My iBUYPOWER PC came in and it's great.

I have seen a lot of tech issues and problems here, so I wanted to share a good experience.

My PC came in yesterday, and I installed the Graphics Card, removed the AIO and reapplied paste, (just wanted to be sure it was done properly, it looked good but had seen horror stories of plastic not being peeled and took no chances) and updated the BIOS. Streamed Bioshock Remastered last night and tried turning off VSync just to check the max frames it could get and it hit 1k fps at one point and was stable at 6-700 most of the time.

I went with the 16 core 7950X3D and used X AMP in the BIOS to reduce to 8 cores for gaming (would love to learn how to allocate 8 cores for gaming and 8 cores for streaming if that's possible) and had a great gaming experience. I'm really pleased.

My former PC was an Acer Predator Orion 3000 with and i5 and 3070, and this thing is so much more powerful. I still have issues with OBS getting an encoding overload when I switch from windowed to full-screen or tab out of full-screen games. I've tried different encoding on my old PC since this would crash OBS and end my streams if I didn't notice fast enough before, but to no avail. It did not crash OBS on the new PC last night, just would give a slight stutter in stream and the encoding overload message in OBS so I didn't mess with it.

Any tips or instructions on how to allocate the cores to where I want them used or any tips on the encoding issue would be awesome! I'm super happy with the PC, it's like twice as big as my last one and definitely games better.

PC Specs

Case: Lian Li O11 Vision Chrome Tempered Glass Gaming Case - Color Chrome (Black Mirror Finish) Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Processor (16X 4.2GHz/128MB L3 Cache) Motherboard: MSI MAG X670E TOMAHAWK - WiFi 6E, ARGB Header (2), USB 3.2 Ports (2 Type-C, 6 Type-A), M.2 Slot (5) Memory: 32 GB [16 GB X2] DDR5-6000MHz Memory Module - CORSAIR Dominator Platinum (RGB LED) Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER - 16GB GDDR6X (DLSS 3.5 – AI-Powered Performance) PNY VERTO OC Case Lighting: None Power Supply: 1000 Watt - Be quiet! Pure Power 12 M - 80 PLUS Gold PCIe GEN 5, Fully Modular Processor Cooling: CORSAIR NAUTILUS 360 RS 360mm Liquid Cooler Primary Storage: 2TB WD Blue SN580 M.2 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD -- Gen 4 Read: 4150MB/s; Write: 4150MB/s Sound Card: 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard Operating System: Windows 11 Home - (64-bit) Case Fans: 3x [Quiet] Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM chromax.Black.swap 120mm Black PWM Fan Pack

I have seen a lot of tech issues and problems here, so I wanted to share a good experience.

My PC came in yesterday, and I installed the Graphics Card, removed the AIO and reapplied paste, (just wanted to be sure it was done properly, it looked good but had seen horror stories of plastic not being peeled and took no chances) and updated the BIOS. Streamed Bioshock Remastered last night and tried turning off VSync just to check the max frames it could get and it hit 1k fps at one point and was stable at 6-700 most of the time.

I went with the 16 core 7950X3D and used X AMP in the BIOS to reduce to 8 cores for gaming (would love to learn how to allocate 8 cores for gaming and 8 cores for streaming if that's possible) and had a great gaming experience. I'm really pleased.

My former PC was an Acer Predator Orion 3000 with and i5 and 3070, and this thing is so much more powerful. I still have issues with OBS getting an encoding overload when I switch from windowed to full-screen or tab out of full-screen games. I've tried different encoding on my old PC since this would crash OBS and end my streams if I didn't notice fast enough before, but to no avail. It did not crash OBS on the new PC last night, just would give a slight stutter in stream and the encoding overload message in OBS so I didn't mess with it.

Any tips or instructions on how to allocate the cores to where I want them used or any tips on the encoding issue would be awesome! I'm super happy with the PC, it's like twice as big as my last one and definitely games better.

PC Specs

Case: Lian Li O11 Vision Chrome Tempered Glass Gaming Case - Color Chrome (Black Mirror Finish) Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Processor (16X 4.2GHz/128MB L3 Cache) Motherboard: MSI MAG X670E TOMAHAWK - WiFi 6E, ARGB Header (2), USB 3.2 Ports (2 Type-C, 6 Type-A), M.2 Slot (5) Memory: 32 GB [16 GB X2] DDR5-6000MHz Memory Module - CORSAIR Dominator Platinum (RGB LED) Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER - 16GB GDDR6X (DLSS 3.5 – AI-Powered Performance) PNY VERTO OC Case Lighting: None Power Supply: 1000 Watt - Be quiet! Pure Power 12 M - 80 PLUS Gold PCIe GEN 5, Fully Modular Processor Cooling: CORSAIR NAUTILUS 360 RS 360mm Liquid Cooler Primary Storage: 2TB WD Blue SN580 M.2 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD -- Gen 4 Read: 4150MB/s; Write: 4150MB/s Sound Card: 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard Operating System: Windows 11 Home - (64-bit) Case Fans: 3x [Quiet] Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM chromax.Black.swap 120mm Black PWM Fan Pack