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Well I live in Czechia in Central Europe so I guess the 100+ USD is part of the taxes and margins of the resellers here, but for the love of god I could not find it cheaper ... About the cooler I was worried if the box cooler would be enough ... it this is the case, I would go with it and see, I do not plan to overclock it for him now, maybe later About graphics, I was able to found 5700 XT (Gigabyte Gaming OC model) for around 483 USD (guess the taxes are picking up again). How big is the difference between RTX 2070 Super and 5700 XT ? I don't care about streaming now, just raw gaming performance To Stu_Bear: Not really, just a plain normal RTX 2070 that doesn't look like it would not cool itself ... I guess taxes are the real a-holes

Hi guys, don't know if I do it right, but I want to be sure about this because it is not a small investment and because it's for a friend, i don't want to f it up My friend right now has a budget gaming PC from 2 years back with specs: MB: Gigabyte B350M-Gaming 3 CPU: Ryzen 3 1200 RAM: 1x8GB Kingston HyperX 2133 MHz (I think, maybe its 2400) GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti Windforce 4GB PSU: EVGA 550B or 650B (not sure there) SSD+HDD: 250GB WD Blue SATA M.2 + 1TB SATA HDD 7200rpm Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 Monitor: Single 1080p 144Hz It was sufficient up until know, but with the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 (I know, it was delayed) he wants to upgrade. Goal is AAA titles on 1080p High-Ultra details with 80+ FPS with possibility of 1440p 60+ FPS at least High details. Budget is around 1200€ (1300 USD). Right now the things in shopping cart are: Ryzen 7 3700X - 390 USD 2x8GB Kingston HyperX 3200MHz - 88 USD Gigabyte Geforce RTX 270 Super 8GB Windforce 3X - 615 USD Phanteks Eclipse P350X - 79 USD Be Quiet! Dark Rock 4 - 70 USD Right now I am thinking about giving him a few bucks more so he can upgrade the MB for something like Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite (107 USD) or lowering the budget with Ryzen 5 3600 (233 USD), but I am kinda worried it would be a potential bottleneck. What are your thoughts about this?

Hi guys, I have been scouring internet for hours and I can't get to the answer or even if it is a good idea. My friend gave me a notebook for repair (ASUS X751LJ with i3-5005U and GT 920M) because her Ethernet doesn't work and because she wanted an SSD instead of HDD. I did change SSD, flashed new BIOS (707), restore defaults and reinstall Windows but Ethernet wasn't there - it was even not showing up as device. I tried changing everything in BIOS, even the lock/unlock buttons to negatives of what I wanted but nothing. After that I decided I will check the MB for scorch mark after surges or something but it was fine - no damage. But on the MB was Asus X751LD rev 2.5 I tried flash X751LD but it won't allow me. I there any way to flash X751LD to X751LJ BIOS without some mods or special equipment and on the other hand ... Will it help in any way ? Thanks for everything

Phew, you saved my bacon, thank you kind sir! I was worried I screwed up heavily with this selection ... Today I plan to test it so we will see.

Hi guys, kinda ran into an unexpected issue. I'm building a budget gaming PC for a friend and this is what I ended with: Motherboard: MSI B450 GAMING PLUS CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G RAM: 2x8GB ADATA GAMMIX 3000MHz SSD: Samsung 860 EVO SATAIII 250GB HDD: WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 570 NITRO+ 4GB PSU: EVGA 500B Case: Fractal Design Focus G Everything is working and looks like a fine gaming PC for me, but I ran something that pisses me off. When I changed something in BIOS, I noticed that my PCIe slot with graphics card is running only at 8x instead of full 16x like everywhere else. After looking to manuals and spec sheets, I found this on manufacturer's website: My question is: Will x8 speed on my PCIe limit the GPU so much I will not be able to play online games such as Fortnite, League of Legends, World of Tanks etc. at reasonable FPS ? I know Ryzen 5 2600 will be a sweet spot but budgets are budgets ... I can try to swap it for something like Ryzen 3 1200 or something along those line but that would mean a better cooler for OC which means more money.

