Trigger unpulled... for some reason the order has been cancelled! I've opened a thread in the correct forum, rather disappointed though! I've literally just accepted delivery of the power supply, getting excited, checked to see the status of this and see it's been cancelled (a couple of hours ago it was still showing as order received!).
Building new PC in a month or 2.
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I'll call then. Doubt it would be the bank, especially since I did it via amazon, and it's been a while. It's possible though.
Turns out Amazon failed to make the charge, and don't bother telling anyone about it.
Crazy, since I made a purchase (the psu) almost exactly the same time, and never had an issue before. I even chose Amazon because it's been the most reliable place for me to make easy purchases on my card, since I've had other charges blocked (don't use the card too often, since living out of the country).
All sorted out over the phone, package bought. Spoke to Rich, great service!
Crazy, since I made a purchase (the psu) almost exactly the same time, and never had an issue before. I even chose Amazon because it's been the most reliable place for me to make easy purchases on my card, since I've had other charges blocked (don't use the card too often, since living out of the country).
All sorted out over the phone, package bought. Spoke to Rich, great service!
I will, only bit that will be missing is the monitor. It's available on rainforest, fulfilled by them, but sold through a reseller, think I'll hold off until it's the forest themselves (shame OC don't seem to have it).
Found a review on it on youtube, reviewer seemed happy.
Found a review on it on youtube, reviewer seemed happy.
So it's on a 720p ancient tv right now, but this message is coming to you from the new 2700x build!
Looking quite nice, need to close it up now and go to bed. Tomorrow evening I'll be working on getting the ram to the correct speed in the bios, and generally setting up the system.
Delay on the 140mm means I'm going to have to open it up properly again in a couple of weeks, but I'm just happy it basically worked on my first try (first try the tv had defaulted back to original source, so I didn't see any input, managed not to get too panicked though).
There's a weird springy metallic sound coming from the speedlink mechanical keyboard, not to terrible though and no doubt something I could get used to. Some squeaking from some some keys and the backspace has a completely different sound to the rest.
Still, it's glowing, as is the mouse (which is quite large I reckon, I like it so far).
Looking quite nice, need to close it up now and go to bed. Tomorrow evening I'll be working on getting the ram to the correct speed in the bios, and generally setting up the system.
Delay on the 140mm means I'm going to have to open it up properly again in a couple of weeks, but I'm just happy it basically worked on my first try (first try the tv had defaulted back to original source, so I didn't see any input, managed not to get too panicked though).
There's a weird springy metallic sound coming from the speedlink mechanical keyboard, not to terrible though and no doubt something I could get used to. Some squeaking from some some keys and the backspace has a completely different sound to the rest.
Still, it's glowing, as is the mouse (which is quite large I reckon, I like it so far).
Those are all pretty words and ideas, and the ryzen calculator looks very pretty too... but right now it's all vaguely familiar words, rather than useful instructions 
. I'll do some more reading, ready for later today when I'll actually sit down and have a go .
. I'll do some more reading, ready for later today when I'll actually sit down and have a go .I'm not panicking too much about this bit, I know the board has dual bios, so I think I've fairly immune to destroying it all now.
I spent most my time last night doing bits and pieces on the case, finally got my nerve together and took the motherboard, CPU and Ram out.
Going to have a bit more confidence when I open it up to redo the fans, try and get the cables a bit neater.
I spent most my time last night doing bits and pieces on the case, finally got my nerve together and took the motherboard, CPU and Ram out
.Going to have a bit more confidence when I open it up to redo the fans, try and get the cables a bit neater.
Old TV, waiting on the monitors to get released by Amazon still. Had to go into the corner of the conservatory, since that was the only place the power cables would all reach and there was a convenient enough table. That's with the window off. The mouse and keyboard are glowing too, bit tough to see on the mouse.
Yep, white isn't bad at all. The bright ryzen fan suits it, and the red from the motherboard fits nicely enough too with the red mouse and keyboard. More luck than judgement, since the colours really aren't what I was concerned about.
