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Is there a reason this mobo is so cheap? Saw it in some other builds and it looks pretty good for only $80. Anything better at that price point?
Grayson Phillips
It has a lifetime waranty, so why not? But I looked into your mobo and it doesn't support XMP AFAIK, so the ram will run at 2133. You can probably get an H170 mobo with XMP support for the same price
Isaac Smith
The Asus Strix graphics cards have two fan headers so that you can have your case fans controlled by your GPU, which is supposed to keep your PC quiet during idle and cool during load. Anyone got any experience with how well that works in practice or is this just another marketing gimmick?
Austin Ward
>having case fans tied to gpu temps and not cpu temps
Hint: there is a reason why gpus have coolers capable of handling 250w+ and cpus are housefires at anything over 150w.
Caleb Hill
What is the difference in performance between 2133 and 3000MHz?
Bentley Martinez
Following that logic, the only time you'll need to aggressively move hot air out of your case is if you're gaming, provided you don't do any CPU intensive tasks
Connor Moore
In FO4, a lot. In other applications, who knows. But if it's an option for an extra five bucks, why wouldn't you?
Jace Hall
im trying to plug the audio cable into the JAUD1 slot on the mobo
it slides in a bit but the pins don't fully enter and can slide back out easily
am i supposed to just force it in harder or is it supposed to be this loose?
Asher Martin
Its more a case that cpus rarely have enough cooling when they are slammed compared to gpu simply due to the surface area of the die so having your case fans tied to a gpu (which generally is cooled better by the dual and triple fan coolers on modern cards) is madness as it leaves your cpu to fry. Plus GPU fan curves tend to be less aggressive than cpu fan curves (in your bios) primarily because gpus can take more punishment.
Consider both AMD and Nvidia will easily let core temps hit over 80c without giving a fuck, but 80c for most cpus is DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER territory. Plus the potential for the motherboard to frying.
Connor Ortiz
I'm glad you mentioned the mobo thing, because a different version of the one I had picked popped up at a much lower price when it had been more expensive previously.
What is the difference between the D3H and the D3HP? It still doesn't look like it supports more than 2133MHz but at that lower price I'm interested.
Christian Brown
This is the current rig I have. I'm a poorfag and only have 150$ saved up. Should I opt for a Motherboard/Cpu combo or a Graphics card?
Adam Russell
Hoping some one could please, please help me.
I just installed 8 More GB of RAM, a GeForce 1060, and Hyper 212 Evo.
I turned my PC, resolution is 800x480, okay cool. Let me go download drivers. Went to Nvidia.com, PC shut off completely.
Tried again, was successful in downloading new drivers, and then it shit off on me again as I ran the .exe.
Anyone know what's going on? My previous GPU was a GTX580, also Nvidia.
Thank you. Really don't know what's up.
Jacob Ross
The cpu is still maybe sortas usable, but that gpu is 100% pure undisputed potato. Christ at this point one of AMD's APUs probably outperforms your entire system.
Can anyone tell me why the GTX 960 has a greater market share and is more popular in builds than the RX 470? By these benchmark figures, the 470 is leaps and bounds better with a very slim price difference. Surely this can't just be the Nvidia fan boy effect.
Christopher James
did you uninstall graphics driver before installing the new 1060? If your PC was powering a gtx 580, it can without a doubt handle a 1060.
Maybe check your Hyper 212 EVO cooler. If it's not installed properly, your CPU could being hit TJMax and turning off.
without a doubt graphics card. GT730 is good for nothing more than displaying on multiple panels.
Adrian Fisher
yes it is. Nvidia is seen as "the go to brand" for "gaymers". Just look at their saying. "The way it's meant to be played"
Noah Baker
Save your money, wait to purchase in 6months and prices will have dropped for both CPUs and GPUs
Could be a short. Otherwise pull the RAM out. Is all the RAM the same speed?
Christian Ramirez
oh and RAM. What was your old RAM compared to your new stuff? Same timings? Same voltage speed?
pic unrelated. What should i upgrade?
Matthew Howard
470 is extremely new, 960 has been around for a long time. They're different generations. The AMD card that is equivalent to the 960 is the 380
Not sure about the difference, but if you want that faster RAM, just google your board plus XMP, although it's often specifies in the Memory Specs section
John Carter
I did not uninstall the previous graphics drivers.
