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 Tips: >Consider substituting an i5 6500 for an i3 in any RX470/480 or GTX 1060 tier build >Consider substituting an i5 for an i7 if you are not a content creator >Consider stock fan+heatsink for any i3 or locked i5 build >Consider a B150 mobo for any i3 build >Always consider an SSD for your build, the difference between one and an HDD is night and day
>General build advice including chipset compatibility, power supply advice, Windows activation information. pastebin.com/9Pbm4nHL
If you see any other build advice or part list threads, direct them here with Remember: Be nice and courteous, but don't tolerate people who don't accept help.
Where could I find an ancient beige ATX pizza box case to mod
Matthew James
What if I'm not a manlet and can't physically build it like that?
Justin Thompson
cut off someone's legs and glue them to your feet
Jason Watson
You know once the 12V ATX main cable is plugged in, everything on the motherboard is grounded to the PSU Plug the PSU into the wall, and everything is already grounded
Colton Cooper
But that'll only make me taller, user.
Jason Cruz
your *tables feet, my bad
Adrian Morales
like so
Jack Ramirez
pcpartpicker.com/list/FyFkbj sandy i3 to ivy i5 because I was tired of seeing it in the closet. Need to finish it so my anime body pillow can play gaems with me.
pop a 7.2k 1tb in it and call it good?
get a ssd/hdd and 16gb ram?
also I have 2x 120 fans in it now, should I just put two more in or get 2x 200mm and use one fan in the side panel?
Isaac Butler
You may be onto something there, my dude.
Angel Cox
then you add a power outlet extension thing and add christmas ligh- er, I mean RGB lights on it and bring it to CES 2018, startup your own company
Ryder Watson
Constructive Criticism Needed
first time building, don't want to replace anything in a long ass time, $2k tops pcpartpicker.com/list/c8LTjc >rate
Luis Brown
I assume with that liquid cpu cooler and 750w psu you're going to be OCing? You already have an hdd lying around?
Carson Miller
I just finished building my computer and missing a shit load of programs from my old computer like sai, ps6, sony vegas etc. what torrent sites do you guys use now a'days that don't ooze with sketch?
Noah Jones
yes Overclock both GPU, CPU i have another SSD already
Grayson Cruz
nah, thats just to keep a kaby lake cpu at resonable temps at stock
Bentley Gray
unfunny
Jaxson Hall
The only difference between different i5 processors of the same generation is minor speed increase, right? there's no clear "this one is better value for money than this one" answer.
i5 7600 vs 7500 for example
William Cruz
YES AN NO, BUT GENERALLY YES
/CRUISE CONTROL
Julian Morgan
Would a 600-650w PSU be find eo OCing the 6600K to 4.5Ghz along with the RX 470 in this build?
if you have the money, an i7 will help stabalize your FPS which reduce FPS drops and lets you play on an higher average graphics setting
but if you want the best bang for your buck get an i5
i've been here longer than you
Michael Green
inb4 "50% load" meme
Ethan Bailey
>missing the point again
Michael Kelly
Why can't I boot off of my SSD? I had W10 installed on my laptop HDD which it's now using to get into my SSD- through Windows Boot Manager. But I can't boot directly off of my SSD. It won't show up in the BIOS list.
William Myers
>implying you have one
have you tried other cables and the other sata ports? check your AHCI mode in BIOS.
Jayden Bailey
omfg haha
Evan Murphy
It can boot off of it through the other HDD- I'm running on it now. And the BIOS can also see it through force-boot, but it won't boot through that.
Gabriel Butler
Any sales coming up on newegg or anything? about to build an entire pc and need any price cuts I can.
Andrew Collins
Wait for Zen, there won't be any price cuts anytime soon.
Jace Ward
Allow me to interject. What you're referring to as Zen, is actually RY+ZEN, or as I've recently taken to calling it RYZEN.
Ethan Morris
>current year >arguing about semantics Zen, Ryzen, Summit Ridge.. call it whatever you want, AMD doesn't know what to call it themselves.
Aaron Ward
Building a Pc for gaming and a bit of software development:
When I ran Cinebench, I noticed that the the clock speeds of my FX 6300 cores were fluctuating in HWiNFO.
But when I play games nothing like that happens
It passes intelburntest
Should I be concerned?
Jackson Turner
Denmark. Why is it shit?
