Recent content by kostas321

Most of my friends in Europe care a lot about the power consumption, while also enjoying gaming. This year almost everyone I know went for a 4090 + 7950X as both can be under-volted to use half the power and we're all reducing the power usage.

Thanks for the tip. I did not know the diagnostics LEDs are there. I will give it a try in 2 weeks. I just sent the motherboard to warranty. Hopefully afterwards it will work.

I tried the cmos clearing button on the sound dongle and nothing happens. I also tried removing the battery and no result. The system never ran as it is all brand new. I just received all the components. I guess the only thing left is to mail the components back to warranty and hope they fix...

No luck so far. After another day with the whole thing running like mad for 2 hours, it shut down and now the PC no longer stars. I was so hopeful for this AMD setup. :(

The MB does not have any alert LEDs and nothing is ever displayed on the screen as the boot process never makes it to the BIOS

The case / nr200p max comes with its own 850 pso and water cooling syatem

@Ashishag - this is an answer that is completely impartial when it comes to performance. Look at this forum. 90% of the issues are with AMD CPUs. So from a reliability perspective I'd say go with intel and enjoy your gaming stress free. Performance wise a 7600x or 7800x3d would give you more...

@Willow_123 - does your power supply have a on/off switch on it (inside the case)? Some PSUs have such a button, which you would first need to flip on. Also, if you accidentally set the plastic pin connector on the CMOS reset pins your motherboard will not boot, though it will the moment you...

Dear gents and ladies. I just received all the components for my new PC and I assempled everything. To my great surprise it does not boot. The fans go on full blast and it goes on like that for hours. Even the power button only works to turn it on and I can only turn it off by unpluging the...

Based on these prices, if the actual 30-40 game tests don't show a massive +40% improvement (proportional to the price increase), then I'm going for a 13700KF or 13900KF. I only use my home PC for remote work and some lighter gaming, but as long as I'll have to buy this year 5 new computers for...

In addition to managing the lifecycle of the 14 computers for my family, I've been doing procurement for large companies (banking, telecom and data centers, automotive) for the last 15 years. Both on the private and corporate side I will take Intel and Nvidia over AMD each time: on launch...