Post your component list, rate other anons', and 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; built-in price comparisons by vendor and a 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/ >Subsitute a G4560 with 2400MHz RAM for the i3-6100 in any build; same performance, half the price. >Consider stock fan+heatsink for any i3 or locked i5 build without a Z mobo >Consider a B150 or H110 mobo for any i3 build >Add a 240GB SSD to the "Great" tier build
General build advice including chipset compatibility, power supply advice, Windows activation information. pastebin.com/9Pbm4nHL >Outdated, does not including info about 200 series chipsets
Is 1.32 volts a lot of voltage to get a 6600k to 4.5GHz? I've read that 1.3v was already pretty high
Blake Taylor
I want to cum inside Nanami-chan!
Luis Cox
Thats a shitload of volts for an Intel chip - possibly dangerously so.
Brandon Powell
You're too high.
Xavier Ross
Online people are regularly posting over (and under) 1.3v for their skylake overclocks, I had mine at 1.25v/4.3GHz but I saw a video of some guy using 1.45v so I assumed 1.32v couldn't be that bad Is temperature the only danger or can high voltage damage my CPU even at normal temps?
Adrian Hernandez
Aren't electrostatic bags supposed to be very dangerous on the outside? I thought the whole point was that the inside of the bag was electrically isolated from the outside
Cameron Martinez
Any recommendations on a z270 mobo? 7700k going in it, but from what I've read all z series will overclock, so not sure what the point of a $300 mobo would be. I have no m.2 drive yet, but plan and getting one, I use it for gaming, specifically single threaded games that need strong cores, and music creation.
Levi Martin
MSI z270 SLI seems to be working fine. No ugly LED's on the motherboard either, like gigabyte garbage
Jacob Hill
This one? All of the Gigabyte midrange have no led's, but the initial reviews seem to be they run hot out of the box, like 10C above asus and msi.
Aiden Gomez
1.45v is absolutely insane for Intel chips - hell most of AMD's 8 core fx chips run below 1.45v. You don't pump that through a chip without knowing what you are doing.
Colton Reyes
Gigabyte ultra durable is the go-to lineup for /pcbg/ MSI used to be complete trash, worse reputation than asrock for a while, I don't know if the new ones still are now, I never wanted to find out
I don't know what the "plus version" adds, besides being uglier.
Robert Carter
What was trash about them exactly? (not him btw)
Brody Price
The spec sheet apparently says the limit for skylake is 1.53v if I stay below that and within safe temps it shouldn't hurt the CPU right? What is the worst that could happen from 1.33v of high voltage? (I guess the voltage limit is higher than I thought too) I don't know at all myself, I'm just seeing half the people online say 1.3+ is too high and half the people online run 1.4v saying it's fine
Blake Baker
Quality control Same problem with basically any and every motherboard. Features aren't a big deal now, it's all built into the chipset, motherboards basically come down to which chipset it uses, what slots it has, and build quality
Luke Jackson
What do I need to know? I don't know what I'm doing, all I've changed is the multiplier and the vcore Do I need to adjust other things to keep it running cool and stable?
Austin Diaz
Yeah but I mean... do they just suddenly stop working or come DOA.
I have a MSI z270 board so I'm worried now.
Nolan Flores
I've always used gigabyte, and love the dual bios and they do last when running 24/7, but hate the io panel it ships with.
This makes me feel better, seeing so many people ranging up to 1.4v and above. Interesting that 4.5GHz is achievable at lower voltages, but 4.6GHz and above generally needs well over 1.3v I'll see if I can get it stable at 4.6 without bumping the voltage too high (maybe 1.35 should be my max?)
Chase James
>150 for this shitpile of a board >Z170 UD3 and has better VRM Union Point boards are so ridiculously stupid priced. Fuck Kaby Lake and fuck Intel for this.
Brandon Gray
If you can cool it, clock it.
This does mean keeping an eye on your motherboard as well at high(er) voltages.
Wyatt Anderson
>video game console assembly general.
Damn, for a second I thought there was a general here for shit like NES ASM programming. Got my hopes up.
