Recent content by sck451

Would 10% over budget (so £2200) count as "ish"? If so, I've put the build I'd go for below. It is quite different: AMD rather than Intel and Nvidia, no hard drive, and liquid cooling. I'll include points where money could be saved as well. Note that this really wants to go with a 1440p or...

Frankly no, it is not suitable. What is your budget? What monitor will you be using?

I'd really question whether getting an out-of-date custom tower PC is more appropriate than, say, getting a mini-PC, smaller, more up-to-date, and equally capable of the work you're describing.

With a 9070 XT at 1440p in the vast majority of games, yes. If you're playing simulation games, then there would be a difference.

What specific monitor do you plant o get? Almost all 24" monitors are 1080p, whereas I'd really recommend looking at 1440p. You can get a good 1440p display for £150ish. Aiming for the middle of your budget, I'd look at modifying the above build like this: Case CORSAIR 3500X ARGB TEMPERED...

I'd question whether you need the X3D model. Do you know it will make a significant improvement to performance in your actual use cases? For 1440p with a 5070 Ti, you will not be CPU limited in the vast majority of games, and the 9950X is a very capable CPU. But the other options are also on the...

Crucial are great and those drives are amazing. But they're not really useful for consumer use. I'd suggest the Corsair ones as the best value, though the Samsung ones are also fine. You can tell the generation by the speed, by the way: below 3500MB/s is Gen 3, above 7000MB/s is Gen 5...

This looks really good to me. My only question would be about storage. I doubt you need even one Gen 5 drive, let alone two. You could go down to Gen 4 and get a 1TB boot and a 4TB secondary for £3 more. (Or a 2TB secondary for significantly less.) In most scenarios, there is absolutely no...

What's the budget? What monitor will you be using?

Yes, you'll be able to transfer the 1070 directly over. I would also consider if you could transfer any storage over. Yes, a better case will be better. You can spend any amount! The 3000D for £15 more is worthwhile. Better motherboards (and I'd recommend a better one still if you can) mean...

I think this system is seriously out of balance. You're spending a hell of a lot of money on things that will make zero difference to your performance. I'm actually going to include the CPU in that, becuase you will literally never be CPU-limited in your system, so the 9800X3D is an absolute...

Yeah, the last few generations have gone from "meh" to "not great" to "wow, that's hot" to "wow, it was so hot the CPU literally deformed itself". If you really want that much storage, I'd suggest getting one of the higher quality drives like the IronWolf 8TB one: faster and more reliable. (And...

First things first, avoid Intel. There is no reason at all to use an Intel chip right now: AMD is better at essentially everything, while also being more reliable and promising longer-term upgradability. Second, why do you want an 8TB hard drive?! So the build I would make would look like...

I wouldn't suggest trying to clone a boot drive. It can be done, but it's way easier just to do a fresh install on the new drive. You will probably be able to tell which slot the existing M.2 drive is in through the BIOS. I'm not sure there's a reliable way to do it in Windows. Note that the...

Well, I envy you your budget! If you really want to spend that money on a gaming PC, here's about as good as it gets. Note that it uses AMD's 9800X3D CPU rather than Intel's awful 14900KS chip, which literally degrades and deforms at the high temperatures that it creates. AMD is both better...