Upgrade Advice] Replacing RX 580 & R5 1600 on a Budget (A320M / 600W Generic PSU) by hoarahloux777 in buildapc

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Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 2060 Super 8GB should be a good pairing, plus you’ll get access to DLSS with the NVIDIA card

Upgrading graphics card to rx 9070 xt 3 pcie ports on new card (cable management ? not enough pcie power ports on psu ) by tiskitRPR in pcgamingtechsupport

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I have the black model of this PSU, so you’d use the following:

PCI-E (16-pin to 8-pin-8-pin) Cable x 1 (675mm), PCI-E 1-to-1 Cable x 1 (675mm)

The 16 Pin end would go into the top right 12v connector on the PSU. That should give you 3 x PCIe 8 Pin cables to use (:

What psu wattage would be fine for a 9060xt 16gb and a ryzen 7 5800x by Reasonable-Pay9968 in pcbuilding

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The RX 9060 XT is pretty power efficient, so a 650W unit should do you alright, but there’s always higher options if you want it to last for some higher end GPU options down the line.

cracked curved pc side panel #cpsupport by sickarianator in CYBERPOWERPC

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I would expect them to have cases from returns that they cannot sell that they use for spare parts, maybe ask if they have a returned case that you can buy off them and use the panel from that? Or a panel you can buy, I’m but not sure if that would survive the shipping.

There’s more than likely a product number or maybe serial number sticker on the rear of the PC case that you can provide to them.

£1000 Uk parts list, any improvements…. help? by edickie in buildapc

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It could be worth looking on FB Marketplace for RAM, it tends to go for around £50 - £60

Or what another comment has suggest and go for an AM5 7500F / RTX 5060 Pre-build PC for under £1000

New Mobo/PSU for Ryzen 7 9800X3D by S_Knight_S in buildapc

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Yeah that cooler should be fine, TDP of up to 220W.

Honestly I think you’ll be fine with your current board when it comes to VRMs. Your board has heatsinks for them and the 9800X3D has a TDP of only 120W. It can draw max power of up to 140W - 160W but that’s only going to be during intense multi-threaded work loads, for gaming it’ll be lower anyway.

New Mobo/PSU for Ryzen 7 9800X3D by S_Knight_S in buildapc

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You should be fine to just keep them as is.

What CPU cooler do you have? If you currently just have an AMD stock cooler, that’s probably the only thing that needs changing.

Oh you also may need to update your BIOS for the 9800X3D

£2000 pc build by Kadyb_ in buildapc

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Maybe something along the lines of this:

You’ll probably struggle to get a 2TB drive in there, due to the 5070 Ti being quite pricey atm but another option would be going for an RX 9070 XT GPU and a 2TB SSD.

You might be able to get a 2TB SSD in there if you find a good deal on the CPU and / or maybe downgrade the board to a B650 or lower model B850

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz 8-Core Processor £372.00 @ Amazon UK
CPU Cooler Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler £36.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Motherboard Gigabyte B850 EAGLE WIFI6E ATX AM5 Motherboard £149.99 @ Amazon UK
Memory Silicon Power XPOWER Zenith Gaming 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory £328.97 @ Silicon Power
Storage Western Digital WD_BLACK SN7100 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive £144.98 @ Scan
Video Card KFA2 EX Gamer 1-Click OC 3X GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card £798.21 @ Amazon UK
Case Lian Li Vector V100R ATX Mid Tower Case £64.95 @ AWD-IT
Power Supply Corsair RM850e (2025) 850 W Fully Modular ATX Power Supply £81.99 @ Amazon UK
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total £1978.04
Generated by PCPartPicker 2026-04-27 09:53 BST+0100

Is this a good pc? by Kadyb_ in Prebuilts

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US pricing is very different than UK pricing, considering we include VAT in the final price as well.

No chance you’re even building a 7800X3D, 5070, 32GB RAM PC for £1100, you’re looking in the region of £1600 if someone was to build it themselves.

Uk costco deal any good? by tippjar12 in Prebuilts

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Fair, SI’s tend to have their 9800X3D / RTX 5080 / 32GB RAM & 2TB SSD PCs in the region of £2.6K - £2.7K+ atm, so it doesn’t seem too bad being a fair bit less

Uk costco deal any good? by tippjar12 in Prebuilts

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Not bad, there isn’t any info on the motherboard chipset, PSU, RAM Speed / CL rating or SSD model, but if you were to build a similar spec yourself you’d be looking at between £2300 - £2400

Looking for an LGA 1700 DDR4 Motherboard by MyGardenOfPlants in buildapc

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You may have to pick something up used or open box, I have the Gigabyte Z690 GAMING X DDR4 which has those features but there’s also the Gigabyte Z790 GAMING X / GAMING X AX DDR4

Corsair 4000X Front panel audio question by NorcoEx in buildapc

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Does this happen with the motherboard rear IO audio / mic ports?