Chase Bennett
is the corsair crystal series any good? they dont look they have holes for side fan mounting. do the 3 front fans do a good enough job?
Gavin Kelly
Mobo is bare minimum, cooler is trash, no 3000 RAM, SSD is meh, case is probably overpriced where you life and only bronze PSU, although from SeaSonic.
>is the corsair crystal series any good? Overpriced gaymen meme. >do the 3 front fans do a good enough job? If they have decent exhaust yes. Many cases don't have side fans and run cool.
Bentley Diaz
Can someone recommend me a build for 1600$~ with gtx 1080? No ssd/hdd required, I do want an i7 7700k and z270 motherboard if possible
Dylan Powell
pls
Andrew Myers
Germany is a shit country for building as most of /eu/ is, parts are expensive as shit. >tfw actually contemplating a pre-built PC
And with my 700-900€ budget I'll probably get shit at best.
Adam Butler
There, better rams: pcpartpicker.com/list/LHHMyf What is a better suited PSU? And why would i choose a bigger/better mobo?
Brandon Bennett
why are you buying last generation stuff? kaby lake can hit 5Ghz easy if you have a decent cooler (you should change yours) and its not much more expensive.
use komplett.dk or something instead
Jackson White
Yep, you get shit (on) at best. Thank Mutti Merkel and EU for all the extra taxes. t. fellow german
>What is a better suited PSU? SeaSonic G series or EVGA G2/3. >And why would i choose a bigger/better mobo? Better OC potential and features if you need them. Also get rid of that useless Artic Freezer. That thing is ok for locked CPUs but that's it.
Lincoln Hill
>better OC potential he has a z170 in the list and OC has less to do with mobo these days and more with luck getting decent silicone and a lot to do with heat
Colton Campbell
>Consider a B150 mobo for any i3 build why bad advice and no reason for paying more
Thomas Cox
Yeah silicon lottery is a problem but even then, a mobo with worse VRM like the one on the MSI will be overall worse than for example the excellent VRM on the UD5.
Austin Lopez
this is in SEK just divide by 10 to get € or use google to get danskjävelkronor
Ayden Powell
New CPU and PSU: pcpartpicker.com/list/MpfzHN How much noise does the noctua nh d14 generate? And is there really any benefit to another mobo? Z270 is not sold in my country.
Christopher Ross
I dont know if this is the place to ask this, but college has forced me to get a laptop for gayman and rendering, as opposed to a rig. Looking around I found that companies like PCspecialist and I think others offer custom laptops, self-built desktop style. Is this a good option for the bang for the buck, is it reliable, is it good in general? Or should I stick to normal 'prebuilt' laptops?
If prebuilt is the way, how can I sift throught the myriad of option for the best laptops?
(different person) i went with the Gigabyte Z170x UD5 because of all the Mosfets thingys, power phases, and overclocker reviews.
more power phases = cooler power thingys = longer motherboard life span + more efficient & Accurate power delivery to the cpu. = safe stable overclocking for a long time.
noctua is known for being durable and quiet.
James Walker
>How much noise does the noctua nh d14 generate? Less than your tilted Intel Stock cooler. >And is there really any benefit to another mobo? Yes. >Z270 is not sold in my country Just get Skylake, Kaby Lake isn't worth the premium over Skylake in EU.
UD5 makes me wet, but it's too expensive and i don't need the features, but... WANT BUY.
>noctua Ridiculous prices but absolutely worth it. I'm kinda excited what new arrivals they'll have in 2017. They've been experimenting with new designs and materials.
Carson Cooper
>Just get Skylake, Kaby Lake isn't worth the premium over Skylake in EU. no, wait for (ry)zen and hope intel drops the price on kaby. kaby OCs far easier than skylake
>>noctua >Ridiculous prices but absolutely worth it here in sweden they're not even the most expensive and we barely have half the options as burgerland
Aaron Sanchez
I'm the user that had a problem with the drivers on a Windows 7 installation, but I was able to install a Windows 7 ultimate n edition copy. My problem is upgrading to Windows 10, I can't get it through accessibility because the key that worked with the iso is invalid for some reason, and the Daz loader tells me that it is an unsupported operating system. I was thinking of just installing an inactivated windows 10 and using kmspico to download, but I can't seem to make an install iso without a product key.
Luis Miller
>no, wait for (ry)zen True, Ryzen is our hope, i'm waiting as well.
