If you want help: >State the budget & CURRENCY for your build >List your uses, e.g. Gaming, Video Editing, VM Work >For monitors, include purpose (e.g., photoediting, gaming) and graphics card pairing (if applicable)
CPUs: >NO i5 7500/7600K or i7 7700/K. THEY ARE DEFUNCT AND SUPERSEDED BY COFFEE LAKE >G4560/G4600 for non-gaming (light tasks) or bare minimum gaming builds with a dedicated graphics card >R3 1200 - Budget builds (best with OC + fast RAM) >R5 1600 / i5 8400 - Great gaming or multithreaded use CPUs >R7 / Used Xeon / Threadripper / i7 - Heavy Multi-Tasking / VM Work / Mixed use
RAM: >Current CPUs benefit from high speed RAM; 3000-3200 MHz is ideal >Before buying RAM for Ryzen, check your Mobo's QVL or look for user reports
GPUs: >Crypto-Currency miners have driven GPU prices up (particularly Radeon) 1080p >GTX 1050Ti and 3GB 1060 are the only reasonably priced cards; 6GB 1060 or 4GB 580 if you want to overpay a little >GTX 1070 if you're looking for very high (100+) framerates and you have a CPU and monitor to match 1440p >GTX 1070/Ti and 1080 are standard choices; currently overpriced >Vega 56 if you're not bothered by a reference cooler; currently overpriced >GTX 1080Ti if you're looking for very high (100+) framerates and you have a CPU and monitor to match 2160p (4K) >GTX 1080Ti
General: >PLAN YOUR BUILD AROUND YOUR MONITOR IF GAMING >A 240GB or larger SSD is almost mandatory; consider m.2 form factor
Doesn't the i5 8400 require expensive motherboards that aren't even released yet?
Robert Gonzalez
I just finished my build and can someone explain this?
Carter Johnson
Fuck Intel, their meme "release" of Coffee Lake has put the processors up in price significantly and because none are available, the Kaby Lake processors are still full price. What a load of shit.
Benjamin Morales
fpwp
Ah, a CPU is his rest state, relaxing in his socket.
David Ramirez
First time builder here. How does this look? Anything I should change?
Kaby Lake is overpriced >Coffee Lake is overpriced and not available Wow, if only there were another type of CPU you could easily get that's both available and cheap.
R8 build for 1080p 144hz gaymen, $1300 budget. >inb4 retarded lights I know the lights and shit are retarded but I want them anyway.
And just out of curiosity how would this run 4k? I don't have a 4k monitor or really plan to buy one soon but it might come up, could I get 30+ FPS on high ish settings?
Leo Clark
I am using the cheapest board i can find it i love my 8400. I laugh at those who wait for b360 when ram prices have increased so much you are waiting to pay more for less
Noah White
>Six-Core Processor >Cores: 8
Thomas Taylor
oh goodie, a thread dedicated to the shitty one I just made. I just got to rebuild today and this thing won't boot. recent blackout fucked the hard drive and mobo, had to replace those, wait a few days, and now I'm here after wasting all day on it.
what do I do first, to avoid taking a hammer to it?
Owen Garcia
1050 Ti overclocking Anyone here pull 2000 core / 2200 memory OC? Mine runs like pic related, running furmark. 1050 Ti is inno3d single fan (no power pin)
rate my first build? parts list and purchase based solely on info gathered from lurking here for a few weeks. i found an open box i5 8400 online at my nearest micro center and the rest is history - just bought all the other parts when i went to pick it up. pros: >price match through black friday/cyber monday >multiple discounts for buying it all at once >everything works >no waiting for shipping cons: >skimped on mobo and gpu for muh budget >fucking ram wasn't samsung b-die >bought thermal paste that wasn't required >shitty case with 4 stripped out standoffs
for the record, i just wanted to update my 10 year old gateway q6700 beater.
What do you mean won't boot? Nothing happens when you press the power button or it sits there with a blank screen... or? Make sure all your power cables are plugged in, including CPU power
It's kinda meh.. Should have paid a little more for a 3GB 1060 since you bought a i5 8400. CPU is way overpowered compared to the graphics card as is
Adrian Roberts
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Austin Sanchez
>i7-8700K Unless you play your gaymes (assuming it's a gaymen pc at this point) at 1080p165Hz, i5-8400/R5-1600 is a better choice for the price >AIO cooler See above. If you need i7-8700K and 5GHz overclocking then yes, otherwise it's not needed >NVMe SSD just buy cheap sata ssd >1000W psu just no, 700W is far more than enough >Buying windows 10 no >Sound card unless you're a music producer, it's not needed
That's great news. I lost the lottery with my Athlon II years ago but this more than makes up for it.
