Want help? >State the budget & CURRENCY >Post at least some attempt at a parts list >List your uses, e.g. Gaming, Video Editing, VM Work >For monitors, include purpose (e.g., photoediting, gaming) and graphics card pairing (if applicable)
CPUs based on current pricing: >Athlon 200GE - HTPC, web browsing, bare minimum gaming (can be OC'd on some MSI mobos) >R3 2200G - Recommended minimum gaming >R5 2600/X - Great gaming or multithreaded use CPUs >i7 8700/K or i7 9700K - Extreme setup with RTX 2080/Ti >R7 2700/X or i9 9900K - VM Work / Streaming / Video editing
RAM: >Always choose at least a two stick kit; 2x 8GB is recommended >CPUs benefit from high speed RAM; 3000CL15 or 3200CL16 is ideal >AMD B and X chipsets and Intel Z chipets support XMP
Graphics cards based on current pricing: >Used cards can be had for a steal; inquire about warranty 1080p >GTX 1050 3GB (bad value), RX 570, RX 580 are standard choices >GTX 1070/Ti if you're looking for very high (100+) framerates and you have a CPU and monitor to match 1440p >GTX 1070/Ti and Vega 56 are standard choices >RTX 2080 if you're looking for very high (100+) framerates and you have a CPU and monitor to match 2160p (4K) >RTX 2080 is the standard choice >RTX 2080Ti is better for 4K but expensive
General: >PLAN YOUR BUILD AROUND YOUR MONITOR IF GAMING >A 256GB or larger SSD is almost mandatory; consider m.2 form factor >Bottleneck checkers are worthless >rentry.co/pcbg-more
Just ordered a 1tb 860 Evo for 130. I don't look forward to the reinstall of Windows though
Nathan Robinson
Come now, it's worth it. Where did you get it for $130? It's at $147 everywhere.
Evan Perry
There was a 5% off coupon on Amazon and I also had gotten a $15 dollar credit on my Amazon account from using the app
Isaiah Brown
>starts at 3750 >ends at 1233 I mean, feel free to explain the preformance loss yourself.
Landon Gutierrez
Please respond.
Zachary Allen
Yes, if you're passing through a pcie device to a virtual OS, the host OS won't touch the drivers or anything, you can use an iGPU and dGPU, or two dGPUs.
Robert Adams
When I clicked stress test it jumped to ~3360, hovered there for 10 seconds and started going up to 3400, then it fell to 3390 and again up to 3450 and basically this went on for 10 minutes after which it reset to 0 and went up normally until I stopped stress testing.
Gavin Wood
A RTX 2070 costs €600 and a 2080 cost €970. Does the increase in performance from a 2080 justify the costs?
ok, did a little trimming and got it down to ~$180 which should fit into my budget, again I already have the PSU and optical drive also would this be sufficient to play hearts of iron 4 and war thunder (lower settings are ok) without it being slow as fuck and pissing me off? or just even start it in the first place? again, I feel I should note that I am also poverty tier poor and this is only so that I can distract myself from my existential suffering
I own a 980 TI. Is it worth upgrading to a 2080? I have a 144hz monitor and would like higher framerates in muh games
Samuel Torres
Ive never played warthunder on low before, do you have a gpu that will go with this that you have?
Gavin Flores
Can't say about war thunder, but HOI4 is extremely CPU and single thread intensive. This is just the nature of grand strategy games, things are done sequentially. To the point where any 4c+ 5ghz skylake will perform nearly the same.
Start HOI4? yes. You can load into 1936. But you need to end WWII before 1939. The more people are dead, the less laggy your game will be.
Also consider going for that MSI mobo that will allow you to overclock the athlon.
Wyatt Turner
There's no way another RX 570/580 DMC5 and RE2 deal would happen for boxing week right? I fucked up and didn't buy one during the deal. Use Clonezilla or some other HDD imaging software and Sysprep.
Ayden Morales
Neither is worth those costs. the 2070 is slower than the 400 euro Vega 64 in some cases.
Jeremiah Wright
just buy a used 970, boi
we all know you aren't actually going to play any games
What's a good rig setup for CS:GO? Also, I heard building a PC is like legos, is that true?
Carson Flores
I got a 1060 for that price and it kinda sucks desu
Kayden Watson
Depends on your budget, something like a ryzen 3 or pentium g5400 for the cpu, and anything like an rx560 or gtx1050 would get you up there at 150fps To answer your lego question; sort of, if everything goes right. Sometimes it doesnt and it becomes a pain in the ass, like forgetting something as simple as the io plate or realizing that one of your parts was dead on arrival.
