50 series founder editions
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TonyCarter
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Not usually.
If you want to guarantee a Founder’s Edition (as I did), then order the PC without a GPU and buy your own direct from Scan (usually the only official UK reseller).
If you want to guarantee a Founder’s Edition (as I did), then order the PC without a GPU and buy your own direct from Scan (usually the only official UK reseller).
Scoped Badger
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You’d recommend buying from Scan rather than directly from Nvidia?
How quick after release do they sell out? (Roughly, I realise that’s an impossible question)
Typically the Nvidia link sends you to Scan. I don't know if Nvidia directly ship at all in the UK?
TonyCarter
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Clicking 'buy' on the Nvidia website diverts you to their official reseller...for the 40-series it was Scan.
Scoped Badger
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Ah right, understood. Cheers.
SpyderTracks
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I would strongly recommend getting some advice before purchasing, you only recently bought a system, upgrading may make far more sense, that's rather the entire point of a custom PC.
Are you talking to me? 3 years ago is recent? have a 5600 and 3070ti. Your right i could just upgrade both but then ill have to do the ram and ill be honest dont have time to be messing with it.
Also my PSU would struggle with a 5080 or 5090 id rather just sell my old pc and get a new one.
Also my PSU would struggle with a 5080 or 5090 id rather just sell my old pc and get a new one.
If you do go down the route of new be sure to get components that will support future updates. We always try our best to help spec systems that support future potential as well as current potential. Often we are queried on our PSU choice, but it's for this exact sort of scenario.
A system from 3 years ago should easily be upgradeable. On the AM4 platform you would be looking at a CPU upgrade to the 5800X3D or even the 5700X3D, on the GPU you would opt for whatever the PSU would allow (I've been recommending 1000w PSUs for many years now for this reason). The RAM should be ok. It shouldn't be much of a bottleneck but it's one of the easiest upgrades you can do and takes seconds with zero driver considerations or etc.
Any system I spec today has the potential to be upgraded in 3 years without having to replace, IMO it's the point of building a custom PC.
SpyderTracks
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Yes, as I said, get some advice as I think you may be presuming things that aren’t necessarily true, 3 years ago is not even half way through the lifetime of a PC, it's got another 7 years or so to go for the expected time frame.
Fine if you do want to get a new one but still important to get advice, pre-built tend to restrict far more on the platform making upgradeability impossible.
That one you ordered was at a time before we knew of the upcoming exponential increases in GPU power requirements, 750W had been the standard for years and years, a good decade, no one saw the power requirements of the 3000 series onwards until fairly late in the game. If we'd known, we would have specced a higher PSU. And then it's only recently the new ATX3 standard came out that addressed transient spikes also (which wasn't a thing before the RTX range of cards). I note the last approved PSU we suggested (based largely on a restrictive budget) was 850w
Someone specifically said "when placing your order itll advise you that you can save money going for a lower power supply if you want the headroom in future to upgrade stay with the 850w rmx", and you replied saying "I dont think i will upgrade i think once the time comes ill just build a new pc. A 750w rmx would do the job right", we even prepped you for expectations saying The GPU will be the first bottleneck in about 3 years, but the PC has plenty of life after that, replacing the PC would be insane, you just swap out the GPU for a new one."
I don't know what PSU you eventually went for, but this is exactly the reason we over provision the PSU at the outset, everyones idea of performance and budget changes over the lifetime of a PC, almost always happens. People start out with a restricted budget and then see the potential and invariably want something far more powerful mid-cycle. We will always try to account for that where the budget allows.
You don’t have to do anything if you don’t want to, PCS can do the work for you, including replacing a PSU.
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SpyderTracks
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For the equivalent price upgrading vs replacing you’ll always get far more performance upgrading, that’s never in doubt assuming the pc has a strong platform.
But it’s your money
Martinr36
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Personally I would never buy a second hand PC, especially at that sort of price