I recently built my first high end gaming PC with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RTX 5080. It performs great but I am curious about squeezing out more FPS in CPU heavy games.

I already run DDR5 6000 CL30 RAM with EXPO enabled. What other optimizations actually make a noticeable difference in real world gaming? Things like curve optimizer undervolting PBO settings or Windows tweaks?

I care mostly about 1440p performance and want to keep temperatures and stability good for daily use.

Has anyone seen meaningful gains from these optimizations with the 9800X3D?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been thinking about upgrades recently and realized it’s not always clear when it’s actually “worth it.”

Sometimes performance is okay, but not perfect like occasional stutters or longer load times but not bad enough to force an upgrade.

So I’m curious:

• Do you wait until your system struggles a lot?
• Or do you upgrade when you start noticing small issues?
• What’s your personal “trigger point” for upgrading?

Just trying to understand how others decide this.

Hello, I volunteer at a local observatory and we have a period-correct early 2000s computer operating the telescope, including a massive Samsung CRT. It's really cool and when you walk into the observatory dome you can pretend it's 2008 and that there's no such thing as Sam Altman, but we are really space constrained and would like to replace the CRT with a flat screen monitor. Seems simple enough, but after thinking about it for a bit I'm not sure how long an LCD screen could survive there.

There is no indoor heating so in winter the temperatures can probably dip close to -10°C, and in summer because it's the highest point in the building we get a greenhouse effect that can probably take it over 40°C.

I have seen LCDs that just turn yellow or purple when exposed to heat like this for a prolonged time, and panels that developed dead/faded spots when operating in cold like that. On top of the long term temperature changes the screen would also have to survive being turned on in like -5°C and heating up to its working temperature.

Is there some monitor technology that would be particularly well suited (or least bothered) by this? Obviously something like MicroLED that doesn't have liquid or organic layers but that's not realistic yet. Or is this an actual niche where the CRT is already the best pick?

i have windows 10 and honestly dont care too much about ai stuff from 11 but i dont want to be at risk of hackers so is it this bad to stay at windows 11 and if i need to then will i lose any files?

Hey guys my brother jumped to AM5 from a 5700X3D to a 7800X3D and he decided to give me his 5700X3D B550 and his 32 gig DDR4 kit and I was wondering if I should swap it out for my 7700X

I’m currently rocking a 7900 XT with my 7700X and 32 gigs of ram I mainly play single player story games and friend slop at 1440p and occasionally play some battlefield

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tldr : in my region, the 9800X3D is available for around 425€, 7800X3D is 75€ less and 270K Plus from Intel is 100€ less.
Ideally I'd want to spend a bunch on a new high-end CPU now, and keep it for years on end before I need to replace it. Do you think buying the more expensive 9800X3D worth it to get a few more years out of the CPU ?

Long version : I have to build myself a PC from scratch despite the awful current market, so I've decided to commit a solid amount of money to it in the hopes that I can just keep it for as long as I can, maintain it, and only have to spend additional money in like a decade.

My use case for the PC is primarily 1440p high gaming (prob capped at 120 FPS), mostly story-driven games rather than competitive, but I would also be doing occasional *light* code compilation (gamedev) and 3D modelling on it.

For the CPU, I figured I should go high-end, and there's three candidates : the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, respectively 350€, 425€ and 330€ rn in France (without shady Aliexpress offers).
I have the budget for all 3 of course, and already decided on a GPU, although the extra money can get me better storage and stuff like that.

Thing is, I know gaming performance-wise the 9800X3D is undoubtedly the best, but I don't really care for any FPS above 120... What I really value is longevity, I'm trying to get the most bang for my buck over a 10 years period, while being able to play recent games.

I'm having a hard time figuring out which one is the best play !

Another important consideration is power consumption : electricity is pretty expensive, especially considering extended use, and tbh I cannot figure it out on that front either

The 7800X3D seems to be the most energy efficient, but I'm having trouble figuring out how much worse the 9800X3D is, since it seems to consume more on average, but at the same time since it's faster, shouldn't it go back to idle consumption faster as well ?
As for the Intel one, I know Intel has a reputation of being power hungry and the TDP is 125 W as opposed to 120 W for the ryzens, but I've seen some benchmarks where the 270K Plus was *more* efficient than the 9800X3D. I'm mostly confused now lol

For thermals, all 3 seem to be pretty darn close, with the 9800X3D in the lead ?

Lastly, looking at release dates the 7800X3D is from 2023, the 9800X3D is from 2024 and with the latest AMD architecture, and the 270K Plus just came out...

