Post your component list, rate other anons', ask questions in general.
Always state the purpose of your PC, your budget, AND YOUR COUNTRY if outside the USA. If you are asking for improvements, clarify whether you want to lower price or to improve specs or build quality.
>Assemble your parts list with price comparisons by vendor and compatibility filter. pcpartpicker.com
>Have a budget, but don't know where to start? This will recommend you a parts list based on price. logicalincrements.com/
>General build advice including chipset compatibility, power supply advice, Windows activation information. pastebin.com/9Pbm4nHL (embed)
fuck off generals need to die, if you can´t build a pc you should fuck off to reddit
Eli Rogers
do lower ram timings equate to a significant performance improvements when it comes to ddr4? how big of a jump would i see from a set of 15-15-15-15 @3200mhz vs a standard 16-16-16-16 @ 2400mhz. I'm looking for improvements in terms of rendering videos and 3D rendering.
Easton Richardson
Is there an autism section for the mentally challenged? You would fit in well.
Evan Perry
What's a good budget graphics card that probably won't be used that much? I don't really play games on PC that require a GPU. It's mostly used intensively for emulation and some game dev stuff.
Elijah Johnson
750ti. I don't really know the AMD equivalent.
Jackson Nguyen
They're more expensive than I was hoping for. Right now I've got an RX 460 which has double the memory for around the same price but I won't use the card that much .
Dylan Jackson
My specs:
I5 6600k (scared to OC because I don't understand much about it, so I permanently ramped it to 3.9ghz) H115i 16gb DDR4-2400 Gigabyte, Z170, SLI board 1060 Gaming X 6gb Strix 970 (mostly used for mining) 600w PSU 240gb boot SSD 2x1.5tb HDD's for storage Blu-ray drive Black Phantom 530 Razer Naga, 2014 Razer Blackwidow Ultimate, 2016 Pair of cheap, but nice, bassy speakers 27" 1080p main monitor 1280 by 1024 secondary
Not an amazing build, but more than enough to be relevant for several years. Thoughts?
Aiden Long
Here is my updated high end pc build. Any glaring flaws?
When I get my pc it's going to be placed on the ground with a carpet. It's not a shag carpet or anything it's flat but I was wondering is that bad for the computer?
Henry Murphy
also I don't know why the monitor says zero dollars..it said I purchased it but I'm pretty sure I didn't so I don't know what that is about...
Noah Rivera
i fucked off to youtube, then 10,000 review sites, and now im back.
Jeremiah Lopez
oh god that motherboard lol
GAMING
more like
SCAMMING
and and over kill psu for a build that wont even need more than 400w max.
just scrap that build son.
Jackson Hughes
>Using air cooling for a "k" CPU The fuck are you planning doing, a 200mhz OC? Go with water cooling. Better for higher overclocks requiring a lot more power going through the CPU.
Luke Perry
>water cooling >being any better than a high end air cooler.
think again fucko.
Dominic Gomez
Has anyone ever bought Windows off Kinguin? Is it legit?
Jose Gomez
over 400w bud. How is the motherboard a scam?
Owen Russell
>In a thread about PC building >Not know that water is more thermally conductive than air
Isaac Lee
but there is more air in my room than water and ive got this big fucken heatsink with fans.
Robert Martinez
what does that board have that you need?
Benjamin Morales
LEDs!
xDDDDDDDDDDDD amirite like OMG?
Kayden Thomas
Build is mediocore and buying an unlocked CPU but not overclocking it is stupid.
Jeremiah Cruz
Doesn't matter. Water being much more thermally conductive, and easily putting the warmth from that water into the atmosphere via a nice sized rad, will always provide better temps, especially when overclocking.
Hunter Brown
>Implying I'm not learning about overclocking I'm nervous that I may break something I put a couple hundred bucks in. I do plan on OC'ing the thing, but I've had it for less than a week.
Jeremiah Bailey
Are there any known Sup Forums recommended guides out there for setting up dual monitors?
