>Create a parts list pcpartpicker.com/ >Learn how to build a PC Search youtube for a guide for your socket
Want help? >State your budget & CURRENCY >List your uses; eg Gaming, Video Editing, VM Work >For monitors, include purpose and graphics pairing >NO Speccy. Use HWinfo
CPU >Athlon 200GE - Bare minimal desktop/gaming >R3 2200G - Light gaming(dGPU optional) >R5 2400G/i5-8400 - Consider IF on sale >R5 2600/X - Good gaming & multithreaded work use CPUs >i7-9700k/8700k - If you have a $2000+ budget and don't care that it'll be superseded by 7nm CPUs next year >R7 2700/X - Best value high-end CPU on a non-HEDT platform >Wait for R7 3700X - Surely the best overall and not a massive disappointment like the 9900k >Threadripper/Used Xeon - HEDT
RAM >8GB - Enough for most gaming use >16GB - Standard for heavy use >32GB - If you have to ask, you don't need this >CPUs benefit from fast RAM; 2933MHz+ is ideal
Graphics cards >RTX 2000 cards are worse performance per $ than previous gen >Avoid cheap MODELS ie MSI Armor (Mk2 is ok), Gigabyte G1/Wf, ASUS dual, and others w/ small heatsinks and low quality fans 1080p >RX 570/580 w/ Freesync or 1060 6GB - standard 1080p 60fps+ options >1050 3Gb or RX560 4Gb - lower settings and/or older games >GTX 1070Ti/Vega 56 - for higher FPS w/ a high hz monitor 1440p >Vega 56; 1070Ti/1080 if you already have Gsync >GTX 1080Ti - for higher FPS w/ a high hz monitor 4K >Upscale from 1620-1800p. Maybe 2080Ti, but awful value. OpenCL use >Vega 64
Storage >Backup before using StoreMi >Consider getting a larger SSD (better GB/$) instead of small SSD & large HDD >2TB HDDs are barely more $ than 1TB >M.2 is a form factor, NOT a performance standard >NVMe are not for gaming; See "More"
Display >Consider 75hz minimum; 60hz are mostly old models. >Always consider FreeSync w/ AMD cards >PLAN YOUR BUILD AROUND YOUR MONITOR IF GAMING
I do not game, just watching films, Office and shitposting
Alexander Howard
Why can't you build a PC at the same cost as buying an Xbox One X?
Daniel Evans
>Why can't you build a PC at the same cost as buying an Xbox One X? Because the Xbox is geared and optimized for one function that it doesn't even do well
Easton Cooper
But it does. I don't mind 30fps at 4k.
James Williams
how the fuck did it reach that temp?
Isaac Morgan
On the contrary. To get the fidelity and performance out of a PC with the same games you'd find on an Xbox you would have to spend substantially more money. It's not surprising when devs are optimizing games specifically for your hardware.
Wyatt Martin
Great thread user. Keep it up. AMD needs our help now more than ever.
Congrats on getting memed into ryzen. I have same shit here but with 2600. Pic related, and that's with 5 case fans, hyper 212x and kryonaut thermal paste.
Overclock with stock cooler. I later tried my AIO and more volts but it didn't go past 4.2
Carson Lopez
I get 35 degrees under load on my 7600 with the stock cooler.
Jesus Christ
Juan Allen
no that part is correct
Tyler Perez
congratulations you got meme'd into buying ryzen nobody here mentioned how hot ryzen also how power hungry rx gpu line up.
t. got memed into going full amd build
Joshua Nguyen
that sounds impossible unless you live in the arctic typical idle temps are 10C above room temp
Liam Thompson
Is it possible to build media center PC under $100?
>cheapest mobo on pcpartpicker = $40 >cheapest for that mobo is $40 but it is a shitty Celeron and better bump to a Pentium >cheapest DDR4 4 GB - around $32 (mind one should better install 2 modules but let's forget this) >Oi we're already out of budget >But case, SSD, Wifi card, PSU
Still impossible to build something without draining your pocket, right?
Lincoln Diaz
>that sounds impossible
There's a reason why it costs 3 times as much as a Ryzen.
Bentley Wright
You'd need used.
Luke Lopez
>Great thread user. Keep it up. AMD needs our help now more than ever. >stock price reflects the companies value
Connor Mitchell
>stock is up 70% over year >thats a bad thing Damn you niggas dumb as shit
Logan Cooper
I'm regretting it but also don't want to pay 600€ for the 9900K.
Because you're dumb as fuck and have no idea how market works. This is why you're poor.
