Well thanks to our wonderful Miner and Scalper friends buying up every 30 series gpu the millisecond they hit the market as their bots patrol the internet stock trackers 24/7. I was not about to pay a scalper 800-1500 for an EVGA RTX 3080. So for the first time in my life I bought a built to order pc from one of the system builders. Cyberpower PC they only charged me 2634 with my upgrades of the Black Pearl they offer at 1900. They got it to me fast, the 21st of Jan it arrived on the 17th of Feb. They also left some things for me to do.
Flip the fans to blow air in
Set Ram speed from its auto 2666 to 3000mhz
Redo the rear case wiring.
Fix the lack of slack on the 4tb drives power cable that came with the PC.
Figure out what device was connecting/reconnecting every 1-3 seconds in windows. Was the pump controller. Went into bios set the pump/fans from auto to full speed.
Hit number 1 on EVGA Mod Rigs for my 3070 Score, am ranked 87 in the world for the RTX 3070 and the I9 10900k/KF. My pc got featured by Cyberpower PC on their Facebook/Twitter/Discord. Pretty cool honestly.
Met someone on their discord that got an EVGA Card and sent him here to register it, was having some issues, we figured out the GPU was toast and it was not his motherboard. He got lucky and got a KR card! Pretty awesome, so he will be RMAing the card with EVGA and be off to happy gaming.
Built this rig in mind with EVGA Warranty, MSI board Warranty, along with Gigabyte PSU warranty "sorry no evga psu's at 850w available" Crucial Ram warranty "the extra hundred for Corsair was not worth it at the price I already got the system up to". Along with going with Cyberpower they only wanted 2634 dollars vs everyone else who wanted 3200-3600 dollars for pretty much the same system. So I have double warranties on each part and can skip Cyberpower PC's RMA and do everything myself directly though vendors. IF you pick the right quality parts not just taking whatever they give you, pick faster shipping, get the foam to hold the gpu in other components in place while shipping. Do not make changes in your build or harass your sales rep being rude. You should be golden. Can say this was a better buying to customer service experience than when I bought a gaming PC for my brother in 2005 from Alienware. Honestly after trying to get an EVGA RTX 3070 for months this was the best and fastest option. The pc is amazing.
Parts List:
- AS: [SUMMIT1G EDITION] LIAN LI PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Mid-Tower Dual chamber Gaming Case w/ USB 3.1 Type-C, Tempered glass on the front & side
- CPU: Intel® Core™ Processor i9-10900KF 10/20 3.70GHz [Turbo 5.2GHz] 20MB Cache LGA1200 [w/o Integrated Graphic] (Comet Lake-S)
- CS_FAN: Default case fans
- FAN: EVGA CLC 280mm RGB CPU Water Cooler System w/ Copper Cold Plate (2 x Standard 140MM Fans)
- HDD: 1TB WD Blue SN550 Series PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD - Seq R/W: Up to 2400/1950 MB/s, Rnd R/W up to 410/405k (Single Drive)
- HDD2: 4TB (4TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 5400RPM HDD (Single Drive)
- HEADSET: Creative Labs Sound BlasterX H6 7.1 USB, 3.5mm Stereo Input w/ 50mm Driver Gaming Headset
- MEMORY: 32GB (8GBx4) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (Crucial Ballistix Sport)
- MOTHERBOARD: MSI MPG Z490 GAMING CARBON WIFI 6, ATX, ARGB, 2.5GbE LAN, 3 PCIe x16, 4 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2x M.2 SATA/PCIe
- OS: Windows 10 Pro (64-bit Edition)
- POWERSUPPLY: 850 Watts - GIGABYTE GP-P850GM 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active Power Supply
- PRO_WIRING: Professional Wiring + [Black] Phanteks Premium Extension Cables sleeved set [24Pin MB + 8Pin CPU + 6+2 Pin VGA]
- VIDEO: EVGA GeForce RTX™ 3070 XC3 ULTRA GAMING 8GB GDDR6, iCX3 Cooling Video Card (Ampere) [VR Ready]
The PC as it is now
Kind of on hold until my step-up goes though some day... They are only on October of last year. So here is to waiting.
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Well the pc has gone through a lot of crazy changes since I bought it as a built to order during the shortage to beat the Scalpers/miners and their bots. This crazy plan started in 2021 then mutated to what it is now over one single game. This post you can see it and my office transformation from 2021 to now. Only thing left is touch up painting, getting some dark grey blinds custom sized, and buying an Afterlife neon sign. Its been one wild ride with a killer pc all around. My setup has won multiple competitions so has been kind of nice. I may shoot for a higher bench score I do have some extra m.2's sitting around to put the latest windows 10 or a modified copy of windows 11 so 22h2 does not butcher my cpu score thus butchering my gpu score. Just has not been important. Already beat someone here on modrigs that felt the need to list their none evga 40 series card as an evga knocking those of us actual 3090/3090 TI owners off the mod rigs charts when what they did was not that impressive.
