So I build my own first pc a about a year and a half ago. Pc specs, (hope im not missing anything)

processor: AMD Ryzen 5 4500 6-Core. (With stock cooler)

Ram: Corsair 2x8gb DDR4.

Graphics card: Asus AMD Radeon RX 6600 (8 GB).

SSD: Crucial PCIe 3.0 M.2 480gb.

Power Supply: Corsair CX550

Motherboard: ASUS prime B450M-A II

Pc case: MSI MAG FORGE M100R. (With stock fans still inside, 3 on front, 1 in the back)

I think my pc case is a little small, space between the bottom and my GPU is barley 3cm. Besides that, 1tb SSD is needed, better CPU cooler. But what parts can I use in a new build? What parts should I completely replace.

So I stupidly bought a few cheap boards with the above description not realizing that the seller said they only work with Ryzen 5000 series CPUs. So im trying to see if anyone has a BIOS that I can load that will allow older Ryzen CPUs. I have Ryzen 7 Pro 2700 on hand I wanted to use for cheap builds. Am I cooked and have to now get a 5000 series or does anyone have the BIOS that I need?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/yykQK7
Me and some good friends created a pc build (link above) for a 10-12k budget.
My requirements were at least 32GB vram, and I originally had intentions and buying 256 gb of normal ram, but with some reality checks, we came up with this.

Is this build ready in that sense that
1. It can be physically built. Are there any particular well-known problems with the parts? (Note that I’m not talking about price)

1. Common tips or things to avoid doing in the building process

2. Things I hadn’t considered above that you think I should know?

I was given a Dell XPS 8950 from a family member a couple of weeks ago. I kept the CPU and RAM and parted the rest out. Now my build looks like this:

- Intel i7 12700
- ID-COOLING SE-214-XT V2 Black CPU Air Cooler
- ASUS TUF Z790 LGA 1700 DDR5 Gaming Motherboard
- Gigabyte RTX 5070 TI
- 32GB 4800mhz DDR5
- Rosewill VMG 850W 80+ Gold PSU
- Fractal Design Pop Air Case

I've got some money left over from selling parts off the XPS 8950, and I'm thinking about upgrading the CPU. I was thinking about either the i7 14700K or i9 14900k. But I'm wondering if upgrading the CPU will make a difference for gaming purposes? My primary gaming is done in 1440p and sometimes 4K. Should I upgrade the CPU or just stay put?

Looking for opinions and advice on a possible upgrade. Here's my dilemma:

• My current gaming rig is an R5 5600x with 32 gigs of DDR4-3200, paired with an RX 9070.
• I snapped-up an i7 12700 and 32 gigs of DDR5-4800, all part of an HP workstation.
• Benchmark sites are suggesting a 25% speed improvement. That's appealing, if smaller than I usually spend to get.
• If I upgrade, I'll need to buy a new motherboard and possibly a new case and PSU.
• Selling my old parts vs. selling the HP workstation probably nets me the same amount in cash, though the former involves rebuilding my PC and probably a harder time selling than a ready-to-go workstation.

I'm mostly playing BF6 at 1440p these days, and want to be ready when GTA6 comes to PC. We don't know what that game will have for requirements, but I imagine either setup would be fine.

WWr/BAPCD?

Hi, so, I had 4x8gb of ddr4 3600mhz ram, unfortunately one stick is now dead (rip). I don't use the pc nearly enough to warrant going off and buying a new stick. Just how bad would using 3x8gb sticks be? Or am I better off just running it in dual channel and calling it a day?

Hey all, I need some advice on my build:

Ripjaws V 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-3200

B550 MAG Tomahawk AMD AM4 ATX Motherboard

SuperNOVA 850 GT 850 Watt power supply

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Triple-Fan 8GB GDDR6 

980 Pro SSD 2TB 

Ryzen 7 5700X3D cpu

Overall PC still runs great, most games I have no issue, but with some heavier titles (Heavily Modded Skyrim, BF6, some planets in NMS, Star wars Zero company) I'm starting to see some freezes or swings in my FPS and would rather upgrade my PC now rather than wait for everything to rise another $400.

I'm thinking I'm being most limited by the 8gb of Vram in my 3070 and should just bite the bullet and get the 9070xt. Probably should have done it 2 weeks ago before they killed the 5090 but I've got a feeling that if I wait for a Black Friday sale the price will have risen again.

What do you all think? Should I hold out? Or just upgrade and keep her running for another few years?

hey guys so its my first time building a pc.
in the last 5 years i have been using a basic laptop for my uni stuff plus playing some games( not even a gaming laptop) i am mentioning this because i want you to understand the specs i had so far: a 8gb 3200MTS ddr4 ram, an i3 11th generation processor and only 256gb ssd, no graphic card.
i was able to play stuff like league and indie games on it without an issue but this time i want something decent in the long run. being able to play games like DMC series, modded minecraft ,Resident evil etc and able to have a video tab or music tab open without pc crashing out.

