Recent content by woodson75

I had another spare retail licence knocking about and all is well. Windows installed, happy days. Once again, thanks for the tips and advice.

Thanks very much for the super quick reply. Really appreciate it.

Recently had to change some parts on a system after a power cut zapped something. New components are i7 12700 MSI PRO B760M-E G Skill Ripjaws 16GB 3200 System up and running, but only boots to BIOS. - I've checked boot order - Checked CSM/UEFI is set to UEFI SSD seems to be in good shape...

Thanks a lot, really appreciate the time and comments.

Still works out at $1200NZD, plus there would be import tax (GST) on top, which would be another 15% 😏

Mostly out of stock over here it seems, but the price seems to be well over $1K. Have made enquiries into re-stocking all the same. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks for the tip - sadly, over here in New Zealand, pretty much a no go. One or two of the monster Titans still knocking about, but way out of budget. The A2000 I'm looking at only has 6GB of RAM. The person I'm building for was asking for a P4000 (8GB) as his basic option, and a comparison...

Thanks for all the replies! End PC user will be using Archicad 25/26 (and by the end of the year, 27). Ideally, he'd also like to use Redshift for rendering, but the recommended specs for that, GPU-wise, are $$$. As he doesn't want to go the route of "gaming specific" Geforce cards, and he...

Thanks for your reply. What do you mean by "on auto the default behaviour could very well be to overclock everything." - how can overclocking take place if nothing isa changed in the bios? (pardon my ignorance) Also....will the difference in base clock speed ( 12700 - 2.1 GHz vs. 12700K -...

I know the P4000 is now pretty much end of life, but what would a similarly spec'd (and cost) model for CAD work be today? Thanks for any tips.

Is there any benefit to the K variant (no overclocking will be done) with it's faster base clock speed, over the 12700 for ArchiCad work? Other planned specs are: MSI PRO B760M-A G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB DDR4 Corsair RM Series RM850X 2021 Fractal Design Define R5 Samsung 980 1TB...

Sadly, not so much where I am (NZ). The HDD will only be for backup, so still more cost effective over here.

Fantastic, thanks heaps for that

Thanks for your suggestions. My only concern use the gaming cards is that I've since heard anecdotally that if you ever need vendor support, that first level support love to point to the use of uncertified (GeForce) cards being the cause of all problems. That, and the fact that the gaming...

Ok, found another TH post that stated with the R5 there is "the option to connect the two included case fans to mobo headers to allow the mobo to do automatic control of them for you, and forget the front case switch" So I guess that's what you meant by "...the fans to change based on the CPU...