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I was hoping my current i7-6700k build would last me another year or two, but I cut enough corners putting it together that I'm being pushed towards a new build now that I'm upgrading to 1440p 144hz displays. Does everything in this build look good? PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U14S 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler ($63.75 @ Amazon) Motherboard: MSI MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard ($149.99 @ Newegg) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory ($139.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($149.99 @ Adorama) Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB XC3 BLACK GAMING Video Card Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case ($67.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GA 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($89.97 @ Newegg) Total: $661.67 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-26 16:53 EST-0500 The 5800x cpu is (hopefully) shipping to me soon. I would have preferred to save money with a 5600x instead, but I gave up on that after two weeks of closely following the stock drops discord without even getting close to a 5600x. Getting a Newegg combo for a 3070 seems reasonable enough (I've been monitoring these, but didn't want to pull the trigger prior to getting a cpu), so I think I'll manage this one. I know the 970 evo plus drive is probably overkill, but I like the thought of having a Cadillac boot drive. I also have this part already, though I got it from Amazon so it would be an easy return. My basic goal is to make a fairly high end machine for gaming and general use that will last me a good 5+ years. I'd like to be able to play+stream any PC port of a PS5 game at 1440p and 144hz, though honestly I'm probably fine with 60+ fps. I spend a comical amount of time at my computer and have money to spare, so I want to avoid cutting corners this time around while also staying within the realm of generally good value.
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Kefit posted:I was hoping my current i7-6700k build would last me another year or two, but I cut enough corners putting it together that I'm being pushed towards a new build now that I'm upgrading to 1440p 144hz displays. Does everything in this build look good? Looks good. I’m a fan of getting an oversized PSU. PCPP has your wattage at 444, so a 700W supply would keep your peak load under 65% which, in theory, increases the lifetime of the unit. Realistically, if your goal is to avoid upgrades and play with every gfx bell and whistle then you’ll want a 3080 and a 750W supply.
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Butterfly Valley posted:As far as I can tell your work doesn't scale with cores so you want the 5600x of the new AMD CPUs, but so does every other fucker on the planet atm (including me). It has the best single core performance of any chip right now and is also the cheapest of the newest lineup, hence the demand. It does scale reasonably well with cores actually sometimes- if I’m doing something more intensive I’ll usually do some sort of parallel processing. This isn’t thaaaat common, but how would your recommendation change if that is the case? Thank you for all the help!!
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Inzombiac posted:Thanks. If you are keeping it under $1,000 I assume you are playing @ 1080p and expecting mostly to keep that monitor? Are you able to carry over the case, and how old/good is your power supply? You can do a nice 1080p build for around $600 if you carry over a few parts.
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I'm thinking of upgrading my PC for Christmas. I mainly play HOI4 with the TNO mod and I usually get a crappy framerate of ~15-20 FPS. Would PCPartPicker's Entry Level Gaming Build suffice? Stats courtesy of Speccy: Operating System Windows 10 Pro 64-bit CPU AMD Phenom II X4 955 38 °C Deneb 45nm Technology RAM 16.0GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz (9-9-9-24) Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0 (Socket M2) 38 °C Graphics VA2446 Series¾ (1920x1080@60Hz) 2048MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series (XFX Pine Group) 50 °C Storage 1863GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER164 ATA Device (SATA ) 27 °C Optical Drives hp DVD A DH16AESH ATA Device Audio AMD High Definition Audio Device
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:It better give great oral for $188...loving hell, I don't care how many lights it has, the regular silver one costs $63... The black ones are mostly out of stock this month so resellers have been wilding out. You gotta make sure the seller is Amazon.com or Noctua Cooling Solutions if you're buying Noctua stuff on Amazon.
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I really wish retailers would put 2nd gen threadripper on clearance so I can upgrade my server.
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Gen. Ripper posted:I'm thinking of upgrading my PC for Christmas. I mainly play HOI4 with the TNO mod and I usually get a crappy framerate of ~15-20 FPS. Would PCPartPicker's Entry Level Gaming Build suffice? Oh sweet Lord, yes. I do have a soft spot for that phenom ii x4 though, I used to have one and it was a decent chip back in the day.
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Gen. Ripper posted:I'm thinking of upgrading my PC for Christmas. I mainly play HOI4 with the TNO mod and I usually get a crappy framerate of ~15-20 FPS. Would PCPartPicker's Entry Level Gaming Build suffice? The processor isn't priced in there - if you are spending around 600 check black friday prebuilts as well. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/skytec...p?skuId=6408493 this one is pretty close to the cost of the parts i think
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Gen. Ripper posted:I'm thinking of upgrading my PC for Christmas. I mainly play HOI4 with the TNO mod and I usually get a crappy framerate of ~15-20 FPS. Would PCPartPicker's Entry Level Gaming Build suffice?