Josiah Hernandez
Well lets hope they fix the pricing. Why would they step back 14nm when 10nm isn't ready anyways? Ryzen itself isn't really that great except for price. I still play in 1080p because I only have a Vega 56 and frames really matter there. Latency issues are also pretty bad
Kayden Wood
It's not that. Afaik, consoles use every single trick in the book to squeeze the maximum perfomance out of their processors. This means that every single security feature in existence is disabled. Not a problem with closed systems like consoles, but put that on a PC and you'd get fucked in less than a week.
Noah Perry
All the Intel processors are expensive, but there's little reason to buy a 9900 if you're just gaming. The 9700 offers most of the 9000-series gaming performance for less.
weird I play on 1440p with 1600 and vega 56? I must have bought some golden chips then because it works great.
Landon Scott
I don't want to cheap out tho. That's why I bought the 2700x and not 2600/X or 2700. It also doesn't have hyperthreading
Andrew Ramirez
>I still play in 1080p because I only have a Vega 56 and frames really matter there. Latency issues are also pretty bad literal meme drivel i hope amd goes bankrupt so you can be forced to buy a $2000 i5
Luke Lewis
I have no idea how market works but I'm pretty sure that stocks aren't supposed to be in free fall for many weeks in a row.
Asher Jenkins
But I'll get scammed if I try to buy used parts, right?
pcpartpicker.com/list/PMhvvn That is the best I've assembled so far but it's got no storage, case and PSU and still 25$ higher than the budget.
Fuck that kills me honestly. Why the f everything is so bloody expansive? I just wanna IPTV and watch films without plugging external HDD to a PC and than to the TV like a full retard
PLEASE GIB $100 BUILD
Jayden Jackson
>gaming performance for less except its worse than a 8700k
Jack Fisher
any recommendations for air coolers? too anxious to use liquid coolers, atm i'm using the stock cooler my 1600 came with, does an alright job but i want to do better. also any recommendations for thermal paste? (inb4 semen)
Oliver Morales
10nm does exist according to them but i think they only started now with it because of the former CEO fucking up everything. Depends on the game. Sure, games like War Thunder can run it but newer ones struggle, at least for me. I also undervolted and flashed it btw.
Samuel Scott
>I have no idea how market works Yeah I can tell.
Luis Wright
>It's not that It is that. It is only that. You are wrong. Devs on consoles have the luxury of optimizing explicitly for specific pieces of hardware. In fact, they can play tricks with the hardware as years pass and they become more familiar with how to manipulate it. On the Gamecube devs were putting textures into memory meant only for audio, which has fucked up emulators since time immemorial. Imagine if devs had such granular control of your PC that they were putting textures for videogames onto the RAM of your soundcard. It gives you a sense of how low they can go. Devs publishing on Steam don't have that luxury.
Liam Roberts
Noctua DH 15 or be quiet Dark Rock Pro 4
Nicholas Jones
It's about the same afaik. Lose out in some areas, win out in others.
Jace Johnson
Why aren't they working on an AI to optimize the games for them?
Jaxson Morgan
Wow so worth buying
Nathan Myers
not that user, but if you know what to look for and do background checks on the seller i'm sure it'll be fine. if you're going that cheap you won't be getting the best price to value from parts that are still being sold. if you go used you can find really cheap parts from 10 years ago or so.
Xavier Gonzalez
pcpartpicker.com/list/RFsDzYMan now that gets really unhealthy >27$ CPU >Literally cheapest RAM and mobo and cooler >already $102 What should that mean actually
Jaxson Morales
Soon™
Brayden Jones
What parts should be bought used and which one should I avoid and still try to buy new? For example it is very obvious to buy a new drive rather than used one. And that fucker who sells parts had them running 24/7 fully overclocked last 10 years amiright and they'll die on me next week I buy em?
Jack Collins
>1600 you need a custom loop 480mm rad too keep that AMD cpu cool
Kayden Foster
Buy a new PSU Everything else can be used
Levi Bell
If you want a media center I'd recommend going for a fanless mini PC. Just add RAM and storage. Some of the older ones won't be able to decode higher res stuff though.
i'm anxious to use liquid coolers, if anything goes wrong everything goes to shit. even if it's non-conductive it's still spewing weird shit everywhere that'll take forever to clean up.
Christian Sullivan
What's better for gaming on a ryzen system. 3200 at 12-13-13-22 or 3466 13-13-13-26?
William King
I think I can hear one of my case fans rattling a little bit. Anything I can do about it short of buying a new fan?
