XeonKyle

Ok before everyone or owners of 9900k jump on me you got the wrong idea.  I love the 9900k and what it brings to the table for my beautiful Linus people.  8 cores 16 threads of 9th gen 5Ghz madness.  Here is where I say that if you call Samsung QLED a gimmick and OLED the real thing then I think 9900k is a gimmick as Intel has seen a huge ammount of their customers game on their machine.  So they call the 9900k a gamers dream CPU.  That is utter BS.  I have a 7 year old rig and many Linus people have older rigs and games run just fine on them.  Heck when I play AAA titles my avg cpu usage is 40 percent.  Of course it uses and sees all 12 threads and puts a little load on each of them but I play the heaviest VRAM usage game in Quake Champions takes up 7.8GB of VRAM where other AAA titles except for BF take up 4GB of ram or so.  The gamers CPU is a way for them to pull in customers.  Their gen before this like 7980XE or 8700k are perfectly fine for gaming and you wont miss a frame.  See the CPU only needs to do certain work then the rest falls on the GPU.  CPU just does calculations and AI and what not.  Once your CPU is powerful enough it doesnt matter if you have a 9900k special edition with 12 cores the frame rate is going to be the same.  The GPU is giving its all and will reach a certain fps ya know.  Basically once again God bless 9900k owners you are all lucky enjoy it,. But just know its not just a gaming CPU ... lol what a joke to call it that.  It can do video editing and 3d shit and DAW and breeze through it at 5Ghz 16 threads of i9 goodness.  Any this is my rant that a 9900k is not a gamers CPU,, Its everyones CPU.  Intel decided to target .... as they see theres milions and millions of gamers out there.  So how catchy to come out with a new sick CPU and call it the gamers CPU.  Anyhow Im done and it you read this far then you have done a good job.

yea i would chuck that out asap, go for a master watt 550 or something 

EVGA makes great power supplies, the G1 and G2 are excellent. It's best not to he brand loyal with power supplies, every company makes bad ones, like Corsair's green label CX units or VS series.
Check out the tier list, it'll help clarify things
 
As a rule of thumb @XeonKyle only use a PSU that has appropriate connectors for your device. Only having 6 PCIe power pins means the PSU is unsuitable for an 8 pin device

My first post here on the forum, thought I'd start with my build. I decided to build a whole new rig as an upgrade and I am super happy with it! ?
The performance of the new PC is leaps and bounds ahead of the old one and it looks so much nicer too. I didn't go super overkill with anything, just wanted something still high end that could handle all them frames!
Something I might have changed is upgrading to a Z series board and maybe an 8700k but I have no plans to overclock so I dunno? Either way I'm very happy with the results, had no issues along the way and the Lancool One was nice to build in and the use of magnets for some of the panels was super handy.
 
Upgrades:
Acer Predator XB271HU 27" 1440p 165hz IPS Display
Neewer NW-7000 USB Condenser Mic
AKG K92 Headphones
Lian Li Lancool One
Asus Strix H370-F
i7 8700
Asus ROG Ryuo 240 Cooler
Asus Strix 1070Ti
GSkill Trident Z 16GB
Samsung 970 Evo 250GB NVMe SSD
Corsair K70 RGB Keyboard
Logitech G502 Mouse
 
Salvaged parts:
Corsair RM1000 PSU (Overkill I know but my old system needed it)
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB SSD
Western Digital 580GB HDD
Hitachi 1TB HDD
Some random old Creative speakers I found lying around
 
Oh and the desk was a nice and cheap 2m table from Ikea I stuck some leds on for the backlight.

Slightly belated annual maintenance, but finished without anything going wrong.
 
- Upgraded 1950X --> 2990WX
- Upgrade TR4 block to a monoblock
- Re-bend some tubes
- Changed coolant to Navy
- Up my photography game since last year
 

 

Yes, you can. As long as the resistor is used between the splitter and the fan as opposed to between the splitter and power source, there should be no issue.