Hi Steve yes I fully understand about about the excess build and I have explained to him my thoughts about this, but he is funding his own build and grandparents don't have the final say unless perhaps they are funding. I know the reason behind this build are the problems he has encountered over the...

Hi Steve sorry for my last mail but just got rubbed up the wrong way with some of the last comments.

Well let's say we will agree to disagree I certainly didn't come on to the forum to be lectured to by your personnel thoughts.

Hi Olle P, yes we will be getting 32gb ram especially for video work. I don't agree my grandson is going from a sub standard pc as it was a half decent gaming pc when first purchased. Regarding him exploiting my gullability far from it, I have told him all along that it is far to much money to spend...

Hello Abula you post has pleased my grandson with your views on the Ryzen cpu's and Dark Hero board, although a bit of a wait.
There are a few other x570 boards that I have to check out.

Hello Steve, yes I fully agree with your first paragraph and have explained all of this, and with how covid is at present and not being able to mix I cannot be there to help with software changes etc. I had forgotten about the Puget Systems reviews I will take a look. Regarding the Ryzen 9 5900 and ...

Plenty to think about and keep me busy with thanks Steve. I think we will be picking an AIO 360mm cooler for the cpu. My grandson has found that his gaming PC is no longer good enough for all of his needs. He now wants to be able to do do gaming and streaming, video editing and rendering on a new pc...

Hi Steve thanks again for valuable input, the monitor was upgraded at the beginning of the year as his other monitor was not good enough and he is know talking about going to 1440p or even 4K but that is beyond me at the moment. I will definitely look into the R5 5600 and that will depend on the tim...

Thanks Steve I am getting there. Regarding the processor yes tell me about it, very difficult trying to explain to a 15 year old as there eyes sparkle at the cores and threads. I will point him towards the Techpowerup’s graphs thanks. I just might be able to persuade him to change to a 500gb SD inst...

Hi Abula thanks again, I think by the look of things your recommendation of the Seasonic Prime 750w would be fine.
Any comments on the other parts chosen is there anything there that won’t be suitable together that you can see.

Hi Abula thankyou for your reply, I take it that 750 Watts is large enough for a power supply, I was thinking maybe 850watts for safety. If we went larger could you give recommendations please. Also do you think the other components are compatible and ok for the build. Regarding fans we have gone fo...

Hi I was last on the forum earlier in the year asking for help with cases and a possible gaming build. Unfortunately I had a heavy fall but back in nearly one piece now. My grandson has decided that he would now like to build the gaming / streaming pc. I will list all the parts he has chosen and ask...

Hi Christiano, Thanks for your input on the case. As you may have read I had a very bad fall especially for someone in there mid 70s. I am doing pretty good but already had metalwork in my back from another major opp which has been upset from my fall. Anyway all is going reasoably well but the pc up...

Hi Steve I will get my grandson to do what you have suggested, it might not be for a while as I have just ended up in hospital with 4 broken ribs from a fall onto a concrete floor from a loft space.
I will be back in contact as soon as I am up to it.

Hi Steve yes I can understand what you are saying and I can’t understand the 2% only on GPU in DX 12. Hopefully I can get some guidance somewhere as to what we need to try next as it does not seem to be running correctly and certainly not if the components are usually man enough for that game. My Gr...

Hi Steve thanks for you advice and help my grandson is running the game at 1080p and having to run on low level, system ram is hyper X DDR4 2x8gb at 2.4mhz. windows 10 and the game are on a WD Black WDS256G1XOC 256 GB PCIe NVMe SSD. He has been running task manager today and sent me some readings to...

Thank you very much for your reply which will give me a good start, I will look through all of your suggestions and hopefully my grandson can make a decision. I built a pc about 4 years ago with a Lian li case with help on this forum from yourself and others and have been very happy with it thanks. ...

Hi my grandson would like to build a new gaming pc as his existing pc with i7700 3.6hz CPU and GTX 1070 GPU is not good enough when in a competitive tournament at endgame in Fortnite, his fps go down from 180 to about 10. He is thinking of an i9900k cpu and 2080ti gpu with both of them water cooled ...

Hi Fire-Flare and CA_Steve thank you both for your replies. Regarding the cpu and the video editing I have started to do more editing lately with my grandson now heavily in to motorcycle trials riding so think that I will go with the i7 cpu and the Ninja 4. GPU I am having difficulty choosing betwee...

Hi CA_Steve and quest_for_silence Thanks for the advice I will try your suggestion next time I need it, I did try to copy and paste my articles. But I first downloaded it to my Mac and copied it from there perhaps that was the problem. I will try copying from the post page next time. Thanks for the ...

I am about to start a new gaming build with a Lian LI PC V33B case mainly because of its size and where I am fitting it. I will also be using it for some home photography and video editing etc. This is the link for previous help with the case http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t...

I am trying to post a link from another topic that I asked about a while ago, but after saving the original file in my downloads then choosing the file and trying to add the file I get the response that.
(The extension webarchive is not allowed). Can you give me advice please.

HiFire-Flare and CA_Steve Thanks for your replies, yes that is how I was thinking of running the case with front to back cooling. I won't be using the window version so there will be air vents on each side as well. I believe there is also allowance for two side fans if required. Now that the case se...

Thanks again for your reply
The main thing that I am concerned about is gpu cooling and fan placement.
I know that I can install two fans in the front and one at the rear, do you think
I will require any at the sides.

Fire-Flare than you for your reply, my mistake I put the dimensions down incorrectly, I have now corrected them.

A short while ago I got some advice on building a gaming pc with a Fractal R5 case that would be stood behind a chair in my lounge but decided to hold back and wait for the new Pascal GPUs. I would now like to go back to my original thoughts and build in a case that will fit in a tv unit which has a...

Thanks Lodestar

I will just have to take a pick of the main dealers after looking at prices of components
and hope all goes well.

Hi Lodestar Thank you for your help and advice, I had looked at a few e-tailers such as Scan, Amazon, Overclockers etc. I had seen a reasonable deal on a motherboard bundle at Overclockers. Obviously money counts but my main concern is with after sales service incase of any faulty parts, can you adv...

Thank you Abula I had not realised that Pascal would be as much of an upgrade.
I will therefor take onboard your very good advice, I may still get the 970 but not
the 980 card, thanks.

CA_Steve Thanks for checking out my proposed build parts, are there any recommended parts suppliers that I can view or be advised on. Regarding the GPU MSI Nvidia GTX 970 Gaming Twin Frozr 5, if I decided to go for a 980 card instead to make the computer a little more future proof for newer games wh...