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bus hustler posted:If you are keeping it under $1,000 I assume you are playing @ 1080p and expecting mostly to keep that monitor? Are you able to carry over the case, and how old/good is your power supply? Yeah I'm not up to 4K shenanigans yet but I do have a 144hz monitor that isn't getting used to its full potential. I can carry the case but the PS is 6+ years old. Haven't had any issues with it but it's old enough to cause concern.
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Wow, waiting for Black Friday really paid off. Everything got more expensive. If I bought all the parts a week ago, I could have saved ten bucks. LOL!
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I have discovered you can use 2 video cards in a machine without sli and I was considering putting my old evga 660 ti in my new build to use as the display card when rendering. Is a 750w PSU enough if I also have a 3080 and if I have both cards plugged into the same monitor would switching the display input free up the vram automatically on the other card?
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zhar posted:I have discovered you can use 2 video cards in a machine without sli and I was considering putting my old evga 660 ti in my new build to use as the display card when rendering. Is a 750w PSU enough if I also have a 3080 and if I have both cards plugged into the same monitor would switching the display input free up the vram automatically on the other card? I don't think your display driver would be very happy.
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busalover posted:Wow, waiting for Black Friday really paid off. Everything got more expensive. If I bought all the parts a week ago, I could have saved ten bucks. LOL! In this market, I’d call that a win...
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Nov 27, 2020 15:09
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I've ordered a 5600x for 320€ which is due to arrive 28/12, but the local shop has a black friday offer on i5-10600k for 240€. Should I get that instead primarily for gaming with a 3080?
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Boz0r posted:I've ordered a 5600x for 320€ which is due to arrive 28/12, but the local shop has a black friday offer on i5-10600k for 240€. Should I get that instead primarily for gaming with a 3080? I wouldn't if you can wait. There's a lot more to benchmarks than a single raw number, however: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-10600K+%40+4.10GHz&id=3735 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+5+5600X&id=3859 It's a very significant upgrade, and the 10600K does not come with a CPU cooler, narrowing the price difference considerably. In gaming... right now? The 5600x is king but the 10600K punches admirably on single threaded performance, but I would not invest for basically 50 euros after CPU cooler.
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bus hustler posted:I wouldn't if you can wait. There's a lot more to benchmarks than a single raw number, however: I've got a big Noctua NH-D15 ready to either one, though.
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Black Griffon posted:I can get a pretty good deal on a Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 650W or 750W. I was planning to upgrade from my 550W when my 3080 arrived (it's gonna get there, I promise), but this presents an opportunity to square away the power issue. My worry is that I've no memory of what the bronze/gold stuff means, and I don't know if it's a good choice in general. Hoping for an answer for this again, except that the 650W is no longer on offer, so I'd have to settle for a 750W. Good? Bad? https://www.komplett.no/product/1135157/datautstyr/pc-komponenter/stroemforsyning/enheter/cooler-master-mwe-bronze-v2-750w
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Just picked up my 3070. To double check: Idon’t need to do anything special to prep, software wise, for the swap, right? Take out my 1060, plug in the 3070, windows should boot fine, I run GeForce experience for driver updates?
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Boxman posted:Just picked up my 3070. To double check: Idon’t need to do anything special to prep, software wise, for the swap, right? Take out my 1060, plug in the 3070, windows should boot fine, I run GeForce experience for driver updates? Worked out fine for me, needed a couple reboots but otherwise went seamlessly upgrading from my 970.
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Black Griffon posted:Hoping for an answer for this again, except that the 650W is no longer on offer, so I'd have to settle for a 750W. Good? Bad? 750W is fine for a 3080. Better to have the extra headroom although 650W would have likely been adequate if you aren’t doing any overclocking. General wisdom is to go for a gold-rated PSU or better, no idea how that bronze-rated PSU stacks up
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vanilla slimfast posted:750W is fine for a 3080. Better to have the extra headroom although 650W would have likely been adequate if you aren’t doing any overclocking. Kinda sounds like I should skip this deal then, wait until something golden pops up. Also I'm trying for the non-oc EVGA so 650 might be just fine.
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Boz0r posted:I've got a big Noctua NH-D15 ready to either one, though. I'd still personally prefer to build on the newer platform but realistically if you are playing at high resolution and not really CPU bound and want to build right away its still a good CPU, especially at that price. If you are playing at 1080p I would honestly wait.
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Mobo question. I have the one below one coming because it was bundled with the 5600x in a newegg deal and i just flailed at the buy button when I could, but digging into reviews the stuff the info I'm seeing isn't -- great. Various places seem pretty unsatisfied with the VRM and thermals. I do not plan to do any overclocking in particular because as far as I've read it doesn't make much of a difference anyway. Are the issues with this board bad enough that I should get a different one? I previously had the ROG STRIX B550 as my mobo choice; given that the mobo is a component I'm probably not gonna wanna swap for a decade if I'm lucky, would I be better off returning this one and eating a small loss due to the combo to get a better board? I mainly just needed the 5600x out of it, I don't need features on this board specifically. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler ($79.90 @ Amazon) Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard ($169.99 @ Best Buy) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory ($139.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Blue 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($104.99 @ B&H) Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($99.99 @ Adorama) Storage: Western Digital Black 6 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($299.47 @ Amazon) Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case ($67.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA G1+ 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($123.94 @ Office Depot) + 2 case fans Total: $1086.25 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-27 11:01 EST-0500
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busalover posted:Wow, waiting for Black Friday really paid off. Everything got more expensive. If I bought all the parts a week ago, I could have saved ten bucks. LOL! My PCpartpicker list for my current build is currently at $958, when I paid <$800 in mid-October...
