Want help? >State 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 most mobos with the right BIOS) >R3 2200G - Recommended minimum gaming >R5 2600/X - Great gaming or multithreaded use CPUs >i7 8700 or 9700K - Extreme solution for absolute max FPS >R7 2700/X - VM Work / Streaming / Video editing >What about Ryzen 3000 - Not out yet. Wait for the benchmarks on 7/7/2019 before deciding.
RAM: >Always choose at least a two stick kit; 2x 8GB is recommended >CPUs benefit from high speed RAM; 3200CL16 is ideal >AMD B and X 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 >RX 570 8GB - good performance with great value >GTX 1660 - standard >RTX 2060 - high framerates (requires complementary CPU and monitor) 1440p >RTX 2060 - standard >RTX 2080 - high framerates (requires complementary CPU and monitor) 2160p (4K) >RTX 2080 - standard >RTX 2080Ti - better fit for 4K but expensive
General: >PLAN YOUR BUILD AROUND YOUR MONITOR IF GAMING >Don't bother buying a new monitor for gaming unless it's 144Hz with adaptive sync >A 256GB or larger SSD is almost mandatory; consider m.2 form factor >Bottleneck checkers are worthless
Man I really wish I hadn't ignored hardware for the last twelve years, it's finally upgrade time and I just bought 16gb of RAM after swearing it would never be necessary only to discover DDR slots aren't compatible.
I'm scared to buy a MOBO and CPU because who knows what could fuck up there.
Jeremiah Lewis
just do like 5 minutes of research and figure it out. not that hard, boomer
Joshua Harris
Just get an A320 mATX mobo with M.2 slot, some Athlon CPU and an M.2 SSD and be done with it.
Jordan Green
is widescreen a meme?
Liam Wood
working previous link
Hudson Ward
I want to NVMe boot from a PC that doesn't natively support it by booting from USB with a bootloader which then lets me boot from the NVMe drive, is this possible?
Liam Campbell
based boomer
Wyatt Cruz
>bought all the components >too stupid to assemble them >Jow Forums's approved assembling video is a qt girl and I can't watch it because she is too qt >read instructions and watch random videos for hours >finally build the courage to start assembling >mobo+cpu+cpu fan+ram+m2 SSD is easy >attaching the whole monster to the case is easy >attaching the gpu is easy >attaching the front and top/rear fans is easy >nice, I can do it! >get to the PSU and front panel cables >literal hell And obviously that's what all the videos skip because "lmao this part is easy let's skip directly to 2 minutes of finished rig with spinning RGB lights". Let's ignore for a moment the retarded front panel connectors where you have to play "guess where" to choose the right pins. My PSU is semi-modular so for the fixed cables I put the 24pin on the mobo, the 4+4pin also on the mobo next to the CPU. My PCIe GPU has an 8+6 connector, so I added a PCIe cable with a 6+2+6+2 end, and left 2 pins dangling, right? I added nothing else to the PSU despite having the cables, no SATA, no IDE, no floppy (???) because the SSD is on the M.2 port and I have no other SSD/HDD/optical drives. Am I missing anything that should be powered by the PSU? I'm only using 3 fans at the moment (2 intake on front and one exaust on rear) and there's enough connectors for them on the mobo.
