Had a decent thread the other day. I'm not even doing a build right now, I just like talking about computer parts. Helped clean up the board a bit too.
pcpartpicker.com/ - Assemble your parts list with price comparisons by vendor and compatibility filter. logicalincrements.com/ - Have a budget, but don't know where to start? This will recommend you a parts list based on price.
pastebin.com/9Pbm4nHL - General build advice including chipset compatibility, power supply advice, Windows activation information.
Post your list, rate other user's, ask questions in general.
Just to kick things off, and give a good example, What do you guys think of this build?
>pcpartpicker.com/list/pnHykT Use case is mostly for 1440p gaming (Witcher 3, GTAV, Doom, WoW), budget is $1200 but I prefer to keep it low as possible while having good parts. I plan on clocking the cpu to about 4.0ghz. Is the 212 good enough for that while keeping reasonable temps? Is the power supply high wattage / stable enough for this?
Juan Adams
Actually, I should have put that in the OP: State the reason you are building (Gaming? Video editing? Home server / Gtpc?), your budget, any important features to you. State your local currency.
I know there's no graphics card, the processor graphics are more than enough (confirmed using a friend's machine which has an i3 and no GPU). I'm mainly going be doing programming in languages with long compile times, like Haskell and Scala.
Brody Hill
You can get away with like a 400W power supply or even less really, if you aren't using a graphics card. Also will you actually be using the optical drive for anything other than install? Because you can install your OS via usb drive, it's usually easier, actually. If you want to save about $20-30, the 6500 is the same chip as the 6600, just a little lower clocked. The rest of the system seems pretty good.
Elijah Scott
550W is the lowest wattage that the G2 is produced in, according to the site. Do you know of a model that's of similar quality that's available in 400W?
I'll be using the optical drive for watching DVDs, as well as install. Call me old-fashioned.
I'll have a look at CPU prices when I make the purchase, when I put the list together I think there was little price difference between the 6500 and the 6600. Thanks for the heads up!
Michael James
If you actually use the optical drive, no shame. A lot of people just end up installing one because they think they need it to install their OS/Drivers and end up never touching it past that.
As to the power supply, a system drawing as little power as that won't need "the best" power supply around. I didn't make that pastebin in the OP, but it's worth checking it out. I'd just find any 400w or 450w bronze or gold power supply though. If you think you might need a graphics card later, then the 550w from that supernova will give be plenty. So you have plenty of options.
Jonathan Morales
Thanks for the advice, I'll have a look at lower-power PSUs. I think it's unlikely I'll need a graphics card, I don't do much gaming any more, and when I do it's old games for nostalgia.
Jace Russell
US, web, hd video streaming and light gaming. $300-$350 budget.
quiet, low power, things to fiddle with.
Dylan Wilson
What do you guys think of this. I picked some parts for my friend who wanted a low $1000s gaming pc, no super cpu intensive stuff
If you're only gonna use onboard graphics I would highly recommend getting the K version. It's only $25 more and it's a huge performance gain
Brody Young
I've heard that sub $50 gpu's actually perform worse than integrated graphics a lot of the time. Though sometimes if it's an APU paired with a radeon card, you can actually use crossfire to get them to play nice together. I would look into that a bit more. I'm actually impressed. What OS will you be using? If it's Linux, I heard it can be difficult to get Radeon drivers working properly. If it's windows (I'm assuming Pirated or Kinguin key), then ignore that bit.
Luke Lewis
You don't need a Z170 with that memory and processor
I'd be super wary of a 3TB Seagate HDD at that price
You can get a G2 PSU that is better and cheaper
Jeremiah Harris
Thanks for the feedback
Sebastian Foster
No probs. I'd see what other anons think too, I could be wrong
Oliver Allen
What motherboard would you recommend. I'm a bit of an asus fanboy but I imagine my friend doesn't care
Jace Cook
You probably want an H170 or B150 chipset. I can't recommend any particular manufacturer, sorry.
Carson Foster
>pcpartpicker.com/list/fz3p8K Cx power supplies are shit. Corsair power supplies in general are fine, but CX products use cheap as fuck chinese capacitors and are failure prone.