Jordan Kelly
you dont need a sound card
Luis Wood
Airflow questions. My case is Define R5, it comes with two fans (one forward intake, one rear exhaust). I wanted to add some more fans for when I'm eventually going to OC my 1700, because apparently that can make the B350 VRMs really hot - currently I have a Wraith Spire, which cools them somewhat, but it seems all the good CPU air coolers nowadays are towers, which don't do shit to cool the rest of the motherboard. Also my PSU currently sucks in air from the inside, but apparently this is not ideal and I should mount it upside down.
This is what I had in mind:
Questions:
1. I know that having more intake than exhaust is good, but I think I went a bit too far on intake. Maybe I can add some small (40mm?) fans on the back next to the various PCI card slots on the back? But I don't think I have mounting holes there and small fans are noisy. Maybe I should keep PSU sucking the air out of the case? It's a Platinum-rated Seasonic PSU so it shouldn't overheat too much by itself, it even has a silent mode. 2. Ive read the advice that the top fans should be exhaust, because hot air naturally rises, but I've also read that this is bullshit because the fan-induced overflow will overtake the convection anyway. I want the top fans to be intake for two reasons - cooling VRMs is my priority and if they're intake I can slap a dust filter on them and it will keep the case from getting dusty when the fans are off (which is most of the time) - it's not advisable to put a dust filter on exhaust fans, obviously. Am I wrong?
Blake Wood
I think your RAM is in the wrong slots. At least with my MSI motherboard they had to be 2 and 4 (left to right).
Eli Ross
my asus board is the same way, otherwise it runs in single channel
Josiah Ramirez
Not just that it came with a leaflet with a warning telling me to put a stick in dimm A2 first and only that one if I had any booting problems.
Jack Rivera
will it be volta based?
Landon Gonzalez
Anyone know anything about what GPUs work well on linux? Looking to build a deep learning box but don't want to get fucked by shitty drivers.
Jaxson Richardson
What happened to radeon packs?
Jayden Stewart
do i really need a 1080ti to gayme at 1440p ultrawide
ps i usually have like 20 minecrafts open and they chew up vram like crazy my dual 290x setup isn't good enough anymore
Colton Cruz
give it to me straight doc. when are these gpu prices gonna come down
Jackson Barnes
>tfw my 6 core only has 6 cores.
Elijah Lewis
It might be a mix, like how the PS4 Pro and Xbone X are a mix of Polaris and Vega.
Elijah Smith
Its going on 5 months now right? Who knows
Kayden Rodriguez
I doubt it, amd made the console chips as powerful APU's which are very custom, Nvidia would have no reason to make a hybrid of two generations for one card.
Carter Harris
Vega 64 liquid or 64 air?
Alexander Hughes
Is it time to upgrade? I was planning on just buying some used 3770 to give my CPU more juice but... I don't know. I feel like I should just get new mobo, new RAM and a Ryzen. What would be a major upgrade in Ryzen from my current i5?
Jose Reyes
Minimum 1600 imo. What do you use your pc for
Nicholas Torres
please respond
Juan Diaz
No, for a 1050Ti you have plenty of CPU. Don't listen to anyone who tells you to upgrade your CPU just for gaming. What you need to do is reseat the cooler with fresh thermal paste (and of course clean all the fuzz out of the radiator). As you can see from your speccy the temp is pretty high, so your CPU is probably throttling during gaming.
Josiah Richardson
Whats this about 7XXX being defunct? Is it really that big of a performance jump to spend 300 dollars on motherboards?
Nicholas Flores
I hate cables, could someone recommend me a good pair of bluetooth speakers that could be used as desktop pc speakers? or maybe speakers that don't have too much cables?
Thanks in advance.
Jonathan Johnson
>Whats this about 7XXX being defunct? Not if you already own it, but you wouldn't buy it new, except at/with a steep discount.
