The Power PC Thread [f*ck off consoles]

[Ray Gin]

£446 - 6800
£500 - 6800 XT
£770 - 6900 XT

All lower power usage than Nvidia cards for a change too which is mental so they'll save a bit of £ per year if you use your machine as much as @Moonshot loves buying PC parts but not actually building a PC

Just bought 4x Corsair QL140 rgb fans

 

[Speedo Gonzales]

Just bought 4x Corsair QL140 rgb fans

What case you got all this RGB going into?

 

[Ray Gin]

What case you got all this RGB going into?

Antec P120 Crystal

 

[Speedo Gonzales]

Antec P120 Crystal

Decent!

Cant wait to see you put it together, what bits you still got to get?

 

[Ray Gin]

Decent!

Cant wait to see you put it together, what bits you still got to get?

I’m not looking forward to putting it together. I know nothing about PCs and the only knowledge I’ve gained is from asking questions on here and asking 2 mates. Plus many hours of YouTube LOL. Just the processor left I believe, I am leaning towards the ryzen 7 3700x for no other reason other than YouTube saying it’s good for gaming.

 

[Rojer]

Corsair RGB can be a pain in the ass in terms of controlling more than 3 fan’s speed and colours. I really wanted to use Corsair when I was building mine, but their nonsense put me off.

 

[boultonn]

I’m not looking forward to putting it together. I know nothing about PCs and the only knowledge I’ve gained is from asking questions on here and asking 2 mates. Plus many hours of YouTube LOL. Just the processor left I believe, I am leaning towards the ryzen 7 3700x for no other reason other than YouTube saying it’s good for gaming.

Only thing I know about PC builds from the internet is that toothpaste is not a suitable alternative to thermal paste, HTH.

 

[Grandpa Joe]

I’m not looking forward to putting it together. I know nothing about PCs and the only knowledge I’ve gained is from asking questions on here and asking 2 mates. Plus many hours of YouTube LOL. Just the processor left I believe, I am leaning towards the ryzen 7 3700x for no other reason other than YouTube saying it’s good for gaming.

Price/performance for gaming you can't go wrong with the 3600. However I'd wait a couple of weeks and pick up the 5600.

 

[SharkyUK]

AMD said $999, even at £900 its still a decent deal tbf

Yeah - hopefully it will be a good deal. I would have preferred to have seen the 6900XT benchmarks without the RAGE Mode and SAM activated though to see how it stacks up against the nVidia 3090. It won't be quite so good a deal if you have to factor in the cost of a new Ryzen CPU, mobo and RAM on top of the cost of the GPU! The benchmarks should hopefully roll in pretty soon as cards are being prepped for sending out and testing.

 

[Speedo Gonzales]

Yeah - hopefully it will be a good deal. I would have preferred to have seen the 6900XT benchmarks without the RAGE Mode and SAM activated though to see how it stacks up against the nVidia 3090. It won't be quite so good a deal if you have to factor in the cost of a new Ryzen CPU, mobo and RAM on top of the cost of the GPU! The benchmarks should hopefully roll in pretty soon as cards are being prepped for sending out and testing.

True, but everyone loves a bit of PCMR 😂

I'm still sat here with a Ryzen 5 2600 and my dick in my hand ffs, I could only dream of 5000 and 6000 series tackle 😂

 

[Willo40]

I know it's going to be a lottery, but i am hoping to get hold of a Ryzen 7 5800x for my lad on the 5th Nov, anyone got any idea if they will be available to pre-order before that? or where would be the most likely to have stock on the 5th? i would normally wait, but it's for his bday next month.

 

[Grandpa Joe]

Overclockers might give you a pre order option or a due date.

 

[Willo40]

Overclockers might give you a pre order option or a due date.

Spoke to them yesterday, they couldn't say either way, spoke to Scan and they just said they will be available to order online at 2pm on the 5th, so will just have to be ready.

 

[Grandpa Joe]

Spoke to them yesterday, they couldn't say either way, spoke to Scan and they just said they will be available to order online at 2pm on the 5th, so will just have to be ready.

Ebuyer is another option that might have pre orders.

 

[Ray Gin]

 

[Daz...]

I bet you've got a nice pile of boxes now @Moonshot

 

[Speedo Gonzales]

Nice

Has anyone done a speed test between the SATA and NVMe versions of the 2TB Samsung M.2? When are you buying a 250GB NVMe M.2 for your OS @Moonshot 👀

 

[Ray Gin]

I bet you've got a nice pile of boxes now @Moonshot

By Saturday I should have all the parts here. The spare room is essentially boxes filled with rgb

 

[Ray Gin]

Nice

Has anyone done a speed test between the SATA and NVMe versions of the 2TB Samsung M.2? When are you buying a 250GB NVMe M.2 for your OS @Moonshot 👀

When am I buying a what?

 

[Daz...]

When am I buying a what?

A separate drive for your Windows installation. You don't want everything on one drive because if you have to reinstall windows (which is more often than you think) you'll lose everything else with it....

 

[Ray Gin]

A separate drive for your Windows installation. You don't want everything on one drive because if you have to reinstall windows (which is more often than you think) you'll lose everything else with it....

f**k sake

 

[Speedo Gonzales]

When am I buying a what?

Well you have a 2TB SATA M.2, but they're slower than an NVMe M.2

Plus I thought you would be hoying your games onto the 2TB, keeps em separate, if you ever have to play around with your OS and brick it you've got somewhere for a potential backup

 

[Daz...]

f**k sake

It's one of the basics really. You need to have a word with your mates, they should've told you this already.

 

[Daz...]

@Moonshot This is what you want for the OS.

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive

MZ-V7S250BW, 250GB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, M.2 (2280) PCIe 3.0 (x4) NVMe SSD, Phoenix, MLC V-NAND, 3500MB/s Read, 2300MB/s Write, 250k/550k

www.overclockers.co.uk

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

f**k sake

Not sure why they’re winding you up.

You don’t need a separate drive for your OS, and if you want one (it’s a bit of an old school thing that’s out dated these days) then you can just partition a larger drive.

 

[Speedo Gonzales]

@Moonshot This is what you want for the OS.

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive

MZ-V7S250BW, 250GB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, M.2 (2280) PCIe 3.0 (x4) NVMe SSD, Phoenix, MLC V-NAND, 3500MB/s Read, 2300MB/s Write, 250k/550k

www.overclockers.co.uk

I've just got this exact one, cheaper on Amazon when you add in the delivery

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07MHXYL6T/?tag=cliospnet01-21

 

[Ray Gin]

@Moonshot This is what you want for the OS.

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive

MZ-V7S250BW, 250GB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, M.2 (2280) PCIe 3.0 (x4) NVMe SSD, Phoenix, MLC V-NAND, 3500MB/s Read, 2300MB/s Write, 250k/550k

www.overclockers.co.uk

Not sure why they’re winding you up.

You don’t need a separate drive for your OS, and if you want one (it’s a bit of an old school thing that’s out dated these days) then you can just partition a larger drive.

🙈 I did end up buying the above SSD

 

[Daz...]

Made of money you are.

I wouldn't consider it a waste though, it's a better drive than the other one anyway.

 

[Ray Gin]

The SSD I got yesterday was really highly rated? Oh well got it now 😂

 

[Speedo Gonzales]

The Amstrad was really high rated too

 

[Ray Gin]

The Amstrad was really high rated too

The what?

 

[Speedo Gonzales]

The what?

Cmon now, a nipper like me even knows what an Amstrad is 😂

 

[Ray Gin]

Cmon now, a nipper like me even knows what an Amstrad is 😂

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Looks like @Ant1 setup

 

[Cookie]

I see it's yet another dismal pre order failure. Didn't even bother for a 3070! Will look in the new year

 

[-KarL-]

I see it's yet another dismal pre order failure. Didn't even bother for a 3070! Will look in the new year

I got the founders edition in my basket on the scan website just checked when trying to checkout so gave up.

On eBay for double within minutes with Scan invoices 😂

 

[Ray Gin]

Just bought my cpu, ryzen 7 3700X

Early next year I’ll change my gpu and cpu, so a 1080ti and a 3700x will do for a few months

 

[Jonnio]

All my stuffs on the one drive. I'm careful what webpages I go on now though so no reinstalling Windows every week like in the XP days

 

[Jonnio]

All my stuffs on the one drive. I'm careful what webpages I go on now though so no reinstalling Windows every week like in the XP days

Scratch that, I lied. All my pictures/music/docs are on external drives.

Only the one SSD in the PC with Windows/games/programs on though.

 

[Daz...]

Do you remember what day it is @Jonnio ? 😂

 

[Jonnio]