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 - Good 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: >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 16:9 >RX 570 8GB - good performance with great value >GTX 1660 - standard >RX 5700 - overkill framerates* 1440p 16:9 + 1080p 21:9 >RX 5700 - basic >RX 5700XT - standard* >RTX 2070 Super - higher framerates in some games* 2160p 16:9 + 1440p 21:9 >RTX 2070 Super - standard >RTX 2080Ti - best fit for 4K but expensive *requires complementary CPU and high Hz monitor
General: >PLAN YOUR BUILD AROUND YOUR MONITOR IF GAMING >Don't bother buying a new monitor for gaming unless it's high refresh with adaptive sync >A 250GB or larger SSD is almost mandatory; consider m.2 form factor >Bottleneck checkers are worthless
Hello. I have an e5450 with a 400 psu and a 750ti. I don't play a lot of games but I am looking for an upgrade on the cheap. Is an RX 580 realistic? They're really cheap on ebay right now. I think I'd need a new PSU too, since my current one doesn't have the proper cable for a powered gpu. What would the ballpark be for how much power it needs? I think the e5450 is 80w, according to ark, but is that under load? So would 600 W work? Would my e5450 even drive an RX 580? It's getting pretty old.
Does it matter whether you buy your RAM as a kit, or can you just get 2x the same individual stick and it's basically the same thing?
I mean, generally it should be, but is there a somewhat higher risk of running into any issues?
Cameron Moore
600W is more than enough for any single RX580 system. Even my R9 290 build never pulled more than 550W when I cranked the power limit to maximum.
Michael Richardson
I was gonna wait for the Sapphire cards but the fact that XFX is planning to sell something branded "THICC2" makes the inner shitposter in me want it. How's XFX and their Customer Support?
Only if you wont want your bus to explode, buy the kit.
Ryder Green
How much longer before video cards get their own external enclosures?
Gabriel Fisher
Dang it, I was hoping I found a way to save a few bucks.
Jaxson Turner
if it's the same specs same model, it's okay
Brayden Davis
Ram looks better now. Maybe do your own research before purchase. You've only been getting my opinion.
Nicholas Rogers
The 1650 is supposed to replace the GTX 1050 right? If so, when are we supposed to get a replacement for the GT 1030?
Connor Peterson
I would be ordering the exact same model twice. For whatever reason buying an 8GB stick twice is cheaper than buying a 2x8GB kit of the exact same RAM.
Adrian Edwards
that's what i did and it works fine
Jayden Moore
>replacement for the 1030 user, the 1030 isn't worth it, it's a waste of money. The replacement would be as well. I'm sorry. Go for the 1650 or use integrated graphics. The price difference between the very usable 1650 and the 1030 or whatever replacement comes out is worth paying. I'm sorry that's the truth.
Ryder Lopez
/And/ you say it like it's a bad thing that it gets improved over time but is still good price/performance on launch.
XFX has some of the best warranty support.
Huh? Those already exist.
Replace it as in being another shitty card you shouldn't buy, yes. >1030 replacement That's the 2400G.
Austin White
>i'm gonna put the ram in the furthest sockets because reasons nope. nope nope nope.
John Carter
The hell is adaptive sync? Is it like gtsync+ freesync?
Adrian Sanchez
it's what g(oy)sync and freesync are
John Gutierrez
>w*men on technology there's a reason why all major innovations on this planet were made by men
>consider m.2 form factor [for SSD] Whatever happened to >NVMe isn't better than SATA for gaming
Jordan Hall
wheres XL-ATX on this pic?
Logan Taylor
Will a 5700xt be good for 21:9 1440p or should I go for a 2080 or 2080 super? On Vega 56 right now and 75hz freesync but want to do a new build and eventually grab at 144hz 1440p 21:9.
Wyatt Sullivan
It's honestly negligible for gaming. Nvme is for bandwidth more than speed
Lucas Stewart
5700xt should be good but if you want 2080 or 2080s wait Q1 2020 when amd release 5800xt so nvidia will slash prices on 2080 and 2080s
Carter Gray
Wait for the 5800, should be early next year. Or do upscaling from like 1200p with RIS. That's a hard resolution to run (natively, not upscaled) even on a 2080S
m.2 isn't nvme, you retard.
