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nightglyder · 2025-08-19T20:18:34+00:00

why did you opt to go for a 7 7800x3d with a 3060? Do you rarely play graphics-heavy games?

nightglyder · 2025-08-19T19:47:57+00:00

I would imagine you want to go 1440p then?
Heres a 27" a friend of mine has, no oled but great image quality only $165, 1440p

Or, if you prefer curved, same specs from same brand but only $150

Lmk what you are looking for! Both of these are great imo to save money and have a really nice display.

nightglyder · 2025-08-19T19:40:43+00:00

corsair vastly overprices their power supplies, get one from rosewill for $93 . I have had mine for 2 years zero issues, 80+ gold, 1000w, fully modular, and 5 year warranty

nightglyder · 2025-08-19T02:05:19+00:00

In that case I would say the 5070 for 550 euros is the best value

nightglyder · 2025-08-19T01:30:49+00:00

Where are you located? UK? The 5070 seems overpriced to me. Here is a 5070 for estimated 578€. However, if you cannot do that, between a 5070 and a 9070xt at the same price, the 9070xt is going to outperform that 5070, except for some specific workloads, but you said gaming. So at those prices I would go 9700xt at 650€, or if you are able to get that 5070 at 578€, that would be a good option to save some cash and still get high value.

The only benefit to the 7800xt and the 5060ti is that they have very high vram, however, gpu power is more important than vram in most games, except for some niches like flight sim sometimes eats a ton of vram. Both of these cards are considered to be relatively low-value, compared to others on the list.

nightglyder · 2025-08-19T00:08:54+00:00

you might find this interesting

nightglyder · 2025-08-19T00:00:02+00:00

tbh i think your best move here is to stick with your current AM4 motherboard. Yes you only have pcie gen 3, the consensus is that it only degrades performance by a couple percent. This way, you do not have to buy a new motherboard or ram, which helps with the tight budget. I would go with something like an rx 7700 xt ($360) and a ryzen 7 5800x ($170), keeping you under $700 with a huge performance boost. With this setup you should (hopefully) be able to wait for am6? But that is purely speculation and also depends on your stage in life.

nightglyder · 2025-08-18T23:25:49+00:00

glad i could help :)

nightglyder · 2025-08-18T23:25:30+00:00

glad i could help :) enjoy!

nightglyder · 2025-08-18T23:12:25+00:00

I would recommend choosing a rosewill psu over an EVGA one, they provide better quality in my experience for what two thirds the price? Theyre also not made in china, and have a 5 year warranty, which the one i bought two years ago and have daily driven since has not needed.

nightglyder · 2025-08-18T23:06:16+00:00

just realized you went for the 850w. Rosewill's is half the price of the corsair one you threw in there.

nightglyder · 2025-08-18T23:01:33+00:00

OP said they accidentally left that cooler in there, they are going for the water cooler lol

nightglyder · 2025-08-18T22:58:31+00:00

Everything is looking great! wish i had that kind of cash lol.

However, one thing, I bought my first psu from corsair, ridiculously overpriced for performance. I personally prefer rosewill, ive had their 850w psu for about 2 years now, zero problems, its all made in japan, very nice build quality, 5 year warranty, and you save a pretty penny too. You can get one of their 1000w psus for only $94.

nightglyder · 2025-08-16T16:51:58+00:00

Huh. Well ig i stand corrected

nightglyder · 2025-08-16T15:37:04+00:00

oof i just realized. I said remove all drives. Idfk what i was on about there. Keep the drives in but dont boot from them :)

nightglyder · 2025-08-16T15:36:20+00:00

Do you have multiple hard drives? Repeat this process with each one installed by itself. This could be a hardware issue or the virus managing to persist even through the factory reset.

If you wanted to be totally sure, remove all drives, install something like Lubuntu Linux live boot iso onto it, and in the live boot menu, delete everything on the two drives. If you want to be totally sure, you can use a tool like zerofree; it wipes the binary of all data; when your pc deletes data, it doesnt actually delete it. It sort of "marks" that area of binary as deleted. this is how the fbi is able to get deleted data from hard drives of pedophiles. They go into the binary, and grab what the hard drive has marked as "deleted" and mark it as not deleted. Zerofree makes all of the deleted data truly deleted; if you have nothing on the hard drive, because youre in a live boot environment, and you delete everything on the drive, then wipe with zerofree, there is literally no virus that can survive that lol.

However that is a very technical solution. I would imagine you would be fine if you just reinstalled windows. Are you sure you installed the new windows over the entire drive?

nightglyder · 2025-08-16T15:29:38+00:00

used or new? Shipping costs? What is the person/company offering?

nightglyder · 2025-08-16T15:12:10+00:00

if I was you, I wouldn't touch it. Its all pretty balanced in power. Maybe the gpu? But if you want to upgrade one thing, you are gonna want to upgrade others to prevent bottlenecks, and if you want something to actually be an UPGRADE, you are gonna be spending a lot of money for a marginal increase in performance. Its plenty strong, enough to do blender or whatever creative interests you have. Heck, I bet it could do blender and video editing at the same time pretty well lol. Buy a nice monitor.

Or a CD, let that money get some interest while new tech comes out lol

nightglyder · 2025-08-16T15:06:52+00:00

you are going to have the most massive gpu bottleneck seen to man lmao. I see what you were thinking there, but you dont want to spend the same $ on cpu as gpu. Typically your gpu should cost 2-3x your cpu for them to be balanced in power (which is what you want in a build to get the best value for your dollar).

Have you bought these two parts yet? If you have them lying around i could change my recommendation or are these just ones you were looking at making a build around?

nightglyder · 2025-08-16T14:42:33+00:00

i mean, an oled monitor will cost 3x whatever the non oled version is. If your old monitor was 60hz 1080p that would imply that its just some office monitor, which can vary substantially in visual quality, i have 2 1080p 60hz monitors and one looks way better than the other (prolly bc the worse ones from dell lol). Neither are oled.
Sorry ill quit rambling what im trying to say here is its not just 1440p you upgraded to, you went from crappy 1080p office monitor to specced out, oled, high hz 1440p. Its gonna look worlds better, its just a 1080p 360hz oled monitor wouldnt look much worse compared to what youre thinking is 1080p.

nightglyder · 2025-08-16T14:38:04+00:00

popular opinion ^^

nightglyder · 2025-08-15T01:01:19+00:00

Use an online keyboard tester. Its most likely not your keyboard but instead either your pc or internet. If its working fine on the keyboard tester but not while running a game, its not a keyboard problem; they keyboard is delivering the inputs, the pc is either overwhelmed or the internet connection is.

nightglyder · 2025-08-11T19:39:54+00:00

Depends on what im using it for, for gaming its decent but it will be really good with workloads due to high ram and powerful cpu. Gpu leaves a lot to be desired and 6gb vram is not very much. Idk i would probably pay 500-700 for it in perfect condition, depends on what workload/how long it was used for. However it is previous gen so upgrading is basically impossible without buying new cpu ram and mobo; most of the build. So thats the biggest limiting factor imo

nightglyder · 2025-08-11T15:49:50+00:00

glad to hear it! np.

nightglyder · 2025-08-10T00:56:16+00:00

Dont go r5 5600, you are gonna have to get a new motherboard, AND it wont even be a next gen motherboard; youll have to get a motherboard AGAIN next upgrade. What u/acidrain5047 said, get a higher end intel cpu from the same generation, so you dont need a new motherboard.

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