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Budget (including currency): Try to spend as little as possible Country: United Kingdom Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: This will be a 24/7 server for Linux, Docker, Plex, possibly NAS applications. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): So I took apart my old rig and I now have a i7-3770K + Stock Cooler, 16GB DDR3 RAM and a Gigabyte ATX GA-Z77-D3H motherboard. I now want to basically find: - A cheap but as compact as possible ATX case to put the parts in. - A suitable power supply that won't send my power bills through the roof, this rig will run 24/7 as a server. I can probably nick the remaining components from my other PC's, like HDD/SSD, etc. The biggest problem I have right now is the motherboard is ATX, so it's hard to find cheap small form factor cases. I don't really want to spend £200 on just a case.

So I'm in the exact same situation. Here in the UK the 4070 SUPER is going to be £579 reference and recently a deal came up for the reference 7800 XT at £444. Quite a big difference. It seems on YouTube there are a lot of side by side benchmark leaks for the 4070 SUPER and you can see the 7800 XT generally performs much better than even the 4070 SUPER. Ofcourse these are unofficial videos, nothing is confirmed, yet. But for me it's enough to give nvidia the middle finger this time, with their over priced, under performing cards and I went ahead and bought the 7800 XT. The 7800 XT also comes with more VRAM so will likely continue to perform better the higher the resolution becomes. My other rig has a 3080 Ti, which cost me £1049 and was definitely very over priced, considering it barely gave much of a performance uplift over the 3080. My 7800 XT arrives on Thursday.

Are you on Windows 11 by any chance? I have two rigs, one with a 3080 Ti and another with a 1060, I noticed the problem on both when I upgraded to Windows 11. The solution for me was to disable hardware accelerated GPU scheduling, now it's silky smooth and never noticed any performance issues https://www.makeuseof.com/hardware-accelerated-gpu-scheduling-disable-windows/

It's a nice problem to have, but trust me it sucks, imagine buying two of everything you need.

Good question, well the last 3770k system I built was 10 years ago and it's done me well, not really needed to upgrade it, but it has shown weaknesses in it's performance in recent years. However, last year I built a new system to replace it (with 5900X, 3080 Ti, 32GB DDR4) - it was expensive given all the stock shortages but the worst part is I now have two houses and the 3770k system is my only computer in one of them, unfortunately I spend most of time time using the 3770k system rather than my shiny new 5900X build. So the 3770k still needs to be updated but want this to be a lower spec / cheaper build as it's only a second PC, hence why it will be fine to last me another 10 years as I may upgrade the other one sooner.

I have an old Intel 3770k system that I was keen to update with 7600X. But looking at pricing of mobo, ram and the cpu itself compared to the not so strong performance increase vs intel / previous gen, I am now pretty unsure what to do. Will wait for Intel 13 gen release and decide, my new rig needs to get me through the next 10 years so DDR5 for sure.

Ooo nice, I like it! I think that will probably be my best bet for now. Unless I wait a month or two to see what AMD comes up with.

Maybe I wasn't clear, but the 1060 is not staying. I'm basically planning to update to a newer gen GPU next year and I know the CPU will be a bottleneck (as it already bottlenecks my 1060). Really what I am trying to spec up here is a mid tier, future proof initial upgrade of my PC. Then I will follow with GPU upgrade, monitor upgrade, keyboard upgrade, etc. So it's not about $300 smoother, it's more just renewing this tired 10+ year old machine slowly, as it's beginning to show issues. For example, currently I play COD at 1080p, on the lowest graphic settings and still get choppy playback and barely maintain 60 fps. I need to update the GPU but not logical to do that until that base PC is also upgraded. Thanks that spec seems good, but I was thinking more Intel this time around for DDR5 support? 12600K or 12700K? I was also looking on eBay and stuff and you can get 5900X's dirt cheap too, so another option for me may be to get another 5900X lol, but then I run into the trap of being stuck on DDR4 on it. I really think that's a bad idea as I probably want to upgrade this rig again in a 4-5 years time and would be awesome if I don't have to change the RAM (and maybe mobo too) when I do another CPU upgrade?

