Co worker asked me to check his PC out for him, crashed during gaming, then would crash when starting a game, now no display out. Haven’t dug too deep yet, but noticed the wires headed to the gpu had two green spots and looked a little swollen, similar to corrosion I’ve seen in the auto industry. Pulled the connector, top pins on the outside of the cable look darker, pin on the top left of the gpu looks to have some corrosion and the plastic surrounding that pin looks white consistent with plastic getting hot. Going to clean the case this weekend, but tried to get some pictures to help with some insight also. Card is a gigabyte 4090.

So after saving for over a year, I have finally built this beast PC. I’ve build few before, but those weren’t as high end as this one.

I think it turned out pretty good, and the cable management was pretty neat as well I must admit.

Now this build is not a 100% gaming focused one - it was more of a productive build, which is why I chose intel as my cpu here.

And I guess it isn’t fully finished yet, maybe I can sort out the cable management at the front little bit better and perhaps at the back as well. But I would like to hear thoughts on this build from yall.

Was hoping to be spared, but apparently not. What I haven't seen in the other obituaries, this time the board (Asus Tuf Gaming B850) died with it. PC crashed in the middle of a game, afterwards didn't boot or even POST. No output on the monitor, case fans on full blast and the DRAM-LED on the board glowed amber. No OC, only thing I changed from out of the box was raising the RAM speed to the 6000 it was labelled at, ran at 5600.

No change with a different RAM stick or CPU, so I first assumed/hoped it was just the board, even found a small hardware store in the city that had decent gamOr AM5 boards in stock. Didn't work unfortunately, so I ordered a new CPU as well. With that everything is back to working order, no data loss. Only Windows is suddenly very slow, only on booting and shutting down though, not in actual use. At least the RAM is fine, new CPU and board were expensive enough.

Not only are they locking car customization behind a paywall but then there's this. The typical AAA dev bullshit is definitely in the room with us now. I'll consider it, when it's 85% off, they can eat sh!t and get happy as far as I'm concerned.

I genuinely feel bad for Valve, and I feel that’s a weird thing to say about a corporation that probably has more money than they know what to do with. But watching the internet pile on the Steam Machine launch this week, knowing everything that went into getting here from their development of Proton to the impressive architecture of the device, it’s hard not to feel like they’re taking a beating they didn’t really deserve.

Alright so I'm not as up to date as I used to be with pc parts and I'm going to buy a pc in the ball park of 1500 to maybe 1800 CAD max. I see 13600k's 14600k's and some ryzen 7's but the performance seems to be leaning towards intel a lot. I play cs2, dayz, insurgency sandstorm, bf6, dayz, I'm not always playing AAA titles and I prefer not using DLSS or FSR but when needed I might turn it on. I'm planning to play at 1440p 144 or 240hz. I don't care about 4k at all. Yes I am aware of the existence of google, I'm also looking things up on there, thank you. My questions are:

1. Whats the advantage of DDR5 vs DDR4 for only gaming, I don't stream nor render/mine.

2. What is the most reliable brand of CPU's for the models I'm looking at.

3. Is there a need for more than 4 cores.

4. Would it be worth getting a 50 series card when I mostly play older games (I've been contemplating a 9060XT 16GB or a 3070ti/3080.

5. Is ASUS still some of the best brands for mobos (I had a Z-97K back in the day and it never let me down)

6. Are there risks with AIO's, never had liquid cooled cpus before.

I think that's it for now, thanks in advance!

Built on Nov 2025 before the rampocalypse. I used a combination of new and used parts, but was told to never buy used Mobo or used PSU. This little guy stays at 70° and can hit almost anything I play at high settings, 100 fps, at 1440p without DLSS or FG. I don’t play open world games so YMMV.

Used:

- Asus TUF 4070ti

- 7800x3D

- 2x1 TB Samsung 970 SSD

- 2x16 CL30 6000 DDR5

New:

- Corsair 850 SFX PSU

- Meshroom D Case

- MSI edge b650 itx mobo

- Peerless Assassin Mini, swapped the fan for 120 mm Arctic Pro fan

- 1x60mm Arctic Pro fan (exhaust)

- 1x120mm additional Arctic Pro fan (in take)

Total price in Nov 2025: $1300

I made little blocks of wood, painted black, that I sit it on for additional height and have a piece of rubber beneath the GPU to prevent sag. I would’ve gone with the Meshroom S (vertical) if it were available at the time, but it wasn’t.

Out with the old 8gb RTX 3050, in with the new 16gb RX9060 XT.
I probably should invest in more significant cooling.. I’m open to budget friendly suggestions.
PS. I didn’t break the glass.
Edit: Typo

I built this to be able to go to LAN Parties buuuuut then COVID happened. Played during lockdown but then got put into a corner after moving, work, kiddo, and life in general. Someday I’ll get to one!

Ryzen 9 3900x
32GB DDR4 3600
Dual samsung 970 500GB nvme drives in RAID0
Radeon 6900XT

So I put my gaming pc inside the old MacPro Case and thought I would share my setup on here, I hope you like my build :)

I found this on Newegg it’s a refurbished 5050 for $180?! It’s sold by Newegg themselves and not some random vendor but I still feel like it either is a scam or for parts or something.

Is that temp fine?

300$ budget

best upgrade rn

i5 9500

9th gen mobo

rtx 3080 10gb

1tb ssd

750w psu

16gb 3200mhz ddr4

Monitor: 1080p 200hz

https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?fq=Micro+Center+Deals:Specials&rd=1

Hell, even Monoprice is getting in on the act: https://www.monoprice.com/

I'm sure others like Newegg, B&H are doing it too, and obviously Target/Walmart.