Want help? >State the budget & CURRENCY >List your uses e.g. Gaming, Video Editing, VM Work >For monitors include purpose & graphics pairing >NO Speccy or "bottleneck checkers"
Secure CPUs based on current prices >1600/1700 - for non-gaming; worse in gaming due to slower memory latency >R3 2200G - Light 30-60fps gaming(dGPU optional) >R5 2600/X - Good 60fps+ gaming & multithreaded work use >R7 2700/X - Best value high-end CPU on a non-HEDT platform >Threadripper - HEDT
RAM >NEVER use only a single stick >8GB - very light use, and/or if you don't mind closing programs regularly >16GB - standard amount. If you have to ask if you need more, you don't >CPUs benefit from fast RAM; 2800MHz+ is ideal. Check "more" for true latency formula
Graphics cards based on current pricing: >Used cards can be had for a steal; inquire about warranty 1080p >RX 570/580 - value. >1660 - Slightly better for more demanding games on high/maxed 60fps+; > 1660Ti / 1070 / Vega56 / 2060 - higher framerates 1440p (WQHD) >1070Ti / Vega / 2070 - 60-120fps+ in most games on high/maxed >RTX 2080 / 2080Ti - higher framerates >Radeon VII - may be considered; needs cooler mod to run quiet 2160p (4k) >RTX 2080 / Radeon VII - upscale or lower settings >RTX 2080 Ti, but poor value.
Other >Consider a larger SSD (better GB/$) instead of small SSD & HDD >M.2 is a form factor, NOT a performance standard >Consider 75hz display minimum; 60hz are old models >PLAN BUILD AROUND YOUR MONITOR IF GAMING >AIOs don't change the laws of thermodynamics
not a bad idea to get a 2600x now and then get a 4600x in like 3 years
Logan Nelson
Or just wait for computex and get a 3600.
Grayson Rodriguez
So I'm using an 8700 with a 212 cooler, a 1070ti titanium and I have a HAF 912 with fans everywhere, no dust inside. When I'm playing bidio gaymes my CPU goes from 32-34c idle to 45-46c or so, never above 48. Was playing Witcher 3 today at 1440p maxed out with mods and the temps were the same but my 1070ti starts toasting at 77-80. I have an aggressive fan curve with 90% speed at temps above 70 but still, what gives?
Elijah Peterson
yea but for price efficiency
Joseph Kelly
>not a single Intel CPU Take cost out of the equation. Not everyone buys for price/performance. And you all know this because the 2080 Ti is still mentioned.
Carson Parker
Why are Vega 56s so cheap now? You can easily find one for the price of a 1660 Ti.
Aaron Nguyen
2600x is $190 now, the 3600 will be $200-220. I think it's worth the wait. And we might get some info on amd's birthday, so it's just 3 weeks.
Landon Bell
It's 2019 and people are still talking about Vega as if it was good. I'll let these pictures speak for themselves. And no, used card prices don't count because other cards can also be bought used. 2060 and V56 are priced equally according to PCPP, although I admit blower cards can be had for 300$ if you want that sort of thing.
$300 for the blower model isn't cheap. And people don't buy power hungry cards, retailers need to clear stock I guess.
Christopher Morris
Everyone prepping for navi or the 2070ti most likely. Perfect time to buy them second hand, regardless of what the dumb fuck that pretends they are bad says.
>BUT LOOK GOY! LOOK AT THESE BLUE LINES! Fuck off, you lose this argument in every thread. Do you own a 2060?
>$300 >people don't buy power hungry cards Literally neither of those things is an issue.
Xavier Gonzalez
>Nvidia Unboxed Indeed, the sky's the limit with the power of Nvidia. Looking up at the sky to benchmark truly shows the GeFarce Experience. Post the PCWorld benchmarks and the horror will end.
Zachary Fisher
>fake benchmarks where Steve just looks up at the sky rofl
Sebastian Hall
>tfw all of the 140mm fans I got lying around just have 3 pin headers
Smells a bit like desperation and buyer's remorse with a hint of curry in here. Navi can't come fast enough so that even the last Vega shill leaves this thread.
>He didn't undervolt, overclock, delid and wait for the new drivers. I'm not taking these graphs seriously.
Jaxon Brooks
>repost Are SSDs fine for main storage if I'm only looking for 1-2tb? I think my hard drives are causing resonance in my case and the sound pisses me off endlessly. Also what 2.5" SSD should I look at?
How far can I OC my RX570? I got Sapphire Nitro+ RX 570 4G
I have set it to core to 1400 / memory to 2000, seemed to run fine. Also set the fanspeed to 40% for fine balance between noise and cooling. Playing Doom2016 runs at 56c
Tyler Evans
>samefagging Sad.
