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Black Friday PC deals checklist: set a price alert on what you want, let the price history note today's price, and check it fits in the PC builder. Save this for the 27th. Alerts, history or fit check: which one do you skip?

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November 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
annabrandberg.bsky.social
Are you working with multiple monitors? If so, HDMI + DP or daisy-chaining multiple DPs? I had issues with mine before too and thiiiink this was the post that helped me at least:

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FrosteyQuean's comment on "DisplayPort and HDMI don’t work at the same time?"
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November 3, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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My 2019 Samsung 970 EVO Plus still boots my 7800X3D rig. Baldur's Gate 3: about 12 s click to playable. Cyberpunk 2077: about 15 s. A 7,000 MB/s Gen4 drive would get those to roughly 11 and 14. Upgrade? Probably not. #buildapc
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Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB Review (2026): A PCIe 3.0 Keeper
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB NVMe review from daily use in a Ryzen 7 7800X3D build: sequential speed, game load times, heat under write, and Gen4 advice for 2026.
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November 10, 2026 at 3:36 AM
vantaspec.bsky.social
Your VantaSpec profile shows your badges and stickers. Master Builder: save five PC builds. Critic: write five product reviews. Regular: visit on thirty different days. Christmas 2026 is only for members signed in 1 to 26 December. Night Owl or Early Bird?

#pcbuild #pcgaming #buildapc #pcsetup
November 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
Nine tabs to check one PC part price? Every shop we track on one page, cheapest first, with price history, price alerts and a PC builder. How much would you pay? £0. Which feature do you use most?

#pcbuild #pcgaming #pcpartsuk #infomercial #buildapc
November 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
Want a white PC case, or pink? PC cases, graphics cards and coolers on VantaSpec all have a Colour filter, so a matching build is one filter per part, compared across UK shops. White build or pink build?

#pcbuild #whitepc #pcsetup #buildapc #pccase
November 1, 2026 at 4:34 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
First PC build, start to first boot: CPU in (line up the triangle, no force), cooler, RAM, M.2 SSD, board into the case, PSU, graphics card, cables, switch on at the back. No picture? Plug the monitor into the graphics card, not the board. Which step scares you?

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November 1, 2026 at 12:01 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
Four PC horror stories for Halloween. Monitor in the motherboard, RAM in the wrong two slots, the film left on the cooler, and the PSU switch off at the back. All common, all easy to fix. Which one have you done?

#halloween #pcbuild #buildapc #pcgaming #pcparts
October 30, 2026 at 4:36 PM
famichu.bsky.social
我が家のmsiのモニター、もう5年近くDisplayPortが使えない問題を抱えていて、しかもそれを忘れて数年後しに2本のDPケーブル買ったけど、このスレッドのおかげでやっと解決した…
msiでこんな不具合あるの…
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October 29, 2026 at 2:10 PM
famichu.bsky.social
我が家のmsiのモニター、もう5年近くDisplayPortが使えない問題を抱えていて、しかもそれを忘れて数年後しに2本のDPケーブル買ったけど、このスレッドのおかげでやっと解決した…
msiでこんな不具合あるの…
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October 29, 2026 at 2:10 PM
sembangpctech.bsky.social
TRYX HOLO 360 ni memang cantik gila, efek holo tu macam lampu neon futuristik! Peluang percuma dapat cooler AIO 360mm berkaliber tinggi ni memanggil-mencari

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Sembang PC & Tech: [Giveaway] TRYX x Buildapc "X Your Mark" Holo 360 Cooler Giv
October 28, 2026 at 6:27 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
AM5 is AMD (Ryzen 7000 to 9000). LGA1851 is Intel (Core Ultra 200S). Both DDR5 only, no adaptor. And watch the chipsets: B850 is AM5, B860 is LGA1851.

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October 28, 2026 at 4:39 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
Nine tabs open trying to work out which parts fit? The VantaSpec PC Builder only shows compatible parts, with socket and memory checked as you add them. Free to use. What would you pick first?

