Recent content by Drakodan

Just ordered, thank you very much for the help and advice!

Thanks for the suggestions, the savings from the B650 motherboard fully offsets the cost of going up to a 2TB drive, so that works very well. Will likely order tomorrow if any other suggestions aren't forthcoming.

Oops, thanks for pointing that out! I'll be slotting in my 12GB GTX 3060, also from PCS. I'll edit the original post to specify that.

Good evening. I've posted in the past a few times about buying a new system to replace my PCS system from 2014 without ever having actually gone through with it, convincing myself that it was still "good enough" for purpose, but I'm really feeling the age of the system at this point and am now...

Bump, any comments appreciated!

Good morning, I have made a few posts over the years about intending to get a new system, but the timing never seemed right whilst my system continued to be "adequate". With the release of the new generation of AMD hardware I would like to make this the time when I finally retire my 2014 system...

Good afternoon, I recently posted about buying a new spec owing to my GPU failing (might be something to do with almost constant uptime for a few years) and was advised to simply replace the GPU itself if I could afford to wait on investing in a whole new system, which I decided I could. After...

750W PSU, and 16GB RAM. Would PCS be willing to sell a GPU on its own if I called them up? No upgrade options were listed when I checked on the order/upgrade page.

Bumping in case anyone else has anything to add

Unfortunately the upgrade facility was the first place I looked, and it listed no options for GPU. Or pretty much any other component, for that matter. I'm fine with the idea of getting a new rig, I just don't want to order something and then find out after a month that there's a bunch of new...

Good evening, My current PCS machine has had an excellent run but is definitely showing its age; i7 4790k, DDR3 RAM and a GTX 970, a bit of a dinosaur as you can see. I've sought feedback on a couple of prospective builds in the past but didn't go through with buying either of them as I felt my...

So it looks like I may just end up repeating my cycle of delaying getting an upgrade, as right after making this thread and receiving your appreciated responses, I saw that there are whispers that 2021 is going to be the year of DDR5 memory, which makes me think now is probably not the best time...

Thank you for the responses, very helpful and I'm open to the idea of going with the 5800X instead. Any comments on the case that I've chosen? I'm trying to keep it relatively compact, without going as small as possible since I would like it to be well-ventilated and have a bit of headroom.

Thanks for the replies, yes I am still using the 4790k system; I never actually went through with purchasing the previous system I asked about some time ago. Here's a configuration URL: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am4-gen3-pc/QBbcEmar!3/ That's a good shout on...

Good afternoon, I've been running off my PCS system for several years now, and whilst it typically still gets the job done for general usage, I'm starting to see some performance drop-off during more intensive usage such as whilst streaming+recording. I'm currently using a dual-monitor 1080p...