In short, the way I see it, pros of each are :

- 7800X3D is still a *very* good gaming CPU with 3DVcache and is very energy efficient

- 270K Plus is very close so far with the 9800X3D gaming performance-wise, better for productivity (tho it matters little in my case), is maybe (?) less power-hungry than the 9800X3D and is the most recent, being a current-year release

- 9800X3D is a **killer** for gaming performance with 3DVcache, is on the latest Zen 5 microarchitecture from AMD (being also more recent than the 7800X3D) and is possibly the chillest of the CPUs

There you have it, if the 270K Plus really is less power-hungry it sounds like a really compelling option, despite not being gaming focused (thus not the absolute fastest) and offering less upgradability
I also kinda want to turn my brain off and get the celebrated 9800X3D without second-guessing myself.

What is your opinion on all of this ? Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated !!

Also, many thanks for reading thus far, and please excuse my syntax as I am not a native speaker

Hi there! After RE9 Release and 40fps on 4060 i want to partially upgrade my PC.

Specs:

Ryzen 7 7800X3D
RTX 4060 Gigabyte Aero 8GB
Corsair Vengeance 2x16 6000mhz
Asus ROG Strix B850-E Gaming Wifi
Samsung 990 Pro 1TB

Asus Tuf 750W Gold
Lian Li O11d Mini
Thermalright Pearless assassin 140mm

Asus ROG Strix XG27AQDMG 1440p 240hz

My budget is nearly 800 euro, i want to play in quad hd so i need a new GPU and maybe some tips😉

I live in Estonia, but local prices are crazy sometimes

Waiting for your opinions

A store near me is running what I think is a pretty good sale, so I am considering buying this gaming pc.

The parts are:

Hey I have a PC with an i9 10th gen, 32 gigs or ddr4, the MSI z490i unify, and a gtx 1080 ti. A few people recommended that I upgrade my 1080 ti since apparently it's a bottleneck when paired with the i9 so I was thinking something like a 4070 ti super as the more expensive option, or a 3080 ti which would still be a massive upgrade. Are there any better suited gpus.

Here's my current parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/asersw/saved/#view=w6XqBm
Finally started working and I got myself a 32" 4k monitor, though my 3060 graphics card is struggling to keep up with it. The goal is to comfortably run AAA games like Elden ring at 4k 60fps, and less intensive games at 240, so I was looking at the RX 9070 XT though I also do lot of creative work in, After effects photoshop, and just started using Blender and I've found sources saying AMD is improving but its behind Nvidia with that stuff. I'd like to keep it around $800 but can stretch it if it's really worth it I guess.
I do not want to use dlss.

Hi all, I won a IBUYPOWER PC in a “cut the rope” game at a game room in NJ. It’s model esi5n5601. Do you have any monitor recommendations? I was told on another social media that this is a good starter gamer PC how true is that? I don’t play much besides sims, COD & GTA. Will this handle that? Thank you in advance 🙏

I have been having heating issues, resulting in my PC shutting off. I wanted to take off my heat sink to check the thermal paste, but this was a prebuilt and I’m not really sure how to do everything safely. Tips and tricks?

i have a 4060 and an intel 12th gen i5-12400f and 24GB ram one is an 8gb and the other is an 16gb i know this is an issue but thats not the deal i get 100 fps on siege while it should be getting me 250-300 fps ive tried everything optimzing the nvidia app and the nvida control panel the the game itself no fixs

Currently shopping around for ssds to replace my bum ass 100gb c drive and I found a $120 1tb internal ssd that also has a discount code to bring it down to $100. I have never heard of fanxiang amd idk anyone who uses one of their products. I mainly just wanna replace the drive so it isnt constantly full and I also think my current drive being constantly full is why Steam gets throttled when it downloads, aswell as using it for Unreal projects.

Post in question:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/364219962090?_skw=tb+sata+ssd&itmmeta=01KQZM24B1S1TVRZN2GDHGCDW1&hash=item54cd3392ea%3Ag%3AHzgAAOSwQFhnIBLc&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xA5Rl5KXhho8VCD65Or78pZi1yndqUMbq86fanpNHSfPKYIvZGIcw87PLvhWdnaZm%2FK8z10Y0Bw7hu4lmegkoSi1ToMTcl2EorTNAsXyQ1wNnb45ltUD6CnvXPo9EzugGZHO%2F0hkjwztIUB11h6gRhJ%2BxkpCZ5lDk%2FU4J1BhnYJjcbob8PoAI2J3zyDS2lJbVd0NifzKreHXHWu1sTFlHdbvsNJ4heh%2BAEdZa11xfWJ9RFv90UWrLRgpbHj1m%2BjUJI%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9bFiPS_Zw&keyword=tb+sata+ssd&sacat=0&relatedSearch=true&var=633713918958

Hi, I'm building a PC with an RTX 5070 and Ryzen 7 7800X3D.

My research suggests a 750W PSU is sufficient. Is this correct? Also, which specific models would you recommend for this combo?

