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., photo editing, 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 - Good gaming & multithreaded work use CPUs >i7-9700k/8700k - Extreme setup with RTX 2080/Ti >R7 2700/X - Best value high-end CPU on a non-HEDT platform >Threadripper/Used Xeon - HEDT
RAM: >Always choose at least a two stick kit; 2x 8GB is recommended >CPUs benefit from high speed RAM; 3000CL15 or 3200CL16 is ideal >All AMD chipsets and Intel Z chipsets support XMP
Graphics cards based on current pricing: >Used cards can be had for a steal; inquire about warranty 1080p >GTX 1060, RX 570, RX 580 are standard choices >GTX 2060 if you're looking for very high (100+) framerates and you have a CPU and monitor to match; consider 1070/Ti or Vega56 ONLY if on sale 1440p >GTX 2060; consider 1070/Ti or Vega 56 ONLY if on sale >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
Any recommendation on HDDs size/brand to save games? I currently have like 40 games and used about 180 Gb on my laptop but plan to complete a build and get more games soon.
Kevin Powell
>using HDDs in current year No. Just no man. You don't need to have 40 games installed on your PC at the same time dude, are you like playing 33 games a day? There's something called cloud storage where you can download the game whenever you want to play it and when you're done playing the game, you can delete it. Then if you ever want to come back to it, you just redownload, ffs.
Lol at the nigger from the last general who claimed there are no WD blue 7200s.
Wyatt Williams
>Redownloading a game every time you play You're aware fiber is still not available worldwide, right?
Jonathan Hughes
Oh, I didn't know you were an impatient nigger. Good luck making it through February with your limited GIB bucks from daddy government.
Thomas Wright
Stupid faggot, fuck off. I have 6tb of games, movies and shows backed up. I'm not downloading shit over and over again. Fuck off
Oliver Gonzalez
That man has seen more dick than that "roastie" I'm sure.
Jeremiah Bennett
>Nanny state REEEE What the fuck are you on about?
Camden Clark
t.data cap cuck'd
Landon Sanchez
That passive heatsink is sexy.
Cooper Baker
What fps difference will a 3.9 vs 4.2 ryzen 2600 overclock have in 1440p 60fps gaming? Basically, my overclock is shit. What am I missing out on?
Camden Peterson
>4.2 ryzen 2600 That's golden sample tier shit. And probably barely any difference at all.
Jackson Anderson
>if you dont buy this dogshit then this company cant survive! Oh well. Ati should have just been left to die
Brandon Ross
Whats the difference between a B450 and B450M? There is a 60 dollar difference between those.
Brody Jenkins
Really? I thought I lost the 'silicon lottery' from the looks of things. I just don't want to feel like I'm missing out with my first proper build, and I'd really rather not send my cpu back at this point.
Jason Gomez
It's garbage one fan can drop temps by several degrees, it's way more efficient. Just lol at these meme fanless heatsink designs
Owen Turner
Zero get a decent GPU first, a 2060 or something minimum.
Kayden Thompson
You're missing nothing, you bought a dirt cheap CPU and got a decent OC out of it. Stop comparing to shit you see online.
Henry Jones
uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/dMQDdX Can someone please help a brainlet out with this build. How will I know if this motherboard will work with this CPU or not? As this one is throwing up a potential incompatibility warning. Or could you guys please recommend one (preferably Asus) in a similar price range that's guaranteed to be compatible with this CPU. Thanks.
How easy is to find shit on US retail stores? Mostly best buys? I want to buy a ryzen (+ mobo + ram) when im in the US next week, but i dont have a CC, so i cant buy shit on Newegg / amazon, only on retail.
Grayson Taylor
ATX and microATX
Aaron Perez
Best disk cloning tool?
Levi Walker
Most Best buy's I've seen don't even sell CPU and motherboards in person. Those types of parts are all online only. If you're going to be in the US, why not look up a Fry's? Or microcenter?
Gabriel Mitchell
I was going to upgrade from my ancient 560 Ti to a RX 570 and then i found that they have different PSU connectors.
The old Nvidia had 12, my power source has 2 x 6 pin cables, and the new AMD has 1 x 8 pin connector.
Depends on how satisfied you are. Lots of people still use Core 2 Duos. The 2500k/2600k came out in 2011 and they still put up competitive numbers. There's a reason there's so many videos comparing the 2500k/2600k to modern cpus.
David Rogers
you think you and your shilling has any effect on the industry? All your drone shilling nonstop does is make me hate you and amd ever more.
Cameron Edwards
Thanks, that's good to know.
