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"I Need a New PC!" 2014 Part 2. Read OP, your 2500K will run Witcher 3. MX100s! 970!
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sorijealut
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$20 Newegg gift card promo for Logitech Proteus core mouse
it will go towards my gigabyte 970 card
Will be using this instead of my G400 which works fine but I want some extra buttons for some games. Now to just find a good price for filco mt-2 reds...
it will go towards my gigabyte 970 card
Will be using this instead of my G400 which works fine but I want some extra buttons for some games. Now to just find a good price for filco mt-2 reds...
appaws
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Two reasons. First was budget, I was trying to keep everything together not too much above $1000.
The second reason is that in your survey you filled out, you seemed to want a primarily gaming build with low interest in editing, rendering, etc. The benefits of an i7 lie more in that area as opposed to gaming, where 95% of games will not use the extra cores/threads.
The i7 4790k is a great part and if you can afford to switch out the i5 for that, by all means do so. I was just watching the $$$.
So, just like every time I build a computer, everything always goes wrong. I got all my parts today and right away the Phantek Enthoo case is insanely big. Like I've always used full towers my whole life and this is replacing a full tower but it's still an extra 2 inches taller and 1 inch longer...which means it doesn't fit in my computer desk now fffffuuuuu. I've literally never seen a case this size before, it's like an elephant.
I should have read the OP more carefully for measurements and stuff but I just assumed all towers were the same size and was building from the enthusiast build in the OP. Now I have to decide whether I want to put it by the side of the desk instead of under the desk or sell it and buy a new case fffuuuu
I should have read the OP more carefully for measurements and stuff but I just assumed all towers were the same size and was building from the enthusiast build in the OP. Now I have to decide whether I want to put it by the side of the desk instead of under the desk or sell it and buy a new case
fffuuuuThis NVidia DSR stuff creates the ultimate placebo effect and acts as a great advertisement for high-end cards. Just fucking around with 4x resolutions in games can be addicting. Unfortunately i think i will rarely use it in my case. I game on a 1080p TV so the native contrast of a tv seems to eradicate most of the noticeable differences i might detect in downsampling. Proper monitors you are sitting next to though i can see really benefiting.
xBladeM6x
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Best display of it for me, was Alien Isolation going from 1080p -> DSR 1440p and it got rid of essentially all aliasing in that game.
That is actually the one game where i am using it lol. Definitely at 2x display for me really helps with the jaggies.
Er, if you can notice the difference, its not a placebo effect.
Well i think it refers to the performance vs quality balance. Barely noticeable quality enhancement with drastic performance reduction.
Felix Lighter
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I really need a Gsync monitor. For awhile now I've been mostly playing multiplayer fpses. When I play MP games I play with vsync disabled to eliminate input lag. Today I tested out Bioshock Infinite to see how it runs on my new PC, and it runs great but I decided to turn on vsync to eliminate the tearing and man, I have become sensitive to the additional input lag. Maybe it's the input lag of SLI on top of the vsync input lag, but I don't know if I can play that way. At the same time, I really don't want to deal with tearing.
maneil99
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I know this isn't a great place to ask and don't want to clutter it from actual people that need one. But if anyone is selling a 780 ti or 970 pm me.
WHEA errors are often CPU overclock related
144 fps > Gsync
WHEA errors are often CPU overclock related
144 fps > Gsync
opticalmace
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Is he overclocking? I get that when my OC isn't stable.
appaws
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So, just like every time I build a computer, everything always goes wrong. I got all my parts today and right away the Phantek Enthoo case is insanely big. Like I've always used full towers my whole life and this is replacing a full tower but it's still an extra 2 inches taller and 1 inch longer...which means it doesn't fit in my computer desk now fffffuuuuu. I've literally never seen a case this size before, it's like an elephant.
I should have read the OP more carefully for measurements and stuff but I just assumed all towers were the same size and was building from the enthusiast build in the OP. Now I have to decide whether I want to put it by the side of the desk instead of under the desk or sell it and buy a new case
Which one did you get? Did you get the Primo...? If so, then I think the Luxe and/or Pro are a bit smaller while still being full towers...although you should double check that...
A mid-tower with good space optimization might be a good option for you as well.
demosthenes
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Just came to see if OP was updated after the AC:U minimums were posted. Hazaro on top of everything, as usual.
zeroeffect
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Just setup my VG248. Excellent monitor except the colors are killing me. Anyone want to point me towards some good color profiles?
Goldenmoney
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Shouldn't be an issue. I've had my subwoofer next to my pc for years.
If I was buying I would get a Lenovo Y410P/Y510P I think. But ask the laptop thread (first link of the OP)
No reason to get the Extreme 3 over the Pro 4 or the GB SLI board. Went through SKU hell for that.
Rest solid, just bump ram to 1966Mhz.
760 if you can foot the upfront cost with MIR. AMD the power you get from the 280/280X that are going on sale sometimes is ridiculous.
