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It depends on the game but yeah - true.

I think it is to do with gaming performance but I think they (NVidia) are being a bit disingenuous. The implication in the presentation was raw performance but YouTube videos I've seen suggest it's with the help of DLSS 4. Not a bad thing in itself (it's actually rather good) but marketing...

Please NO. Norton is little better than malware these days. The Defender included with Windows will be just fine and be less of a resource hog. The rest of the system looks fine but wait a week or 2 to see what's announced by NVidia and AMD with their new GPU offerings.

I concur. It's 12th Gen Intel so has probably been sat in a warehouse gathering dust for the past 2 to 3 years. Best avoided. For gaming you ought to be looking at an AMD system, with an AMD 7800 X3D or 9800 X3D and the new Intel B580 GPU has excellent price to performance. As Ekans2011...

That model number is a PCSpecialist Recoil 17 II if it's a PCS model. Other system integrators have a different name for it.

PCS are a good company and even though the warranty may have expired they will be quite helpful to you if you have had the warranty transferred over to you. The previous owner will be able to do that for you - he will need your email address to do it.

Yeah - that was all the middle managers, product marketing and telephone sanitizers - an entire useless third of the population. Apparently we're descended from them. Just time for another bath! 🦆

All looks good to me except I would not use a HDD in this day and age.

Depending on what your budget is the Intel B580 might be a good option as performance vs cost is very impressive for the mid-range sector.

I think every 2 to 3 months should be OK. That reminds me, I should probably do mine. ;)

Yep - it's a hot mess. I'll give it a year before upgrading from MSFS 2020 - it needs that long to be finished I reckon.

I like the "Keep texting" gag as well.

Besides, PC Specialist are a good company in my experience. No need to remove their name from it. I'll take the more charitable line that the OP wants a 'clean' look, but yeah - difficult to tell people you built it yourself if it has PC Specialist printed in big letters down the side.

Yeah - they should probably try a different Recoil chassis and see if the problem persists.

Yep, upgrade the cooler. That's a must.

Also...don't apply any high performance or extreme profiles on the CPU otherwise it might cook as alluded to by Spyder. Motherboard manufacturers had the habit of pushing the CPU and with the issues with 13th and 14gen processors this caused a lot of failures. Run the CPU at stock intel speeds.

You could look at the XMP profiles for the RAM to get it to run at it's rated speed of 3200MHz rather than the default speed for the type which is 2400MHz for DDR4.

And what's with the objection to Windows 11? Windows 10 is about to go out of support then you'll be opening yourself up to security vulnerabilities the older it gets. Then there's Linux of course....you could go with Linux.

Thunderbolt works for eGPUs by carrying 4 lanes of PCIe so disabling it would have the effect of rendering the eGPUs invisible. Spider's advice was specifically about USB4 which can also carry 4 lanes of PCIe. Maybe this was to prevent any conflict over the similar (but not exactly the same)...