Case fans typically are flow bias than static pressure bias no matter which cases. Want high pressure, replace with Arctic P12

Unless ur Ocing or the case surrounds are restricted, where every single oC reduction will help, no you dont need P12 as a necessity. Imho you could also get better airflow by swapping to 140mm fans, or even use P14 to have the best if you want it.

Aside that ur recent buy PA120 will defo fit in the Nexus Air.

Still in the realm of budget brands which offers a lot of value money, if ur looking for something a bit more than basic unfortunately Tecware lags in case development and coming out with newer features, you could try for newer Montech cases like 903 Base/Max as it comes with Type C and reviews seem positive

Antec has also recently came out with above budget cases which has all the features you need (inc Type C USB)



Price wise could be at near ur budget limit but Antec is a veteran in cases and these were known to be solidly built, not sure how is it now.

A much better recommendation from you compared to previously but there is still niggling selection
a) why a single stick of 16GB ram when 2x8GB in dual channel mode gives much better performance?
b) PSU on cultist list appears between Tier B & Tier C speculative, indicating a very flexible source for the same model which could be worse, we dont know, so better to stick with more well known brands.
c) Still DRAMless SSD for OS drive? You might as well put in cheaper NV2 then. Come on!

Anything can be done, you could even get a 4070Ti rig for the same price... paired with i3 CPU + H610 mobo. But this would CPU bottleneck like heck.

Look closely his specs, to maximise budget for that 4070, he is giving older 12 gen i5 + B660M mobo, which would be a solid reco last year, but its ady long in the teeth by now.

RM 5.5k is a lot but not a whole lot of money for hardware these days, so lets see what the sifus here will propose their ideas.

Use memory test programs like memtest86, MemtestPro. This will stress test all ur usable RAM memory.

Right click windows taskbar - task manager - performance - memory (see what is the Speed reported)

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Jul 22 2023, 07:01 PM

Once you cloned the bootdrive into ur SSD, you need to remove or reformat ur HDD that had the Windows to wipe out the boot partition, otherwise the boot priority will still be the default which is ur HDD.

CL32 is refer to ur CAS #Latency in CPUZ. As long as you set to XMP auto, it will run the XMP speed at the rated CL speed.
Dont try to update bios if you dont know what ur doing.

Moving from ATX down to ITX is a huge jump, needing at lot of part changes. You might as well sell ur current system and get a high end gaming laptop which is far more portable if ur gonna be shuffling to & fro every week. Just my 2cents.

Mind you gaming lappies are a compromise so it might not perform as fast as ur rig above. The same goes with any ITX in a suffocating build anyhow.

The casing ur recommend is considered a tad too big to be portable.

For ITX build on the go, you will want something like these about 10L max
https://www.amazon.com/KXRORS-S400-Mini-ITX...d/dp/B0BWDD9GPX

If OP wants to reuse his 12700K, cooling without throttling will be a challenge

This should be in Nvidia tered https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4547881 but to ur question, I ask you; Do you think AMD will come out with a 4090 fighter? If not, then there is no incentive for NV to come out an even better GPU. Simple as that. So if you need it now there is "no better option".

1080Ti & 3060Ti would digress. They are some of the best value for money vs generational performance jump.

Want 4K gaming AAA titles but only have RM4k? Bro at least double that (yes RM 8k!) for minimum 4K gaming rig.

Firstly whats ur budget cap ya.

If you can afford it, just a minimum upgrade to RTX 4080 / 6900XT / 7900XT and 5800X3D will last for many years playing 1440p with potential to do 4K Min settings.

The above 2 builds by sifus here are solid, if slightly outdated, rigs for 1080P high/ultra to 1440P low/mid settings. Hardware cost a lot more money these days.

Better get a NUC. Old PC will be power inefficient (as it is PC) and will output more heat than needed (as it is a PC).

If portability is a necessity for you, just make sure you can lug that thing as NR max case is 18L sized.

Using Ksku on B mobo still got advantages as you can up VCCSA for better RAM stability at XMP (esp if ur running 3600@G1) and importantly you can undervolt it to control temps.

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Jul 28 2023, 06:56 PM

At 4K (which I assume ur gonna be playing at with such a rig), even with a monster 4090 ur still be GPU bound so whether i7 or i9 is mostly the same.


But there are some games which can draw out a few more FPS


And since ur spending that much money, going down i7 doesnt save a whole lot of money and if every FPS counts then even more so.

All white? Galax HOF nuff said!