The Primo doesn't offer much over the regular Ethnoo unless you really need the extra stuff. It is nice though.
So after five hours building my computer and lots going wrong (IO strip not fitting, coolmaster Evo screws having problems and taking like 2 hours to get the freaking cpu cooler on with worrying it would fuck up and take the cpu the whole time, bending the pins of the front USB 3.0 connector, etc...)
I got it to boot to bios but uh, it says there's no bootable drives attached. This is my first time using an SSD and I just connected a SATA3 strip from the motherboard to the SSD...do I need to do something else? It's pretty tiny so it's not like old HDD where you set the pins to master and such.
Thanks
I got it to boot to bios but uh, it says there's no bootable drives attached. This is my first time using an SSD and I just connected a SATA3 strip from the motherboard to the SSD...do I need to do something else? It's pretty tiny so it's not like old HDD where you set the pins to master and such.
Thanks
Yeah, shoot, I haven't used SATA much, been using IDE for a while and totally forgot how to do SATA power. Umm, I have plenty of SATA power cables to plug into devices, but nothing to plug the SATA power cables into on my power box, what do I plug the SATA power cables (not the side that goes into devices) into to power them?
Power cable comes from your power supply. The data cable connects the drive to the MB.
What's name of your power supply (PSU)? Out of all the cables coming out of the PSU, you don't see a Sata power cable?
A PSU without any SATA power cables sounds really strange to me. Does it come with any of these?
FunkyMunkey
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Thought this might be the right place to ask this:
Is there any way to use DSR while replicating the image on 2 screens? I've tried when having it both on an lcd monitor and a led tv/monitor, and it seems all downsampling options (both in nvidia control panel and in-game) disappear when trying to outsource the image to both at once. If I only have the image on 1 at a time, it works fine. (Probably a dumb question)
Is there any way to use DSR while replicating the image on 2 screens? I've tried when having it both on an lcd monitor and a led tv/monitor, and it seems all downsampling options (both in nvidia control panel and in-game) disappear when trying to outsource the image to both at once. If I only have the image on 1 at a time, it works fine. (Probably a dumb question)
Is it Cooler Master 750W GX or II? If yes, according to CM website, it comes with 9 Sata power cables.
It has 8 Sata power cables, but they're not connected to the supply, they came separate and I can't find anything coming out of the supply to plug into them to power them. That's the problem I'm having.
There's 4 cables coming from the box:
1) Motherboard cable -> to motherboard
1) 4x4 pin CPU 12v -> goes to motherboard
2) 6 x 2 PCI, one goes to my GPU, other is left open right now
The open 6x2 PCI won't plug into any of the SATA connectors so I don't know how to power them?
There's 4 cables coming from the box:
1) Motherboard cable -> to motherboard
1) 4x4 pin CPU 12v -> goes to motherboard
2) 6 x 2 PCI, one goes to my GPU, other is left open right now
The open 6x2 PCI won't plug into any of the SATA connectors so I don't know how to power them?
Oh wow, I'm dumb. You can plug things into the power supply! In my 30 years with computers I've never seen a power supply you could plug things into. They've just been closed boxes with a ton of cables coming out. Now everything's working!
Thanks
haha
So the Phantak Enthoo case I'm using (the $90 one in the OP, not the Pro one that's $10 more) says for the case fans to work they have to be plugged into CPU_FAN on the motherboard and not the CPU_FAN 1/2/3/4.
But the heatsink goes into CPU_FAN and heatsink is really freaking important. I tried plugging the case fan system into CPU_FAN4 and nothing happens, they don't move at all.
What should I do? Is it cool to put the heatsink on a different connector from the motherboard? It's a short cable so I dunno if it'd even reach anywhere else.
I really dislike this case btw. The last case I had was screwless and it's really annoying going back to screws everyone when my old case just clicked and slid. Also it has weird stuff that's not explained in the manual and this whole cpu_fan thing is annoying me. Plus it's just insanely big and tough to fit in a desk setup. Otoh there's plenty of space and the cables are neatly tied up. I'll live with it for the next 4-5 years but next time I'm making sure I get another screwless case.
But the heatsink goes into CPU_FAN and heatsink is really freaking important. I tried plugging the case fan system into CPU_FAN4 and nothing happens, they don't move at all.
What should I do? Is it cool to put the heatsink on a different connector from the motherboard? It's a short cable so I dunno if it'd even reach anywhere else.
I really dislike this case btw. The last case I had was screwless and it's really annoying going back to screws everyone when my old case just clicked and slid. Also it has weird stuff that's not explained in the manual and this whole cpu_fan thing is annoying me. Plus it's just insanely big and tough to fit in a desk setup. Otoh there's plenty of space and the cables are neatly tied up. I'll live with it for the next 4-5 years but next time I'm making sure I get another screwless case.
