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NO i5 7500/7600K or i7 7700/K. THEY ARE DEFUNCT AND SUPERSEDED BY COFFEE LAKE 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 (especially the i5 8400) or multithreaded use CPUs (especially the R5 1600) >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
Graphics cards: >Consider Vega 56 for a Freesync monitor >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 >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
Not a gaymer, but considering picking up a dell u3014. Any opinions?
Isaiah Lopez
No. If it is fits your needs, go for it.
Jace Miller
100% yes. But with such a massive screen you want to sit a fair bit away from it.
Michael Collins
Thanks! My desk is pretty deep so shouldn't be an issue. I also have two 2007fp's... Will make a nice PLP.
Ryan Thomas
My MSI B350M MORTAR Motherboard has an RGB header, and I am currently using MSI Mystic Light to control the RGB strip that I bought. But MSI Mystic Light is a garbage piece of software.
Is there other software that I could use?
Josiah Wood
How do I make sure a graphics card I choose is compatible with my system, my motherboard is proprietary. (pic related is specs)
My current gpu is a dead radeon r9 270, looking for something better, I use unreal engine and do some 3D stuff, and only vidya I play are only mobas usually, any recommendations appreciated.
It is the cheapest ITX board I could get. Price at $115.
Lincoln Adams
how the fuck do I turn off that dumb red bios light on asrock z370 extreme4
Oliver Sanchez
First desktop I'm building since 2010
Just bought > RX580 Nitro+ for 275$ > i5-8400 for 199$
did I fuck up?
Jackson Nelson
What's the best way to go about adding Wi-Fi to my PC?
PCIe or USB?
TP Link or Asus? Or Netgear?
Is there any point in going 802.11ac if I don't have a Dual Band Router? My current router is an old Linksys E2000, but it can utilize 5GHz and my laptop gets 144mbps connecting to it. Right now, my PC only gets 78mbps at most (with an old cisco USB wifi adapter).
Is Wi-Fi even an option if I want to stream games to other devices using something like Steam Link? I know you're heavily encouraged to use an Ethernet cable, but it's not an option for me (the port in my room is broken). I heard it can be done with wi-fi using a dual band connection, but trying to understand what I need first.
Noah Price
Yes, by rushing. You should've waited until the B370 motherboards came out.
Grayson Rivera
explain? I can still cancel my order.
Julian Russell
how long until we start building our own phones
Brandon Cooper
You're buying an i5-8400, but the only motherboards out for Coffee Lake are Z-series, which are high end and build for performance/overclocking.
B series is releasing early next year, and better suited for non-K chips that don't overclock. You can either wait for those motherboards to release or buy a low end Z series like the Pro4 or the Prime-P, which aren't really good for overclocking anyway.
Owen Miller
I know you guys aren't a fan of rgb but do you think I should pay the extra so I'm not locked to black+red? Choosing this because its one of 2 keyboards on pcpp for mx silent keys
Jaxson Brooks
You can turn the lighting off on that board.
James Hall
I'm using Edimax EW-7833UAC, it's okay/10
Zachary Robinson
The amount of available keyboards without gaymer red switches or loud af blue switches are embarrassingly small.
I'd personally look for brown switches with a preferred color backlight. If you can't find anything like that, then buy RGB.
Eli Watson
Considering building an HTPC/torrent box/backup server. I wanted to ask Sup Forums a couple of questions, some obvious, some not so obvious:
What would be a good software to backup my laptop files locally over wifi once a week on Windows?
Is it a good idea to combine these all together if I have enough space under my tv set to hold a medium-big server box with about 10 HDDs, or should I use multiple machines?
What would be the best hardware to use for this if I'm planning to have it torrent basically 24/7 and backup weekly while always being able to be used as an HTPC?
Luke Davis
>PCIe or USB? PCIe so there's no possibility of a bottleneck if your USB is shit
>TP Link or Asus? Or Netgear? Rosewill for Wireless N. Asus for AC. Never buy TP Link. Netgear is okay but they're more known on the router side.
>Is there any point in going 802.11ac if I don't have a Dual Band Router? Not really. Unless you have an internet connection above 150mbps, then AC won't do you any good.
