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So, I just got my first PC and I want to show my sibling how much faster this PC is compared to my old laptop. Can anyone please suggest any software which can show visual difference in the CPU and GPU performance. I do not want to use any benchmarking software which just displays number in the end. renderTimingPixel.png

I originally posted this in another topic I thought was related but it was never answered there, so I decided to start a new one for this specifically. This is something I've been wondering for quite a while, and I haven't been able to find any good information on it elsewhere yet. Take the 2 below separate system configurations. In both cases, the CPU has a total of 20 PCIe lanes, 16 of which would obviously be used by the GPU: 1) Single NVMe drive (PCIe 4.0 x4 mode) direct to CPU for everything -or- 2) NVMe drive (PCIe 4.0 x4 mode) direct to CPU for OS, and NVMe drive (PCIe 3.0 x4 mode) via Z590 chipset for games. Assuming the total storage would be the same for both configurations (2TB vs. 1TB + 1TB) and all other hardware is the same, what would the difference in system performance be between the 2 configurations? I've been thinking that having separate drives would eliminate the possible bottleneck of the drive's read/write limits when trying to do OS and game tasks simultaneously, but would the second drive in config 2 be more limited by using PCIe 3.0 or other bottlenecks in the system and actually turn out perform worse than just one drive for everything?

I'm currently running the BenQ EX2780Q in HDR on Win10 (per dp) primarily for gaming and digital illustration. As many other, I encounter problems caused by Windows, so I began to wonder if changing to a monitor with higher color depth would improve my image quality, like HDR does, as well as not having to deal with Window's poor implementation of HDR. I know that HDR displays encode the image differently to how a generic monitor encodes, but monitors for artists and professionals with 32 Bits of color depth are there for a reason. How would my image quality and experience differ from what I have now? Does a monitor with 12 Bits (no HDR) do the same as an HDR monitor? Thanks in advance BenQ EX2780Q specs Size 27" Screen Area 23.49 x 13.22" / 596.736 x 335.664 mm Panel Type IPS-Type LCD Resolution 2560 x 1440 Aspect Ratio 16:9 Pixels Per Inch 109 ppi Maximum Brightness 350 cd/m2 Contrast Ratio 1000:1 DCR 20,000,000:1 Refresh Rate 144 Hz FreeSync Bit Depth 10-Bit (1.07 Billion Colors) VESA-Certified DisplayHDR 400 Color Gamut 95% DCI-P3 Response Time 5 ms (GtG) Viewing Angle (HxV) 178 x 178° T̴͙̠̆h̸̢͇͆͠͝e̸͔̼̯̽̐̂ ̷͖̦͗͜R̶͔̯̈̑͘i̸̝̠͇̓́̒g̸̡̨͔͘ GTX 1080 (schutup I get to the 144fps in some games...) i7-7700 32GB DDR4 RAM MSI PcMate h270 Windows 10 Pro 64bit

Hi, So i have been having issues with my 8 month old ryzen 5800x and a kraken m22 (120mm) AIO cooler. It's a new pc and my first build. When i first installed it i checked the cooler posted maximum temps of 85C - 88C (when i ran ryzen master "apply and test" button) and the profile i set to was "Auto OC" in the basic ryzen master control panel. (I dont know much about OC and i was happy with gaming performance). Fast forward a few weeks and i noticed a few instances of stuttering in warzone. I thought maybe my cpu was running too hot and it's a case of thermal throttling. So i opened up the case dusted the fans and it didn't fix it. So i decided to change my thermal paste. I did that and no luck so i did it again and again (3 times). So i can say its definetely not an issue of thermal paste gone bad or applied improperly. So i tested it again with same profile ("Auto OC") idle temps were 45 to 50c so i was happy with that. Under load it went to 91C but remained there with clock frequency of around 4300Mhz to 4500Mhz. My fps in warzone was normal after playing for around 20 mins. I experimented with manual settings trying to limit voltage but i mostly met with crashes so i reset the profile back to "Auto OC". So i had no choice but live with these temps. Fast forward two weeks. I noticed after 5 mins of gaming fps drops from mid 100s to 80s 90s. And even more so after that. I checked the ryzen master again while gaming and saw that the clock frequency was 2300MHz to to 2500MHz and the temp was still 90C. So i restarted my PC and tried the ryzen master test again. This time i set the time for test to 2 mins . Within 2 mins the clock speed goes from 4500Mhz to 3500Mhz and even below. The temps never drop so i guess that is precison boost trying to maintain it's temp by underclocking my cpu. With cinebench it's even worse where clock speeds drop to around 2500Mhz. I checked my PUMP speed and its running at around 4300 rpm. I put my handon the radiator portion. It was warm. I don't really know what else i can do to check if it's faulty. Is this happening because i tried to do manual undervolting. I am pretty sure i reset it back to "auto OC" in the ryzen master. So any other suggestions of how i might have messed it up would be much appreciated. What should i do. Should i try to report this to NZXT and get the pump replaced or is my cpu faulty? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi. I'm an avid csgo palyer, and i'm wondering why my fps seems to be slightly worse while playing at a resolution of 1024x768 compared to 1280x960 (The two most common resolutions among pro players). I have an RTX 2060, a Ryzen 5 2600x and 16 GB of DDR4 ram clocked at 2666 MHz, and could my relatively new hardware negatively affect performance on lower resolutions?

