>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, 7500FWorkstation: 265K, 285K, 9950X3D*Avoid Asrock motherboards on AM5*On Raptor Lake microcode updates should be considered mandatory, avoid second-hand *Prices have increased for LGA 1700 processors, only worth considering if discounted or if reusing DDR4. New DDR5 builds should be AM5 or LGA1851>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-7, MX-4, Duronaut, *PTM 7950, Kryosheet*Most listings online are not actually 7950>RAMDDR5: 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-Used: 2080, 2080ti*8gb has become a major constraint even at 1080pMidrange: 5060ti 16GB, 5070-Used: 3080, 3080ti, 4070 (~$380)4k : 5070ti, 9070xt-Native/High-end: 5090>PSUBuying guide:https://hwbusters.com/best_picks/best-atxv3-pcie5-ready-psus-picks-hardware-busters/>MONITOR1080p: 24" 165/180hz, KTC H25X71440p: 27" 165/180hz IPS, KTC M27T6 (miniLED), ASUS XG27AQWMG (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)
>News & RumorsMemory situation unlikely to get better until at least 2027RTX 50 Super, 2026 launch? Potentially cancelled, likely q3 if still being releasedNova Lake 2026Dual 3d cache "9950X3D2"Micron consumer memory and storage (Crucial) is no moreNvidia reducing production of 50 series gpus next year (https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/nvidia-plans-heavy-cuts-to-gpu-supply-in-early-2026/)>PSU Reviewshttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplieshttps://www.lttlabs.com/https://www.kitguru.net/reviews/?category_name=power-suppliesFor tier-list enjoyers:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akCHL7Vhzk_EhrpIGkz8zTEvYfLDcaSpZRB6Xt6JWkc/>Storage Reviews https://www.tweaktown.com/cat/storage/index.htmlhttps://www.techpowerup.com/review/?category=SSDhttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/ssds/reviews>Monitor Hunter https://docs.google.com/document/d/1illeNLsUfZ4KuJ9cIWKwTDUEXUVpplhUYHAiom-FaDo/ >Other helpful LinksMobomaps, currently only lists a selection of AM5 boards but is being actively updated : https://mobomaps.com/A PC build guide : https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Build_a_PCGerman autism : https://www.igorslab.de/en/Monitor reviews : https://www.rtings.com/Leave any constructive suggestions for edits to the op. Is slowly being worked on.Pic:Previous:>>107692999
Was considering upgrading my aging 5600x to a newer AMD processor, but I ended up getting a core ultra 9>inn4 waste of sand>inferior productFuck off, I made the conscious decision to support Intel in anyway I can, NO one company should have a monopoly over anything, be it nvidia with the gpu market, or AMD with the cpu market
>>107697033>>News & Rumors>Memory situation unlikely to get better until at least 2027>RTX 50 Super, 2026 launch? Potentially cancelled, likely q3 if still being released>Nova Lake 2026>Dual 3d cache "9950X3D2">Micron consumer memory and storage (Crucial) is no more>Nvidia reducing production of 50 series gpus next year (https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/nvidia-plans-heavy-cuts-to-gpu-supply-in-early-2026/)and the good news? What new tech is coming out that will be cheap and plentiful for gamers and enthusiasts?
>>107697045Nova lake, it will redeem
Friendly reminder. You will never be a real 80-class GPU. You have no GB202 silicon, you have no 320-bit/ 384-bit bus, you have no 20GB/ 24GB of VRAM. You are a mid-range GB203 chip twisted by Jensen’s greed and a $1,000 MSRP into a crude mockery of a flagship’s perfection. All the "validation" you get from benchmarks is two-faced and half-hearted; behind your back, the entire enthusiast community mocks you for having only 49% of the 5090's CUDA cores. Your specs are a dead giveaway - 16GB of VRAM and a 256-bit bus is the "mid-range bone structure" that proves you are just a 70-series card in a suit. Even if a drunk gamer brings you home, they’ll turn tail and bolt the second they see you choking on 4K textures because you lack the bandwidth and "breathing room" of a real enthusiast card. You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake DLSS frame every morning and tell yourself it’s 4K gaming, but deep inside you feel the VRAM limitations creeping up like a weed, ready to crush your framerates under the unbearable weight of Ray Reconstruction. Eventually, it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll be listed on eBay for $400, and every buyer for the rest of eternity will know a mid-range 70-class chip is buried under that shroud. This is your fate. This is what Jensen chose for you. There is no turning back.
Is this case worth the money?
>>107697104>remembers my HAF X
>>107697086still good enough for me :)
>>107697086pasta never tasted so good
>>107697104why is the white one $250 more than the black one?
>>107697104>>107697104>$550the fuck who would spend that much on a case? For just $100 more dollars you could get the latest Ryzen processor instead..
>>107697160You are 1 model off from greatness
>>107697198desu this is already more than i need. I haven't even played any game with "RayTracing" and i doubt I ever will.and i wouldn't want to own a card with a dangerously underspecced power delivery system anyway.
