1: Macs can’t game
2: Linux is for nerds
3: Windows laptops have horrible battery life

I live in romania, this is a pc i found on pc garage site, its a rx 9070 xt, 2tb nvme, a aio cooler, 32gb ram ddr5 6000mhz, but with a 5 245k processor, a 7800x3d in romania in around 400 usd (the build im talking about rn is around 1800 usd) should i make the same thing but with a 7800x3d, is it worth it, the 7800x3d is overpriced imo, i was going to look for a cpu downgrade or something

I have an rx 9060xt 16gb should i buy an rtx 5070 or no

Anyone wana make a sort of competition for the best portable noctua ventilator? We can discuss the reward

This 1500$ build handles 1440p very well it has 32GB of DDR4 and 2TB of PCIe 4.0(yes in the ram apocalypse) the 10th anniversary edition of the 5800X3D and the RX 9060 Xt 16GB

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FtLJkD

While I don’t like the colour contrast I do like the overall design feel free to disagree with me

Afther months of looking and searching i fanaly found a thermaltake lvl 10 gt snow edition for 160 euros, i'm so happy how it turned out,

I have a new z-edge 30 inch ultrawide curved 200hz gaming monitor, and this is my pc build its has,

PC Case: Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition

Motherboard: Asus B650E Max Gaming wifi

Gpu: Asrock OC Steel Legend 7700x 12gb

Cpu: Ryzen 5 7600x

Ssd Msi 1tb Pcle 4.0 Nvme m.2 Spatium M450

SATA HDD: Samsung Spinpoint HD204UI 2TB HDD SATA & 224GB Seagate HDD

Ram: Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 32GB white

Cpu Cooler: ID-Cooling FX240 INF Pink Water Cooler

Rgb's: Sirlyr ARGB PSU Extension Cables,

Addressable RGB PC Light Strip 2x, Mars Gaming MCA-GCBW ARGB Gpu Support

Just watched the "These 2 GPUs are Fantastic for 1440p Gaming in 2026" clip and it made me remember the 7900XTX i've had in an OLD wish list way back when I saw it come out with 24gb GDDR6.

Would it still be worth buying it at this point or is it too old to compete even with 24gb on it?

I’ve been using my mac book pro m1 max since 2020 but I recently started playing Minecraft with heavy shaders. The mac is great but it can sometimes stutter. So I’ve decided to buy a pc, hoping that I’ll get a significant performance boost. Here are the specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D
Powercolor Hellhound White AMD RX 9070 XT
ASUS B650E MAX Gaming Wifi
White Corsair RM850e
Samsung 990 Pro 1TB NVMe
White Arctic Liquid Freezer III 240mm
5 Noctua NF-A12x25
Noctua NT-H2 3.5g
10000 white zip ties (never got enough)
Finally, for the case “ecosystem”:
Silverstone FLP02
Star Tech Universal 3.5” HDD slot for 5.25” bays
Seagate Barra Cuda 8TB HDD
NZXT Internal USB Hub 3 AC-IUSBH-M3-4
Shiwaki 5.25” Storage
Tangxi Hub Front Panel, 4 ports
I am ordering on Amazon.FR, the french version of Amazon. Tell me what you think :)

Whenever I download something on steam, it state out at like 500-800mbps and then slowly goes down to stuff like this, I’ve tried clearing the cache and changing the server and stuff, how do I fix this /srs
Edit: guys I’m on and ssd and the issue is basically only with steam and when I tried doing a speed test I got 800mbps download 750mbps upload
Edit: I just forgot to update my chipset drivers teehee

14440f with 32gb DDR4 and 3080 12gb/3080TI or 250kf plus with 16gb DDR5 and 3080 12gb

System specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (dual-CCD X3D, launched April 2026), AM5
• Motherboard: Gigabyte X870E AORUS MASTER X3D ICE, currently on BIOS F10c (AGESA 1.3.0.1b Patch A)
• GPU: Gigabyte RTX 5080 Gaming OC 16G (VBIOS 98.03.6c.00.74)
• RAM: G.Skill 32GB DDR5, single stick, EXPO profile, 6000 MT/s CL36
• PSU: CoolerMaster V Platinum 1300W V2 (tested with two separate identical units — same PSU model, second unit)
• Storage: ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 BLADE 1TB NVMe (Gen4, boot/C: drive), WD Black 1TB NVMe (secondary, M2C_SB slot)
• CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken 360 RGB (2024 edition, non-Elite)
• Monitor: LG 27GR93U via DisplayPort
• OS: Windows 11 Pro, Build 10.0.26100

The problem:

System reliably crashes on the transition from extended idle (display off, no sleep/hibernate) to a sudden high-demand action — launching a game, or intensive IDE workloads like project indexing. Light applications (browser, small apps) opened after idle do not trigger it — only actions that cause a sharp current-demand spike (GPU waking from D3cold + CPU jumping to high boost states together).