I have some old parts I'm upgrading, like my i7 3770k. I can't really get much by selling these parts, but makes me wonder, wouldn't it be cool to use them to build a NAS, rather than me fork out $500 for a specialised enclosure. Can you do a video where you use old parts to make a NAS, I'd love to see how and what's involved.

It's not, the 3770k is garbage (great when I got it 10 years ago). I know because when I put my 1060 in my other rig, it runs noticeably better frames. It's outdated and I need a new CPU, it's my bottleneck atm. Which is why I also need new RAM and Mobo too.

Have built a new system last year with 5900X + 3080 Ti. Unfortuntely, I barely get to use it and end up stuck using my old 3770k + GTX 1060 + DDR3 RAM most of the time when I'm gaming. So it's time to upgrade this old rig, but this time I am only looking to upgrade the CPU, Motherboard and RAM (will do GPU next year). I spent £2.5K on my last build, so I want this PC to be upgraded with cheaper parts, but still be future proof for more upgrades, i.e. I think it will be bad going for a DDR4 motherboard but I haven't kept up with things so not sure. Budget (including currency): My 5900X rig worked out around £850 for the three parts, so I guess I should aim for under £500? Happy to go higher if it's justified. Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Rainbow Six Siege, probably some flight sim (but will save that for the main rig), COD Other details Only need Motherboard, CPU and RAM for this. GPU most likely will eventually be like a 3/4060 Ti or 3/4070. Also, will be getting a 1440p 144hz monitor too.

Well it's built! Using my 1060 as a GPU at the moment. The cooler fits fine in this case with that RAM combo, with a finger gap at the top between the glass. The RGB is slightly pointless in that the cooler covers it lol. But I can still see it from different angles and it still look pretty damn cool. Hoping that will give it some good resale value.

Ok so I went ahead and opened up my PC case and damn I forgot how big the thing is lol, I have Corsair LP RAM in my current one and I have the cooler literally touching the top, didn't realise it's that tight. But I went and opened up my new PC case as well and it's much wider than my old PC. Fractal say you should be able to get 185 mm cooler height. Given Noctua say it's 165 mm that gives me 20 mm to play with. I measured it with the ruler and it seems with the motherboard I can probably even squeeze 190 mm cooler height from the case. Looking at the fan itself, you can mount it as high as you want really, there is no limitations, the cable is long enough. The only limitation you will reach is how wide your case is. Since my case is designed to be able to install GPU's vertically, it's extra wide so think I will be ok in this case. Another observation is that you can actually take the fan off from the side of the RAM and move it to the other side. Then if you flip both fans around you got the same setup but the RAM becomes fully clear and you got that full RGB view. I found a picture of this online as well, in a smaller version of my case: EDIT: I couldn't find the picture again but it's been done! lol

For now... lol By the way, do you have any reference to the 40 mm rule for the second fan on the D15? Can't seem to find it on Noctua's website, going to do some measuring with my current D15 in this rig later as you got my curious. If I must I may just return the RAM and swap it out with non-RGB as I like having double fans!

CAS 17, the other option was CAS 16 3200, the 17/3600 combo is slightly better. EDIT: Good point on the SSD, I figured their 980 Pro is BS, even the endurance rating has dropped to 600 TBW, I wouldn't be surprised if they swapped it out to QLC at some point on the down low (just like Crucial did with the P2). My original was a Sabrent Rocket 1TB PCI4 (non plus version). Which cost more, was out of stock from all the reputable resellers, had lower top read/write speeds and their UK support is very poor from what I heard. To add, the Samsung 980 Pro came at a very good price on Amazon prime day, so I decided to buy that instead rather than wait for the Sabrent.