New build day!

eclap

eclap

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Not sure why I'm posting this but I'm excited and wanted to share. Built a new rig today. After buying a PS5 Pro recently, I really enjoyed gaming on my OLED TV so then I bought another one, an LG C4 42" to use as my PC monitor. Soon enough I had my PS5 hooked up to it too.

The problem was, my old rig (5800x/4070) didn't quite cut it at 4k gaming.

So today I put my new little rig together, the first full build in something like 4 years.

R7 9800x3D
MSI B850 MPG EDGE Ti WIFI
Palit GameRock RTX 5070 Ti
64GB 6000/CL30 RAM
4TB Corsair P3 Plus
Phanteks G400A

Initially I ordered the Asrock X870 PRO RS motherboard but then I saw the megathread on Asrock subreddit about 9800x3D dying on Asrock boards so I ordered the MSI board and the Asrock is going back.

I had the build done just after 2 hours, spending the most time on the fans. I've never used anything RGB inside my cases over the past 30 years and usually just went with 2-3x intakes on the front and 1x exhaust at the rear/top. These fans took me a while to work out but luckily the Phanteks NexLinq fan hub came in clutch, absolutely brilliant!

To my surprise, as soon as I had the rig done, it booted up first time and posted. Not just that, all the fans were correctly connected too, which surprised me.

Updated bios to the latest version, slapped on XMP and installed Windows 11.

It's been a joy setting it up all afternoon, such a clean build! Oh and btw, Cyberpunk 2077 on OLED, 4k with Ray Tracing and all highest settings (no path tracing) at 120fps is crazy.

Here's a few pics of the rig.

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Beautiful and well done. Funnily enough I've just bought an 42" LG C4 to go with my 4090 so I'm really looking forward to it. Looks great on your desk too.
 
Jimbo said:
Beautiful and well done. Funnily enough I've just bought an 42" LG C4 to go with my 4090 so I'm really looking forward to it. Looks great on your desk too.
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Mate, it's amazing. The desk... I would love a larger desk but this just about works.

You'll love the C4, keep us posted!
 
BUDFORCE said:
very nice. MSI make good motherboards anyway.
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Yeah, did a lot of research. I usually go with Asus as I've always had good experience with their boards but didn't really see anything interesting from Asus in this price range. MSI have had some good feedback online, everywhere I looked people love these boards so I thought why not. And yeah, I like it.
 
Congrats, very nice build!

This is similar level spec that I'm considering at the moment for my own upgrade from a 5600x based build (2021). But I'm still split between either a 9070XT or a 5070Ti (basically aiming for 16GB vRAM as a good upgrade from my 8GB 3070 card).
 
nade said:
Congrats, very nice build!

This is similar level spec that I'm considering at the moment for my own upgrade from a 5600x based build (2021). But I'm still split between either a 9070XT or a 5070Ti (basically aiming for 16GB vRAM as a good upgrade from my 8GB 3070 card).
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I went with the 5070ti because the raster performance is about the same and it performs better in RayTracing. DLSS4.0 is also quite nice.
 
Oh one thing, should I have x3d gaming mode enabled in bios? From what I see it disables SMT and I'm reading some mixed things about this.

EDIT: Purely for gaming, I do have it enabled atm.
 
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eclap said:
Oh one thing, should I have x3d gaming mode enabled in bios? From what I see it disables SMT and I'm reading some mixed things about this.

EDIT: Purely for gaming, I do have it enabled atm.
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I left mine off, I enabled it and then wondered why it was showing as an 8 core and 8 thread processor.

Disabled it and was back to a 8 core 16 thread. Never done any testing with it on but cannot see how disabling 8 of the threads would help gaming.
 
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