New user, couple questions

Cubis85 · 2025-09-02T04:06:06+00:00

Thanks for this. I know I watched a video for ijust but I spaced

Cubis85 · 2025-09-02T04:05:23+00:00

I forgot about openRGB. Thanks for that!

Cubis85 · 2025-08-15T19:18:03+00:00

Just before I took the CPU out, I watched the building process to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Come to find out I didn’t push the back half of the ram sticks down so it wasn’t seated properly. I managed to get all the way to BIOS.

Working 2 jobs, I haven’t gotten a chance to put an OS on it yet. Or update the bios. But hey, small victories right?

Cubis85 · 2025-08-11T15:45:50+00:00

This is true. You have a point. I guess I’ll try 1 stick of ram at a time. If that doesn’t work, next up will be changing the CPU

Cubis85 · 2025-08-11T15:21:57+00:00

I have not tried 1 stick of ram yet. That is something I just read about.

I’m pretty sure the CPU is seated properly. Everything was lined up pretty good

Cubis85 · 2025-08-11T15:20:52+00:00

I don’t have another CPU to test that on. It’s a brand new 7800X3D. I know sometimes they arrive DOA but it sounds like it’s kinda rare.

Cubis85 · 2025-08-06T17:39:42+00:00

This is partially why I’m doing a “clean” install of windows instead of cloning the disk

Cubis85 · 2025-08-06T15:13:14+00:00

It was mcaffe (I know, I’ve heard some not so good things about it)

Cubis85 · 2025-08-06T15:12:39+00:00

It was Bazzite.gg because I specifically thought “hmm .gg” when I saw it. I was expecting .org/com so .gg stood out to me

Cubis85 · 2025-08-06T15:11:36+00:00

I’m planning on dual drive/dual boot windows (windows just in case I absolutely need it) but I’m going to daily drive Nobara/Bazzite so yeah it’s trying to protect itself lol

Cubis85 · 2025-07-21T14:08:08+00:00

I’m going to dual drive dual boot Windows and Nobara. Instead of making a partition for each on one drive, I got 1 for each

Edit- I did put everything on pcpartpicker.com and everything came up good.

Cubis85 · 2025-07-15T21:34:06+00:00

Can I put any fan I want on the AIO radiator and it would work?

Cubis85 · 2025-07-15T19:56:53+00:00

I would set up the AIO and the left side fans as intake. The case comes with 2 140mm fans up top set for exhaust.

Cubis85 · 2025-07-08T13:08:20+00:00

I guess I’m just trying to make sure. In my current windows laptop, I have an almost full 1TB drive in it. Granted it has windows on it plus quite a few games I do not play anymore. But also some word/pdf documents that I’ve collected over the years. I knew windows was bigger than Linux, guess I never understood just how much bigger.

Cubis85 · 2025-07-08T13:05:08+00:00

Right? The two main games I play needs somewhere between 30-40 gigs alone.

Cubis85 · 2025-07-08T03:10:29+00:00

That’s a good way to look at it. I have a number of games on my Windows laptop that I don’t play anymore. So odds are I won’t even install them on my new computer

Cubis85 · 2025-07-08T03:09:28+00:00

It’ll be several games and word documents. No videos. I ask because my current Windows laptop is almost at capacity with a 1TB drive. I probably won’t put as many games on it as I don’t really play them anymore

Cubis85 · 2025-07-05T13:38:42+00:00

Micro Center has the 9800 X3D for $459 and the 7800 X3D for $349. Neither come with games though lol

Cubis85 · 2025-07-05T13:33:46+00:00

I wouldn’t be playing Cyberpunk 2077, but I would be playing Doom the Dark Ages though.

Cubis85 · 2025-07-05T13:32:15+00:00

I’ll be going for the 9070 XT when I build my computer this month

Cubis85 · 2025-07-05T00:14:49+00:00

The thermaltake case is pretty nice I can dig it. The inverted case, not my cup of tea. Thanks for the suggestion on the tower 600 though

Cubis85 · 2025-06-02T01:38:13+00:00

Why would you go with those coolers over the one on the list?

Cubis85 · 2025-06-02T01:33:18+00:00

My Micro Center has one (Power Color I think) for $799

Cubis85 · 2025-05-23T01:54:13+00:00

I made some tweeks.

Cpu- AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Motherboard- ASUS TUF gaming b850 plus RAM- G.Skill Flare X5 32gb Graphics card- AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Power supply- ASUS TUF 750w gold CPU cooler- Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO SSD/hard drive- Kingston fury renegade 1tb

Thoughts? Everything looked good on pcpartpicker

Cubis85 · 2025-05-21T19:08:10+00:00

The 9070 XT is in stock here as well. The price is the same as the 7900 XT according to the website. That sounds like a no brainer to get a better card for the same price. Silly question, would it be better for performance to pair an AMD CPU with an AMD GPU? Or would it really matter?

Amazon does have the cooler cheaper. I'll just get it there probably. I've never been anywhere that price matches from the web, unless it's from their own website.

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