Sebastian Garcia
I want backlighting, at least at night. What are brown switches like? I'm pretty concerned about the noise as I share a studio with my gf and don't want her driven insane by clacking
>PCIe so there's no possibility of a bottleneck if your USB is shit USBs can bottleneck? I have plenty of 3.1 ports. One of the reasons I brought up Netgear is because they only do USB adapters (ie- no PCIe).
>Never buy TP Link Why? Are they shit? Is that why they're better value than Asus on the specs side of things?
>Not really. Unless you have an internet connection above 150mbps, then AC won't do you any good. So the key is to get a connection above 150mbps? As I said, I have a Laptop that can hit around those speeds, even with my old turd of a router, so long as I turn on 5GHz.
Luke Thomas
you'll be fine with 1050ti if you don't do that much vidya
Joshua Bell
Does your motherboard have a free PCIE 16x slot? Is your power supply an aftermarket one?
If yes to both: congratulations, your system is compatible with literally any modern graphics card. Get a GTX 1070 and never need to upgrade for a long, long time.
Jace Myers
Should I ascend to godhood from an SSD to an NVME?
Adrian Ward
>Did I fuck up Graphics card? Not exactly. While you could have gotten better for the money, it's still a good card. Processor? Definitely. Should have gotten a Ryzen processor.
Jaxson Thomas
what's the best value for money nvme ssd anyway
Oliver King
no
Ryan Watson
Which motherboard?
Adam Roberts
You may have plenty of ports but they're all connected to only a few root hubs. Believe it or not, even root hubs can be saturated to the point where other peripherals become affected if they're connected to the same root hub. So far, however, the only device that I know that can do this are devices like the Elgato Cam Link.
Henry Bailey
PSU is overkill and you don't really need WD Black when you have SSD also that mobo is shit
Thomas Sullivan
Someone build me a decent server.
Hunter Stewart
I got the parts and I'm about to update my long lived workhorse for Christmas. Did I do bad?
New parts: >Ryzen 1700X >8 GB 3000 MHz DDR4 >Asrock AB350M Pro4 mATX >pair of maglev Corsairs >USB 3 hub mountable to floppy disk bay
Old shit >Radeon HD7850 >Terabytes of HDDs >120 GB sata III SSD >Scythe Ninja cooler >Antec Sonata Case >Super Flower Gold Green 400W PSU
Will it explode?
Juan Lee
probably
Oliver Sullivan
is the 8700K worth $45 more than the 8700? would buy 8700 because overclocking seems like retardedly small gains but only 8700K is in stock for the last 2 months
Ian Thomas
what is your fan configuration ? Do you guys think one on the front one in the back is enough or do you feel the need to fill every fan mount possible ? Also do you preffer positive, negative or neutral air pressure ?
Eli Parker
Looking to get a new case. Any recommendations for a silent build? Considering P400S or Nanoxia Deep Silence. I also need to buy some rubber mounts.
Samuel Peterson
How does one pick a mouse or keyboard outside the amount of buttons for the former and the layout for the latter? Price aside, of course.
Tyler Evans
Is it worth upgrading from an I5 2500k yet(I overclocked it to 4.00 ghz). I've had this bad boy for like 6 years but every time I looked up new CPUs they didn't seem that great. I'd also need a new motherboard so it'd be a pretty big investment.
Camden Parker
>Processor? Definitely. Should have gotten a Ryzen processor. Spotted the idiotic AMD fanboy.
You can scream at people for buying the opposing brand all you like, the benchmarks still won't change.
Jayden Young
settings options via software or firmware linked to button combos, like minimum to maximum DPI (high dpi + low res = impossible to control) shape suited to claw or palm grip materials, at least one mouse I know of is made of PBT rather than ABS plastic so it doesn't get shiny after prolonged use LEDs or lack there of logitech have fancy mouse wheels that can swap between either clicking or freely spinning the sensor unit some units are known to have poor accuracy/angle snapping/acceleration whether or not the microswitches are replaceable (these are always the first thing to break in a mouse and damage usually manifests as double clicking on a single click or inability to hold a held click) this is just what to consider for a mouse
Luis Flores
i like the autistic screeching of favela intel cucks
Liam Wilson
>THEY ARE DEFUNCT AND SUPERSEDED BY COFFEE LAKE
Not really because Coffee Lake is damn near impossible to find.