Recently switched to PC and been battling to get the most out of my rig: i7-3770 GTX 1660 Super 24 GB 1333 MHz RAM MSi ZH77A-G43 motherboard 980 GB Kingston SSD 1 TB Western Digital HDD Finally achieved optimal performance without spending a dime extra. Here's how: 1. Run a Windows 10 debloater to clear the decks of unwanted garbage. 2. Check your RAM is dual channel (2x 4 GB sticks in the correct slots is empirically faster than 1x 8 GB stick etc.) 3. Download CCleaner and activate for 14 day trial. Run every service under every tab available. Make sure drivers are all updated and keep trying to push updates through if they fail - they should all eventually work. 4. Go online and make sure you got the latest graphics card drivers of your choice (usually Game Ready). 5. Make sure your operating system is running from an SSD (if you don't have one, even a quarter terabyte will do and they're relatively inexpensive these days) 6. Try get your game/games of choice all installed on SSD if possible. 7. If you're like me, then probably no extra cash for cooling. Cooling is more or less essential, especially in warmer climates. I reappropriated some old fans out dead PC's, all plugged into my MoBo and keep the side panel off while gaming. PC is on a surface top (chest of drawers) near a window with an old fan my dad gave me sending cool air from the window through to the PC. Sounds overkill but I rarely get temps above 55-60 C under heavy lifting so it works 8. If you can use Nvidia Control Panel and switch the handling of all colour on screen to your GPU, do it. Windows 10 sucks at HDR but your GPU doesn't. 9. Download and run PixelClock Patcher to remove software restrictions on your GPU. No, this wont hurt it. Yes, you should get 10-15 fps more, even on high end GPU's. (20-25 fps extra for me, same jump on a friend's 2070 Super). Needs to be patched after each driver update. 10. Download, install then run Malware Bytes Scanner. Malware slows everything down, especially while gaming. This should keep performance stable. 11. Install the Prio extension for Task Manager and when you run your game, tab across to it. Select your game .exe and set priority to 'realtime'. Now whatever your game wants, it gets from the system before everything else. Do this with all your games once to set the rules. 12. Install Razer Cortex, do the system boost and try launch all your games from it. In the options for the game boost, check everything so everything gets turned off while you're gaming. If you followed this whole list then run CCleaner again and reboot your PC. Can even uninstall MB Scanner and just keep the install .exe for next time, same with Pixel Clock Patcher. There's also overclocking of course. MSi Afterburner is the best tool for this. Word of warning though, what might work in benchmarking might not be stable enough for gaming. Prepare to temper your expectations, even if you think you have won the silicon lottery. I can only push 180 MHz on my core and 800 MHz on the memory. Would drop a word on Integer Scaler and batch commands but you're unlikely to need those unless your rig is underpowered or you plan on modding up retro games. As for in-game settings, each game is different and some are optimised well while others really aren't. Some rules of thumb though: - lighting effects eat frames - volumetrics (clouds, fog etc) eat lots of frames - shadows eats frames (usually not much difference between low/med/hi, only ultra) - aliasing eats frames (TAA looks best but is hungry) - level of detail eats frames (same rules as shadows) Try tuning the above in the first instance and if all else fails, just set everything to low and start bumping things one by one, process of elimination style. If you make sure you got RivaTuner Statistics running with monitoring options in Afterburner for CPU usage, GPU usage, CPU temp, GPU temp, average frames and memory usage checked, you'll have all the telemetry you need to see if temps are destabilising things or if a bottleneck exists in your CPU or GPU. Sorry for the essay. There's more but I'm writing this on my phone and pretty sure you can find tutorials on overclocking and upgrading components that will be far more entertaining and enlightening than I can offer here

