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My self-build PC is now nearly 5 years old. It's running ok, but I'm getting itchy for an upgrade. Partly to see if I can make a noticeable improvement, partly just for fun! A lot has happened in that time and I haven't kept up with the latest tech, so if you had this system, would you upgrade...

Gigabyte Z790 UD AX Intel i7-13700K iCue H170 RGB AIO Liquid CPU Cooler Geforce RTX 3080 Ti Cooler Master MWE Gold V2 1050 watt AND ALSO Corsair As title says, my PC will restart as soon as i try to open certain programs like Discord. I can sometimes launch games and play them for a while...

Can anyone please tell what needs improvement (this is my custom build from 2020 - i got it for 700$) Userbenchmark Full rig summary

I recently purchased a mining rig, on a bare-bones rig frame with plenty of space, with an Asus ROG Strix B450-F motherboard installed. It has six PCI-e slots and has one each of Corsair 850W and 1000W power suplies. Windows is installed on a 256GB NVMe flash storage installed on one of the...

I've been building this PC for a week. I've read the motherboard manual so I have some guidance. I'm pretty positive I've done everything right. I have the PC fully built and ready but when I connect to an HDMI port to a monitor, nothing pops up, the monitor just says, "No signal". All the...

Looking to upgrade my rig (mainly motherboard, debating between GIGABYTE B550 AORUS PRO and GIGABYTE B550M DS3H) My rig has Gigabyte RTX 3070 Ryzen 5 5600x 1x16GB 3200mhz Thermaltake TP 750w Semi-Mod PSU HyperX Kingston 128gb SSD 1tb Seagate HDD I'm looking to - replace my motherboard, maybe...

So I build a rig with the following: RTX 3060 Ti x6 Ryzen 5 1200 ASRock AB350 Pro4 256GB NVMe (Windows 10) 12GB RAM Cooler Master MWE 850W Corsair RM650 The 850 powers 3x Cards and the motherboard. The 650 powers the other 3 cards. When the cards powered by the 650W are unplugged and not...

Why is my mining rig lighting up and down after turning it on. Seem like power is low

Hello guys! I am writing to ask you for a little tip. So I am going to spend around 1200 euro on a mining card or maybe more cards for the same price. Here where I live in Bulgaria it is almost impossible to get something new on decent price. You know the prices on the GPU's and how the thing...

Hello everyone, My mining rig has been running for a steady few months but after it crashing and stopped showing 2 gpus i found out that the power cable was burnt and molten at the psu end. I didn't buy the psu myself and tried to order new power cables but they don't seem to fit on my gpus...

Hi! I have a problem with my rig when installing the sixth GPU, I currently have the following specs working: AORUS z270 K5 I7 7700 4GB Ram 2 x 750W PSU 5 x RTX 2060 the problem begins when I try to install one more GPU, as I don't have video I realize that the rig starts correctly because...

Hi guys, first of all thank you for taking your to read this. My issue is pretty weird, I recently purchased a ASUS B250 Mining Expert, and I have 7 video cards, 4x MSI Radeon™ RX 470 GAMING X and 3x ASUS STRIX 570 4GB. The rig works perfectly fine with the RX 470 cards ( only 3, because i...

Hey guys i need some help with this. I bought a Alphaminer offline knowing that it crashes so i figured i could fix it well.... i can get it to boot nicehash os but it keeps going from mining to not mining every 10 sec. i put windows 10 on a ssd and can get it to read cards in cudo miner but all...

Alright so heres the deal. I bought an asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, and I have seen people with the exact same setup apart from cpu being different but most the time same if not worse, and they are getting like 70fps max settings gta v and others. I have tried power plan, nvidia control...

So I've built a mining rig - currently runs 5 RTX 3070s. I've OC'd to 67% power limit, 0 core clock, 1337 mem clock and fan speed auto. The gpus are only using ~72-80 watts each. I believe this is effecting my hash speed. Why is power usage so low per gpu? To expand - 1 gpu gets ~ 55 mh/s...

As said in the title, i'm looking for a server that could host servers for multiplayer games like minecraft (modded), terraria and any other multiplayer games that can be demanding for a pc to have the server and the game running (I have a PC cappable of that but i'd ratter have a server...

Hello people, first of all please forgive my poor english, it is not my native language. I hope I won't bother you, but I need expert's help for a particular issue for which I would be very, very grateful. The trouble is following : I recently had my PC upgraded with an rtx 3060 ti and so far I...

Hello, I was thinking about building myself a rig with an APU. Now I don't have enough time for heavy AAA gaming. So I wanna build myself a PC that's is ready to upgrade just by buying a GPU, probably 3060ti. (Just because of DLSS 2.0) I also wanna benefit from Vega iGPU so what Ram, mobo and...

My budget is $360 what components can I buy for that?

Hello, I could use some help picking out what components to upgrade for my next build! Current Build: Corsair Air 540 with stock fans Intel Skylake 6700k with the stock CPU cooler Asus z170 pro gaming Gskill F4-3000C15-GVRB 32gb DDR4 Two 1TB WD Blue HDD Samsung Evo 850 Pro 512GB Boot Drive...

Hi! I'm about to buy a second hand PC. I've checked out YouTube videos and this PC can run games like Red Dead Redemption 2 at 40-60 fps, and that's basically all I'm aiming for - running video games above 30fps at 1080p. MOBO: ECS H110M4-C23 SOCKET 1151 CPU: Intel Core i3 7100 3.40mhz RAM: 8GB...

