PC Building Thread V6 - "running six RGB controller utilities at once" edition
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Just looking for some part advice. My board died recently so I'm looking to replace it and the cpu at the same time. I'm on a bit of a budget (>400cad). Any ideas what I should be looking for?
I've got a R9 390x 8gb and a 750w PSU
I'm not familiar with Canadian retailers but on Canadian PCPartPicker, a Ryzen 5 2600 and an ASRock X470 Master SLI/AC comes out to 497 CAD.
Whats the best 580 you can get? Its my first amd card so i dont know brand names very well.
I have an MSI RX 580 Armor MK1, it's a good card but the lack of a back plate is kinda gay because it's a heavy card and sags, if I was making the decision to get a new 580 today I'd go with Armor MK2 just because it has a backplate.
When it comes to other brands, XFX, Sapphire, and powercolor all make similarly priced and spec'd 580's as well.
Sapphire and Powercolor are my favorite choices. Sapphire is like the EVGA of the AMD world, solid all-rounder cards with great support, and PowerColor is working really hard to make a name for themselves.
I can't recommend XFX at all, their customer support is horrible.
Quick thoughs with my experiences with Radeon VII:
It's still pretty loud, granted it was in a case that didn't let it breathe great, but if you looked the wrong direction in game it would noticibly pick up, not quite Vega blower loud, so an improvement I guess.
The best RX580 is a RX590 lol
So I found out that AMD doesn't make windows 8 drivers for my graphics card, only windows 7 and windows 10 for some reason. Before I go through changing an entire operating system, should I try running the windows 7 driver installer in compatability mode, or is that a really bad idea?
I believe this is caused by running it thru a usb bus powered interface using 1/4" TRS. I need to find something that can lift the ground off from the USB cable. I tried getting an ART box but it only reduced the noise, it didnt' eliminate it. Most games the noise gets covered up but I'd rather it not be there at all.
That or I'll just invest in a better interface.
So, my Motherboard and CPU are getting outdated, but I'm not sure what to go for new stuff as it means not only getting a new CPU, but ram and the like too. What would you guys recommend? I mostly use this for VR gaming and playing Arma. I'm really not sure what to go with. My budget is about 350 or so.
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Is there any good software compressor for my microphone? I'm peeved discord does not have a built in one.
Is ARMA heavily limited by singlethreaded performance? If so, Intel is the only option if you want a significant upgrade, and even then you'd have to go at least for a 9600k which is out of your budget range. The alternative is to wait a few months for zen 2 to release. It's a shame you're stuck with a B85 mobo, you could squeeze a lot more performance out of that 4690k if you could overclock it.
ArmA 3 is incredibly hard to get consistent benchmarks for, but yeah generally it's singlethreaded. Though from my experience memory bandwidth is also super important.
FWIW, at this point I'd just wait for Computex and the Ryzen 2nd gen launch.
I've always been a bit on edge with overclocking. What would you guys suggest cooler wise? I can't really get too high on my cooler master EVO right now.
So in Vegas, I picked up all of this at Fry's Electronics.
Thermaltake CA
GIGABYTE B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI AM4 AMD B450 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 H..
CORSAIR CX850M V2 (2017 Edition) CP
NZXT Kraken X42 RL
CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288
SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 250GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Soli..
SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series mSATA 500GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Sol..
All I need are a processor, graphics card, and the operating system.
A hyper 212 should be enough for a moderate overclock, but the problem is that your mobo will probably prevent you from changing the multiplier since it's using a B85 chipset.
Look on eBay and reddit microsoftsoftwareswap for Chinese key resellers, get yourself a copy of windows 10 for like 30 bucks or less
I love my Noctua NH-D14 and have since I bought it in 2010. Noctua and BeQuiet both offer by far some of the highest quality and most cost effective coolers period. Noctua gets you a solid warranty and if you ever need brackets for a new socket, they will send you them for free. BeQuiet probably is similar also. AIO's are great but most of them are pretty underwhelming in reliability and overall performance for the price. If you're going for aesthetics though, water cooling is generally the way to go.
