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Posting here if anybody is keen done have done 4 free upgrades so far :)

If you have a rtx 3080 none lhr, I will buy brand new 3080ti free of charge for you 3080 :)
 
ponder said:
Will this be in a room with aircon?

At 22C ambient with 3 case fans cpu running at full load you're looking at ~80C. With our summer temps and no aircon I would look at an aftermarket cooler using one or two 120mm+ fans to keep things chilled.

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That is rather high, but I've only got a 2600 and a 1600AF and both have never hit anywhere near 80 degrees on the stock while under normal gaming load.
My RTX 2060 super those sits at 80 degrees :( need to find a way to keep that cool. Though if I crank up my case fans to 100% it sits at 75, crank it's fan up to 100% and it'll be at 69 degrees.
CPU with case fans at 100% sit at 56, the 1600AF sits in a case with none pwm fans, so it's at 100% all the time.
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Posting here if anybody is keen done have done 4 free upgrades so far :)

If you have a rtx 3080 none lhr, I will buy brand new 3080ti free of charge for you 3080 :)
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Any similar deals for a non-LHR 3070 Gaming X Trio?
 
My budget is around R10k.

What's your thoughts on these:
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I have a RX580 GPU, Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo, SSD and HDD already.

Questions:
I should select a cheaper MB? - I chose the MB based on it having integrated Wi-Fi, BT and 4 ram slots (expand in the future, if required)
Considering my components, do you think it's worth going down the Micro-Atx route (I understand I'll be losing out on 2 ram slots)?
I have a 120gb SSD and 3tb HDD, is it worth getting a NVMe now or later? (later when I have the funds)

Thanks.
 
jarrodr said:
My budget is around R10k.

What's your thoughts on these:
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I have a RX580 GPU, Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo, SSD and HDD already.

Questions:
I should select a cheaper MB? - I chose the MB based on it having integrated Wi-Fi, BT and 4 ram slots (expand in the future, if required)
Considering my components, do you think it's worth going down the Micro-Atx route (I understand I'll be losing out on 2 ram slots)?
I have a 120gb SSD and 3tb HDD, is it worth getting a NVMe now or later? (later when I have the funds)

Thanks.
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The Rx580 will be the bottle neck but the rest of the parts will be good. Rather have the extra ram slots.
 
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jarrodr said:
My budget is around R10k.

What's your thoughts on these:
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I have a RX580 GPU, Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo, SSD and HDD already.

Questions:
I should select a cheaper MB? - I chose the MB based on it having integrated Wi-Fi, BT and 4 ram slots (expand in the future, if required)
Considering my components, do you think it's worth going down the Micro-Atx route (I understand I'll be losing out on 2 ram slots)?
I have a 120gb SSD and 3tb HDD, is it worth getting a NVMe now or later? (later when I have the funds)

Thanks.
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Get the NVe now, on paper around 4x the speed of a SATA SSD so should help with launching speed and anything that involves lots of read/writes
 
Lupus said:
That is rather high, but I've only got a 2600 and a 1600AF and both have never hit anywhere near 80 degrees on the stock while under normal gaming load.
My RTX 2060 super those sits at 80 degrees :( need to find a way to keep that cool. Though if I crank up my case fans to 100% it sits at 75, crank it's fan up to 100% and it'll be at 69 degrees.
CPU with case fans at 100% sit at 56, the 1600AF sits in a case with none pwm fans, so it's at 100% all the time.
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High is relative.
My 2600K sometimes reached 95C under load, as did my R9 290.
With lower temps a CPU and GPU may boost a bit higher, but I doubt you would even see a 5% uplift in performance unless you manually overclock.
IMO the real reason you want a beefier cooler is in the hope that it's a bit quieter.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
High is relative.
My 2600K sometimes reached 95C under load, as did my R9 290.
With lower temps a CPU and GPU may boost a bit higher, but I doubt you would even see a 5% uplift in performance unless you manually overclock.
IMO the real reason you want a beefier cooler is in the hope that it's a bit quieter.
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2600k is very different to a Ryzen 2600 :)
 
airborne said:
Get the NVe now, on paper around 4x the speed of a SATA SSD so should help with launching speed and anything that involves lots of read/writes
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Would this be worth it?

Samsung 980 M.2 500 GB PCI Express 3.0 V-NAND NVMe SSD 500GB
 
airborne said:
Samsung make awesome SSD's, you can't go wrong if the price is good.
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R1600. Bit steep for me for 500Gb given in the past what I paid for ssd drives. But guess nvm a different league.
 
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Anybody want to buy a 27” 165Hz HDR monitor?

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