aka John Caesar

5 FPS max unless it's a 3090, then 6 FPS.
 
e.g. no noticeable difference.

Depends on the game, but usually losses are so minimal that it wont be easy to replicate without synthetic benchmarks.

https://www.techspot.com/review/2104-pcie4-vs-pcie3-gpu-performance/

Yeah thanks, I'm going to try and reach out to my local store monday, thanks 👍 

x470 Mainboards don't support 5000 series Ryzen CPUs out of the box, so unless ASUS has provided an updated BIOS and you have that BIOS installed, your CPU won't be recognized by the board. You'll probably need to find some older CPU to boot and update your BIOS, unless your Board has the possibility of booting without a CPU to perform a BIOS update.

As @Alvin853 has suggested, and you have confirmed, a bios update will be needed to support the 5600x.
I checked the mobo manual, and it looks like this specific board only supported the 2nd gen Ryzen out of the box, so if I was you, I'd track down a 2nd gen ryzen or older cpu, insert it, and update the bios to the latest versions. [v5809 or newer requred for 5600x support]
 
If you don't want to purchase a chip to do this, perhaps your local IT support will help you update the board, as they may have an older cpu sitting around.

Yeah, there should be no reason as to why it wouldn't be. 

Spot on, cheers dude, that's all I needed to know ? 

Awesome that's good to know, thanks my man ? 

Ok cool, thanks, but whilst I wait for more Coolent do you think it will be OK using JUST distilled water, no biocide etc, until new Coolent arrives?
 

Hi guys quick question I'm hoping this will be a quick easy one. I just wanna clear a couple off things up for peace of mind.
I am going to be flushing my system for the first time, as it has turned a tint of yellow within a few months.
I believe this to be because I did not flush the system adequately on first install and somthing has leached from the soft tubing.
I used XSPC uv clear fluid, I have another bottle on the way and I was wondering if I can get away with using distilled water for a few days without a kill coil?
This is my pump/res XSPC Photon 270 Tube Reservoir with D5 Vario Pump V2 SATA https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074G47CYK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_sSqEDbD334WV4
Now I have read a bunch of stuff saying distilled is all I need, but I don't think I can actually get a kill coil in this and if I did I wouldn't get it back out again as it looks like a sealed unit.
 
Thanks in advance. 

Kill Coils are actually pointless. You will be fine running straight distilled water for a few days to flush the system before your new coolant arrives. 

Probably, might want to flush it before adding the new stuff, but you wont hurt anything running just distilled for a week or 2.

See, this brings me back to my point. It’s all about the bleeding edge, brand new tech. I buy my phones outright every year and then just have a Sim Only deal. It’s flexible for me and the monthly cost is a lot lower. 
 
Xbox will at least have a powerful console. Xbox Anaconda is that console. I’m not a fan of streaming. I have a 400Mb connection so it’s not problem but native processing with extra cloud processing sure, but I don’t want added latency, even if it’s small. Plus compression will hurt image and sound quality. 
 
Again, Xbox does not have a whole host of titles at 4K 60. It’s hardware just cannot do it. The PS4 Pro has lesser power still. 
 
I see, sounds good enough but remember, when you go best GPU, you ideally need the absolute best CPU or one part will hold back the other. 
 
But still, the point still stands, with gaming, it’s so varied because it can depend heavily on the developer and game optimisation for PC hardware but also what kind of processing within the game is going on and how demanding that will be on hardware available today. 
 
With the absolute best games, bleeding edge graphics, it’s normal to need a gen or two ahead of what we have to achieve certain solid levels. 
 
But the vast majority can run at 1440p 100-144Hz in Single Player and absolutely maxed out 1440p 144Hz in MP. 

Yeah maybe next generation, personally I use a 165hz 1440p monitor with my 8700k and 1080ti both slightly overclocked and haven't had a negative experience, most esports and competitive games like CS:GO, R6:Siege, Rocket league and some other titles I get close to or over my 165hz, CS:GO is usually in the 280fps mark but that's for most mid to high end systems. AAA games like RE:2 Remake and Metro Exodus as well as Shadow of The Tomb Raider  are in the 80-90s with some jumps up above 100fps depending on the area on max settings, but I haven't had a title that has been below 60fps, honestly never really had one go below 70fps unless it was poorly optimized.

