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 How to assemble a PC, select components & more (outdated) wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Build_a_PC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
Currently using an i5 2500k and gtx 970, can't decide on either a 1080 or a 1700x mainly for having discord/Firefox on one monitor, guild wars 2 in the other.
Ian Green
What's the link? Look pretty nice desu
Christopher Gonzalez
I'd get the Ryzen, that GTX 970 is pretty strong.
Josiah Nguyen
I like them, Link?
Xavier Murphy
Nice, I'm going to need a link.
Gavin Campbell
ryzen 5 1600 is more than enough for your usage
Aaron Gray
That's another thing I'm at a crossroads with, mostly because the 1700x got brought down to 299 again. I may get 1600 then instead.
Andrew Murphy
If i want to use the 144hz meme in my new monitor, the R5 1600 will be enough? Or I must stick with 7700k?
Adam Robinson
should i OC my vega 64 if im stuck with a 750w psu right now?
Wyatt Phillips
no
Kayden Harris
well how much more headroom should i give myself?
Robert Carter
You can get faster ram for the same price, and you might want to check out a Phanteks P400
You dont need a 1700 for gaming senpai. Save some money and go for 1600
Brayden Parker
Not from the US and I don't want to wade through unfamiliar sites but your build should look like something like this:
Antec GX500 ASUS PRIME B350-PLUS AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 3.6 GHz 18MB EVGA GQ 650W Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2400MHz CL14 Vengeance LPX ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Dual OC Samsung 850-Series EVO 500GB
This comes in under 1000€, and without EU existential taxes and currency compensation, it should be at around $900. Either treat yourself to a a 2-3TB HDD or a standard IPS 24" FHD monitor.
You should see what deals you can score first, not necessarily copy and paste this list.
Camden Adams
Google patch dynamics, I'll be the first result.
They'll be tree fiddy each at 3" long. I going to stick one to the inside of my case personally.
Cooper Phillips
who likely is it that a lot of devs will start optimizing for 6 cores since a lot of new pcs will have ryzen 1600s?
And I forgot about a CPU cooler, but that should just be an extra $50 or so.
Nathan Wilson
AAA games already use 6+ cores and with Kaby Lake release (6 cores i5/i7) it's going to get more common, no one actually gives a shit about AMD users. Indie garbage and games from smaller devs will continue to use 2-4 cores and rely on single threaded performance, because they're too retarded to optimize their shit for 6+ cores.
Mason Butler
Looking to buy a new monitor for making games/watching movies/ps4.
Is the BENQ GW2470H any good? I see it's on sale for £100 from £180.
Hudson Kelly
terrible build. >shit case >1500x instead of 1600 >psu could be better >slow ram >3gb 1060 >prioritising ssd instead of cpu/gpu i hope no one takes you seriously
Jose Thomas
Then make it better with a monitor and for less than 1000 dollars.
Brayden Howard
Good deal?
Andrew Foster
Fucking hilarious
Jason Cooper
yeah jump on that right now
Cameron Wood
Ahahahahahahaha no.
Asher Gray
I thought I was in a ylyl thread for a moment You can't be serious
Brody Brown
user is a casual gamer on a budget.
Even the 1500x is overkill for his usage, and he wont be playing anything over 1080p@60hz anytime soon, so the 1060 is just right and anything over it is a waste.
>this $40 case is shit compared to this $80 case, even on a budget, duh
And no one else replied to the guy, stop being a cunt.
James Phillips
Worth $500.
Kayden Perry
Contrast isn't amazing and colours aren't great but for the price its alright, if I where you I'd spend 220 on a nice Samsung monitor.
Daniel Allen
Did they mention their free 1 year warranty is included for a limited time as well?
Asher Watson
I hope someone unironically buys this
Josiah Powell
...
Benjamin King
I actually not only game, but also program and edit videos. I think I will kill the budget shit. This is how it's going: pcpartpicker.com/list/2Yjvyf
Hudson Davis
Dear lord, wew.
Joshua Davis
This should be an OP image at some point
Ian Perry
I vote next thread
Ethan Carter
>Getting the Budget 1440p/165hz Gsync monitor
At least get the XB271HU or PG279Q
Juan Sanders
anyone have a recommendation for a 1 to 4k computer that can screen record? I'm knew to this pc stuff since I trade crypto only and I don't really care about the parts I just was wondering if anyone already has a premade list of parts for a computer like this in the 1 to 4k range ty
Jeremiah Green
Opinions on my build?
>165hz Why though?
Dylan Gonzalez
kys
Thomas Gonzalez
>40GB um
Christopher Cox
>start off with poorfag neetbudget >ends up with a youtube pro gamer setup
meh, I'm not about to nag, did the same thing with another hobby this year
Anthony Anderson
Old 4gb cards + two new 16gb cards They're fully compatible and all the memory benchmarks show a good increase in performance.
Hudson Wood
which GTX 1080 is the best in case of temperature, noise and performance.
Want to order one soon & dont know with which custom card i should go
John Wright
i am sure there are kids who beg their parents to buy this piece of shit
Austin Rodriguez
Case: SilentiumPC Regnum RG2 Pure Black MoBo: MSI B350 PC MATE CPU: Ryzen 7 1700X Cooling: SilentiumPC Fortis 3 HE1425 v2 PSU: SilentiumPC Supremo L2 550W GPU: MSI(?) Geforce 1060 (1070 if I do well this month) RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200 Mhz 2x8 GB SSD: GoodRam CX300 240GB SATA 3 HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 6Gb/s SATA Optical Drive: Asus BW-16D1HT
Whew, that should do the trick. What do you think, Sup Forums? Also, Win7 or Win10?
