heya everyone i finally had a day to collect my thoughts without another day shift and i orginized my Garage and Loot Pool >< i have more parts then i thought and was thinking would this be considered a Ancient Beast? 1. 7980Xe Delidded + Copper IHS + Direct Die Frame 2. Evga X299 Dark E-ATX 3. Nvidia 2080TI Founders Edition 4. 128GB Corsair 4x32GB 3600mhz 5. Cooler Master Cosmos II (modded side Panel) 6. Silverstone 1200w Platium PSU 7. 2TB Sabrent Rocket (gen 3) 8. Hyptane 905 380gb... Read more ..read more

Help all iv finally come to the point the Asus Dark Hero x570 with a 5950x and 128GB of ram is going to leave the Corsair 1000D and go to my Wife's Nephew I'm upgrading him from a Intel Core 6600K and a AMD 580 8GB. But need to know if i goofed on the PSU am I only one seeing it only has 1 EPS connector for a single 8pin can I use the PCIe for another EPS? First time buying a different PSU other then Corsair/EVGA. be quiet! BN517 Straight Power 12-1200w 1, ROG Croshair VIII Dark... Read more ..read more

$1000 taxes in is the max, but the winner is whoever comes up with a build with at least 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. edit - all new, from scratch...can be iGPU or dGPU. sounding out things for a buddy who's pondering selling 1080p entry gaming systems to youth ..read more

1. The PC will be used for web surfing, streaming, rocking to tunes and gaming. Baldur's Gate, Cyberpunk, Wingspan, Animal Crossing, etc. etc. 2. Budget is in Candian dollars - $1,000 +/- 3. See above 4. No brand preference 5. Will be keeping monitor, keyboard, mouse, hard drive(s), speakers, Windows license, case, fans, PSU 6. It has been a while since we've done any PC building so we're not up on the the latest info and are thus lost in the sea of data 7. NO overclocking 8. Pretty... Read more ..read more

Sad days ahead. Printus Maximus the 2nd shall be retired. For those whom remember that build thread. In the last year I've begun to consolidate everything to be rack mounted. and well as you can see.. Printus was just not designed for this. Printus shall be replaced by a 4U Server Chassis. Clearly much larger then i should require. However I still like to add some flair and fun. I still have... Read more ..read more

A complete new build after 5 years. What originally started as an innocent “simple” upgrade to existing 5 year old system turned into a crazy few hours at the local comp store. Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X Core i9-13900K Gigabyte Aero RTX 4070 Ti Super G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 6400 CL32 64GB DeepCool LT720 (Cube) Corsair RM1000X Shift Kingston KC3000 M.2 NVMe 2TB Fractal Design North Only thing left to do is final cabling. Will post pics when done. There were slight challenges of fitment of... Read more ..read more

Hi I would like to seek advice and at the same time ask if my suggestions below will fit into the chosen cases and whether I will be able to connect everything neatly and cleanly inside? I want to downsize my current case (W200 tank) into a compact case that can fit on a desk or underneath it. I'm considering 3 PC cases: Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO XL CORSAIR 7000X RGB NZXT H9 Flow I want to cool the components with THREE radiators: 3x Black Ice Nemesis GTS 360 Possibly, if the... Read more ..read more

-PC Use: -- Diablo 1/2/3, Warcraft 2/3. Stardew (Modded, with SVE if I can get it working), Bloodstained, grim dawn, various Sony games releases on Steam. https://steamcommunity.com/id/DlfC/games/ If you want to see what I've played and or my wishlist. Also, GOG. If possible, I'd like to try to pass a GPU through to a Virtual Machine to use Windows for some easier games (that wouldn't run through linux (probably mint or some 'buntu variant) or are just cumbersome). -- Web... Read more ..read more

Hey guys, Time to upgrade from my i7 8700. What you think about that. Gigabyte B650 Gaming X AX AM5 200$ 32DDR5 5600Mhz Teamgroup CL46 110$ AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 280$ Noctua NH-D15S Chromax.Black 120 ..read more

Apologies to everyone I feel like this is the dumbest question in the world (not to mention two posts on here within the space of the same week ! But I keep coming back because you guys are so kind friendly and helpful ) So for over a decade I've been using this for cable management inside of PC's Commercial Electric 14 in. UV Cable Tie, Black (20-Pack) GT-370STB(20) - The Home Depot A cable fastening device provides strong support for positioning cable and pipe bundles. The design of its head guarantees a high tensile strength while allowing a very low insertion force. Products are www.h ..read more