Aaron Ward
>damn near impossible to find. maybe for americlaps but here I can pick up any of the unlocked coffee lake CPUs and they've consistently been in stock for a month strangely the locked parts (except the i3) are impossible to find anywhere since I don't feel like OCing this sucks for me though
Evan Taylor
ASUS DUAL-GTX1070-O8G (New) being sold for 400$ at one of my local retailer.
Is it worth it despite owning a freesync monitor ? The design/color is pretty sick and match the theme of my build, but it might feel outdated compare to the 1070s Ti
Jeremiah Carter
> ASUS DUAL It is a piece of shit for RX 480 and there are no radiators on memory chips. Look up reviews, maybe 1070 version is better.
Gavin Perry
I've read about the RX480 fiasco and comparison with the 1070 version. It seems unanimous that they did improve.
Isaiah Reed
Any idea when GPU prices will lower? All I want is for crypto to crash heavily oh my God
Pretty shit monitor, but I'm guessing you're not planning on gayming so it's fine. Decent build all around.
Nicholas Garcia
I just bought a second HDD because mine crashed the other day and had to fix itself for like an hour.
I know how to put it into my computer and check it's ok, but everything after that seems way too complicated. Do I really need to delete everything on my computer just to get it to work properly? I'd really rather not. I got this so I wouldn't lose everything I have, it wasn't my intention to spend £40 AND lose everything too.
Cooper Gutierrez
yea if indeed I am going to game, I'll probably switch it out for an Asus 21.5" monitor.
Charles Powell
What is the best equivalence of this in windows 10?
Easton Bailey
You can mirror all the content to the other drive and make an exact copy, but I wouldn't recommend it since the other drive is not in a good state and probably has a lot of corrupted data in the OS blocks.
Just do the following.
1. Put in your new drive. 2. Boot into your installation media for your OS. 3. Install fresh OS on the new drive. 4. Simply drag over all your shit you want to save from the old drive to the new.
Thomas Edwards
I need to buy a microphone for ERP I currently have the BM-800 + a phantom power but it sounds like shit. Even with a USB audio card. Idk how to mod it and i dont want to try... So i'm wondering if i can get a better microphone that is normie overpriced stuff like the blue snowball. Also, the phantom power was some cheap generic $15 chinese thing.
Jayden Sullivan
I think the consensus is don’t upgrade if you only play gaemz, but if you do actual work then you will find it worthwhile
Alexander Flores
Windows 7
Sebastian Ross
Overclocking is not recommended by Intel goy.
Bentley Powell
isn't*
Juan Morales
...
Camden Gutierrez
Hypothetically, if I got photoshop for free using illegal means could I somehow transfer that over to the other drive and be able to use it on that one if the first one breaks? It's really the only thing I'm worried about losing without photoshop I will literally starve lmao
Robert James
Did you throw away the installation file? Moving over the whole installation could work, I'm not sure.
But either way, installing windows on a new drive doesn't mean the old installation is gone. Until you delete the windows partition on the old drive, you will dual boot, so when you start the computer, it will ask you which drive you want to boot on, so you don't lock yourself out of anything by trying.
Adrian Davis
is g102 any good? im not spending more than 20 usd on a fucking mouse
Levi Watson
Any thoughts on this build for playing AAA games? Fallout/Skyrim SE/PUBG etc. uk.pcpartpicker.com/b/7dr6Mp The guys who made it recommends changing the motherboard so i'd do that, but otherwise thoughts?
I plan on using it mainly for gaming. I realize I don't need the i7 for that, especially since I currently have no intention of overclocking but I get a great deal for a bundle of i7-7700k, Vengeance LPX 16gb ddr4-3000 and Asus Z270F for 570€ which is, based on my research, really cheap.
The main thing I want to find out with this post is if I really fucked up somewhere and also if maybe the CPU cooler and PSU are an overkill.
Thanks in advance.
(Don't know if it's very noticable but I normally don't lurk Sup Forums since I get 'interested' in HW every 5~ years when I build a new rig)
I checked some comparisons and apparently the i7-7700k is better than i5-8400. Not by much but it seemed to be consistently better in all the tests.
If I decide to go for a newer generation i5-8400 I have to buy MB and ram separately and I will pay roughtly 150-200€ more + I willl have to purchase the CPU at a separate store.
