PC Building V5 "needs extra thermal paste" - Hardware & Software

I am considering to buy a new i7-9700K. Your thoughts? Worth or not?

Not worth unless money is no object. Ryzen 7 2700X is a much better deal

If you can find them at their MSRP, they're slightly better than the 8700K for slightly more money. I've heard that there's shortages of them, so it might be difficult to find one for that price. You'd be better off with a 8700K if the 9700K is overpriced. If it's worth getting either one of those is based on your current specs, tbh. I can't tell you more without knowing what CPU/GPU you're currently using.

It depends on what you're upgrading from, if you're upgrading from Skylake or Kabylake I wouldn't. I wouldn't recommend even upgrading from a 4790K honestly. What graphics card you have and if you're building a whole new computer or don't have one to begin with would highly influence my recommendation too. It also depends on what you're planning to do with it, if you want like a 240hz display the 9700k would be worth it for instance.

1700X dropped to $150 on Newegg. AMD RYZEN 7 1700X 8 2666 RAM is also down. PC gaming affordable again!?!? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jj2dfH

I was thinking of going for a 1080 ti in my next build and I was gonna wait till sometime early next year to buy it but with them calling the discontinuation I am rethinking that decision. I'd probably mainly use it for gaming at first. Would it be worth it or would I be better off with the newer cards /buying one of the older series? (currently on a gtx 970 atm).

Whoa Was just thinking about finally making the swap from an R5 1400 to a 1600, might as well do this instead

So I'm currently running on an i5 7600k and GTX 970. Thinking of upgrading to a 2700x with a mobo in the £100 range but a little unsure of the graphics card. I'd have everything else, including 16GB of high speed RAM my CPU can't even utilise properly. My price range is really wonky, it's hard to find anything that won't be an upgrade but it feels hard to find anything that is enough of an upgrade for the price to justify not just holding out and upgrading later. Similar story with the Ryzen, I mean it's better, but it's not £300 + a new mobo better. Maybe it's an idea to just put up with this system for another year or so. It's just hard not to want to upgrade now I'm 1. earning actual money and 2. spend all day around needlessly high spec PCs.

AC Odyssey has been quite the challenge for my system lol, it's made me a bit insecure about it ngl. I know the 970 is the weakest link, so I'll keep an eye out during black friday also probs places like Amazon Warehouse too. Only thing is would it be better to go with a Radeon card for freesync reasons?

I would actually super duper not recommend doing this, Black Friday statistically doesn't lower the price of PC components by any considerable amount and Pascal stock is reportedly running very low so you should probably grab what you want right now before it all runs out

I didn't know there weren't many black Friday on discounts. I've been sitting on a cart full of components waiting for then, but I'm wondering if I should just pull the trigger now.

Yeah it's pretty trash for any big components, black friday deals are always better for the little things and peripherals. Though after I bought my first PC, they had $30 off just about every fucking component that I had bought the NEXT day after I received my parts from Newegg. You can bet your ass I was pissed, I could've afforded a 670. ( This was 6 years ago )

Yo lads, quick question - a gen 2 i7 isn't going to work with a motherboard made for a gen 7 yeah? Like I know the sockets are both 1150 but its a different type of 1150 socket between them is it not?

It's not going to work. 2nd gen i7 uses the 1156 socket iirc, but yeah. Too old. Just because Intel hates you, you can't even look at just the sockets anymore. Coffee lake(8th gen) and Skylake/Kaby Lake(6&7) use the same socket, but aren't intercompatible.

Great... so, I ordered a Ryzen 2600x off of eBay about six days ago, but they weren't shipping the package and the estimated date was the 30th. My impatient ass canceled the order. Friend of mine says that the order was shipped the day after I cancelled, and now I'm out of a sale until Newegg has their $180 2600x deal on Black Friday, plus no CPU. So I have literally everything except my processor now for my new build, all because I second guessed a seller. Wonderful. On the upside, though, this build is coming together nicely and it'll be cool to not have to play things on Medium anymore, plus have a CPU that isn't from 2011.

