£1k upgrade

wsurfa · 14 Jun 2025 at 22:53

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Twelve Core 5.60GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-02675) = £399.95
1 x MSI MAG X870E Tomahawk WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-04361) = £299.99
1 x Crucial T500 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01090) = £128.98
1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04916) = £399.95
1 x Corsair Vengeance EXPO 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-02841) = £179.99

Total: £1,416.85 (includes delivery: £7.99)

wsurfa · 14 Jun 2025 at 22:54

I'll just nail another beer's worth of Dutch purchasing courage and click buy

. Thanks everyone

Gray2233 · 14 Jun 2025 at 22:59

wsurfa said:
I'll just nail another beer's worth of Dutch purchasing courage and click buy . Thanks everyone

What's a hangover and a few nights on the couch? Enjoy bud, I'm sure you'll enjoy the (rather massive) upgrade.

wsurfa · 14 Jun 2025 at 23:13

Beer drunk, purchase made. Couch ready with duvet...

wsurfa · 14 Jun 2025 at 23:14

OC forum is a fantastic place - thanks everyone

Gray2233 · 14 Jun 2025 at 23:18

wsurfa said:
OC forum is a fantastic place - thanks everyone

Always happy to help, and I'm sure that stands for everyone else in the thread too. Be sure to get back to us and let us know how you get on with the new kit.

mickyflinn · 14 Jun 2025 at 23:47

Sone thing to note that on first boot on AM5 it can take up to 15mins for anything to show on screen and may reboot a few times this is because the motherboard is training the memory so be patient.

Enjoy and let's us know how you get on.

wsurfa · 21 Jun 2025 at 15:06

Everything has arrived and I should be able to build it next weekend, I was due to be in Kuwait but that's been postponed for some reason....

wsurfa · 23 Jun 2025 at 08:41

Made the effort to build it yesterday . Not much time to test, but all seems to be running well.

Temps on cpu seem to ramp up and down (50-75) unless I have the aio fans running mid speed or higher, so I'll need to check that. It's an old corsair h115i 280mm that seemed to be fine with the old cpu. Perhaps dodgy paste application

mickyflinn · 23 Jun 2025 at 08:44

wsurfa said:
Made the effort to build it yesterday . Not much time to test, but all seems to be running well.

Temps on cpu seem to ramp up and down (50-75) unless I have the aio fans running mid speed or higher, so I'll need to check that. It's an old corsair h115i 280mm that seemed to be fine with the old cpu. Perhaps dodgy paste application

Make sure the memory is running at the correct speed by enabling expo in the bios.

Enjoy

wsurfa · 23 Jun 2025 at 09:12

mickyflinn said:
Make sure the memory is running at the correct speed by enabling expo in the bios.

Enjoy

Thanks will check tonight

wsurfa · 25 Jun 2025 at 16:42

mickyflinn said:
Make sure the memory is running at the correct speed by enabling expo in the bios.

Enjoy

Enabled EXPO in BIOS and temps not ramping up/down - no idea if that's connected

Thanks

Will run a few benchmark tests to see if it's performing near the expected level at the weekend.

I did have a few "god i'm an idiot" moments during the build e.g. swearing about fitting the bloody tiny front panel connectors (HDD LED etc), then finding the 'easyconnect cable' in the motherboard box...... I'm sure I'll have a few more "what are these left over bits" moments....

Thanks again everyone