on it, so you're paying taxes over tax you have already payed when you bought it
this is listed as a sata ssd but looks like an nvmedoes this connect directly to the sada port, like an usb?
>>107109877No. It connects to the m.2 port but it uses sata not pcie
>>107109877i think there's some sort of confusion between what a sata and nvme ism.2basically the form factor is different to the type of interface.https://www.kingston.com/en/blog/pc-performance/two-types-m2-vs-ssd
>>107109891>>107109892ah, i seei thought nvme and sata were like hdmi, vga, usb, you knot, port types
>>107109905easy mistake to makei never bothered finding out about it until i upgraded my 10 year old pc
>>107109816Taxes aren't real anyway.
>>107109916is this a good ssd for my pc then? https://americas.lexar.com/product/ssd-ns100/i already have an nvme, i need extra storage and my mb only has 1 nvme slot so i gotta get a sata ssdi'm not even sure if this is a mb ssd or a portable one desu
Not sure if anyone remembers but I’m the anon who was having trouble with his 4070ti running hot as fuck and the fans were ramping up to 100% no matter how many fans I added and I even bought a new case to see if it would help.I finally fixed the issue.Undervolting the GPU and now every game runs fine without DLSS and with high frame rates.Something so simple.I still have time to return this new case I bought - with the only reason not to is because I have my AIO radiator mounted to the top of my case which allows for the front of my case to have 3 fans.Radiator used to be mounted at the front of my old case with tubes at the top (I’ve been told this is bad).Is this reason alone worth keeping this case? Putting everything back into the old case will for sure suck but it is what it is. If it matters, the case was $79
>cancel directv>they tell me to throw away all receivers>open receiver>2TB HDD insideI’ve been using this equipment for around 7+ years. If I decide to save a bunch of movies on this drive, what are the chances it stops working within the next decade?
>>107109945>and now every game runs fine without DLSS and with high frame rates.Look at this manHe boughted a 4070 TiAnd he is happy with 60
>>107109968you should use it to run your pacemaker.
>>107109971What an empty response to fulfill the narrative in your head LOL
is the 7900 xtx still worth it?
>>107110023Worth what? $450 used?
>>107110032like $900 new?
>>107110036No
>AMD dropping support for RDNA 1 and 2>AMD announcing new GPU architecture for the future thus declaring their current GPU line abandonware>AMD announcing new CPU with extra 3D cache for next year>intel and Nvidia becoming friends and building new great things together>Intel announcing new CPU architecture and platform for next year>Nvidia Super series releasing next fall>ram prices skyrocketing>ssd prices skyrocketing>new hardware on Linux being still badThere has never been a better time than this for waiting to build a new desktop PC. I'm glad I haven't pulled the trigger for new hardware yet.
>>107109936it looks like it's an internal one, it looks like it needs a sata cable and power cable from your PSU. external drives usually plug in through USB.I don't know, I've never heard of Lexar before. I'm usually just a WD guy
>>107110052Is there a 2025 release worth buying? anything with 3d at all, don't care what it is.
>>107109486wtfnino?
>>107110097?
>>107110177dayag
>>107109475Yeah....october of 2026
>>107110309Intel Arc Celestial C770 with 1tb of vram.
Friendly reminder I'm very happy with my m27p6 purchase.
>>107110364Intel Arc Celestial C990 with 4tb hbm4 vram and 32768 cuda cores
>>107110405>mere cuda cores when you can have exuda cores
>>107110400why would anyone buy a monitor they're not happy with
>GPU undervolt is completely stable in all cases except very occasionally BF6 and Arc RaidersLiterally why
>>107110472It's protecting you.
>>107110449Because they're oled cuck?
>>107110472turn off global illumination
>>107110534Already did, mostly because GI looks worse than 'static' in shart raiders for some reason
i have 3x 8 GB RAMs and 1x 16GB RAM:which slot sockets should I put them to?
>>107110540doesn't really matter
>>107110540LOL bricked setup
explain to me what the gayman screens in the OP bring more than a cheap screen with the same main (resolution, refresh rate, hdr) specs
>>107110540AM5? You cooked? What platform though? Just sell the extra sticks and get the ones you want.
>>107110607cheap IPS likely perform very similarly to each otherthen minileds have backlight zones that make hdr easier to accomplish and OLEDs have 0.1ms pixel response times and each pixel is controlled individually which gives you best hdr experience
>>107110607Nothing, if the panel is the panel is the same IPS in both cases, enjoy your cheaper monitor and let the pay pigs pay for their brands. If one is Oled and the one you are looking at is VA or IPS, the branded one is better.