So in my PC I have 4 storage drives: - 500GB NVMe M.2 - Boot Drive and some programs - 1GB NVMe M.2 - Frequently Played games and some programs - 2x 2TB (4TB total) HDD in RAID 0 - Non-frequently played games Before someone hammers me on RAID 0 - games are easily re-downloadable and it's not storing any important data. So the question is if I were to compress the entire RAID 0 volume, would it increase read/write performance if I had a good CPU to (de)compress the files? With the files being compressed, I feel like the HDD having to read from / write to a smaller physical area of data to which my CPU can (de)compress on the fly that it would actually improve overall performance from the HDD's perspective, with the CPU having to work a bit harder to work with the data. I understand that this could a case-by-case situation, so I am just asking in general terms if it makes any sense to do so. I don't need the space right now, so that is not the purpose of the drive compression. It's purely for performance reasons. My setup is as follows: i9-10900KF 32GB RAM running XMP 3200 MHz ASUS Z490 Plus WiFi Don't believe the GPU is very relevant here, but it's an RTX 3080 Windows 10 21H1, Build 19043.1081

To preface this; I’ve had two laptops over the past month with the same problem - stuttering. I’ve been troubleshooting them rigorously to find out what’s going on. For specs, both machines have a Ryzen 7 5800H + 16GB 3200 + RTX3070 8GB and storage is on two 512GB NVME drives. The microstutters appear as duplicate frames for a few ms. and in Doom eternal for example, it shows as a sharp spike on the frametime graph So I ended up returning the first machine because of this issue and then got an exchange for a new one, which also has this problem. Oddly enough it only seems to occur when it’s using Optimus Switchable Graphics, the standard mode. Now yes I could put it into dGPU only mode however that requires a restart every time I want to change it. Using the iGPU for minor tasks is hugely beneficial for noise, heat and battery longevity so I need to be able to switch. I’ve contacted Nvidia, AMD and a few devs about this but they keep running me around with things like reset windows every few messages or so - it’s obvious they don’t want to do anything. has anyone got any pointers? I feel like I’ve exhausted my arsenal.

Keyword is "apparently" Summary After some benchmarks, a user of the windows 11 leak has shown that the OS is quite a bit faster and more efficient than Windows 10. Windows 10 has been ragged on since day one for being a massive resource hog in comparision to its previous iterations. The source showed fall in boot times, higher single core and multicore performance and higher scores for the GPU in 3Dmark. The source ran these benchmarks on bare metal, without any of the OEM software. It seems most of the improvements are coming from better power management, slightly better optimization etc. Quotes My thoughts First of all, take this with a grain of salt. The results can be manipulated, and since there are few published tests, hence your mileage may vary. These results may also have been manipulated. But if Windows 11 does improve performance over Win 10, it might just indicate that 11 is to 10, what 7 was to vista. LTT please do a video on this! Sources Windows 11 apparently offers big performance improvements over Windows 10 (xda-developers.com) Windows 11 appears to outperform Windows 10 by a huge margin | Windows Central Windows 11 is apparently faster than Windows 10 (windowslatest.com)

I'm getting a laptop setup soon, but I have a very tight budget for it ($550 at max for everything). Because it is a budget laptop setup build, I need a way to get some free extra performance out of this laptop. Laptop specs: AMD Athlon Silver 3050U 128gb SSD 4gb RAM (DDR4) 14" 1366x768 screen Windows 10 S I'm just looking to make this laptop much faster doing things like light gaming or 3d rendering for free or just paying about $100 max to boost this machine. What should I do to get about 20% better performance on this laptop? Thanks!

As the title says. Im a very heavily budget person and can't afford much. I want a somewhat meaningful, affordable upgrade from my RX470. I have a 550W PSU. My motherboard is an MSI Z97 PC Mate, CPU is an i7-4770. No double monitors, no nothing. I just want performance. Thanks!

