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Just finished watching - quite interesting that they're intentionally working at closer to limit temps now. Eases my mind about my temps given they were talking about 90+degrees. Edit: Most important part - edited the old signature :D

Haha a rare follow through? Regarding the EXPO I will try it now this evening after work. I have now extensively run the PC over Sunday and Monday stretching its legs with some overly demanding/fancy Minecraft shaders and Portal RTX. Seems to be running flawlessly which is always a great...

Very nice! As a backcountry enthusiast Japan is top of my bucket list for their legendary powder but sadly its not all that cheap especially flights.

Okay seem to be all up and running, happy days. Finally thing in CPU-Z it says my DRAM frequency is only 2400mhz. Is there a setting in BIOS I need to activate to get my RAM at full speed? I seem to remember back with my old Intel board I needed to do something similar but first time on an AMD...

Doing all the driver downloads onto a USB at the moment from my laptop. Such a bizarre default setting though from Windows - seems a huge oversight!?

Good to know its not an isolated issue and a quick Google showed me plenty of complaints about this. Trying a workaround with shift+f10 to bring up command prompt and bypass the "out of box experience" which has given me an option for limited setup. Not sure if this will cause problems down the...

Okay so seemingly all gone well build wise. Booting fine, seemed to install windows fine. But then on Windows setup I get to: "Let's connect you to a network You'll need an Internet connection to continue setting up your device. Once connected, you'll get the latest features and security...

That would make some sense, I'll see if it's mentioned at all later in the Corsair documentation. Side note: surprised that Corsair don't provide a printed manual/guide of any kind in their box!!

It may change (pass compositions change slightly every year) but you used to be able to buy a single day Paradiski upgrade if you only had a local pass. Don't quote me on this but that was possible when I worked there back in 18/19 and last Winter Val Thorens did something similar for a single...

As someone who worked in the industry I think honestly transfer time from the airport should be your lowest consideration. I do understand babies/young kids can make it more important. It's also more important if you're just going for a long weekend as well but for your regular week long trip I...

Components arrived. CPU slotted, RAM fitted and heatsink for the H100RGB is fitted. All smooth no problem. Little confused that the block has a 4pin and a 3pin coming out of it. The online instructions from Corsair only refer to the 3pin. Corsair instructions say to attach to CPU fan header...

Update - parts are ordered and arriving tomorrow. Very excited! As people said my PSU should be fine I decided to put the spare budget into the GPU and actually got a 4070 Ti Super! It is the basic Zotac model but still a better card than I initially thought I would get! Now I'm going to try...

I personally think, having done a season there, Les Arcs is one of the most underrated resorts piste wise. It has an incredible variety of good high level pistes to gorgeous, wide and gentle tree runs (especially down to Peisey). If you're hiring a car you can also easily make it down to Bourg...

It is about 7 years old and never ran close to capacity even when I did overclock. I'm not sure what classes as an antique in PSU lifetime?

Thank you again for the replies. I have decided so far on the following: 1. 100% going for the 7800X3D for CPU 2. Dropping down to a B650 board. I was looking at the ROG Strix B650 boards and saw there is a 650E-E and 650E-F and couldn't tell what the difference is for one to be £60 cheaper...

Okay thanks everyone I'll come back with a revised basket tomorrow I think - all very welcome suggestions and comments. Circling back to this - I only have old/small USB sticks - what kind of size do you need for the Windows install file? If its this simple then this is definitely what I'll...

From the sounds of most of the replies I think the biggest/most obvious saving I can make is on the motherboard so I will likely drop that. I see most people recommending B650 boards - is there very little performance decrease between B650 and X670? As mentioned I'm very out of the loop and...

The AIO is more for looks than anything else as I think air coolers look super clunky. Nothing to do with performance - looks are important to me.

Haha I had a feeling someone would say this! I do understand the importance of PSUs but mine is 1000W Platinum and its been well maintained, not even close to stretched over the last few years so I'm reasonably confident in its healthiness. Is there any official way to test this out of interest?

No I probably don't need as fancy a Motherboard feature wise. I do have my case on display so looks are important still; so I don't want a plain black board with no lights and generally 'ugly'. I guess that's reasonably important to specify. I think I was naturally drawn to the ROG Strix as I've...