>Create a parts list pcpartpicker.com/ >Learn how to build a PC Search youtube for a guide for your socket
Want help? >State the budget & CURRENCY for your build >List your uses; eg Gaming, Video Editing, VM Work >For monitors, include purpose and graphics card pairing. >Don't use Speccy. Use HWinfo, SIV, etc. >For Win7 in Ryzen, refer to pastebin.com/TUZvnmy1
CPU >i3 8100 - Bare minimum gaming >R5 2400G/R5 2600/x- Consider IF on sale >i5 8400 - Good gaming & multithreaded work use CPUs >i7 8700k - Currently best value high-endgaming at any resolution >i7 9900k and 9700k - Surely the best for gaming at any resolution/mixed usage on a non-HEDT platform >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 top of the line GPU atm but wait untill the price comes down a little >Avoid cheap MODELS ie MSI Armor (Mk2 is ok), Gigabyte G1/Wf, ASUS dual, and others which have small heatsinks and low quality fans >Avoid Vega they are poor values and inferior to their Pascal counterpart in every way 1080p >1060 6GB standard 1080p 60fps+ options >1050 3Gb or RX560 4Gb for lower settings and/or older games >GTX 1070Ti/1080 if seeking higher FPS /w a high hz monitor 1440p >GTX 1070Ti/1080 >GTX 1080Ti if seeking higher FPS /w a high hz monitor 4K >Upscale from 1620-1800p. Gtx 1080ti/2080. Maybe 2080Ti, but awful value.
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 G-Sync with nVidia cards >PLAN YOUR BUILD AROUND YOUR MONITOR IF GAMING
Why do motherboards need drivers and what will happen if I dont install them
Gabriel Morales
Lol faggot.
Ian Miller
Lots of components on the mobo needs drivers like LAN controller, SATA, audio and chipset. It'd still work if you use windows because it installs default Microsoft drivers for them but not as good sometime.
Hunter Sanders
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Noah Campbell
Repost for prebuilt user You lost me. That looks about the size of the case you said you already have. Like I said before ATX and an optical drive limits you to big cases and going itx is expensive.
It's very janky and most of the tricks for getting automatic updates to work have stopped since the beginning of the year. I finally gave up on Windows 7 this month when paint and .net 2.0 stopped working and I could only fix it by reinstalling my OS and cherrypicking updates for the dozenth time so I just went with Windows 10 LTSC 2019. No complaints so far. You can find versions with Cortana, Windows Store, and telemetry disabled in the usual places.
I did try LTSB 2016 for a week and it actually accepted my old Windows 7 cd key for validation where as for LTSC 2019 I need to verify my business normally, so I would say try either of those and you'll get security updates normally without all the telemetry of regular Windows 10.
mATX has some great stuff these days but not that much with an optical drive. mITX is much more hip these days but there are still good cases out there. The Fractal Define Mini has two optical drives and the Thermaltake Versa H15 has one. The latter one can be a bit tricky to use with the optical bay though, it is much cheaper though.
Gabriel Wood
To clarify I'm not on ryzen, I'm on a 7700K but it works on Windows 7 through the same method as I understand. It was fine until something broke and every fix involved either reinstalling the OS or installing the very telemetry I wanted to avoid, so just switch to the enterprise versions of Windows 10 without forced updates.
>Thermaltake Versa H15 >Fractal Define Mini Those are both great cases but his cooler is also too tall for them,162 mm.
Lucas Rodriguez
wow this is getting tricky, off the top of my hat I can only think of the TT Core X2 then which is not a traditional vertical case. Maybe the Silverstone TJ08 fits but I don't think they make in anymore.