Julian Green
If they're causing resonance it might be a bad mount, I had that problem but I got some cheap rubber stoppers from AC Moore a couple years ago and just used them around my screws
But a decent SATA or NVME SSD for 1TB is at least $100
You just need a one in a million diamond sample CPU, top quality mother board and some grade A B-die. Easy really.
Ryan Bennett
Yeah looking online it looks like it requires ~1.7-2v
Normal DDR4 voltage is 1.2-1.35, with 4000mhz kits running normally at around 1.5v with CL18+ timings.
4000MHz CL14 is probably 1.8v and platinum CPU and $200+ motherboard.
Jordan Foster
I have a budget of $850 US dollars. First time making a gaming PC. This is what I have so far. pcpartpicker.com/list/FXPHHh
Logan Bell
Change mobo to the tomahawk and don't buy windows, with that money buy a 2600X instead.
Aaron Garcia
I'd spend another $10 and get the SSD from a more reputable brand. But that case though. Are you really sure about that?
Ayden Baker
I have never heard of that brand of SSD before. I would err on the side of caution and get 80+ gold PSU. The 1660 Ti and 2600 don't need that much power, so you can get something with less Watts but higher rating.
Christian Smith
Sir do the needful a get vega 56. 6gb card is very bad in 2019.
Eli Bennett
Is this a good build for gaming on a strict budget? Ram is 3000 mhz btw
Reposting from a couple threads ago. I did a variation on the 1440p 100+ fps build. Went with a different power supply, 32gb ram, and a different storage setup. Also added monitor, keyboard, and mouse since I'm trying to replace my craptop. Any suggestions or obvious fuckups on the parts I chose?
Highest end because I don’t like cheaping out and well which BIOS/software is better? What about software stability etc.? I mean it’s nice if you can overclock your shit but if the software crashes the whole time it’s pretty much pointless
Samuel Reed
Looking for advice on whether to scrap, salvage, or upgrade my 7 yr old rig.
Budget: 500 CAD, 1000 CAD if I had to replace
Uses: Gaming, not going for the highest level. I mostly play strategy games and am building for Imperator: Rome
Context: My screen will black out when running games here and there, sometimes whatever was running partially recovers but usually not fully, requiring a restart. I suspect it's the really old power supply, and am hoping it's not the motherboard. Ideally I just have to upgrade the PSU and GPU.
What are some of the most unknown or awful computer part manufacturers that I can buy from right now? Using PCPartPicker, I've built a computer I wouldn't want to even plug in, let alone use. However, I'm looking to make it even worse than what it is now. How can a bring the 1/10 to 0/10? Mind you, I'm looking for parts one can buy right now in the United States. pcpartpicker.com/list/DnsfWD
This is a pretty bad OP, for the following reasons:
>Secure CPUs AMD CPUs aren't secure
>Moreover, even though earlier AMD had claimed that its CPUs were not exposed to Meltdown-class vulnerabilities, researchers discovered a variation of Meltdown (called Meltdown-BR) that was perfectly operational with AMD CPUs. So at this point, the CPUs of all three of the largest global CPU vendors — AMD, ARM, and Intel — are susceptible to both Meltdown and Spectre. Well, at least to some of the variations from both these families. kaspersky.com/blog/35c3-spectre-meltdown-2019/25268/ - Kaspersky, one of the foremost names in security
>Moreover, researchers also claimed to have found two exploitable manufacturer backdoors inside Ryzen chipset that could allow attackers to inject malicious code inside the chip. thehackernews.com/2018/03/amd-processor-vulnerabilities.html Which raises the question, is OP a glowie?
No Intel CPUs are mentioned, because OP is an AMD fanbitch.
>Graphics cards >1440p The 2060 isn't mentioned because of the 'muh VRAM' meme that's been proven false time and time again, despite performing as well as or better than the 1070Ti and Vega 56 with a significant boost to efficiency youtube.com/watch?v=pfnzHA3-MhM
Liam Russell
Is there any way to control one case fan with two motherboards? I want the exhaust fan to spin faster when both motherboards are on, and slower when only one is. There's only mounting space on my case for one 140mm exhaust fan.
Juan Mitchell
Why do you keep posting the same video? Hardware unboxed are massive nvidia shills and nobody should look at their benchmarks. (lol looking at the sky just to give nvidia cards more fps)
Nolan Allen
Pls help. Should I be looking for an Asus or Gigabyte mobo instead? What is the relevance of a mobo brand?
