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

Yeah the newer ones are but not this one I believe. Bought it in 2013ish.

The older TX750M's are 80+ Bronze, no corsair PSU made after like 2010 would fail to have the 80+ rating, especially one that's modular/semi-modular. You should have no issue as long as it hasn't been acting goofy at all.

HEY. I was working for this guy the other day when I noticed in his garage a G5 sitting there. I asked him what he was planning to do with it, because he said it was broke he wanted to make a lamp out of it. If you want I could try to talk the guy out of lamping it.

I'm not an Apple gal, the very furthest thing from that, in fact, but the G5 case is probably the best looking tower case I've ever seen. It's just a gorgeous piece of industrial design. I guess that's the one thing Apple's good at.

I'm looking for a laptop to do college work on. Never bought one before so I don't know what to look for. I'd like it to have a decent feeling keyboard as I'll be typing a lot, not being massive is also another one. $500 is my limit.

So I wonder if this would be worthwhile. https://www.protocase.com/products/electronic-enclosures/computer.php I've always wanted to have a hand in the design process of something like this.

Look into a used ThinkPad T460 or X260. An even earlier one could serve you well too, I love my T430. Reasonably good CPU power, best keyboard available on a laptop, reasonably small size. Make sure to buy one from someone selling lots and lots of them, that's usually a sign that they're resold corporate business machines. They're usually in really, really good condition if you do that. Make sure you get one with an SSD, that's basically mandatory. Avoid the 1366x768 screens, try to get the 900x600 or 1080p IPS ones. Do those things and you'll get a super durable laptop for so cheap you'll feel like you stole it. My T430 was only $200 and I can't see myself replacing it in the forseeable future. They're built like tanks.

that looks heavy duty af though, probably great

Was set to buy the 3 parts I need to upgrade. RAM, mobo and cpu. but life just had to get in the way

Those are "Robust" but definitely not heavy duty. But they're heavier duty than any shitty compressor that comes with a vehicle/anything at all ever.

The one I posted was just meant to be an example of a nice pancake air compressor, you should be able to find a decent one of that style around $80-120. Those datavacs end up around like $70, while they're probably more convenient at times they're just not going to push dust out like a air compressor can and then afterwards you can use it to fill tires and power air tools. You could probably find one at a pawn shop or on a website like Craigslist. Just make sure the tank isn't rusty and if it was stored with water inside of it, give it a hard pass.

Any guesses when Zen2 releases in the UK? Was originally looking at the 3700X to replace my 3570k but now I'm wondering if the 3800 or even 3850 might be worth the extra mile.

Just wait a few days for CES, we'll almost certainly hear more info there. Some rumors are saying there's gonna be a proper announcement with a release shortly after, but personally I'd guees there's gonna be more vague performance teaser without a complete spec reveal, then a release some time around mid-year. I'm in the same boat as you, 3570k waiting to upgrade to zen 2. Gonna go for at least 8 cores, maybe even 12 if the insane rumors turn out to be anywhere near true. This year is shaping up to be very exciting for hardware.

I'm hoping with this and the Vega 64 I picked up last year I'll have a system that'll last me a few good years.

Do you mean the 3570K? Because AAA games are going to be increasingly targeted towards 6-core CPUs, minimum. BFV already does this.

Nah I meant with the Zen2 CPU I'm planning on making an upgrade towards.

If the 3600X actually bumps up to 8 cores like the leaks say, I'm definitely replacing my 2600X. That's too much of a step up for me to ignore.

The exterior looked immaculate, that's part of the reason I replied again to that post, I couldn't see inside but it looked like it was bricked and stored in that garage for years.

Just installed myself an RTX 2070 Waiting for drivers and then gonna play some kingdom come deliverance. Upgraded from a gtx 770

So after a month of decisions I think I have come up with a decent computer, but I wanted to talk to the good people here first. PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/TgXHZR Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/TgXHZR/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel - Core i3-8100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor ($118.89 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B360M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($82.96 @ Amazon) Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($58.95 @ Adorama) Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($57.89 @ OutletPC) Storage: Western Digital - Mainstream 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.99 @ B&H) Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB CERBERUS Video Card ($191.59 @ Amazon) Case: NZXT - H500i (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($89.99 @ Amazon) Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($68.89 @ OutletPC) Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home Full 32/64-bit ($129.99 @ B&H) Total: $849.14 I'm thinking about using just a stock fan, maybe bump up the CPU and GPU to a 1060 3gb and i5 9600K respectively, but this is getting more expensive.