Cameron Williams
first one
Andrew Reed
thats damn tight. is this bdie or hynix afr?
Thomas Brooks
>3200 at 12-13-13-22 or >3466 13-13-13-26? Neither of those is gonna boot, but good luck.
Jordan Miller
That lower latency really that much better vs sightly higher theoretical through output and faster infinity fabric for gaming? 3200 has theoretical max 51.2 GB/s 3466 has a theoretical max 55.456 GB/s With 3466 14-15-14-28 CR1 I'm hitting 54.041 GB/s out of the theoretical max, if I tighten the timing a little bit further it should hit at near maximum. So short version: I think I can hit both the theoretical maximum of 51.2GBS for 3200 and 55.456 GB/s for 3466. The only real question is slightly tighter timings and lower latency better than 133Mhz faster finity fabric and 4.256 GB/s bandwith on read/writes.
B-die.
I am already sitting on 3466 14-15-14-28 CR1 100% stable with zero errors after 3 hours of memtest86
is spending the extra $100 worth buying a 2600X over an 1800X?
Juan Peterson
I need a new main PC, but I'm also a freetard. I've not been keeping up on hardware developments for the past few years—is it possible to build a freedom-respecting desktop PC (assume power is not a focus)? I've looked at h-node and InstallGentoo, but neither have been much use.
I imagine component choice would mostly be constricted by the range of CPUs you could choose since that would determine the motherboards/RAM/etc. In that case, that's all post-2008 Intel and post-2013 AMD CPUs out of the running. Have the open ISA projects produced any viable products yet?
Or would I be better off just getting a laptop and attaching a monitor and peripherals to it? Like an RYF-certified ThinkPad model, one of the Librems or something like the EOMA68 computer card?
>no price yet >nothing but a handful of benchmarks here and there wait™
Charles Hernandez
I've made like 5-6 post myself and neither are about ryzen tbf.
Samuel Campbell
a Talos I heard that the FX are the more modern CPUs you can get with no backdoor too, but you're limited in the mobo and ram choice, so be ready to drop quite a bit of money if you're really into freedoms
Brayden Perry
don't listen to the shill
for the 1600 you can get any decent air cooler. The NH-D15 and Dark Rock Pro 4 would be overkill, but will work for any OC.
>1080p60hz >1070 >9600k YIKES, just go for 8400 and 1060 and save $1000.
Owen Howard
If you have an intel you NEED 144 Hz
Caleb Reed
dumpster diving is your best bet
Ethan Rogers
>extra $100 wat
Alexander Turner
Looks all over the place For 1080p/60hz you don't need that cpu It's better to just get a 8400/2600 and put the money for 1070ti/1080/2070 and go 1440p
Jason Bailey
>2kUS$ for an i5 tier system I want off this ride
Jonathan Jenkins
I'm falling for the VR meme, do you guys think that the i7 860 is enough? I have a DQ57TM mobo so I can't really overclock. I have a budget of $1000, $780 is going for Vive and 1060 combo and $160 for 750D case. Any thoughts?
Ian Wood
how much do i have to spend for a pc (or laptop) if i just want to play fo4 at medium-high settings?
Samuel Flores
Anything more than 1.4V is risky in the long term. Technically 1.35V or lower is best
Ethan Ramirez
1440p a meme
Henry Wood
what would be some examples of decent air coolers? i might also upgrade to zen 2 whenever that comes out, so that's also something i need to think about.
>do you guys think that the i7 860 is enough? No. Not even close.
Henry Peterson
>Anything more than 1.4V is risky in the long term. Is that so, regardless of the RAM temps? >Technically 1.35V or lower is best Naturally lower voltage is best, but there is people saying 1.5V is fine if you have temps under control.
Carter Russell
anything from noctua, bequiet, cryorig, cooler master, probably in the $40+ range, I'd personally go for any dual-tower heatsink
Carson Reyes
>60hz >intel what the fuck
Elijah Morris
get a seasonic PSU, evga PSUs are shit
Elijah Scott
excluding the Chinese VAT in that price it'll be 260$
Jaxson Howard
So it's less expensive/same lvl as 580? I remember some 230 euro cards at least recently.
Kayden Jones
Didn't their used to be a mechanical keyboard general? I'm curious if the CM MasterKeys L with Browns is a piece of shit or not.
Justin Peterson
Is the M.2 SATA III Internal SSD worth it compare to the 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD?
It's just a question of form factor. I wouldn't do it so you can have the option of putting in NVME later. Though you could also buy an adapter, it's cheaper to plan ahead.