That's a nice system D! 🙂

Looks like your love of AMD will stand you in good stead:

Design flaw in intel processors... and the upcoming OS fixes may slow your machine down. Article (at El Reg) here.

Naughty intel... very naughty!

I just read about that the other day. Always been a AMD buyer, I guess because they are the little guy. This build was 100% AMD build and everything is running great, if you do your homework you can really build yourself a solid performer that will last many years. My last PC that is now my sons gaming machine has been running for 5 yrs without one issue.

But I think AMD is the way to go for right now especially for DX12 performance for the cost.

Just when you thought AMD was secure, Spectre raises its ugly head.

Question for you, D1: that EVGA PSU - fully modular, yes? Any problems with cables being a tad short? It's on my short list, you see, and I've heard a few gripes about short cables. Mine will have to stretch around the back of the mobo too.

Sorry Cody, I thought I responded to this.... its almost a year late ;/

But yes its a EVGA. I only buy fully modular PSU personally and I haven't had any routing issues in my case or cables that were too short as you can see in my pics the case is very clean in cabling, took me like 30-40mins to route everything so it was all neat and clean. My last build had a EVGA and they are solid performing PSUs as long as you get the better ones.

<chortles> I bought the EVGA SuperNOVA 850 P2, 80+ PLATINUM 850W. I like EVGA kit - been using their GPUs for years now. It's for a new/old build for which I've now gathered nearly all of the components.

It took me nearly a year to complete it, but here are my specs:

Processor: Ryzen 1700x cooled with a Noctua NH U12s SE AM4 Cooler
– MB: Asus ROG Strix X370
– Memory: G.Skill Flare X DDR4 3200 16GB (its running at 3200mhz)
– Gfx: Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 56 Pulse
– HDD: SSD CRUCIAL MX300 525GB (for OS) and HDD TOSHIBA HDWD130UZSVA P300 3TB SATA3 (for gaming) and a couple other for storage)
– PWR: CORSAIR RM SERIES RM750 - 750W
– Case: Cooler Master HAF 92
– Keyboard: Razer BlackWindow
– Mouse: Logitech G900
– Monitor: Samsung C27F591 27 inch Curved LED Monitor
- Soundcard: Creative Sound Blaster ZxR PCIe
- Speakers: Logitech Z5500 THX certified 5.1 speakers
- Joystick: Thrustmaster HOTAS Cougar and Logitech Wingman Cordless

Oh nice setup CaptianKal. I like that Motherboard, it was too expensive when I put my system together. Is a sound card needed these days with sound on motherboards getting better and better?

I stuck with my Asus mobo sound for quite a while - as you say, D1, it has improved a lot - but the Creative Sound Blaster Z I have now definitely puts out better quality sound. Possibly not so noticeable on low-end computer speakers, but fed through a decent hi-fi, the difference is clear. It also has nice, chunky, gold-plated sockets.

Is a sound card needed these days with sound on motherboards getting better and better?

As mentioned by Cody, if you have a decent sound setup, you can even hear differences in sound from a youtube video. I used this card in my media machine, with a tube amplifier, in order to play HD music. Since I am planning to use an external USB card, with ASIO support for playing music, I installed this sound card in my gaming machine!! But I have always prefered sound cards, to motherboard codecs!!

Well, it's been a long, slow crawl to this point from my last rig, but here it goes...

CPU:   i7-2600 -- quad 3.4ghz (lovingly donated from a scrapped workstation, works perfectly fine in this mobo, reguardless of what dell has to say about it)

Motherboard:   0GDG8Y -- inspiron 620s (donated via dumpster interception)

Memory:   8gb DDR3 1333 -- off brand, at least theyre paired ($30 got me the last 2 used sticks in town, max ram for this mobo has now  been reached)

HDD:  Lets just skip this one, nobody is jealous, no ssd here

Gfx Card:   Sapphire Nitro RX 460 OC -- 8gb model, factory timings ($100 but this card DOES NOT work in this mobo thanks to dell dropping support for this bios. Modified the "last" bit on the legacy vbios, corrected the checksum by modifying a bit in the padding at the end of the module. This is definatly from the "John Conner PC Repair Playbook" that will be published sometime in the futureSHOCK)