On the memory clocking, could I use the gigabyte easytune software?
https://www.gigabyte.com/FileUpload/global/Microsite/369/images/system-tweaking.html
https://www.gigabyte.com/FileUpload/global/Microsite/369/images/system-tweaking.html
Done the ram, easy enough to set the xmp profile Haven't stress tested though, what would be the best way to do that?
I've also worked out why I likely wasn't getting any cpu fan speeds in the bios (that was a worry), but on a closer look, I'd plugged the cpu fan into cpu_opt rather than cpu_fan, so whilst it was spinning properly, it wasn't recording the speeds correctly.
Haven't stress tested though, what would be the best way to do that?I've also worked out why I likely wasn't getting any cpu fan speeds in the bios (that was a worry), but on a closer look, I'd plugged the cpu fan into cpu_opt rather than cpu_fan, so whilst it was spinning properly, it wasn't recording the speeds correctly.
Looking forward to seeing the difference it can make to be honest. Get the feeling the stock fans really aren't able to suck much clean air in through the filtered front, the phanteks look to have really good pressure ratings (not necessarily as high as the industrials, but quieter than anything else that can reach it, which isn't much).
Update time, and why not 
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It's been doing me proud. I work in a small garden office, got a 5.1 speaker setup in there too.
Monitor is big enough to sit back on the small sofa and watch TV/Films on with the missus, and is very nice for work, allowing 2 browsers side by side and fitting plenty of info on both.
Doubt I've come close to really pushing the system, except perhaps gaming on the GPU. Just recently upgraded the GPU to a 1070ti, which gets closer to being able to max out the monitor in the witcher 3, still won't come close in more modern titles I suppose (and obviously not ray tracing!).
Small sense of satisfaction when looking over the advice I didn't take on reddit buildapc. Had someone recommend a z370 board and an intel 8600k, worse ram, and then just basically a better graphics card for another £100 on top of my budget. Yes, a 1070ti earlier would have been better for gaming, but a budget is sort of there for a reason. Funniest thing is that he said that by buying the bundle of the x370, I'd be buying an obselete chipset and that the 8600k can do everything I need, but likely better. Had another get a bit aggressive over that as well as I was deciding to stick with the 2700x bundle. Now I look at which of the 2 boards can still run the latest generation of chips, and it's not the intel, and it'd also be the 6C/6T chip that would need replacing soonest as games start to utilise more and more cores/threads effectively (already seeing that).
So a big thank you to you guys for pointing me in the right direction, that was actually more future proof.
.It's been doing me proud. I work in a small garden office, got a 5.1 speaker setup in there too.
Monitor is big enough to sit back on the small sofa and watch TV/Films on with the missus, and is very nice for work, allowing 2 browsers side by side and fitting plenty of info on both.
Doubt I've come close to really pushing the system, except perhaps gaming on the GPU. Just recently upgraded the GPU to a 1070ti, which gets closer to being able to max out the monitor in the witcher 3, still won't come close in more modern titles I suppose (and obviously not ray tracing!).
Small sense of satisfaction when looking over the advice I didn't take on reddit buildapc. Had someone recommend a z370 board and an intel 8600k, worse ram, and then just basically a better graphics card for another £100 on top of my budget. Yes, a 1070ti earlier would have been better for gaming, but a budget is sort of there for a reason. Funniest thing is that he said that by buying the bundle of the x370, I'd be buying an obselete chipset and that the 8600k can do everything I need, but likely better. Had another get a bit aggressive over that as well as I was deciding to stick with the 2700x bundle. Now I look at which of the 2 boards can still run the latest generation of chips, and it's not the intel, and it'd also be the 6C/6T chip that would need replacing soonest as games start to utilise more and more cores/threads effectively (already seeing that).
So a big thank you to you guys for pointing me in the right direction, that was actually more future proof
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