Edit: Grammar
Benjamin Perry
1600 or 8400 for gayman?
Bentley Brooks
pls respond
Nolan Fisher
Both are good. 8400 comes out more expensive but it's faster so eh.
Jacob Reed
You're telling me all these things are overkill, and i'd agree for someone else's build, but not mine. I'm on my PC every day, i'll use this for 5+ years. I don't mind spending an extra ~$500 to future proof it for an extra few years
As for the NZXT Kraken X62 it's gotten great reviews for an AIO, I might replace it for a custom loop in a year or two
May I ask what you don't like about M.2 drives, Corsair HX1000i, or the NZXT AIO cooler?
I had a sound card on my last PC, I dunno it sounded better I guess.
David Robinson
Prime95 keeps giving me hardware error, how do I know if it's the cpu or ram? I don't have any spares
Jordan Cruz
What is the best 1080Ti for gaymen?
Daniel Parker
M.2 is overpriced and not necessary for gaming. Corsair AIO is cheaper and works well. Case is whatever.
Leo Hernandez
Hi guys I am in the process of building a NAS and I got lucky and found 2 sticks of ECC RAM. At first I was planning on building something cheap, but now that I got the ram I want my CPU and Motherboard to be compatible to take advange of the ECC RAM.
Please help, I don't want to go overkill, I am gonna use this NAS to store files I don't use all the time, bittorrent, mediaserver, that kind of stuff.
Henry Martin
I hope I am not asking for much, I am afraid that I might discover that ECC and cheap are not compatible. I didn't ask for this stick to fall in my hands. but now I must find whats the cheapest NAS I could buy with ECC RAM?
Looking to see if this is a good ideal Gaming/Content Creation Setup. Got everything except GPU (cause its hard to find), Graphics Card (settling on 1060 and upgrading to whatever is new on the market later), and CPU Cooler.
Also looking for Monitor and CPU Cooler Recommendations cause I'm not sure if NZXT makes good quality coolers.
Evan Davis
With everything you're spending on fans why not get a board that can handle overclocking better?
Jonathan Cruz
saw a thread with pic related a while back.
I'm wondering if anyone here has this case or really any caselabs case and if they are worth the price. All the reviews Ive read pretty much say its the best case you can buy but Id like a second opinion.
I'm think about picking one up
Anthony Morgan
The most you should be paying for a 6GB 1060 is about $275 For Content Creation you should strongly consider the R5 1600 You definitely don't need a liquid cooler for a locked i5.
Austin Richardson
*thinking
Eli Moore
Because I already bought the board because you guys told me B350 is enough if I don't need extra PCI lanes and two M.2 slots, which I did not. And well, a good airflow is good either way, right?
Levi Allen
Hello, /pcbg/ I am researching building a 100% silent PC (that's my main goal) so far I have bought this Passive Cooler.
What would be the most capable CPU that has a TDP adequate for this baby?
I have an AMD Athlon 5350 with a TDP of 25W, but maybe there is something better out there?
Jason Howard
8400 doesnt need more than a 30 dollar cooler MAX. Water for it is autism
Aaron Murphy
How the fuck did you manage to spend 1600 with a 1060 and an 15
wtf nigga
Brayden Thomas
Any raisin to consider a 1300x over an i3-8100?
Mobo cost I guess but aside from that?
Jack Green
the FUCK you say about water bitch!
Nolan Gomez
Thank you, I'll look into that 1060 price more and thats great because I originally had it in there before I changed it from a i7-8700 to an i5-8400.
Is there any Monitor you'd recommend (specifically for gaming that is)?
William Lee
Your build is as autism. I would make sense with a 8700k but not a 8400. No need for an 150 dollar cooler and a 200 dollar mobo.
Thomas Phillips
Well its going to be less since now I don't even need a water cooler, I didnt get a Graphics card yet so that'll be less, and I didn't get my Power Supply in time when it was $80 (with a $20 MIR) so I have to wait for another slight price drop cause Im not paying $90 for it.
Brandon Wilson
>set fans to quiet >hear graphic singing >ramp fans backup I wish they cured this autism.
Carter Gutierrez
>That mobo is 450 dollars in my country
There is no hope for me...
Aaron Thomas
im not that guy. I have a 1800x and believe me you want water when you OC to anything over 4.0ghz
Chase Morris
At least you get sopa de maco fresh and hot by local vendors!!