Mason Moore
The release date for the that game is about a week an a half from now, so you'd probably want to wait and check benchmarks. Having said that, the biggest issue is the the graphics card, which is pretty much completely worthless. Your CPU might be fine for a strategy game, depending on your standards. You can probably get away with 30FPS on your current CPU, but if that's a game with long turn times, you might be able to speed up the process with a better CPU. A likely CPU upgrade would be the i7 3770/K, if it were necessary for that game.
Caleb Nguyen
>two motherboards >There's only mounting space on my case for one 140mm
>Why do you keep posting the same video? Because it disproves your memes
Jackson Gutierrez
Monitor is complete trash, and you can get +50% cores/threads buy buying an R5 2600 for $20 more. You're literally shooting yourself in the dick
>Not samefagging I swear. He was mocking the Vega 56, retard
Asher Martinez
Plenty of current video game suse more than 6gb of vram. I know you're coping because you got scammed by nvidia, but stop posting fake benchmarks already.
Brayden Mitchell
Should I buy a 4TB 3.5" HDD or a M.2 NVME 1TB SSD for the same price? The 3.5" HDD in question runs at 5400 RPM and 6 Gb/s. I plan on using it for my windows install (mainly games). All of my music is located on my 1TB 2.5" SSD, which is purely devoted to my GNU/Linux install.
I'm a bit of a minimalist when it comes to conserving hard drive space. I've been using a 256GB SSD for the past seven years. Also, my case does not have much room. My motherboard has two dedicated M.2 slots.
Colton Sullivan
>Plenty of current video game suse more than 6gb of vram No they don't Nice try marketeer
Game allocates more than 6GB of VRAM so it can run faster. This allocation is not possible with 6GB, thus there is less headroom for the GPU, and it won't run as fast. Brainlet BTFO
Adam Johnson
I wasn't exactly planning on doing this when I got the C700P.
This is what I currently have and have had for awhile now. I'm perfectly satisfied with how it performs for new titles like Resident Evil 2, but now I'm more concerned in the emulation department. This guy runs games great, but N64 emulation with Angrylion can slowdown to 80% speed in Perfect Dark. Would upgrading to a better Ryzen build give me the necessary performance boost, or do I need to cut my losses and switch to Intel? pcpartpicker.com/list/gdd3GG
for 1k cad you might get a decent rig that will last you a long time, but you might consider a new PSU anyway.
if your blackouts stop, you can sell it as is and see what you can build then. if the blackouts dont stop, your GPU is dying and consider selling everything as parts or sets to pay for a whole new everything
Jaxson Walker
>gold rating Waste of money for a mid range build, bronze is fine and the difference is minimal, just don't get known shit psus.
Christopher Hill
You don't need the 32gb of ram, get a mobo with wifi already on it, non-overclockable CPU, cooler sucks, get an rxm psu, get a better case.
Elijah Ortiz
Thanks, budday. How's this look? Only going for 1080p and I'm trying to keep the base price around 750, so I'm aiming for as cheap a monitor as I can reasonably get away with.
Who would have thought the most difficult thing about building my rig would be picking out a monitor. Even with a budget of $700 for a monitor, I still can't decide.
Dominic Adams
Thanks for the notes. I swapped in a 8700K, a wifi mobo, different case and cooler. Wifi should be okay since I mostly just play single player games. What is the benefit of the rxm psu? The one I have on there seems like it provides enough power for the build. Is that more for overclocking purposes?
Jose Gutierrez
Monitors suck. Get the one that has the most features you like at the biggest size you're comfortable with. Hope for the best, expect nothing.
Logan Morgan
And I forgot to post the updated build. Does this seem better?
>Game allocates more than 6GB of VRAM so it can run faster False, games allocate as much as they want to because they can. No reason to overwrite if they can just write in empty memory Educate yourself, retard youtube.com/watch?v=pfnzHA3-MhM
Grayson Collins
Is the thermal paste packaged with most modern coolers all the same effectiveness? How does arctic silver 5 compare to more modern stuff?
Carson Morales
Can I get a 1440p monitor recommendation for a rtx 2060 + ryzen 2600x combo?
I know rtx 2060 isn't ideal for 1440p but from benchmarks I've seen you can get at least 60fps by turning some settings down, which im cool with.
Austin Taylor
Shit sucks. I find a monitor I like but then there is always some type of downside.
Current build pcpartpicker.com/list/FCVDkd Planning on upgrading the CPU, which one should I get for this build?
Blake Foster
I think I'm going to make my own router soon. The plan is to get a single port NIC that goes to a cable modem, then get a 4 port NIC for clients on the network, then maybe get a wireless card so I can set up a wifi hotspot. I don't know too much about networking but I think if I get my hardware purchases right I can figure the rest out. Does this sound retarded or does it sound like it can work? I'd like to be able to buy another 4 port NIC too after I get it working.