I also changed out the case, removed one of your two fans (since the s340's rear exhaust is fine) changed the grapghics card to a sliiightly cheaper one. Changed memory to dual channel because seriously, just use dual channel. Changed the graphics card to a slightly cheaper version fo the same card. pcpartpicker.com/list/YYhHBP my take on your list. Besides the power supply thing, Everything I changed is personal preference.
Grayson Morgan
>Intel Xeon L5639 @4.01GHz >24GB DDR3 ECC 1333MHz CL6 >ASUS P6T SE >Gainward Phantom GTX970 >120GB HyperX SSD + 2TB HDD >Corsair CX750M >Xigmatek Gaia II cooler >2001 Server case
What do I upgrade first?
Jack Powell
I didn't know that about the PSU thanks for the heads up
Andrew Clark
pcpartpicker.com/list/q6jFGf Trying to build me a decent gaming PC since I'm sick of my old ass emachine computer. If theres anything that I should replace that can save me money whatsoever, don't hesitate to call me a faggot and tell me what things need to go/stay.
Do any of you anons think this is a good build or too expersive. The reason why I want to build this is because I want to take advantage of my song 4K tv and I don't want to shill out to another 4K monitor
>$150 in fittings >only cooling the CPU in a custom loop >a single thin 240 for the CPU
Just buy a CLC and go away.
Brayden Morgan
Well the rad was for an ITX build I was going to do and the gtx 1080 I'm getting cost $750 and will add good cooling to gpu itself so I don't see the point of buying a gpu waterblock for it.
>Plus I completely forget the itx x99 mobo so I change the build a bit
Quick question, why the more expensive monitor yet its only 60hz and a 4ms response time? Wouldn't I want the other one I picked for gaming and it was a bit cheaper too.
Aaron Thompson
Ok, I see you're gaming at 1080p 144hz. The 1070 is a taad overkill for this, you can get a gtx 1060 for about $120 less. The 1070 is really designed around 1440p gaming. Almost everything else can be cheapened significantly in this. I'm assuming you won't be doing any high level photoshop / video editing / other production work and your only demanding application is video games.
-First, the 6700 isn't really worth it compared to a 6600k, since the 6600k can be easily overclocked to reach similar or better performance in games. -The power supply is quite expensive. You can find cheaper ones that work just as well. Your choice though. If you like it, keep it. -It would be easier to order 2 8gb ram sticks together, and they will look better. You can set pcpartpicker to filter that for you. If you don't care then ignore this part. -The wireless card is expensive. Unless your download speeds at home exceed 200mb/s you can find any wireless AC card that will be just as good for much cheaper. Or just use ethernet. Ethernet is sooooooooo much better. -Everybody has different data storage needs, but personally I've had a 1tb HDD and a 250gb ssd boot drive for a year now, and I've only saved about 200gb of data to the hard disk and have a few large games saved to the ssd. You can save about $35-40 by buying a 1tb hard drive instead of a 2tb.
Noah Moore
oops. Meant to reply to I've made like 10 posts ITT. I'll be back tomorrow.
Adam Sanders
2560x1440. 144Hz is a meme, trust me. I play CS:GO, which is mostly the reason people buy 120/144Hz monitors to tell themselves they're gonna get better at it.
Zachary Bennett
Here's my plan. 7600 has adjustable tdp, 3.1-3.3 ghz in 45w, 3.3-3.8 in 65w. You can the iGPU in bios to ~1000Mhz in 65w mode @ stock voltage. I want to use it in 45w with the integrated graphics for general use. Should run cool and quiet and be plenty for web browsing and video streaming.
Then when I want to game on the weekend, bump it to 65w, enable iGPU o/c and xfire the 250. The integrated r7 graphics have 384 spu's and so does the 250, from reviews I've read this actually works well in du Plan on oval graphics. > What OS will you be using? I have a ssd with a legit windows 8.1 on it. I can move it to the new build and re-activate eh?
