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Thanks for that, Worked straight away.

Mystic Light is garbage. Use it only to control your RAM RGB because that's the only possible way to do it because MSI is dumb. For everything else, use OpenRGB. And if you don't have to use Mystic Light for your RAMs then uninstall that bloatware as fast as you can and just keep OpenRGB.

I ended up getting a ASUS Prime Z690 Board that was  on sale. Not sure if I am going to try and overclock it yet.

Z690 Steel Legend by Asrock and Z790 Prime lineup by Asus. If you wanna redline that budget you can also check Tomahawk Wifi by MSI (and its Pro cousin), and also the Gigabyte Aero. NZXT N5 would be an honorable mention but its a biostar OEM which means you also have to deal with biostar BIOS.
 
But of course, i have to throw caveat of the fact that overclocking 12th and 13th gen Intel is an absolute sucky endeavor even on ideal conditions of good cooler, good case airflow, and a contact frame. So only do it if you need power unlock so you can tweak it to go lower to achieve theoretical better power consumption. Which really by that point you really should consider AM5 instead, but of course with that you gonna need to go DDR5 which would considerably increase the platform cost.

Hi buddy,
 
If all you were interested in was Blender or Tarkov performance, then I'd be telling you to upgrade your CPU but as I still have a gaming PC on an 8700k I decided to see how Cyberpunk played. I can confirm that the 8700k @ 5Ghz paired with a 1080ti on the high pre-set setting averaged 60fps on the nose at 1440p. I then benched it on my 8086k @ 5.1Ghz which is paired with a 2080ti at the same resolution and settings and got that up to 75fps.
 
An 8700k will certainly become the bottleneck if you're trying to push high fps at lower resolutions (1080p) but since games like Cyberpunk and GTA are more eye candy couch / lazy gaming experiences then 60fps is a perfect target that even a modest upgrade for your GPU could handle.
 
Since I'm in the same boat as yourself, I'm happy with my 8700k, 8086k and 9900k and am yet to feel a great need to upgrade any of my CPUs. My advice would be to spend your cash on the GPU.

The 8600K would bottleneck any card significantly stronger than the 1070Ti you already have. Consider it a Ryzen 3500X.
An i7 8700K would do better, like a Ryzen 3600X. But not a lot better.
The i9 9900K should be considered on pair or stronger than a Ryzen 7 3800X, maybe close to the 5700X. That would do.
But with the prices of a used i9 9900K, you're better building a whole new platform (CPU+MBO if you're keeping the RAM).

Unless you get an amazing deal on the i9 9900k I’d probably just start from scratch. Even then, I’d still probably start from scratch.

its likely from the Mechanical drive. They are slow and inefficient when it comes to game load times. Putting it on an SSD should significantly help. 

Thanks, I think that might have solved it from changing from a USB2 Port to a USB 3. Seems to be working now

Thanks, I think that might have solved it from changing from a USB2 Port to a USB 3. Seems to be working now

Hi, I have bought a logitec g703 about 2 weeks ago. Like it so far though I have a strange problem when charging. I have had it on charge twice and it only will charge to 80 percent. No matter how long I leave it on charge it wont go past 80 percent according to the logitec software. Anyone else experience this?
Thanks

Yeah it's the latest version software and firmware. I think you might be right about a software bug though. I will reinstall tomorrow and see what happens.
Cheers.

This whole coffee lake deal is really getting annoying... I was lucky to find an i5 8400 in Thailand...but now no micro atx for it....
 
About the USB dongle? They work fine, been using them for years

Hey guys. I was thinking of upgrading to Coffee Lake soon though can someone tell me why there isn't that many motherboards with wifi built in. And the boards that have it are way expensive which isn't the case on other platforms.I know it is a new chipset though its not like wifi is a new technology? Any thoughts?

Oh thanks for the help man.

Maybe they need some lubrication? I have two case fans that is starting to softly rattle at lower speed than 100%, but they have about 2 years and I will open them soon to put some Light Machine Oil Lub.
 
Here`s a Video:

I tried memtest and all was ok. I tried running without peripherals to. It can boot into safe mode though. I decided to try reinstalling windows. It is working so far. Not really sure what caused it. It is a really basic pc with not a lot of stuff connected.
I hope I don't run into this problem again.
Thanks

Let Me put it this way. How would you feel if someone came along and totaly stole one of your web designs. Would you still feel the same way?
Me thinks not.

Are here boobs in SLI or Crossfire?

Lol. Its not that old. It should run at 1920X1080

My personal favortite is always the next one :)

My personal favortite is always the next one :)