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The wait continues then. I hope Ryzen 8000 and RTX5000 are going to be good.

3 months after I posted this, still no ATX3.0 PSUs and now you can't spec 6000MHz RAM with Ryzen builds anymore. :rolleyes:

Given the current well documented problems with Asus motherboards and X3D processors, has anyone here had an issue with a build from PCS? I recall seeing Gigabyte motherboards in the configurator a while ago, but now it's all Asus.

This is exactly what I want for my build. A proper ATX 3.0 compliant PSU, with a dedicated 12VHPWR socket, and proper 12VHPWR cable (not an adapter). IMHO, this is what PCS should be supplying in a near 4 grand 7950X3D + RTX4090 build.

Yes, that is correct. Non ATX 3.0 PSUs don't have the 12VHPWR socket, although as has been noted, Corsair do an adapter cable for their older PSUs, power delivery isn't an issue, and the RTX4090 is fine using it. PCS' response was this... "Thank you for your email, I understand your concerns...

I shall hold on to my wallet then :D(y) I want something beyond "more than adequate" for a nearly 4 grand system. I'm not buying in to something that is already technically obsolete, whther it works or not. Got burned like that with Kaby Lake. Never again.

I realise older PSUs can be made to work adequately, but something just doesn't sit right with me spending 3500-4000 on a PCIe 5.0 ATX3.0 system and having to half-arse it with a 12+4 adapter because my brand new PSU is actually "old".

When will I be able to spec a system with an ATX3.0 PSU? I want to spec a 7950X3D + RTX4090 system, but I'm not willing to compromise with adapter cables and out-dated power supplies.

So my Octane III 4K 17.3" came today. Amazing machine, very impressed with the spec etc, but... Sadly, it came with a very noticeable dead pixel in the top right portion of the 4K screen and has gone yellow around this pixel to about the size of a 5p coin. I've tried to get a good picture of...

My wife knocked a full pint of blackcurrant juice over my 5 year old Vortex II at the weekend and it is no more! I'd been toying with the idea of replacing the old girl anyway (Vortex II, not wife) so this has kinda forced my hand. I need this to be powerful, as I would like to play the newer...

Where did the laptop with the 980 desktop GPU go? Defiance IV 17" was it? Are we going to get a 1080 desktop GPU based replacement any time soon? Possibly with 4K?

This is what a USB 3.0 port looks like:

USB 3.0 Sockets are light blue inside, like this:

Anyone on here play Eve Online? 2004 bitter vet here o/

According to this post by Sager (the biggest Clevo reseller in the world) they have sucessfully upgraded the P150HM to 7970M and are offering upgrade kits. Upgrading the 17.3" version (P170HM) is slightly more complicated, as outlined in their post.

These are my idle temps: If I do the FN+1 trick, I can get the CPU cores into the high 20's and the GPU down to mid 30's :D

Ok, just to pad this thread out a bit. I wasn't satisfied with a GPU temp of 102c after playing Skyrim for a couple of hours on my Vortex II 15.6"... so I set to work trying to improve things. First thing was the fan table Using this thread I first updated my EC/KBC firmware from 1.00.11 to...

After 3-4 hours of playing Skyrim with everything on ultra, my 6990M is hitting 102c. Considering I chose the Arctic Silver compound when I ordered it, this suggests something is wrong. A quick Google for 6990M temps suggests mid 80's to low 90's is the normal max, even with a mild overclock...

Source of above benchmark Another review of the SanDisk Extreme "The SanDisk Extreme SSD is surprising in a many ways. Just when we thought we had seen the top of what the SF-2281 SSDs are capable of, SanDisk unleashes the Extreme SSD with a unique NAND configuration and firmware that...

I bought my Vortex II way back in September last year, and it still has the BIOS it came with. On POST, the year 2010 is displayed, which is very old. This just won't do... I need to flash it :sorcerer: I saw a thread inviting people to PM a mod with their email address to have the latest BIOS...