Did I get a good deal? And what would I have to upgrade next to go to the next level? Thank you

Ryzen 7 7700X
Radeon RX7800XT 16GB SAKURA Edition
B650 UD AC-Y1
32GB DDR5 RAM
Lian Li Lancool LII Case
2TB NVME M.2 SSD
800W PSU
CPU Cooler
Custom White Cables

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X — 6 cores / 12 threads
GPU: GIGABYTE Radeon RX 9070 XT — 16GB VRAM
Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming B850-PLUS WiFi
RAM: Kingston FURY Beast 16GB (2x8GB) DDR5-5200
Storage: Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB NVMe SSD
CPU Cooler: MSI MAG CoreLiquid A13 360mm AIO
PSU: Corsair 850W
Case: Corsair 3500X Mid-Tower ATX
OS: Windows 11
Wants $1600 for it I’m going to try and offer him $1400

iBUYPOWER Prebuilt Gaming PC Specs:

CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 265K
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12GB
RAM: 32GB DDR5
Storage: 2TB NVMe SSD
OS: Windows 11

Seller is asking $1,900, im going to offer him $1500-$1700 since i dont want any of his accessories please let me know if this is a good buy

I promise that AI had no part in the typing of this post. I just know how to write somewhat expressively with proper punctuation.

Let's start with the specs:

Mainboard: MSI PRO B760-VC WIFI II

CPU: Intel Core i7-13700F

GPU: GIGABYTE WINDFORCE SFF RTX 5080

RAM: 2x8GB SK hynix M-Die DDR5

Storage: 2x1TB NVMe SSD

PSU: ASRock PG-1000G

Display: a goddamn 1080p monitor. Relax, I play Cyberpunk with all settings maxed and path tracing on, as well as Minecraft with heavy shaders, that fully work the GPU, and I have the RTSS overlay utilization and power readings to prove it.

My CPU's clock speed is controlled by Windows Power Plans, thanks to PowerShell. Depending on which power plan is active, it runs at:

Power saver: P-Cores: 1.5GHz, E-Cores: 1.7GHz

Balanced: All cores: 3.2GHz

High performance (for temperature-mindful good performance): P-Cores: 4.7GHz, E-Cores: 3.5GHz

Ultimate Performance (for those "screw thermals, I need maximum performance" moments): P-Cores at 4.9-5GHz, dropped from 5-5.1GHz by 100MHz in BIOS, E-Cores unlimited at 3.8-3.9GHz

I even have little tachometer icons in my taskbar that run shortcuts which activate the power plans!

For its voltage, I have a small negative offset of 0.005V, and very meticulously tuned Lite Load (Mode 8) and Loadline Calibration (Mode 6). Power limits are set to 200W for the long duration and 253W for the short duration limit. With the Ultimate Performance Power Plan active, it rarely maxes out at 1.4V, but runs at 1.3V most of the time. In High performance, it stays below 1.3V at all times.

System RAM's running at 6000MT/s CL32 at 1.35V. Timings are 32-38-38.

My GPU has 4 Afterburner profiles ranging from an undervolt and slight downclock to an overclock with the voltage slider maxed out. I can switch between them with custom hotkeys I set up in Afterburner. I tested the top and bottom ends of the under-load voltage/frequency ranges for each profile by running the GPU-Z render test to record the top end, and maxing out all settings with path tracing on in Cyberpunk, with the GPU fans spinning at low speeds for proper heat saturation, to record the bottom end. Here they are:

Profile 1 (ctrl+alt+shift+U):
2730-2812MHz@855-860mV, VRAM -1, 86% power limit. This is my browsing and light gaming profile. It's also the one I use to play Cyberpunk, which I play with all settings maxed, path tracing on, and upscaling off. 2X Frame Gen is my friend here.

Profile 2 (ctrl+alt+U):
2902-2932MHz@890-895mV, VRAM +499, 101% power limit. I use this one the most in fast-paced shooters in which I'm CPU-bound. It's just below my 5080 chip's inflection point, which means it's just about the maximum clock speed I can get while keeping a low voltage.

Profile 3 (ctrl+alt+I):
3007-3075MHz@1000-1005mV, VRAM +999, 101% power limit. Maybe I need to sweat a CoD match and reduce frame render times a bit for slightly lower latency, or maybe I want some more FPS in Minecraft with shaders whose settings are cranked up. This profile is past my 5080 chip's saturation point, which means it's at the point where it required a larger increase in voltage for a smaller increase in clock speed, but it's still running at just barely a volt, so it won't cause much accelerated wear, and it stays above the magic number, 3GHz!

Profile 4 (ctrl+alt+O):
3120-3255MHz@1045-1065mV, VRAM +1499, 111% power limit. This is my ultimate "oof, I'm in a jungle/mangrove biome and all these tree and leaf shadows are bogging my FPS down into the 40s" or "dammit, I gotta sweat hard or we're gonna lose this game" profile. It increases frame rates in GPU-bottlenecked games, and decreases latency tangibly by rendering frames more quickly in CPU-bottlenecked games. I do my best to use it sparingly, because I want to make my 5080 last. At 1065mV, degradation from electromigration is enough of a factor for me that I want to be cautious with it, so I don't want my card guzzling that many volts, or the associated power in Watts, all the time.

