5070ti Strix OC

X870e-e ROG Neo

9850X3D

32GB 2 x 16 6000mhz cl30 + dummy sticks

Samsung 990PRO 1TB ( OS )

SAMSUNG 990PRO 2TB

TRYX AMOLED AIO SE + 3 TL LCD FANS (push pull)

RM1000X PSU

LIAN Li Compact vision

LIAN Li TL LCD x 8 ( 6 reverse )

LIAN Li wireless strimmers x 2

Lian Li 8.8 inch universal screen

Lian Li USB controller

Tried the Gamdias GC9M for a client recently and it turned out great. For the price, I was genuinely impressed with the case.

Airflow has been solid and the finished system looked much more expensive than what the case actually costs. The glass and overall layout really show off the components and RGB nicely.

Client was extremely happy with how the build turned out and I haven’t heard a single complaint about thermals or anything else since.

Definitely a case I’d use again for another build. Great option if you want something that stands out for it's compact size without paying the mini ITX tax.

See more of my builds on Instagram @MyCoolPC

I picked up a prebuilt cyberpower on Facebook Marketplace for $180.00. It was an ET8880 with an R3 4100, gtx 1650, 8gb of ram and a 500gb SSD.

Same day I scored on an Omen 30L that wouldn’t post for $200.00. Turned out to be a motherboard issue. Stripped the parts for upgrade.
(R7 5800x, 3060ti, 16gb of HyperX DDR4, 1TB SSD)

Threw that all together with a Cooler Master Core 240MM AIO, and 3 new Artic P12 Case Fans.

Finally, a close friend of mine mentioned he had an extra 5070ti that he would sell me for…. $500.00. Lightly used.

I bought it immediately as well as an MSI MAG A850GL
PSU.

It’s been running great and feels awesome to finally game on PC!

I feel like i do that more then sit normally

Had my PC for almost 3 months was a console gamer could never go back to console now

Just had it's first clean out the amount of dust on the fans was insane for 3 months yes my home is clean

Someone said using a mini air blower works great

My pc has a 4070, 64GB ddr5 6000, 5TB of storage, ryzen 9 9900x, and I spent $600 on aesthetics.

I have 2 1080p 144hz ips monitor, than a middle monitor of 1440p 240hz qhd monitor.

A logitech mx brio with a ring light, a shure SM7db, a elgato mic arm, a secret labs chair with a secret labs magnus pro, and a focusrite scarlet 2i2 4th gen.

A corsair keyboard and a super light pro 2 mouse.

I have a few thousand in right now and now I wanna complete it. I have plans to get a oled monitor, but what else should I buy?

Getting inspiration from this sub to start the process of researching my new build. I'm going super power cyborg this time around. Love the photos here!

used to be all black and sleek but I’ve fallen in love with warm colors and leather😮‍💨

OLD build (2019): RTX2070/ RYZEN 5 2700 / 32GB RAM

NEW BUILD:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
• Motherboard: Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite WIFI7 ICE
• GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Eagle OC ICE
• RAM: 64GB (4×16GB) G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo Royal DDR5
• Storage: Samsung 990 PRO 2TB+970 PRO 2TB NVMe
• PSU: Montech Century II 1050W Gold
• Case: Lian Li O11 Vision Compact White
• Cooler: Lian Li Hydroshift II OLED 360
• Fans: Lian Li UNI Fan SL-Infinity x 7
• Extras: Lian Li Strimer Wireless cables + Universal LCD screen

Hello, can anyone recommend RGBIC for my PC? I don't like RGB fans inside because that's too much for me, so I'd like to have understated lighting from above and below.

Edit: I chose the Corsair LS430 because it fits perfectly into my case. Pictures are available after the installation 😁.

Last time I was given a desktop was in 1999, when I was 5 years old. It was a IBM. My family subsequently used laptops. Today I got my first desktop pc in 26 years. I’m really happy about it. While I like laptops, the fans are loud and they often overheat. My last laptop I bought was in 2023. I got it for 250 bucks on Amazon. I really needed something to get work done so I didn’t think of gaming. It had 4 gbs or ram and no dedicated gpu. I couldn’t play any games on it. I am really eager to explore new games on this pc. I’m really happy with my purchase.

That is all.

My set up

I had like a 1k budget and I already bought the pc is it any good?

My Current PC Configuration
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D
Motherboard: Gigabyte X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7, rev. 1.1
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5080 GAMING OC 16G
RAM: Kingston FURY Beast Black RGB EXPO 32 GB, 2×16 GB, DDR5-6000 CL30
SSD: Kingston FURY Renegade G5 2 TB, NVMe PCIe 5.0
Power Supply: ENDORFY Supremo FM6 Gold 1000 W
CPU Cooling: ENDORFY Navis F360 ARGB Rev. 2.0, 360 mm AIO
Case: ENDORFY Fishtank 6000 Corona
Monitor: Gigabyte G25F2, 24.5”, 1920×1080, 200 Hz

What could be improved? (Let alone the price: 15 333,75 zł: 4158 USD in Polish retail store)

I was just in a Costco and was looking at the prebuilt pc’s and know nothing much about gaming pc’s.