Michael Edwards
The CPU just for your sake hope that zen is good
Jeremiah Price
going to grab an rx 470 once it releases
Austin Nelson
I thought of upgrading to X79+3930K when they become relatively cheap, always had some kind of bad experience with both AMD CPUs and GPUs.
Jonathan Ortiz
What's a good overkill build for 2300 look like?
Jason Young
>upgradeing to sandy bridge >in 2016 Your a poorfag so again for your sake hope that zen is good
Ayden Powell
6950x and gtx 1080
Josiah Evans
I'm just not a retarded consumerist that has to have everything brand new.
Why the fuck would I upgrade to let's say, a 6700K when an overclocked 3930K is going to be better in pretty much everything?
Nicholas Gomez
whoops
Anyways, is the next step but I think would be overkill for my needs and will prob need a better psu. or is 280w on a cheap 430 okay? Back to work...shitty work
Jace Evans
I'd swap that cooler for a Cryorig H7 if you wanna stick with air-cooling. If you really wanna be overkill, get a NH-D14 or NH-D15. The fans are ugly, but the cooling is superb.
I have the Hyper 212X and while it's a good cooler (and the improved version of the EVO), installing it was an utter pain in the arse.
PSU should be fine, but you could upgrade to a 600W to give you a bit more legroom.
Also, why no SSD?
Colton Green
Seems solid. I honestly wouldn't change much. By my head math though it would only cost you $30 to upgrade that to a 6600k, 8gb ddr4 ram, and a z170 motherboard. If that's worth it to you is your decision.
Liam Martin
That SSD is trash. Don't buy it. The initial versions of it were good but Kingston did something shady and the new ones don't perform as well.
Kinda curious about why you're not hopping to Skylake, given that this is a new build. From what I can see, the 6600K is only a few more dollars expensive than the 4690K.
Nathaniel Martinez
r8 and h8 my build. the power supply and graphics card are a carry over from my current build, but am planning on getting a 1080 (possibly 2) and a new power supply sometime later this year
Nicholas Campbell
r8 pls
Caleb Kelly
Disgusting af
Ryder Miller
just moved to UK, never built anything before, no idea what I'm doing gaming and art, maybe a bit of 3d modelling if I manage to get on that train, and programming
I don't know if I need micro ATX but I'd like to keep it around honestly, something compact with the limited room I have is nice
Brandon Nelson
>i7-6770k >gtx 970
what are you doing nigga
Daniel Rivera
you read the post or not?
Colton James
I actually got the cpu from microcenter for like 60 dollars cheaper and I already had ddr3 ram from an am3+ build. If they were actually the same price for me i'd get skylake obviously.
Ethan Brooks
Just get a RX 480 instead then you can get a proper samsung ssd instead of pny trash
Robert Phillips
Don't get the NEX PSU. Get the EVGA SuperNova G2 series.
Aiden Baker
probably gonna downgrade the video card to something like the 1060
pls no bully
Andrew Hall
why am3+?
Andrew Reed
I'm carrying the cpu, cpu cooler, HDD+SSD, and OS from previous build. So naturally went with AM3+, never had any issues with it
Mason Perry
read the damn post
Noah Wilson
Is this looking sexy? I already have SSD storage. Also I might just get a 400w version of that PSU for £56. The CPU cooler is also open to change but silence is priority. That one in particular is able to turn off the fan when needed for passive cooling.
i'd spend the extra money on an unlocked cpu and z170 mobo.
Charles Gonzalez
Thoughts? Was thinking about maybe buying a better case but not sure. I bought the cpu/hdd/cpu cooler from a friend for $200 together. Also already bought the gpu.
Nicholas Hughes
Finishing up a summer internship, figure I'd use some of my money to splurge on this.
r8?
Joshua Nguyen
Asus is shit get a gigabyte, msi, or asrock
The 480 is better than the 1060
Ayden Cruz
isn't Asrock shite, or was that in the past?
Dylan Turner
>asus is shit >get asrock
lolwut
Joshua Johnson
>buttmad asus fags still paying more for less because some magical properties makes asus better
Henry King
Long in the past, the best Z97 board was the Extreme9 and the best X99 board was the OC formula
Levi Bennett
>starting with buttmad
automatically discredited any point you were trying to make
I don't need anywhere 3TB of space. What is your reasoning for changing the MB, case, and PSU?
