Agent Orange
Veteran Member
For those few here that are into this:
Back last October, I posted about a new Asus gaming rig and here is an update on that.
The Asus board, a ROG Crossfire X670 Hero motherboard, was returned twice due to BIOS issues and its failure to POST properly. This was a problem with the early released boards and has most probably been fixed by Asus. However, I wasn't willing to wait, and opted for an ASRock motherboard which has basically the same chip set at a considerably lower price. Also, I added another new case in the Lian Li Lancool III, which by the way, is a godsend for the builder. Can't say enough about that case (component accessibility and material quality).
So, here are the ingredients as it stands now:
• ASRock X670E Tiachi Hero
• Ryzen 9 7950X
• Noctua NH-D15 CPU Cooler
• GSkill Trident Z5 RGB 32GB (16x2)
• Seasonic Prime TX-1000 Titanium
• MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X
• Lian Li Lancool III
• Samsung 980 Pro 1TB
• Western Digital 6003 6TB
• Seagate Barracuda 1TB
• ViewSonic Elite XG271QG 240 Hz
• Windows 11 (22H2)
The build is now complete with recent addition of the 4090, which was extremely hard to come by at MSRP. I finally was in the right place at the right time (MicroCenter) and was able to get the card at MSRP, which was and is still an absurd price to pay. However, like a golfer looking for that great set of clubs or the hunter going after that treasured rifle, I jumped on it.
I have a very large library of mainly shooter games, and my favorite ones that I am playing mostly are these:
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Far Cry 6
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
• Witcher
I'm not into wild overclocking and will never OC the video card, and only slightly tweak the CPU and RAM. I'm just starting to run a few benchmarks and for example, "Endgame" bench, is over 40,000 as compared to about 28,000 with the old 3080ti.
Back last October, I posted about a new Asus gaming rig and here is an update on that.
The Asus board, a ROG Crossfire X670 Hero motherboard, was returned twice due to BIOS issues and its failure to POST properly. This was a problem with the early released boards and has most probably been fixed by Asus. However, I wasn't willing to wait, and opted for an ASRock motherboard which has basically the same chip set at a considerably lower price. Also, I added another new case in the Lian Li Lancool III, which by the way, is a godsend for the builder. Can't say enough about that case (component accessibility and material quality).
So, here are the ingredients as it stands now:
• ASRock X670E Tiachi Hero
• Ryzen 9 7950X
• Noctua NH-D15 CPU Cooler
• GSkill Trident Z5 RGB 32GB (16x2)
• Seasonic Prime TX-1000 Titanium
• MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X
• Lian Li Lancool III
• Samsung 980 Pro 1TB
• Western Digital 6003 6TB
• Seagate Barracuda 1TB
• ViewSonic Elite XG271QG 240 Hz
• Windows 11 (22H2)
The build is now complete with recent addition of the 4090, which was extremely hard to come by at MSRP. I finally was in the right place at the right time (MicroCenter) and was able to get the card at MSRP, which was and is still an absurd price to pay. However, like a golfer looking for that great set of clubs or the hunter going after that treasured rifle, I jumped on it.
I have a very large library of mainly shooter games, and my favorite ones that I am playing mostly are these:
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Far Cry 6
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
• Witcher
I'm not into wild overclocking and will never OC the video card, and only slightly tweak the CPU and RAM. I'm just starting to run a few benchmarks and for example, "Endgame" bench, is over 40,000 as compared to about 28,000 with the old 3080ti.