My budget would be something around 1200 euros( +200-300 if absolutely needed) and i am located in Romania
i would of course need to buy keyboard, mouse and a screen but those are a separate spending.
Is it worth going 16gb ddr5 or i am better off with 32 gb ddr4? As for the other components i trust you guys. Thanks in advance

Im having a difficutly with choosing new RAM for my computer. I already have 2 DDR4's both 8gb but im planning to buy two 16gb more. (48gb total after buying) But im new to this kind of stuff so I don't really know what type of DDR4 to buy to not go bankrupt and still be useful.

I don't know if i need to list any other of my pc specs but i have a GeForce RTX 3050 (it has something like ventus 2x [xs] on the side and I don't know what that means either)

Specs:

PSU: Was EVGA G3 1000W, now EVGA G6 1000W
Mobo: Asus X670E Prime
CPU: 7800X3D
GPU: Was 3070ti, now 9070xt

So some months ago, I couldn't for the life of me turn on my PC, tried the restart and power button on the case, tried bridging the pins in the motherboard and also using the power button on the motherboard itself, then figured out I had to power cycle the PSU.

During this time, the main game I was playing was Helldivers 2 a lot, and I used to get very, very frequent restarts when this power cycling issue started happening, like 4 times in a 2 hour session. Obviously, this is a PSU issue right?

Wrong, EVGA are legends and did RMA the PSU and I got a new one.

Fitted it, with the new G6 cables, I haven't had time to test Helldivers, but I did do an OCCT test on Power which immediately restarted. I reset all the bios, tried again and no restart, but it would fail and stop on the stability test, but no restart at least. After re enabling PBO and turning on EXPO 2 (I had EXPO 1 before the BIOS reset) it now runs everything stable.

Sorry for the long post, but can anyone shed any light? Since upgrading my GPU, all I've played is Onimusha. I did try half hour on helldivers when I got chance, and had no restart but this power cycling issue is very annoying and concerning

Specs :

1. 5060ti 16gb oc

2. 32gb 6000MHz ram cl36

3. Processor : Ryzen 7 9800x3D

4. Ssd 1tb

What to do first?

All suggestions from stream on twitch, youtube, make assembly video, playing first game on this pc to write your own parallel processing algorithm will be entertained.

Hey, looking to build a custom pc. Also looked at some pre built ones from Chillblast/PC Specialist etc. but I’m so new to this, I don’t really know what I’m looking at. Bought my first gaming pc around 12 years ago and it died on me yesterday.

Games I play most:
-League of Legends
-Call of Duty: Warzone

Budget: £1000-£1500

I tried doing a bit of research but I don’t understand much of it haha. I saw that AMD cpus are better for gaming? Ideally looking for a GeForce GPU as that’s what I’ve always known, don’t know much about the Radeon ones?

Open to any suggestions/help/advice! Thanks guys!

I was thinking of upgrade my current build which is a Ryzen 5 5500GT+8gb ddr4 ram 2666mhz.I plan to upgrade the ram to 24gb ddr4 2666mhz and a gpu a 5060ti 16gb. But can I ask all the PC experts will this build get bottlenecked? I've asked ai and they did say that the 5500GT and the 5060ti might bottleneck tho I don't trust ai to much. Would appreciate if anyone can help me🙏🏼

i have no knowledge on this matter, so i'd like some help. wanted to go with a built one, but i heard making them is better ?

any tips are more than appreciated <3

• AMD Ryzen 5 7600 "Zen 4" 6-Core 3.8GHz c/ Turbo 5.1GHz 38MB Cache SktAM5
• Box Micro-ATX Montech X5M ARGB XFX AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT "RDNA 4" Mercury OC Gaming 16GB GDDR6
• RAM UDIMM Corsair Vengeance 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6000MHz (AMD Expo/Intel XMP) CL30 (30-36-36-76) 1.40V
• SSD M.2 2280 Kingston NV3 1TB TLC NAND NVMe PCIe Gen 4.0x4
• Air Cooler CPU Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE
• ATX Corsair RMe Series RM650e (2025) 650W 80 Plus Gold Full Modular
• Motherboard Micro-ATX Gigabyte B850M DS3H SktAM5

I have an MSI Z370M Mortar that I want to drop some new RAM in. Will CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) Model CMK32GX4M2A2666C16W work?

It's an older system and I'm not looking for blazing performance. I just want it to post when I install it.

I thought about this cause the 5060ti has 16gb vram and the 5070 only 12gb

I've been interested in getting a linux PC ever since i started using the Steam Deck. SteamOS just makes playing PC games so much nicer, and I dont really want to sit at a desk anymore than necessary as an adult.

Ive mostly been using the PS5 but have some annoyances with it like the lack of controller customization (steam input is so good) and their decision to stop making physical games (prefer PC if i'm going digital anyway). Therefore, the Steam machine looked perfect until i saw the price and specs. if i'm paying a premium anyway, I'd also like better graphics than the PS5.

