Bond007

I hope everyone enjoyed their Canada Day, and that the weather is treating you well wherever you are at. The site has gone so quiet....

Looking good! Whats was he plan for the temporary parts?

Seems like great choices. Sn750 is even better...just costs more.

Seems like a great parts list. A quality PSU and a used rx580 or gtx 1070, and you are set. Lots of parts have been steadily increasing in cost. Make sure to get 3200-3600mhz ram. For the motherboard I would personally wait to see how b550 motherboards are cost wise after release (so close now). But otherwise the b450 of your choice is fine. For the SSD, the best bang for buck (IMO) is the sn550. I would try to squeeze a 1TB in if you can, since it should be enough to not have to deal with a secondary drive unless there is mass storage, or all games left installed. They are also generally the lowest cost/GB.

Just voted for steam and it went in. Only let me pick one.

@Soullessone21 FYI the vote lets you tick multiple boxes, but it looks like only one goes through. I ticked steam and amazon, but only amazon shows in the results.

Steam and Amazon are my votes. Both give the most selection for games/stuff respectively.

Per the title. Enjoy! https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/sid-meiers-civilization-vi/home

Really? That's crazy cheap sounding.

Per the title, Grand Theft Auto V is free on epic games right now. Website seems to be down, but it just worked for me through the app. They seem to be a bit overloaded with this offer. I will add a link if the website comes back up.

Grabbed one for $135 from amazon early this year. Wish I grabbed 2...one for its intended purpose and 1 to shuck. that said, $167 is still a great price if you got one!

Anandtech finished their chart. Basically the 3100 performs on average the same as a 7700k.

I should follow up my previous comment and say that while it isn’t for me, I would still give it a read/watch if you do feel like capturing your impressions/results!

Hmmm. I am sure some people would watch it...but I am more with eunoia. Air coolers for me, or maybe eventually an AIO (probably not though).

Budget monsters. It’s great that they tested both at fixed 4ghz as well to see the impact of the core structure. 3300X will be a great budget gamer. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-3-3100/ https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-3-3300x/ EDIT : reviews also up at tomshardware and anandtech. While they haven’t finished all testing on the 3100 yet to fully populate this table, I found this very interesting: