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Plassy:
MSI known for being lower end spectrum of computer hardware; surprised you have not come across Ilyama; highly rated in corporate circles for general graphics applications and gaming (sturdy; I have had 5 of these; 2 at home (gaming mainly) and 3 at my last place of work for general computing and spcialised graphics applications. Sorry, but I would never have gone down the MSI route for any of the uses :)
At the end of the day; all is down to personal preference and finding what is best for you!
Stealer:
Aye cheers plassy, my dad had an MSI mobo once - had no end of issues with it - hence I only do Asus these days - always reliable and drivers are easy to find :)
Aye my missus has a black hawk edition one only 75hz but is better than my 144hz!
Good point I agree with you, don't do MSI! I bought a Cyrix 333 pentium equivalent once - biggest waste of money I ever tried to save!!
Aye true, but it's always good to have some reviews from people you know or associate with online - you know they are not a bot :D
Grim_Fandango:
After a lengthy debate with myself, I've decided to push the boat out and build a gaming PC.
I already have a gaming laptop but it's only used that for browsing and bog-standard PC tasks.
My current UT machine is an ASUS PN51 in an Akasa silent case (Radeon Vega 6 Graphics).
Most of the components will be here today/tomorrow, but I have to wait until mid-week for the GFX card.
Should be up and running by the weekend :)
Case: ASUS TUF Gaming GT502 (white)
MoBo: ASUS TUF GAMING Z890-PRO WIFI
PSU: 850W FSP Fortron Hydro TI PRO ATX 3.0 80+TITANIUM
CPU: Intel Core™ Ultra 7 265K 20 cores
RAM: CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB) 5200MHz CL40 Intel XMP iCUE Compatible Computer Memory - White
GFX: ASRock Radeon RX 7800 XT Steel Legend 16GO, 16384 MB GDDR6
Storage: Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD, 2 TB, PCIe 4.0, 7,450 MB/s read, 6,900 MB/s write, Internal SSD
CPU Fan: Noctua NH-U12A, Premium CPU Cooler with High-Performance Quiet NF-A12x25
Case Fans: 4 x Noctua NF-A12x25 5V, Premium Quiet Fan
When completed, it should look like this.
Stealer:
Looks good Grim :)
Asus is the best for mobos, in my opinion, less faff and never had any problems!
M2 drives are soo much quicker. I've still yet to trasfer windows onto my faster M2 drive, just cba for the past 2 years!
I always go for modular PSUs these days - so I can lose all the cables I don't have plugged in!
Got my missus a 5900x for xmas, twice as many cores as mine - really notice the difference on multi-threaded games! Good choice, even though I'm not an intel fan :)
Curious to see how much difference the ram makes compared to 16 gig, that I have in mine.
Grim_Fandango:
Everything should have been here by now, but Amazon sent cables instead of case fans...TWICE!!!
They also sent the PSU with a Euro plug rather than UK, and I've had to buy the CPU from Currys Business as Amazon have let me down with delivery. I'm not concerned though, as those nice customer service agents at Amazon are doing the needful and have told me not to worry. Bezos can bite me!
I hated the bad old days of having a vipers nest of cables inside the case. As well as restricting airflow, the molex and sata cables were an eyesore. Shouldn't be an issue on this case, as it's dual compartment and the PSU is kept separate from the MoBo, GFX etc. Only problem with that is that the case is a PSU's depth fatter than a regular case as it mounts on the side rather than at the back.
I used to opt for AMD chips when building a machine, as AMD were traditionally better suited to gaming and Intel fared better at number crunching tasks, but either would be more than enough for my needs.
The GFX card arrived today. I haven't take it out of it's ESD wrapper yet as I don't want it covered in drool.
If this doesn't up my game, I'm going back to MS Solitaire :)
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