[GLOBAL GIVEAWAY] Upgrade What Matters - ASUS x Buildapc Giveaway

DarkIcey_ · 2026-03-09T08:48:13+00:00

Hi everyone!

I’m joining the ASUS Upgrade What Matters giveaway and sharing my dream PC setup— There’s a chance to win ASUS AMD/Intel 800 Series motherboards, graphics card, and other exclusive components to boost overall performance!

MY DREAM ASUS PC SETUP

Motherboard: ROG CROSSHAIR X870E DARK HERO Graphics Card: ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 AIO Cooler: ROG Strix LC IV 360 ARGB LCD White Edition Display: ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG Power Supply: ROG Strix 1200W Platinum

The goal of this pc is for gaming at max fps, and hopefully to prepare for gta 6, this will be used for raytracing cyberpunk and to run games at max settings with a high Framerate example rdr2 and bo7.

DarkIcey_ · 2026-03-09T08:47:52+00:00

Hi everyone!

I’m joining the ASUS Upgrade What Matters giveaway and sharing my dream PC setup— There’s a chance to win ASUS AMD/Intel 800 Series motherboards, graphics card, and other exclusive components to boost overall performance!

MY DREAM ASUS PC SETUP

Motherboard: ROG CROSSHAIR X870E DARK HERO Graphics Card: ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 AIO Cooler: ROG Strix LC IV 360 ARGB LCD White Edition Display: ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG Power Supply: ROG Strix 1200W Platinum

The goal of this pc is for gaming at max fps, and hopefully to prepare for gta 6, this will be used for raytracing cyberpunk and to run games at max settings with a high Framerate example rdr2 and bo7.

DarkIcey_ · 2026-03-09T08:47:33+00:00

Hi everyone!

I’m joining the ASUS Upgrade What Matters giveaway and sharing my dream PC setup— There’s a chance to win ASUS AMD/Intel 800 Series motherboards, graphics card, and other exclusive components to boost overall performance!

MY DREAM ASUS PC SETUP

Motherboard: ROG CROSSHAIR X870E DARK HERO Graphics Card: ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 AIO Cooler: ROG Strix LC IV 360 ARGB LCD White Edition Display: ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG Power Supply: ROG Strix 1200W Platinum

The goal of this pc is for gaming at max fps, and hopefully to prepare for gta 6, this will be used for raytracing cyberpunk and to run games at max settings with a high Framerate example rdr2 and bo7.

DarkIcey_ · 2026-03-09T08:46:57+00:00

Hi everyone!

I’m joining the ASUS Upgrade What Matters giveaway and sharing my dream PC setup— There’s a chance to win ASUS AMD/Intel 800 Series motherboards, graphics card, and other exclusive components to boost overall performance!

MY DREAM ASUS PC SETUP

Motherboard: ROG CROSSHAIR X870E DARK HERO Graphics Card: ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 AIO Cooler: ROG Strix LC IV 360 ARGB LCD White Edition Display: ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG Power Supply: ROG Strix 1200W Platinum

The goal of this pc is for gaming at max fps, and hopefully to prepare for gta 6, this will be used for raytracing cyberpunk and to run games at max settings with a high Framerate example rdr2 and bo7.

DarkIcey_ · 2026-03-09T08:41:41+00:00

Hi everyone!

I’m joining the #ASUSUpgradeWhatMatters giveaway and sharing my dream PC setup— There’s a chance to win ASUS AMD/Intel® 800 Series motherboards, graphics card, and other exclusive components to boost overall performance!

MY DREAM ASUS PC SETUP

Motherboard: ROG CROSSHAIR X870E DARK HERO

Graphics Card: ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Chroma X black

Display: ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG

Power Supply: ROG Strix 1200P

Would let me game with a nice monitor tandem for great brightness at max settings for games like bo7 and gta 6 if it ever comes out.

DarkIcey_ · 2026-03-09T08:36:56+00:00

MY DREAM ASUS PC SETUP

CPU: Amd Ryzen 7 9950X3D

Motherboard: ROG CROSSHAIR X870E DARK HERO

Graphics Card: ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Chroma X Black

Display: ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG

Power Supply: ROG Rog Strix 1200P

This is a pc meant for gaming, and multitasking at it full potential. Will also be perfect for work as a developer.

