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NO i5 7500/7600K or i7 7700/K. THEY ARE DEFUNCT AND SUPERSEDED BY COFFEE LAKE 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
Reposting from the prev thread (literally the final one before it jumped ship):
Stupid general question, but let me just punch this out first: >4690 cpu (quad core) >8 gigs ram >1080 (not the TI version) >100 gig (roughly) SSD >Shitty lil BenQ monitor thats at 1920*1080 and 60hz.
Given this, what should I do in the following situation: >I wanted to jump to 4k gaming with a new monitor (the asus rog swift, just to throw it out there) >I wanted to stream (if possible, without using a separate tower) >I didn't want to have to upgrade the 1080 to a 1080TI or titan.
Sorry if it's pretty general. Looking at the general stuff in the OP (240g SSD), might need to rebuild from the ground up, only bringing along the 1080.
Robert Hill
Really ? Explain.
Hudson Hill
1080p 60hz budget build. OC'd 1200, 1060 3gb, 16gb ram. Why the fuck is ram so expensive / is 16gb necessary? Playing PUBG, Witcher, Overwatch
Cooper Rogers
You can bring over the 1080, the SSD and maybe the PSU. Bin everything else.
Nathaniel Gray
Also (just wanna confirm this assumption I have) - bagging the 1080 for a 1080TI wouldn't really get me far compared to other improvements? Eg a better processor, more ram etc.
Depends on what games you are going to play on your 1080ti
Ryder Martin
Should I pull the trigger on this? I priced it out myself and can only come in $30-50 under and cutting large corners on quality. Would not be paying any sales tax on it
Luis Jenkins
I am getting a new 4K Monitor and need help deciding.
What I'm looking for: 27" (I'd go higher but it gets very pricey at 32"+) IPS Brightness of at least 300 cd/m2
I was going to get the ThinkVision X1, but then I realized it consumes a whopping 110W compared to the others' 30-40W. I'm wondering if that's because of the additional features it offers like sound, and if I turned it off in my playback options, it wouldn't consume that much?
The 27UD58 seems like the solid budget option, but one think the comparison doesn't show is that the color gamut is NTSC 72%, whereas the others boast sRGB over 99%. I'm not sure how big of a difference this makes, so it'd be good to hear opinions.
I use a NVidia Card, so Freesync is worthless to me. Gaming isn't exactly something you should worry about for a 4K monitor anyway, at least not for me.
Basically I'm interested in the best possible picture quality, but if it means a higher power bill, then I'm not so sure.
Alexander Lee
I played witcher and overwatch on 8gb and it was fine in them as well as anything else i played, not sure about pubg.
i just built this today, it was my first time what do y'all think?
Brody Moore
>Bin everything else. Sell everything else, that shit isn't so worthless that you should bin it.
Logan Peterson
>Full HD (1920 x 1080) No
David Cox
Looking good damn, 5 1600?
Hunter Garcia
What case?
Alexander Rogers
3770k @ 4.8ghz and a 1080 FTW2
Oliver Reed
Nice bottleneck.
Christian Garcia
>7 fans >RGB What the fuck?
Adrian Smith
>>G4560/G4600
Owen Young
How's the bottleneck?
Matthew Nguyen
Better than the 8350 I had before it at least.
There’s actually 10 fans in that picture including the CPU cooler. Also, only the GPU is RGB.. not sure what you’re seeing.
Austin Wood
is the GTX 1080 really overkill for 1080p?
Wyatt Barnes
>Also, only the GPU is RGB Yeah. That big ass LED strip at the bottom sure isn't RGB.
Jaxson Young
Really not bad. All I have to compare it to was an FX-8350.
I gained 100 frames in most games. GPU runs about 10 degrees hotter now too, I figured that meant it’s doing more work now?
May not be a 7700k, but it benches pretty close to a stock clock one. Also can run my ram at 2400mhz finally as the 8350 is limited to 2133. Ivy Bridge was the first to be able to do 2400 IIRC.
Luke Jackson
Yes.
Michael Bell
Lmao how are you going to tell me what I put in my own system. That bottom LED strip only lights up red, not rgb. I have no reason to lie, just as you have no reason to be so sure about random things in the internet you could be completely wrong about.
Colton Barnes
Nah. You can put whatever the fuck you want in your system and I can call it ugly and stupid if it is.
Gabriel Johnson
yes sir
Austin Mitchell
Comes down to refresh rate. Most people will say a 1070 is max for 1080p but if you’re running 144hz and above I would do a 1080. 220hz and above 100% 1080
Jonathan Walker
Ignore him. Sup Forums is severely autistic and paranoid about muh rgb because they have to pretend to be contrarians for the sake of it
Josiah Reed
why would anyone buy the 8700K when the 8700 exists for $90 less?
Justin Phillips
Except you didn’t call it ugly and stupid, you said it was rgb which it isn’t, and now you just look like an idiot. But keep going, I’m enjoying this.
Mason Reed
Still having 10 fans is fucking retarded.
Grayson Phillips
Having good ventilation isn’t for everyone. Enjoy your house fire
Jace Edwards
>Post his shit ass build on Sup Forums >Some people shit on him >Gets butthurt and defensive Look. If you are baiting for karma, pcmasterrace on reddit is the perfect place for idiots like you so that tons of redditors can give you upboats for having an ugly ass build.
Camden Lee
Oh fuck. I guess everyone who doesn't have 10 fans in their case right now is going to suffer a housefire. RIP 99.9999% of people who owns a PC.
Benjamin Gonzalez
the mobo will be shit the PSU will be shit the case will be shit I bought a pre-built years ago, worst mistake I've made.