Sebastian Cooper
Max amount you should spend on a MB is 100€. If you dont want to OC and have 1 GPU a 50€ one is more than enough. I always cringe at retards that spend more for their MB than for their GPU and CPU
Oliver Morgan
wtf do you need a guide for retard? put in the cables in the gpu and connect them to the monitors
Adam Sanders
Good water cooling will. Most AIO's are utter shite that can't beat those top end air coolers.
Anthony Wilson
Shit like resolutions and what to do when common shit happens like a video on the second monitor slowing down games or shit on the first monitor.
Aiden Howard
It's stupid. Mobo is just retarded, cooler is minimum for i7 OC, 3000 RAM is cheaper, that's a budget case, don't get it for such a build. If your PSU isn't G2, get the G2, Keyboard is trash. Also, do NOT listen to this retard: Noctua NH-D15 shits on most AIO coolers. This is also stupid. There's nothing wrong with buying more expensive mobos if you're going to use them, just don't buy meme (((GAMING))) trash.
Cameron King
Well, I get about 14°c idle, even with it permanently at 3.9ghz. I'll see how far I can push the thing later, when I'm not nervous I'll break the thing.
Benjamin Flores
>Well, I get about 14°c idle
No, you don't. Unless you live in siberia that is.
Cooper Lopez
provided your cooler isn't made from cheese, it's literally a case of going into the bios and changing the multiplier/ratio to something else. you could probably just type in 42, save and exit and change nothing else and it'll work perfectly.
then once you learn a bit more you can start trying to push it more/changing voltages etc.
Dominic Young
I don't mind posting pics, if necessary. Room is shit right now because family members bright their kids. Expect temps around 18°c.
Thomas Williams
>I get about 14°c idle lol no
Levi Sanders
The temperature sensor on your CPU claiming that it's at 14C is different from it actually being at 14C. Those things are notoriously inaccurate at low temperatures.
Parker Thomas
>getting sub-ambient temps
lrn 2 thermodynamics.
Christopher Bell
Stop trying to meme the poor retard into buying a """""premium"""""" NZXT/Corsair case you autist.
Also, OP said hes not gonna OC, why should he buy anything but a 50€ mb?
Xavier Butler
>over 400w
thats what you get for buying shitty power hungry components.
Michael Reyes
Chroma's left click will die in a year. PSU if you are going this high end, why shit out on the PSU. >G2 or go home. Motherboard is over priced junk. Your PC case is utter funking cancer.
Elijah Adams
I'm considering a downsize from my Define R5 as it turns out that I don't play PC games all that often and having such a big case that I will never fill is a meme. I'm thinking the Define C would be good since it lets me keep the rest of my components. I am however, looking for a premium build case that's fairly compact with good storage capability, solid top panel, and dust filters. I don't like case windows, but modding can fix that.
Tyler Harris
>400w
When slammed my system probably pulls best part of 600w and i'm only using a single cpu and gpu. I had so much fun overclocking this lot and the shenanigans I had to pull to get there.
I could push 5ghz on the cpu but the mobo can't take it unless I have it on an open bench with more dedicated vrm cooling.
Liam Turner
I never said anything about NZXT/Corsair you autistic retard. >OP said hes not gonna OC No he didn't say that you illiterate retard.
Lincoln Roberts
I want to make a Vaporwave-ish PC with nice fucking a s t h e t i c s.
Michael Foster
>scared to OC because I don't understand much about it I'm the opposite.
I'm putting my 2500k to its limit, not caring if it breaks so that I'd get a justification to be a consumer whore and buy a new CPU but it's a warrior. Running at 4.7GHz 24/7, still not broken (its over 5 years old now)
Zachary Gray
Budget build that user from last thread helped me with. Mostly going to be used for emulation and game dev stuff. What's the consensus?
Jackson Myers
>emulation >i3
Dude...
Gavin Morgan
Once I get my zen build up and running my venerable 8320e is going to do a suicide run - I will rig up loads of my spare fans (including several high rpm delta fans), bust out a truly ancient gpu I have (assuming it even works) and simply clock the cpu as high as it can go. With a bit of luck I will break 5ghz on a motherboard no way in hell rated for the sort of power draw that will require (I suspect just shy of 1.5v).
Joshua Fisher
Not for PC, but what's the verdict on SSHDs?