Leo Mitchell
>Z170 UD3 >better VRMs No it doesn't. Just compare the number of power phases and the chokes they used.
Jose Price
t. gigabyte shill
Alexander Williams
No, we just assemble parts for Windows-based video game consoles here
Matthew Davis
Number of phases isn't everything, by that logic ASRock would be the best choice for everything. >the chokes they used Source?
Gigabyte UD and mid-tier MSI boards use the same exact chokes from the same factory.
Daniel Clark
I'm thinking of getting a GPU. Due to size and power restrictions I was looking at Zotac's GTX 1050 Ti Am I correct in assuming I'll be able to play all current games at a stable 30fps?
The processor is an i7-7700t
Thomas Stewart
no, solid mobos despite what Sup Forums says in fact I'd argue they're the best mobo manufactorers in the world at the moment
Brandon Rogers
Purpose- Gaming Budget- 800$ not including processor I have a hard drive, power supply, tower, and an optical drive i don't know a lot about computer parts so I've been asking friend what to get but i don't know what is the best brands for quality and performance wise
Dylan Williams
For a processor i was thinking an AMD
Easton Peterson
Great source, you mind if I quote you in this email I'm writing to gigabyte and MSI?
Adrian Edwards
You're not fucked until it breaks. Until that day, enjoy it, as it will work properly until it doesn't
Juan Cruz
She is not for lewding!
Nicholas Kelly
assuming you won't overclock
get a z270 motherboard and an i7-7700k
for the GPU get a gtx 1080 then 16gb of DDR4 ram 2400 what is your power supply? you might need a new one, looking at that pic it seems your parts are quite old
Daniel Gonzalez
They are a few years old the power supply is a 100-240v the hard drive is 1 terabyte It is very simular to the one in the pic
Gabriel Jenkins
>the power supply is a 100-240v kek that's good to know but what about the wattage?
Lucas Walker
>source = my ass
Nathan Young
Just shows how much i know, it is a 550
Xavier Watson
>assuming you won't overclock >suggests OC mobo and unlocked CPU Are you retarded?
Christopher Turner
>get a gtx 1080 Thats already pushing $800 budget
Nolan Flores
I'd just prefer to stay under $1,000
Carson Jenkins
Anything but a 8350 is ultra shit, and even an 8350 is shit, just get an i3 and a RX480, a tiny SSD and a cheap HDD, plus the rest of the computer
Jace Moore
Is it true that i7 is just a meme and that you're better off sticking with i5 even with high end GPU?
Jason Torres
I've heard that but couldn't find out which is truly the best
Oliver Wood
Hyperthreading is not a meme, it's just that many applications (mostly games) can't use it to it's full potential But when you can use hyperthreading fully, you get some immense gains, similar to adding extra cores
Colton Thompson
What monitor are you playing games on? Would you consider a monitor upgrade later on?
Samuel Gray
So I guess the next question is would games be able to utilize hyper-threading anytime soon?
Even though I'm trying to 'futureproof' as much as I can (big budget), I don't want to spend extra on hardware that isn't going to benefit me anytime soon.
John Evans
With DX12 taking off and Vulkan so widely praised it would look that way. But even last year that wasn't the case and only some games were using plenty of threads (battlefield1 for example) While I do think a quad core i5 will be enough to handle future games (I'm using a 6600k now), an i7 wouldn't be a bad choice, especially if you do more than just play games. But as it stands now, speed is still more important than threads and i5's are just as fast as i7's thread vs thread
Luke Reed
The monitor is an Asus, couldn't tell you any more about it
Jace Gomez
What CPU cooler do you guys recommend?
Kayden Price
Not on Skylake.
>pic related
Connor Gonzalez
Budget and CPU?
Noah Rogers
>Nearly 1.6v at 5GHz
Nathaniel Rogers
$50 intel Core i5-6600K
Easton Scott
Hyper 212 evo and $25 of weed
Joshua Gutierrez
Cryorig H7 or H5. Don't listen to this degenerate. Weed is for niggers and loser NEETs and the H7 is better than the 212.
