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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 >For Win7 in Ryzen pastebin.com/TUZvnmy1
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i7-9700k/8700k - If you have a $2000+ budget and don't care that it'll be superseded by 7nm CPUs next year 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
Display >Consider 75hz minimum; 60hz are mostly old models >Always consider FreeSync w/ AMD cards >FOR GAMING START YOUR BUILD WITH A MONITOR FIRST, then make your build to drive it appropriately
AHHHHHH MY STOCK RYZEN CPU COOLER WONT SCREW INTO THE FUCKING MOTHERBOARD I HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR HOURS WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO
Jace Phillips
Thoughts? Any recommendations?
Case: not actually purchasing this case, it's a place holder for the card. I'm getting the Louqe Ghost S1 when it ships
AIO Cooler: Is there a better cooler or does it even better?
RAM: Not sure which speeds to go with, 3200 seems to be the standard right now, don't really see any reason to go above that.
CPU: i7 9700k - all of the bench marks I've seen has this out performing or equal performance to the 8700k, am I missing anything by not having hyper threading?
MOBO: ITX Z390 - this might change before I make my purchase but there is only 5 different boards to choose one, I like the M.2 heat sink, some of the others don't have one.
PSU: with the Louqe Case I need SFX, I wanted Seasonic but Corsair is good as well. Don't need more than 600W.
GPU: 2080 - Well, I was going to purcahse a 1080ti until the stock hit low and they're no longer manufacturing them so I guess I'm getting a 2080 now?
SSD: M.2 - first M.2 SSD. I want a 1TB, and I'll have my old 850evo as well for additional storage.
I have a Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI. And i tried to set up my fan that came with thermaltake view 31. I believe it's a Riing 14? Not Plus.
I bought it recently, It worked for a few days, then i noticed the light is gone. So i tried to fix it by changing the fan speed in BIOS to full speed. I tried messing with the cables a little.
*I have no idea if this burnt the wire out. It was originally plugged in "sys fan 5 pump". And then i plugged it to "LED C2" 4 pins. I think it's 12v.
After messing with things around, i reverted everything to original, and now it won't even start anymore. The Riing Controller's LED doesn't even light up anymore, no red light (for slow speed) or blue light (for full speed) anymore. The fan is not running, the rgb lighting is not lighting either. I also tried plugging it into "sys fan 6 pump" but it still won't run.
Did i broke my fan? Is there a way to troubleshoot if it's my fan broke, or is my pins not supplying powers?
Kayden Bell
Recommend a monitor for vega56? Up to £350 Atleast real 8bit Freesync More than 1080p Preferably a model thats recent
>aio >h200i >no b-die >RTX >1Tb useless NVMeme costs as mcuh as a 2Tb one >Pro drive for a gamerfag PC when that's for video editing You don't know what you're doing so you just picked the 2nd most expensive parts except for the one that matters most, the RAM.
Uhh too many decent to great ones to list, really. Just avoid the shittiest ones and you're pretty fine. And they can change with each generation. Like I can't keep up with what's now good on the 2000 series and what still sucks. A lot of the worst ones get renamed because of their bad reputation lmao. Like Gigabyte renamed their G1 and Windforce I think? Though MSI Armor is still Armor though slightly better than before.
Mbest one. There's only like one model afaik so easy to find. Pixio PX277h. Nixeus 27edg (will cost more unless on sale). All are 1440p 144hz AHVA(IPS). The Pixio one is HDR, 8bit+frc IIRC, though doesn't meet HDR400 spec or Freesync HDR spec. But still supports adaptive sync and HDR.
>Is there a way to troubleshoot if it's my fan broke, or is my pins not supplying powers? Volt meter. Costs $10 for a shitty one and $20 for a half decent one. Also plug it into another spot.
At 15fps, maybe.
Jason Ross
how difficult is it to replace a motherboard? worth it or should i just get a new system? (from )
Kayden Rodriguez
>Pentium E6700 why
Carter Reyes
because it's an old system someone gave to me for nothing
Adam Long
>You need to place the backplate behind it. Lmfao. KEK that worked thank you
Isaac Miller
i want to change my gpu myself but have never opened a pc, how careful do i have to be?, i know about static but im too paranoid about damaging stuff
Gabriel Harris
Thinking of what to buy on black friday. Redpill me on a secondary 4k monitor (or even a TV). Already got 1080p 144hz 24 inch gsync one for gaming. Mostly to pirate 4k movies and enjoy some kino but also play less demanding games that work better on 4k. Do I got IPS or VA panel? Pic related current PC.