I am considering a 1TB one for my PS4, but I generally don't trust Seagate
Carter Wood
Hybrid drives are terrible.
Nolan Harris
Not sure about how the timing affects the performance, but Mhz itself does have an effect with this stuff.
Bentley Garcia
Won't be emulating anything more than GameCube games at most. My old laptop could run Melee almost perfectly.
Jason Hughes
So I'm in the process of buying a new PC (CPU, RAM, Mobo) since my current mid-range self-built from ~2007 just isn't as fast as I'd like anymore. I'll be using my old ATI 4870 and the other components/peripherals of the old PC.
The decisive performance intensive applications are graphics and photography work, namely running Lightroom, Photoshop, and Illustrator usually at the same time while having a browser with a dozen tabs open.
Ideally, I would use Linux and have the Adobe programs run in a VM as seamlessly as possible; as the seamlessness is an important aspect, I'm not sure about that yet.
tl:dr; >Adobe suite with large and many files, possibly inside a VM
Right now I'm thinking 16-32 GB DDR4, with a 120GB SSD, which ever speeds fit in my budget. What I'm wondering is: i5 or i7? What will be the likely performance bottleneck? # of threads, single thread performance, or amount, or speed of ram?
Also, not really the topic of this thread, but if anyone has experience with Adobe products running virtualized, I gladly read it.
Charles Cox
How much space do you really need? If it's just 1TB you should go with a pure SSD instead, fucker.
>drive wood
Connor Cooper
I overclocked a 6600k to 4.4GHz yesterday, I think I accidentally underclocked it too and it crashed upon startup a few time. Setting the voltage back to "auto" didn't do anything so I just set it to 1.25v (it started off as 1.2v and online says don't go above 1.3v) Now it's working perfectly, but now that I actually did fuck with voltages I'm scared to do it again. I increased my voltage, does that mean 4.5GHz might work where it didn't before?
Adrian Gonzalez
"no"
Brandon Parker
I accidentally undervolted it at first*
Benjamin Butler
Gaming motherboards usually only cost a bit more than the non-gaming (doesn't have as many VRM heatsinks that are yes usually gaymer styled)
You buy a gaming motherboard because it does perform better.
Brayden James
You probably can't recommend one good motherboard with overclocking without asking to get the DELUXE EXTREME CAD $400 ASUS
Just pay $130 for the gaymen motherboard that allows you to OC
Leo Brooks
A 1TB SSD is too expensive, especially for a PS4. I just need an upgrade from a 500GB.
Why are they terrible?
Tyler White
Gigabyte Z170X-UD3/5. There you go.
>CAD A. FUCKING. LEAF.
Lucas Baker
Horrible reliability, speeds not comparable to SSD at all, and worse price/GB than HDDs Basically the worst parts of both HDDs and ssds
Jonathan Ward
that's basically a gaymen motherboard right there
ATX is really the only place they will put the gaymen features on your regular motherboard anyway with all the extra spice
if you go mATX or even mITX you wont have any fucking heatsinks unless you buy specifically gaming
Noah Perez
you're fucking wrong it loads game files faster which is what most people buy it for
Dylan Perry
>heatsink equals gaming Leave this board right now.
Cooper Rogers
that's exactly what it means when they partition what each motherboard is going to be designed for
Carson Collins
The mATX version of what he posted has classy black and yellow heatsinks But I will agree that motherboard manufacturers really like to save their good bits (like gagabyte and all full x16 PCIe slots) for their expensive gay men boards with red paint
Ethan Price
The Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 is what i got recently because it was well reviewed for Overclocking and had a lot of power phases, so it wont break for a while.
UD3 is essentially the same.
Most major brands have similar boards at those prices.
James Green
No it's not and you are retarded. If you can't supress your canadian urge to shitpost i suggest you go to Sup Forums or leddit.
Carter Evans
Of course it's much faster than an HDD but it's not reliable in the long term, NOWHERE near as fast as a straight SSD and there would be absolutely no reason to get it of you could connect two drives Just get an SSD and an USB expansion HDD
Mason Davis
>upgrade potato for muh gaymes >get more excited while picking parts, waiting a week for them to arrive, and building it than actually utilizing it for gaming I will probably just return to exclusively shitposting and musiclistenan with it in less than a week.
this is what i was referring to with your autism for "professional" and "business" branded stuff. They are just as overpriced.