I need the borrow the collective wisdom of the LTT Forum to assist me. I am having some issues with poor performance and lag. I have run various IObit programs to clean up, update, and opitmize my pc but still run into significant latency issues with things like Star Citizen (to be fair, I have never been able to smoothly run Star Citizen) but now even fames like World of Warships lags quite bad. Full disclosure, I currently do not have a hardline internet connection to my computer but am using a USB wireless adapter (my system does not have onboard wifi). However, I can run Warships on my laptop (also on wifi) with little to no lag (albeit, not as high of graphics). Below is a list of my systems components; any ideas on what I could do to remedy things? Is it just the internet connection and that my system is still presently future-resistant, is it that I am still running DDR3 RAM? Is my system largely obsolete? If so, can I do something as seemingly simple as replace all my RAM for DDR4 (is that even possible given my motherboard)? Any ideas or recommendations from the community is greatly appreciated. Current Components List: Case - CORSAIR Vengeance C70 Mid-Tower Case - Military Green Motherboard - ASUS TUF SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 Socket AM3+ DDR3 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 AMD 990FX ATX Motherboard CPU - AMD FD8350FRHKBOX FX-8350 FX-Series 8-Core Black Edition Processor Graphics Card - x2 MSI AMD Radeon R9 280X, 3GB GDDR5, PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card R9 280X Gaming 3G (2 cards in TOTAL) RAM - x4 Corsair CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10 Vengeance 8GB (1x8GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory 1.5V (32Gb TOTAL) Cooler - Corsair Hydro Series Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler H100i Harddrives - Samsung 860 EVO 500GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E500B/AM) WD Caviar Black 1 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache Internal Desktop 3.5" Hard Drive (WD1002FAEX ) (Old Model) Western Digital Caviar Green 3 TB SATA III 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD30EZRX PSU - Corsair HXi Series, HX1200i, 1200 Watt, 80+ Platinum Certified, Fully Modular - Digital Power Supply Monitor - ASUS VG278Q 27" Full HD 1080P 144Hz 1ms Eye Care G-Sync Compatible Adaptive Sync Gaming Monitor with DP HDMI DVI Misc - Asus Black 12X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-Ray Drive (BC-12B1ST) ASUS 24x DVD-RW Serial-ATA Internal OEM Optical Drive DRW-24B1ST Black Corsair Air Series AF120 LED Quiet Edition High Airflow Fan Twin Pack - Red

Hi, I've just ordered 2 sticks of 3600 MHz, 16 GB RAM for my first ever desktop but I was told that there might be an issue with buying RAM separately and not from a RAM Kit. Is this true? I've never built a PC before so I start to get paranoid when I'm told these things. I purchased them separately because it was cheaper but if they won't work together I'll need to cancel the order as soon as possible. The RAM I bought was two Crucial Ballistix Black DDR4 3600MHz 16GB (BL16G36C16U4B) Sorry for any grammatical errors in this post, my first language isn't English.

Hello! So lately this issue happened suddenly where, regardless of the games I play, the GPU gets stuck at 100% of usage and the CPU lays around 10% of usage. I get consistently 8-10fps regardless of the game and regardless of the quality settings. I have a ROG Strix Scar II laptop Stuff I have done so far: -Nvidia settings always set to the highest performance -rolled back nvidia drivers to old versions (457.51) -reinstalled Windows -used DDU method -rolled back windows build version (latest at this moment) to the 1909 version and now back again to version 20H2 -when I rolled to the 1909 version I repeated the first step on the nvidia drivers -opened my computer to see if everything was fine, everything is clean, no dust, no temps issues at all I noticed that different Nvidia drivers changes slightly the gpu's behaviour. It used to be stuck in power perf mode always and now with the latest driver changes between pwr perf and utilization perf, yet when I start gaming always goes back to pwr perf mode (139MHz) Nvidia 457.51 driver gpu behaviour: https://imgur.com/a/pF0XURp Latest Nvidia driver gpu behaviour (466.47): https://imgur.com/a/SXkLwdj FurMark benchmark: https://gpuscore.top/furmark/show.php?id=349128 And still couldn't fix my issue and I am running out of ideas. If isn't gpu related task, it runs smooth as butter. OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit, Build 19042, Installed 20210502115531.000000+060 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10, CPU Count: 12 Total Physical RAM: 16 GB Graphics Card: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630, 1024 MB Hard Drives: C: 236 GB (65 GB Free); D: 931 GB (447 GB Free); Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GL504GM, ver 1.0, s/n n0cv1828mb0004096 System: American Megatrends Inc., ver ASUS - 1072009, s/n J7NRCV00A007290 Antivirus: Windows Defender, Enabled and Updated I have to mention that my laptop also has a GTX1060 6GB