OK, probably I managed to find a way to squeeze some better AIO and i7 in there through some discount etc. But another question appears ... Fractal Design Celsius S24 or Corsair H100i V2 ? Celsius is a little bit cheaper (131 USD compared to 149 USD for Corsair) but is it good tho ? I saw a lot of good reviews but god knows if it is true

With the Optane Memory, that is actually a really cool idea - saw Linus doing some testing on that in recent videos, so that would be a way, maybe a much better one As for PSU goes - I already have Single Sleeved cables from Corsair for their RMx/RMi/SF series PSU (wanted to use them with SF PSU I had but did not do that so they stayed untouched). That is why I wanted to go with this specific PSU. As far as wattage goes, I read really good reviews on this piece and difference between 550 and 750W from this series is somewhere around 10 USD and I would rather have some headroom then running into troubles. Still you have a point so I will look up if I can get a 8700k somehow in there, maybe I will buy a normal SSD instead of NVMe, that would save me a few bucks Is there any difference in normal usage in SATA vs NVMe ? I know speeds are much slower, but is it noticable ?

I am worried about temps only if I will be going Intel K route. As far as I know, AMD does not have much problems with overheating if you have at least half-decent cooler (which I will have) and do not push it too hard for too long (gaming and streaming are not this kind of overload). Right now I am thinking of the AMD path with ASRock B450M Pro4 and Ryzen 5 2600. Do you think it will be enough to not take too much performace hit comparing to Intel and is 2600 good or should I go 2600X (I will buy aftermarket cooler anyway) ? Because of the Cooler Master cooler, I plan to OC the Ryzen CPU atleast to 4 GHz on all cores. Hope I do not expect too much from it

Kinda missed this one ... but yeah, it looks good and I can work with that neutral color ... Kinda thinking even about that AMD version, but I am still kinda shaken from the first experience and also kinda worried I will take that performance hit compared to Intel version ... But I must admit, AMD overclocks like a champ without too much effort.

Ok, but I couldn't find any H370 board that I like from aesthetic angle of view. Do you think combo of i7-8700 and B360 would be fine with only 1 GPU and a single M.2 NVMe SSD ?

I thought about this option, but had a little bit rocky experience with Ryzen 1st Gen and also I am a little bit afraid I will be slower in most games compared to Intel. But maybe Ryzen 5 2600 with some B450/X470 Mobo would not be a bad idea. I would rather get something with overclocking potential for some future-proofing (don't plan to upgrade this for atleast 2 years). Well, most of the time I play mediocre esport games like Dota 2, Starcraft 2 etc. but sometimes I like to change it a little but to Wolfenstein (planning to get my hands on New Colossus), DOOM, XCOM2 and I really want to play the Cyberpunk 2077 when it will be released

Hi everyone, kinda new here so bear with me a little bit I am from Czechia and work as a IT Administrator and have done a few builds, but even after a lot of researching I would like a little more opinions about my build. Here is the part list: Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini TG PSU: Corsair RM750x MB: MSI Z370M Mortar CPU: Intel Core i5-8600K RAM: 2x8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 2666MHz Cooling: Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L RGB (will swap fans for Noctua NF-S12A Chromax) GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070Ti from Gainward (used from miner, but in perfect shape for a bargain) SSD: Samsung 960 EVO M.2 NVMe 250GB HDD: Will keep my old 2TB WD Green for now, but maybe will swap for something else, more like 1TB WD Black Fans: Noctua all the way (2x NF-A14 PWM, 1xNF-F12 PWM and 2x NF-S12A ... all in Chromax for atleast some color matching) Reason for this is color matching to Red/Black(Grey) color and MicroATX because of size, because I don't like too big computers and I don't think it will hurt the budget to go a little smaller ... I also have single sleeved cables for Corsair RMx series PSUs, hence this model. But here is the big question: I can stretch my budget to the fullest and go for Core i7-8700K, but is it worth it ? I will be mostly playing games at 1080p 60Hz monitor (maybe later upgrade to high refresh rate monitor), occasionally stream it but that's everything for now. Maybe because of my work, I would test some OS and servers in VirtualBox but that will be for a short period of time and not all the time. I will be happy for all the opinions or advices how to optimise this build to the fullest. Budget is around 1300 USD, not counting the GPU i got for 370 USD (calculating it from CZK if you are curious) which is kinda bargain by my opinion. Thank you very much