tbph, I wouldn't build a PC from scratch in the current economy. Just get a refurbished Dell or Lenovo and slap a low-profile GPU in it and as long as you can still play Ys, you should be good.
Sharkoon's a new one to me. A euro case manufacturer, which makes sense given. Haven't seen one in my locality, but shouldn't be too difficult to source. Lotta models, including some real meme designs (Elite Shark CA700, Rebel C80), but they look to be fairly decent designs -- probably taking a lot of inspiration from other flagship cases (ie: A/MK3 = Fractal Meshify). Didn't see any with any top handles -- I really like handles. Are they priced well?
2024 was sort of a silly year. I recall the 1080Ti benchmarking well during that year, along with 2060 SUPERs. Another good and solid midrange. I imagine you were able to save quite a bit with that selection.
The case was around 30 Euros, I picked the 1080Ti because it was the best GPU in my price range and I don't really care about RT it was the pick for me.
It's not really overclocking in the way that you're thinking, it's a tested profile that the manufacturer manufacturer made and tested the RAM to meet. You actually bought a 6000MT kit, but are running it at a reduced, cross-industry default speed which was decided upon years before the first DDR5 modules were ever manufactured.
I mean, there's not a whole lot of performance difference between 3600MT and 6000MT in most practical use, but you might get faster zip extracts and maybe better consistency in-game.
Some people will say that you're leaving some "free performance" on the table. If you're comfortable with it, there's probably zero downside to enabling EXPO. If anything, it's the CPU that might burn itself (or the motherboard) out -- just make sure you're up to date on your BIOS.
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Just to be clear, I'm referring to the rash of CPU/motherboard burnouts that happened about a year ago when the 9800X3D and 9950X3D chips started dropping.
It's an issue separate from RAM profiles, and is specific towards some PBO (which is CPU overclocking) profiles in certain motherboards. ASRock, I think, had the most common issues, while some ASUS boards also got caught up in it. I think it primarily was a problem with 9800X3Ds, but I wouldn't stick a pin in that. Either way, it's pretty much gone away with BIOS updates.
I don't know. It's an expensive computer, and it'd be even more expensive to replace. I an kinda see why you'd want to be cautious about anything overclocking, especially if the machine already meets expectations.
But then again, it's an expensive computer, and you bought an awful lot of headroom...
It's not really overclocking in the way that you're thinking, it's a tested profile that the manufacturer manufacturer made and tested the RAM to meet. You actually bought a 6000MT kit, but are running it at a reduced, cross-industry default speed which was decided upon years before the first DDR5 modules were ever manufactured.
I mean, there's not a whole lot of performance difference between 3600MT and 6000MT in most practical use, but you might get faster zip extracts and maybe better consistency in-game.
Some people will say that you're leaving some "free performance" on the table. If you're comfortable with it, there's probably zero downside to enabling EXPO. If anything, it's the CPU that might burn itself (or the motherboard) out -- just make sure you're up to date on your BIOS.
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Just to be clear, I'm referring to the rash of CPU/motherboard burnouts that happened about a year ago when the 9800X3D and 9950X3D chips started dropping.
It's an issue separate from RAM profiles, and is specific towards some PBO (which is CPU overclocking) profiles in certain motherboards. ASRock, I think, had the most common issues, while some ASUS boards also got caught up in it. I think it primarily was a problem with 9800X3Ds, but I wouldn't stick a pin in that. Either way, it's pretty much gone away with BIOS updates.
I don't know. It's an expensive computer, and it'd be even more expensive to replace. I an kinda see why you'd want to be cautious about anything overclocking, especially if the machine already meets expectations.
But then again, it's an expensive computer, and you bought an awful lot of headroom...
Thank you for a detail explanation, am aware of it all, i made the post very late at night so was not willing to go into details, hahaha in any case your explanation give it more flair and is informative.
The reason I went for all the expensive stuff is that I was able to buy the DDR5 RAM at very cheap price 288.49 for 2 kits of 16 for a total of 64GB.
Securing that RAM took me almost 3 months of hunting.
That was the reason to go all in since at the beginning of the year all components were almost all MSRP.
I don't overclock anything because there is no point, The machine was not build to play games, but it is undeniable that it can run them, and when i do play, the machine is connected to a Sony bravia 42' TV from almost 20 years ago which output is 1080p so there is no need to overclock anything in regards to visual fidelity.
And because of the rampant burning of x3d cpus that happened, the MOBO is a modest one, since I still like to use HDD I got one from MSI that still had 6 SATA ports, B650 EDGE WIFI, I have 1NVme 2TB gen4 2 SDD and one HDD:
That way I can still stuff 3 more drivers for more preservation shenanigans
This machine came to replace my ancient system that was:
Intel icore7 7700
64 ddr4 ram 3600
GTX 1060 OC asus strix 6GB
650PSU
case was a corsair crystal tempered case, no longer sold and i do not remember the model
1HDD 2 TB
Now this old fella, will recieve a retrofit of components and later will becose a server.
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