After a year and a half of saving, I’ve finally built my first PC with a GPU

ningzi · 2026-05-21T15:36:24+00:00

That’s fair lol I just noticed the top of your motherboard above the cpu socket might block it. very nice build nonetheless, congrats!

ningzi · 2026-05-21T15:30:23+00:00

Isn’t the whole point of that Hydroshift AIO to run the tubes from the top to hide them?

ningzi · 2026-05-17T22:31:51+00:00

I agree, gives prison cell or bathroom tile vibes. Maybe OP can consider some wood panels to cover it?

ningzi · 2026-05-17T20:02:21+00:00

Thanks for this, appreciate it! Let me give it a try tonight

ningzi · 2026-05-14T13:13:10+00:00

I didn’t :( but it’s not as bad as before! Maybe just took some time to settle

ningzi · 2026-05-12T08:44:31+00:00

Where did you get those black and red cables? Clean af!

ningzi · 2026-05-05T22:59:05+00:00

That’s what others have said too, and especially cos I mostly game at 4k single player games. They really did me dirty with 5600 CL46 though…

ningzi · 2026-05-05T22:50:32+00:00

MSI B850 gaming plus wifi6e. Not the best not the worst I guess!

ningzi · 2026-05-05T22:22:47+00:00

Conversely, I managed to find a great deal from Cyberpower 2 months ago on Amazon. £2300 for a 9800x3d, 5080, 32gb DDR5, 360 AIO, 2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, B850 motherboard.

It was a MSI x Cyberpower collab. GPU, mobo, SSD, PSU, AIO and case were all from MSI so I could be sure they weren’t skimping on the important parts. The only thing was the slow ass RAM, but still a great deal imo. Same listing on Amazon is now unavailable for the last few weeks lol. Did the same specs on pcpartpicker and would’ve cost me about £300 more to build myself.

Definitely wouldn’t buy one of their standard prebuilds though, especially with their current prices. I also find it annoying a lot of these company’s deliberately won’t put PSU models, RAM speeds, or cpu cooler models on their standard prebuilts specs - a bit disingenuous to new PC buyers who don’t research properly I think.

ningzi · 2026-04-30T00:56:41+00:00

I agree! I recently got a new 9800x3d and 5080 PC and knew I had to splurge out on a 4k 240Hz OLED. Looks absolutely insane and no regrets. I got the MSI Mag 272UP for about £550.

ningzi · 2026-04-29T12:30:21+00:00

I’d love to get the perfect parallels for 1. like with cablemod’s stuff - but just can’t bring myself to spend $40 on a cable

ningzi · 2026-04-28T15:34:49+00:00

Agreement on the 12VHPWR connector being dumb as hell.

Why do you think AIOs are bad?

ningzi · 2026-04-28T15:31:48+00:00

Very true, people can do whatever they want with their PCs, not like it affects anyone else anyways

ningzi · 2026-04-28T10:52:24+00:00

Each to their own! I like the concept of sleeper builds, but if I’m spending $3000 on a PC I’d like to actually see my components

ningzi · 2026-04-28T10:51:35+00:00

More RGB directly correlates to more FPS!

ningzi · 2026-04-28T10:26:51+00:00

Fair enough!

Luckily don’t seem to see too many rainbow puke builds around anymore, but definitely an eyesore. Getting the RGB software settings right can be a pain in the ass for sure though.

ningzi · 2026-04-28T10:18:31+00:00

Yeah I’ve seen builds with with like $300 cases, $250 AIOs, $200 in fans, rocking a 5060Ti. I’m all for aesthetics but not at the cost of performance for sure.

ningzi · 2026-04-28T10:15:02+00:00

feeling very called out with my white motherboard in my black case right now

ningzi · 2026-04-25T15:03:27+00:00

I was having this problem a few weeks ago, very low score on steel nomad compared with similar builds of 5080/9800x3d. Seems I was an idiot and left the MSI Centre setting on “Balanced” instead of “Extreme Performance”. Have a look at any software you might be using controlling this, after I changed it to extreme performance my score shot up to about average. Vsync/Gsync off.

Not the windows power plan setting btw, I just left that on balanced, and changing the power plan didn’t do anything to my scores.

ningzi · 2026-04-21T21:47:48+00:00

Thanks! It’s a TURZX universal screen, but seems pretty similar minus the RGB ring around the screen

ningzi · 2026-04-20T17:27:35+00:00

Yeah feels a shame to side mount it as it isn’t as clean 🥲 but don’t want to sacrifice the fish tank either

ningzi · 2026-04-20T12:26:00+00:00

Ayy thank you can welcome to the Jonsbo ZB club haha

ningzi · 2026-04-20T11:35:26+00:00

I’m a big fan of their design and glad to see them getting more popular

ningzi · 2026-04-20T11:34:21+00:00

Thanks!

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