Cryorig's H7 is generally considered to be the best performance for the money and BeQuiet also has the Pure line which I think is cheaper than the Dark line.
1333mhz DDR3 is really mediocre, most later DDR3 platforms did 1866mhz and even 2133mhz. You should be able to do 1600mhz at least. The 3GB 1060 is also not great as many GTX 970's are faster and in higher resolutions like VR it's going to hold you back more. The non-hyperthreaded quad core i5 also isn't great as all games nowadays leverage multithreading pretty decently and have for years now.
To be honest, with this build I was planning on trying to sell it completed and wanted to have it include a Windows 10 disc, so if the end user ever had to troubleshoot their pc. Thanks for the idea though.
I'm curious what your guys general recommendations and tips would be on building a NAS at the cheapest possible price. I'd only really need it to be on a couple hours a day, and would probably just remotely switch it off when I didn't need it. But the network bit is important, ideally I'd be able to access this from work, uni, mates and home. Functioning as a media box, raw footage storage, and a backup dump for all non platformed games and ebooks.
I've got an FX 6350 with mobo, 8gb RAM and a 550ti spare. Which is mad overkill, so we're good there. But unfortunately in terms of power consumption that's obviously a bit shit, but the 6350 doesn't have integrated graphics so I need to use the 550 to get video output. If that was so important, I could probably make use of a 3D printer and make an RPi powered NAS, which is apparently possible but a bit shit. The two costs then become HDDs and the case. I think I may be able to source an old case with 6 HDD bays, but it's a bit bulkier than I'd like.
I guess the main question, is how do I/should I cut costs on the HDDs of a NAS that won't be active 24/7?
I hear RAID isn't great with non-NAS drives, and having tons of HDDs working in tandem leads to damaging vibrations. But neither of those sound like particularly compelling reasons to spend the extra cash when I'm trying to be as cheap as humanly possible. Especially when I can probably source a bunch of used HDDs and maybe put something vaguely functional together without spending any money whatsoever.
Really depends on how much you're targeting for storage (and price).
Right now 4TB WD Reds are $123.80 from Amazon right now, Reds are slower, but lower power, and are fairly vibration resistant. Just make sure to put 'em in some sort of RAID or RAID-Z config.
Can anyone recommend fan controllers? Because I've never used one and essentially don't know dick all about them or if some brands are better than others. Like, I've been looking at NZXT's Grid V3 because I like NZXT's products, but the reviews for it are either "This works great!" to "This is fucking terrible!"
okay I'm looking for a cable, I need a eight pin Cable to power a graphics card, My Powersupply is a evga Gq 750. I cannot for the life of me find a way to googlefu the correct cable I need, Any help is super appreciated
eight pin, so an 8-pin PCI-e power cable. That comes from your PSU. How does your PSU not have either an 8pin or a 6+2 pin connector? You don't want that cable. What that cable does is splits one pci-e 8 pin connector into 2 6+2 pin connectors. What you want is a PSU with the proper cable. PSUs are cheap as shit now, you can probably get one for like $30-50 depending.
I have one of the eight pin PCI-e cables, I need a second one.
A splitter is a horrible idea regardless. Stop being cheap.
Aight So I'm looking for this then correct?
EVGA GQ Series 8
I uhh, I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for here. If your PSU only has one 8 pin cable, it only has 1 8pin cable. What PSU do you currently have?
He has a modular PSU but doesn't have any of the spare cables that came with it, I think?
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/144519/f25fdb57-3934-4011-8d8a-b9fc31fecc36/psu.PNG
Yeah, you just need the correct cables from your psu. That ebay listing looks fine. Just make sure it comes from the right PSU as sometimes the pins or plugs on the psu side can vary.
If it's just another one for a modular PSU and there's an extra VGA slot like that then yeah you'd be good so long as it's the right one.
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