I am right now checking my cooler and it's moving around the top of the CPU. Even more so if I push it with a finger. I did not secure it down all the way. I had to mess around with trying to install it in this cramped case of mine so I could only tighten 2 screws. I can't fit it horizontally. Now I'm going to haveto try...
All same speed,same model # too.
The RAM is the same as before. I just added 8 more GB of the same ram.
Noah Williams
Get a 4k screen.
Thomas Ross
I have a Corsair Commander connected to a water loop so I don't think I'd need it. I feel like that's the most effective way to control your case fans, although this might be a good option for some people.
Nicholas Turner
With the 212 EVO you need to screw the cooler down all the way until the screws are bottomed out. There are spring loaded screws for a reason. Go in opposite pattern. Top left, bottom right, top right, bottom left. Repeat until all 4 screws are bottomed out.
Asher Hughes
I am reading that you need a Z170 board for XMP support. Oh well.
I've also been seeing that the difference between 2133MHz and 3000MHz for gaming is not that great. Does anyone have experience with the two? If I won't notice much difference I'm not sure if it's spending a whole lot more on a Z170 board.
Luis Lee
Consolidate your HDDs
>I am right now checking my cooler and it's moving around the top of the CPU. Even more so if I push it with a finger. I did not secure it down all the way. I had to mess around with trying to install it in this cramped case of mine so I could only tighten 2 screws. I can't fit it horizontally. Now I'm going to haveto try... Probably overheating
Joseph Lee
Yeah, I know user Thing is it got real hard to do as it was cramped. I can't install it horizontally as it'll hit my 4 RAM sticks. And accessing those springy screws is tight I'll give it another shot.
Might be.
Ryder Williams
I'm pretty sure most H110 boards support it, H170 as well
depends on if the game is heavily CPU bound. Games like FO4 and CIV5 actually benefit quite a bit from ddr4-3200mhz. Not all Z170 boards can handle RAM that fast. My Asus ROG Ranger REFUSED to post with any RAM beyond 2666mhz.
>Consolidate your HDDs Waiting on high capacity SSDs to come down in price. If I can get a 1TB SSD for $200, I'm sold. was considering a large 4K panel as a 2nd monitor for productivity and keeping my 32" 1440p panel for gaming.
Jordan Jones
dunno why you guys just don't reinstall windows everytime something goes wrong
I have to reinstall a few python and java dependencies every time but you just store everythign externally so its 10 minutes and you have a clean install
Ryder Collins
>* Due to Intel® chipset limitation, DDR4 2133 MHz and higher memory modules on XMP mode will run at the maximum transfer rate of DDR4 2133 Mhz.
Having trouble deciding on a psu when I finally decided to use this one. Is it good enough?
Jonathan Reyes
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Chase Scott
why are you getting a dedicated ethernet card when your motherboard can do 1Gb/s?
And I don't trust Corsair stuff after their whole CX line fiasco. Has it right. I have a Cooler Master V1000 gold cert and it has been going for almost 5 years no with zero issues.
I'd get something from EVGA (even their 500B line) over anything less than Corsair's AX or HX line.
Benjamin Lopez
>why are you getting a dedicated ethernet card when your motherboard can do 1Gb/s? Port aggregation, connecting to two separate networks without using a switch, controlling another computer with IPMI, etc. My Workstation has four NICs. U mad?
Is it a waste of money to get the new one (multiple people have told me 650W is overkill anyway)? What do I need to check for to make sure it's compatible with my mobo?
Christopher Baker
You could also dedicate a NIC to VMs via a PCIe pass-through so that they don't take precious bandwidth from your host NIC.
Julian Hall
will a GTX 1060 3GB be a good investment? Is it going to be compatible with my motherboard?
Blake White
Guys how bad is it if the Hyper 212 heatsink touches my ram a bit? It's really pushing it a bit, making the first stick almost touch the second one.
It's the only way I can snuggly secure this monstrous heatsink fan
Brody Murphy
I bought 2 WD HDDs from a vendor on amazon, they shipped and work, but they're both formatted as "mybook" and have the typical additional software on them that makes me thing the vendor ripped them out of externals. Should I worry? Are the warranties no go now?