Hunter Barnes
Except I'm using a 970 right now and in some games I'm getting 50fps. I need a new graphics card.
Connor Ortiz
First time builder here. What the fuck do I do with all these power cables? Do I just plug them all in to the matching PSU slot?
Gabriel Young
Only the ones you need
Jaxon Parker
That is a bad build. Enjoy.
Ryder Butler
Should I return the i7-9700K I bought and wait for Ryzen? Will Ryzen even be that much better?
Samuel Morales
return before your house catches alight
Christopher Ramirez
>Just chilling at my PC tonight >Hear a loud-ass pop and then my PC shuts off >Won't turn back on Please tell me it's my PSU. I don't have any testing equipment on hand, would a PSU be able to power a disc drive without having it connected to a motherboard? Am I retarded for trying to test it this way?
Fellow 980ti owner here I oc mine pretty high and prob won't upgrade unless i go to 1440 144hz or something I also used an adaptor to mount a cpu aio to it and it stays around 55-60 C under load at around 1400mhz i think. 980ti is a gem.
Zachary Rodriguez
How would I know it's the motherboard? None of it seems to be working, at all. PSU included. I tried to test it by connecting a Blu-Ray drive I never got around to installing, hoping if the PSU worked, it would let me hit the eject button. Nothing happened. I don't know if PSUs can be tested this way, though.
Asher Evans
Is heavy frameskipping (I don't mean tearing, that's norma behavior) when playing games with really high, absurd framerates (like 200-300 or even higher FPS, just not stable) caused by the monitor being limited by its refresh rate or am I missing something?
I noticed that with a new GPU I bought I can play CS:GO at a really high framerate but the moment I put that thing in exclusive fullscreen it's an absolute mess. I keep seeing numbers over 200FPS but it looks absolutely choppy. Enabling vsync sort of fixes that but even with the framerate limited at 60 ingame (which it helps just a little) the input lag is still there.
AMD claims their Enhanced Sync feature solves both tearing and input lag but it skips even more to the point it's just unplayable. Weird enough, fullscreen windowed the game seems to be slightly more stable, doesn't tear and doesn't have much input lag at all, but it's only smooth when it reaches framerates over something like 120FPS for some reason. Any drops from that will fuck it up and limiting the framerates to something lower is worse.
I know that all these games benefit heavily from displays with higher refresh rates or shit like freesync, but I expected that even with heavy tearing I would be able to play "smoothly". Any clues?
Jonathan Fisher
Do I pick up a Ryzen 2600 for $154, or do I wait until 3000 series is revealed?
Henry Anderson
Can any of you cool lads point me out a good guide to teach me how to make a bootable Windows 10 USB stick for installation correctly?
Download Rufus and use it to make a bootable USB with the downloaded ISO rufus.ie/
Spam Delete/F12/F8/whatever key your computer uses to boot into bios, boot from the USB. Everything after that is self-explanatory.
Jeremiah Jones
Just turn the damn settings up, no need for such absurd fps. Weird things happen up there, minecraft @ 1000fps gives me insane coil whine
Juan Martinez
I guess bootable USD isn't the correct term. I don't want to install W10 on the flash drive, I want to be able to use it to install W10 on the PC I'll be building.
where the official windows installer will download and create a bootable disk for you in the same application.
Adrian Edwards
Sorry if it wasn't clear, by default when extracting the ISO to a USB drive, it functions as a Windows installer. There is an option called "Windows To Go" that does install Windows to the USB and boot the operating system from it. So make sure that option isn't enabled in Rufus.
Alexander Bailey
The only good thing about it is the case
Ryan Wilson
Will I be stuck with a "please activate your windows" message permanently on my bottom right corner if I do that, though?
The official installation tool is prone to messing up in my experience, where it'll fail part way through downloading the ISO and then just deletes the data it already downloaded. The aforementioned method is just a lot more consistent and you have control over which version of Windows you're installing.
Nicholas Bailey
Fuckin phone
Gabriel Cruz
If you don't have an activated windows, yes you will. Just the same regardless of where you download it. You can purchase a key for pirate it. Your choice.
Jayden Cruz
The motherboard already comes with a wireless/bluetooth adapter and networking, make sure you actually need the extras.
Alexander Jenkins
last gen processor, failgate harddrive, zotac 2070, corsair psu aka motherboard killer, b360 chipset
Matthew Flores
1070*
Joshua Garcia
Thank you
Alexander Gutierrez
Thank you for pointing that out lol, I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing
What would be the optimum motherboard for $300 cad or under?
