- Jun 24, 2018
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Ordered a new rig which landed yesterday. I had salvaged some bits from old machine which I intended to use
Ryzen 5 3600 (will do for 12 month - Could justify price of 5000 series and don't need it frankly)
B450M MB
16 gig (3000mz) memory
RTX 3070 8gb card.
I called them beforehand to make sure there would be available ram slots. He checked up and said yes. Great as I have 2x8gb (3000mhz). It said windows compatible whereas some of the other said Windows 10 installed. So went out and purchased a licence.
So a nice looking machine arrived. and Win 10 was installed. Waste of a licence
Go to fit memory first - No extra slots. Great. Will have to sell my extra stuff to buy 32
I have a nice sound blaster card which I wanted to use instead of the onboard sound. Not a single PCI slot free . I have neve seen that in my life and have probably owned about 8 and seen about 100. I know the GPU takes up a few but surely there needs to be an extra slot or two for a dedicated gaming PC
Really annoyed particularly at the ram and sound thing as I don't want a gaming machine with onboard sound! So having to use a stereo cable to connect to my sound bar
Thinking of sending it back but its such a hassle. Any clever ideas for sorting sound? Also installed my old SSD which isn't being picked up but will check that again. Have a 1tb ssd main which will fill up fairly quick and don't want to use IDE anywhere. Have a 500gb SSD so that will give me some breathing space
Is there any clever way I can get decent digital optical sound, don't mind spending more money
Ram I will just have to buy as and when
Not very good service really - Do you think this is worthy of a complaint? As I purchased through Amazon the specs were basic, hence why I called about the ram. Never ever thought to ask about the PCI slots
Ryzen 5 3600 (will do for 12 month - Could justify price of 5000 series and don't need it frankly)
B450M MB
16 gig (3000mz) memory
RTX 3070 8gb card.
I called them beforehand to make sure there would be available ram slots. He checked up and said yes. Great as I have 2x8gb (3000mhz). It said windows compatible whereas some of the other said Windows 10 installed. So went out and purchased a licence.
So a nice looking machine arrived. and Win 10 was installed. Waste of a licence
Go to fit memory first - No extra slots. Great. Will have to sell my extra stuff to buy 32
I have a nice sound blaster card which I wanted to use instead of the onboard sound. Not a single PCI slot free . I have neve seen that in my life and have probably owned about 8 and seen about 100. I know the GPU takes up a few but surely there needs to be an extra slot or two for a dedicated gaming PC
Really annoyed particularly at the ram and sound thing as I don't want a gaming machine with onboard sound! So having to use a stereo cable to connect to my sound bar
Thinking of sending it back but its such a hassle. Any clever ideas for sorting sound? Also installed my old SSD which isn't being picked up but will check that again. Have a 1tb ssd main which will fill up fairly quick and don't want to use IDE anywhere. Have a 500gb SSD so that will give me some breathing space
Is there any clever way I can get decent digital optical sound, don't mind spending more money
Ram I will just have to buy as and when
Not very good service really - Do you think this is worthy of a complaint? As I purchased through Amazon the specs were basic, hence why I called about the ram. Never ever thought to ask about the PCI slots
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