Just ordered my new system!

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I got my annual bonus this week and after paying off the credit cards and a few items I'd promised the wife I've gone ahead and order the new PC I've been promising myself. I'm very happy. :D
Finally decided that I can't justify £2500 on a 5090 and with the rumour of a 5080ti in the summer I've decided to get a 5080 based system today and potentially upgrade later in the year if that card appears.

I've gone with the "OcUK Gaming Claymore - Intel Core i9 14900KF, Geforce RTX 5080 Gaming PC" as the base system, upgrading the RAM to 64GB, the storage to 5TB (1+4) and swapping the case for the Hyte Y70 Touch infinite black, which I've always had a thing for.
Also there is a 6% discount on the system which is really timely for me, last week when I was speccing it there was no discount. :)

Hyte Y70 Touch Infinite Black
Intel Core i9-14900KF (Raptor Lake-S) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail
Kingston FURY Beast 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C40 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KF556C40BBK2-64)
Asus Prime LC 360 ARGB AIO CPU Liquid Cooler - 360mm
*Build* Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Prime OC 16GB GDDR PCI-Express Graphics Card
WD Black SN850X 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2X0E)
WD Black SN850X 4TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS400T2X0E)

All for £3,299.99 which while significantly more than I spent on my old system, I still see as pretty reasonable for a machine I expect to last me the next five years.

I'll be able to pass my current 3080ti based system down to my son and sell off his old 1080ti based system on Facebook to recover a few pennies.

Now it's just the tense wait for build and delivery!
 
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Craig_d1 said:
thats really slow ram in there for a higher spec system...did they specify which 1000w psu they're putting in there...hopefully not a bog standard aerocool seeingas you're using a 14900kf
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It uses a AIO water cooler.
 
Craig_d1 said:
not worries about the heat the 14900kf generates..it's just a bit of a power hog si needs an aio...I'm more concerned that for £3k prebuilt they're going to put a cheap psu in there with a ***p warranty..and being an expensive system, I'd want at least a quality psu with at least a 10yrs warranty on it. did they say what psu they're putting in it..and what motherboard? Neither are listed in specs.
It'll be an excellent all round pc, but as others have said, if out an out gaming, I'd go 9800x3d build..if you're going to play at 4k and use dlss upscale to max fps, the x3d chips will wipe the floor with the intel, while using far less power to do so..that cpu did launch in 2023 after all
got the sn850x in my own system, but cheaper alternatives now equally as good I think (though saving small potatoes to overall cost)...but they are excellent drives..nice having 2 m.2's though...and 4gb...going to have a nice games library there, and seperate from windows..wish I'd done that from the outset myself
Be interesting to hear your thoughts on the case when you get it. Got an 011d evo myself..1st gen, and being a fishbowl style, I have the black bar that goes down the front left edge where the 2 glass panels meet (wasn't until gen 2 that they just did glass to glass)..sort of spoils the look and iritates me...having the touch screen looks cool, but you do loose the 'can see everything inside' look of the fishbowl design a little ( but that's personal preference thing)
Enjoy system when it arrives
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The spec says "1000W 80+ Gold Rated PSU"
 
So the system arrived about a week ago and is up and running. It's taken a while to get the processor running at temps that I can tolerate - it was hitting 100c and 100% fan speed while playing AC:Odyssey!

Turns out the ASUS motherboard defaults to sending 450w to the processor - which it can handle if it has loads of cooling - but Intel recommends 253w as default. I dropped it to 253w and undervolted by 0.005 and it's purring along beautifully - running AC:Shadows with all settings maxed out, getting 57 fps and not reaching 80c.

It's a lovely system and I really like the Hyte Y70 case with the screen, it's a nice touch.

Now to start saving money again just incase a 5080ti comes out! :D
 
I finally got around to clearing my desk and re-arranging it to make room for the new PC. :)

Really loving the new case - it's big, bold, feature-rich and just looks the nuts on my desk.


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