Ryder Reyes
Real question why dont they ever use 140mm fans? I slap 2 of those on all my GPUs and the temps and noise improve massively.
Brayden Long
i5-6500 + gtx 1060 6gb + 2133hz (16gb) still relevent for casual gaming/browsing/multitasking?
Ryder Perry
>m.2 isn't nvme, you retard. I know that, but getting an M.2 SATA SSD over a 2.5 one seems like a waste. Most mobos only have 1 or 2 M.2 slots, but will have at least 4 or 6 regular SATA ports.
Jonathan Flores
I was told to wait for zen 2 but none of the AMD CPU say they are "zen 2". Is 3700X zen 2?
Zen = Ryzen 1xxx series Zen+ = Ryzen 2xxx series Zen 2 = Ryzen 3xxx series
maybe consider putting this in the OP
Michael Taylor
Install drivers unless you're on Leenox
Benjamin Ross
how much will the 580 most likely be?
Evan Hill
>For retards It's really fucking dumb though. Also what do I do about >Some AMD B450 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Zen 2 CPUs. Upgrading the BIOS may require a different CPU that is supported by older BIOS revisions.
Kevin Sanders
So anyone can confirm that Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT is a good buy ? I mean, everyone said to wait for it, now its out, any bad surprise ? thanks
Benjamin Kelly
Buy x570 with IR doublers so you're able to upgrade up to 16 core 32 threads in the future?
Daniel Bennett
>now its out, it's not that's the blower design wait for the open fan design by mid august and yes sapphire make the best amd cards
Michael Sullivan
Just buy a 2070S and dab on Radeoncucks
Evan Reed
>Buy x570 with IR doublers so you're able to upgrade up to 16 core 32 threads in the future?
plugged my vega 56 in and my pc wont post, the vga led comes on but the fans spin and the leds light up, any ideas? using a 2400g and b450 tomahawk
Jaxson Gutierrez
It's good if you're too poor for geforces.
Brandon Smith
What a fucking retard
Gabriel Turner
Current build: >Ryzen 2600 >Vega 56 8GB >8GB RAM at 2833MHz (errors on higher clock but supposed to be 3000MHz) >1080p monitor and Valve Index
I mostly game but do a little streaming too. Anything with the Index has the resolution cut in half (used to have the original Vive so build was overkill at the time), streaming is mostly fine but gets impossible on some higher end games like AC Odyssey, can't keep anything above 42fps in areas without just looking at the ground since it's CPU-bound. Is a 3700X worth the upgrade? 3800X is far too expensive for too little gain but VR especially is very CPU intensive. Also thinking of getting better RAM while the prices are cheap, I bought the current 2x4GB set last October for the same price as 2x8 goes for now.
My 1440p 144hz monitor has freesync and I'm too much of a brainlet to understand when to use it. If you can output 144 frames and above, freesync is useless, right? So just turn it on below 144 FPS? Also keep VSYNC off at all times?
Brody Nguyen
Do you have it running now? If yes, easy. Just update the BIOS and drop in your new CPU afterwards. If no, either ask a local shop to flash a new BIOS for you or contact AMD for one of those Athlon 200GE loaner kits you can use to get your system up and running, flash a new BIOS, drop in your actual CPU and you're off to the races.
Aiden Richardson
is it ok if the SSD goes beyond 50C? to be exact 56C? if not, then what the hell is the point of the SSD bays at the back of the case? They are so hot. Also why is Zen 2 such a hot chip?
Tyler Davis
Forgot to mention, Gigabyte Aorus X470 "Ultra Gaming" mobo, should be getting support for Ryzen 3000 series in an update
so I just built a new system with a 3600x and I just installed windows and a game or two then walked away to do stuff so the pc went to sleep.
I came back and unplugged the ssd forgetting it was asleep because I wanted to boot into my old hdd to grab some stuff from it. now the ssd is fucked and wont boot, and when looking at ssd the files when booted from the hdd, most of the SSD's folders say 0 bytes even though they weren't empty before. how stupid am I?
Aaron Brooks
>using sleep at all >putting your beloved computer in to a state of living death daily.
Your suffering is well deserved.
Asher Long
I've been reading about it, I think I'll just get one of those motheboard that can be flashed with a USB stick.