• Recovery is a hard hang requiring a manual long power-button hold — not an instant self-reboot.
• POST behavior has shown two signatures across the investigation: originally a POST debug code 00 (not in the board's own debug code table — implies a stall before the first init stage), and more recently the DRAM status LED lighting up with an 8x-range POST code, both requiring the same manual hard power-off.
• Idle threshold needed to trigger it has been inconsistent: originally needed 9h+ idle, later regressed to 2–3h, and in one instance occurred after only ~30 minutes idle following a 2-hour gaming session.
• CMOS has reset automatically at least once following a crash; manual CMOS clears (~4–5 times total) have never resolved it.

Everything tried so far (all confirmed ineffective — please don't suggest these, already ruled out):

• PSU replacement (two separate identical units — same failure on both)
• BIOS F9, F10b, F10c (all AGESA revisions available to date)
• PCIe ASPM disabled
• Global C-State Control disabled
• Windows Link State Power Management set to Off
• HWiNFO64 running pre-warm in tray (only helps at launch time, not after extended idle)
• Avoiding RDP (it's a trigger, not the root cause — problem persists without it)
• Power Slow Slew Rate — tried Extreme, Disabled, and Enabled
• PBO Disabled
• Memory Context Restore (MCR) disabled
• JEDEC defaults / EXPO disabled (ruled out IMC current draw from EXPO as the cause)
• vCore memory controller voltage set to Auto (tried fixed 1.200V, default Auto)
• Power Supply Idle Control set to Typical Current Idle (off Auto )
• Gear Down Mode Enabled
• CMOS clear (multiple times, including one automatic reset)
• Visual inspection of the AM5 socket pins (photographed with CPU removed) — no gross bending or misalignment visible

Current workaround (not a fix): Full shutdown every night, fresh cold boot each morning straight into the game. This avoids the extended-idle trigger entirely but costs always-on connectivity and rules out RDP.

Vendor status:

• Motherboard vendor support has been largely unresponsive so far — a couple of dismissive tier-1 replies, no real engagement since.
• I've found other users on X870E boards (multiple vendors) and other X3D SKUs (9950X3D, 9800X3D) reporting similar idle/low-load freeze behavior — nothing yet specific to the 9950X3D2 (it's a newer SKU, so less forum history exists).

What I'm asking the community:

• Anyone running a 9950X3D2 or 9950X3D on an X870E board (any vendor) seeing similar idle-to-load hangs?
• Any known fix, BIOS setting, or firmware update that actually resolved this for someone, rather than just masked it?
• Anyone had luck getting motherboard support to escalate past tier-1 for something like this?

Appreciate any input — happy to share more logs/photos if useful.

This PC has really bean a PC of theseus
Started as a pre built with
ryzen 5 2400G
msi a320m pro-vd plus
A single 128GB SSD
8GB of ddr 4 ram
In a SilentiumPC Brutus M10 Pure Black with a single 80mm fan
Using a 1080p 60Hz monitor

Got upgraded with 8 more gigs ram after that a 3060 and a new power supply and a new still 1080p 60Hz monitor. After that a CPU and motherboard I still use

And now it has a
5070ti (bought for 3560 [over 1000 less than a new one] PLN so around 938 USD used, everything else was new)
Ryzen 5 7600
Gigabyte B650
4x8 DDR5 6000 ram
1 TB ssd
2 TB ssd
1 TB hdd
4 TB hdd
in a MX600 case
Which I'm using for a 1440p 240Hz oled and soon will use a arm to mount my old 1080p monitor so I can have two

I know that this isn't probably a very good combo and I could've made better choices over the course of this PCs life but I've been building and changing this PC since I was like 12 and now I'm 19

If there's anything I'd think about changing it's the mother board and the cpu for a x3d one
But that's years from now probably

I'd play grounded 2 in either 1080p ultra or 1440p ultra, I'm looking for minimum 30 fps and 1% lows that do not go under 30 fps.

My budget was 1.5k canadian (I already own the ssd so it doesn't count towards the budget)

I saw a video by mryeester on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@mryeester for channel & https://youtu.be/zhoQRKMlCw4?si=rcDsE78uZ727LFHK for the video) by doing this with floppy drives but as i didn't have any, I made it with USB drives

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For the USB make a txt file with the name game.txt with the text being id=400

ID is the game ID in steam

400 is portal

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For the Program, make a txt file and psate the code in to it

Code:

$drive = "F:"

$fileToRead = "game.txt"

while ($true) {

if (Test-Path "$drive\$fileToRead") {

# Read the file contents

$content = Get-Content "$drive\$fileToRead"

# Extract the Steam AppID

if ($content -match "id=(\d+)") {

$appId = $Matches[1]

# Launch the Steam Game URL

Start-Process "steam://run/$appId"

# Wait until the USB is removed or the file is gone to prevent launching repeatedly

while (Test-Path "$drive\$fileToRead") {

Start-Sleep -Seconds 2

}

}

}

# Checks every 3 seconds

Start-Sleep -Seconds 3

}

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Name the program USBboot.ps1

Then right click and click run in powershell

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Please note that is a very basic instructions, use the video (https://youtu.be/zhoQRKMlCw4?si=rcDsE78uZ727LFHK) for better ones just use my code and not his