>HTPC >ATX You might as well get a standard tower, why bother with HPTC if you don't want to save space?
Brandon Allen
Hyper 212 evo and $25 of meth to rice your desktop all night
Eli Hall
Interesting, thanks for the insight.
This will be a tough decision for me. My history indicates that when I create a new build I hang on to it for a long time. [spoiler]Although I make a lot more money now so I will probably be LOL to that because that's eventually what this hobby turns you into.[/spoiler]
Asher Gray
>taking any drugs >ever
Joshua Cox
I can't seem to find a smaller board with an M.2 and built-in Bluetooth and WiFi. Either that or I suck at finding them. Also forgot the Power supply.
Jaxon Johnson
>Either that or I suck at finding them You suck at finding them. There are many mATX Union Point boards with M.2 support, i guess a fair portion also supports WiFi, no idea about ITX though. Also, if you want to OC then imho you shouldn't get a HTPC build, cooling on those is almost always an issue unless you want to spend stupid money on a capable ITX board, case and AIO.
Easton Brooks
Hello, Printed Circuit Board General.
Henry Price
What is a Graphics Card that you guys would recommend? stay under $500
Brandon Price
Idk how much a GTX1080 costs in US, if it's over $500 then the only logical choice is a 1070.
Thomas Brown
>have country set as australia on pcpartpicker >550 bucks for a new motherboard and stuff >set country to usa >380 dollerydoos just fuck me up
David Perez
how many of you unashamedly have ricer LED builds?
Ian Ward
well it's adjusted to your higher wages
Angel Lopez
Has anyone here built their own case? What do I need to know? I'm going to be building an itx aluminium case for a mini pc
Guys my pc keeps shutting down while gaming, this can be 5 mins into opening the game or 5 hours.
Something's wrong with the PSU right?
Adam Gonzalez
Gaming at 1080p/144hz
GTX 1060 or GTX 1070
Bentley Turner
if you have a system that can both pull the frames and resolution for the games you want to play, then I guess go for it, if not, don't waste your money.
Then get a good 1070, there's no other reasonable choice with a budget of $500.
The fans are trash, rest looks decent.
Benjamin Gray
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Lucas Flores
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Jeremiah Gomez
ok, what do you play? witcher 3 or cs:go level demanding games, something in the middle?
Jonathan Hernandez
>The fans are trash, rest looks decent. What do you recommend for fans?
Camden Fisher
lol not even a button on the case to change the color, fucking shite
Brayden Morgan
lol i got like 400 hours on witcher 3
Matthew Martinez
Noctua NF-A or Be Quiet! Pure/Silent Wings 2/3.
Kayden Peterson
well in that case, the monitor is a big meme, save yourself a couple hundred dollars and go with a 1440p 60hz monitor.
Ian Reed
im thinking 1080p 144 though
Camden Mitchell
bump
David Rivera
1070 if you want to keep the card for some time.
Aaron Murphy
for AAA games, you're still not going to be pulling those kinds of framerates, with the 1080, you can play at play a locked 60 at 1440 and very playable 4k. you can forget about playing at 144hz without lowering the settings by a lot or playing less demanding games.
Brandon Roberts
Is there a way to force my graphics card to draw 1440p even if i only have a 1080p monitor? I want to run some tests and see if it would be worth it with my own hardware
Kayden Green
How does this look? I'm going to point out now that in the long run I 40% of the total cost will be returned/reimbursed and so with this cart, it effectively costs around £570.
What would you add/replace? Main storage will be backed off the a Synology DS1515+ or DS1815+
OS/Lightroom Catalog/Games to be stored on the main SSD. Only thing I'm really unsure on is the configuration of local storage and possible caching in lightroom etc. A part of me wants a PCIe SSD, would it make a significant enough difference?
Adrian Nguyen
neither
You need a 1080 to stay at 144fps constantly even at that res
Brayden Powell
I've never heard of that being done or even possible, my best bet is to just continue with looking at the benchmarks, and drawing conclusions from there. I'm sure someone here can give more input on the matter. also, nice quads.