If you want help: >Assemble parts list pcpartpicker.com/ >State the budget for your build (and country if not USA) >List games/software you use often, as well as your monitor resolution + refresh rate >Clarify your goal for build improvements: lower price or improved specs? How to assemble a PC, select components & more (outdated) wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Build_a_PC
CPUs: No i5 unless discounted >G4560 - poverty-tier builds >R3 1200 - Budget builds (R3 1300x - Good stop-gap between the 1500x and the 1200, only get a 1400 if you absolutely need multithreading >R5 1500x - Good but up to 1600 if you can >R5 1600 - Best value for higher fps gaming / mixed usage; 1600x if you want higher stock clocks >R7/Used Xeon/Threadripper - Compute/Multitask/VM/mixed use; Not for just gaming
GPUs: Coin miners have driven price up and stock down, waiting to buy a GPU might be wiser >Integrated CPU Graphics - Desktop stuff and very light games >GTX 1050(Ti) - Lower end budget cards, drop settings on newer games, RX560 beaten by both >RX570 - 1080p@60~hz maxed, running most maxed older games at 100~Hz >RX580 and GTX1060 6GB - 1080p@80hz maxed, 1440p@60hz at lower settings; RX580 better in newer games >GTX 1070 or Vega 56 - 1080p@130hz /1440p@60hz at high >GTX 1080 - 1080p@144hz / 1440p@60hz maxed, 4k@60hz in a few games; Probably the highest end card you need for 1080p/1440p >GTX 1080Ti - 1440p@144hz and 4k@60hz maxed/high in many games >Good fucking luck even getting a VEGA right now
RAM: >Check your Mobo QVL before buying any RAM >Ryzen CPUs benefits a lot from high speed RAM
General: ALWAYS LOOK AT PRODUCT REVIEWS! Always consider an SSD. Try buying a large SSD for what you'd pay for your SSD+HDD combined, and add a HDD later NVMe SSDs aren't for a faster OS boot, they're for productivity/scratch disk/VMs. NVMe and M.2 are not the same thing, M.2 is a form factor
not sure about how well seasonic psus are made but looks fine for a super high end gayming build
Joseph Lopez
cant find vega 1070 or 1080 at reasonable prices so getting a 1080ti why wont miners just let me get my vega 56 havnt they learned they are losing money on power draw
Anthony Anderson
Why no mention of a 7700K in the OP?
Lincoln Williams
>Jewtel >Overpriced CPU cooler >$600 in storage. >500w would be enough for that shitty.build.
Bentley Morris
>pcpartpicker.com/list/6pQNM8 >almost $90 for a bunch of plastic spinning at high speeds I'm glad I went with ryzen I could buy additional drive for that fan price.
No ssd? Trust me you want that. If you really want to save some money just buy even the smallest ssd just for os.
Chase Watson
what is the best case under 50$ ?
Adrian Kelly
>He thinks everyone in this thread has his PC just for shitposting and programming
Chase Cook
With a ~$70 difference between the 1050 TI and the 1060 3GB, is jumping up to the 1060 for ~50% more fps the best move value wise right now?
Christopher Ortiz
When can we hope this overjewed graphic cards bullshit will end?
Juan Scott
1060 3gb is like $30 cheaper than 1060 6gb in my country so I think it's worthless card.
Alexander Gray
The 3GB is trash. It will tank is a lot of modern games. You want 4 GB minimum for modern gaming. So the 6GB 1060 would be the one to get
Dominic Taylor
Why were you thinking about the 1050 Ti in the first place if you don't care about spending another $70?
Luis Phillips
but can it run crysis ?
Owen Wright
Just bought EVGA 1060 6gb for $275. Please tell me I made the right decision.
Jaxson Allen
>The 3GB is trash. It will tank is a lot of modern games. Modern AAA games and/or unoptimized trash might "need" more than 3gb. Most of that is shit, fortunately.
Landon Cooper
I think that's pretty close to non-jewed price.
Brody Hernandez
You're a confirmed retard and might want to consider suicide. 1060 is shit for mining.
