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"I Need a New PC!" 2017 The Ryzing of Kaby Lake and NVMwhee!

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Majine

Banned
What are the classiest looking glass cases? I like straight lines, and no "DIS IS FOR GAMERZ" esthetic if you know what I mean.

The Corsair 570X looks pretty good, but the honeycomb pattern behind the glass looks a little too dorky.

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Phreak47

Member
Majine said:
What are the classiest looking glass cases? I like straight lines, and no "DIS IS FOR GAMERZ" esthetic if you know what I mean.

The Corsair 570X looks pretty good, but the honeycomb pattern behind the glass looks a little too dorky.

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I'm happy with the Phanteks P400 tempered glass edition, unless you really want it to be glass all around. LED lights are always optional.

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VSG

Neo Member
Phatosaurus said:
Ahh fair enough, man. Gonna get them ordered on Friday. Can't deal with the red LEDs any longer.
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If that's all that is bothering you, why not just snip off the LED power wires on the back of the fan(s)?

TGMIII said:
For the 8700k, is there a consensus of the best MB & RAM models?
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Way too early to tell, the platform is still pre-mature. I would honestly hold off unless you already have the CPU.
 
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_BtB_

Member
can anyone recommend a gigabyte windforce 970 aftermarket cooler? the middle fan on my gpu seems to be dead and will not spin. bought another fan from ebay and still same problem. maybe the wire is bad that connects all 3 fan together? if so not sure how to search for a replacement wire.

looking for cooler that is quiet, not huge, <$70, and no memory heatsinks to mess with

thanks
 
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Phatosaurus

Member
VSG said:
If that's all that is bothering you, why not just snip off the LED power wires on the back of the fan(s)?
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Don't trust myself to snip wires haha. Mainly, I wanna get 140mm to replace the 120mm for the exhaust, and since I'm getting a 140mm, I thought i may as well replace the default 120mm fans on my cooler for uniformity in the build. Just makes the whole thing look a lot nicer.
 
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dyliepew

Member
Didn't see anything in the OP, but is there possibly a Discord Channel for this thread? I was looking to join a PC building focused channel!
 
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Spurs

Neo Member
I'm in the UK and considering upgrading my monitor to one with gysnc and a 1440p resolution. Any recommendations? I'd prefer not to spend a bomb as I actually rarely game on PC and when I do it's to depress myself playing DOTA
 
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kadotsu

Banned
I never overclock so the 8700 should be fine for me, shouldn't it? Are there any instruction differences with this and the k model?
 
Jezbollah

Jezbollah

Member
Spurs said:
I'm in the UK and considering upgrading my monitor to one with gysnc and a 1440p resolution. Any recommendations? I'd prefer not to spend a bomb as I actually rarely game on PC and when I do it's to depress myself playing DOTA
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I think you're looking at £450 minimum for 1440p/GSync...
 
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LordAlu

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snail_maze

Member
_BtB_ said:
can anyone recommend a gigabyte windforce 970 aftermarket cooler? the middle fan on my gpu seems to be dead and will not spin. bought another fan from ebay and still same problem. maybe the wire is bad that connects all 3 fan together? if so not sure how to search for a replacement wire.

looking for cooler that is quiet, not huge, <$70, and no memory heatsinks to mess with

thanks
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Arctic with their Accelero coolers seem to be good aftermarket ones
 
Chinbo37

Chinbo37

Member
Ordered my 1080! As mentioned a couple pages back this is for my rig which has a 1080p 144hz non sync monitor.

I think this should last me 2 years hopefully.
 
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Alienups

Member
Havent bought a new pc in quite a while but i just got the money for one. Dont follow the hardware market closely anymore but i read up a bit the last couple of days and came up with this build:

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Going to transfer the SSD from my previous build. Primary usage is going to be gaming on a 144hz monitor. Maybe some occasional streaming.

Anything big i missed or messed up somewhere ?
 
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Phatosaurus

Member
Alienups said:
Havent bought a new pc in quite a while but i just got the money for one. Dont follow the hardware market closely anymore but i read up a bit the last couple of days and came up with this build:

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Going to transfer the SSD from my previous build. Primary usage is going to be gaming on a 144hz monitor. Maybe some occasional streaming.

Anything big i missed or messed up somewhere ?
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That 212 will probably struggle with the 7700K if you're planning on overclocking it.
 
