Vega 64? Would make the best more than 1080ti if monitor has freesync, pls they're roughly equal.
I'm currently using a 3770K and it's definitely not causing me to drop under 60 at times, but I'm not sure how big the performance difference with the 3770S is
My friend decided to upgrade his PC without doing any research or even mentioning it to any of the multiple PC enthusiasts in our friend group. He ended up a £450 case, getting an i7 7700k and a crap motherboard that isn't capable of OCing. And no CPU cooler and no bracket to mount his old one, which is a stock cooler for an old Athlon.
Not really sure how he managed it but whatever.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/166399/b9b0caae-fe78-48ea-b8b2-77821ab23f86/image.png
This is his current system with a 1070 in it, yeah I know.
He wants to keep the PSU, storage and GPU. My recommendation was refunding everything he's got and getting this: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/vmBVRJ
Any thoughts?
Thanks man, I think I just always graviatate to corsair for some reason.
My other 2 friends are insisting he gets a 9700k now, so it's moot. No idea why, and they won't listen to me. Considering he was originally getting a £400 case, I think he just doesn't give a shit.
I bought a new GPU from sales and istalled it, so I have 2 fast questions.
If i game with my current 450w PSU, do i risk my pc?
Is the new PSU good enough for my setup?
Bought:
620W S12II-620 ATX 80 Plus Bronze
Current setup:
ASUS ROG Strix B360-F Gaming, S-1151
Intel Core i7-8700 Processor
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz 16GB
MSI GeForce RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G
450 Watt Super Flower Golden Green PRO Non-Modular 80+ Gold
3 Ssds and HDD
200w is roughly what a 2070 would use, the 8700k shouldn't really use more than 150w even overclocked so lets say 200w just to be safe. You could probably use the computer with that 450W but I would suggest to avoid anything very intensive to both the cpu and gpu. That Seasonic is an amazing budget unit, it's really well sized for what you want to do with it.
If you're curious what Seasonic recommends, they have a wattage calculator.
https://seasonic.com/wattage-calculator
Since someone asked about wattage. I'm worried about my 650 watt not being enough for a 1080ti, i5 6600k (4.4, 1.3 volts oc), 16gb RAM, and 2 HDD and 2 SDD, and a PCI soundcard. I feel like its enough, but someone planted a seed of doubt in my head.
Seasonic recommends a Prime 750w 80+ Titanium(massive quality overkill) but says you need 531w and you should have at least 581w.
Honestly, you're probably fine unless you fold on your cpu while mining crypto on your gpu in your spare time.
how accurate is the pcpartpicker wattage? I'm going with a 2080 and an i5-9600k and its putting me at 334 watts, so I'm getting a 550 watt power supply. Should I go higher just to be safe for when I do overclocking?
Alrighty I thought it would be fine, but I needed reassuring lmao
Honestly I don't think there is that much of a price difference to go a little higher in wattage just to be safe.
My case arrives today, hopefully get it all swapped over either today or tomorrow(no idea why the picture is sideways lol)
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109685/1abd6d34-5bcb-4313-b1df-ba24bd26065c/20181130_111950.jpg
I don't think they are, so hopefully shouldbe good
Tbh I wouldn't wall mount a heavy PC like that.
It's not mounted, it's just sat on my floor waiting for me to swap parts over
Power supplies usually reach peak efficiency around 50%, so there is some merit to it, but even if you're really generous this is only a ~2% difference.
It also works the other way around though, when the PC is idle the low wattage power supply will probably be more efficient.
Energy is about 22 eurocents per kWh here, if you spent €20 extra on a PSU for that 2% efficiency under load it would take 3600 hours or 150 days of load to make your money back
Built my new computer like 2 weeks ago now, but I think I finally found a color scheme I like. Got that Halo Covenant cruiser theme going:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/240668/fb85f7b6-46d3-4e53-8aa3-9a3353983dae/2.jpg
And it feels great to finally be able to play games at max settings and get really good framerates. Crazy what performance looks like without a shitty 2011 CPU screwing you over.
What CPU did you settle on?
So I went ahead and bought the 1070ti a week after posting about it. Oddly enough, it went UP in price during Black Friday/Cyber Monday, so I'm glad I bought it when I did. I threw it in my rig and it made a massive difference, but it also made me evaluate my machine as a whole. My case was a 9-year old Cooler Master HAF, my PSU was a 5-year old no-name, and I was running the same 120gb 840 EVO SSD as my primary with a 5tb HDD secondary.
And well, what with Holiday bonuses and all...
I bought an EVGA 750 Watt PSU, EVGA 240mm closed loop CPU cooler (I had a Corsair 120mm prior), a new case, an EVO 970 500gb M2 for my primary, a Sandisk 1tb SSD for my more demanding games, and kept my 5tb HDD for storage. Everything is running amazingly smooth, I feel like the M2 SSD made a massive difference in boot times and I run Tarkov exclusively on it, which made an incredible difference as well. A bit of a costly upgrade overall, but long overdue.
I honestly didn't realize the CPU cooler was RGB until I was installing it - I was just as baffled as to why my GPU is RGB, as well. Totally unnecessary. You have to plug a mini-usb cable into the water pump, plug the other end into a USB header, then run a separate utility to control pump/fan RPM and RGB lighting. That's a new one for me. Sure is nice to look through the tempered glass and see everything glowing white, though.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113284/9db1dd32-3692-4390-824b-f58b84b997d2/ssd.jpg
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113284/d7be8db3-71c1-48ec-9d55-98bc63f7422a/47347928_10216094046896571_5173033442241150976_o.jpg
Does it bug anyone else to see that much empty space in a case like that?
What are good ways to even fill it, if you're not doing custom loops and aren't using hard drives?
Buy a smaller case, I guess.
use the space to hide drugs
It's a mid-tower ATX case, it's just really well designed. The lack of 3.5" bays makes it look much larger than it actually is. It's just as large as my Cooler Master HAF, the space is just better allocated. The 2.5" SSD's are behind the mobo instead of on the bottom of the case, etc.
I dunno why you'd wanna fill it though, airflow baby!
I got a Ryzen 2600x for $180 on Newegg during their Black Friday sales.
Same CPU as me, I love this thing. I paid a lot more for mine though.
There's no such thing, DDR is universal, but some kits are made to be compatible with certain platforms and chipsets. That kit was likely made with AMD compatibility in mind but it would still function in an Intel system.
My knowledge of DDR3 is severely lacking, sorry. But knowing DDR4, probably not worth it, especially in an AMD system. Intel systems are more tolerant of cheaper or more obscure RAM, generally.
"AMD only" usually means it's ECC Unbuffered, so you can only use it on like X58 or X79 because Intel sucks like that and doesn't allow for unbuffered ECC support on their consumer chipsets. In all cases, I'd recommend buying used DDR3 off ebay or locally if possible.
I'd go second hand, I bought my two 8GB DDR3 units off ebay and it worked out fine for me. It's not like buying a usee GPU or HDD.
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