David Mitchell
What's the difference between "desktop" and "surveillance" hard disks? Surveillance seem to have lower RPM and cost slightly more, is that the only difference?
Brody Cook
You cherry picked a gaming mobo with fucking LEDs on it. You might as well have chosen the Asus Pro Gaming Aura. All gaming mobos are overpriced because of the name tag, normal high-end mobos are not. You should also realize the higher the price the worse it's cost effectiveness, regardless of the name. You think that only gaming mobos have good features and heatsinks and that is just wrong and stupid.
Jacob Martin
The WD purps are designed to be writing 24/7 and are not designed to be fast or powered off every day
Christopher Barnes
Not that user, but I actually reached an idle temp of 14°C a while ago in Scotland with an air-cooled system. It was pretty fucking cold that day.
Owen Peterson
Thoughts on the Node 304? I want a compact case with good cooling and drive support.
Jose Lopez
PS4 doesn't support external drives. USB for save data backup and an external for system backup + format is about it.
Nicholas Sanchez
...
Cooper Morgan
from the little that i know about the different types of harddrives you are going to want a Desktop harddrive if youre going to be using a single HDD for regular storage. Since they likely have software built into them to correct Errors. where other harddrives, like Enterprise, are built to be put in Raid, where Errors arent as important since there are redundancies. So if you get errors, it wont fix them.
Jayden Hernandez
My PS3 did just fine, I actually had an external drive constantly plugged in and taped to my console and it werked
Cooper Gray
This isn't a PS3.
Bentley Lewis
Him again. Would it be worth dropping the GPU to a 2GB one if it's not going to be used all that much? Or would the 4GB be a good investment anyway? Any money from that would go towards a better processor/motherboard.
Cooper Smith
All right made some adjustments. Keeping the gaming motherboard because it improves performance....apparently. It seems to trigger some of ya'll. Got rid of the "budget" case, changed keyboard and mouse. I heard some complaints about the cooler- will it suffice? Case comes with three fans.
Thanks again for guiding me through this process guys.
Sebastian Johnson
Never go lower than 4GB retard
Jonathan Gonzalez
Then get a PS3 and install gentoo Or use a PC with multiply SATA ports Either way SSHDs are trash and your money is ultimately your responsibility
Jayden Jenkins
>$396 motherboard I take back what I said about top tier features being only on gaymen boards, your choice is fucking retarded and the $120 equivalent will be just as capable
Liam Perry
>is X better than Y It all depends on what you want from it, we told you this yesterday and we tell it today. Imho your main problem is that you don't know what you want. If you're on a tight budget and fear that an i3 won't cut it i suggest you get an i5 and use the iGPU for now. You can always get a dedicated GPU later on. Also get a used 24" monitor if money is an issue, all my 3 BenQ's are used and in good condition, saved me good money.
Colton Reyes
why
Matthew Baker
>$396.98
what the fuck are you even doing
Mason Morris
You retard are immune to any kind of advice whatsoever. No idea why you keep posting here.
Zachary Johnson
Wtf is a PS3 going to do for him when the question is about a PS4
Christian Brown
What is Sup Forums's thoughts on wireless KB/M?
Leo Bell
Sad! I've made changes what else needs to be done? I'm getting a different motherboard..
Connor Fisher
Get yourself a far cheaper fucking motherboard, you don't need one that's fucking $400. Change the size of RAM you have to 16GB, you probably don't need 32GB.
As for the wattage on that PSU, I haven't measured the watts required to use that system, but it seems a bit much. Try using this website to give yourself a rough idea if you truly need 850W: outervision.com/power-supply-calculator
Jaxson White
I did this to 4.3 and haven't had any issues. Just be sure to turn off intel speedstep or some shit like that.
John Martinez
Allow him to install Gentoo which will fix all of his current and future computer problems
Charles Garcia
You are an idiot.
Julian Bailey
I don't know
Sebastian Ramirez
>he can't even install Gentoo on his "modern" console >he didn't get $53 from sony just for installing Gentoo on his PS3 years ago