honestly, it's not as bad in person, if you don't like the lights you can turn them off
I'm still a big fan of a good quality condenser microphone and some good headphones. Rocking the XB950N1's now for the past few months, and still using my MXL .006 that I've had since I was 14 or 15... I'll never buy another headset ever again.
i've been looking to upgrade my computer. my current specs are
GRAPHICS CARD: XFX RX 480, bought when they first released
CPU: AMD FX-8320
Memory: CORSAIR Vengeance DDR3 8GB, one stick
my budget is in the $600 range but i'd prefer it to be less. the CPU is bottlenecking my CPU right now so an upgrade on that would be preferred, but to upgrade it you'd have to replace the RAM too because no new CPU supports a motherboard that supports DDR3 RAM.
You could do a 2600x, X470 and GSkill TridenZ 2x8GB 3200mhz for about 500.
Comes with a decent cooler included.
That's if you want to stay AMD
i do. that'd save me about a 100 from what i was planning, which is just what you said except with a 2700X.
You have to be careful what GSkill TridentZ you recommend though, since the stuff with higher CAS isn't going to work as well on Ryzen, it's cheaper tho. I'm also not happy with most Ryzen boards, it's a platform that really needs LED readouts, and only the higher-end boards have 'em.
My recommended list:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WvQvfH
Total:$633.75
why are the LED readouts important?
If you have any problems at all, such as when trying to hit that 3200 on your RAM, if you don't have a readout you literally cannot figure out why the system won't POST (since most mobos don't even have good beepcodes anymore).
A 1700 is fine. I bought one. But you're aiming for gaming and a 2nd gen x part will auto clock much better and give better gaming performance. A 1700 requires a manual overclock to perform better.
In my opinion, as someone with a 1700 build and a 2700x build, the 2600x makes more sense for that. Put a better cooler on it in time and it will actually, *actually* boost to 4.2.
If you were to follow Glitch's idea of 'ryzen liked' ram, that's typically Samsung B-Die. Which is often 3200 CL14. If you want to do that, add about 40-50 bucks or something to the ram budget.
that makes sense. are there any other cheaper options with good LED readouts? i can definitely afford it, it's just a matter of me being cheap
In Zen+, as long as you're above 2933, you're as well off tightening timing as increasing the clock; so lower latency RAM is a better payoff IMO, since if it doesn't run at 3200, it'll at least run at 2933 with very tight timings.
as it is, the build he gave me is actually more expensive so a new cooler is out of the question for now. i have a really, really bad Asetek liquid cooler (Asetek 550LC) so i imagine the one that comes with the CPU is going to be better no matter what model i get.
Wait, BIOSTAR has a cheaper one. But I've heard very mixed things about their BIOS and QC... so I'm really not enthusiastic.
Asus is still the gold standard of MBs (behind... maybe EVGA, IMO), AsRock is a close second, then Gigabyte and MSI. At least in my experience.
i'll probably end up getting the Taichi just from what you've said. it makes sense to have the readouts when i'm spending 90% of my paycheck
Little question, what do you all use your home servers for? I've wanted one for a while now but I don't really have a use for it.
My server is a big harddrive
I don't have one myself but I've wanted one for a long time. Some ideas I've had is to move my personal cloud off a dedi server and onto a home server instead, off-load files & SO's files to the home server for more local space, VPN at home if the need ever pops up and that's all the sane uses I can think of. I've had the idea of moving my screenshots and the general stuff I share with the internet to it as well but part of me is telling me that it's a bad idea due to bandwidth and exposing my IP so openly. A home server does sound a little overkill for the ideas I have so far though but it is nice to know my private stuff is in the safety of my own home.
I just use the parts from my "first" build. First being my most recent but still usable parts.
i5 2500k, 16 GB, the WD Red 6TB Amazon sent me by mistake, and a salvaged laptop drive for the boot disk.
It's because of your RAM settings, because that's the only thing you just changed. It's not in any way a necessary feature, and I've never even looked at my high-end X470 board during overclocking.
Day-to-day, I use my server most often as a dedicated downloader with transmission, sabnzbd, couchpotato and sickbeard. I have Plex running on my FreeNAS box, it's portforwarded so a few friends and family members can stream off it. Besides that, I keep a few Linux VMs on there for local development (webapps, database stuff, ect) and a PiHole VM for adblocking. While I was still in school and was trying to learn as much as possible, I ran a FreePBX for a while to learn more about VoIP and I got a GNS3 VM to try to keep my networking knowledge somewhat fresh. Now in my ISP job, I'm wearing a ton of different hats and get enough learning/hands-on during work that I don't need to do much of that at home.
I also have a DigitalOcean VPS that I've had for years to run my personal website, an IRC bouncer and some other little webapps that I've made. I'm on the cheapest tier so I basically forget that I'm even paying for it. I could easily run the same services on my home server or my server at work, but it's pretty "set and forget". I just have to run updates occasionally.
Besides screwing with Ram, X370 and X470 have been pretty rock solid.
It's a feature that if you don't need, you don't notice; but if you need you really notice.
AHOC basically shoots down any MB without a LED readout.
To add to this, I stream media locally to Kodi on windows boxes (and a raspi running raspbmc), and to Plex on everything else (phones, smart TVs, consoles, etc)
I use it for a personal Windows domain, file server, plex, a Linux server or two for random shit and a Folding@Home server. Also use it as a test bed since most of my clients are on ESXi and Veeam as well.
Biostar motherboards sprout dual GigE ports - I reviewed a Biostar SFF system once that kept crashing whenever I ran a memory benchmark. After several weeks of back-and-forth with Biostar PR about the issue, I got a surreal call on my cell phone while in a supermarket checkout line. On the call was a Biostar engineer, across the globe in Taiwan, who frankly and carefully explained to me that he'd isolated the problem: Biostar had cut corners on some key components on the motherboard, and the board would overheat when stressed and crash. What was the fix, I asked, expecting news of a recall or the like. He offered the solution of not running memory benchmarks, I believe, and said they'd have to avoid cutting corners so closely next time. Anyhow, if you'd still like to buy their stuff, you can now get three different Biostar motherboards with dual Gigabit LAN ports, which might both work at the same time.
https://techreport.com/news/26340/release-roundup-bits-pieces-and-whole-pcs
I think this is a good summary of biostar motherboards tbh
Anyone else had this weird issue where Windows 10 goes full molasses and things start getting delayed by absurd amounts, even switching focus between windows or opening the Task Manager will take AGES.
The issue sometimes simply solves itself, and I have yet to manage to debug this garbage. By the time I have Task Manager or LatencyMon running the issue is already gone, or I just don't manage to open either, and it's entirely random if/when it happens. I first time endured it by trying to install Android Studio (which made my life hell and managed to delay my life by a week or something)
Assuming your mouse cursor also starts lagging to shit making doing basically anything impossible then yeah I get it all the fucking time at work - or used to rather.
Download more RAM. It happened less when I went from 16 to 24 GB but I still need to upgrade to 32 GB since it still happens every second or third day and it's fucking infuriating. Seems the critical point is 85% RAM usage or so but I've had it work fine at 95% and not work at 80% so who knows what the fuck is going on, but without fail closing one of the things chewing 5GB of memory makes it go away immediately.
I don't get the cursor lag, and I'm not too sure if it's RAM, unless somehow I'm managing to use all my 16GB of ram doing absolutely nothing. I'm suspecting it's Windows Defender, it's the last thing I tried getting rid of and it seems to be working.
Thing is, this crap is too random to diagnose, this is so damn frustrating.
CIPWTTKT&GC 0x2E - Abort, Retry, Fail?