hey, guys there's a problem with my GHz so i was putting my GHz to 1.02GHz (max processor state) plugged in 47% reason i do that cuz i cant go up to my base speed which is 2.30GHz because it'll heat up fast. i have this laptop since i was a kid. and my cpu its Intel core i3 2348M heard was a 2nd gen which is very old (so maybe my thermal paste went out y'know and am broke so cant do any of that at the moment which is why i set it to 1.02GHz so it'll bring down the heat a little). but i'm surprised as well that i able to run subnautica but there's a problem....so i set my GHz to 1.02 but for some reason when i try to play subnautica my GHz jump from 1.02GHz to 2.00GHz then it went down to 0.78GHz and just stop there which is weird. (it happens in main menu, loading screen and even ingame) and idk what happen but it happens on other game i try to play as well like skyrim or assassins creed 3. which is weird because that never happen to me before and its new to me. i don't know how to fix it and i would like to ask and see if you guys know how to fix this problem, Thank you. i already reset my laptop today and its still happening. i did clean the dust off alr.

I tell you that I bought a second-hand gpu that seems to be faulty, I have been looking for thousands of solutions in this and other forums, I have seen that many people have run into this problem but none find the solution. The problem is that the core clock remains capped at 139mhz and the memory clock does not exceed 810mhz and the performance in games and beanchmarks are really bad, 12 FPS in Furmark I have already done different tests such as putting high performance mode in Windows and in the Nvidia panel, using DDU, reinstalling drivers, a clean installation of windows, using MSI Afterburner, Asus GPUTweekII, after trying various things I was forced to try flashing a BIOS taken from Techpowerup, but it didn't solve anything. So far the only thing I have found is that in GPU-Z the Power Draw Board is + 400w, PCIe Slot Power + 390w and a Power of 147% DOING NOTHING, simply on the desktop, a Perfcap reason is also added: Pwr, and a solid green line. It also strikes me that the voltage is constantly 0.65v (I don't know what the normal voltage is). https://imgur.com/4zAuHK6 https://imgur.com/KW14JCX https://imgur.com/tTXqzCI I am currently using an Aerocool Cylon 600w 80+ bronze PSU, I know it is a bit fair but the previous owner told me that he tested it with an 850w 80+ source, so we could rule out a power issue from the PSU, already that in neither of the two systems has worked well. I hope you can help me, and thank you very much in advance !! AMD Ryzen 5 2600x Asrock b450m Steel legend 2x8GB RAM Corsair vengeance

Hello, I wanted to get some opinions on the issues i've been having with my PC's performance. In multiple games (worst offender is subnautica), I have some pretty bad pop-in and other graphical issues that are kinda driving me bonkers, and between my friends and I, we think it is caused by my ram, which is a 2x8 2600mhz set. I would love to get some opinions before I commit to buying 3200 mhz ram. I'll list off my specs below and I would love feedback. Thanks so much and I'm happy to answer any questions you need to give an opinion. I've got an asus prime x470 pro mobo, a secondhand evga gtx 1060 6gb, a ryzen 5 3200x, a 2x8gb 2600mhz kit of ram (vengeance lpx), a corsair 650w psu, and I'm running windows 10 pro 64 bit on a samsung 860 evo. Video showing the issues i'm talking about.

Hey all, I just have a curiosity I would like satiated; does Vram usage grow the longer you play a game? I have been playing gears of war 5, running at ultra 1440p and for the most part it looks and runs great. I understand at a base level how vram works and that vram usage recordings aren't necessarily how much it's actually "using" and needs as much as it is what it's usually to cache things just because it has the memory available. However, when I first boot into a missing in GoW5 it records using around 7.1gb of Vram; after about an hour and a half the game started having minor stutters and the game was using around 7.7gb of vram which I believe is around the actual vram available from the card and I'm assuming this is what's causing the stuttering. When I close the game and open it back up it goes right back too 7.1gb and does the same build up again, is this normal?

does anyone else think nvidia's new fps counter looks shit

Good evening, I was playing league of legends before with my sister, and the game, followed by my whole PC became extremely laggy; when I was seeing why my RAM was at 100% usage, primary due to Mozilla Firefox. I closed Mozilla, and that fixed the issue at that point in time however afterwards I noticed that just light browsing, without any games or intense programs running in the backgrounds till results in about 8gb of my RAM being used. Is this normal? Attached is the task manager information (yes I know at that point I was using 2gb with Mozilla and almost 1gb with NVIDIA Broadcast, but that still means 6.5gb is being used at idle. Any insight would be appreciated. I have read some articles that say windows can just do this, and that when it actually comes down too it the ram will be correctly allocated to the programs that need it, however it didn't do a good job of that when I was playing league, nearly making my whole PC crash Thanks,