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Jarnet87

Member
I have a friend who just build his new system and the Hyper Evo 212 is cooling his 7700k fine. Now I don't know if he did did any benchmark testing for temps but while gaming he was getting in the 70s. Keep in mind this is with no overclock.
 
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Phatosaurus

Member
Jarnet87 said:
I have a friend who just build his new system and the Hyper Evo 212 is cooling his 7700k fine. Now I don't know if he did did any benchmark testing for temps but while gaming he was getting in the 70s. Keep in mind this is with no overclock.
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70 degrees while gaming, so it'll be much hotter than that at 100% load. Definitely into the 80s.
 
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Rflagg

Member
I hope nobody minds, but this thread is very active and likely features those that would be able to help me troubleshoot my hopefully not completely dead pc . So while I was playing a game yesterday my pc shutdown completely and now it will not turn on, now my simple mind is thinking it is likely the power supply can anybody please help troubleshoot?
 
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RumblingRosco

Member
Rflagg said:
I hope nobody minds, but this thread is very active and likely features those that would be able to help me troubleshoot my hopefully not completely dead pc . So while I was playing a game yesterday my pc shutdown completely and now it will not turn on, now my simple mind is thinking it is likely the power supply can anybody please help troubleshoot?
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Does anything light-up or are any fans spinning, etc, when you try to turn it on?
 
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Kaako

Felium Defensor
Rflagg said:
I hope nobody minds, but this thread is very active and likely features those that would be able to help me troubleshoot my hopefully not completely dead pc . So while I was playing a game yesterday my pc shutdown completely and now it will not turn on, now my simple mind is thinking it is likely the power supply can anybody please help troubleshoot?
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Do a clean power drain and take out CMOS battery from mobo...let it sit unplugged for a good minute or two. Then put CMOS back in.
Now you can begin for component isolation troubleshooting by going minimal configs with 1 stick of RAM. Remember to let everything run at factory default settings during this troubleshooting process. You basically want to isolate/narrow down the root cause of this issue by ruling out working components one by one.

Probably unrelated but my friend had a very similar issue on a 6800K x99 platform where in any instance he would try to OC even by a tiny amount, his PC would shut off after a couple of hours mid game usually. Did a couple of days worth of testing/narrowing down only to find out he had the worst luck of the draw with the silicon lottery and his chip did not like to be OC'd even one bit.
 
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Rflagg

Member
Soka said:
Does anything light-up or are any fans spinning, etc, when you try to turn it on?
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I have one tiny green light that comes on right next to where the electric plugs into the power supply, but no fans or anything else. Thanks, and sorry it took awhile to get back as my sleep was all wonky last night.


Kaako said:
Do a clean power drain and take out CMOS battery from mobo...let it sit unplugged for a good minute or two. Then put CMOS back in.
Now you can begin for component isolation troubleshooting by going minimal configs with 1 stick of RAM. Remember to let everything run at factory default settings during this troubleshooting process. You basically want to isolate/narrow down the root cause of this issue by ruling out working components one by one.

Probably unrelated but my friend had a very similar issue on a 6800K x99 platform where in any instance he would try to OC even by a tiny amount, his PC would shut off after a couple of hours mid game usually. Did a couple of days worth of testing/narrowing down only to find out he had the worst luck of the draw with the silicon lottery and his chip did not like to be OC'd even one bit.
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Thanks sorry it took so long to get back, but something this involved I will likely take it to the local shop.
 
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Weevilone

Member
Rflagg said:
Thanks sorry it took so long to get back, but something this involved I will likely take it to the local shop.
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Hopefully you have a good local shop. Most of the ones I'm familiar with would simply tell you that you needed a new CPU/motherboard/RAM and it would fix the issue.
 
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ThanksVision

Member
quick update on what i am working on for my GF's build. this thing is changing quite a bit over time. here's what I have that I know for sure I am going to get:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BJZC7h

i have one stick of RAM, but might get another dependent on what I can finish this with. the big thing I need to pick out is mobo+cpu... I was hoping to grab the i3-8100 but it seems like there are no cheaper mobos on the horizon. so now I am not really sure what to do, I'd like to get the best possible cpu+mobo that fits under around $250-$300

e: actually, what do you guys think of this?
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XT9YvV
 
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Rodney McKay

Member
I'm so glad my old HDD started to die so I finally had an excuse to get it out of my computer.