AMD is announcing all of their 7nm lineups for 2019 on the 9th, wait for CES and see what is announced. The i3-8100 is just a slow, locked i5-6600. I'd also never recommend to buy a 1TB drive, 2TB drives are rarely much more expensive and for the extra $10 or so you double your space. 1TB is also realllly easy to blow through installing games. You can also find GTX 970's around $100-120, I wouldn't recommend paying that much for a 1050ti at all unless you need a low power gpu. I'd also just buy a windows key off a sketchy website for like $10.

1050 Ti won't do much for you if you want to play any higher than medium on anything relatively new (unless you're not picky about FPS) If you're going to go with a Micro ATX board, why not get the H400i? Or if you're not sold completely on going Micro, get a Mini and get the H200i for full puny mode 1TB of HDD storage won't last you long either, especially with that 250GB SSD. As Slayer said, 2TB costs barely much more I think you'd be fine going down to a 550W PSU as well if you don't change your mind on anything else

Please don't go for Intel/Nvidia just because of some weird brand loyalty or because a friend told you they're the best, you've picked literally the worst price points where their products simply aren't competitive. Take 5 minutes to look up some reviews and it'll become clear as day. An RX 570 will be cheaper and faster than the 1050ti, for that price you could also go for for a 580, and even 1060 3GB doesn't cost much more. On the CPU side you might want to stretch at least for a ryzen 5 2600, 6c/12t will be way more future-proof than 4c/4t, and it doesn't even cost that much more. You're also gimping yourself with single-channel memory, just puzzling decisions all around. In addition to all that, AMD are possibly announcing new cpus and gpus next week, along with nvidia 1160/2060 series about to be released pretty soon. So you might want to wait until then and see how that changes things.

I received and installed the 4790k yesterday. For shits and giggles, I decided to test the stock heatsink it came with before installing a real heatsink. It hit 100c and throttled down to 3800mhz when loading up GTA V, lmao. Why did they even make this thing. Anyway I now have it under a cooler master 212 evo and it's running great. I'm upgrading from an i5 4460 so this is a big step up for me and for only 200 bucks all-in I don't think I could have gotten a better upgrade. Paired with my new RTX 2070, CPU limited games like AC Origins went from 30fps to 60fps in cities, BF V is way more playable now, GTA V doubled in FPS as well, FF XV is way better, etc. I didn't realize how many games actually use 8 threads nowadays, but apparently it's a lot, so yeah I echo the above advice to definitely go for more cores/threads.

Here's a quick'n dirty 5 minute build with pretty much 50%+ more capable components across the board for a similar price: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bmRk3b Note that you'd have to put some more research into which exact model of the motherboard/GPU/RAM is the best pick at the moment, those are just placeholders to show you what level of performance you can get for the price. Then just pick up a cheap Windows key somewhere else and you're good to go.

Is it weird that one of the first things I want to do when I go to Las Vegas on the 12th is stop at the Fry's Electronics on the Strip? vv

It's an interesting location, last year they had a Vive set up between the computers and TV section, so I got to show the people I was with VR. I'm probably going to be leaving on the 12th, so no chance of running into me

. . . everything about Vegas is weird, you're good.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/01/06/g-sync-displays-ces/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6-g-sync-compatible-monitors.jpg FreeSync monitor support with Nvidia GPUs (without a hacky workaround) will be nice . Hopefully the implementation doesn't introduce any further bottlenecking. I literally just upgraded to a 1060 6GB so more options for cheaper monitor upgrades is good.

RTX is pretty much useless on anything 2070 or lower. Nice to have I guess, and it works okay at 1080p, but I play at 4k so I can't really use it. DLSS however is a perfect fit for this card. The DLSS implementation in final fantasy takes me from 4k30 to nearly 60fps and the image quality looks better than stock with TAA. I personally think DLSS is the real reason to get any of the lower performing turing cards, if it becomes more widely adopted. DLSS is the main reason I bought my RTX card, I just love the idea that PC is finally getting smart re-projection techniques. Sure it's not actual native 4k, but I don't care, it looks great and runs better.