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The PC Builders Thread ("I Need a New PC") v2
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FYI Logitech peripherals are usually on sale at a nice discount around Black Friday.
Hello,
I have a 1080Ti and i7 6700k. Do you think it would be worth it (performance wise...) to upgrade for a Ryzen 3700X ? And to wait for the 2020's Nvidia cards on the GPU side.
Why now ? Because Christmas is coming, and there will be some big changes in my life next year, so probably not a lot of money/time to spend on building a new PC. So it would be better to spread expenses over and begin now. And well, I want to be ready for Cyberpunk...
I have a 1080Ti and i7 6700k. Do you think it would be worth it (performance wise...) to upgrade for a Ryzen 3700X ? And to wait for the 2020's Nvidia cards on the GPU side.
Why now ? Because Christmas is coming, and there will be some big changes in my life next year, so probably not a lot of money/time to spend on building a new PC. So it would be better to spread expenses over and begin now. And well, I want to be ready for Cyberpunk...
I'm noticing my 3700X tends to top out at around 1.44V while playing CPU-intensive games like BFV (that's peak core voltage, according to Ryzen Master). Naturally, this causes the fans to get really loud. Is there a simple way to undervolt the CPU without impacting performance too heavily, to reduce heat generated and noise made?
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It's been years since I've run one but back then it was usually fine until the next MacOS version would break stuff. Getting it setup and working required some tinkering. I don't know if the situation is more difficult nowadays or not. But the best thing would still be to have hardware that is as compatible as possible. Motherboard and GPU are the main problem areas and ASUS was not very well regarded as a Hackintosh mobo at the time.
I just went back to using Windows 10 because I did not feel like switching operating systems when I wanted to play games. There's plenty of good video editing software for Windows.
SLI is pretty much dead. Few games have support for it, I don't think I've seen Nvidia release SLI profiles in a while either. I used to run 2x GTX 970 and swapping to a single 980 Ti was the best decision I made. Good bye extra frame of input lag and microstutter.
Yeah, i'll just get used to windows again and will have to master Davinci resolve now, it seems like the better editor anyways.
This is quite the strange one. And I don't really know, but since no-one else answered I will make a suggestion and it can also serve as somewhat of a bump!
If your CPU and GPU both are showing only ~75% usage, then that suggests the bottleneck must be elsewhere. Maybe on such an old system it's RAM bandwidth? Perhaps someone else will offer a different guess. Are you sure there isn't one thread banging on 100% usage of a single core, the 75% just being an overall average?
That depends on what you're trying to do. But in a word, yes.
If you're building on a tight budget, or just doing a little bit of upgrading and trying to get current, then no.
i have one and i bought last year around christmas time for $65 at bestbuy so wait for a sale if you decide on it. they go really low farely often.
I'm thinking of possibly setting up a media PC in my bedroom since I have a very very large number of 3rd gen i5 dells just sitting around.
2 questions
1. What is a super cheap ~24" monitor I could pick up
2. Is there a half-width, single slot, PCI power only GPU better than the 1030?
2 questions
1. What is a super cheap ~24" monitor I could pick up
2. Is there a half-width, single slot, PCI power only GPU better than the 1030?
Do we have an idea of when the 10nm Intel desktop chips are launching? Specifically wondering if a successor to the 9900k is coming anytime soon or not.
Intel is skipping 10nm and jumping straight to 7.... in 2022. Only 10nm "desktop" chip available is a mediocre i3 that is only available in their NUC's.
its a good keyboard for what i paid for it, havent had any problems. the only thing i really am not a fan of is the non removable wrist rest as it can take a bit of space on a small desk.
Lol welp I migrated to a bigger case the other day and everything was going fine save for not having a long enough SATA power cable to accomodate all my storage. I went and bought an extension and installed it, but I must have shorted something because now I'm getting power for a split second and then the PSU clicks off.
I put in an RMA ticket for the PSU, but dang, I wanted to play Outer Worlds finally
I put in an RMA ticket for the PSU, but dang, I wanted to play Outer Worlds finally
That's really weird. If you don't have another set of components to test for failure I might RMA the MOBO too as that seems to be the most likely thing to have gone out to me. Have you tested the boot without the power extensions plugged into the PSU?
