Upgrading from 2080 to 5080 - Thoughts on build?

[David010203]

Accidents will always happen. Don’t judge an accident, judge how they respond and correct it.

Shipping an assembled custom PC is NOT easy, those foam inserts are supposed to automatically expand to the available space, sounds like your one may have been defective. Also with a hole in the box sounds like the courier may have dropped it which is nothing to do with PCS

Give them a chance to make it right, believe me, a situation like this is the exception not the rule

Youre fully covered, you just need to create an RMA on your main web account under support. Take photos also of the box etc

I get that, but the fact that the bracket was just hanging on the graphics card with half the adhesive placed on the case it just shows me that QC and packaging was not properly done. I would not let something like that get dispatched if the bracket is just hanging on the GPU and especially not let the customer know that the bracket is not fitted or was not able to be fitted.

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

I get that, but the fact that the bracket was just hanging on the graphics card with half the adhesive placed on the case it just shows me that QC and packaging was not properly done.

That's normal, the bracket will be placed in and the foam would normally keep it roughly in place, but it's for the user to fit once they receive the system. That's completely normal, you can't fit them before transit as it would likely damage the GPU with movement in shipping.

 

[David010203]

Got it, I spoke to PCS now and I opted for the replacement. You did it Spyder, talked some sense into me ha-ha. Cheers man!
The consultant I spoke to was very kind and I am feeling pretty good about the RMA and replacement

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

Got it, I spoke to PCS now and I opted for the replacement. You did it Spyder, talked some sense into me ha-ha. Cheers man!
The consultant I spoke to was very kind and I am feeling pretty good about the RMA and replacement

I’m really pleased, I know it’s disheartening and anyone would feel negative about that kind of thing.

PCS are generally excellent though with sorting out issues like this and they really are customer focussed which is quite rare in the industry.

Keep us posted, want to hear you’ve got a faultless system all booted up asap!

 

[KlevisDara]

Nice big budget so we can have some fun here. There are a lot of enjoyers of different variants of the G9 on the forum, that model is available for a nice price at the moment, and can't fault stepping into the OLED world. If £3.5k includes the monitor we might need to a bit of trimming.

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 5000X RGB MID TOWER GAMING CASE Be Quiet Case will be fine, this has the benefit of being easier to sync RGB with icue and other components
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core CPU (Up to 5.2GHz/104MB w/3D V-CACHE/AM5) Best gaming CPU out at the moment, will be able to handle streaming with the GPU doing a lot of the work for you.
Motherboard
GIGABYTE X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7 (AM5, DDR5, M.2 PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 7)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 6000MHz CL36 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
16GB ZOTAC GEFORCE RTX 5080 SOLID OC - HDMI, 3 x DP Potential to drop this to the 5070ti when it comes out next week
1st M.2 SSD Drive
512GB SOLIDIGM P44 PRO GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 7000MB/sR, 4700MB/sW) Super fast primary drive, as you mentioned we tend to avoid the Samsung drives at the moment
1st M.2 SSD Drive
4TB CORSAIR CORE XT MP600 NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD (up to 5000 MB/R, 4400 MB/W) Games and docs drive, nice and large as games are bigger than they used to be, option to trim this back to 2TB if we need to bring the budget back down.
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000W RMx SERIES™ ATX 3.1, MODULAR, CYBENETICS GOLD
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead, 1.0mm Core)
Processor Cooling
CORSAIR ICUE LINK TITAN 360 RX LCD RGB HIGH PERFORMANCE CPU COOLER
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
ONBOARD 2.5Gbe LAN PORT
Wireless Network Card
NONE OR ONBOARD Wi-Fi (MOTHERBOARD DEPENDENT)
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10/11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Subject to stock availability on pre-order products
Price: £3,084.00 including VAT and Delivery
Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am5-pc/wvZjwnCjcv/

Yoo thats my current build lol

I'm waiting to get it soon