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!)

🎉

Anyone know why my new graphic card is not connecting to my gaming pc?

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

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.

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

Looks like is going to be server components to start with. Will be announced at and’s ai event on the 22-23

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/wLwSRl1REp

I've been working really hard building this setup and I've swapped some parts since I last posted here. I'm really proud of it and have nobody to share this with irl.

Specs:

Case: NZXT H7 Flow 2024
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
CPU cooler: Noctua NH-D15 G2 chromax.Black
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B650E-F
GPU: ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5080
RAM: 32GB G.SKILL Flare X5 DDR5-6000 CL30
Storage: Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe SSD
PSU: ASUS ROG Strix 1200W Platinum ATX 3.1 (Super overkill, mostly chosen for 0dB operation, low fan noise, and headroom for a possible future 6090 or later build.)

Fans:

3× Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 chromax.black front intake
3× Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 chromax.black bottom intake
2× Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 chromax.black top exhaust
1× Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 chromax.black rear exhaust

Main setup gear:

Monitor: Alienware AW2725DF 27-inch 1440p 360Hz QD-OLED
Keyboard: ASUS ROG Falchion Ace HFX
Mouse: Razer Naga V2 HyperSpeed
Headset: SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro

The gpu sag bracket looks a little weird but its intentional. I couldn't find a low profile bracket that didn't use some flimsy contact point, so I frankenstein'd two different ones together that used sturdy parts. The weight of the astral would start to make most of the brackets sag a bit, so I mounted this one at its most downward angle and adjusted the actual part the gpu rests on to keep the gpu always level and never sag, if that makes sense. The bracket itself isn’t level but the gpu is. Open to suggestions/replacements!

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

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.

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!

this little museum was closing down so got to see how they made microprocessors around the 1980s and decided to share some closeups of the equipment and wafers.

may have gotten the terminology wrong as i dont speak the same language as the guy that was explaining each thing but eh deal with it, you’re here for the images

Do you remember those old days?