>Also plug it into another spot Alright, so i plugged it into sys fan 6, sys fan 2, sys fan 3. And it still doesn't work. I went to bios for fan settings, and seems like it can't detect any fan either.
So can i assume that i somehow broke my fan?
I have a controller like pic related. Can i not detach the wiring from it once they are plugged? Because i can't take them off no matter how.
ok, so i can unplug it, but it's a 5 pin, so i guess i can't just attach them to sysfan port and make them run then. Guess i have to bring the whole casing back to the shop to asks them to fix it for me.
Nathaniel Edwards
Like a piece of lego.
Jordan Turner
make sure to undo the latch first instead of trying to yank the gpu out like a mong
Hunter Bell
Just noticed this. The fan did run for a few seconds when i started the windows. Once it's in my desktop, it stopped running again. The controller's LED still doesn't have red/blue light.
ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/J7TpRJ Can I get some help? I need Motherboard/PSU/Ram suggestions. I only really game on it so I'd like to keep the price below 1000.
So basically my [spoiler]younger[/spoiler] brother bought a 2080ti and is givng me his old 1080. He is also gifting me a Ryzen 2700x for my birthday/christmas. Problem is ill be going from my i5 2500k and z68 board, so ill need new ram. The last time I bought anything PC related was nearly 4 years ago for an intel SSD and im pretty lost now.
Carson Harris
Any Canadians here? Got any experience w newegg.ca Black Friday deals? NCIX went bankrupt and they're the ones I usually went to for shit
Gabriel Morales
>32 inch >1440p >144hz >Va or ips >Not a piece of trash samsung panel
DOES IT FUCKING EXIST? ive bought literally 5 monitors in the past two weeks and all.of them were defective in some way. What did they all have in common? They all had the same samsung panel.
Price literally is no object anymore. I want something that is going to last me and won't give me fucking issues.
Nicholas Cooper
That's not even good
Joseph Roberts
Regarding on OP's statement and I quote: >1440p >>Vega 56; 1070Ti/1080 if you already have Gsync Assuming I don't care about 144hz and only want to play the latest games just on 75hz with 1440p and high settings, is a rx 580 enough?
Deciding on a 27" 1440p monitor for both work and play but don't want to spend on those 144hz gamer monitor + vega 56.
Sure it is, most B-die goes for $200 minimum, tighten the timings on these to 16-16-16-36 and there's good value
Nathan Collins
Just a heads up for Mexican buyers. Sapphire offers no free warranty in Mexico, and they charge you $60 to check your card + Shipping prices if you want it back. XFX only gives you 2 years instead 5, and they only will pay shipping back. EVGA does free RMA shipping if you bought through Amazon and registered it the first 30 days. MSI does free RMA too. Gigabyte will only do free RMA the first year, after that you have to pay the shipping 2 times. ASUS, lol you wish. Zotac will ask you to send the card to US for RMA. PNY, no free shipping, "Lifetime warranty" can be rejected.
Elijah Miller
>tightening the timings Do you people even check for errors or do just one pass and if it's okay declare the timings stable?
Sebastian Thompson
>amd cucks need to spend $200 more on ram to still get WORSE performance lol
Jonathan Howard
Help: > $1200 budget, can go a little over. > Gaming, Game Dev, 3D animations > Want this build to last me some time. > Current Build 10 year old piece of shit that can barely run Overwatch now.
