Recent content by nephron

Thank you very much for these suggestions and your honest feedback on the budget I initially had in mind. If it means quality then I'd be open to upping the max budget to £150. I wouldn't be comfortable going much beyond that though. It seems clear I'll have to seriously consider leaving RGB...

Thanks! Any suggestions for a keyboard & mouse under £100 all together that could go with this build? My hard requirements: - drivers and RGB control software (if relevant) must work with both Windows and Linux OS - full size mechanical keyboard - mouse should have some programmable buttons...

I just saw now the corsair 3500x case now available in the configurator - half the price of the 5000x. Would this be an option? Case CORSAIR 3500X ARGB TEMPERED GLASS MID-TOWER (BLACK) Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core CPU (Up to 5.2GHz/104MB w/3D V-CACHE/AM5) Motherboard ASUS® TUF...

Main uses are for gaming. My hard requirements: - drivers and RGB control software (if relevant) must work with both Windows and Linux OS - full size mechanical keyboard - mouse should have some programmable buttons and decent DPI (not competitive gaming-grade though) Nice to haves: -...

Thanks those were really helpful suggestions! I've swapped out the P44 drives for Corsair Elites as they looked to be similar in read/write speeds but cheaper. The big 2TB drive is now a P41+. Any other thoughts with the below build? Hopefully my prior posts have outlined what I'm aiming at -...

Any thoughts on the case?

Understood and makes sense. Going back to my specs now since the god CPU has now released with a godly price tag.. I might hold off honestly till the CPU price calms down, by which point the RDNA 4 stuff will be out 🤣... I saw in another thread a suggestion to get a larger case instead of the...

Thanks! 9700x definitely a placeholder - waiting for 9800x3d like everyone else... On the Linux comment, have you had any experience having Linux and Windows (booted off their own separate drives) behave when they both run games off a third drive (not simultaneously obviously)? I think both...

Hi again. Been revising the spec again and would be interested if someone can check my logic. New budget is ideally max £2800. I welcome any input on cost optimization or my conclusions. I have since decided I also want to: allow room for myself to safely dual-boot Linux (so 2 OS boot drives...

Thank you very much! Simulation software still predominantly use CPUs, there is more work being done recently by vendors to add GPU support but these are mostly in the commercial software space, which is certainly outside my hobbyist price range (can always do it at work :P ). I'll likely be...

I've been looking at a configuration for a reasonably chunky (but not top of the line) PC that I would use for playing games like modded Minecraft, modded Factorio, but also more mainstream triple AAA games (Baldur's gate, Cyberpunk etc. ) that I haven't thus far been able to try out with my...