JustTheTip

Just went by the old Gamers Nexus case reviews, I was gonna get the Lian Li O11 Dynamic but I think I'd be dead of old age before one comes back in stock

I would but both the lack of availability and cost of the 5900x was a put off for me

Thats a good shout, I'll swap to the NH-D15S based on that, thanks! As for the memory its a 4x8GB kit with CAS Timings of 18-22-22-42

Budget (including currency): £2000 ish Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, CAD, Trading So the time has come for an upgrade my 7 year old gaming PC has served its time, although its still going strong, its age is now showing more everyday. Currently this is roughly the parts list I am looking at CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO SL Black 32GB 3600MHz Mobo: Gigabyte AMD B550 AORUS PRO AC GPU: RTX 3080 FE (when I can get hold of one) SSD: Sabrent 1TB Rocket PSU: Corsair RM850x Case: be quiet! Silent base 802 My only concerns with my build right now are my choice of mobo and PSU, as far as I can tell the rest is all solid. I was unsure whether to splash out and go for an X570 board as I know its got far more extensive PCIe 4.0 support but as far as I know thats all I would gain, or have I missed something. As for PSU choice I am using an RM750x in my current build and its been solid as a rock, I'd have gone for a higher wattage but getting hold of good high wattage PSU's is near impossible right now, I saw that corsair had released the RM850 2020 edition, it was cheaper but I wasnt sure if I should go for that as the original RM series wasnt liked much as far as I know. Oh and I am also aiming for a black and silver/white build style. Any thought or criticisms welcome, I'd like to get this build right, Thanks everyone!

Upon failure the pool would become unavailable in FreeNAS and I'm pretty sure all you have to do is simply replace the HBA and you're good to go again afaik. BUT - Remember that you should ALWAYS have backups of your important data preferably off site. That way even a catastrophic fail isn't the end of the world.

I can confirm that my 3060 Ti is quite the delight BUT if your doing this in a couple of months then keep your eyes peeled as I have heard rumours of a 3050 or 3060 being released next year which may offer 2070 Super like performance for less money.

The corsiar PSU's are pretty solid as whole I would say the PSU will fine. The bigger concern is really pairing a 5950x with a likely high end RTX 3000 or Radeon 6000 card may exceed the PSU's ability, you'll likely be fine but on the limit

Have you updated all of your drivers (CPU, GPU and any chipset drivers)? Also are you saying its just the game crashing or the whole PC, if its just the game then I think uPlay has an option to verify that the game is installed and not corrupted, I'd run that to be sure.

If I recall, this is normally a solid indication your hardware is on the way out. What 1070 do you have and can you show a picture of the flashing lights? Also something worth doing is a fresh install of your drivers, on the install wizard select custom install and the select the option that will do a clean install of the drivers, just to make sure they are ok.

Could be a shoddy cable failing to conform to standards? I think that would fail an auto negotiate but still work

What laptop is it? I used to have to pop the back off my old one and clean it every few months to keep it from getting that high

What router+modem combo you using and what port you plugged into on the router? Also take a look at the RJ45 Male connector on your cable, some ISP's provide cables which only have 2 twisted pairs inside them (4 visible wires in the connector) where as you should see 4 twisted pairs (8 visible wires in the connector) to achieve full gigabit, they are a cheapo alternative that ISP's seem to think is acceptable.

I'd be careful with that then, they might bite you in the ass later on

Pretty sure windows can make a system image which you can just replicate over multiple devices. Have a little read through this article in the Microsoft docs which cover the sysprep utility and touches on imaging the installation for replication. I have never done it before so don't know how it works.

It has some pretty solid reviews so I'd go for it. Only other thing is if you wanted to stretch your budget a bit (and are also a student) you can get a mad deal on the Dell S2721DGF at the moment, I have heard some great things about that.