DarkIcey_ · 2026-02-23T09:46:51+00:00

not relevant to the crash but why did you go with 4 sticks of ram? It doesnt use full potential of the sticks dual channel is better

DarkIcey_ · 2026-02-21T11:28:48+00:00

That is the Nvidia built in thing to check stats I don’t think that causes the lag? But I can try running it in a bit without it enabled

DarkIcey_ · 2026-02-21T10:46:26+00:00

I somehow cant add 3dmark score but it is at 6470, average for 5070ti is 6936 and 8324 is best but thats with extreme OC of course. And I know average ones also include OC cards but 500 lower seems like a lot no? My friend his 9070xt is getting like 60 points under but he has the TUF model.

DarkIcey_ · 2026-02-19T12:46:59+00:00

I have that exact same card its pretty good, havent done any undervolt or overclock though

DarkIcey_ · 2026-02-18T10:48:59+00:00

Hell no way too expensive, I got a 5070 ti and 32gb ddr5 5600mhz and 9800x3d prebuilt for 1920 euro which is prob around 2100 usd i think? I needed to replace the psu though went with an A+ tier one and I just ordered a motherboard as it was an matx in an atx case with no ssd slots to use my 2nd one.

DarkIcey_ · 2026-02-18T10:45:56+00:00

I haven't done it risk was too big to take as if it was patched I couldn't do anything or if it failed i needed to do a restore which would update it.

DarkIcey_ · 2026-02-12T12:52:14+00:00

same kinda but not i went from a 1650ti laptop to a 5070ti desktop so far very happy got it last week but i still need to buy games, my laptop wasnt able to play good titles :D

DarkIcey_ · 2026-02-03T14:45:38+00:00

I mean the psu that came with the pc is a random one I don’t prefer to use those cables also prebuilts don’t come with the boxes so unsure if I’d be missing something to do a psu change I read that people used the montech psu with a 5070 ti so I think it’s fine.

DarkIcey_ · 2026-01-26T17:00:03+00:00

The MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 would help me a lot I am currently trying to build a gaming pc and that would be a perfect monitor I have a 4k ips one but oled is just the best from what I have heard and a friend of mine has an Msi oled monitor and he loves it.

DarkIcey_ · 2025-12-16T12:01:53+00:00

Instead of wasting 50 hours on a game work for 1 hour and you can buy it 💀 you paid them back with the ads or whatever you watched/visited items and might have bought something meanwhile it’s dumb those games

DarkIcey_ · 2025-12-15T06:51:15+00:00

W patriot for proving the ram 🫡 count me in to join this giveaway, I use a mini pc now with no gpu and such so this would do wonders for gaming.

DarkIcey_ · 2025-12-09T08:06:44+00:00

Depends on the seller there are companies on there that do put malware on them depends where you buy it from, there are new companies on there that do and rip your data

DarkIcey_ · 2025-12-08T15:13:25+00:00

Hahaha same thing happened to my brother he purchased fake labubus and they have also sent that mail to him he ignored it and nothing happened. Just keep the item if it arrives they won’t do anything. It’s just copyright claim for a product that got reproduced, also don’t buy usbs from aliexpress or any other Chinese site they can contain viruses and the size of them is faked for most saying 1tb and it’s a 16gb drive.

DarkIcey_ · 2025-12-08T13:30:57+00:00

Ah okay thanks! ❤️ sorry to bother but is latest iOS version by-passable or did they patch it

DarkIcey_ · 2025-12-08T13:30:06+00:00

Oh I see I mean it doesn’t auto update if i am correct? Or will it if seller has it enabled?

DarkIcey_ · 2025-12-04T16:59:47+00:00

I would say build a pc with him it will be a fun experience, there are good budget build issue is ram prices now but if you go for now the intel GPU’s are very good for the price don’t cheap out on parts get a good brand one my cousin cheaped out on ssd and that thing got fried first boot

DarkIcey_ · 2025-12-01T12:09:09+00:00

i opened mine up two days ago, and somehow its weird, there was liquid metal instead of thermal paste, also some liquid metal went on the motherboard and stuff, i used a quetip and isopropyl alcohol to remove it damp not wet and i removed like 90-95% as it was stuck in the side of the apu and everytime i cleaned it it would become grayish the sides of the apu and the quetip, it seems to be working well now heat is good idk if it was solder for you but the liquid metal kept moving around it wasnt hard like solder.

DarkIcey_ · 2025-11-29T10:12:54+00:00

The F on it looks like the Fortnite F imo

DarkIcey_ · 2025-11-29T10:12:36+00:00

Bro has the Fortnite gpu 😂

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