PC Building V4 - "ok SSDs got cheap, now do RAM next"
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No, it's alright. FE blowers are thermally serviceable but LOUD. The TIM is okay, you won't gain much by repasting without moving up to liquid metal. If you care about noise you'll need an aftermarket cooler, if not you can leave it totally stock.
You can manually control the fan curve on Nvidia's desktop cards right? Sorry, it's been forever and a half since I've had a full-fat Nvidia card (the last couple were in laptops and had very limited options)
I hated how a lot of cards would let tons of heat build up and then just dump it all at once, that's what turned me off of gaming laptops as a whole. I want it to manage itself less passively, if that's possible with the official software.
Most people seem to set fan curves through MSI Afterburner.
Is there really any difference between a high end TIM and LM on direct die contact coolers?
I wouldn't bother with a repaste, but I modded my 1080 FE with a NZXT G12 + Corsair H75 and the thing dropped 30*C under load.
preordered a samsung C27JG52 but now im having buyers remorse and wondering if i should cancel the games i play would be hard to achieve 120/144fps but i have seen people saying screen tearing is much less noticable at high refreshrates?
It is. It also minimizes the input lag effect of vsync.
Wonder how close to a stock 1080 I could get, by using one of those to push a 1070
Probably not very close, to be honest. But I'm not the one to talk to about overclocking anything.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/657/e131cedd-4dce-4c11-9c42-8ac1c8b6a252/image.png
Within 6 frames of a stock 1080. It's about the same as my 1080 vs a stock TI.
Not a bad jump.
So I'm gonna need to replace my aging power supply, the XFX TS gold 750W is good stuff, right?
And while I'm at it, might as well replace my shitty mess of a case with something that has good airflow and cable management options. The Phanteks Enthoo Pro M seems to have pretty much everything I need, any thoughts? I like how all the dust filters are easily removeable and it actually has a optical drive bay.
Damn, those are some good gains.
I'll have to keep all this in mind, thanks
Yeah GPU overclocking is in general far more valuable than CPU overclocking for gaming. You can get some really big gains with heavy clocks, hell my 290x performed like a non-reference 980.
At least in the last generation or two. I've killed my fair share of GPUs; they were fragile as all hell.
Afterburner hasn't even let you set voltage to really unsafe levels since at least around Kepler by default. What the hell GPUs were you using that were that fragile? Only times I've actually damaged a GPU was pushing it WAY out of spec or with jury rigged cooling.
Rest in pepperoni you gigantic bastard
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/657/add3c0c6-58cf-452c-a310-fe560e3b18aa/image.png
flashback to when AMD GPUs had badly CGI-rendered girls in skin tight suits on their reference coolers
"what the fuck is a VRM and why would you want to cool it"
Hi guys, I'm looking to upgrade my pc, not sure what the most sensible upgrade path is currently. My budget is around 260 usd. My specs now are
CPU: Intel Core I3 8100
GPU: Nvidia 1050 Ti OC
RAM: 8gb 2400 Kingston RAM
Storage: 240gb SSD, 500gb HDD
I can get a used 1070 right now for around that price, the seller assures me he hasn't used it for mining. Would an I3 8100 bottleneck a 1070?
I kinda miss the days of cooler art though. You figure it would be perfect for the current "showcase position" case fad.
Sort of, but not anywhere near enough to make a 1070 a bad upgrade path. If you want to run your games faster, get that 1070.
btw, I game at 1080p, so maybe a 1060 6gb would be a better idea?
Whichever is closer to MSRP
Both choices give you similar performance per dollar so take your pick. Either will be fine.
i had this stupid gigantic thing at one point
https://www.asus.com/media/global/products/4Eb8PEXoot9qYpTL/P_setting_fff_1_90_end_500.png
???
Thank you ASUS, very cool!
Meanwhile my first DGPU was a used Quadro FX 3400
Paired with a 3(ish)Ghz Pentium 4, 2GB of RAM, and two 40GB HDDs
Built from scraps my high school was literally throwing out, and crammed into one of these
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/228820/60b16225-a2a1-4a78-85a1-797eabd622ef/ltRpLpSXiYnFIrdB.jpg
Because fuck it, I was poor, and I wanted to play Steam games like all my internet friends
Damn. Those cases have like zero airflow.
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PC Building V4 - "ok SSDs got cheap, now do RAM next"