Hi everyone! I found this second hand PC, what do you think of it? CPU: I3 4160 GPU: MSI Armor RX 570 8GB MOBO: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H RAM: 8GB Kingston STORAGE: HDD 500 GB + 240GB SDD PSU: Thermaltake TR600w The guy selling would like to exchange it with my HP Envy x360 touchscreen, since I'm...

Hi! The situation is the following: I do have quite a modern rig at home, but we're building our new house, and it's now in the stage where I occasionally want to stay there for a few days to get a few things done (painting, gardening, building the garage, etc - stuff I can get done) - but...

Hello guys, It's been a while since I bought my computer and the only component that I changed over the years is the GPU and I want to upgrade to a more powerful and more suitable PC for my graphics card and my gaming needs. Over the years, parts has changed and I lost track of what's...

Hello folks, I use a gaming system that I assembled in 2014. It ran all the games that I played smoothly. Below is the configuration: Intel G3258 Core2Duo 4th gen 1150 socket Processor Asus H81M motherboard 2x4 GB Kingston HyperX RAM ASUS Strix GTX 970 4GB GPU Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD The...

Hey everyone I have a gaming PC and I am looking to do some small upgrades to make playing a little smoother. Looking for the more subtle PC mods such as a GPU change or a CPU change rather than the whole rig. Its a few years old so dont be alarmed but some older tech. Suggestions and help will...

Hello! It's that wonderful time to upgrade my machine. It's been since 2015 or 2016 since I last change a component on her. Here are my current specs : CPU: i7 6700K 4.0GHZ MB: Z170 Pro Gaming RAM: 32GB DDR4 4020 MHZ NB FQ GPU: GTX 970 SC CASE: Corsair AIR 540 Case W/ Standard Fans FANS: Stock...

Hello, how would you rate this rig? For some gaming. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge Wifi ATX AM34 Motherboard Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5 SSD MSI...

i built a new pc 2 days ago and everything was fine till i tried to download a game and it was taking forever so i ran speedtest.net and and im getting 16mbs and than ran it on my phone and got 250mbs which is my plan i have all drivers installed and up to date im using windows 10 64bit PLEASE...

Hello I want to buy a new gaming rig, CPU - RYZEN 9 3900X AND RTX 2080 SUPER, and I found bottleneck calculator and it says about 70% bottleneck?! So now I dont know, if it will run perfect or I will get some bottleneck?! Thank you.

I am building a new pc, and I need to know since it has been literal years since I have done this, what order to do this in. I currently have windows 7 in my rig, but I am going to be upgrading to windows 10. So I have a windows 10 installer, ryzen 7 2700x cpu, a 500gb ssd, corsair h100i cooler...

Here's what I've built guys and I just want to ask some of you for opinion, is it gonna be compatible and what do you think I should possible change. This is my maximum $. CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: RX 5700 8GB GDDR6 Sapphire RAM: HyperX Fury DDR4 - 3200MHz 2x8GB SSD: 500GB Kingstone A2000 NVMe...

Hello everyone, I have seasonic SS 500-ET power supply and it has an 8 pin connector and a 2x4 pin connector, and I don't know which one to use for powering CPU or I don't know about the use of any of these connectors in general. kindly help me asap. Thanks

All, Looking to upgrade my current PC: CPU: I7 4790K MOBO: ASUSTek Z97-PRO RAM: Hyper X Fury 16gb Dual Channel DDR3 @ 929Mhz GPU: 4095MB GTX 1070 SSD: Sandisk Ultra II 223GB HDD: 1863GB WD WDC What is the best thing to start with? I use the system for gaming mostly and would like to...

I expect to update this thread over time, so please treat this as a work in progress. I'll add pictures of my current setup and additional information to provide you all with what I am currently working with. Below is a quick requirement sheet that I drafted. I also quickly created the...

im going to buy a pc next month and it would be awesome if all you awesome people guide me with it. thanks :) AMD RYZEN 5 3600/ RYZEN 7 3700X MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX/ MSI B450 GAMING PLUS MAX SSD CRUCIAL 500 GB, NVMe PCIe M.2 WD BLACK/BLUE 1TB NVIDIA GTX 1660 6G/ 1660TI 6G/ RTX 2060 CORSAIR C16...

So, my current tv-monitor is starting to fall on it's knees (i've had it for 6yrs now), i wanna buy a 1440p (i'm not sure how many hz, that's one of the reasons i'm making this thread) monitor, my current rig is the following: i7 8700k asus rog gtx 1070 16gb ram samsung m.2 960 500gb 2tb wd hdd...

Hello to all. I want a little help with some questions I have on my mind. I want to buy the Ryzen 3700x with a x570 motherboard and ram. Is it a good time to buy the 3700x now?I heard Ryzen prices will go up in the future due to low supply/high demand. Is it a good time to buy x570 mobo and...

I'm looking to upgrade my build and would like some advice on where i can upgrade this build. What do you guys think? I use this PC largely for Gaming, some Streaming & Video Rendering as well. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: Intel Core i7-6800K 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00)...

What in your opinion should I upgrade on my rig which would make the MOST impact? I'm thinking ssd, cpu or gpu? Current rig: CHASSI: Corsair graphite 600T white MOBO: Gigabyte z97x gaming 3 CPU: Intel i5 4590 3.3GHz (thinking of boosting to 3.5GHz if that makes difference) RAM: Ballistix 16gb...