Cooper Price
I'm planning on building a gaming rig when I get my tax returns. My budget is around $2,000 and I'm aiming for 1440p/144hz. pcpartpicker.com/list/qn4pYT This is what I got for now, I may switch the 2080 for a 1080ti If I can score one with a warranty on Ebay. You guys have any suggestion?
Ian Gutierrez
So with something like this that's liquid cooled, does it come with water already in it? How does it work exactly? Just looking at it has me confused, how do the wires transfer the wind from the fans to the CPU?Doesn't seem like it'd do much... My previous build I just used the stock fan that was included with my Intel CPU. Is this better than those types of air CPU coolers? Seems a bit pricier but I don't mind paying an extra $40 considering it looks much better.
Im rocking a 2500k with a 1070 The only reason im upgrading is for Hitman2, DMC5, AC7 and maybe Cyberpunk. Guess going over 50 on MHW is an extra. I dont expect games good enough to warrant an upgrade from me in the next 5-8 year, tho.
The absolute state of this industry
Isaac Richardson
How much should I pay for a 2010 2nd hand i7 980X?
Anthony Cook
Don't get a poopy-colored noctua fan, it will kill your overall aesthetic score. Especially if you're getting a windowed case.
Its a z370 board, you need a z390 to use 9th gen cpus out of the box.
Joshua Morales
does anyone here own the aoc c24g1 and can share their thoughts on it? unsure if i want to buy it due to a mish mash of opinions
Andrew Smith
It's finally happened Jow Forums. My PC of nearly a decade has finally given up the ghost. The specs were >Core i7-990X OC'd to 4.1GHz >2x GTX 295x2 (Quad SLI) >24GB DDR3-1600MHz >ASUS Rampage 3 Extreme LGA 1366 >3x 60HZ 1080p 1ms monitor's
Just slowly over time things started to give up on it :(. One of my 4 GPU's stopped being detected by Windows. Then 2. Then all 4 were missing and I got nothing but "no signal" when turning on my PC. Then my motherboard's VRM section finally started giving up as my stable OC of 7-ish years became unstable due the motherboard being unable to maintain voltage. The only thing that stood the test of time was >Seasonic 1000w platinum PSU >Zalman all copper cooler >1TB WD Raptor 10k RPM HDD's (RAID 0) That said I'm looking to build an all new PC. I encode a shit load of video as well as edit it. I do game and intend do replace my 3 monitors with a single large one (maybe curved). Before I go posting links, I need to know because I've been out of the loop that long. Who still reigns supreme? AMD or Intel? Should I be considering Intel's X299 line at all? (seems they just gave up on that entire line of chips honestly). Should I just shoot for Threadripper? Has AMD and Windows finally figured out the NUMA performance drops on the Threadripper 2990WX? What about multi-GPU solutions? Does that matter any more?
Please help. pic is mfw posting from the slowly dying PC with my CPU underclocked and locked to 2.0-GHz to prevent BSOD and a spare GT210 connected to a single monitor.
Thanks. The reason why I chose to go with Intel is because it performs better with VR
Kevin Lopez
Looks sick. What will the temps be like on that thing?
Sebastian Brooks
>The reason why I chose to go with Intel is because it performs better with VR VR is 1440p and cpu power doesn't make a difference at that resolution so you might as well just get something cheaper
Lucas Perry
>cpu power doesn't make a difference at that resolution
?
Cameron Harris
depends on what you want, if you were happy with that housefire, you could just get a 2600 and 580/1060 6gb
Nolan Perez
Even before considering HEDT, AMD's Ryzen 2700X would be a massive improvement for video encoding/editing. You're looking at scores above 1700, compared to around 1000 for an i7-990X, from what I can gather.
If you want to go even further beyond, X299 is overpriced, TR is superior for non-gaming tasks in every single way. The 16-core 1950X and 2950X sit at around 3k Cinebench, for less than Intel's 10-core Core i9-7900X and i9-9820X.
Isaac Gutierrez
Do you travel a lot but don't want to get a laptop or something? Why make a hotbox like that?
Ian White
>Who still reigns supreme? AMD for CPU, Nvidia for GPU >Should I be considering Intel's X299 line at all? absofuckinglutely not >Should I just shoot for Threadripper? only the 24 and 32 core are worth it now since AMD will have a 16 core on AM4 in a few months >Has AMD and Windows finally figured out the NUMA performance drops on the Threadripper 2990WX? the fanbase did because microshit is that incompetent >What about multi-GPU solutions? Does that matter any more? Multigpu is dying, nvidia only supports it on there highest end and both AMD and Nvidia only support dual gpu, tri and quad died a while ago and have been unsupported for years, so no its not worth it
Asher Myers
VR has a gpu bottleneck get a 2600x and spend the savings on a better gpu
Sebastian Nelson
I have a disk to install windows 10, do I put it in right away after turning on PC for first time or will it tell me when to put it in?