Jayden Lopez
dude I'd totally order one. They look really nice.
Ian Reed
I'm wanting to have a Linux host, then GPU passthrough to a Windows guest for all my gaming needs.
I'll also be trying my hand at game/app design with Blender, Unity, etc.
Should I go Ryzen 7 or ThreadRipper 1900?
Kayden Watson
>why though
Smoother? It allows you to fully utilize your gpu. You already have a 1080, why bottleneck your experience with your monitor.
You know how playing at 60fps makes 30fps look choppy? Same thing happens when you consistently play at 100+fps and move back to 60. I have a 60hz monitor next to my XB271HU and even while browsing it looks like my cursor is getting caught on something and bouncing around.
Jeremiah Davis
Probably Ryzen 7, I doubt the extra PCIe lanes would be useful to you for those workloads.
Luis Allen
He might be wondering why 165hz instead of 144hz because even the latter is very difficult to maintain at 1440
Matthew Williams
What would require the extra PCI-E lanes?
Jayden Rivera
bump?
Jose Davis
Depends entirely on if you need quad-channel memory or the extra PCIe lanes.
Anthony Collins
High I/O workloads that can use SSD RAID configurations like 4k/8k video editing, some machine learning, in-memory databases, big data, etc.
Connor Turner
I don't know, I tried a 144hz monitor at my friends place and I just didn't feel like it was significant enough of an improvement from 59hz to justify the huge price difference. But that could be just my personal preference and the fact I'm a starving poor uni student.
Also what said, I have a 1440p monitor and my GTX 1080 dropped from 160fps in bf4 on a 1080p to 80fps on my new 1440p.
Brody Parker
>tfw have to make the choice between 144Hz or 4k
I'm probably going to go 4k. I'd rather have moar pixels.
Isaac Baker
stay mad nocoiner i made over 80k from this in 3 months, you'd have to be daft to trash talk crypto
Daniel King
Honestly I'd say most can't notice the difference between 144hz and 165hz even side by side, but overclocking those 2 monitors is as easy as turning up your brightness. So no reason not too.
Plus I imagine the high end Volta cards will probably easily hit that rate. Especially in titles that aren't demanding like esports or older games.
May find it cheaper somewhere else, or pirate it for free, I dunno
Wyatt Jones
just get a 1200
Jacob King
Well ryzen doesn't natively have W7 support so I'd say 10 just so you don't run into any headaches or issues.
Grayson Murphy
which GTX 1080 is the best in case of temperature, noise and performance.
Want to order one soon & dont know with which custom card i should go
Blake Taylor
Probably the ASUS Strix one
Jayden Williams
stop fucking posting the same thing go look at reviews online
Wyatt Thomas
EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO DOLLAROS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH FUUUUCK
Mason Wilson
They'll all perform similar and no card is best at all 3. If you have a windowed chassis go with one that looks best really, or maybe like evga since they have best warranty,
Angel Brooks
How'd you end up paying that much shipping
Blake Walker
Not in US local price is like 950 USD
Jack Young
Who is this smug lord?
Easton Roberts
that sucks user, hope you enjoy that motherfucker
Luke Powell
Is 1k a lot for a cpu, case, mobo, ram and ssd?
Kayden Smith
Depends on exact components, but generally yes. Considering that doesnt include the video card.
Highest end Cpu a consumer would buy would be ~$300
Mobo ~$100-$150 to support above cpu
Case you can get really nice ones for like $50-80 now days
Ram 3200 16gb which is most you'll prob need is like $150-$180
SSD could vary by size but a 256gb ssd is like $80-90
This is all high end shit and would still only total to like $800 at most.
Wyatt Green
Alright I'll look into it a bit more, thanks for the actual response
Tyler Reyes
if you got a budget or list man, im sure myself or someone else can help you out.
Juan Williams
Nothing at the moment beyond some estimates, it's appreciated though
Xavier Hernandez
need a second opinion, my options for current upgrades are option 1: 240mm+280mm i7+1080 custom loop option 2: 280mm cpu loop + air cooled 1080 TI
using a 1080p/144hz monitor and 1440p for single player games but i'll likely sell the 1440p monitor for a proper 4k monitor. considering i'm not planning to upgrade for at least 3 years, what should i go for?
Jaxson Brooks
Any good, aesthetic case?
Carter Young
Not sure if you messed up, but option 2 has a 1080ti and option 1 is a regular 1080. At 4k your GPU will be the main component that determines your performance, so I'd go with option 2.
Brody Johnson
Budget/Form Factor?
Aaron Evans
ATX and less than $150. If there's something retro It would be gorgeous.
Samuel Long
i'm aware, it's just the price difference is either getting a second radiator and adding the 1080 to the loop or just keeping a single cpu loop but leaving the 1080 TI air cooled. both upgrades are like $30 off from each other, but option 2 will probably better in the long run.
Zachary Price
I don't see anything inherently wrong with an aircooled 1080ti. It won't look as cool or run colder, but the difference bewteen a 1080 and a 1080ti at 4k could be the difference between maintaining 60 fps or dipping into the low 50s/high 40s.
Luke Phillips
Prob won't find any modern retro style cases, you could try finding an old chassis and modifying it to ensure good airflow and compatibility,
Gaming PC with Linux dual boot. Would also like to know if I would be able to set up a PCI pass-through with this Hardware. Not sure about the motherboard, case and PSU. would like to keep the budget within $1,000 to $1,500. If it's more than that it better be able to do something amazing like rain VR that makes me feel like Hatsune Miku really is sleeping with me.
Brayden Fisher
Motherboard is good, case is up to you, and PSU could be considered underpowered.