Nicholas Phillips
Check benchmarks
Not really, unless you're at 1440p. Turn down your settings
'no' The rare case doesn't matter unless that's the only game you play, now gtfo
It's fine, but the i5 8400 isn't recommended for various reasons. Only get a 1070Ti if you have a 144Hz monitor
No, an RX 570 is the same price for a lot more performance. The only point of the 1050Ti right now is if you need the most power graphics card that only needs power from mobo
Main power connections are: >Main mobo power >CPU >Graphics card >Power, reset, indicator LEDs
In my opinion the i7 8700K is better, but no Ryzen CPU will be able to match the recent i7s in terms of theoretical framerate. Whether they're worth the cost and drawbacks is another matter
You can do the paper clip test on the PSU
I've had similar problems. In my experience VSYNC was the problem
Wait
>What is the strength of a vega over this card? The 2070 is more powerful than Vega64
Austin Reyes
Thank you
Jaxson Brooks
Amazon seems to have flash sales on Ryzen 2600, but they're over so quick. PCpartpicker shows it as AUD$211.50, so I follow the link and it's already back to AUD$245.50
Kayden James
Can this setup last for 10 years? There won't be any gaming involved, just programming + big data.
I don’t see why it wouldn’t, first gen i7s are still going strong
Noah Wood
Has microsoft ever done anything right? Windows me Xbox 360 rrod Windows vista Windows 10 Windows phones Spyware
Charles Davis
Pretty much everything is bad on that build. It's all suboptimal and/or overpriced choices. You can get a better build for cheaper.
William Myers
my build is similar to yours but costs 2k (1.4k usd) here in aus wtf
it probably would've been cheaper to pay some shitcunts here to mail he components to me
Kevin Morris
>buy new motherboard so I can use the ryzen chipset >assume all the current components I have will transfer over >forgot to check RAM compatibility I fucked up guys.
Gigabyte boards have poor memory compatibility in general, don't they? Or did they fix that in newer BIOS?
Anyway, your RAM should be relatively fine and it not worth buying new RAM. You just may need to clock/OC it manually.
Adam Sanders
No I mean it literally doesn't fit into the slot. I have a CMY16GX3M2A1866C9R on me right now. Not getting around buying new RAM.
It's been awhile since I've upgraded.
Aaron Moore
Kek ddr3 doesn’t fit on a ddr4 board
Robert Adams
but what are you going to DO about it?
Hunter Gonzalez
Okay, I went and did the paperclip test on my PSU. Used an all metal clip, I think it was aluminium. Mentioning that in case I'm retarded and it was no good for testing. PSU seems to be dead, though.
It was a Corsair CS750M. It was thundering out tonight, I suspect some kind of power surge killed it. Should I go for another brand, though? Gonna go to Microcenter tomorrow to find a replacement.
I had no problems with my old i3 2100, an athlon would be a great choice
Aaron Hernandez
Do they have a bad reputation? I wouldn't know, this was the first PC I'd ever built. What should I buy, instead?
Juan Gomez
lmao
if you're doing big compiles... no. Compiling will be slow. For browser shit and just basic shit? Yeah it's fine.
Landon Green
They don’t manufacture those psus themselves, it could be a shit tier quality supplier- they just stick their logo on it. The cs750m uses cheap capacitors and are prone to failure
Alexander Collins
I see. Lesson learned, I guess. I'll never buy another Corsair branded PSU again. EVGA any good?
Ayden Williams
wew This is why I can't be trusted with anything remotely complex
John Rivera
My R7 260X gives me a BSOD when I install the drivers on W10 and refuses to work in the main PCIE port, have to plug into the second port. I use the Dolphin emulator on Ubuntu and runs just fine. Is it dying??
Hunter Long
I thought 80plus gold was all that mattered.
Christopher Phillips
That’s only a measure for efficiency, not quality. Whilst they may correlate (better components having better efficiencies), the manufacturer may have just cheaped out elsewhere. let me put it this way, 80+ gold does not mean quality.
Levi Brooks
Evga is alright, just make sure you check who manufactures the psu since they get theirs from a handful of companies. Their supernova psus are good but i can’t remember who manufactures them.
Research has led me to believe that corsair AX units are seasonic rebrands
Hudson Campbell
Woohoo I found 16gb of ram for less than $150($145 lol) for the first time in years.
Adam Richardson
$150 at my Microcenter. And it's refurbished. I'm on a bit of a budget here, didn't have any kind of Christmas let alone the money for computer parts suddenly shitting themselves after just a year.
I might as well straight up ask, what's a good PSU at the $100 mark?
