Recent content by JA45

EDIT: the below was moved from the general desktop discussion. Big props to the mods for keeping my mad posting talents under control! — i’ve been in the process of putting together a spec for game development recently, and the folks over in Check My Spec have been amazing in helping me figure...

Getting an M.2 definitely looks like the right call, though dropping to 3200 in this spec doesn’t drop the price by too much. I might het a light one at build time and get a proper m.2 separate from this build in the new year. Its a good shout though! I might go down to 3200 anyway because it...

Brilliant, that’s just what I wanted to hear, thank you! I also appreciate the recommendation for the PSU and will take that advice and make the 750w jump. Thanks for your time!

Hello all, i’m back again to bug you all again with my incessant questions! Im currently working with the below spec (i decided to drop back down to 5900X because the 5950X took me a little too out of budget when including 3600Mhz RAM and the proper motherboard and cooling for the 5000 series...

Thank you both for your inputs! That’s extremely useful information to have to hand. I hadn’t even considered the speed of the RAM! Sadly I don’t have an existing windows license as i’m coming over fresh from years of unix/mac use day-to-day. Its been really useful to have some feedback...

Hey all, I took the time to do some extra research and came up with an alternative spec that I think might be better suited to my use case. The advantages here are jumping up to the 5950X which is definitely a bonus for the kind of work i’m expecting to do. Dropping down to 32GB of RAM (which...

Hey all, thanks for taking the time to check this out. Currently a software engineer doing game dev as a hobby on the side. Ive been working with notebook laptops (I know!) so far, but im beginning to hit a wall, so i’m looking to build a more powerful machine. Im pretty clueless when it comes...