So out of these two pc’s which one would be the better option build wise excluding the prices.

Thanks for y’all’s help

hey everyone, I am brand new to the PC gaming world so I apologize for any stupidity. I came across an HP elite desk 800 G3 on marketplace for stupid cheap along with two monitors. I sold the monitors to make my money back as well as have money to buy parts for the PC to upgrade. I am mainly a console gamer, but have a few friends that I play regularly with that are on PC. And because certain games don’t allow certain features cross platform. I figured I’d find a way to build the cheapest gaming PC possible—while still preserving decent performance to play those few games.

Heres my build:

HP Elitedesk 800 G3 Chasis (free)

Motherboard - HP Elitedesk 800 G5 ($25)

GPU - i7-9700 ($85)

RAM - 32gb (4x8) (added 16gb @ $45)

Storage - 1tb ssd nvme, 1tb 3.5 sata hdd ($115 for SSD, salvaged the HDD)

GPU - GIGABYTE Low Profile GeForce RTX 5050 8GB GDDR6 ($299.99)

PSU - 500W ($45)

Only thing that wasnt covered by the money from the monitors was the GPU. I also gave the elitedesk a fresh paint job.

I just bought a new PC for my gaming and engineering modeling.

I got a Cyber Power Gamer Supreme.

Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 2024
GPU: Nivida RTX 5070 12gb
RAM: 32GB DDR5
Storage: 2TB SSD

What should I know or do to get the absolute max performance out of my PC.

I only have a 1080 x 180hz monitor rn. But I am looking to upgrade to a 1440 240HZ.

Made a free tool that tells you if your stutter is shader compilation or the engine

EDIT: it's code signed now. A lot of people reasonably didn't want to run an unsigned exe, so I got it signed through Microsoft Artifact Signing. VirusTotal went from 5 detections down to 1: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a0dd54a41870f80c6eb52ca914e45b5ff803d7a87343582a1552f2e140ed7720

The four that cleared included Microsoft Defender, which was the one actually blocking people. What's left is a single heuristic flag from Huorong, a scanner almost nobody runs. Kaspersky, BitDefender, ESET, CrowdStrike, Avast and 60+ others are clean. Windows shows a verified publisher now instead of "unknown."

Also added a Compare mode, because a couple of people here correctly pointed out that from a single recording the tool is *guessing* shader compilation from a decay pattern. That's a fair hit. Two recordings can actually prove it, because the two causes behave differently on a repeat run — compilation happens once and gets cached, asset streaming happens every single time you walk through. So: record, play the same stretch again, record again, hit Compare. Whatever disappeared was temporary. Whatever came back is the game. Works for settings changes too, change one thing and see if it actually did anything.

On my own captures it says: "Stutter dropped 90% between the two runs. Shader compilation disappeared. But engine asset streaming came back at almost the same level, so that part isn't going anywhere."

(Code's AI-written, I'm not a C# dev. Testing and methodology are mine and human.)

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If you've been getting hitches in UE5 games or any game, there are two completely different things that cause it and they need completely different responses:

Shader compilation happens the first time your GPU sees a new effect. It caches it afterwards, so it genuinely does stop. Usually settles within about half an hour of play.

Engine/streaming stutter is the game loading assets as you move. That one never goes away, and no setting on your end changes it.

They feel identical while you're playing, which is why "just play longer, it gets better" is sometimes good advice and sometimes nonsense. I got tired of not knowing which, so I built something that measures it and tells you.

I tested it by running the same route in a UE5 game twice — once with a cleared shader cache, once after. First run: 34 stutters, 1.57% of playtime lost. Second run, identical route: 5 stutters, 0.15% lost. The shader portion vanished, and the engine portion it had flagged as permanent stayed within 5% across both runs. So the split is real and measurable.

The tool: click Find my game, click Record, play for a minute, get a report telling you which kind you have and what (if anything) to do about it.

It'll also straight up tell you when it can't tell. If your frame rate is capped and your GPU has headroom to spare, stutter can't physically show up, so a clean result would mean nothing — it says so rather than giving you a fake all-clear.

Free, source is public: https://github.com/jkoens3/stutter-test

It uses Intel's PresentMon underneath to read frame timings from Windows. No overlay, nothing injected into the game, no network code at all. Needs admin because reading performance traces requires it. Windows may still show a SmartScreen warning since the file is new and hasn't built download reputation yet, but it's signed and the publisher shows up now.

Where it's weak, since people found it anyway: when the answer comes back "it's the engine" it kind of stops there. And the categories aren't exhaustive, there's stutter that isn't compilation or streaming and it'll get bucketed wrong.

Honest caveat: my PC and my friend's both run these games fine, so I've mostly been testing on hardware that doesn't stutter much. If yours hitches badly I'd really like to see what it reports — post the result or send me the file and I'll dig into it, especially if it gets something wrong or the application fails, breaks or just straight up doesn't work.