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Black Friday fever hits Canada and i'm trying to knock some sense back into a family member who wants to purchase the following ASUS gaming PC from Best Buy : ASUS Strix GT15 Gaming PC - Star Black (Intel Core i7-10700KF/1TB SSD/16GB RAM/RTX 2060 SUPER) - Usually 2200$ but on sale at 1800$ https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/asus-strix-gt15-gaming-pc-star-black-intel-core-i7-10700kf-1tb-ssd-16gb-ram-rtx-2060-super/14681494 I'm trying to find a way to build an equivalent system and convince him to let me build it for him but the prices seem pretty inflated right now. The main issue I have is the 1 year warranty on those systems. It's insane. Is it just my imagination?
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Cyberdud posted:Black Friday fever hits Canada and i'm trying to knock some sense back into a family member who wants to purchase the following ASUS gaming PC from Best Buy : https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/asus-strix-gaming-pc-black-amd-ryzen-5-3600x-1tb-hdd-512gb-ssd-16gb-ram-geforce-rtx-2060-super/14431177 This one is way cheaper, and given you can't get a 2060 super seems close to the cost of the parts? https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/GqFGj2 Does canada give you extended warranty if you buy with a credit card? If someone wants a prebuilt they aren't like verboten these days. bus hustler fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Nov 27, 2020 |
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I’ve been looking for a decent deal today. I don’t really enjoy building PCs, and the guy I’d normally have build it has shut down his side business because of COVID, so I’m willing to pay up for a good prebuilt. I’m looking for a 3-series card, preferably at least a 3070, a 1tb M2 and at least 16gb of decent ram. Any thoughts on this prebuilt deal on NewEgg? I just don’t know enough about the PSU/mobo/cooler etc. to know if this is a decent deal or if they skimped on stuff. From what I can tell ABS is the Newegg house brand?
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Cyberdud posted:Black Friday fever hits Canada and i'm trying to knock some sense back into a family member who wants to purchase the following ASUS gaming PC from Best Buy : Your family member wants to give someone $1800 for a computer with 1 fan that appears to be 80mm? At least get a prebuilt from a company that can make a good case. https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Systems/VENGEANCE-a4100-series/p/CS-9030010-NA#tab-tech-specs CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super
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spunkshui posted:Your family member wants to give someone $1800 for a computer with 1 fan that appears to be 80mm? Canadian dollars.
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Butterfly Valley posted:Canadian dollars. They are still trying to cool that computer with marketing instead of fans.
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Butterfly Valley posted:Canadian dollars. So I sorted by lowest price just for fun https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Certified-Refurbished/Systems/corsair-one/p/CS-9000007-NA/RF I don't like the age on the CPU or the GPU but considering current prices for hardware that might be a good deal lol. I hate how not upgradeable it is but a prebuilt shopper might not care. This buyers market sucks. i7-7700K, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, 16GB DDR4-2400, 480GB SATA SSD, 2TB HDD $1000 USA
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spunkshui posted:They are still trying to cool that computer with marketing instead of fans. Oh yeah it definitely sucked at any price.
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I don't know why I thought I'd be able to snag anything decent today. The bots were out in force and now nothing I want is available until January or is marked up 300%.
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I've got a GTX 1060 and I think it's starting to fail. In the past couple days, I've noticed I get a black screen and my fans are going nuts. Both times I wasn't even using it at the time it happened. I'm assuming it's a GPU issue based on some cursory googling. My system is several years old so I'm not hugely surprised. I'm looking to upgrade it, but the prices for better GPUs are just insane as far as I can see. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Inzombiac posted:I don't know why I thought I'd be able to snag anything decent today. I got a keyboard. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/corsai...p?skuId=6229607 Rapid fire switches 
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PopetasticPerson posted:I've got a GTX 1060 and I think it's starting to fail. In the past couple days, I've noticed I get a black screen and my fans are going nuts. Both times I wasn't even using it at the time it happened. I'm assuming it's a GPU issue based on some cursory googling. My system is several years old so I'm not hugely surprised. I'm looking to upgrade it, but the prices for better GPUs are just insane as far as I can see. Does anyone have any suggestions? buy used via SA mart/reddit/locally, buy a holdover card & hope to sell it for not too much of a loss, or try to do evga's step-up program. the unethical thing to do is buy a cheap card from amazon and return it into january due to extended holiday returns.
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Butterfly Valley posted:(snip) sean10mm posted:(snip) Thanks a bunch to both of you for your help!
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