Recent content by andreoei

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    Question B450 or X570 for R5 3600? ASUS TUF or Gigabyte Aorus?

    Hi everyone, relative noob here. Am upgrading my CPU, RAM and MBD. Existing specs as follows: CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB MBD: Asus H97-PLUS My needs are pretty simple...
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    [SOLVED] Upgrading PC - CPU + MBD + RAM + SSD

    Thank you so much Vyrvelata, Rodrigodrt, Zerk2012 and gingerrankin for your advice. Greatly appreciate it. Based on your advice, I've decided to go for the R5 3600 (not the 3600X because the consensus seems to be that the extra performance is not worth the price). Have a two-part follow up...
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    [SOLVED] Upgrading PC - CPU + MBD + RAM + SSD

    Hi everyone, I am planning to upgrade my PC, in particular m CPU and MBD and RAM which were bought in 2015. My current specs are: Userbenchmark PC Build Comparison Baseline Bench: Game 73%, Desk 78%, Work 56% CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB HDD...
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    1 Power Cable for 3 Hard Drives

    thanks very much solandri and anichatt!
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    1 Power Cable for 3 Hard Drives

    Hi everyone, First time poster here. I just installed a new SSD and new HDD so I have 3 hard drives in total. The guy fixing up my desktop told me that my power unit can power all 3 but I should not rely on just 1 cable running in series. So he asked me to add another cable. Is this a...