So I'm in the market for a motherboard, with some specific wants:
- i5 4430 compatible
- 4 DDR3 sockets
- one or more IDE ports (muh burner)
- surround output
- I don't care at all about on board video, and would almost prefer less here if it cuts down the price
-sub $200
Is there anything like this on the market? I think I've seen it all but no IDE and often there will be 2 RAM sockets and just the 3 standard audio ports. I get that IDE is old but would rather not shell out for a new drive just so I can rip a CD or watch a DVD once in a while.
- i5 4430 compatible
- 4 DDR3 sockets
- one or more IDE ports (muh burner)
- surround output
- I don't care at all about on board video, and would almost prefer less here if it cuts down the price
-sub $200
Is there anything like this on the market? I think I've seen it all but no IDE and often there will be 2 RAM sockets and just the 3 standard audio ports. I get that IDE is old but would rather not shell out for a new drive just so I can rip a CD or watch a DVD once in a while.
I have the same case. What the manual is referring to is the fan hub on the back of the mobo tray. You can completely ignore that. Plug in the heatsink where it needs to go then for the case fans, that are already connected to the hub, find another 4pin fan connector on your mobo and connect the fan hub to it. Simple as that.
The screws are there because this is an enthusiast case and can be literally be torn apart by unscrewing it. It was made to cater to modders and people that watercool.
For gaming of course,
Processor Intel i5 4430 165
Motherboard Asus H97M-E 80
Case Corsair Carbide Spec-01 55
PS CX 500 V2 65
GFX card MSI GTX 760 2GB 202
RAM Corsair Vengeance LP 8Gb 80
HDD WD Black 1TB 70
TOTAL: 717
I want to keep it around 700
What do you guys think? Any recommendations?
Processor Intel i5 4430 165
Motherboard Asus H97M-E 80
Case Corsair Carbide Spec-01 55
PS CX 500 V2 65
GFX card MSI GTX 760 2GB 202
RAM Corsair Vengeance LP 8Gb 80
HDD WD Black 1TB 70
TOTAL: 717
I want to keep it around 700
What do you guys think? Any recommendations?
Hey guys so I need some help. I've read the OP and I'm having a hard time understanding things. I'll appreciate it if someone can please help.
I'm looking for a PC that can play The Sims 4 at the highest setting and maybe some new games at high settings. Including being able to play games like Skyward Sword at max settings on dolphin.
I want to have a dell xps case with the $800 gaming build on PC parts picker.
I just wanted to know if it's possible?
I'm looking for a PC that can play The Sims 4 at the highest setting and maybe some new games at high settings. Including being able to play games like Skyward Sword at max settings on dolphin.
I want to have a dell xps case with the $800 gaming build on PC parts picker.
I just wanted to know if it's possible?
Unbreakable
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Gaffers I'm in a bit of a pickle.
I've been using the Samsung SA700 120hz monitor for gaming, but after playing the PS4 on the 55' Sony W900 since last November, I just can't go back to gaming on my PC monitor which has terrible contrast.
So my question is if there exists or can anyone recommend a monitor with high refresh rate and good picture/contrast with preferably 1440p res. I guess what I'm describing is probably a VA panel monitor.. Are there any good ones coming out, apart from the foriz eizo.
Before anyone suggests hooking the W900 to my PC, that just can't be done with my current setup.
I've been using the Samsung SA700 120hz monitor for gaming, but after playing the PS4 on the 55' Sony W900 since last November, I just can't go back to gaming on my PC monitor which has terrible contrast.
So my question is if there exists or can anyone recommend a monitor with high refresh rate and good picture/contrast with preferably 1440p res. I guess what I'm describing is probably a VA panel monitor.. Are there any good ones coming out, apart from the foriz eizo.
Before anyone suggests hooking the W900 to my PC, that just can't be done with my current setup.
Ah, thanks!
Kamakazie!
Member
After the fan recommendations I ended up getting the Alpenfohn Wing Burst 2 off overclockers as they were going for about £7 each for pwm versions, which is quite a bit cheaper than most of the other recommended fans here.
Installed them last night and am really impressed. Made a huge difference to my case noise, at idle at least, and the rubber case mounts are excellent for vibration reduction. No clicking evident at 600rpm pwm either.
I'll stress test at the weekend and hopefully they perform as well at full speed.
Installed them last night and am really impressed. Made a huge difference to my case noise, at idle at least, and the rubber case mounts are excellent for vibration reduction. No clicking evident at 600rpm pwm either.
I'll stress test at the weekend and hopefully they perform as well at full speed.
Reasonable. What country are you in?
It is.
Belgium
fabricated backlash
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I'm going to build a new PC this month, can anyone advise me on used parts?
Which are safe to buy, which are better to avoid and buy new?
Which are safe to buy, which are better to avoid and buy new?
CPUs are usually a safe buy, cases probably too. Everything else depends on the warranty situation.
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