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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...

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...

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...

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...

Was wondering what y'all thought of this build for the above purposes. I'm a Twitch streamer who, whilst I spend a lot of time streaming, I don't stream modern AAA titles, so cutting-edge graphics are not a requirement for me. I intend to use my current graphics card, the GTX 970 in this system...

Hey all, I currently have a primary SSD for boot/system files and a 1TB HDD for storage in my PCS system, and I also have an external HDD which serves as a backup for my internal HDD. For simplicity, let's call the internal drive I: and the external drive J:. What I would like to know is the...

Been tooling around with some configurations after keeping up with new hardware releases for a while and threw this together. - Moderate-to-heavy gaming; mostly older titles, no brand new titles at max settings - Heavy streaming to Twitch at high settings - Some video editing and HEAVY browser...

When will this be available from PCS? The Overclocking options are only offered for the first-gen Ryzen CPUs thus far.

Noticed this case has appeared in the configurators and it looks really nice, but something looks very off in the specs: "Dimensions 843 x 223 x 435mm (Approx H x W x D)" 843 mm high??? That makes it 30~% taller than the most expensive cases the site offers! Looking at it visually, this...

Assuming that all other factors such as case, cooler, load and environment are equal, what sort of heat differences can one expect between a system that isn't overclocked VS one that is? I'm curious to know how much extra heat I'd be looking at if I were to buy a pre-OC system, both on idle and...

I've been looking at what I can throw together for this price as a gaming/streaming/video editing rig, and I came up with this. Any advice on whether the parts I've selected have known performance issues and whether there are better alternatives are much appreciated. Case InWIN GT1 BLACK GAMING...

I placed an order just over a week ago which included the Triple Coppter Heatpipe cooler, and now that I'm looking through the available parts again I see that it's been removed and replaced with the DragonFly Triple Copper Heatpipe. Is this the same thing, just renamed? If not and it's a...

I've already placed an order, but since placing it a potential issue has come up that may require me to have an SD reader that allows the use of SDXC cards. I've noticed that the Desktops have the 52-in-1 reader, whilst the laptops have the 9-in-1 reader that seems to support different formats...

I was looking at some builds before Christmas, but now I'm more or less ready to actually make an order. Made some minor changes to the build I was looking at, and now it's something like this: Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache Case COOLERMASTER CM...

I see that there are some new images in the configurator to show previews of each PC case, but it does make me wonder: Do we get what we see? I only ask because I've been looking at the Sharkoon Bulldozer case in particular, which features pictures of the case complete with card reader and 4...

As the title implies, really. I'm keen on getting an SSD, and I notice that the Kingston HyperX SSDs are often recommended, but if this benchmarking chart is to be believed, the Samsung 840 EVO 120GB outperforms it, and it is also slightly cheaper...

I've noticed how much some people mod their systems with things such as LED strips, alternatively coloured components, etc. Since this isn't something that appears in the configurators, should I assume that this isn't a service that PCS offers? I'm quite taken with the idea of having green LED...

So I've spent the last few days looking at different builds and I think I have a ballpark figure of what I'd be happy to buy right now if I was able to just sink the money now. That said, after some discussion with others, I'm wondering if it's not worth waiting a while. People were saying that...

So I bought a setup from PCS a few years ago, and I think it's about time for an upgrade. Here is what I am currently running on: Processor (CPU) AMD PHENOM II X2 550 (3.10GHz/6MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION Memory (RAM) 2GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (1 x 2GB) Graphics Card 1GB ATI...