Computer: MSI MS-7641 CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1045T (Thuban, PH-E0 (Pharaoh)) 2600 MHz (13.00x200.0) @ 2700 MHz (13.50x200.0) Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P23(FX) (MS-7641) BIOS: V17.9, 03/23/12 Chipset: SB750/SB710 Memory: 16384 MBytes @ 666 MHz, 9-9-9-24 - 8192 MB PC10600 DDR3 SDRAM - Kingston 9905403-547.A00LF - 8192 MB PC12800 DDR3 SDRAM - Crucial Technology BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. Graphics: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2048 MB GDDR5 SDRAM Drive: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360, 488.4 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s Drive: WDC WD20NMVW-11C3NS2, 1953.5 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s USB Drive: WDC WD2500BEVT-00A23T0, 244.2 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s USB Drive: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS50, DVD+R DL Sound: ATI/AMD SB600 - High Definition Audio Controller Sound: ATI/AMD Verde/Heathrow/Chelsea - High Definition Audio Controller Network: RealTek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC Network: NETGEAR WNA3100 N300 Wireless USB Adapter OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Build 7601
Jack Wright
As opposed to paying $500 for a housefire?
Samuel Reed
theirs literally only 1 intel consumer cpu thats a housefire
>install software which came with my Asus MoBo for controlling the RGB >it kills my windows installation
>install Ryzen software >it kills my windows installation
>update Nvidia Goyforce Experience (without even updating the drivers themselves; literally just the fucking program) >it fucks with my display driver and I have to restore windows to a prior point in order to be able to play vidya
Why do hardware manufacturers keep trying to kill my PC with their software?
I have a MSI Radeon R9 380 OC 2GB from my previous computer.
Evan Miller
It looks nice, I was looking at this one myself, however is it wise to mix non-amd graphics cards with AMD processors. Doesn't say there are compatibility issues.
There's little to no problem with running Amd processors with non AMD graphics. However many people would recommend to go Intel and Nvidia instead of AMD and Nvidia
Eli Walker
So, my buddy spilled ramen or some shit all over his older gaming PC. Everything was killed by chicken flavor aside from his GTX660 and a power supply ~500watt Since he desperately still needed a PC i had told him to snag a cheap optiplex off ebay that had a i5-2400 (non k) and dropped in the parts that survived.
Now hes looking to upgrade a bit as hes seeing high CPU usage in a few games at 1080p. While the 660 is pretty bad and likely the major bottleneck (but he says his old build ran better as I'm guessing the CPU is acting shit too) do you think hes better off using this starter R 2200g build and eventually getting a 1050ti?
Or should i tell him to get a 1050ti and trying it in the optiplex? Very tight budget here
Camden Foster
It's ok but Ryzen likes faster RAM and you'd be better off stepping up to a beefier Ryzen if possible too. What do you have now?
Robert Bennett
Yeah, yeah, I know, it's useless, I'm not denying that. Still crazy that their software can be so shitty though.
Carter Reed
Use DDU to erase anything Nvidia related from your PC and then download and install JUST the driver. Fuck Goyforce experience and definitely fuck anything RGB or AIB partner software related other than Afterburner.
William Cox
I'm the idiot with a broken motherboard I have a i5 650, which was perfectly fine for me.
Michael James
Will a Ryzen 2600 work with a HD 5770?
Ryan Russell
Look for a used Thinkcentre instead optiplex. And buy a new PSU.
Aaron Baker
>Use DDU to erase anything Nvidia related from your PC and then download and install JUST the driver. I'll definitely do this if I have problems updating drivers down the line or anything, but honestly until then if it just werks I don't really see the point in going through that trouble.
Gabriel Wright
I'm trying to decide between an ultrawide monitor or 3 VESA'd monitors for multitasking, but I've never owned an ultrawide and I don't know anything about them. My main concern is that I like to play games in windowed fullscreen for maximum multitasking, but I can't imagine that working on an ultrawide. Can someone who knows about ultrawides tell me how that works?
You still have one of those? Christ. Just get a 1050
Cameron Ward
I will upgrade the next Nvidia/AMD gen for now as long its compatible or buy a used 1050 for $90-100.
Adam Smith
You need a 1080 minimum
Nicholas Ward
GTX1080 or Vega64, a 580 hover around 30-45 fps at 1440p for most games
Logan Stewart
Dual monitor mount recommendations?
Im planning on getting a 27" landscape and pair it with my 24" portrait
Ian Davis
Then go for the 2200g. It's a pretty snappy quad core at a good price. The 2400g has hyperthreading (SMT) so it would be a decent upgrade but if you're on a serious budget there is nothing wrong with what you've picked out.
