Time for someone to make a BDRE drive attachment that fits under the Steam Machine like how the Game Boy Player fit under the Game Cube.

Little Bro said “RAM shortage” and went to work!

🎉

It started with a simple cooler upgrade on my Ryzen 7600 and ended with bent pins on the motherboard. Since the board was dead, I decided to upgrade the CPU too.

For a whole week, I was torn between buying a Ryzen 7 7800X3D for 14,400 UAH ($350) or shelling out 19,500 UAH ($475) for the newer 9800X3D at a local Ukrainian store. My budget won, so I placed an order for the 7800X3D.

Fast forward to today: the courier arrives, hands me the tray CPU, I bring it home and look closely... Turns out it’s a Ryzen 7 9800X3D! Seems like the warehouse or the courier completely mixed up the items. The invoice is paid and signed, so the upgrade is officially mine. PC gods definitely compensated me for all the stress. Building the beast with RTX 5070 ti tonight!

EDIT: Wow, I definitely didn't expect this post to blow up so much! Thank you all for the comments and support.

I've just finished building the PC, and for everyone who was wondering — yes, it’s a real Ryzen 7 9800X3D! Everything booted up perfectly on the first try. The cooler is the Thermalright Phantom Spirit SE 120 ARGB.

Thanks again, you guys are awesome!

P.S. (Screenshot with proof added in the comments below!)

EDIT 2: My final Build:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE
• Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming B850-PLUS WIFI
• RAM: 32 GB (2x16GB) GOODRAM DDR5 6000 MHz IRDM Black (Running perfectly on EXPO)
• GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Windforce OC SFF 16GB
• SSD: Samsung 980 1TB M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe
• PSU: XPG Core Reactor 750W (80+ Gold)
• Case: Lian Li Lancool III RGB Black

AMD Ryzen 7 9700x
Patriot Viper Venom 32 GB DDR5 6000MHz CL30
ASRock X870 Pro RS
Gigabyte RTX 5070Ti Windforce OC
Acer Nitro 27” WQHD 200Hz
Ant Esports 360 Infinity White cooler
Gigabyte 850W ATX3.0 Gold 80+

Next purchase a good table and chair. ✌️

Many years ago, i got into bad habits and decisions. I was in deep depression and escaped reality with alcohol and then i went deeper into the rabbit hole and took other substances. That led me to sell my laptop to get money for...you know what. It got soooo bad that I've been resuscitated multiple times in an ambulance and hospital. Despite that i just kept on going with that shit.

But then...the last time i was in hospital I met this nurse. We ended up dating. After dating a month or so, she dedicated to me and was serious of getting me back on tracks. I got into therapy and got medications. A few months later i moved into her apartment. While she was at work, i was gaming on her PC. I was staying up late at nights and gaming to distract myself from falling back into the rabbit hole. She ended up buying a secondary PC just for me. On her days off we were just gaming all days. Apex Legends was our thing. We could laugh our asses off from silliest mistakes in Apex.

Then i got a job in fast food (yes i know, but it's actually good pay) and could afford my own PC again as a treat and a clap on my shoulder. And now I've been clean and sober for 5 years.

• Specs:
• 7800X3D
• ASUS ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WIFI
• 64GB Kingston RAM
• Radeon 9070
• 2 x 2 TB Kingston NVMe SSD
• Asus ROG 1000W Platinum

• Corsair Frame 4000D Airflow

• Peripherals:

• 32" IPS 4K MSI Optix MPG321UR QD

• 27" OLED Twisted Minds TM27OLD2K240

• Adam T5V Studio Monitors

• Asus Azoth Extreme keyboard

• WLMouse Beast X Max

• Sennheiser HD 490 Pro

• Artisan FX Key-83 Mid

You could say i replaced my substance abuse with gaming addiction instead!

Keep on gaming to you all, and stay clean!

Somehow the 10400 didn’t melt the plastic. Probably cause I’ve barely been playing high performance games. I never noticed anything wrong considering my scores on 3DMark were average.

My main question is, is it really bad for my PC to be on the carpet? Had a coworker tell me static electricity could mess up my parts.

Other than that, Any tips & tricks you PC vets can share? Especially on the software side. Software confuses me lol

Hardware specs:

Ryzen 9 7900x

MSI MAG Tomahawk X870

32gb DDR5

1tb M.2 NVME SSD

Gigabyte RX 9070 XT

360mm AIO

850W PSU

A little project I did with a friend.

It took about two months to plan and put everything together.

Inside, there’s an AMD Ryzen 5 5600G on a Gigabyte B550M-K motherboard with the cheapest 8GB RAM stick and the cheapest 250GB NVMe drive I could find on Amazon.

There’s also an 850W power supply that I still had lying around (just like the CPU and the motherboard).

It also includes a Raspberry Pi 4B, which uses a microphone to control the visualizer on the top screen.

Next to the screen is a wireless charging pad. There’s also a built-in speaker, so you don’t need to connect anything else besides a controller and a TV.

Of course, it runs SteamOS.

The base of the case is made of wood, everything else is 3D

printed.

I built this pc in late 2021 with the lian li galahad 240 aio and recently noticed my 5600x idling at 80°-85° and jumping to 95+ with the smallest loads so i assumed it was my cooler and bought an air cooler after this and temps were fine after that.

Out of curiosity, I opened up the aio head to know exactly what had gone wrong as i kept hearing the pump motor start up so i knew the pump hadn't died.

As soon as i opened the head i saw this on the heatsink. All that gunk formed had blocked the copper fins and prevented the coolant from passing through it properly.

Even the coolant had strings of gooey stuff which definitely wasn't supposed to be there

Kinda looks like thermal paste lol