#pcbuild #buildapc #pcbuilder #pcgaming #pcparts #gamingpc
October 27, 2026 at 11:05 AM
vantaspec.bsky.social
Set a price alert on any product with a price and walk away. We watch the cheapest in-stock price and send you a notification when it drops. Only want a real bargain? Set your price and it stays silent until it's hit.

#pcbuild #pcgaming #pricealert #pcdeals #buildapc #pcparts #ukgaming
October 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
Every PC part in 60 seconds, as a kitchen: CPU the head chef, RAM the worktop, SSD the pantry, graphics card the plating line, motherboard the floor plan, PSU the mains, case the building, cooler the extractor fan. Which part confused you most?

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October 25, 2026 at 12:07 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
Air cooler or AIO? An AIO adds a pump and needs radiator space. Myth: it cools with water. Half true: water only carries the heat, fins and fans do the cooling. Check your case first.

#pcbuild #pcgaming #buildapc #cpucooler #watercooling #pcparts #ukgaming
October 24, 2026 at 6:33 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
SATA tops out around 550 MB/s. PCIe 4.0 NVMe reaches about 7,000 MB/s. Big copies feel it, game loads much less. And M.2 is a shape, not a speed: check the listing says NVMe.

#pcbuild #ssd #nvme #buildapc #pcparts https://vantaspec.com/categories/ssds?via=cmv7g45t4001xpo0mwuu0ddwp
October 22, 2026 at 3:32 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
See what other people are building: public builds from the VantaSpec community on /builds, every total priced from today's UK prices. Set yours to Public and it could be featured. What's in yours?

#pcbuild #gamingpc #buildapc #ukgaming https://vantaspec.com/builds?via=cmv9uzv7z02b8le0n5xbdhhq3
October 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM
sembangpctech.bsky.social
Kreatif betul projek r/buildapc pasal Does AMD or nvidia GPU actually mat ni. Bila tech jumpa modding berseni macam ni, memang puas mata memandang!

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Sembang PC & Tech: Does AMD or nvidia GPU actually matter that much?
October 21, 2026 at 5:21 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
A typical mid-range gaming build draws about 375 W. Add about 50% headroom and a quality 650 W unit covers it. And a 1,000 W PSU does not pull 1,000 W: it only supplies what your parts draw.

#pcbuild #psu #buildapc #pcgaming #pcparts
October 20, 2026 at 3:31 PM
vantaspec.bsky.social
Same 288 pins, different notch, so DDR5 will not go in a DDR4 slot. AM4 takes DDR4, AM5 and LGA1851 are DDR5 only, and LGA1700 boards come in both versions, so check the board first. And CL30 DDR5-6000 is not slower than CL16 DDR4-3200: both work out at 10 ns.

#pcbuild #ddr5 #ram #buildapc #pcparts
October 17, 2026 at 11:23 AM
techfuelhq.com
A 9800X3D doesn't game faster on an X870E board. It's an eight-core, 120W chip and a decent B850 already supplies the power. Spend above that only on ports or lanes your build will actually use. #buildapc #PCGaming
October 14, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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The 7800X3D and 9800X3D both have 96MB of L3. The newer chip's gaming lead comes from Zen 5 IPC, higher clocks, and moving the cache die beneath the cores, which lets it hold those clocks. Same AM5 board after a BIOS update. #buildapc #PCGaming
October 14, 2026 at 6:25 PM
sembangpctech.bsky.social
Kreatif betul projek r/buildapc pasal Is at a good idea to buy AM4 in hop ni. Bila tech jumpa modding berseni macam ni, memang puas mata memandang!

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Sembang PC & Tech: Is at a good idea to buy AM4 in hope of running it till the
October 14, 2026 at 5:20 PM
techfuelhq.com
A 16-core 9950X3D games on eight cores by design. AMD's driver parks the die without V-Cache while you play, which is how TechSpot's 12-game average landed it level with the 9800X3D. It was 77% faster in Cinebench multi-core. Games only? 9800X3D.

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9950X3D vs 9800X3D for Gaming: Which Ryzen CPU?
The 9800X3D matches the $699 9950X3D in TechSpot's 12-game average; the 9950X3D was 77% faster in multi-core. Where the $900 9950X3D2 fits.
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October 14, 2026 at 11:35 AM