That housefire was considered top tier in the day and to be fair, it lasted me nearly a decade. I'm looking to get another top tier PC. Well my thing with the 2700X was lack of PCIe lanes vs HEDT as well as lack of quad channel memory. Hell even my LGA-1366 setup has tri-channel. For stuff like editing work, the memory does make a bit of a difference. Good thing I avoided X299 then. >nvidia only supports it on there highest end and both AMD and Nvidia only support dual gpu Would it then be ill advised to get 2 top tier cards? Or is dual support good enough to last a while?
I have no budget here. I'll spend what's required to get a 2019 version of the top tier machine I had back in 2008-2010.
Landon Martin
What's the best wireless network adapter? This is one of the last components I need to research and I definitely don't want to cheap out on this part, considering there really is nothing worse than a dropped signal, or just sketchy performance. The motherboard I'm getting supports Intel's CNVi Wi-Fi module, which I really have no clue what that is, would it be a good idea to use it? The one I currently have included in my build is really just a placeholder.
Either way, it shouldn't matter much man. You can't really put in the disk in the optical drive while the computer is off... So I would just wait until it prompts you to select an OS boot option. Shouldn't be hard m8.
Brody Lopez
What partition utility is Jow Forums-approved?
Robert Gomez
G-parted works well.
Anthony Turner
>intel pcpartpicker.com/list/bNdbQZ Intel cant stop making overpriced housefires at the moment, get this instead
Anthony Nguyen
Appropriate enough
Jack Peterson
Not that guy, my psu has 8pin cables, they look exactly like your pic: six cables and this weird loop to fit the eight pins. Also it works fine with an RX580.
Chase Moore
>poozen yikes my dude
Isaac Brooks
I'm not giving money to a roastie chink.
Charles Hughes
intel doesnt even get that hot, unless you own a 9900k
Ryder Richardson
I used to the past 5 years, but I think I've finally settled. It doesn't really get very hot unless I'm stress testing, but even then not enough to thermal throttle. Having played a few games just to test, it gets warm, but not even close to stress test levels. During light load it stays cool enough all the fans are off. I mean it's being fed clean air from straight from the ventilated panels.
As far as itx, it's just a hobby at this point. Some people like to cram RGB in their builds, others like to do Custom loops. I just like to push the limits of desktop hardware in small boxes.
I also have an SG 13 and Ncase M1. Little dusty but I'm not gonna clean for a photo.
Ncase was fun because it's got a 240 rad, and the gpu was modded to have 2 Noctua A12x25 fans cooling it rather than a stock gpu cooler. The ncase can literally run an minimum fan speed under load making it essentially inaudible.
is there a site where I can browse monitors by how many input ports they have
Jordan Ross
I have a gsync 144hz monitor. I want to play games at 144fps. Does vsync need to be on in the control panel and off ingame? When I played csgo I was getting 300fps+ and I don't want that, only 144fps but I don't know how to cap it..
Pcpartpicker allows you to sort on whether or not they have a certain input, but I don't know any site that would let you sort for dual displayport or dual HDMI If vsync is on in the game, you should be capped to 144 Sone games have a framerate limiter, which could be set to 144 as well
Are there any check list guides yet on good freesync nvidia panels? or is it pretty clear at this point that most freesync monitors will work fine with n vidia cards?
Colton Morgan
power consumption is a worthless chart, my 8700k on 5ghz all cores never runs over 65 with my cooler, post an actual temp chart
Jackson Collins
Are Gigabyte Z390 motherboards the only ones worth getting for overclocking 9th gen? I really want to avoid Gigabyte because of their awful drivers, BIOS and software.
Jaxon Gray
everyone knows the 9900k is hot
Tyler Baker
Just upgraded my SSD from a crappy 120gb kingston to those 240gb Adata ones.
the bios has gotten better, and gigabyte motherboards have the best vrms and they also have dual bios, id say its worth it
Lincoln Campbell
I have a budget Shittabyte Z370 mobo currently and bloat aside it is one buggy piece of trash when it comes to software.
Xavier Garcia
Lol prepare to spend more than that, 1440p 144Hz monitors are like $400+ . Otherwise solid build. If you can shell out more get water cooling so you can overclock that processor