>and hope intel drops the price on kaby. >jews >dropping prices >ever Is it nice to live in your dream world? How is it called?
>kaby OCs far easier than skylake No. It OC's higher, but not easier since it's TIM sucks ass and get hot very easily and reaches 100°C on air @5GHz. Imho one should replace the TIM for Kaby Lake OC with either liquid metal or Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, you can easily get 10-30°C. Intel had this issue since Ivy Bridge i believe, but Kaby Lake is affected more than Skylake was.
>here in sweden they're not even the most expensive and we barely have half the options as burgerland So i heard. A friend of mine lived some time in Norway and it's no different there. Here in Germany we have good availability but horrible prices. 6660K costs like 245€ here, that's just blatant theft by state and EU.
Mostly doing this for memes, most demanding shit I'll play is probably online chess and maybe some CSGO on the weekend lmao. (I should probably get a 144hz monitor, will this be good enough for vr btw? Might try that out)
James Richardson
only reason they havent dropped prices in the last decade is because AMD havent had a good competitor
i dont know anything about laptops, but it sounds like you need a workstation kind of thing.
a desktop variety i7 at least 16gb or ram an ssd and whichever gpu you can afford i guess for faster rendering, smoother experience working within whatever software youre using, faster saving and loading of large files.
Pentium G4560 is as good as the i3-6100 and $30 cheaper
Cooper Diaz
>implying they're just releasing one model >implying intel doesnt have alternatives yes i can see you're mentally ill, go ahead and buy that extremely outdated architecture and dead socket
Brayden Gonzalez
z170 mobo, faster ram and decent cooler so you can OC
save up more money if you cant afford it right now, you will be saving money in the long run because you wont have to upgrade as soon.
Oliver Hughes
Nigga, try to haul a desktop in a bike 5km every day to a university for 4 years, then you can call me a bitch all you want.
Aaron Ward
What's the cheapest build I can make just for internet browsing/video streaming? Including Windows OS price. Is it possible to get sub $200?
This is my upgrade package, its going into a Cosmos 1000 with a Geforce980 and storage.
A couple questions Is there anything I need to do when switching from an amd to intel mobo/cpu? If I bought a retail version of windows 7 and upgraded, will I be able to switch out the mobo without buying a new license?
Ryan Jackson
buy used
>Geforce980 what
>Is there anything I need to do when switching from an amd to intel mobo/cpu? format and reinstall
>If I bought a retail version of windows 7 and upgraded you cant do that now
>will I be able to switch out the mobo without buying a new license just fucking pirate the version you want
Michael Sanders
get a cheap ass laptop with decent battery life and a warranty and spend the difference between that and the ROOG STREAX VRRRRR-18xXx360n0_sc0pe
and build a decent box for rendering.
Josiah Lopez
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Benjamin Bennett
you've been a ton of help /pcbg/
Parker Smith
>pleb case >corsair cx
Noah Turner
You might be missing a component m8.
Ian Gonzalez
So the PC I want to build is going to cost me ~$2300.
lol
Dominic Garcia
Pic related, my desired build.
Ayden Green
I'm looking for a good deal on a decent quality 2.5" 256gb SSD. Does anyone know what brands I should look out for? Also I'm in Canada
Matthew Watson
0/10 absolute dogshit.
Aaron White
they were both free and the 390x was $165. I think its a good start.
Juan Johnson
>he thinks the CX is bad
in reality it's one of the better bronzes out there and you're paying double for gold you'll never need.
Elijah Long
bye bye old i3, you served me well.
Jaxon Butler
Any constructive criticism or tips to improve it?
Bentley Murphy
basic specs seem fine enough. not going to comment on your peripherals because really that's your choice.
Easton Lopez
How could I improve it without blowing my budget out even further? The peripherals I've got no problem with changing as I literally just clicked whatever was most popular and I could actually buy in Straya.
Oliver Ramirez
Honest advice: If you can't make out your mistakes you're better off buying a prebuilt package that comes with the PC, OS installed and peripherals.
Kevin Sanchez
Or you could tell me what mistakes I've made so I can actually learn.
Xavier Reyes
I don't even know the aus market or the current exchange r8 m8. neither does he just came here to rustle your jimmie
seems decent but I would go ex480 and a freesync monitor and shave the peripherals down some.
Isaac Jenkins
Or you could not ask people to spoon feed you and simply do your research or be a good goy and pay the premium for tech illiterates.