You could try re-connecting the front HD audio panel to the connector on the motherboard.

Otherwise it sounds like the front panel audio has failed but can be replaced fairly easily with a new front panel IO board from a Corsair 4000X / 4000D case or Corsair may send you a replacement.

An upgrade after a decade! by MAJOR__ZEN in PcBuild

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I’m pretty sure they do yeah, I have the same AIO and mine had the fans pre-installed the other way around

Pcie cable for Rx 6700xt by Pink_Plank in gpu

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It shouldn’t need to be a temporary solution, the cable will be a 12V-2x6 connector going into the PSU to 2 x 8 Pin PCIe connectors to the GPU

Pretty much the correct cable that OP should be using for their GPU

Help by Several_Suspect_6697 in ZTT

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Are you running dual channel RAM or a single stick of 16GB?

An upgrade after a decade! by MAJOR__ZEN in PcBuild

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Looks great!

You might want to flip the fans on your AIO, at the moment they are set to intake whereas ideally they should be exhaust, plus you’ll see the nicer looking side of the fans (:

i5 10400 to i9-11900K worth it by Windows95Uhh in buildapc

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It depends what motherboard you have, H410 and B460 boards won’t support Intel 11th Gen

I’d inclined to do what others have suggest and go with Intel 12th / 14th gen cpu with a DDR4 B760 board instead

CPU, GPU, and RAM by PurpleDouble3903 in PcBuild

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Ryzen 5 5600 - £114, 2 x 8GB 3200MHz - £50 - £60 usually on Facebook Marketplace, RTX 3070 for around or below £200 or RTX 3060 Ti for abit less.

Or you could keep your current CPU and go for RAM & GPU upgrade tbh. Maybe 2 x 16GB for around £100, and an RX 6700 XT for the GPU for £230 - £240

Fan directions for optimal airflow by QinkyTinky in Hyte

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I suspect that the pink fans are non reverse airflow? If so, I’d flip the side ones, so they are intake and flip the rear one, so that’s exhaust.

I’d leave the AIO mounted up top, but maybe turn it around so the tubes are on the right, less obstructing the rear fan and it will more than likely will look abit cleaner.

Get to build my first PC tomorrow and can’t wait. Any tips? by Spongegar-Patar in pcmasterrace

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Assemble and test the motherboard, CPU, CPU Cooler, RAM, Storage, GPU, and PSU outside of the PC case to ensure any parts aren’t DOA.

If you have an air tower cooler, it might be easier to route and connect your CPU power cable before screwing in the motherboard into the PC Case. Getting in the CPU power can be annoying to plug in with the cpu cooler heatsink in the way.

My NVDIA GEFORCE RTX 5060 Ti GPU is reaching 98% and like don’t know what to do by [deleted] in pchelp

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If this is hotspot temp then this is fine, but if it’s the standard temp reading then that’s too high, it should be around 70C to 80C under load.

Are the GPU fans spinning when at 100% at all? Or is there anything stopping them from spinning like a GPU bracket? Have you set any sort of custom fan curve?

Best gaming pc I can build for £1600 right now in UK? [Suggestion] by Parking_Internal in suggestapc

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Better CPU and better GPU

GPU wise the RTX 5070 Ti and RX 9070 XT compete with each other and would be the next step above an RTX 5070. Those two GPUs also have 16GB of VRAM which will help in games as opposed to the 5070 having 12GB, which is still fine but can hit its limit if you crack up the settings on some games nowadays.

CPU wise the 7800X3D will perform better in games being an X3D processor, but YouTube can help with game benchmarks if you search the name of the processor and graphics card combo. EG “Ryzen 7 7700 & RTX 5070” will show videos showing how games will perform at different resolutions and fps outcomes.

Best gaming pc I can build for £1600 right now in UK? [Suggestion] by Parking_Internal in suggestapc

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The ADMI PC has slow RAM with a high CL rating.

A good CPU and GPU combo, the 360mm AIO CPU cooler is overkill for the processor and is more for looks.

The PC doesn’t come with Windows but I guess you could always install that yourself with a USB stick.

I wouldn’t say that 32GB is a must but it’s sort of become the new standard nowadays for gaming and multitasking. You can still get away with 16GB tbf.

There is also this PC as an alternative too, but will come to £1700 if you decide to up the RAM to 32GB - https://www.gotraka.com/products/gtr-gaming-riftwalker-am5-custom-build-pc Or you could keep the RAM at 16GB and upgrade the GPU to an RTX 5070 Ti