Is it worth it?
(the base for this rig was the CPU, MB, ram combo)
Dylan Howard
What's the trick to getting a free windows 10 key if I have a windows 7 one already?
Dylan Gutierrez
Both of them are threadlet shit, both of them will get choked at 100% in modern games, like i said get a 1600
Hudson Reed
>What's the trick to getting a free windows 10 key bittorrent
Samuel King
Is a $400 build for WoW and Rocket League realistic if I don't have to buy an OS and peripherals?
Anthony Long
You'll probably need a mounting bracket for the cooler to work with the 1700x.
Brody Perry
>Kaby Pentium >Implying bare minimum gaming >not pairing it with a 1060/580
Evan Adams
Best case that is £60 or lower?
Nolan Barnes
I have a very loud stock cooler intel cpu , it was pretty dusty but I removed all the dust , yet the fan is still super loud. I was wondering if I could just remove the fan and leave the radiator in place? Im running a i5 2320 and it doesnt seem that hot but I was wondering if it could work .. Currently waiting on a new build
Oliver Campbell
what set of monitors should i get? budget is 1000 dollars
Brody Anderson
no you idiot you cant remove the fan dont be stupid
Jack White
I'm sorry but I'm still not convinced. I also checked and I would pay 60€ more if I replaced the i7-7700k with a 1600 and bought mobo and ram separately due to the discount.
I've also googled what you meant and if you mean that games will use all the cores which will make i7-7700k a disadvantage.. how real is this threat? Can you give me an example of a game where this cpu is already underperforming, compared to ones with more cores, so I can check some videos?
Andrew Hill
you seem like the kind of moron that removes the oil from a,l car then wonders why it breaks down
Nathan Mitchell
I just went and bought the Fractal S anyway.
Lucas Powell
Wrong person.
Austin Wood
R8 my pc
Luis Gomez
Absolutely fucking disgusting. Are you a 14 year old girl?
Camden Jenkins
fucking weebs
Ryan Howard
If I just want a low power system for a home server that I can leave on 24/7 (mostly running as a NAS), is there any reason I shouldn't go with the cheaper skylake pentiums?
Tyler Sullivan
if youre going to use it for NAS go find something like pic related that consumes 10w below
Jordan Cruz
You're the specific person who people refer to when "entry-level taste" is mentioned.
Wyatt Howard
Just built my first pc in over a decade. R5 1600 on an msi b350 gaming pro, rx580 8g, and 16g corsair 3000hz ram.
Bios up to date, ram still running at 2133. Gonna try oc the cpu and ram for the first time in my life so Ive been watching and reading tutorials, but I wanted to know if you Sup Forumsoys have any particular sources you recommend before I go frying shit up.
Also, my firecuda 2tb failed last night after less than 30days of use and I lost all my data. Fuck that.
Isaac Parker
is there any possibility that an external harddrive could cause problems with my onboard audio?
Henry Ross
Ryzen 1200 is $100 1050 Ti is $150 B350 board is $50 Memory is $80 for 8GB PSU is at least $30 for something that won't explode HDD is at least $40
I would really recommend saving up more.
Henry Evans
You have to use XMP to get memory at base speeds. Overclocking memory past that usually can't happen unless you have a premium X370 board.
Cameron Martin
It depends what you're using them for and how many you want
Gavin Gonzalez
So I have an lg 21:9 monitor that I like but im looking to step up from 60hz to 120 or 144. Any good suggestions on 2560x1080 monitors for gaming?
I kind of want to go 1440p but not sure my system can handle it. I have. A gtx 1080 but am still running an i5 3570k @ 4.4 ghz so I dont know that I can get high enough frames on 1440p to make use of the higher refresh rate. But I do plan on moving to an 8700k this year around the spring.
Is gsync worth it? Seems so expensive.
Noah Miller
Recommendations for a thermal paste? This is my first build, not everything is here yet and I jusr found out about this. Also how much should be applied?
Easton Fisher
Not that guy but what about the Strix?
Wyatt Cooper
friend considering building a new pc, double checking what you guys think
>for light gaming, After effects & FL Studio >Netherlands >Budget 1000-1300€
I suggested something along the lines of 8600k, 1050ti & 16gb 3000mhz with a 500 gig 850 evo