True difference between 4080S and 4090 is shown in heavy raytraced games. Then it goes from usual 25% to above 40%. And handling such games with their pretty graphics and nice fps is main reason to buy highend cards. Don't even look at youtube banchmarks like you linked, because they are not always ...

Great to hear!

I don't understand WHY you say keeping the cooler doesn't make sense as you haven't explained. It was never my intention to "buy the cooler to replace it's fans". Regardless, I seem to have found a solution which is to simply adjust the front intake fan. I do think it was more a problem of them bei...

Sorry for the confusion. My plan is to keep the cooler and replace the fans, not buy another cooler to get the fans. Since my OP I've actually had some luck just moving the fan a little so it's not so inline with the other fan. This seems to reduce the noise. My issues was less about loudness and m...

Isn't still possible to return this cooler? Buying the cooler to replace it's fans is just bad. Especially given that "bang for buck" fans are not best in terms of acoustics and durability. If I were you, I would return this cooler or buy just one Noctua NF-A12x25 to run it between towers. They are ...

About fan response time, check MSI Windows fan control app (some part of Dragon Center?). E.g. ASUS doesn't even have such option in bios (or I remember wrong), but has such slider in his app, Armoury Crate. There're also third party fan control apps which tend to offer more opportunities, but here ...

With delay time, isn't it MSI board? They have thia stupid range from funny parts of secound like 0,1s to only 1s - it really doesn't make any sense below good 5 secounds. Also Gigabyte isn't much better here with their 3s max, but to be fair maybe both offer higher range in their Windows software -...

Generally tweaking should be always done first before replacing components. Not the best peformance is sometimes not on component's side, but lack of tweaking ;) Like you said with fan curves, if I understand well, they don't work ideally. My take here is to set case fans in bios for constant (0-100...

I don't know how are your temperatures after your experiments, but generally there tend to be few aspects warming Intel CPUs above the norm to always check and correct if needed. Setting power limits was one obvious due to air coolers just not being able to handle 300+W this chip is able to pull whe...

Air coolers are not able to cool 13900K with unlimited power. If you want to use it like that, buy yourself some of the strongest 360 AiO - it will do better thermally and noise wise. My take would be limiting CPU to PL1=PL2=200W - loss of performance will be unnoticeable (up to 10% in the most mult...

PS2 response time really ? :D I wouldn't think about it and honestly I don't know :D I'm that awfully uncompetetive gamer who doesn't even play mulitplayer games and I prefer using my mouse wireless than wired when I even know that wired connection is faster... I tested my mouse with this traffic li...

I just don't see a case of needing PS2 in modern times, so I think it shouldn't affect your buying decisions. One thing is that PS2 just works before USB starts to, so may happen useful with some troubleshooting, but for 20+ years with computers I have never encountered situation needing it, so it d...

There will be some cheap boards having bios flashback feature - it's just more common among more premium boards. This Z690 Lightning doesn't look good. On the first sight possibly too weak power delivery for 13600K, but I would need to dig for it in case of being sure and Intel LAN, potentialy one t...

I hope GN will know how to use it. At worse they'll place here their also funded by viewers fancy fan testing machinery they don't know how to use. Or at best it seems like that due to so much time has passed since they introduced it and their upcoming the best in the industry fan reviews.

I won't bother with this awful quoting mechanism of this forum : ) True is that DDR5 ram got cheaper to the point of DDR4 not making much sense. On the other hand not much difference DDR5 makes in performance, so I would just choose the board first and let it determine DDR type. I meant F CPUs, so o...

Thanks for advice! have found : - i5-13600KF ~304 € - Noctua NM-i17xx-MP83 Mounting Kit 9 € - Gigabyte Socket 1700 UD Z690 ~180 € - G.Skill DDR4 Aegis 16GB 2400MHz CL17 1.2V Gaming Series ~28 € Does such a combination look|sound reasonable? some other components available : - i5-13600K ~333 € - ASR...

If you want more VRAM, there're also RTX 3060 12GB and 4060 Ti 16GB.

Found out more about this… It is possible to obtain a Sapphire RX 6700 XT Nitro+ ( for ~300 €, by now ). Does this sound reasonable? This is a model with three fans. In general it's highly unrecommended to go with Radeon GPUs for professional workloads. Better be completely sure that software you u...

About fan control, do just how I explained it in my build's thread. First set all case fans in bios to constant inaudible speed. And there's the question, if they are able to run inaudibly? (ofc from reasonable distance, one you sit from them) If not, I think they should be changed, because I find j...

Board being just broken is always an option, so maybe it was the case. When you work with electronics, remember to ground yourself before - people not doing it happen to kill motherboards without any sight. The thing with the cooler was one I only heard about and I'm not really convinced, but maybe ...

You mean DRAM motherboard led? At first give your PC time to execute first turnin on - then it trains RAM and it may take even up to few minutes without giving screen. If still a problem, first check if all stick sit as they should. Then try it with just two sticks (don't mix sets or channels - manu...

I assume that you installed all with reading the manual. On Z790 Steel Legend there're some traps like installing drive in one M2 degrades your GPU to x8 or some M2 doesn't work when other is occupied. Sometimes using some M2 disconnects some SATAs, but I don't recall it being like that with this bo...

Fine, this is how it is with completing parts from various shops :] Btw with planning such shopping don't try to hard to make it as cheap as possible, but balance it with being as fast as possible. Most important is never allowing situation when waiting for some component ends your return period for...

You bother too much with something not to bother with. There're many ways of applying thermal paste and in fact differences between them are negligible, like one or two degrees. You have to try hard, do it intentionally uneven or use it too little to get noticeably worse results. There're many tests...

For thermal paste I recommend Gelid GC Extreme - it's easy to apply, cheap and from the best performing ones, so better than MX-4, but ofc it's like few degrees difference. This contact frame is generally waste of money - it's not meant to help you distrubute a thermal paste, in fact you will have m...

No special insights on USBs. I thought Linus had a comment once, but I can't find it. Maybe he was running many USB cords to his server room across his house or what not. Does not matter. I will not worry about this. There may occur problems when plugging via hub some more power hungry devices or/a...

I had 13600K(F) in mind, mentioned it in the beginning of previous post when talking about mobos. These boards are not budget and are what I find reasonable to the point of spending more being in your case waste of money. There's no need to be sceptical about USB hubs with devices you listed before....

Let's start with the boards: DDR4 https://www.prisjakt.no/product.php?p=7198836 DDR5 https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z790%20Pro%20RS%20WiFi/index.asp Ones which I find adequate to 13600K, your needs and use case. The only downiside is them not having as much USBs as you wanted, but paying premium fo...

Here is a link to another meta site for computer parts prices in Norway. It includes a few more stores and has a different UI. https://www.prisjakt.no/category.php?k=1243 This thing seems very good with filters and comparing the prices in various stores. Going to try all the new settings later toni...

Most of the time fps and frametime numbers look really well, but CPU gets overhelmed with it's usage when showing equipment of during more intensive fights. It may be six cores of similar potential to your CPU causing this problem or it's just game being broken. Adding here what PCGH said, it's like...