If you had a RAID-0 boot volume, then your BIOS could definitely be still looking for a RAID. This is exactly how I set up my SSDs. Can't you open your BIOS settings during startup?
I've tested every possible combination of things I can think of, but it's always the same result. From what I've read online this is a PSU thing, and I'm hopeful that that's the case because replacing the mobo would be more of a hassle. The standby light on the mobo does turn on so????
It absolutely could be I've just never personally seen a PSU fail like that but I have seen those symptoms (flashes on and then shuts off) because of a MOBO issue more than once.
RIP, I guess I'll find out when I get the PSU back. I reallllllly don't want to have to remove the CPU tho, can I RMA the mobo with it still in the socket?
Try using this new custom power plan:
No and if you did you would probably lose your CPU which wouldn't be a good time.
I'de wait for your PSU if it's that difficult to remove and since it is the only thing you theoretically touched when you added the extension cable.
Well then :P
I'll admit I haven't kept up with the news around new CPUs, but I had thought there would be some kind of successor to the 9900k (10nm or otherwise) launching in the first half of 2020.
I got stuck at step one.
The article says that the latter two aren't strictly necessary, but I can't find CPPC or CPPC Preferred Cores. I've got the latest BIOS version for my ASUS TUF X570 Plus, but even with the search feature I couldn't find half the settings I need to toggle.
I bought the first part for my new PC. A Ryzen 5 3600 for $182 after tax. I'm gonna build in a FractalDesign Node 202, unless I can find a better console-size ITX case by Cyber Monday.
Quoting myself and as a reminder to myself to respond to MrGerbils I finally got a chance to test out the dell 2719 dgf (freesync) with an nvidia 2070S - yeah I'm keeping it. 1440p and 155 overclocked - it works seamlessly and with gsync too. Seemed a bit bright out of the box but looked up some calibration opinions on reddit and other places and found a nice middle ground. For the equivalent of around $300 USD shipped in less than a week with a 3 yr warranty I'm happy with it. No dead pixels and uniform color. Quite happy.
I was a little apprehensive because the reviews were mixed, but now I currently disagree with most of the reviews for this model however those were written many months ago. Manufactured in September so presumably they've had a little while now to iron out any supposed flaws that the reviews brought up? I simply didn't see any glaring issues the reviews mentioned. Who knows? Seems fine to me.
The alternative model - lg 850 - being quoted is unfortunately ~50% more expensive where I live so it was pulled from consideration.
Damn that's a sweet price. Hoping for the parts I want for my new build have some sales going on for BF/CM.
Thank you for the original suggestion and the follow up! I think Im gonna pick one up.
I'm probably gonna get everything else then too, but this was on Newegg's eBay store for $185 before tax and I had a 10% off code that expired at midnight PST so the stars aligned haha
Excellent! If you have any calibration tips or advantages you discover to share when you get it, feel free to post here of course.
Is there any good PC benchmarking software out there? My new build (3700x and 2070 Super) just feels a little... off. Want to see what sort of scores I get compared to what I should be getting. Does that even make sense?
Edit - googling suggests 3DMark and PCMark? Are these ones ok?
Edit - googling suggests 3DMark and PCMark? Are these ones ok?
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Ooh, thanks for the cool suggestion! How is the TN panel treating you? I've been in the market for a monitor like this but have been looking exclusively at IPS' because of the better quality
I'd also suggest Unigine Heaven/Superposition for GPU performance, Realbench for CPU.
Be sure to compare your scores to others with the same specs. What feels off to you?
The PC in general feels a bit sluggish but I get awful stuttering with games and seeing people talk about the fps they get on similar specs, I am not getting the same.
Soooooo....
3950X and new Threadrippers to be announced in a presser today for release a week later, right?
3950X and new Threadrippers to be announced in a presser today for release a week later, right?
Usually it is, but it relies on your mobo's sensors. Those may vary. My experience with watercooling isn't that it keeps load temps much lower than good air coolers, but that it cools your CPU pretty quickly when not under load. I also seem to remember something about the 9900k getting pretty hot?
Maybe something going on with power delivery to the CPU or GPU?
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