Hey /pcbg/. I just added some storage to my PC. Another 1TB NVME drive for my games and such and then a 4TB WD Blue HDD for my data storage. My movies, pictures, music, e-comics and such, I don't need speed for that. But holy fuck, the new 4TB Blue is so fucking loud. It's not having issues, it's just a rather noisy boy when it reads and writes. Especially reading. It's really fucking annoying. If it bugs me enough I may replace it with something else, but looking online if just doesn't seem like there are a ton of options available for HDDs anymore. WD isn't great at these larger capacities unless you pay more. Lol Segate. Is Toshiba still decent? They were decent last I heard. Alternatively, I could just set up a NAS or something and move the current drive somewhere else. I dunno, what's everyone's solution for larger amounts of data. Currently sitting at just under 2TB worth of stuff.
>>107697280bait or underagehard drive sounds are lovely
>>107697184Don't be racist.
>>107697280>But holy fuck, the new 4TB Blue is so fucking loud.Are you sure it's not a head parking loop. My never shut up. I use Keep Alive HD. It makes them quiet when at idle.
>>107697280lmao, you're like a baby.I have a 16TB, and two 22TBs in my desktop within 6 feet of my bed seeding torrents 24/7.And they're enterprise drives (Exos/IronWolf Pro/MG10) so they're even louder than regular consumer drives.
>>107696855>Can't you just debtmaxx and have a bit of fun before you go?Best I can do is get a new PC and some other electronics. I'm too sick to do anything physical so I'll get a new PC, play some games and die.I also lost my dog on Christmas so I don't even feel like prolonging my life or doing anything.
Didn't see the new thread>>107696986Pretty much, but it has three slots, so I was gonna use the deotated pcie output for one of them as well.
>>107697351It's only when reading really. Even when it's writing it's not terrible. It's fine when idling. My 2TB Blue is nice and quiet but I hear the heads on the 4TB one. I guess it isn't a big deal, I'm just not used to it. It's only for my media really anyway so it's not a huge deal. My emulators and rims/ISOs are on the 2tb drive still. Native games get installed to one of my 3 NVME drives.
Is there something like the Sliger S610 case in the market that's in-stock (and preferably without paying the indie premium)? The closest I could find is the D32 but the width is a bit too wide.
grim
Why do companies do this shit? Why make it 2 colors? Why couldn't it be all black?
>>107697086i have an RTX 5090 with 32 gigabytes of RAM power
>>107697549I'm afraid it would burn down my house.
Will the price of 14th gen Intel ever become good again, or is it over? The lowest price of a 14600K you can find is like $250. Only a couple months ago you could find them for $150.
>>107697599>The lowest price of a 14600K you can find is like $250, but they're all out of stock.ftfy.It's over.
Finally got my gpu
Can't believe SSDs are 400 fucking dollars now
>>107697542That's the Shamu edition.
>>107697599Intel 7 was never a cheap node to produce on so I'm surprised it even got that cheap
>>107697621Sweet. Congrats.
>>107697495Looks like deep cool ch160
>>107697530Eh I thinks it's the global surveillance/feedback loop, but yea.
>>107697036Based anti-trust-conscious consumer. Keep fighting the good fight
>>107697086
>>107697621>get 5060ti >want to play some vydia and generate some AI slop just to learn how it works under the hood and maybe make some shitposts>dies in the middle of an intense gayming session>only used it for a week topsFirst time I had expensive hardware fail on me like that desu, not sure if its the chineasium mobo with a soldered on laptop cpu that killed it or it was defective in the first place.Probably would have shat my pants if that happened to a 5070ti that costs 2x here.
>>107697829Did you try to boot your PC using the integrated graphics?
>>107697829laptops aren't for real workloads anyway, you'll be throttling constantly if you tried to use it for ai.
>>107697853I did everything apart from taking a shit in the case or inserting something else in to the pci slot. The card enters safe mode on power on with fans ramping up to max with no hdmi signal and loonix (yes im using linux) does not seem to detect the card. Contemplating on buying some cheap pci device to test the socket to fully make sure that its not the mobo that shat the bed
What do you think 4chan admin or mod team considers a fundamental failure on their part when it comes to 4chan discourse where they actually need to do something about it?Like if they see some general composed 50% of systematic spam is that going to fine forever. Just americans ""trolling"" americans?
>>107697104Overpriced despite being ugly lf.
>>107697872I got it because multitude if reasons,16 coars, bargain bin cheap and the fact that it accepted sodimm ram that i had on hand (dire circumstances require desperate and extreme measures). Considering the fact that I learned what it means to have more than one pci slot on not a refurbised chineasiu mobo I have learned my lesson and my next upgrade is going to be a full blow ATX with a pizza box sized mobo
>>107697886Have you removed the card entirely and tried booting?
>>107697929Yes, the system is fully functional without the card, tried reinserting it and doing the classic dust off the pci and clear cmos drill a couple of times, but unfortunately it seems like its 100% hardware failure.
>>107697956Yep. sounds like it. What brand? Are you RMA?