Thomas Clark
The 580 is squarely a 1080p/60hz/high-ultra settings at this point and even that will take some tweaks to maintain on some games (AC:O, etc). Polaris was never really a 1440p card IMO. That was always a stretch.
Benjamin Reyes
Check out the Mount-It! (MI-2781). Had it for about a year and a half and works great for my 24"/27" setup. It's like $35 US.
Christian Wood
why would you even buy 1440p ? the difference between 1080p and 1440p is barely noticeable
Aiden White
Is 4k a meme for gaming?
Austin Adams
Yes. How ever refresh rate above 100Hz is not a meme, and I highly suggest you get at least 100hz or 120 or 144, which ever one fits you while fulfilling your other needs.
Jonathan Phillips
thanks i think ill pick one up
Brandon Williams
Awful bait
Cameron Walker
>he doesn't use thin clients connected to his home server never going to make it
Just buy a 860 EVO first to replace your current SSD.
Samuel Price
oh boy, here comes the intelshill.
Samuel Davis
Can someone help me with this please because I am close to smashing my fucking PC of a wall and literally no one online has been off any help,
Basically I have zero control over my gpu fans, I could be browsing the web and the fans could just start getting loud as hell even if fans are at like 41, but I have tried every single fan control out there but literally none do anything. The fan control will say fan is at 0 but I can clearly hear it as loud. Is there any options of just entering safe mode or something and just setting gpu fans off, at this point I do not even care if it affects my GPU etc I just want it to fucking stop because it is literally unbearable, in games I might as well give up, I could be playing a game like Gmod or somethign low graphics and it sounds loud as hell.
My specs GTX 1050 G1 gaming intel i7 3770 Just a stock mother board Corsair 650 watt gold certified PSU.
Honestly I am at the point now where I would be happy to paypal someone like $20 who knew how to fix this.
Dylan Gutierrez
go into your motherboard bios and change the fan curve. if your motherboard doesn't have that feature, replace it.
Lincoln Robinson
>Gigabyte You were asking for it. Do you have MSI Afterburner?
Wyatt Torres
I do not think that is an option for my motherboard, how can I check if it is an option. Also that seems like the hardest possible fix, I would have to basically rebuild my PC
Adam Thomas
you fucking putz. you can adjust the fan curve in gigabyte mobos.
Dominic Price
Yes. I use MSI but it seems like my GPU ignores it, it could say fan speed is at 0 when it clearly is not at 0
Connor Brooks
Gigabyte G1 series uses DC fans(2 pins), you cant adjust the speed.
Matthew Bennett
Yes you can, I was able to do it when I first got it before I switched over PSU and before I switched to a new GPU that I had to resell after and re use the 1050
Henry Taylor
Send it to RMA if the guarantee is still in effect. If not, remove old fans, and ziptie new fans on top of the heatsink.
Liam Nguyen
I cant RMA it bought it second hand without box etc, this all just seems like huge fixes when I have a feeling there is an easy software fix that I am missing
All of them can be overclocked, but if you're into that, get a 2600x or 2700x
Caleb Martin
I need a reliable HDD that's not too loud for mass storage. Should be 3-5tb. I am considering the Toshiba x300. Is the WD black worth the premium over the x300? I also need a new HDD for backup. Obviously the most important thing is reliability. It should be over 6tb. I'm constantly anxious about losing my shit. What would you recommend?
Can't really decide what OS I want although I'll probably end up getting W10. I also need help on choosing a CPU cooler. I have the hyper 212 on my current build but it was a fucking pain in the ass to install.
Landon Ramirez
Do I have a gold mine of a chip? I have been able to run my i7 2600k @ 4.7 with it sometimes hitting 1.4v on a hyper 212 maxing out at about 70C while playing games all day. I have overclocked a lot in my day but this old thing just eats
Will i have any problems of i use a 4k 60hz freesync monitor with a 1080ti? I didn't plan on getting anything better than an rx580 since i rarely play games, but i found a new msi 1080ti for 350.
Grayson Sanders
If you aren't playing games you should be okay. Depending on the game it might chug but if you're not playing much you should be fine