Lucas Sullivan
Yeah I'm taking it out completely. It was in there because before I had a i7-8700 on that part list. Also you know a better way to get Windows 10 without buying?
Cameron Brooks
Pirate windows from pirate bay, it isnt difficult. I would also recommened the m9i for the 8400. Amazing 20 doller cooler that comes with paste.
Isaac Gomez
How the fuck did you know? Anyway, just FYI, 99,5% (i dont know about jungle people) brazilians would be disgusted by an actual sopa de macaco, i dont like this meme
Nathaniel Moore
Protip: don't take memes to seriously.
Gavin Fisher
As usual depends on which games you play and what applications you use. Both are solid, get whatever team you prefer.
Andrew Ward
it's just bantz. All of south america is nearly african teir but brazil is one of the most respectable countries. Americans typically respect brazil more than most south american countries. The green pools during the olympics kind of hurt that image thougj
Benjamin Baker
Shout out to the G4560 for still managing to be a relevant CPU.
Levi Sanders
It's all good, i was just clarifying. Wasn't sure if you guys actually believed we eat this kind of food around here
Daniel Harris
BUT THE ATHELON!!!!
Lincoln Perez
>build a new computer >every time I hear a new sound I haven't heard before I open the case to check if everything is okay Can't wait for this phase to pass.
Thomas Jones
Autism is a life long disease
Aaron Hall
I feel like people recommending the B350 boards for heavy overclocking haven't watched the follow-up video of this guy youtube.com/watch?v=Ucjn6HCd2zI
Jayden Williams
Well I don't want to do HEAVY OC, I want to push my R7 to 3.8-3.9 (if it even can reach 3.9) without upping the voltage past the "safe" 1.35. So I probably won't have my VRMs get above 100C, I just want to cool them in SOME way. And the upward intake fans seem like the most obvious one (though the CPU power cable sits kind of above the vertical row, but half of them will still be in the current). I just wanna have some airflow, I mean it's not like 140mm fans are super expensive, I'm not buying the LED ones. I just don't really have an idea how to configure them better.
[spoiler]I'll probably just ask on some forum like tomshardware later.[/spoiler]
Robert Sanders
560 TI shit a brick
i5 2500k 16G ram
What graphics card should I throw in there? On phone so researching anything sucks. Not interested in upgrading, it's a time thing not about $. Better is good, too good for this box is a waste of money.
What should I order Sup Forums?
Colton Hill
>G4560/G4600 lol
Connor Perez
I understand you may not have a lot of choice if you build from Peru But you should build on a modern platform, in other words not AM1. You need to provide more of an explanation of your situation
Right now the platform cost (CPU, mobo, RAM) to get the i3 8100 is about the same as getting the R5 1600, and in your graphic of BF1 performance the R5 1600 outperforms the i3 8100. So it would make sense to get the AM4 platform instead.
Ethan Reed
>I don't mind spending an extra ~$500 to future proof it for an extra few years Not with that NVMe, 1000W PSU, and AIO (why would you buy an AIO when you want to replace it with custom loop later) CPU and GPU is fine tho, if you really want to
Brandon Edwards
Is Intel making coffee lake pentiums or no?
Isaac Brooks
if you're playing @ 1080p then 1050Ti is good and 1060 3GB is better.
Jackson Morris
Dude, you just got lambasted in advance
Cameron Howard
It is for gaming mostly. I just took the pic while playing a game. I wasn't saying I needed to upgrade because of the temp, but because of the 5 year old CPU and stuff.
But sometimes I'm multitasking with a lot of shit opened and it starts killing the CPU. I'm just wondering if an 3770 will mostly fix that.
Wyatt Gray
Thanks
Jeremiah Wilson
Dumb question maybe but why wouldn't I get the 1060 6Gb, it's like $60 more?
Caleb Wright
Anybody have experience with Corsair's? The sole reason I went with this keyboard was the light customization. How anybody can charge so much for a keyboard and have such a shit program is criminal
Levi Garcia
water is for intel housefires
Ayden Perry
learn to spell you dumb pajeet
Carter Collins
>3gb >good AHAHAHAHAHAH
Ryder Nguyen
Evga 6gb 279$ ... am I missing something? Replacing a 560ti that an hero today.