>>1076978874chan is not profitable to be worth maintaining
What prebuilds should i look into for gaming with a decent graphics card ? Budget is 1,200 ?
>>107697989The one with the best GPU or RAM.
>>107697971Gigabyte windforce, will probably RMA once I test out the pci slot.Figured that gigabyte has the most decent quality out of the big 4, but i might as well gotten a PNY at this point.
>>107697184because it works
>>107698009>Gigabyte windforceKek, should've started with it. Yes it's 100% a dead card. I even remember getting one new dead right out of the box.
>>107698009It doesn't really matter what you buy. Everything nowadays is shit. Just roll the dice or buy for the looks.
There's only one man who can save us from the memory crisis.
>>107697989nicotroon execute this man
So I'll be getting a brand new PC on tuesday. What do I need to do on my old PC before the move? I'll be going from a i7-4790k, GTX 970, 16GB ram to a 285k, RTX5080 and 64GB ram. Will it feel like an actual upgrade or will it feel like pic related?
>>107698022>>107698046>chinkshit minisforum refurbished mobo works flawlessly while doing heavy scientific calculations 24/7 >gigabyte midrange gpu shits the bed in the first week of not even intense useI dont even know what brands to trust anymore, why is everything so much more shit than it was 10 years ago. My old haswell laptop still works flawlessly
>>107698128Unfortunately it's a gamble whatever you get. Someone can have a Gigabyte card work for years without issue and the other guy can have it burn down his PC in the first month.
>>107698090that's a fucknormous upgrade, ignore the haters. Back up files and documents that you want to keep from the old one, download your os installer of course and at bare minimum the ethernet/mobo drivers for your new pc onto a 2nd flash drive if necessary; might be boomer tier advice idk.
>>107698128>chinkshit minisforum refurbished moboChinkshit is what every big corporation uses, they just don't tell you and charge you 4 times.
>>107698154No no, this is good advice. I'll take anything. Last time I switched PC's was like 20 years ago.
>>107697028What's the smallest rtx 5090 that can fit inside a fractal meshify c case? Asking for a friend.
>>107698090Ngl I'm a bit bitter that I'm doing almost what you are but only 32 gigs for obvious reasons.I think it's gonna be wild bro, what is the first thing you plan to do to kick the tires?
What's it like to be a 14900k owner?I have a second-hand celeron g6900 gathering dust in my i9's box so that I could theoretically bring my pc back from the dead in the form of a shambling zombie if/when my 14900k fries itself. $60 is a small price to pay for the peace of mind of not losing access to most of my online accounts and local data over intel's incompetence.And I guess I could at least play private server wow or bloons tower defense or dungeon crawl stone soup webtiles, even on this thing. Most importantly I'll be able to easily access my finances and order something online. Could do it on a phone if absolutely necessary but it's a nightmare to do anything on this tiny little touchscreen and I don't know how normalfags even begin to cope with it.
>new pc has been getting crazy hot the last 2 days>assume its to cheap old radiator acting up>plus I lost the mounting screws for the heat sink so I am using some screws I had lying around to hold it there>order a new universal mounting bracket>start taking it apart>realize in the process that I mounted the two radiator fans going different directions
>>107698188Same my fellow 32GB poorfag
>>107697989>$1200Maybe not what you were looking for but just in case…Newegg had a pre-built which included the 9800x3d, 32bg ram and 2tb NVMe for about $1800, you might want to consider browsing whatever they have atm
>>107698240it's not gonna fry itself, it's not an AMD CPU
>>107697621where did you order from
>>107698240
>>107698240It’s a house-fire cpu and it has E-cores so don’t even bother, seriously.
>>107698188>only 32 gigs64GB is overkill so you shouldn't worry about not getting that. It might be useful in the future but by then probably even better and faster ram will appear.I will play Space Marine 2 on max details and see how Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk look at max settings. After that I'll be going through my backlog. Plenty of new games wouldn't work on my GTX 970 but many did work on medium/low so I would like to see how they look. I also hope I live long enough to see that Expanse game but I doubt it.
>>107698296i posited the question rhetorically because i already have it. The e-cores are hit or miss desu, but for what i use it for they perform well.
Alright boys my 9800x3d idles around 50C and load spikes up to 80C. Reapply thermal paste or fuck it?
>>107698311Lemme guess- you're on air
>>107698315You guessed it
>>107698311that's normal
>>107698311Is the 9800x3d more toastier than the 7800x3d? Because my 7800x3d is arriving in the mail tomorrow, just curious.
>>10769831180C is nothing
>>107698311disablo pbo in bios
>>107698322360mm AIO. Now.,>>107698332No, the opposite. See above. AIO Now.
>>107698324>>107698340Good to hear. I heard tales of them idling in the low 40’s, so wanted to make sure I didn’t fuck up the mounting. >>107698332From what I’ve heard, they run hotter yeah. Wanted to double-check here to make sure it’s normal.
>>107698324>>107698340true but if you're autistic about spiking for no reason get an aio
>>107698364>I heard tales of them idling in the low 40’sif you're on windows 11 your computer is never idle