Snd Card:   Intel HDA -- builtin (linux utility HDAJackRetask allows me to get 5.1, cool. Getting quality audio using the default *buntu audio stack is LITERALLY impossible. Ive got openal, alsa and pulse cooperating happily and using high quality resampling (if needed) to 96k because it DOES make a big difference in final output quality)

Input/Joystick:   js0 = ancient saitek x52 (little twitchy on the Rz after ~ 15 years... fixed it!)   js1-4 = xbox360 wireless dongle (not my input choice, but handy sometimes)   js5 = logiSaitek flight yoke system, 1 throttle group (my rudder thrustmaster RudderControlSystem pedals are serial/midi and I don't have those ports anymore)

I also recently purchased some 3Dconnexion SpaceBall 5000 USB 6D0F input devices I have been experimenting with.

I'm happy to explain any of these weirdo hacks that were used.

...and it's ok to laugh, just keep in mind this system is less than $200 and saved numerous pieces of hardware from the inevitable end result of windows doing it's thing -- perfectly good stuff being thrown in the dumpster, I mean.

For $200 you can play most games created in the last 5yrs.

Since your limited with your 1333mhz memory with speed I would upgrade to 16GB (2x8GB) sticks if you can manage it. Also you having a RX460 is fine, but your MB is limiting the performance. You have a PCI-E v2 port on your MB when your card supports PCI-E v3 so you are leaving some performance behind with the MB. But I guess you can't complain since you got it for free 🙂 but for under $100 more you could buy more memory and a MB that supports PCI-E v3 and you would then see a nice jump in performance over what you have now.

But you do have a solid 1080p performer which is fine for most gaming sessions, well done for $200.

5800x ryzen 
3070x rog strix 
ballistix 3600 mhz 
samsung evo 970 

I kept my previous configuration but last year I switched my Ryzen 1700X for a 3800X and  also bought an Samsung Odyssey G7!! For the next holiday season I have my sights fixed on a Valve Index!!!

Posted by: @antonyrudik

5800x ryzen 
3070x rog strix 
ballistix 3600 mhz 
samsung evo 970 

Nice rig Antonyrudik.... if prices can go down on gfx cards I might be able to buy another rig at xmas time. How you liking the 5800x?

@sscadmin

to be honest, this is my first big pc. 
When I purchased it (something around November - beginning of December) 5800x just came out, he carried well all shooters and programms, sometimes temperature is going high but 5 fans and be quiet dark rock pro 4 are doing great. I think this is a decent one, but my experience is not that big to tell about any alternative 🙂 

Finally another PC build.... its been almost 7yrs. I can play some of my steam library now on max settings 😉

- Case: Fractal Torrent Black (one of the best airflow cases)

- CPU: Intel i7-14700k (20 cores)

- Mem: 64GB GSkill 6400mhz memory (running at 6400, may OC this) - 32GB sticks

- Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU Cooler / also installed a thermal plate, added some extra Be Quiet fans as well

- Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 43" 4k Monitor

- Motherboard: ASRock Z790 Nova

- PSU: Cosair RM1000e (1000w)

- HDD: 2x 2TB Western Digital SN850x NVMe black drives

- Gfx: XFX Merc310 7900XTX 24GB, this card came with its own re-enforcement bracket since this thing takes 3 slots 🙂

- OS: Windows 11Pro

Talk about a improvement over my first generation Ryzen (1800) .... this thing is a beast. I wanted my next rig to play 4k and it does that just fine and stays cool too. I am still trying to get used to the lack of noise (hahaha) my previous PC sounded like a aircraft sometimes 🙂

Still getting used to Win11, I bought this mainly because of HDR and that Win10 is like 8yrs old so I guess I need to upgrade. I wanted to put in 128GB (may still do it) but I wanted to make sure the memory ran at 6400+ and so far in testing nothing consumes the 64gb so I think I can wait on that upg for a while.

I will try to take a pic and post it

Posted by: @sscadmin

Case: Fractal Torrent Black (one of the best airflow cases)

Yep! I love my Fractal Design case!