Alexander Hall
>TFW you have such a retarded idea for a tech innovation it sounds like it could plausibly work >TFW you're scared to tell people because they'll steal your idea and make millions off of your brain's labor
Joseph Butler
What 1440p/>100hz monitors would /pcbg/ recommend?
>buying a 1TB SSD as your only drive this pains me. that PSU is actually a little overboard, and you could get some 3200 ram or faster (not sure how well the fastest frequencies work with intel). but that's a very expensive build.
Colton Wilson
Pretty nice. If you can get 3200MHz ram for a few bucks more do it. And I would absolutely get an SSD.
Justin Scott
breddy gud. Only concern is the ram getting to 3200 and cpu cooler for overclocking. The stock is good for mild overclock (~3.6) but beyond that it runs out of steam.
Robert King
>blower 1080 >pretty shit case
Elijah Cox
XG2703
Luis Carter
AG241QX if you don't mind TN
Ian Baker
Currently building my PC. Everything is inside. However, when I turn on the power, only my motherboard lights up. When I try power it on at the power button, nothing happens.
I am not plugging in something clearly - any ideas?
Easton Sanchez
Is the power button plugged to the motherboard?
Alexander Foster
The front panel headers are probably off, those are a bitch to work with.
Juan Wood
Yep, that's all plugged in - including the 8 pin. I disconnected everything and left only them in with the hard drives all wired up - no CPU, no VGA (and the CPU socket supplied with my PSU is very odd in that it doesn't fit into the PSU) and only the motherboard lit up once more. I'm confused as to *what* should be plugged in.
As in what is supplied with the case? I keep fiddling around with them to no avail - maybe I just need to fiddle further...
Cooper Reyes
No, the literal power button you're pushing to start it, as said. Look at your motherboard manual. Some guy yesterday had literally the same problem and he wired the power button backwards.
Isaiah Sanchez
I came in at the tail end of the Dogecoins hype and made around $80 after paying off my video card. Only mined maybe a month, and this was the very end of anyone giving a shit.
Isaiah Allen
yes just not at max settings
Christopher Reed
Tell everyone that, because I had the exact same problem. Thank you for putting up with my stupidity.
Jackson Young
Does anyone else use contact cleaner on their CPU contacts to reduce voltage drop?
Brandon Jenkins
Twice in a row, that's funny. I hope the guy from yesterday sees this, it will make him feel better about his mistake.
Carson Gray
However, though it turns things on, it doesn't turn anything else but the fan and the motherboard on. I imagine this is a problem with the CPU and the VGA - but neither fit into the PSU well, nor have any place on the motherboard. What's the problem here?
Parker Gray
Correction: the graphics card fan, and presumably the graphics card, is also working. Just nothing seems to show.
Christopher Martinez
I don't see the point, I got my FX brand new and the voltage dips just because my board is shit and has no load line nonsense to help it.
Gabriel Ramirez
Just bought gtx 1080 from palit gamerock premium version, is this any good?
Adam Price
Does it actually help?
Gabriel Ross
New to this General
Why in the OP does it not recommend i7 or i5 unless discounted? I'm sure there's a good reason but I'd like to know what it is. I use an i5 in my HTPC and it runs pretty well.
Juan Cook
It's from the perspective of building a new PC. Taking into account it's on a new socket and they plan to support it for a while, Ryzen generally makes more sense. Price to performance, harder to find a better deal for a new system build.
FWIW, I'm still on a i5-2500 and it serves me fine.
Levi Jones
Yeah, shitty motherboard is going to matter more than the CPU contacts. Yeah, barely. If you have a good motherboard, it's one more thing you can do to make things run better, it'll barely drop the resistance, which means lower voltage and less heat.
Isaac Rodriguez
Not as much as just spending the extra 30$ on a better cpu and mobo in the first place.
Daniel Martinez
Too late if you already own a motherboard and CPU, and there's an eBay seller selling it for only $15 shipped right now.
Eli Ramirez
I bought a 7700k and ddr4 4233. It was worth it. Feel bad for people doing high refresh on ryzen.
