So I got some bits to upgrade my PC, while still keeping for a while my cheap case and the Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+:
Ryzen 5 3600
MSI B550 MAG Tomahawk
16GB DDR4 Crucial Ballistix 3600mHz CL16
Sabrent NvME SSD 256GB
Noctua UH-12S Chromax Black (fuck watercooled, this thing looks sleek)
and some Arctic MX-4 for the cooler
As I said in the beginning I'll retain my case, the 3 Corsair AF120 LED case fans, the Soundblaster Z, the Sharkoon Silentstorm 650W PSU and my secondary Crucial MX500 sata SSDs.
Since I will be using my 34" 21:9 2560x1080p LG monitor (Freesync 75Hz) I think my RX 580 should do pretty decently not being bottlenecked anymore by the CPU (currently i5 4670K).
I cannot wait to build everything in, but I'll have to wait the weekend more or less, damn.
Hopefully the air cooler installation will not be a pain in the arse, it's my first ever, and I will not make a mess both with Windows 10 install and then with the BIOS upgrade for the motherboard.
Pretty electrified by all of this! And for once it is a brand new PC (more or less, lol)!
I'm remembering why console gaming is generally so much simpler.
I bought this off the shelf PC a couple of years back, it started with a Ryzen 5, 8 GB DDR4 and a GT1030 graphics card. Shortly after a friend of mine sold me a Ryzen 7 1700 really cheap, so I put that in, no problem.
I recently came into some money and wanted to upgrade my graphics card finally...oh and also I found a bundle to get a Zotac 2070 RTX blah blah and a Ryzen 7 3700X, same AM4 socket, so no worries right? Well, no. I installed both, nothing would show up on the screen. I should have installed one at a time, but no,I was not following my own troubleshooting advice.
Anyway, after trying things over and over, got it to go back to stock, and found I needed an 8 pin PCI-E or two 6 pin PCI-E cables for the graphics card to work (my GT1030 didn't require another cable to run) and the PS included doesn't have them, and also, the bios on my MB is apparently too old to work with the new chip. I tried to download all of the Asus Bios upgrade stuff but it keeps failing.
So right now I'm just going to build a whole f-ing new PC, new case, power supply and MB ordered and I'll basically have 2 PC's that are relatively new which I can use.
Last edited by MR2 Fan; July 24th, 2020 at 09:17 PM.
Currently piecing together my new build, not really the greatest time to be doing so, but I'm keeping an eye on certain sites for discounts etc.
Bought an Asrock B550 Pro4 M/B for $195 AU. And then the next day, some G.skill Flare X 2x8GB 3200mhz ram came up cheap, for only $95 + delivery.
CPU wise, I'm looking at a Ryzen 5 3600, which should do most of what I need. Then once all that is done, a decent graphics card without needing to break the bank.
So... no.
I built everything inside my old Sharkoon case and... pc would not fire up.
I spent from 5pm to 11pm trying with ten people helping me through a Telegram channel.
Pictures taken of every connection and shared.
Tried with and without ram, with only one, with no cpu cooler on... pc gave no signs of life.
Even took out the cooler and the cpu.
Tried to bridge the 24pin to check if the PSU was not fried: it worked.
So in the end the culprit is the motherboard: either I broke it while putting CPU and cooler or it came broken.
I was almost in tears.
And the morning after I had to wake up at 5am to go to work.
Anyhow: I activated a restitution on the mobo (it was "sold and delivered by Amazon") with a request of substitution with the very same mobo.
Also I was pissed off since I was without a PC (bar the laptop and the backup ancient one connected to the TV) since I disassembled the actual PC to make room for the new mobo, cpu and cooler, ecc.
I spent yesterday putting back together the old mobo and all the rest, hoping it will work again.
It does although I lost fast boot and the speaker buzzer got broken.
Since the whole situation has pissed me off I've decided the actual PC won't be touched anymore (aside from GPU changes and such) since I cannot stand to find myself without a proper PC in case of more accidents so I've ordered a new case (Coolermaster H500 - the cheap one) and a new PSU from Sharkoon.
New mobo will be coming by Tuesday, case by wesdneday and PSU... by the 3rd of August (goddamn Amazon and Covid delivery complications -___- ).
I have not yet decided if I'm going again to try build it myself: my friends said I either gave some electric shock to the mobo (it can happen) or it really was not my fault but just a borked mobo.
There goes my usual luck.
With that said I'll decide soon if trying to build it again (and risking again to bork something) or ask a shop (but I don't know any locally, I don't trust them and the only one I know personally, and I know they are good, it is in Rome, far too distant and costly to send the whole materials to let them built it)... but I really feel the whole CPU and air cooler mounting is something unnecessarily complicated and prone to mistakes that can destroy permanently everything, I really cannot understand how the industry have not modernized the whole ordeal in a less life or death event.
I mean, goddamn, in 2020 how it is we do not have yet lego-like and easy plugin ways to do this? Something to insert easy like an NvME? I mean, we have fool proof sata plugs, ram is pretty easy to insert too, goddamn, let's get rid of all this 1800 style bother.
I may be an idiot and not capable to put a CPU, thermal paste and air cooler in optimal ways, but it really feels like a mightly exageration when people says "it is so easy to build a PC nowadays! Anyone can do it!".
I'm already growning anxious thinking about that crucial part that I could have to experience again.
Last edited by Blerpa; July 26th, 2020 at 04:20 AM.