It was from my original PC build at least 7 or 8 years ago and for some reason it was always causing issues with my computer when I'd reboot it.
I'd set my SSD to have priority, but the HDD would keep trying to boot first and then crash because it only has some of the windows 7 files still on it.

Now I've got a bigger SSD, a big external HDD, and a decent amount of extra weight removed from my computer!
 
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Naked Snake

Member
Not sure if this thread is a good place to ask this, but my PC seems to have uninstalled my Nvidia drivers on its own??

I walked away from my PC only to later notice that the fan noise from the case was suddenly very loud. I came to check it out only to find the resolution of the screen has changed, all open apps on my virtual desktops were combined into one... I still didn't know why the fans were going so fast, so I thought a restart might fix it, but it didn't, and then I realized my display drivers have disappeared. Windows sees my GTX 970 as a generic VGA card. And the card's fans are going at full speed.

I'm on Windows 10 Pro and it's up to date.

How could this have happened? Is it common? What should I do now? Reinstall the latest drivers? Use a driver cleaner/uninstaller first?
 
Bloodember

Bloodember

Member
Naked Snake said:
Not sure if this thread is a good place to ask this, but my PC seems to have uninstalled my Nvidia drivers on its own??

I walked away from my PC only to later notice that the fan noise from the case was suddenly very loud. I came to check it out only to find the resolution of the screen has changed, all open apps on my virtual desktops were combined into one... I still didn't know why the fans were going so fast, so I thought a restart might fix it, but it didn't, and then I realized my display drivers have disappeared. Windows sees my GTX 970 as a generic VGA card. And the card's fans are going at full speed.

I'm on Windows 10 Pro and it's up to date.

How could this have happened? Is it common? What should I do now? Reinstall the latest drivers? Use a driver cleaner/uninstaller first?
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Need more information. There is no way Windows would have uninstalled drivers without asking first.

Darryl M R said:
Any of you all game on a 55" TV? If so, any recommendations?
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The size of the display isn't important, its the resolution.
 
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JWiLL

Banned
Chinbo37 said:
Ordered my 1080! As mentioned a couple pages back this is for my rig which has a 1080p 144hz non sync monitor.

I think this should last me 2 years hopefully.
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You're going to crush everything. Even for things like TW3 and Rise of the Tomb Raider you'll be able to push 120+ frames (medium shadows, no hair effects) and reap the benefits of 144hz.

I used a 1080 and never really noticed much tearing happening on my VGQE before I upgraded to 1440p.
 
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Naked Snake

Member
Bloodember said:
Need more information. There is no way Windows would have uninstalled drivers without asking first.
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What information do you need? I literally described what happened. My PC wasn't having any issues before, have had this build and Windows for years (well Windows 10 Creator's Update or whatever it's called was recently released and rolled out to everyone).

I have 24GB of RAM and I usually have a ton of Chrome and Firefox tabs open. That's mostly what I had running when it happened.

Also it's weird that letting Windows check for updates does not prompt me to install display drivers, when it normally does when you don't have them installed.
 
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Jarnet87

Member
Any suggestions for a wifi extender? been having issues with signal strength ever since AT&T changed my modem. Can't drill holes or run cables.
 
Bloodember

Bloodember

Member
Naked Snake said:
What information do you need? I literally described what happened. My PC wasn't having any issues before, have had this build and Windows for years (well Windows 10 Creator's Update or whatever it's called was recently released and rolled out to everyone).

I have 24GB of RAM and I usually have a ton of Chrome and Firefox tabs open. That's mostly what I had running when it happened.

Also it's weird that letting Windows check for updates does not prompt me to install display drivers, when it normally does when you don't have them installed.
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First only let windows install critical updates on its own make it ask you for the rest. Get your graphics drivers direct from NVIDIA or AMD. Go ahead and reinstall them, run display driver unistsll first to be safe.
 
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_BtB_

Member
Naked Snake said:
Not sure if this thread is a good place to ask this, but my PC seems to have uninstalled my Nvidia drivers on its own??

I walked away from my PC only to later notice that the fan noise from the case was suddenly very loud. I came to check it out only to find the resolution of the screen has changed, all open apps on my virtual desktops were combined into one... I still didn't know why the fans were going so fast, so I thought a restart might fix it, but it didn't, and then I realized my display drivers have disappeared. Windows sees my GTX 970 as a generic VGA card. And the card's fans are going at full speed.