Good afternoon all, I have recently started playing Far Cry 5 (yes I know I'm very late) and upon playing the game I noticed very odd performance, presented in the form of stuttering; Running the in-game benchmark without vsync enabled (limited to 125 fps for other reasons) produced a maximum of 125fps, with an average of 117fps and minimum of 73.7fps. This was running the game at ultra, 1080 using the system specs signed below. This system I feel should not receive these results in this game, and when checking CPU and GPU usage, CPU maxed out at around 45% and GPU maxed at 60%; so I upped the resolution to 1440p. Benchmarking at this resolution left CPU usage the same, increased GPU usage to around 75-80%, but produced almost identical framerate results. When turning on v-sync at 60hz the results are maximum of 60fps, minimum of 57fps and average of 59fps. With vsync disabled, even though it doesn't drop below 60fps it looks rather choppy; and with vsync enabled, it is definitely choppy as every second it drops from 60 to 59fps. However as aforementioned none of my system resources are being maxed out, including RAM usage and so on, so I am left rather confused as to why this would be occurring? I have read many forums and there are issues listed such as autosave stutter and so on however this does not seem to be the same issue I am experiencing as mine occurs the entire time of play. Any advice/insight would be appreciated, Thanks all

Hello folks! As the Title says, I am looking for some simple tool that has ability to lower my GPU clock and make memory clock higher on the other hand. Of course, Internet is full of applications for this purpose but I wanted some advice from some good people here since most of them looks kinda shady. I know that I can use MSI afterburner but this app let me lower it only by -500. I need to get on value around 1065Hz on GPU clock and MSI does it only to 1400Hz. I Appreciate every help! Thank you!

Hey all, So I'm running a rig with a RTX3070 and AMD 5600X; I haven't given my full system specs as I don't need information pertaining specifically too my rig, but just more of a general understanding of potential factors. I booted up Far Cry 5 for the first time and played it, however I noticed it felt a little off. Running benchmarks showed that at 1080p it would shoot to high FPS, and have drops all the way down below 100 at certain points, on average sitting around 140ish however my GPU sat at around 60% and CPU at 50% usage. I upped the resolution to 1440p and my framerate stayed exactly the same? Stuttering in the same places too the same amount? All that changed was my GPU usage increased to 80%. Is this a thing? Why would I be dropping frames but sitting well below full hardware usage? (I also have 16gb ram, but only used around 12) Thanks

Below are attached specs of rig.

Budget : 2000 € ? As long as its good price performance, I don't mind going over but still lower is better. Country: Belgium workload / usage: Coding/Developing, Gaming(Apex and pretty much anything) Other details : PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor (€333.99 @ Alternate Belgium) Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard (€189.89 @ Alternate Belgium) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory (€214.89 @ Alternate Belgium) Storage: Mushkin Pilot-E 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (€234.89 @ Alternate Belgium) Storage: Seagate IronWolf NAS 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€219.89 @ Alternate Belgium) Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card (€700.00) Case: Fractal Design Define 7 Compact ATX Mid Tower Case (€126.89 @ Alternate Belgium) Power Supply: be quiet! Straight Power 11 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (€144.89 @ Alternate Belgium) Total: €2165.33 Notes: Time for a new rig. Going for the best price performance possible but would like to get the price down without lowering performance. Went air-cooled because of the reliability. AIO cooler would be possible if the price/performance/noise makes sense. would preferer a quite machine but its not first priority. Any thoughts or inconsistencies let me know. Monitor: 1080p 144 Hz. Mobo: Can I go cheaper ? Do I need the USB C front header ? Would like sort of good audio but I think that's almost standard these days. CPU Fan: do I need an aftermarket fan ? I don't plan to Overclock at least not from the start. GPU: depending on price / availability would go for 3070,3060 or 3080 if its priced so that I can keep my kidneys. RAM: do I need 32GB ? PSU: don't care as long as its efficient and quite when It can be. zero DB mode is a big plus. M.2: is 2TB worth it or not that crazy of a thought. ? HDD: go full SSD instead ? I currently make do with 2TB but might be nice to not have to swap game installs. Case: Can I go cheaper ? Any and all help is more then welcome ! Thanks !