Jacob Johnson
> Is it going to be compatible with my motherboard?
This day and age motherboard compatability is not an issue for a gpu. You should look more closely to see if your psu can feed your gpu.
Either remove the heatspreader from your ram (hint: ram doesn't get hot enough to need one) or rotate the cooler 90 degrees. As a rule though there is no current going through either the cooler or the heatspreader so beyond the stress of the ram twisting in its socket there should be no issue.
Robert Nguyen
I want some more opinions on this: Should I buy a GTX 1060 for 1150 huemoneis (~350USD) to upgrade my ancient PC? This is the best price for the 1060 that I've seen here. The AMDs are more expensive here for some reason. I currently have a HD 6850.
Even if the rest of the PC is old and shitty by now, wouldn't upgrading from a HD 6850 bring a huge performance boost on most games?
Asher Wilson
You didn't tell us the rest of your system last time and thus we cannot give good advice with incomplete information.
James Brown
>Rotate the cooler 90 degrees Had it like that an hour ago but I couldn't screw it down flush enough and the cooler would move around in the case which would make my PC shut off (o posted about it a few posts above)
Thanks user. Hope it doesn't destroy my socket :/
Caleb Wilson
I would rather you pull the heatspreader from your ram than mess with your cpu cooler as its the far safer option.
Luis Anderson
Where's the heat spreader? And is it easy to remove? Thanks.
Jack Cook
Nevermind, googled it. Thanks
Dylan Cooper
you should have your cooler mounted so that it expels air toward the nearest exhaust fan. If that clear one in the picture is an exhaust, orient the fan so the air moving through the heatsink flows toward it
Austin Cook
I'm afraid of being trolled. It's a 3GHz dual core Intel CPU. 4GB RAM.
Joshua Baker
please respond
Luis Johnson
Yep, have it set up that way.
Also,turned PC on, currently installing new drivers. I'm not going to use Nvidias Application that manages drivers and scans games though, the GeForce experience. Am I missing out by not installing it?
Also WOW my PC is tremendously quiet. Can't wait to run Speccy and play some games.
Wyatt Green
>3ghz dual core
Thats not enough information, Intel calls their i3 chips dual core technology because of hyperthreading (i.e they present 4 cores to the OS) but equally you could be running a goddamn celery cpu.
Zachary Brooks
FUCK RAN SPECCY AND CPU WAS AT 80C
I forgot to plug in the CPU fan. Wow.
Huh. Then if it wasn't plugged in... I wonder why a few hours ago my PC shut off when the fan WAS plugged in? Could it have been that the heatsink was not mounted properly and making solid contact with the CPU?
Aiden Smith
Should I go with a GPU from Nvidia or AMD for a PC that is primarily going to run Linux?
Oliver Gutierrez
Most cpus won't boot without detecting a cpu fan connected. I would be worried.
Blake Cruz
Strange indeed. I booted up just fine. Installed new drivers, too. Thankfully I caught my error before, well, who knows what could've happened.
Also >undefined GPU What did Speccy mean by this? And why is it showing just 2GB of memory when the card itself is a 6GB one and Speccy shows this stat too?
Ayden Hughes
IIRC speccy is known to be bugged with pascal gpus. Speccy is full of bugs in general - for example it cannot into AMD fx idle temperatures (it will report sub ambient temps for example).
Robert Young
Ordering PC parts in the next few days. Will I be alright if I pirate Win10?
>Crucial MX300 2.5" 525GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT525MX300SSD1
>G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Intel Z170 Platform / Intel X99
For monitors I'm already using and will use these for this new rig, not included in my total.
>ASUS PB258Q Black 25" 5ms WQHD Frameless HDMI Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor AH-IPS 350 cd/m2, 2560 x 1440
>LG 25UM56-P 25” Class 21:9 UltraWide IPS Gaming Monitor 5ms 2560 x 1080
Lincoln Young
Ok. I know I'm missing a graphics card here (besides the weak integrated one) but besides that, any suggestions/comments on this build?
Was basically trying to set up a decent build that can be upgraded (i5/i7 and graphics card) while not braking the bank.