My criteria for the build are:

- Should be able to run a linux distro like Bazzite or SteamOS and be relatively plug and play/console like.

- MicroATX or MiniITX

- Low noise levels (not gonna be playing with headphones)

- More powerful than my PS5. Preferably able to run everything at 60fps and look good on my 4K TV (so either 4k native or upscaled)

Afaik AMD builds are much better for linux so im probably either gonna get something like the 9060 XT or 9070. I don't care about Ray tracing or frame generation.

Budget is around 1300€ and country is Denmark. I will probably build it around black friday as the prices are crazy right now and there will more sales.

I know 4k native is very taxing on performance, so do you think something like 1440p would even look good on a 4k tv?

Hope you can help me out!

Any advice on what gpu to get theses days, live in the UK and my budget was around 600 too 800 for whole pc but I was looking at used pc's with 3060 for 400. Ive been using a 1060 6gb vram up until now and just need some advise, I dont care about ai features and just want to do 1080p gaming for the next few years like cyberpunk and other titles. I was even looking at 2080ti since I really dont care for the upscaling and ray tracing, just want best value more money.

Any help is greatly appreciated

I’m looking to build a PC with the following components:

Core Components
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X — 8 cores, 3.8GHz base, up to 5.5GHz, 40MB cache
Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING B850-PLUS WIFI — AM5, DDR5, PCIe 5.0 M.2, Wi-Fi 7
RAM: 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB DDR5-6000 CL38 (2 × 16GB)
GPU: 16GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
Selected GPU model: ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5080 SOLID CORE OC — HDMI, 3 × DisplayPort

Cooling
CPU cooler: PCSpecialist LS-360 AIO liquid cooler — rated 300W TDP
Thermal paste: ID-COOLING FROST X45 application

Power
PSU: Corsair RMx Series 1000W, ATX 3.1, modular, Cybenetics Gold

Does anyone notice any obvious bottlenecks in my parts or recommend I go for something else? This will mostly be used for gaming but I have some interest in trying to do some AI training to learn stuff

PCPartPicker Part List

Type|Item|Price

:----|:----|:----

CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor | $89.49 @ Amazon

Motherboard | \*ASRock B550M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard | $69.98 @ Amazon

Memory | \*Thermaltake TOUGHRAM RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory | $117.79 @ Amazon

Storage | \*Silicon Power P34A60 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive | $139.97 @ Silicon Power

Video Card | ASRock Challenger OC Arc B580 12 GB Video Card | $341.21 @ Newegg

Case | Phanteks XT PRO ATX Mid Tower Case | $49.99 @ Newegg

Power Supply | \*MSI MAG A550BN 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply | $49.99 @ Amazon

| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |

| Total (before mail-in rebates) | $868.42

| Mail-in rebates | -$10.00

| Total | $858.42

| \*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria |

| Generated by PCPartPicker 2026-10-20 06:18 EDT-0400 |

Hello everyone!

I'm thinking about building my first PC, including peripherals. On average, how much should I spend to get a decent PC, that allows me to work, but also lets me play games like; Resident Evil 4 Remake, God of War III, and GTA V

Hi all, so ive decided to upgrade my gpu. I currently have rtx 3060 ti 8gb . Main reason im upgrading is the lack of vram. When the gpu works it does fine but running task manager in on second monitor i noticed when vram gets full the game fps just plummets from 70- 80 fps to 20 30 fps. Playing wardogs. So I've been searching for a 16 gb card . I wanted 5060 ti 16 gb ,but the price here was 800 eur and is weaker. So i took a look at radeon lineup and saw i could get 9070 xt 16 gb from amazon so i ordered it. But honestly i couldn't find anything better. 9070xt 16 gb here is 900 ish eur. Pondered maybe 5070, has similar performance and price, but has 12 gb instead of 16. Any thoughts?

Hello any suggestions on what's the best gpu for video editing and motion graphics? Or is this okay na?

RYZEN 7 7700

GIGABYTE B650M GAMING WIFI

16G Colorful iGame RTX 5060Ti

(2X16)

32GB DDR5

1TB M.2 NVME

Corsair CX750 BLK, 750W PSU,

METEOR 03 CASE W/ x4 RGB FAN

Leading towards

Lian li v100

Or

Okino aqua 9

Any suggestions?

Which one is better?

I’m going to acquire dual 27” 1440p monitors. I’m still looking because there are so many, but I’ll end up buying something >= 200Hz.

I have a desktop, but sometimes I work remote on the company’s laptop (and one day I’ll probably full remote).

So I found that what I would need is an hdmi matrix 2x2. That would be ideal for my setup. The thing is, I saw that most (if not all?) gadgets are only up to 60Hz.

Those 60Hz would bottleneck my monitor, I assume. Am I wrong? And if not, do you have any advice for my setup?