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

[Liquid]

Just wait on the GTX 1060 as its supposed to retail for $250.

If you plan it out well, you can even squeeze in a 6600K depending on your storage needs

 

[Liquid]

Also if you plan out I think a $700 VR build is possible, but you will be with budget parts throughout outside of the CPU/GPU.

no ssd either

 

[Ciggavelli]

Also if you plan out I think a $700 VR build is possible, but you will be with budget parts throughout outside of the CPU/GPU.

no ssd either

Yeah, it's definitely possible with the $200 480x

I'm surprised you recommended the 1060 over the 480x. I thought you were an AMD guy. Maybe you've seen the light

 

[Liquid]

Yeah, it's definitely possible with the $200 480x

I'm surprised you recommended the 1060 over the 480x. I thought you were an AMD guy. Maybe you've seen the light

AMD has been pissing me off since the bulldozer flop.

I had high hopes for the 480X, but in typical AMD fashion they fukk it up somehow. It was the most momentum they had in a GPU in quite a while...and they go ahead and cause many headaches for people on budget boards...the consumer they were targeting

 

[ryderldb]

I replaced my main hard drive with a samsung 850 pro and did a clean install of windows 7. Now whenever I try to update my driver for my geforce GTX 750 ti, it crashes. Basically it installs and then when it does the mandatory restart it can't finish booting up windows. It'll start loading and then after a minute the screen flashes a few times like it was trying to apply the update and then crashes and automatically reboots my computer. Any idea what could be going wrong? I'm thinking of trying to find an older driver and installing to see if that works.

 

[daze23]

I replaced my main hard drive with a samsung 850 pro and did a clean install of windows 7. Now whenever I try to update my driver for my geforce GTX 750 ti, it crashes. Basically it installs and then when it does the mandatory restart it can't finish booting up windows. It'll start loading and then after a minute the screen flashes a few times like it was trying to apply the update and then crashes and automatically reboots my computer. Any idea what could be going wrong? I'm thinking of trying to find an older driver and installing to see if that works.

try the latest driver directly from geforce.com

 

[Ciggavelli]

I replaced my main hard drive with a samsung 850 pro and did a clean install of windows 7. Now whenever I try to update my driver for my geforce GTX 750 ti, it crashes. Basically it installs and then when it does the mandatory restart it can't finish booting up windows. It'll start loading and then after a minute the screen flashes a few times like it was trying to apply the update and then crashes and automatically reboots my computer. Any idea what could be going wrong? I'm thinking of trying to find an older driver and installing to see if that works.

I had the EXACT same problem with not being able to login in after an update. Let it reboot, automically try to fix it (it'll fail), then go to advanced options, startup settings, and disable driver signature enforcement. Reboot again and it should let you log in to windows. Then run sfc /scannow from the command prompt to find the corrupted files. If you're lucky like me, it'll find the corrupted files and then fix them. It worked for me. Hopefully it works for you. shyt was real fukked up on my computer. I thought it was a windows updated (I'm on Win10), but maybe it's an nvidia thing.

 

[ryderldb]

try the latest driver directly from geforce.com

The latest driver is what I'm using with no success.

 

[smoove157]

What kind of sound system yall rocking for your PCs? I'm just using the monitor speakers but I might want to upgrade

got my pc hooked up to my surround sound and the tv. onkyo 1000 watt 5.1

dope for couch gaming, but sucks for kb/m games

actually need a better solution for that

 

[Ruck]

Stopped playing games and got married. Stay single brehs.

Damn breh. Im happy for u yet sad at the same time. Congrats doe

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

970 or 480x
i5
8gb of ram
250gb ssd
Cheap mobo of your choosing
600 psu

Nothing super about that though. It'll play VR though

I just want a Certified gaming PC with stare of the art graphics, breh is this worthy

 

[Ciggavelli]

I just want a Certified gaming PC with stare of the art graphics, breh is this worthy

at 1080p...yes
At VR...barely, but passable

Really you gotta spend $1K plus (probably $2K) for state of the art PC gaming. To put it in perspective, my two 1080s cost over $1400 alone. That's just GPUs, and does not take into account every other component. State of the art gaming is expensive

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

at 1080p...yes
At VR...barely, but passable

Really you gotta spend $1K plus (probably $2K) for state of the art PC gaming. To put it in perspective, my two 1080s cost over $1400 alone. That's just GPUs, and does not take into account every other component. State of the art gaming is expensive

I got the money maybe the components will sell for cheaper on ebay , save me a few hundred

 

[Ciggavelli]

I got the money maybe the components will sell for cheaper on ebay , save me a few hundred

If you want a monster machine, expect to pay upwards of $3k to $4K. If you want that, I can tell you what to buy.

I like monster machines myself (I don't want any compromises at my resolution, 3440x1440 [3K]), so I spend thousands on my setup. I'm thinking about buying the new X99 8-cores or 10-core myself. My 4790K barely throttles on anything, but I want those new 8-core and 10-core CPUs .

I don't need a new CPU, but I want it

I like chasing numbers too

 

[Liquid]

I got the money maybe the components will sell for cheaper on ebay , save me a few hundred

Don't buy these things used or on eBay.

If you are spending that much money you should not be giving up the warranties.