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I wouldn't spec anything now, current GPUs will be out of date in a couple of weeks, and the new GPUs will beat them at a lower tier (ie a 5080 will be around the same as a 4090 for substantially less money) New GPU's are announced in the first week of January, so check back in then.

I definitely wouldn't buy the 4070 Super, it's under provisioned with regards to VRAM for the 1440p it's targeting. With regards to VRAM it's more of a 1080p card, and it's just woefully poor value for 1080p. That's assuming you're wanting Ray Tracing. If you're not interested in that, then an...

As already stated, you wouldn't use PCS, your driver will have been updating by windows update regularly. Any drivers are on the Asus site, they list historical versions as well, so you can install whichever version you want to test.

1 long and 3 short on Asus boards is normally a graphics error. https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1029959/ The slow browser performance could be attributed to hardware acceleration being turned on. Simple test, in your browser, disable hardware acceleration, then test browsing performance...

💯on this Last year the big titles were: Ghostwire: Tokyo Guardians Of The Galaxy Outer Worlds: Spacers Choice Edition Ghostrunner In 2022 it was: Dishonored – Definitive Edition Wolfenstein: The New Order Metro: Last Light Redux Death Stranding on Christmas Day which was only out a year at...

Just do due diligence before reinstalling, make sure you back up any config sources, an awful lot these days are in the standard windows user profile in c:/Users/Username/ Just copy those into your data directory so it's off the OS drive. If you've got any programs that support it check in the...

No, that will simply reset the existing install, doesn’t actually reinstall anything. Clean install is the only proper install method

Ur, we're not talking about company machines, that's a completely different things, the registry is massively controlled by group policy on a domain which is entirely different to a home use computer. Talking about high performance machines, like gaming or rendering. You certainly don't NEED...

I’d read back what I wrote and can see the double entendres, it genuinely wasn’t meant that way, although perhaps it was honesty getting through despite my attempts to hide it

I do... regularly

I think that's probably quite accurate, yes

For a PC though, you wouldn't use any drivers from your PCS account as they will be out of date. You'd always go to the manufacturers website, so the motherboard download page on Asus in your case.

You’re definitely ahead of me. I’ve tweaked my right shoulder while sleeping. I’d like to think I was fending off an army of vampires while I slept with a silver broadsword, in a sort of automated natural physical response based on decades of expert training.

What resolution are you playing at? Are you using any DLSS and Ray Tracing? That cooler is nowhere near enough for the CPU, fist thing I'd do is run a stress test and monitor temps after 10 minutes, fairly certain that's going to be heavily thermal throttling. As you were advised when you...

That makes sense, did sound like something was a bit corrupted somewhere. It's worth doing a clean install annually on each major windows revision (24/H2 is the latest windows version released in September), that will avoid a lot of these issues. Often major updates can cause loads of issues if...

Drivers being wiped is entirely expected, that's what a clean install is, it completely wipes everything How come you clean installed in the first place?

Windows can't get it wrong in that way, it's not possible I'm assuming you didn't actually clean install, likely just in place upgraded

Microsoft in general have massively dropped the ball this year, if you check their reliability in Azure / Windows / Office with updates applied this year it's been absolutely attrocious, basically since they've implemented Copliot into everything it just broke things at a platform level. That's...

Your windows is unquestionably fully borked Don't install McAfee, and don't install PCCleaner, they're irrelevant apps from XP days, now nothing more than malware. By clean installing it will sort out your drive arrangement also. But the whole windows install is completely borked