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Is this actually a good part selection? Because it looks like not a bad deal. My current build is now 6 years old and the only thing that has been replaced is the power supply. It's been good, but I want some better game performance where I can run things at a high graphic setting. I tend to keep things on medium nowadays. Not looking for megaperformance top tier but something where I can set games to 'very high' and not have issues. Honestly I'd put my budget at around 1500 but that includes getting a new monitor. What country are you in? USA What are you using the system for? Web and Office? Gaming? Video or photo editing? Professional creative or scientific computing? Gaming What's your budget? We usually specify for just the computer itself (plus Windows), but if you also need monitor/mouse/whatever, just say so. $2k MAX. $1k-1.5k ideal. Including monitor. If you're gaming, what is your monitor resolution / refresh rate? How fancy do you want your graphics, from “it runs” to “Ultra preset as fast as possible”? Replacing current monitor so whatever looks best. Performance ideal a notch or two below 'ultra'. Adus fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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Citycop posted:My budget was $2k with a 1440 monitor, I'm pretty close. You could (read: should) step down to the 2070 super... You should also forego the 360 radiator AIO, that was a splurge. Also this memory is a bit of a splurge. I'm waiting for some black friday deals on ram, case and video card still. You probably don't need the cabinet fan as well... how'd you get such low prices on some of these things that you already marked as purchased? like if i unmark those things and have it auto-generate some of the prices go up considerably.
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I frankensteined some things. Opinions or suggestions helpful. Case fans or other cooling options perhaps? And these things come up and curious how much they actually affect this? "Warning!Some AMD B450 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Matisse CPUs. Upgrading the BIOS may require a different CPU that is supported by older BIOS revisions. Note:The motherboard M.2 slot #1 shares bandwidth with SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports. When the M.2 slot is populated, two SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports are disabled." PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor ($194.00 @ Amazon) Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard ($110.58 @ Amazon) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($59.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($89.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB Video Card ($499.99 @ Best Buy) Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case ($89.99 @ Walmart) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($129.99 @ Amazon) Monitor: Dell S2716DGR 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor ($349.99 @ Best Buy) Total: $1524.52 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-25 02:59 EST-0500 Not married to that monitor, it was just on another list and I left it there for now.
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i'm looking at the builds people have made on pcpartpicker and i gotta say the number of people who have built insane machines, and then take a picture of their final desk setup and only have ONE monitor are baffling to me how are you going to watch youtube videos while farming in final fantasy? real question now: so i have win 8.1, and i understand that you can upgrade to 10 for free if you have it? how would i DO that when starting on a fresh machine? also any opinions on this build? PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9 GHz 8-Core Processor ($354.99 @ Amazon) Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard ($114.99 @ B&H) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory ($169.99 @ Amazon) Storage: HP EX920 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($114.97 @ Amazon) Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card ($499.99 @ Newegg) Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case ($98.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2018) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($119.89 @ Amazon) Case Fan: Fractal Design X2 GP-12 (Black) 52.3 CFM 120 mm Fan ($13.99 @ Amazon) Case Fan: Fractal Design X2 GP-12 (Black) 52.3 CFM 120 mm Fan ($13.99 @ Amazon) Total: $1501.78 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-25 18:41 EST-0500
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Thank you! The advice is really appreciated. I've been out of the hardware game for so long since I haven't built a machine in 6 years. The only thing I've ever changed in this machine is the PSU.Stickman posted:Looks good if your monitor is higher resolution or refresh rate than 1080p/60Hz! Some comments, though you've probably seen them before if you've been reading the thread. I plan on getting a new monitor regardless, but just out of curiosity: If the resolution/refresh isn't higher, then I'm assuming what you're saying is it won't really take advantage of the video card's capability. The monitor I have right now is a 1080/60Hz. If I were to keep it as a second monitor for non-game stuff (like watching videos while playing a game like I mentioned above) would it work, or do two displays of different refresh rates conflict and cause issues in some way?
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Any thoughts on this build? Perhaps suggestions along the lines of 'substitute x for y for a marginal increase in cost but considerably better quality/performance/etc' (or costs less even I suppose). The video card is probably the thing I could see changing, but that one had particularly good reviews. I'm willing to spend a couple hundred more overall if needed. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor ($194.00 @ Amazon) Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard ($193.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($77.99 @ Newegg) Storage: HP EX920 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($114.97 @ Amazon) Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB OC Video Card ($263.98 @ Newegg) Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case ($98.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($129.99 @ ModMyMods) Case Fan: ARCTIC Arctic F14 PWM 77.3 CFM 140 mm Fan ($9.31 @ Amazon) Case Fan: ARCTIC Arctic F14 PWM 77.3 CFM 140 mm Fan ($9.31 @ Amazon) Monitor: Dell S2719DGF 27.0" 2560x1440 155 Hz Monitor ($289.99 @ Amazon) Total: $1382.51 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-28 07:36 EST-0500 Thanks!
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Stickman posted:A second monitor won't cause problems directly, but there's an issue where playing video on the 60Hz monitor will lock the high-refresh monitor to 60Hz, which is extremely annoying. If you want to watch videos while you're playing games, you'd be better off hooking up your 60Hz monitor to your old computer or a laptop side-by-side with your gaming machine. Some people have also reported that their cards refuse to idle when running two screens with different refresh rates, but I think that might have been fixed with driver updates? thinking about this now it might just be safer to buy two new monitors. i don't think i wanna keep this second pc running for videos alone and i don't have a laptop. and just hoping the 'use firefox without hardware acceleration' thing makes it better seems like a gamble. though i guess i could try it and THEN buy another monitor if it didn't end up helping. also am i crazy or is https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XVMXBQW/?coliid=I1J51UCLJFRWIN&colid=3DJKBUM10JQM6&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it not anywhere in the pcpartpicker list?
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