Just because the sockets are technically "pin-compatable" and the CPU will physically fit, doesn't mean the chipset will accept the CPU. To answer your question, Haswell (4th gen) CPUs won't work with Kabylake (7th gen) parts.

For whatever reason the 4790k uses the 1150 socket despite being 4th gen but regarding the swap, fair enough. Probably not worth trying to scour the web for a MB supporting DDR4 and that specific gen when ill likely need to update the CPU within a year or so anyway. 4 years out of a CPU ain't bad though, its by no means dead but muh gaming spec etc

I posted earlier, Newegg has a 1700X for $150.

Just in case you still go ahead with the upgrade and end up needing to get a CPU too, it's worth letting you know that this is not and likely will not be a thing going forwards with Ryzen. However, the 4790K is still very good so I'd recomend holding off on upgrading if it's just for RAM, you wouldn't be likely to notice much of a boost from upgrading to faster RAM anyway. You're going to have to spend a lot to justify upgrading, just going with an equivelent current gen CPU will cost you 400+ and give you no noticable performance increase.

so how big of an issue are amd graphics card drivers/optimization compared to nvidia, anyways? I've still got a month-ish before I build my computer, so I've been weighing all my options. I'm looking at either getting a 1070 ti, or a vega 56. If I get the vega 56, I'll spend a tiny bit more and get a freesync monitor. What should I do?

^ I've been asking a similar question myself, it seems to vary from game to game but all in all Nvidia are better supported. But if you're doing producivity stuff too then Vega blows GTX out of the water. The freesync by my reading into it is definitely a plus, but I'm still unsure whether it's worth the performance hit that comes with going Vega. Honestly, I think I'd have to use them side by side to tell you. Also a new 1070 Windforce for £370 inc VAT on Ebuyer, am I missing something or is that a pretty good price? The only worry is that it looks like a smol boy, so I wonder about heat. Selling my 970 for £90 to a mate, would mean the upgrade cost me £280 + probs a tenner postage because Ebuyer are actually charge that much for 5 day delivery.

OK yeah not a brilliant price then, was UK Ebuyer clearance.

For those in the UK the Sapphire Vega 64 Nitro+ will be 399 from 1pm at overclockers https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/black-friday-deal-sapphire-radeon-rx-vega-64-nitro-graphics-card-fully-loaded-games-bundle-39999-from-1pm-today-at-overclockers-3104406

Why rate whoop? Those are some worthwhile deals considering the usual price of those cards, I may actually get that Vega 56.

I was looking at this Vega card too. PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 DirectX 12 VEGA 56 NANO 8GBHBM2 8GB.. https://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/ProductImageCompressAll1280/14-131-741-Z01.jpg But it says it requires at minimum a 650W PSU? Dammit I knew Vega cards are power hungry but are they really THAT bad?

Graphics card manufacturers like to overstate PSU requirements more as a cover your ass thing, so that people with cheap shit noname PSUs can't complain about the card not working. They also can't predict how much the rest of your system consumes, if you have an overclocked 9900k or a Threadripper, your power consumption could easily approach that number. In general, a decent quality 550W should be enough, as long as you have all the necessary 6/8-pin connectors.

Whelp, I ordered a Vega 56 that comes with DMC and Resi 2 HD ( games I was gonna buy anyway) for £300. I now give all of you permission to shout at me if I try to order any more PC parts that aren't cooling related.

Half the reasoning was because of it's slim build for that new case I put my PC into. They're fairly priced but they look a little big.

Damn Vega 64 prices making me regret purchasing my 1080.

ASRock Vega 64 - Card Dimensions (L x H) 11.02" x 5.01" Max GPU Length 280 mm MSI RX 580 Armor - Card Dimensions (L x H) 10.59" x 4.92" Max GPU Length 269 mm Yeah at least. Damn if there was a Nano Vega 64 I'd buy that fucking instantly.