PC Building Thread V6 - "running six RGB controller utilities at once" edition
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I personally have a CFG2470 (IIRC that's the model) which is an older 144 curved VA one from them, aside from the overdrive issues, I quite enjoy it.
However, I actually had to replace 3 of these, each one I got from Amazon had different issues, never any dead pixels though.
VA is nice because it had acceptable color reproduction, very good contrast, and good/acceptable response.
It's a shame, I just wish there was 27-30in 1440p OLED monitors, that would be killer.
So with one of my case fans being loud for some reason I can't discern, I thought it might be a good idea to at least give a proper look at the upgrade I've had planned for a while. I'm keeping my graphics card, Blu-Ray drive and HDD, but upgrading everything else. So far, I've got this build:
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/zCj77W
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor
Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut 1g 1 g Thermal Paste
Motherboard: Asus - ROG Crosshair VII Hero ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Team - Dark Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Case: Fractal Design - Core 2300 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit
I also made a build with a lower spec motherboard, just because I wasn't sure if I'd really need the Crosshair one if the main thing I'll be using it for is gaming. Other than that, would I be good to go with this build, or is there something I've missed/improvements that could be made?
Additionally, in the time between now and actually getting that, is there anything I could do to fix the issue with the fan without replacing it? I've got this case, and I believe it's the top fan that's suddenly being a lot noiser than it has been for a while, even after clearing dust out. From what I can see in Speedfan/HWMonitor, a fan is being reported as dropping down to somewhere between 150-300RPM at the same time this happens, so I've got to assume it's at least related, if not the same fan. Nothing looks like it's particularly hot either, with my graphics card being the hottest at 50-55C while idling. The noise and RPM go back to normal if I tap the fan, but the issue soon comes back, and I don't really want to keep having to do that. Does anyone have any ideas for what to do about this?
Technically 1080i120 would be the same as doing 1080p60, and since no one runs 1080i for games and such, they'd be marketingly correct enough but technically scummy in their product.
Well we get to figure out soon how good the Radeon VII will be, since it's coming out on the 7th, I'm certain reviewers have already gotten their review samples or will soon.
I guess this is a “should I build it or buy it question.” I’ve been thinking about completely rebuilding my pc from scratch and looking at building a mobile small form pc or purchasing a gaming laptop. There are some parts which I could recycle from my current pc such as my gtx 970 and hdd, but to be completely honest - I’ve never fully used my 4TB HDD (only maxing 350gb) so I thought of using ssds instead. There is one issue as I tend to travel back home quite a bit - 16 weeks out of 52 in a year. Recently, my work has rolled out the entire adobe cc suite to all staff, which is something I’d like to learn as well as fusion 360 so I’d need a pc or laptop good enough to handle that, along side a bit of gaming. Do do you think I should get a gaming laptop or look at some slim small form pc which I “could” fit into a backpack allowing me to take it to and from places. Or, if I’m spending time away (potentially for a 1/3rd of a year) should I just scrap/sell my pc and buy a good laptop? Either way, I’m open to suggestions and my budget for either a portable pc or gaming laptop would be £1200 max. The only thing to factor in is buying another monitor and keyboard and mouse for my flat, leaving my current setup (aside from tower) back at my parents.
I'm guessing roughly 1080Ti levels of performance.
Nothing earth shattering, but at least AMD has a horse in the race.
I knew that I forgot to include something. Here's what I'm currently using.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/3zkk1ioqxlggt95/2019-02-03_21-06-10.png
My only real concern is with the HDD, 1TB drives are basically dead at this point, I suggest looking at 2/4 TB Black or Gold drives. It's a price increase for sure, but you're getting modern designs, and the price/GB should be better.
So I just finished installing drivers for my 1060 on Windows 10. When I went to reboot, I accidentally booted into Kubuntu, installed on my second drive. I noticed that the resolution is back to 1024x768 with no option to change and I only have use of one monitor. Why is it that installing the drivers on one OS breaks the other? I had a hell of a time installing the Linux ones last week.
In an unrelated issue, I also can't use any other USB ports for my peripherals other than the two 3.0 ports on the back of my motherboard when in Linux. But if I plug my keyboard and mouse into those ports and use Windows, plugging my headset into the front IO disables my keyboard and mouse.
What the fuck is going on?
guys, I've been thinking about a new graphics card, especially because I can get it cheap
its a gigabyte 1070ti for 475 euros, and since most are upwards of 500, it looks like a great upgrade from a 1060 strix 6gb, which I could just sell I guess
thing is, I must first find out if theres anything fishy about it, because of being so cheap, but second and more importantly...
Would it go well with a 6600k OCd at 4.5ghz or would it bottleneck?
That's definitely not something I was aware of, thanks! Is this the sort of one you were thinking of? I can fit it into my budget, it looks like it's the right kind of thing, and it's got pretty good reviews, at least on PCPartPicker.
If that's really the only significant issue with the build, then all that's left is to decide which motherboard would be best and I should be good to go.