Noah Martinez
My cpu fan just came in today. The box was opened but everything is still inside, should i be worried? Not all my pc parts are in, so i can't test out everything.
Dylan Martinez
I wouldn't worry if everything's in good shape, my Hyper TX3 cooler had a few bent fins while being perfectly sealed, had to bend that shit back the way it was before I put it on.
Nathaniel Diaz
Yeah, i bought the H7 cryhorig and it says to "return if registration card is missing" but it's still here so.. yeah.
Liam Campbell
>Debate buying Thermaltake care with fancy RGB fans >RGB fans are connected to a separate controller that needs to be taped to the inside of the case
Why.
Nolan Morales
R9 Fury for ~$280, GTX 980 for ~250 or 980Ti for ~330? Gayming at 1080p and will be pairing it with a R5 1600. 750 W XFX PSU.
Joseph Watson
Because Jayztwocents.
Michael Russell
980 or 980Ti, 4GB is to much of an issue for the fury.
>pc dies but it was old and cheap >carefully build a new one that'll be perfect for me >finally gather the funds and order it all >last part comes in today >won't turn on at all >spend three hours trying everything google and I can think of >finally bring it to local pajeet since I can't test the psu or motherboard myself [spoiler]psu was faulty[spoiler] I'm so fucking mad
Hunter Bailey
you had your old PCs psu, you know...
Colton Reyes
threw it also was too weak
Blake Wright
how much power do you think does a modern PC need idling?
David Diaz
probably about 550W?
Ian Watson
far below 100
Andrew Gray
Lmao my housefire of a pc uses 298w worst case scenario.
Thomas Carter
my new one was that my old was 500. Luckily Bestbuy 30 miles over has some psus I'm gonna check out its only a bronze but I'm tired of waiting
Caleb Turner
my old psu was 350W and it wasnt enough
Kevin Myers
it was more than enough to start it up and check if it everything else is OK. It probably wouldn't even have crapped out (as in shut down because it can't deliver enough power without voltage dropping/ripple going to shit) if you put load on CPU and GPU, but that's just guessing
Carter Walker
I'm new. Why is that solo 1TB SSD bad?
David Nguyen
SSDs are more unreliable than HDDs meme. Hasn't been true for years.
Lincoln Perez
Does linux run well on mac hardware?
Liam Cox
HDD and monitor are on the way, CPU is OC'd to 3.8 at 1.35 v
Thomas Jenkins
this was taking while playing vidya btw
Jacob Martin
Does Linux run well on an incredibly widespread hardware platform? I really ro wonder
Levi Cox
Anyone got a Vega 56 from Amazon shipped yeT?
Ayden Hernandez
>70 degrees Must sound like a jet engine in your room
Austin Gutierrez
Not really it's super quiet. Plus I play with headphones on so it doesn't even matter.
Jack Foster
I just want a 580 or Vega 56 at MSRP. Hell even 1060s and 1070s.
This whole mining situation has made comp building total shit this entire time and going into fall now.
I'm even tempted to buy a goddamn 1050ti just to HAVE a card to use in a build because I had everything sitting in a corner already besides a GPU.
Evan Scott
>70 degrees >Blower fan >Super quiet Yeah. My i5 is also better than R5 1600.
Jose Bennett
Damn, blower vega is hot.
Carter Davis
It's actually quiet.70°C isn't even hot under load lmao.
Grayson Bell
Is my i5 6600k better than ryzen 1600?
Kevin Jackson
>70°C isn't even hot under load lmao. >This is what AMDdrones think
Easton Kelly
>4 core babby lake i5 >better than ryzen lmao What's your 1070 run under load?
Matthew James
Everything is better than the other company brand as long as you take the redpill
Noah Garcia
Im getting the i5 for free anyways
Grayson Collins
...
Chase Adams
>6 degrees hotter than vega 64 under load what is this trying to prove?
David Taylor
>70 degrees isn't hot >Blower fans aren't loud Vega idiots are really something else aren't they?
Connor Bell
>thinks he can critique a product he doesn't own >1070 and 1080/ti both run hotter than vega 64 Lmao