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H13 posted:Hey all. audio normally doesn't need that much power. what kind of hellish effects chains are you running?
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H13 posted:This is the part where I mention that Devin Townsend is my idol. ok, yep. 
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Glenn Quebec posted:Hello thread. I'm in the U.S. and I am due for an upgrade on my gaming PC. I think that my weak area is my CPU but I'm not 100% on that. I do know that I'm gonna grab a new GPU on Black Friday/Cyber Monday or whatever because I give my old parts to my nephew to tinker with and upgrade his own system. Uhm, my resolution is 1920 x 1080 and I have a mix of SATA and SSD. Here is my comp: That's mine exactly too, and I don't feel it needs an upgrade. I'd spring for a fancy monitor, maybe? Then if that brings your framerate down, get a new gfx card. sebmojo fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Oct 30, 2016 |
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Pon de Bundy posted:So I can install a new motherboard and CPU and I won't have to reinstall Windows or basically I need a whole new rig ? Can I just install a new motherboard and CPU and be good to go ? do some googling about the reinstall: if you wipe all the drivers first then put in the new parts Windows should sort itself out, I did it and it worked fine for an earlier version.
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Hey goons, pricing up a deal for my brother who wants a box for his kid to do video editing, music and general use stuff (maybe a little gaming too). Is a decent amd chip, 16 gig, and an ssd/hd a good combo for that? What is the gaming price performance champ at the moment, aiming at a little under a gtx970 for power? In nz so parts are probably expensive, https://www.pricespy.co.nz is a good site.
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No reason you can't do a bit at a time, just watch guarantee times i guess.
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Hdip posted:My dad finally needs a new desktop computer for his home office. Sooner is better than later. So pre-built is what I"m looking at. Dell outlet's still a good place to get something right? It's for appraisal software that runs on windows. Nothing super intense. We do use it as the server so the other computer in the office can work off it though. I'd like it to have an SSD and another HD for storing photos. 16 gig ram. Don't really have any other requirements. The processor and graphics card seem massive overkill
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Yeah i reckon, that's still a solid piece of kit
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Hi, looking for a solid, cheapish build for my brother and his son to do light video editing, general use, and possibly a bit of gaming. Does this look a decent setup? Cooler Master MasterBox MB600L Gunmetal Black ATX MidTower Gaming Case $102.35 Gigabyte GeForce GTX1050Ti Graphics Card 4GB GDDR5, GPU Upto 1442 MHz, Single Fan $234.99 AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6 Core,12 Threads up to 3.9 GHz Max Boost, Socket AM4, 19MB total Cache $275.00 Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2666MHz CL15 - Black (Intel XMP, AMD Ryzen) HX426C15FBK2/8 $102.35 Gigabyte GA-B450M-DS3H mATX Motherboard, AMD B450 Chipset, For AMD Ryzen AM4,4X DDR4-3200, M.2 $148.99 Samsung 860 EVO MZ-76E250BW 250GB , Samsung V-NAND, SATA III 6GB/s, R/W(Max) 550MB/s/520MB/s, 2.5" $98.99 inc GST Seagate BarraCuda 3TB SATA3 3.5 inch 256MB Cache 6Gb/s 5400rpm Internal HDD ( 2 years warranty ) $148.35 inc GST Cooler Master MWE BRONZE 450W 80Plus Bronze PSU MEPS Approved 86/88/85 , Low Noise, 3 Year warranty $74.99 inc GST Microsoft Windows Home 10 64bit OEM Eng Intl 1PK DSP OEI DVD Total $1465 System builder here
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Lutha Mahtin posted:I'm not familiar with buying parts in NZ but you might want to look at a different SSD. The 860 Evo is over a year old and a lot of companies are making good drives now that are cheaper than Samsung. That motherboard also supports NVMe M.2 drives, which will be faster than a SATA drive. Good to know I was going on old knowledge from the last time I built a pc. And yeah I'm trying to convince him to build but he's nervous about it, haha. Is the Transcend MTS820 240GB M.2 SATA a better SSD choice? I swapped out the power supply for an EVGA 550W Gold with a 5 year warranty. sebmojo fucked around with this message at 00:28 on May 18, 2019 |
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orange juche posted:It's still a SATA drive in an M.2 form factor, you won't be taking up a drive bay or whatever, but you will lose some SATA ports, and the drive will be no faster than the maximum speed for a SATA drive. Right. I think Crucial used to be bad, but are they ok these days? This one for e.g.: Crucial P1 500GB NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 up to 1,900 MB/s Read, 950 MB/s Write, 5 years Warranty ^^^ thanks! sebmojo fucked around with this message at 00:48 on May 18, 2019 |
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orange juche posted:That build I made won't save any money really because it's really hard to find PC parts that are available for a decent price in middle earth.  Yeah, I think I might just suggest the prebuilt, I like building computers but I think my bro will find it stressful (even though he can literally build a house from scratch, it's weird)
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orange juche posted:It will however likely be more reliable/live longer, almost entirely down to the quality of the power supply, as the prebuilt one comes with a rather questionable one, as they're only willing to extend a 3 year warranty on it. That and motherboards are usually where system builders of all stripes cheap out on parts. It's prebuilt in the sense that they build it for you, but the parts are selectable - I swapped out the power supply for a gold rated EVGA 550W.