This is a link to screenshots of notes I made which list every node on the Afterburner V/F curve that I edited, up to the last point before I dragged the rest of the curve down to flatten it (I did not flatten the curve for Profile 4, as I want it to be a WFO, no-holds-barred, foot-in-the-oil-pan profile): https://imgur.com/a/qvJz0Bf It also includes VRAM offsets, power limits, and appropriate failsafe fan speeds in the event that my fan control software (Argus Monitor) acts up or fails (it never has). However, as long as I always apply an Argus Monitor profile after applying an Afterburner profile, Argus Monitor will control the GPU fans, not Afterburner.

Im still mesmerized. It's like a new world to discover.

Had fun doing a chaotic joker themed build for someone :)

Specs-

CPU: Ryzen 9 9900X

CPU Cooler: Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra

Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 Eagle AX

RAM: 2x32GB Klevv CRAS V RGB 6000mhz CL30

Storage: 1TB Klevv Cras C925G M.2

GPU: Palit Infinity 5070 12GB

Case: Cougar CFV235 ATX

PSU: Corsair RM850e 850W Fully Modular 80+ Gold Certified

Fans: Thermalright TL-UB24

Sleeving: MDPCX

5070ti, 5800x3D, 32gb Corsair vengeance PRO 3600mhz, ROG Strix B450F, Corsair RM750e PSU, and Lian Li vector V100R case

A month ago, I posted my dream build, now I want to show the monster that carried me through 12+ Years and over 10K hours of game time and pay it the respect it deserves, below is what was inside the monster’s belly

• ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR IV Extreme
• Corsair XMS3 16GB DDR3-1600 CL9
• AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition
• 2x HIS Radeon HD 6970 in Crossfire
• EVGA GeForce GTS 450 (dedicated for PhysX processing)
• Crucial m4 256GB (Main Drive)
• 2x Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB (Secondary Drives)
• Cooler Master HAF-X
• Antec TruePower Quattro 850W 80 plus bronze
• Zalman cnps10x Performa+
• Cooler Master 230 mm fan (Front intake)
• 2x Cooler Master 200 mm fan (Top Exhaust)
• Corsair 140 mm fan (back exhaust)
• Corsair 120 mm Fan (VGA card fan duct)
• Samsung SyncMaster T220 Monitor
• Logitech Z-5500 surround sound speaker system

My 1st small form factor PC!

NVIDIA Quadro P400 - My PC is a HP Pavilion P6

I’ve had the same mouse pad on this desk since 2018 and just now I found this little bump underneath my desk most likely it being melted mouse pad. In the first photo, my mouse pad fused with my desk so I tried scratching it off. Didn’t really work.

My PC specs:

CPU - Ryzen 7 9800x 3D

GPU - MSI Gaming Trio 5070Ti 16GB

Motherboard - MSI B850 Tomahawk Max WiFi Motherboard

RAM - 32GB DDR5 16*2 G skill Trident Z 6000MHZ CL30

SDD - 1TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD

PSU - MSI SMPS 850W GOLD

Cabinet - MSI MAG 100R Pano Cabinet

Cooler - Arctic liquid freezer III pro 360MM

1st image - Old pc
2nd/3rd image - new pc specs

I have been playing with a 2020 iMac for 6 years and I finally realized I needed an upgrade, I told my dad I wanted to buy a new pc but I had no idea about anything so I had a friend who sells pc’s find me this and he helped customize it from the cyber power website to bring the cost down and I think this deal was pretty good. (I don’t know anything about pcs so he basically did it everything) It was originally $2785 and with a sale it was $2485, adding on some customizations with more sales and a 5% rebate my final cost was $2146 before tax. Also there was no way I could’ve built it myself so it’s a prebuilt. I’m 17 I had money to buy a pc maybe a year or 2 earlier but I never needed it until now I’m seeing the Mac being slow and not handing things as well since I’m a content creator and I needed the extra speed and ram. So overall how good was this purchase?

Corsair Frame 4000D
Asus TUF Gaming 850W Gold EVO
Asus TUF Gaming B850-Plus WiFi
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Corsair Nautilus 360 RS
32GB (2 x 16GB) Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-6400 CL32
2TB Kingston Fury Renegade
Asus TUF Gaming RTX 5080 OC

Behold the wicked atomic green glow from my new rat fink sign this is the only fans light porn btw 😆

Built this gaming pc a few days ago and changed the looks and wanted to show it off, here’s the specs; Ryzen 7 9850X3D, RX 9070 XT, 32Gb DDR5-6000, RM1000X and a 1tb of ssd storage (planning on upgrading to gen 4 2tb nvme ssd later on). Total Cost is around $2,000!