Ryukadin

Tbh, I'm not entirely sure if I'm even going to keep the stock fans yet, as for the connector, it looks like it's designed for daisy chaining RGB components.

Yep, I have it, why?

Oh wait, did you mean, do I have the 3 pin RGB headers or the 4 pin ones? I'm running the ASUS Rog Crosshair VIII, it has the Addressable RGB headers which are the 3 pin ones.

Not 100% sure, but if it comes with the case I should have it. I have a hole saw and a Dremel tool, but I don't want to take chances on possibly messing up the look of the case unless it's necessary.

Yes, and I haven't put the system together just yet so I'm not entirely sure how much of a gap there is between the top of the PSU and the shroud.

I'm running a Phanteks P500A case with an Asus Rog Thor Power supply. The power supply has a top facing exhaust and I don't want to install it upside down for Aesthetic purposes but the PSU shroud on the P500A is not removable nor has any opening for air flow above the PSU as it's designed for PSU's that have the exhaust on the bottom. My question is: Will this cause thermal problems with the PSU if mounted upright?

Yes, I was looking at RAM with an XMP profile set at 1.5v, sorry for not clarifying.

This is a bit of a gap in my knowledge. How much do temperatures increase between 1.35v and 1.5v and what kind of cooling solution would I need to run 1.5v RAM?

At this point I'm thinking my best bet may be to just grab the first RTX capable card I can get my hands on and swap it out later if needed/desired. Can always sell it and recoup some of the money spent. Availability seems to be a massive issue right now.

I wouldn't exactly call it "imaginary" or "random" given that Gigabyte accidently leaked that they have a 3080 20gb / 3070 16gb on the back burner. If I had to guess I'd say they're waiting for AMD to announce their Radeon 6000's and then they release them as an answer to it. And I could go with an AMD big Navi card, but I'd lose G-Sync on my monitor as mentioned above so I'm a bit hesitant to do that.

It's not that 10GB isn't enough so much as that it's cutting it close. Certain games currently use around 8GB at 4k max settings which is what I intend to run at, so it's not unreasonable to assume that future titles within the next 2 years or so could reach or exceed 10. I can sub in my 1080ti for the time being but I'd really like to use real time ray tracing with HDR and hopefully sometime before next year. I guess my biggest concern would be if I manage to find a 3080 in stock and buy it and then like 3 days later they announce a 3080 super.

As of right now I have a full system put together with the exception of a CPU (which I'm waiting on November 5th for) and a Graphics card which I haven't been able to get. Specs: CPU: Ryzen 9 5900x (when it releases) CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken Z73 360mm Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair VIII RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo 3200mhz CL14 (14,14,14,34) Storage: 2 x 2TB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 M.2 NVME Case: Phanteks P500a digital PSU: Asus ROG Thor 850w Graphics Card: Possibly 3080 Super? I'm looking to run this system with a 4k 120-144hz monitor (dual monitors but the other is 2k 144hz) Like almost everyone else I wasn't able to get a 3080, I thought about a 3090 but couldn't justify the $800 price difference with only a 10% performance boost. As of right now I'm not entirely sure what I should do in terms of the graphics card. I feel like 10gb of VRAM is a little low given that even my current 1080ti has 11. I've heard rumors that a 20gb version is coming out but no ETA on it. There's also Big Navi but my monitor is G-Sync and wouldn't have that functionality with an AMD card. It'd seem I'm not getting a new graphics card before December at this rate regardless, anyone have any suggestions?

All good points. My thinking was to the best of my knowledge the only downside is that if one drive fails than the other loses all data, and in my experience SSDs tend to be pretty reliable, they lose some capacity overtime to bad sectors from rewriting too many times but I've never had one outright fail, so it seemed to be a free performance boost. That said, I was already leaning to the side of keeping them separate volumes and just wanted some second opinions so thanks for the feedback.

I have two Sabrent Rocket 4.0 M.2 NVME SSDs. I plan to use them with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900x on an Asus ROG Crosshair VIII motherboard. The only question that remains is... should I just let them remain two separate volumes, or should I put them in RAID 0?

I'm leaning more toward quality than performance for the most part given that I rarely play competitive games but when I do I can just turn down the quality for more frames. I just don't want dips below 60fps when maxed out.