Ok I'm just going to repeat some of the other people that have already responded to you. 144fps plus is fantastic for esports games like CS:GO, Rocket League, R6 Siege, etc. Basically the only games where 144fps makes an actual difference are competitive esports or shooter type multiplayer titles where it can give you an advantage over other players and make your reaction times as quick as possible and for the most part those games are already on engines and optimized perfectly to run at high refresh rates and high FPS. AAA graphically demanding titles benefit from high refresh rates in terms of smoothness, as long as you're over 75fps with a high refresh rate monitor you're golden. The 2080ti kills almost every esports game at over 144fps closer to 200fps with a good CPU and at 1440p, but more graphically demanding titles at 1440p it drops down a bit but is still one of the best cards on the market and no matter what game you're playing at a high refresh rate and 1440p you're not going to notice anything negative. Do I think the 2080tis are worth $1200 plus? Hell no. But they're still the one of the best on the market and have some of the best frame rates at higher resolutions. 

Three on the back are outtakes, I have two intakes one either side at the front. They cab be seen in the second and third image. 

Well, it's not. And I very much doubt you'll be able to tell a difference between 120fps and 144fps as much as you would between 60Hz and 144Hz screen, even if at lower framerate. The thing is, with 144Hz screen, if anything is off and it's running at 60Hz for whatever reason, I can instantly spot something is wrong. Even mouse cursor movement feels totally off at 60Hz.

Thanks for that, when I first built my system I belive the the R7 1700 was my best choice atm time, value for money wise, I purchased it from an online store on credit and the selection of cpu's wasnt that great at the time. So I committed to an AM4 platform. I later upgraded when the 2700x came out, by returning the old one.
 
That video though is an eye opener, I could barely see any noticeable difference, maybe some shadows. Thanks for that though, it changes my view totally.
 
So what are we talking, Shooter games at 144fps, lower settings.
Story kind of games and racing games, higher quality at lower fps. 

Btw, people think if you have a 144Hz monitor you need to run games at 144fps to use it. Well, that ain't true. If game runs at 120fps or 100fps you'll still have far better experience than on any 60Hz monitor. Not to mention it's harder to experience tearing although it's hardly an issue with Adaptive/Fast V-Sync...

If you wanted 1440p at 144hz on triple A games then forget about it as you've already started off with the wrong foot by choosing the Ryzen 7 2700X, see how far it can bottleneck a RTX 2080 Ti in comparison to Coffee Lake:

 
Because MAXING out the graphical settings on games at a high resolution of 1440p while expecting 144fps on every game is completely ludicrous to begin with, watch this video for better understanding how pointless these so called Ultra settings are on the great scheme of things:
In shorts if you're not fine tuning your in-game settings and just wants to MAX out everything then you're doing something wrong, the 2080 Ti is a beast that allows a hell lot of headroom but there's no miracles around extremely demanding settings that offers imperceptible improvements most of the time.

You are mixing two different use cases.
Stable 144 fps is a must for esport titles, nothing else.
You can achieve smooth and stable gameplay at much lower frame rates. If you want to play AAA with all the eye candies turned on, 144 fps is not a requirement.

Of course, we would all love to play games at 1440 (or better, at 4k!), 144fps with all eye-candies, that would be the dream... but the technology is not there yet.

Some specific components might benefit from cooler air hitting them, like VRM or the graphics card. You can use air diverters to make intake air blow over the board in a more focused way, but exhaust is pretty much exhaust so long as the hot air is moving toward the outlets and not stagnating inside the case.

this

People get caught up in airflow science all the time but all you really need to do..... is make air go in , and make air go out

So long as the air is being exchanged  , then you could quite literally put the fans anywhere.

Sure you can follow some basics like don't have hot radiator air blowing on the cpu and such , just don't overthink it