The PC Thread - Tips, Benchmarks, Specs, Laptops, Custom Desktops, Pre-Builds and more.

[Ruck]

you got anything you want to transfer me? I'm your brother (if you are black)

Im white breh, but u still my brother

U know what, that gives me an idea

This goes to anyone: if yall are interested in a custom watercooling, i am willing to send yall a starter kit to cool your cpu.

@ me, take a pic of inside of your pc and show it in this thread. I will give yall until november 15th. And then i will use that random username generator thingy to pick the winner. Whoever wins, i will send you the kit, all you have to buy is distilled water as your coolant.

The kit contains:

1 ek supremacy cpu water block

1 koolance d5 pump

1 alphacool pump top and reservoir combo

6 barrow fittings 3/8 5/8

6 ft Ek zmt tubing 3/8 5/8

1 alphacool xt45 140mm radiator

2 phanteks mp 140mm fans for push pull

1 bottle biocide to keep your loop algae free and prevent corrosion

This kit will shyt on any aio clc cooler on the market. I wanna give back to my brehz, show yall how we ride on the wet side just ask @2gunsup

 

[CookisaCac]

I wouldn't recommend anything less. there's always DSR if you got some headroom

Lol I have a i5 6500 and gtx 970. Can run any game at 1440 ultra. You can definitely recommend less

 

[CookisaCac]

No sense in going any lower right now. All those parts are the best bang for buck and leaves you with a nice core for a few years to come.

He doesn't want a PS4. He wants a gaming PC

Read my last post. You don't know wtf you're talking about. My build will last year's.

 

[Rice N Beans]

Gaming @ 8K with 2 Titan XPs Tomb Raider barely ran with medium settings. It was 20 FPS average.

So near console performance and quality.

 

[daze23]

Lol I have a i5 6500 and gtx 970. Can run any game at 1440 ultra. You can definitely recommend less

problem is a (new) 970 is gonna be more expensive than a 1060

 

[SwagmundFreud]

Is a AMD FX‑6300 good for a budget build?

 

[Liquid]

Lol I have a i5 6500 and gtx 970. Can run any game at 1440 ultra. You can definitely recommend less

A GTX 970 is a bad buy right now over a 1060. Unless you can grab a new 970 for $100...which you can't. A new 1060 can be purchased for $1 more than what the GTX 970 goes for.

The only thing I would possibly consideris going with a 1TB or 2TB hdd or sshd and then cloning over the installation to a larger SSD in the near future. The problem with that is that any 1TB+ SSD is still pretty expensive right now.

You simply are just justifying your purchases. You won't win any scenario when you factor in bang for budget on my list of parts.

 

[Liquid]

Is a AMD FX‑6300 good for a budget build?

On the AMD side go with the 8350 as your minimum.

I don't recommend it, but it's still a decent performer.

If you don't want the 6600K, go with the 6500 just because of the upgrade path and DDR4 support alone.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-FX-8350-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6500/1489vs3513

 

[Liquid]

If you want to save a little bit.

Go with the CM Devastator combo and the Cooler Master T2 heatsink.

That should knock out about $50 right there.

 

[CookisaCac]

A GTX 970 is a bad buy right now over a 1060. Unless you can grab a new 970 for $100...which you can't. A new 1060 can be purchased for $1 more than what the GTX 970 goes for.

The only thing I would possibly consideris going with a 1TB or 2TB hdd or sshd and then cloning over the installation to a larger SSD in the near future. The problem with that is that any 1TB+ SSD is still pretty expensive right now.

You simply are just justifying your purchases. You won't win any scenario when you factor in bang for budget on my list of parts.

I'm not justifying anything. I'm saying if he only has a 1080p monitor he does NOT need a 1060 and i5 6600 to get max on 1080 resolution

 

[Liquid]

I'm not justifying anything. I'm saying if he only has a 1080p monitor he does NOT need a 1060 and i5 6600 to get max on 1080 resolution

Every PC gamer should aim for the best value for their dollar. He wants to stick with this PC as long as possible and there is no reason to go with an older generation card as DX12 will become the norm soon enough. The RX 480 is also an interesting option, but a little more expensive than the GTX 1060.

He can try to squeeze a bit and get the costs down, but at sub $900 with a monitor, keyboard, mouse, unlocked CPU, VR ready-6GB GPU, 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD I think he is doing damn good.

 

[Skooby]

For those of you that have a UPS device for your PC.

How do you know how much wattage you need?

 

[daze23]

 

[Responsible Allen Iverson]

I've playing console games and my OR recently. Not so much steam shyt though

 

[5010]

For those of you that have a UPS device for your PC.

How do you know how much wattage you need?

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