New PC build (lockdown edition)

Gammerz

And you can compare and contrast!

Alex

Now we cooking.

Brave

\o/

MadAndy

Toooyssssssss 😄

BritishBean

Christmas came round again real fast! 😬

Alex

I decided that if I’m going to upgrade this stuff, I might as well do the SSD now as well. So WD Blue 1TB M.2 SSD on its way. It’s a fancy one that connects right onto the mobo. Four times faster than my current SSD!

Brave

It makes a hell of a difference. KartKraft loads ridiculously quick on my laptop now.

Alex

It’s alive!

Surprisingly painless install. All done in about an hour.

Alex

Might have spoken too soon. For some reason the audio isn’t working.

Alex

Sound fixed. The manual is very confusing about what jack you’re supposed to plug your speakers into.

MadAndy

I love those M2.SSDs 😁

Alex

MadAndy Ha yeah, I was amazed at just how small it was. I didn’t realise they were that tiny. And that’s 1TB of storage as well.

So, now I’ve got the sound issue sorted everything seems to be working as normal, just need to get some games installed now.

Alex

So, I noticed my RAM was only running at 2100Mhz, instead of the 3200Mhz advertised.

I did a bit of poking around and it seems you need to enable A-XMP in the BIOS for the RAM to be fully utilised. I enabled it and sure enough, jumps up to 3200Mhz. Always worthwhile to check these things and to RTFM. 😅

Before and after screenshots.

Alex

Just encoded a short video and the difference was insane, encoding a short 4 or 5 min video took a couple of minutes, rather than the 25 minutes it would have taken on my old i5 quad core. That’s crazy. Also a joy to see all sixteen cores at 100% for a little while!

Brave

Alex Nice! Now put it to work on a sim 😉

MadAndy

Wasnt sure where to put this but:

https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-henry-cavill-build-a-pc-very-seductively/?utm_content=bufferc5d45&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw