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Want help? >State your budget & CURRENCY >List your uses eg Gaming, Video Editing, VM Work >For monitors include purpose and GPU pairing >NO Speccy. Use HWinfo >For Win7 in Ryzen pastebin.com/TUZvnmy1
CPU >CPUs less threads usually suffer lower 0.1% minimums >Athlon 200GE - Bare minimal desktop/gaming >R3 2200G - Light gaming(dGPU optional) >R5 2400G - Consider IF on sale >R5 2600/X - Good gaming & multithreaded work use CPUs >i7-9700k/8700k/8700 - If you have a $2000+ budget and pairing with a 2080 or better >R7 2700/X - Best value high-end CPU on a non-HEDT platform >Threadripper/Used Xeon - HEDT
RAM >Always choose at least a 2 stick kit >8GB - Bare minimum/Light desktop use. >16GB - Standard amount >32GB - If you have to ask, you don't need this >CPUs benefit from fast RAM; 2933MHz+ is ideal. Check "more" for true latency formula
Graphics cards >RTX 2000 cards; cheap models usually low yield processor. Aim for factory OC versions for best performance >use your due diligence with cheap MODELS ie MSI Armor (Mk2 is ok), Gigabyte G1/Wf, ASUS dual, and others w/ small heatsinks and low quality fans. They may be cheap, but won't get high boost clocks like better models 1080p >RX 570/580/1060 6GB - standard 1080p 60fps+ options 1080p@144hz >Vega 56/1070ti best value, Free/G-sync monitor highly recommended 1440p@60-75hz >Vega/1070ti/1080/2070 1440p@100+hz >1080ti/2080 4K >Upscale from 1620-1800p. Or 2080Ti, but awful value OpenCL use >Vega 64
Storage >Backup before using StoreMi >Consider a larger SSD (better GB/$) instead of small SSD & HDD >2TB HDDs are barely more $ than 1TB >M.2 is a form factor, NOT a performance standard
Display >Always consider FreeSync w/ AMD cards >START YOUR BUILD WITH A MONITOR FIRST, then make a build to drive it appropriately
Thank you for your input user. I will buy a new one. Should I go for the G-Sync meme like the sticky says?
Ryder Rodriguez
G-sync's nice, but in my opinion you may as well save on the cost of G-sync and put it towards the next level GPU (i.e; buying a 1080ti instead of 1080+G-sync). If you're going to stuff around with adaptive sync on anything other than a 1080ti/2080 level of performance, you may as well go a Vega64/Freesync and get the same thing for less money.
Isaac White
I'm seriously considering buying a 256gb SSD to do a StoreMI data drive for my games. I already have a 4TB WD Red for files, pagefile, etc. & an M.2 SSD as a boot drive. Is it a meme?
Anthony Rivera
>6 cores for $26 What it fails to mention is that the non-chinkshit boards are 200+ and you have to get ram on top of that.
Wyatt Campbell
It's pretty pointless, 256GB fills really quickly, StoreMi or not. Honestly you could've had just one big SSD for the price of the M.2 drive you have (worse if it's NVMe and not SATA) and a 256GB. That's what I would've done; too bad you already have one SSD already.
Tyler Long
Alright thank you. I will now search for a good decent monitor. Friend of mine says that LG are pretty much the best is that right?
Elijah Garcia
What said. Don't support Novideo's anti-competitive and anti-consumer technology.
Kayden Nguyen
What's the best reliable and price/performance/storage HDDs I can get now? Thinking of setting up a plex server using my old Q6600. Damn thing just won't die.
Henry Gutierrez
>he didn't upgrade from Phenom to Ryzen Best upgrade path in existence. Massive jump in performance, no shitty Intel sockets and security holes bullshit, no housefires, no bulldozer. I think I'll stay on AM4 for another 7 years.
Don't like the current one because it lags/ghost when watching anime/video, games and even browsing(work, webdev). I already shut off the overdrive setting. It helps a bit but it still lags/ghost. Just not as bad. Though, the colour is pretty great, I like it. I also tested it with another monitor which is a cheapo 17inch HP monitor and the difference in smoothness is significant. The hp monitor colour is rubbish though.
So yeah, any suggestions?
Jaxon Stewart
As an Amerifat I subscribe to the "better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it" school of thought. I'll never run into bottlenecks with my 16Gb for gayman
Cooper Lewis
It's plex, I can torrent everything back in a day or two even if it crashes.
Jonathan Perez
>I can torrent everything back in a day or two even if it crashes Then Nyaa died. Better safe than sorry.
Tyler Rodriguez
Personally I'd say a meme at anything less that 27", and it seems to make most sense if you get something ultrawide. t. curved TV but flat monitor
Michael Stewart
Just bought a Philips 246E9Q during Black Friday, to be a second monitor for video editing to my main Ultrawide. Haven't had it for long enough to give a final say on it, but first impressions are really good. 130% sRGB & 90% Adobe RGB after calibration, pretty good response time, good blacks, and no ghosting in the UFO test.
Isaiah Adams
Don't buy a monitor based on brand. If you see a monitor that you like, read several reviews.
Caleb Russell
Please recommend reliable hard disks that are value for money in size and performance so I can get to that asap.
Jaxson Smith
I got one of these hp desktops for free the specs are >i7 2600 >8gb ram >gt 210 I’ve already put an SSD in and it’s quite snappy at booting and doing general pc stuff but I’d like to do some gaming on it. Nothing too extreme just stuff like 1080p medium graphics settings. What’s the best gpu I can get for under or a little over £100/$130?
I consider to buy at gearbest. Dunno if the chinks doing good work with screens but they vacuums are pretty good imo. Thank you user
Evan Campbell
I do. How else can I open 5,765,386 chrome tabs, you cuck
Asher Murphy
Thanks man. It looks pretty great too. I like everything except the refresh rate being 60Hz. The worst being I can't buy it as the monitor not available/sold in my country.
How big's the PSU in it? I'd like to say try find a GTX970, but a 1050ti (if you can afford it) might be a safer bet if it's a potato power supply.
William Brown
> I like everything except the refresh rate being 60Hz. Nah, max refresh rate is 75Hz. Freesync range is 50 to 75. No clue why Philips advertises 60Hz.
>The worst being I can't buy it as the monitor not available/sold in my country. Where do you live? I first found the monitor on amazon US under a different model name, before finding it in europe. It's possible that your region has the monitor under a different model name. Try looking for "Philips E-line" or "Philips 1080 24" and look for any monitors that look visually similar to it. Chances are the monitor is basically the same.
Andrew Carter
Is there an mathematical way to measure how good a screens picture is versus another? For example a 1080p 24" monitor at 3' away versus a 4k 55" TV at 7' away? I can figure out the pixel density easy enough, but would you factor in the distance from the screen?
Noah Gomez
you don't know my workflow.
Hudson Price
You're right. I need 32GB.
Aiden Clark
Also, mind to note the specific model number: their 6TB drives from WDC may not be your 6TB drive from WDC. Same for the Seagate 4TB drive: their 4TB drive model (M000) isn't the one I personally own (M004). Which is expected: their job is all about running drives for hours on end.
Luke Garcia
>75Hz Goddamn now I really want it. >Country Malaysia >Philips E-Line I did more digging, they do sell it but the one without Freesync. Correct me if I am wrong, the one with Freesync has E9 label but the only ones they are selling here has E7. So I checked and cross checked, everything is the same on first glance except the Freesync support which the E7 doesn't have. Yeah...
i've just installed a 3x4gb 2000mhz xms3 ram kit in my pc. task mngr is only showing 8gb and resource monitor has 4gb listed as hardware reserved. how do i resolve an issue like this?
Can someone explain why are xeons so cheap? Even if you try getting something like 2600k you will still have to pay way more than for xeons?
Nathan Brown
>manufacturers need to get rid of shitty old 60hz monitors >here's an idea, overclock them to 75hz (something literally anyone can do) and sell them at a higher price >good goyim like this dumb fucker will happily spread their ass cheeks for them
Same reason used ThinkPads/Precisions/etc. are cheap compared to their retail prices. Big companies just move on from CPU to CPU very frequently.
Charles White
Sad but true. Retarded goyim can't even go for a decent 144hz monitor that make an actual difference, instead they think 75hz which is just a factory overlclock is fine. I guess good on the sellers, they get to get rid of their junk.
Xavier Roberts
whats a good cooler to get for my i7 8700 or i7 8700k ? Still not sure which one to go with. I want a cooler that is easy to install
Eli Diaz
I've heard Deep Cool has some of the best warranty policies/track records with reumberising people if their AIO's leak, and that Cooler Master is one of the worst for it, is that true?
What motherboard brand do you trust the most when it comes to AMD CPUs? Also, are there any motherboards nowadays that don't have useless LEDs everywhere?
the low budget ones if you want one with good vrm and shit you'll have to get one of the rgb ones
Charles Parker
Just bought a Sapphire RX580, removed old drivers and clean installed the new ones. The card has a physical switch on it that apparently switches the bios from "Gaming" mode to "Compute" mode. If I have it on compute mode everything is ok. When I switch it to gaming mode (which apparently is the default mode) the fans rev up but I can't boot. Pic related What the actual fuck does it do? What the fuck do I do? Do I gimp myself on the puny compute mode?
Do you have EFI on? Sapphire cards don't have 'Gaming' and 'Compute' modes - but they do have a dual bios feature which by default has EFI and Legacy bioses.
I assume this card you've purchased is used. You don't have to run EFI forever, just to boot the card on the EFI bios, so you can reflash it.
Connor Evans
What's wrong with that, I bet you also think there's anything wrong with white genocide
Chase Cox
For how much, +200mhz?
Oliver Gonzalez
*inhales* ONE POINT SEVEN PERCENT WOOD SCREWS PORK SHOULDERS RAY TRACING DON'T REAL LOL ENJOY YOUR 1080 TI REBADGE FOURTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS
Grayson Jones
>You don’t need 16GB of RAM.
Do games run fine with 8GB?
Wyatt Thomas
They dont.
Jaxson Parker
rekt
Angel Perry
I need more storage for my XPS 15 What 2.5 disk is the best ? I was thinking about a 1TB SSD 860 Evo (174€) or MX500 (139€) ?
>Fedex updates tracking number >it was originally scheduled for Monday of next week, but now it says Thursday (today), by end of day >excited >last update: 3 hours ago, in another state, 8.5 hours away oooookay
>Turns out the 200GE is unlocked on the MSI B350M Gaming Pro Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
Kayden Lewis
>new 4k 55" TV delivered to my front door overnight >not the back door where the driveway goes >even left the porch light on >sat at my front door for 12 hours before I noticed it this morning Thank God I live in a white neighborhood, but they better not do this shit with the rest of my new PC build.
Wyatt Scott
>RTX 2070 No
Colton Stewart
I can't find any site to compare these two. Could you give me a nudge in the right direction?