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Stickman posted:But a 4GB RX 570 is actually cheaper ($215 for a ~50% performance boost over a 1050 Ti)! The MSi Armor's cooling isn't that great, but for that price it's a steal compared to a 1050 Ti. 580s start at $360, but I'd probably stick with the 570. That's awesome info, thanks! We've agreed that I will buy the computer since I owe him some money, so I might assemble it and save the cash. For the video card I was going on the 1050ti being only a little weaker than a 970 (which I have and is still very competent) but if I can get that much of a boost from going amd I might as well. It's not primarily a gaming machine but free power is free power. E: yeah this comparison is fairly compelling sebmojo fucked around with this message at 05:15 on May 18, 2019 |
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I still like my 4570, tbh. Maybe an amd rysen?
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mods rear end posted:I'm going to try to build a small gaming system. I haven't built any PCs since c. 2000, so I don't know WTF is good anymore. Here's the specifics: You don't need 32 gig of memory except for specialist applications, I would spend that money on bigger hard drives, like a 500gb ssd and a bigger hd. I think the ryzen coolers are fairly good, so not sure if you need a stand alone cooler? Could be wrong on that.
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iddqd posted:A coworker has tasked me with looking over and “approving” his list of components. Unfortunately, I spoke before I realized I don’t know much about the current components on the market. Looks good, I'd get a win 7 key from sa mart and save 75 bucks, it is legit and works fine (download the free win10pro installer from ms and enter the key).
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Stickman posted:You don't need to install Windows 7 - the key will work directly with Windows 10. You might have to call the support number to get it working, but I think it's mostly authenticated automatically. It worked fine with me, install 10 off a usb, select pro and I don't have a key, then activate when it's installed. Win 7 install didn't even work with the ryzen 2600, it wouldn't recognise the kb/m.
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poisonpill posted:Well, I upgraded from a 970 to a 2060 on a whim and now the computer does nothing when the power button is pressed. That’ll teach me to do anything. system_building.txt
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I had that when I started, and it just took a long time for its first POST. can't offer any other help but I did get it going.
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uwimage posted:It's when he's playing games...not getting mad at me, he's an awesome kid that will be done with his first semester of college when he graduates high school with a 4.8 GPA. this is not the way to respond to a reasonably polite comment after the thread has just helped you out
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SnatchRabbit posted:Thanks, I might try that. What real world benefits would I see from upping the timings and/or speed vis a vis gaming ? From the few ryzen 3000 memory videos I've seen you start to hit diminishing returns at 3200MHz. Would the timings help with microstutters? What it really boils down to is if I want to spend the time messing with my RAM settings and if its worth it for the benefit. My understanding is ram timings only ever make a tiny difference unless there's a specific issue that they fix.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:I love seeing people still using this chip. What a legendary processor. I'm really struggling to find a reason for upgrading my 4570/gtx 970. Everything still just works, at 1080p anyway.
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm not sure if you noticed but your motherboard costs $600 that's literally 600 dollars, like you could make a pile of dollars that was 600 high.
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Hello Best Thread. I'm finally upgrading my gtx 970, what's the current price/performance champ: 2070?
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I was thinking it would be good to future proof with ray tracing, but is the 2070 going to be a bit under powered for it?
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I'm on a i5 4570 and haven't yet seen any convincing need for an upgrade.
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None of that is going to be very effective, upgrades to ssd (if you haven't got one) gfx card or processor in that order are normally the best ones.
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No you're not dumb, it's a nightmare area where you can spend hundreds of dollars for no real benefit. Read this thread for a week or two though and you'll get all the knowledge you need, it's amazing.
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Gonna upgrade my gfx from 970 to 5700xt, are there any brands to watch out for or pick in preference?
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sebmojo posted:Gonna upgrade my gfx from 970 to 5700xt, are there any brands to watch out for or pick in preference? This is the store I'm likely to use, for reference.
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Stickman posted:You'll want a dual-fan card - the blower 5700xts are universally hot and loud. Unfortunately, the ASRock Challenger doesn't have any official reviews I could find - from trip reports it sounds like it's loud but decently cool. ASRock doesn't have a best track record with their cooling systems, though. thanks very much, i think quiet would be nice so might go for the gigabyte
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Just a check in to say that the 5700xt doubled my frame rate, but needed a little fiddling with the fan curve to stop being so loud. I still rate the 970gtx though: even though it's a solid upgrade there is nothing currently available that absolutely requires more, so if you still have a decent 970 don't feel you have to upgrade yet (at 1080, anyway). I gave my 970 to a friend, who is gonna get a 100% upgrade of his own 
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Stickman posted:If you can stretch your budget to $410, the 5700 XT is a fantastic 1440p card (go with a Sapphire Pulse, Powercolor Red Dragon, or Gigabyte Gaming OC) and is about a 90% improvement over the 590's graphical processing power. The 5700 is a good choice, too, but you're losing ~15-20% performance for $50. Sapphire ... Pro? I think? No game specific issues, I've heard it gets coil whine sometimes in which case I'll probably try returning it and getting another.
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Bank posted:Sidetrack: I've been reading this thread for weeks contemplating a new build and I can't believe studios are making games that require stupidly expensive machines to really enjoy I mean they're not, really? Like I said above until I upgraded I was on ok 2013 hardware and everything ran very well.
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