/pcbg/ - PC Building General

Motherboard stability survey edition, VOTE if you have a Ryzen 3000 system:
strawpoll.me/18384387

>Assemble a part list
pcpartpicker.com/
>Example gaming builds and monitor suggestions:
pcpartpicker.com/user/pcbg/saved/
>How to assemble a PC
youtube.com/watch?v=69WFt6_dF8g

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 3200G - Minimum 30-60fps gaming. The stronger 3400G sells for $150. (R3K APUs OCs better than R2K)
>R5 2600 - 60fps+ gaming CPU with great value
>R5 3600 - Great gaming CPU
>R7 3700X - Overkill gaming CPU
>R7 1700X - Budget video editing
>R9 3900X - Professional tasks

RAM
>Do not use a single DIMM. 2 sticks for a typical dual channel CPU
>CPUs benefit from fast RAM; 3200CL16 or Micron E-die ("AES" in code) recommended
>AMD B & X chipsets and Intel Z chipsets support XMP
>B-die is EOL, stock is limited

GPUs based on current pricing
1080p
>RX 570/580 8GB - Can be found on sale/used for cheap. Look for 570s which are >1240MHz boost
>(GTX 1660TI @ ~$230/Vega56 @ ~$270) - higher fps / more demanding games
>RX 5700 - higher FPS
1440p
>RX 5700 - standard, 75-100FPS+
>RX 5700XT - higher fps
2160p (4K)
>RTX 2070S OC - budget option. Turing scales better into 4K than Navi does.
>2080Ti - best for 4K but expensive

>Navi AIB models come mid-August. 5700 non-XT blower is alright, due to low power.

General
>Yes, adaptive sync (free/g/sync) is important for gaming
>NVMe isn't better than SATA SSD for gaming
>Don't use Speccy
>Don't trust sites which rank CPUs by arbitrary, obfuscated scores
>AM4 VRMs + Monitors + SSD Guide under "more"

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Avoid Corsair PSUs

>Why are blower cards still a thing?
Cheap (though the RX 5700 has a vapor chamber...) and they work fine in tiny cases.

Eh it's not weird. It makes sense.
Nvidia can sell cards directly on their website, and sell ones with pretty good reference coolers, which steps on their partners toes, but they have a dominant position in the market.
The AIB partners hate this. It gives them extremely serious competition over the usual competition they have with the other AIB partners. But the alternative is to stop selling Nvidia cards at all.

No it doesn't. But x570 is really a waste if you don't need all those PCIe lanes.

how are we supposed to know whether you'd rather have mATX or ATX? Answer that your fucking self holy shit.

Yeah it's fine for the 3700X but not really enough for the 3900X.

And thermaltake.

Had no problems with my EVGA for 3 years.

no

He's right. I had a corsair PSU 80+ rated and 6 months of use smoke started coming out of it.

>how are we supposed to know whether you'd rather have mATX or ATX? Answer that your fucking self holy shit
i'm ok with both
but mortar has an additional m.2 slot while tomahawk has two additional sata slots

Windows 10 doesn't even have a good mascot-tan, sasuga.

>2160p (4K)
>RTX 2070S OC
Is this actually true?

no
2080ti is more like it