Adam Edwards
>Case the 450D looks better and has better airflow
>PSU evga isn't based of seasonic reference so i changed it to something i was
>hard drive its bigger and faster while only being a little bit more than the WD blue
>MB no real reason i just thought it would look better with a red theme, both motherboards are equal in quality and features
Caleb Wood
Pic related is my current build. Got most of the parts from a friend, which is why there are some weird combinations.
I think I can make one upgrade this year, and I'm trying to decide between the cpu or mobo. The motherboard is pretty good, but it doesn't support the newer cpu architectures. On the other hand, the cpu is quite weak (only dual core), and is also limiting my ram speed.
Should I upgrade the cpu to something like a 4460 and stick with an older generation, or upgrade the mobo and live with the weak cpu for a while?
Gavin Rogers
this user has a better build for a 250, just stuff it in a htpc case. if you dont want xfire, the iGP in a a8 7xxx is essentially a r7 250
Another $60 on better airflow and storage I'll never use isn't worth it for me, thanks for trying to help though. I'd appreciate insight on the stuff I asked about, if you're willing to share your thoughts.
Bentley Gonzalez
Just bought an i5-6500, ASrock Z170M motherboard, Hyper 212 EVO and 8GB of DDR4 2400MHz RAM today. Motherboard was $100, RAM $30 and EVO $20. i5-6500 was $155 used. How'd I do?
I plan on unofficially overclocking it via BIOS downgrade. Waiting for an RX 480 to be in stock ANYTIME NOW.
I swear I've been waiting for this entire month. I just want to play video games
What could you possibly be doing that a 3930k is better than a 6700k?
Bentley Stewart
>Safe PSUs: >Low end: >Be quiet! Pure Power L8 >Be quiet! System Power 7 >Mainstream: >Cooler Master GM >Antec VPF >Fractal Design Integra M >Super Flower Golden Green HX >High-End: >be quiet! Straight Power 10 >Straight Power 10 CM >Seasonic G-series >XFX TS Gold >Antec True Power Classic >Enermax Revolution X't II >Cooler Master V
How about EVGA SuperNOVA (T2, P2, NEX, GS), SeaSonic S12II, or Corsair RM/RMx? This seems like a pretty limited list imo
Jeremiah Ward
Any thoughts??
Levi Perry
Where did you get the processor for $150?
Jordan Torres
seems like a pretty solid build. I would reconsider the psu, since that seems a bit overkill though. Everything else seems pretty decent.
Mind helping me out a bit as well here? Not sure which component to upgrade first.
Andrew Gutierrez
Get a better power supply (EVGA SuperNova is my recommendation).
Also, consider getting a mech keyboard over that combo. They're getting super cheap on Amazon right now.
Daniel Hall
pls r8 me Sup Forumsuys
Jordan Bailey
Any specific cheap keyboard? I completely forgot about that specific part of my build so I just pick a cheap one with decent reviews Bought it from a friend
David Perez
EVGA is NOT based off seasonic reference so EVGA is shit tier by default
Benjamin Gomez
>1070 >not just getting 2 480s
Owen Wilson
r8, h8, mastrb8
Zachary Collins
>CLC >no gpu shit tier
Camden Evans
Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm borrowing a 780 from a friend who's getting a 1070. Whoops.
Benjamin Phillips
ITX gaming from old GPU and SSD, CPU is off an old workstation build I bought used.
Justin Russell
I think the PSU is a little overkill.
Benjamin Cox
thoughts?
Christian Richardson
pls respond
Caleb Hall
Do you guys think the CPU/GPU will give me 144 fps in games like Overwatch, Skyrim, DS3, and ESO? pcpartpicker.com/list/XyqvWX Any bullying or general tips/recommendations are welcome.
Isaac Thompson
Can you still overclock non K skylake cpu's? or did intel block it with bios update?
Justin Phillips
>buying a 970 in 2016 just get a RX 480, its cheaper, newer, and faster