HerpyDerpy

Heya folks, there's so many options and I just need to throw up my hands and ask for help! 1. Budget & Location Amount is flexible. Less than £300 would be ideal. Up to £500 could be managed and more if I end up needing more than just a motherboard and CPU. I live in the UK, so anything available there is perfect. 2. Aim I mostly play video games on this machine, I don't usually play AAA titles but I do from time to time. I also play VR using a HTC vive which can be more demanding. I was previously using it as an unraid machine but I found it to be unstable / a hassle to maintain without much use of it more than a file server so I aim to potentially seperate those functions. 3. Monitors I have two monitors, I believe that both of them are 2K. One of them can run at 144 htz frame rate 4. Peripherals I was using windows within an unraid share in the past. I may do so again. I have all the other equioment that I may require. 5. Why are you upgrading? I am upgrading because I had a past machine that recently died on me :( We ask this because you may see upgrading as the only path to solve an issue but things such as driver updates, reconfiguration or cleaning can boost performance without spending a cent. 6. Existing parts? X99 3.1 Deluxe Motherboard (DEAD - I think) Intel i7 5820K (Potentially alive, no way to tell) Nvidia 980 Ti Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3200 MHz C16 XMP EVGA SuperNova NEX750G 750W Full Modular 80+ Gold efficiency power supply 2x NVME 1tb drives 900P 4x 3.5 inch hard drives 4x 2.5 inch SSDs Having taken a look at what is available and talking with some folks, they recomend an AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and a ASUS B550-PLUS TUF Gaming AMD AM4 ATX Motherboard. Does anyone else have any recommendations? I don't know if that's overkill or underkill. Or if I should wait for a generation or not.

Did you have a particular one in mind? Its 400 overall. Do you think I should get a single better monitor and then buy the others afterwards?

Hey everyone. I need some advice! I am looking into buying three monitors for a three monitor set up. Below is my current monitor... Its pretty old... its a WJ1780PI. Unfortunately I have no idea what I am looking at when it comes to specs. I have been looking at these three monitors VC239H, VS239H-P & VC239H-W. Do they seem worth it? Im a software engineer student so the three displays would come in handy for all of those windows but I would also be looking to game on it. I have a budget of around £400 ($400 or 648 Canadian Dollars). My computer specs: Intel i7-5820K 16GB dual channel RAM X99-Deluxe motherboard Nvidia 980TI (I think its called a reference card?) Do these seem like good monitors? Which of the three is the best? Or is there a monitor that is better and worth the cost? Also it needs VESA (So I can mount them) and thin side parts if possible. One last thing, can you change the cooler on a graphics card to another type or does that ruin it? Thanks for your help!

Hi, This is my first time buying a monitor and I have been trouble deciding which one that I should buy. Right now I have some incredibly crappy monitor (This monitor) and have been using it for quite some time since it suited the equally awful computer I have been using. After upgrading to an entirely new rig which now includes a 5820K and a 980 Ti, I bided my time with what I had so that I could save up enough money to get a great monitor. So now that I have enough I have been looking through the linus tech tips videos (Where I hear about most computer things now a days) and was hoping if I could get some advice on which to look into buying. The ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q has been one such thing that has caught my eye given the overclocking, the IPS panel and the glowing review from linus. I have about £500 - £750 or $700 - $1050 to spend on the single monitor. It would be used primarily for gaming and some 3D work. The concerns that I have are reports of bad backlight bleed and poor quality control. So what I wanted to know is whether or not to buy this or go for something else with the budget in mind. As well as can it be used with a dual monitor stand because I would be hoping to buy a second in the future if all goes well. Like I said before, not the most technical when it comes to this kinda stuff so any advice and guidance would be appreciated.