Ian Sullivan
I realize this is shit build. But I built it 4ish years ago. The newest part is the video card that I got a couple months ago. There's also a second fan that I added that runs like shit but I doubt that's the issue.
Lately it freezes when I'm playing games and multitasking (browsing the internet+drawing in clip studio paint).
Any ideas?
Isaac Morales
Get an SSD you lazy piece of shit.
Austin Lewis
I baited you into another post. LOL
Leo Perez
check the drive health w/ crystaldisk
Brandon Morgan
>>>/reddit/
Xavier Diaz
next s340 elite
Hudson Kelly
How do I make sense of these numbers?
Levi Torres
Your drive is fine. Might be an issue with your RAM then. Run memtest.
Jason Reed
can get a console for the price of a GPU. is pc gaming even worth it now?
Josiah Robinson
No.
Ian Long
Just ordered my whole build I'm so excited. Also crippling terror of fucking it up or parts being DOA. My first desktop in 8 years I've saved for this for ages
Angel Hernandez
I've posted more than once but have received criticism both times and have adjusted for. I also have a 1070ti in the nvidia store, other than that am I ready to go?
Jose Johnson
let me see your build. my computer that is similar age just shit the bed again and I'm done resuscitating it.
Michael Davis
Why are people suggesting there's a bottleneck? I'm using [email protected] + GTX 980Ti and I'm not experiencing any bottlenecking at all.
Aaron Hernandez
If It's not my ram, what should I check next?
Parker Perry
Your CPU for virus and shit
Christopher Perez
Speccy as proof
Zachary Sanchez
spend more on psu downgrade to 8400 get a better mobo buy a different case
thats what I would do but it looks alright.
Christian Rodriguez
You might want to check if the 1070ti still supports DVI-D or not.
Carson Rodriguez
Nice timings on your RAM, but that's a pretty low speed. Go 2400, will help with 144hz
Justin Morales
He can't go 2400 on DDR3 platform.
Luis Bell
is a founders edition card a no no?
Oliver Robinson
Need intake fans and a better cooler (cryorig m9i or h7 preferably).
Other than that, good stuff.
Leo Baker
Huge no no unless you like having a lawnmower in your room.
Josiah Ortiz
generally yes
Wyatt Roberts
>tp-link EWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Lincoln Wilson
i do wear headphones
Grayson Torres
Then go ahead.
Ethan Russell
>be budgetfag >got 4gb 1 stick of ram in my build, planned to add another later so I could add a SSD right away >go today to check if the stick went up in price >some asshat on amazon is selling the same 4gb for nearly $100 when I paid $44 bucks for it less than a month ago >only 1 in stock >newegg has it 11 dollars higher at $55 >corsair has it for $65 >both will probably be gone by the time I get paid on friday
Josiah Kelly
>the perfect mATX case doesn't exi...
Christopher Hughes
>au.pcpartpicker.com/user/JoshCa/saved/KFHr7P Its not price/performance, but I got the gpu, mobo and cpu for very good prices (by aus standards). I got the x370 and kraken as I plan to overclock and upgrade up the ryzen gens
Carter Lewis
Anyone here has experience with using a curved monitor along with a flat one? How practical is it?
Matthew Parker
What would you choose?
Ethan Sullivan
depends on the size and how sharp the curve is. I really like 29" ultrawide with a slight curve but deep curves are a negative for me. Also it depends on your usage - for gaming a screen that large means you don't necessarily have everything in your fov. For work they are a dream though
Levi Powell
I thought DVI was better than HDMI?
Matthew Long
pretty nice build
Aaron Bailey
Thanks, but the question was more about a dual monitor setup, with one screen on the side being flat.
Joseph Smith
Thanks :) I can't wait to be off my 13" laptop
Hudson Fisher
My 1080ti for example only has HDMI and DP ports
Isaiah Turner
>puny 120mm intake shit/10 here is a much better matx
Jack Brown
>irrelevant optical drive housings taking up space >cramped interior >no room for 240mm radiators Not even comparible >puny 120mm intake 120x2 intake*, coupled with a top 120x2 exhaust on top of the 120 rear exhaust
Tyler Nelson
i ordered 2 corsair fans they coming soon, i will get an aftermarket cooler too and i was thinking the exact one you recommended.
Jason Walker
First time with a non pre built here.
Been on this screen for about 10 minutes after reinstalling windows (everything except the hard drive is new). Should I worry, or go to bed?
Cameron Diaz
What?
Jacob Butler
Looking for a build that's around $700 USD, gonna use it for programming mostly, probably running some virtual machines too.
William Thomas
...
Jacob Nguyen
>exhaust on top >no dust filter absolutely disgusting
Brody Wilson
Keep waiting. You installed windows on a HDD right?
Dominic Taylor
Go to bed, worry if it's like that in the morning.
Gavin Price
Yeah installed it on my old HDd, which had the free upgrade of windows 10.
I think it should be fine.
Isaac Ward
>single fan
Xavier Jenkins
How to organize psu cables pls
Isaac Price
>exhaust on top and the back** Dunno hombre, I'd prefer to make a dust filter to suit a superior layout than be stuck with a shit layout but have a prefitted filter.
Nathan Ortiz
Looking to get a new monitor.
Is oled worth it?
Oliver Ortiz
>make a dust filter what do you use? fly wire is too big catches no dust, stockings are too small chokes airflow
Colton Ward
>stockings are too small chokes airflow Disagree. Stretch them and they'll flow as much as a factory filter that isn't just perforated steel.
