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[mikeszekely]

I ordered this today at Best Buy.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-g700-gaming-desktop-intel-core-ultra-7-32gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-2tb-ssd-black/6613426.p?skuId=6613426

 

[TangledThorns]

8 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

I ordered this today at Best Buy.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-g700-gaming-desktop-intel-core-ultra-7-32gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-2tb-ssd-black/6613426.p?skuId=6613426

 

 

Congrats. Wise way to go about it these days. 

Saw in a different forum where someone paid $1900 USD for a Gigabyte Aorus RTX 5080 from a Amazon 3rd party seller... wtf.

[mikeszekely]

New PC arrived. Asus ought to step up their QC... Out of the box it kept giving me errors about being unable to continue the Windows installation. Fortunately I used to fix computers for a living, so it wasn't difficult to get into Windows Recovery, run a factory reset, and then get it setup. Another minor complaint is that Best Buy advertises it as having three M.2 slots and two 2.5" bays. Well, the only way you're getting three m.2 slots is if you pull out the Bluetooth/Wi-Fi module; there's only one free slot. As for the 2.5" bays, there's room in front of the PSU but no mounting hardware- no cages, no sleds, no caddies, nada.  I put my 2TB game drive in the M.2, and for now I installed my 3TB  3.5" bulk storage drive by screwing it into the bottom of the case with a single screw. Down the roads I'll probably get a PCIe NVME card and a 4TB SSD to replace it, but I'm kind of irritated that a case that's probably 20-25% bigger than my old one can't properly fit a 3.5" drive.

On the plus side, I went from 45-50fps on a medium-low mix and minimal ray tracing on AC Shadows to 60-65fps on High with the ray tracing cranked all the way up. So once I get all my stuff reinstalled and my settings tweaked the way I like I'll be quite happy.

EDIT: tried Ultra High and was in the high 50s, so I dialed back a few things like fog, shadows, and clutter and was able to get over 60 with with good stuff still maxed.

Edited 15 hours ago by mikeszekely

[azrael]

4 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

Asus ought to step up their QC...

Wait for the day you have to deal with their warranty service. 🤣

4 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

Another minor complaint is that Best Buy advertises it as having three M.2 slots and two 2.5" bays

They never said the slots weren't already occupied, just that it had 3 M.2 slots and 2 bays.

4 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

As for the 2.5" bays, there's room in front of the PSU but no mounting hardware- no cages, no sleds, no caddies, nada. ... but I'm kind of irritated that a case that's probably 20-25% bigger than my old one can't properly fit a 3.5" drive.

SI doesn't provide additional mounting hardware for expansion. Why am I not shocked?

[TangledThorns]

9 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

 Down the roads I'll probably get a PCIe NVME card and a 4TB SSD to replace it, but I'm kind of irritated that a case that's probably 20-25% bigger than my old one can't properly fit a 3.5" drive.

 

 

Yeah, these new PC cases got bigger and heavier with the tempered glass to show off the RGB lights and is why I passed on them for my next build. Ended up buying a ASUS AP201 MFF case which is way lighter and has enough space for my RTX 5080 and a HDD. My build will be all stealth black, no RGB, which I think is distracting and just another thing to manage which I don't want. I just want excellent performance in a PC!

[mikeszekely]

7 hours ago, azrael said:

They never said the slots weren't already occupied, just that it had 3 M.2 slots and 2 bays.

I get that, and I didn't expect to find three empty M.2 slots, but I figured maybe three with one occupied by the system drive. If you're already advertising that you have bluetooth and wifi 6 just don't count that as an M.2 slot even though it's technically in an M.2s slot, because very few people are willing to give up wifi and bluetooth to add another SSD.