Agony of new pc build

[Karimento]

Soo. About couple months ago i started building new pc. I pretty much started last year, but i was waiting for the 9950X3D cpu's.

 

ANyway, i bought new case last year, NZXT H9 Flow, Coolermaster MasterLiquid 360L Core ARGB, Gigabyte Aorus X870 Elite Wifi7 Ice, 4 sticks kingston DDR5 Cl30 6000Mhz and from old setup my 4080 and Corsair RM-1000X.

Yes, the case was bought BEFORE gamers nexus did their video of the company's shady practises.

 

And finally when i got my 9950X3D in april i started building my setup.

 

Installing motherboard and other parts went perfectly, but at this point i was just wondering why the USB-c cable wasn't connecting to motherboard. Well crap. The conenctors was broken. Has been from get go apparently.

I did took photos and contacted NZXT and they sended new front panel cables.

Contacting their support was weird, had to give same information to them three for some reason.

 

Anyway. Back to getting my GPU and PSU. And the Cablemod cable i bought when i bought the 4080 snapped the locking latch. Oh joy.

The cable works no problem, just the locking latch snapped off. Warranty of the cable has been out by 6 weeks, give or take a day or two, at the time writing this.

 

Contacted cablemod and sent pics.

Cablemod offered to send new cable, if i either cut the old one in pieces first and then they send me one. Or they compensate new one if i purchase from their website.

3-4 weeks waiting period on new cables AND i pay extra 40% because of postal fees for the cable. Yikes. But then i tried the adapter that came with the GPU, but my gpu only shows red light next to the power connector with it, so the adapter isn't working??

I still have warranty on the GPU which is nice.

Just screw it, i'll order new one through where i originally bought the cable anyway and wait.

 

Setup is working and started gaming and random crashes started happening.

This is where i recommend reading the link i posted a while back.

 

 

That got fixed.

Phew. And back to enjoying gaming and being somewhat productive.

And then i started hearing funky new noises from my computer even in light loads. The damn AIO started making weird noises and temps flew off the charts immediatelly when there was even a small load going on.

The temps went over 95 Celsius right away.

 

Hauled the damn AIO back to the store for RMA and i got my money back.

Need a cooler for new cpu, but good thing i have Noctua NH-D15 on my old setup, bought like 4 years ago and it keeps 9950X3D cooler than what my AIO did. Even on full load it takes few minutes before getting even close to over 90 Celsius.

 

And now, finally can enjoy new setup that works.

It just always takes time and/or money to fix/figure things out.

 

 

[PDifolco]

One morals to get is that it's not a good idea to make parts purchases over many months ...

[Karimento]

1 hour ago, PDifolco said:

One morals to get is that it's not a good idea to make parts purchases over many months ...

How come?

[Mark Kaine]

2 hours ago, Karimento said:

How come?

Because you end up with a bunch of "hip" components, including an nzxt case... and agony. tons of agony.

 

It's better to properly plan and buy everything at once then you can check for compatibility issues. And other issues and fix or exchange them right away. No agony.

 

 

[Karimento]

Everything is compatible, nobody can expect parts to fail right away. Noticing a defect cable right away, or your gpu almost bricking because of driver issue, or AIO failing after a month of use has nothing to do with when you bought the the thing.

[Mark Kaine]

23 minutes ago, Karimento said:

Everything is compatible, nobody can expect parts to fail right away. Noticing a defect cable right away, or your gpu almost bricking because of driver issue, or AIO failing after a month of use has nothing to do with when you bought the the thing.

No, that's why you should build it right away then you'll notice this stuff.

 

I guess you can still RMA most of the stuff tho?

[Karimento]

Yes, everything has warranty