Sounds great to me, that won't bottleneck at all. Just be aware that 6 cores will probably become the new gaming standard in the next couple of years or so. While your CPU is still really fast, its core count is going to age worse than anything else in your system, probably.
Yeah figured as much, thought about getting a 6700k later but it didnt seem like a good enough upgrade and maybe just rather fully upgrade later after a good few years.
Now remains knowing why that card is so cheap... Getting the feeling the store got it after dismantling a customer's pc.
The 1070 Ti is about 8% faster in synthetics
Still in the market for two monitors. Glad I waited since nvidia decided to support freesync recently. My current setup is a r5 1600, 16gb 2666mhz ram, and a 1050 gtx. My plan is to get the 1660 ti when it comes out, buy two monitors, and if the new ryzen chips are looking good I'll be going for an entirely new build.
I was wondering if anyone has the following monitors and if they could vouch for them:
Dell D2719HGF FHD
Acer XFA240
AOC G2590FX 25"
I know it's TN and all but I don't pay 800+ for two ips/va panels when I could get two alright TN's for 400. After all I've been on a TN panel for 10 years straight.
Yeah, that should be fine.
I don't know UK Retailers, but I know that Amazon is 100% a "Certified" distributor/reseller, meaning that fancy 5-year warranty will apply from the date of purchase, if you buy from a non-"certified" reseller it'll generally apply from date of manufacture, which for anything <4TB drives ends up being already 5 years old. It's just a heads up – I'm a big fan of drive mfg warranties because I have had drives die, and 5 years is a super generous window for WD to replace ones that do.
Also down the line, depending on how many games you plan to play, a 4TB drive is a good investment, games are getting big:
https://s.gvid.me/s/2019/02/04/HvV400.png
not much cheaper tbh, if at all
card prices here are inflated, a 1060 strix a few months after release costed me 370 euros, going as far as 400
similar spec 2060 with a triple fan setup for example is even 10 euros more expensive
2070's start at 545 euros, just a hair above remaining 1070ti
2060 vs 1070ti? I guess I could have gotten a more future proof deal with the 2060 yes, but its a very small incremental difference right about now.
Does the RPM speed even matter when you're using the things as dedicated back up storage? With that cube case I put a 4TB Seagate BarraCuda 5200 RPM HDD in, though I've yet to write to it or extract anything from it to even see how it's speeds fair.
If it's just a dumping ground of .tar or other sequential backup files, it won't be as noticable.
Ideally you'd have the drives in some sort of RAID 1+0 or RAIDZ2 configuration on ZFS, where you have a handful of drives, speed won't really be a problem then.
Well with my computer, all I've ever done with the HDD was just physically copy and paste folders for things I wanted backed up, like my library of games from Steam and Origin. And it's just an SSD with the OS on it, blank HDD used as backup storage as I described, and an M.2 drive that contains my game clients and games for fast loading, do I even need to set up RAID?
Depends on how "backed up" you want to consider the backups, 3 is the "golden number", generally.
I'd also 7z/RAR the files before moving them over, since sequential archives are going to read better off a slower spinning HDD than lots of lose packed files (those legit murder HDDs normally, 5.2K RPM is horrible).
Oh, the 4TB Seagate in the Cube is 5200, the 2TB I was describing in my PC is 7200. Should have specified that.
Reposting from previous page. TLDR version, I travel quite a bit and I’m torn on getting a gaming laptop or building a small form PC from scratch. If you were travelling to and from places 16 weeks throughout the year, would you buy a laptop or build a small PC instead and suck up the cost of having a monitor/keyboard at two places.
For those who own a small portable pc tower, how much does it weigh and how easy/portable is it? Could you cram it in a heavily padded rucksack?
Behold my frankenpc build
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/186989935239233536/542491609896452098/IMG_20190205_174733.jpg
and yes that laptop hdd is connected by a single screw, dont ask
We’ve all been there, man.
I used a headlamp when I built my pc, the light in my room is terrible so it was the only way to see things inside the case
I'd prefer building a small PC than buying a laptop. I just like being able to swap everything out if I wanted to.
If you're going to want to use the system when you don't have access to external peripherals, a laptop might be the better option.
I have a ML08B-H as my portable rig. It's fairly hefty (probably 10-12lbs), the standard handle hurts a lot, and my 1080 gets quite toasty in it (open air cooler), but it does the job. It won't fit in a decently sized backpack.
If you decide on a really small PC, maybe a DanCase would fit your needs. Cable mangement and spacing will be a massive pain, but you'll be able to fit decent hardware in it AND be able to shove it into a backpack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXbc2z-zHUs
Does anyone use a 1080p monitor that is 27 inches? I think I've found the perfect monitor for me but that is the only hangup that I can possibly think of since most 27 inch monitors are 1440p.
After 24 inches the pixel density of 1080p becomes much more obvious, hence anything bigger is usually 1440p+
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