Hi everyone,
so I've spent the last week and a half trying to beat PCS at their game of quickly changing prices.
Now, would you believe that for the spec above that was £2,861.00 just a few days ago I've now been quoted £2,563.00 this morning? :cool:
This meant just ~£200 difference between 3080...
Thanks guys, I think we may have a winner here:
Case
Send In Your Own Case
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12 Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.8GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (2 x...
Thanks! What's the reasoning behind 1000 vs 850?
Also, what would you say to @Steveyg suggestion above? If I was to get a Corsair H115i, I'd need to lower RAM to 16GB to fit the budget.
Right, so taking inspiration from all the specs you posted, here's what I came up with. What do you think?
Case
Send In Your Own Case
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12 Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.8GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0) - ARGB Ready...
Wow, this thread really shot up after I was gone yesterday :) Thanks everyone for your contributions.
Max budget is £2700
My monitor is Acer Predator X34P
It's purely for gaming, the focus is VR on Reverb G2 and sims but I like flat games too, and I'd like to crank up the details as much as I...
Fair enough, perhaps I had the cost to benefit wrong. I guess I'll risk some troubleshooting and cancel my order :)
Would you have a spec to suggest for me? Thanks!
The wall brick feeds into a little box on the cable itself actually, and you have to plug in USB to your PC regardless of whether you use the power brick or not.
Thanks for taking time to reply @SpyderTracks. I agree it's hard to find reliable information on the internet. However, even if you follow the HP official advice you quoted, there are still guys like this...
https://www.resetera.com/threads/amd-admits-that-there-are-usb-connectivity-issues-with-the-x570-and-b550-chipsets-seems-to-happen-mostly-if-you-have-a-pcie-gen-4-gpu.382020/
It's a bit of a lottery apparently, the bios updates fixed it for some people, for others some workarounds helped, like...