Asher Thomas
*this build
Ryder Hernandez
not really getting any hits with my thread so ill move it here: Kind of been behind processor development for a while now, and I have been looking for a proccessor for a build soon. I saw a comic here once where an amd sales guy was pointing to a graph with a jester hat on, just saying MOAR COARS for their business strategy. Which i guess im kind of getting now with amd proccessors being 6core 8core etc....and i7 dc still behind the 'core curve'. My question is why is amd have such a drive for more cores, is it helpful, and why is it about ~$100 or so less than the intel brand?
Eli Martinez
I would consider a better mobo, what you have now will restrict from using k series cpu, if you had that in Mind, and faster ram
Wyatt Sullivan
reminder to buy 3000 mhz ram guys! It's extremely important
Tyler Cooper
>game released in 2008
Ryan Ward
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Logan Kelly
>ddr3
Isaac Morgan
Hey all, which reviewers/benchmarks are trustworthy?
pic unrelated
Angel Garcia
I really like this case mates, think it's worth it? I definitely want a cube but still looking at the various options
go smaller, get a core v1 and mitx mobo. mine is grate
Jack Brown
turn the cooler the other way. You do realize that the Hyper 212 EVO can be mounted the other way right? 1060 3GB would be fine. Mobo compatibility hasn't been a problem for some time now.
Sebastian Phillips
Should I be looking for B150 or H170 motherboards?
Parker Lewis
I have a question about memory frequency, for example; the Intel Core i3-6320 says that it supports 1866 or 2133 mhz memory, does this mean that if I were to pick a higher frequency stick; that it would run at a lower speed?
Would I also have to pair the memory with a motherboard that specifically supports its speed?
Adam Scott
I would return them. Those external drives use WD blues (the worst drives possible). Next time get hgst deskstar or WD red's/purple.
Jackson Bell
yes, no (although you'd be wasting money)
Luke Stewart
Thanks!
Levi Nelson
PCPartPicker.com/list/6VVDZ8 trying to stay under $800 base price and shipping Did I do it rite
Alexander Reyes
Anons pls help this is annoying as shit Computer freezes randomly Facts BEFORE freezing: - Everything works as intended - Ran Prime95 CPU stresst for 24 hours: no problem - Ran mprime (Linux CPU stress, like Prime95) for 24 hours: no problem - Unigine Heaven GPU stress for 24 hours: no problem - High FPS, no lag on games etc - Ran Memtest86 for 24 hours: no problems - Ran both mprime and Unigine Heaven for 24 hours: no problem - Left computer 24 idle doing nothing: no problem
Facts AFTER freezing: - Mouse is not responding - Keyboard is not responding - WEIRDEST FACT: Some windows on display keep refreshing their view, e.g. Task Manager keeps updating the graphs with RAM and CPU usage (RAM usage less then 35%, CPU less than 20%) - Temperatures always below 60C on any component - Games get stuck on the current 3D scene, e.g. if you preview a 3D model and the camera spins around it, after freezing the camera will keep spinning around it - Any download/upload progress just halts: doesn't progress and doesn't say "canceled" or "paused", just doesn't do anything - No weird or repeating sounds, infact, the sounds continue playing normally, e.g. if I left a song playing in the background, it will continue to play but after it ends it will not go to another song, game background music continues playing - Pressing the reset button on the case does nothing at first, but on Windows, after 10-20 seconds, it bluescreens; on Linux, after 10-20 seconds the computer restarts - Power button doesn't do anything
UNIVERSAL Facts: - I bought RAM that is especially in the list of recommended RAM for my motherboard - I have no antivirus - I have no firewall - Freezes are absolutely random
Can anyone tell me if a 13+ inch GPU would fit into an NZXT h440?
Evan Russell
how? Is your screw driver not long enough? Get a long screw driver. The Cooler can be turned a little side to side even when fully tightened down so you can access the screws.
Leo Sanders
I support this question. I'm surprised that the larger Noctua CPU coolers fit in there with a few millimeters from the window.
Gavin Carter
nigga what? No you can't. You can run the PC with 1 stick of RAM sure. You NEED a stick of ram to get up and running though.