I'm on Windows 10 Pro and it's up to date.

How could this have happened? Is it common? What should I do now? Reinstall the latest drivers? Use a driver cleaner/uninstaller first?
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hi, I do not have an answer for you but can confirm this happened to me a few times with my gtx 970. I would be playing a game then get terrible framerates then have to close the game. Then a popup telling me nvidia drivers are installed and I need to restart. I was very confused.

But it eventually stopped, not sure the rhyme and reason it happened in the first place. but if you want windows 10 to stop installing nvidia drivers automatically, download the newest "Display Driver Uninstaller" from https://www.wagnardsoft.com/

im guessing windows 10 thought the drivers it had in the update was better then the drivers you downloaded and installed.
 
Vigilant Walrus

Vigilant Walrus

Member
Majine said:
What are the classiest looking glass cases? I like straight lines, and no "DIS IS FOR GAMERZ" esthetic if you know what I mean.

The Corsair 570X looks pretty good, but the honeycomb pattern behind the glass looks a little too dorky.

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340 Elite and Enthoo Evolv ATX Glass
 
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_BtB_

Member
snail_maze said:
Arctic with their Accelero coolers seem to be good aftermarket ones
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Thanks for the info
i just bought the arctic cooling accelero II, although I have to use memory heatsinks on it. but it was $38 so pretty cheap, also bought some rubber case fan plugs to stop the vibration in my case.
 
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The Wizard

Member
ColdDeckEd said:
The 3gb 1060 is decent. It's plenty for 1080p/60. Probably have to turn things down in newer stuff. A big step up from the 460, you'll be happy I say.

Overclock to 4.1-4.3 when ever you want more performance.
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Thanks for the advice, ended up picking the 6GB version just in case it'll help give it slightly longer legs for not much price difference. (£30)
Excited to throw some new games at it once it arrives!
 
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ironmang

Member
Hey, I'm looking for some direction in upgrading my almost 4 year old PC. First off here's what I currently have:

BIOSTAR Hi-Fi B85S3+ Ver. 6.x LGA 1150 Intel B85 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Rosewill Hive Series 550W Modular Gaming Power Supply, 80 PLUS Bronze Certified, Single +12V Rail, Intel 4th Gen CPU Ready, SLI & CrossFire Ready - Hive-550
ASUS GTX660-DC2O-2GD5 G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL
NZXT Source 210 S210-001 Black SECC Steel, ABS Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Intel Core i5-4430 Quad-Core Desktop Processor 3.0 GHz 6 MB Cache LGA 1150 - BX80646I54430
Crucial MX300 275GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT275MX300SSD1

Really just trying to keep the upgrade under $500 if possible. It'll mostly be for PUBG as that's the only PC game I play anymore. I built this about 4 years ago from scratch due to the OP of the 2013 thread but I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to upgrading. Any advice or suggestions are welcome.
 
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Phatosaurus

Member
ironmang said:
Hey, I'm looking for some direction in upgrading my almost 4 year old PC. First off here's what I currently have:

BIOSTAR Hi-Fi B85S3+ Ver. 6.x LGA 1150 Intel B85 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Rosewill Hive Series 550W Modular Gaming Power Supply, 80 PLUS Bronze Certified, Single +12V Rail, Intel 4th Gen CPU Ready, SLI & CrossFire Ready - Hive-550
ASUS GTX660-DC2O-2GD5 G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL
NZXT Source 210 S210-001 Black SECC Steel, ABS Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Intel Core i5-4430 Quad-Core Desktop Processor 3.0 GHz 6 MB Cache LGA 1150 - BX80646I54430
Crucial MX300 275GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT275MX300SSD1

Really just trying to keep the upgrade under $500 if possible. It'll mostly be for PUBG as that's the only PC game I play anymore. I built this about 4 years ago from scratch due to the OP of the 2013 thread but I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to upgrading. Any advice or suggestions are welcome.
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If you're going for a CPU upgrade, then that'll be a new motherboard and DDR4. Probably around $300-400 on those if you shoot for mid range.

$200ish for something like a Ryzen 1600
$75 for a B350 motherboard
$70ish for 8Gb of DDR4/$130-140 for 16Gb.

If AMD ain't your bag, then you've got the new i5 8400 but the current motherboard line up is limited, and more expensive. Talking $120 minimum right now for a Z370 board
 
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