Recent content by alx

hhmm - I suppose not. It's an extra 24 mm wide, if I orientate the Fractal Node the same way; and 95mm deeper; but then it is lower (by 85mm). That's extra 2280 sq.mm additional floor space, which is about half the size of my ancient iphone! I liked the node because it was tiny; and had the GPU...

Damn man - Duke 3D ... Come get some. I also lost too many hours in university to using our computer labs to play 8 player Quake deathmatch. DM4 with 8 players was madness ...

Hi ParallaxStax, Thanks for that - I was also mucking about and came to the same design (although I did have the AsRock in there), with only 8GB of RAM and I used the Crucial M.2 SSD (although I see yours was £5 cheaper). I was looking at the Gigabyte RX 570 4GB is £108. Amazon has the XFX 8GB...

Thanks. The only requirements is that i can play some games with my son. Nothing too new - my days with free time are so far behind me they're dimming in my memory (although those WarCraft 2 LAN parties we used to have were a thing of beauty!), but somethig like APEX. I will obviously need...

Thanks - and if I do switch to the Ryzen - I would assume that I can apply that same advice and ditch the 3rd party cooler?

Thanks - that sounds like solid advice. Although I'm nervous about buying keys off ebay - is that all above board? Probably is, I've just never tried it. I'll have a look at the B450/Ryzen combo - thanks, I'm even more uninformed when it comes to AMD ...

Hi all, I'm so out of touch with the PC component world, I'm still concerned that AMD is the new kid on the block and doesn't have the experience that Intel does! So I need your help. It is time to introduce my son to the frustrations of building a PC from scratch. I’m probably not the best...