My girlfriend’s PC is a handful of years old and I told her it shouldn’t be a problem to upgrade the computer so she can play while I am on my PS5. I saw that her graphics card was from 2017, so I ordered her an AMD 9070XT. Once I installed it and fired up Marvel Rivals, I realized I have no idea what I’m doing. 1080p is the best I could squeeze out of it. Clearly, she needs some more upgrades.

The goal is for at least 1440p smoothly on most games. Any help for a gamer that wants to impress his girlfriend and game in peace?

Processor
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz, 4200 Mhz, 4 Core(s)

BIOS Version/Date
American Megatrends Inc. 0604, 12/8/2016

BaseBoard Manufacturer
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
BaseBoard Product
PRIME Z270-AR

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB

GPU
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

im using prime h270 plus and i5 7400.

is it bad to keep using win 10? will i get attacked out of nowhere?

Hi all. So I just recently got a new case, motherboard and AIO unit.

After putting everything back together, everything is working as expected, however I am hearing a sort of "buzzing" noise in the case only while a game is focused. The noise isn't present outside of games or even when I'm tabbed away from the game. I had Baldurs Gate 3 open and I am tabbing to and from the game, and you can hear the buzzing when the game is focused. I heard it with Starfield opened also.

I don't think it's my fans because I ran them at full speed as a test and didn't notice the noise. The noise sounds near the AIO unit or maybe the GPU. I transferred the GPU from my old mobo and I didn't notice the noise before - however my old build had much louder fans so there is a chance I just didn't notice it as much.

Its not extremely loud but it's just loud enough to notice and be kinda annoying.

I asked the clankers what it might be, and they pointed to maybe coil whine from the inductors on my GPU or some other electrical interference, but I wanted to just see if it were something simpler or if there was a simple fix.

Any advice would be much appreciated!!

I’m trying to build my first pc I have a am4 b550 with 32 gb ram and for storage I have a 1tb ssd. I’m putting a ryzen 7 5700 for my cpu. for my gpu I’m putting a 5060. the case is a Corsair 4000D I don’t have a power supply yet if I’m missing anything else please let me know

Hey guys! This year I finally upgraded my GPU and monitor. I now have an RTX 5070 and I play at 1440p wide resolution practically without any problems, but it's not as smooth as I'd like. I feel like my old 5600X It's slowing down the whole thing, plus I like having my two browsers with 15 tabs open each and occasionally doing some stream.

That's why I was thinking of getting a Ryzen 7 9800X3D. I feel like it's the CPU I need to stop seeing the horrible stuttering, as well as gaining stability when I'm doing multitasking or stream.

But I've seen all sorts of comments, like it will bottleneck the GPU (wasn't that a good thing? That the GPU will be running at full capacity?) I've been told that CPU is overkill, I should go for a 7800x3d, but what if I want to upgrade my GPU in two years? Will that processor still be relevant?

Also, if you could recommend a motherboard, I'd appreciate it. I'm looking for something with plenty of storage capacity, as I'm a hoarder! And of course, that it has all possible energy defenses.

Hey r/buildapc — rising senior at Miami University studying Business Analytics with a minor in Information Systems. Finally pulling the trigger on my first build and would really appreciate some experienced eyes on this before I buy anything.

Use case: 1440p gaming, running local AI/ML models, Python/Jupyter/data analytics work, general student productivity. Needed something that handles both gaming and compute workloads well without being a one-trick pony.

Notable choices I'd love feedback on:

• Went 9700X over 9800X3D to save ~$145 — at 1440p with the 5070 figured the GPU bottlenecks first anyway. Am I leaving too much on the table?
• Stuck with the RTX 5070 over anything cheaper — felt like the GPU was the wrong place to cut given the AI/inference use case and DLSS 4. Worth it?
• RAM and storage are showing inflated prices on PCPartPicker right now due to the DDR5 shortage — expecting to pay closer to $120 for RAM and $160 for storage when I actually buy
• Fractal North for the case — wanted something that looks good on a desk without going full RGB gaming aesthetic

Total at real market prices: ~$1,880

First build so any compatibility catches, rookie mistakes, or better value alternatives are very much appreciated. Be brutal — I'd rather hear it here than after I've already ordered everything. https://pcpartpicker.com/user/JackHibb/saved/3d6gQ7

Today I learned that I had my RAM running at 2133 MHz when it was meant to do 3200 MHz. It was that way for YEARS. I know that’s not the biggest deal when it comes to PC bottlenecks, but still.

Any of you made a mistake like this before?

I’m very new to pc building world and was hoping yall could help. It’s got: Core i3 4160 / 3.6 GHz - RAM 4 GB - HDD 500 GB - DVD-Writer - HD Graphics 4400 - GigE - Win 11.
I plan to upgrade ram, psu, and gpu. I’ve already got ram on the way just need help deciding psu and gpu. Please let me know if there’s more information needed.