Joshua Carter
yes yes I know, I found out how shit they are when my mobo bricked BOTH BIOSes during an update. Not buying another one now though.
Anthony Howard
screencap this 5700xt with factory OC will dab on 2070s for cheaper 2019 is the year of AMD
Leo Clark
it was a fresh install and I walked away for about 2 hours. that puts it into sleep by default right?
Aiden Rogers
is the hdmi connected to the mobo or GPU?
Joseph Nguyen
why dont u just get a nvidia 1660 or higher for nvenc for streaming
Jordan Wilson
Some guy on /v/ told me that a Ryzen 2600 + RX 570 8GB isn't enough to run Monster Hunter World at 1080p/60fps. Is he right or just memeing?
Carson Morgan
maybe. AIB cards certainly won't fix AMD's shit OpenGL performance and incompatibility with older games. that's the reason I went with the green jews, even if I would've liked to support the underdog. that, and the fact that I wanted to build NOW, not in mid-august. AMD should learn from these launches:
- Always have the budget motherboards (b550) ready when you launch a new line of CPUs. could've saved themselves a lot of bad press with people whining about b450 now working. fuck paying 200 bucks for a mobo with a fucking fan and useless features
- have non-blower AIB solutions available at launch for any GPUs you put out
Daniel Rivera
if you're worried just get a 580.
Tyler Campbell
It's been said in earlier threads, but the main reason to get the MAX version is that it's new and thus supports Zen2/3XXX CPUs out of the box. Older B450 motherboards all require a BIOS upgrade, which may or may not work well for you.
Aaron Long
tried both, neither one works now
William Gomez
is it at all possible to recover any of the files, also is this typically what happens when you unplug an ssd while its asleep or whatever?
Nice try but your lies are easily detected. If I came in to the room and my computer was not running I would immediately sense and locate the problem. You obviously saw your zombie PC as a normal state and went about business as usual. Disgusting.
Ryder Baker
>Blower GPU No.
Benjamin Morris
I don't want to wait.
Thomas Richardson
Do you guys overclock by setting straight up settings for 100% of the time or using variable voltage and turbo and shit
Im OCing my 7700k for the first time currently running 1.3v 4.8ghz but as I'd like to use this processor for years I wonder if I should be more gentle with it...
Jayden Ross
Whats up with blower GPUs getting shit on? Other than they look fucking stupid. I never bought one my self because of that fact.
Justin Adams
fair points but i always have hope that amd will unfuck drivers for older games compatibility now that they changed the architecture completely an if it doesn't, i always have my old laptop to play C&C generals
did you seat the gpu properly or is it halfway in the PCIe slot?
Oliver Long
I did that back during the transition between Z87 and Z97, worked great.
Carson Brooks
>not buying the superior x570
Jeremiah Howard
>Not telling your computer "Good night" before putting it to sleep before going to bed yourself It's like you don't want you or your computer to have sweet dreams.
I've used GPU recording on the AMD card before, on those games (usually VR) where it's heavy in both CPU and GPU it makes things worse than using software encoding. A GPU upgrade isn't out of the question, though not until the rest of my system catches up to need it.
Eli Phillips
Nvidia driver kikery mostly. AMD is fine wine.
Benjamin Sanchez
it's 100% in and my pc wont boot even when it's removed (well I haven't taken it out but when I take out the vga cables and try to use the apu it doesn't boot)
Henry Mitchell
But is the CPU good enough? The guy was telling me that MHW is a CPU intensive game and that I was better off getting a 3600. I'm also tight on a budget and don't want to spend too much money. (
Bentley Adams
>Nvidia driver kikery mostly.
Nvidia drivers offer support for like 6 years farther back than AMD drivers, and are generally just far better
Stop believing stupid shit from people you'd read here because they are poor and can't afford nvidia cards so they emotionally ally themselves with the inferior products they can afford
Josiah Ward
anons please how do I recover a drive that I unplugged while the pc was sleeping
Henry Myers
ok I got an rtx 2070 instead
Adrian Reyes
Reinstall. You lost your boot directory. Theres no recovering that.
Leo Anderson
>well I haven't taken it out but when I take out the vga cables try to take it out for real and tell me
Isaiah Nguyen
>nvidia drivers add performance to last gen cards when the new cards releases
