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For 1080p? A GTX 1660 at the least, but if you had the budget I'd say an RTX 2060. I right now use an RTX 2060 myself and it's super smooth.

Hate to say it but I don't think the GTX 1050 ti will get you very far in modern titles, especially something new like Halo Infinite, I had an GTX 960 myself which is comparable in performance and it was struggling quite a lot to run newer titles even at the lowest settings.

Love to see it, I've ordered the same case as you, looks wonderful.

Nope, regular 3080, I'm pretty sure the average waiting period for the ASUS STRIX model is around 150 working days judging from its thread.

At last 🙏 I can practically feel the PC in my hands

Still pre-production on 95 days myself 😭 here's hoping it goes into building soon

Noticed they updated the graphics card selection bit, now says for the generic RTX 30 series cards as well as 20 series, "(PALIT OR ZOTAC BRANDED)", I assume this means we'll no longer see any Gigabyte GPUs pop up in anyone's build?

Sitting here on 93 days pre-production seeing all the sub-90 day orders go into building 😭 hopefully.....soon....🙏

I believe it is on the opposite side of the PSU shroud. On Cooler Master's website an image shows the TD500 has the HDD Cage just behind the front of the shroud, as well as places for the SSD to go. https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/cases/mid-tower/masterbox-td500/#image-Item9

I'll take that pre-applied thermal paste quality into account, I'm not an avid overclocker or anything I just had seen that these new Ryzen chips could basically boost as high as possible depending on the cooling provided to them, hence why I chose that paste, but if the Corsair one is fine then...

Appreciate the responses guys! The thermal paste has had me in a bit of a twist since it seems like a semi-decent longevity improvement for a relatively small fee, how much does the paste really matter overall? For the USB card I had also been debating this, what's the real benefit of the...

Ahh I see! I've already sort of exceeded my budget at the moment, so the case is just about the only thing I can change, but if you think anything here is drastic or required to change I'll give it a go. The build is primarily for CPU intensive programs and use of virtual machines which I use...

My build is now at 80 days and I'm feeling those amendment urges even more now 😅 Was just wondering if anyone had any opinions on my current chosen case, the Coolermaster Mastercase H500M? Been entranced by the two 200mm ARGB fans at the front but just wondering if anyone has had any bad...

Oh I see! That's great news to hear, I asked previously on the text support and they didn't understand what I meant by ranks. I will switch to 2x16 immediately now and save myself some £. Do you know if that applied to both the non-RGB and RGB 3600MHz RAM? Ahh! Understandable, my mistake.

Ahh I see, I vaguely remembered someone's post about PCS telling them 3600MHz caused instability, and that they reduced it to about 3444MHz which solved it?