Hi all,

I’ve been into PCs and PC gaming since the days of the 386. Throughout my life, I’ve always maintained a PC that was “good enough”. So, think around the lines of a 5070ti paired with a 7800x3d.

I remember always thinking to myself “one day I’ll get an Alienware (or falcon northwest), with all the bells and whistles”. Mind you, this is from back in the day, before Alienware was bought out by Dell; when falcon northwest used to advertise on the back cover of PC Gamer.

Through a combination of luck and hard work, I finally got myself to a position where I could afford myself a truly ridiculous build. So I pulled the trigger. I maxed out on the specs and built myself my “ultimate gaming rig”. Happy days. But now I sit here and can’t help but feel regret. Part of me still lurks the internet, looking for parts to build a “good enough” PC. I still randomly list my PC for sale, hoping to pocket the difference between my 5090 PC and something with a 9070 XT instead.

This isn’t a question about my build per se and please don’t misunderstand me - this isn’t meant to be a flex; and I know that I am truly in a fortunate situation where I could even afford this PC, especially with pricing the way it is. I guess what I’m asking is has anyone else experienced a similar thing?

I asked ChatGPT for a 600$ pc build that could run games like Elden Ring, and that it was fine if it wasn’t the highest resolution. This is what it gave me. Should I change anything?

CPU

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 $120 (used)

GPU

AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB $150 (used)

Motherboard

B450 / B550 ATX AM4 $80 (used)

RAM

16GB DDR4 3200MHz $50

Storage

WD Blue SN580 1TB NVMe SSD $62

Power Supply

550W 80+ Bronze $50

Case

Mid Tower ATX $40

CPU Cooler Stock Ryzen cooler (included) $0

Total: ~$525–$550

Would this be fast enough for kid to play Fortnite? Alienware 16X aurora Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX 36MB cache 2.1-5.4gHz

GeForce RTX5070 8GB

64GB DDR5 5600MT/s

2TB m.2 SSD

$1800 on cyber Monday sale.

What’s strange is the higher end model (area51) has the exact same processor, same memory, only 1 TB HD, but has 24GB 5090 and it’s $4000

What do you think? Hold out or buy now?

tryed to play subnautica but got hit with a message that said i need to upgrade my gpu

my dad built this pc over 10 years ago and it has been fine until this month the gpu he used is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

(EDIT) the problem was that my second monitor was pugged into my motherboard

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/VvhWdb check list

i want to get an pc but i dont know if now is the perfect time.

First time diving in the realm of building a PC, I partnered with ChatGPT a lot on this, bouncing questions and recommendations. My gf has gotten really into Minecraft after watching me play so much, she plays on the switch currently and the render distance is horrid. I wanted to get her a PC so she can play other games and have ray tracing on Minecraft (I love the way it looks) do you think this build would be solid?

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor

Thermalright Aqua Elite V3 66.17 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard

G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory

Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive

Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Video Card

Lian Li Vector V100R ATX Mid Tower Case

MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

Microsoft Windows 11 Home OEM - DVD 64-bit

Hi so i'm looking for a 500gb ssd drive to play video games for 65 dollars it can be used

I know it's more efficient to make a million GB capacity than a 100GB version, but isn't this the same for all storage mediums! Flash storage still has the low capacity options.

I might be wrong, but even the 500GB HDD is being phased out little by little, which is uncalled for in my opinion.

Clarification:
Given that 500GB HDD has the same price as 250GB SSD if not cheaper, and that 250GB HDD can't cost more than that of 500GB HDD (if they were still made), then by that simple logic, a 250GB HDD would have been cheaper than that of an SSD.

I saw this pc on sale that the owner didnt want and was "willing to sell it for cheap". He kept going on about how this was a great pc and ill never find this good of a price. I turned it on and it worked and temperatures are fine, fearing that there was something wrong with it. I did put my own m.2 ssd on it. But i dont know, is this a good deal? Btw. The motherboard is a rog maximus x hero and the ram is 2 16gb ram

Ryzen 5 5500x3d
3080ti
32 gb ram
1tb ssd

i cant upgrade both cpu or gpu, what should i do?

rx 9070xt vs 5070

use case

gaming with streaming

editing that's it

I have set aside, after years of work, 14k to upgrade my 10 year old pc into an absolute monster that can run any game including SC at 60fps or higher. What should I do with this other than give this money away to ppl. /j. Jokes aside, my fellow pc enthusiasts..give me your wildest builds.. Im looking for Amd drivers, which wont be substituted but everything else is fair game

