shea99

Sounds like an issue thats been reported quite often recently according to an advisor from microsoft, however they cant conclude that its a known issue atm stupidly. Guess ill have to stick to hogwarts legacy for the time being 😅 thanks for the help all

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PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor £164.90 @ AWD-IT CPU Cooler Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler £49.99 @ AWD-IT Motherboard ASRock B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard £77.98 @ Amazon UK Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory £61.99 @ Amazon UK Storage Western Digital Green 240 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive £27.40 @ BT Shop Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £34.38 @ Aria PC Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB OC Video Card £201.79 @ CCL Computers Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £79.98 @ Amazon UK   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total £698.41   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-25 00:50 BST+0100   rx 5700
PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor £164.90 @ AWD-IT CPU Cooler Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler £49.99 @ AWD-IT Motherboard ASRock B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard £77.98 @ Amazon UK Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory £61.99 @ Amazon UK Storage Western Digital Green 240 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive £27.40 @ BT Shop Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £34.38 @ Aria PC Video Card Asus Radeon RX 5700 8 GB DUAL EVO OC Video Card £342.90 @ Amazon UK Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £79.98 @ Amazon UK   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total £839.52   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-25 00:51 BST+0100   Although that 5700 may stretch his budget beyond what he wants as he also needs peripherals but im fine with sorting them they are a seperate budget
 
This is what he showed me that he saw btw https://www.amazon.co.uk/ADMI-Gaming-PC-Package-Illuminated/dp/B018GTOCYG/ref=pd_ybh_a_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1VTT3KXQJ8Q15WA333RF

Change the cooler to a hyper 212 evo. Its quieter, less chance of breaking/failure and will offer similar if not better performance
 
With the extra £15 saved from the cooler, get a better kit of ram from amazon. Also, buy the 240gb ssd from amazon too, itll be cheaper.
 
Finally, change the PSU. Those EVGA BR's are fire hazzards waiting to happen

The hardware is more than enough for a home storage server. Mine has worse specs than that and it works perfectly.
 
As for the software I'd recommend a light Linux distribution (really whichever you prefer, if you don't want to touch it much then something like Debian would be ideal); you can use samba to make the storage drive accessible within the network. If you also want to stream movies through DLNA you can use ReadyMedia, it works very well for me and it's very light on your system.

That's a good enough deal that I kind of desire to be in the UK at the moment.
 
According to Pcpartpicker at the moment that deal shaves roughly £142 from the price.

How old and what has been its use? Why are they selling it? Can they prove it boots ? Need to ask these questions otherwise thats extremely reasonable 

I would be leery about them asking for £1000 less than when it was new, especially just after four months. If you can get them to tell you why they're selling and even why for such a low price and see if it lines up then I would go for it but something just seems a bit off. If it was maybe £500 off then I wouldn't be as cautious myself.

Awesome! Congrats! Good luck.

@Ryujin2003 @programmer @wasab
thanks guys ive managed to get it to work now

Thanks will watch these 

Res: EK 250 RGB
 
pump: RGB Plexi
 
Monoblock: There’s an RGB one compatible with Asus Strix Z370 and Z270 boards.
 
GPU Full-Cover: There’s an RGB one that is compatible with Asus Strix 1080 TI cards. I think there’s one for their 1080, too.

Just use RGB, if you wanna go Logic. He’s colorful, ya know. ?

The Meshify C can hold 3x 2.5" drives behind the motherboard tray. So worst case scenario use that, otherwise M.2 are your options. But yes, if you use a 360, wave goodbye to the 3.5" drive cage.
 
You can take a look at my Meshify C and Define C build for ideas. IF you're only putting in 1 graphics card then on top of the basement is a good place for the pump/res.

^assuming you replace the Intel mayonnaise with liquid metal.

I like this method, if you can afford it, get a $100-$200 pair of high quality cans and a studio mic to go along with it for $200-$300 total.

@mikat, the i5-7400 does exist, https://ark.intel.com/products/97147/Intel-Core-i5-7400-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz. Check bullet point spec is wrong, check the Specification tab of the Newegg page.
 
@Rikudosenin, an i3-8100 is a little better than the i5-7400. 6GB of memory is not generally considered sufficient for gaming but is enough for general use.

@mikat
 
I suggested that you check the Specifications tab of the Newegg.com page. The Processor entry shows "7th Gen Intel Core i5-7400 processor".
 
A search for HP 870-224, the HP part number turns up https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/omen-by-hp-870-200/13687063/model/15741160/document/c05389962. It also lists the i5-7400 as the cpu.
 
Obviously use of "i5-1075T" is a mistake. Model numbers of this format were not used for the 1st generation of Intel Core cpu.

Small note to add, the 1080 was discontinued and replaced with the 1088 (almost the exact same case)  Highly recommended for being the smallest case ATM

I would. Already have too. Dont care how it was ran aslong as it’s clean. 

https://www.ekfluidgaming.com here is the EK website, you can just add a 360 and then you will be(should be) fine with both of them overclocked
 
But then you might run out of tubing lenght so maybe need a bit of soft tubing as well
 
But you can go with the 240g kit and the 360 expansion kit, you could also add a second 240mm if it fits into your budget better, but i would reccomend a 360 with an 8700k
 
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/RKFD3b this would be all in a pc partpicker list

If you want you could choose the ekwb kit without the gpu block to get into it and then upgrade later. you just have to pay attention to use aluminium parts. 
 
also when you do that, you would also need fluid for the loop (anti growth anti corrosion) like the ekwb cryo fuel
 
you either have to configure the loop yourself, or stick with the alu kit, or with the aio progress
 
But for a 8700k (or 8600k overclocked) and a 1070 the 240mm rad isn't enought, you say around 240mm per component, 280mm if overclocked @shea99

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Cd3YJ8 this would be without a monitor, for that I would go with a 1080p 144hz low latency (1ms) monitor...maybe with gsync if you can find one that fits in you budget. 
 
With a 1070 you could alos consider a 1440p 100-60hz monitor with low latency and mybe gsync (if you can find one that fits into your budget
 
All of this is my personal opinion

Depending on the interest of the son, I would get a GT 1030 or GTX 1050 to put in that system and keep the R9 380.  GTX 1050 Ti is not worth $200+.

Hadnt properly considered this and not going to lie i do agree more with your point than my own now. Miners are just the devil atm