Recent content by StormNobleheart

[H]ard Mode engaged.

Same here. Though, they may be right. Things will get better in February or March.......of 2022.

The Fractal cases would provide a worthy upgrade to your case. They have a lot of options for setups, though you may need to purchase extra parts if you need a lot of hard drive bays. I bought the Define 7 XL because it has two 5.25" bays for an optical drive and a Teac FD-505 dual floppy disk...

I did not know about the first m.2 slot not functioning with Comet Lake until I received the board and read the manual. If I use m.2 slots two or three, it disables things I need, such as SATA ports for the hard drive raid and the optical drive. I am stuck with only m.2 slot four at the moment...

I already have a 10700K and a Z590 motherboard. I already have an 11700K on pre-order (begrudgingly) so I can actually use the features of said motherboard. I thought the particular board I wanted would sale-out for a very long time like the 570X Dark Hero and 570X Strix-E did. Instead, the Z570...

Thanks. I probably will sell the 10700K. That is disappointing to read about SSD's in RAID 0. I have worked on PC's for about 25-years and I still feel like I know next to nothing.

I have the Asus Z590 Maximus Hero XIII in my computer currently. I doubt I could sell it for enough to purchase another 570X Strix-E much less a Dark Hero. I have a 10700K already. Unfortunately, I only have about $450 set aside. I really wanted to install the second Samsung 980 Pro I have and...

Whisky Tango Foxtrot! I am really, really regretting my purchase now. I am regretting giving that Asus 570X Strix-E to my nephew when I could not get a 5000 series Ryzen more so. I was just going to get the 11700K anyway because I have a nice Z590 board in hopes that it was close enough to the...

I bought a couple 3800X's because they were $10 cheaper than the 3700X was at the time. I am just kicking myself for going Intel because it was available at a good price at the time when I could not get anything AMD for even close MSRP.

Figures I am stuck with a crappy platform.

I like the clean look of the NZXT board.

I have had good experiences building systems with the Asus Prime X570-Pro. The only downside to them was the price. I thought they were about $50 too much. Sometimes you can find them on sale for about $220.

I doubt the 3080's will become readily available for a decent price. I do believe the 5900X's will become more available by that time. I was also tempted to buy a prebuilt system. My work has a deal with Dell so I thought about buying some cheaper system with a 3080 or 3090 in it. I would have...

Talk about lucky! I am amazed that the CPU and motherboard were unharmed by this. I do my best to remember to unplug the power supply before working-on computer components ever since I had a computer power-on while I was plugging in a graphics card. I bumped the power button and on came the...

I pre-ordered the 11700K for about $400. Hopefully, it will arrive before March 30th. It seemed like a slightly better deal than a 5800X because I do not need to buy another motherboard. The 11900K does not seem worth the price just for the extra boost compared to the 11700K and 5900X.