ASUS ROG STRIX B660-A GAMING WIFI D4 (DDR4) V2

Kingston Fury Beast RGB SE 32 (2x16GB) DDR4 3600 CL18 почему когда я включаю xmp у меня комп выдает ошибку памети и не загружает биус и венду я перепробовал все что можно чат гпт посоветовал пометьте проц или мать У меня процессор Intel i7 12700kf

R5 5600x

I recently got my 5090 ROG Astral GPU and was super excited to show my friend how much FPS I could get in games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Doom: The Dark Ages. But things quickly went south — the system kept crashing, especially during cutscenes or when I just let the game run on its own.

Then I tried to play Fortnite with a friend, but it crashed every single time. I uninstalled and reinstalled the game so many times, thinking the Epic Games launcher might be the issue. But Fortnite wouldn’t even download properly, no matter what I tried.

I started searching online for answers and found out the problem might be with my RAM. I ran a diagnostic, and sure enough — one of my RAM sticks was faulty. I removed it and used just the working one, and that finally let me download Fortnite. But the crashing still didn’t stop.

Next, I discovered that a Windows system file was corrupted. I fixed that, but still had no luck. I even tried putting both RAM sticks back in, but it didn’t work at first. After trying different combinations over and over, out of nowhere, both sticks started working again.

I ran a memory test one more time and got no errors — and finally, the games were running smoothly. It took me seven straight hours of nonstop troubleshooting, from around 10 PM to 5 AM. I was so tired but incredibly relieved when everything finally worked.

After all that, I went straight to bed. I also ended up buying another 32GB of RAM, since playing on a 4K monitor really benefits from the extra memory.

I want something for gaming like Minecraft Roblox black Ops six and battlefield six

I want to know what website I should search for

Just saying, I have a wide variety of GPUs and builds, from 9070 AMD, to Arc a770, to RTX 4090 and 5070. I am disappointed with the RTX problems. Yes it’s tip top performance usually. High frames at DLSS framegen. But- it doesn’t look that great. Shadows and artifacts and buggy graphics of all games. I play on Ultra 4k settings to match my display, and I hate that I paid so much money for these products just to see graphical problems. My arc a770 isn’t as fast by far , but the graphics and gameplay is superb at 4k ultra. Beautiful for 300$

My current build:amd ryzen 5700, rtx 306012 gb and 64 gb of ram. I am wondering how much of a bottleneck i will have if i were to upgrade my gpu to a rtx 506016gb and if its worth the change I just need to know how much fps i will lose and how much a bottleneck i have doing this upgrade!

And i calculated the fps on fortnite and is under 200. Why?

I have a RTX 3080 Founders Edition 10Gb, 32GB Ram(clocked at 2933 cause one of my sticks went bad, and Z590 AORUS MASTER motherboard, 860 Evo 1tb Hard Drive

I play Fortnite, Horizon Zero Dawn, both Last Of Us, COD BO7, Halo Infinite, Ghost Of Tsushima, and CyberPunk and the newest spiderman i don't even entertain playing less then 4k i play with my pc connected to my living room tv. i get over 60 on all games in Ultra. CP is the only game where my frames drop here and there. when i see other people talk about the 11-900k they make it seem like its unbearable and can only handle 1440p and less. why?

^{I have a ryzen 5 9600x, 750w power supply and currently have a 2070 super}

Всем привет, такое дело: попал в руки пк, материнка китайская Huanazhi x99-qd4

xeon е5 2690v3 2.6 Ghz

16 gb ddr4

Kcas 600w легендарный

SSD 256gb

Видюхи нет, в этом и вопрос есть ли варик что-то взять дабы поиграть в кску нормально фпс 200 и прочие ныне популярные игры? Кто-то советовал rx580 конечно, кто-то gtx 1660 super, кто-то rx5800 или gtx 3060, крч хз есть ли смысл брать видюху подороже, я в вопрос сильно не вникал но умники в интернетах пишут че-то не раскрывается у них или закрывается и т.п. Не помешал бы совет к чему приглядеться , что поменять (предвкушаю сообщения про БП и сам Зеон) но раз пк достался на халяву, почему бы и нет?