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On July 10 2014 08:01 felisconcolori wrote: Only thing I see in your build, MethodMan, to keep in mind is that your LG optical drive, while Bluray, will need additional software if you intent on watching movies using it. (Or, alternately, do what I do, which is immediately rip the movie and watch the rip.) Because Microsoft wants to save roughly $20 on the price of Windows by not licensing the Bluray codecs. It'll handle all the data needs, that's the only thing that you might stub your toe on.
Also, yes, get the 4690 if you want to spend the extra euro.
I'll just need it to burn the occasional CD/DVD. Updated the build: HV20Y469DE Intel Core i5-4690 in-a-Box 192,74 € HV1150USDE ASUS H97-PRO, Socket 1150, ATX 98,69 € HV20CS93DE 8GB Corsair Vengeance blue PC3-12800U CL10-10-10-27 71,73 € HV203CTKDE Cooltek K3 Evo 3.0 Midi Tower, ATX, black, no power-supply 38,45 € HVR550XEDE Xilence Power ECO 550 Watt 40,27 € HV1034SGDE Sapphire Radeon R9 270 Dual-X, 2GB GDDR5, 2x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, lite retail 155,99 € HV13W1CBDE WD Blue 1TB 6Gb's 49,81 € HV207GB4DE LG GH24NS bare black 12,68 € HVZPCDE Assembly 29,99 €
Total: 690,35 €
I swapped the tower (i prefer having the frontal USB ports on the top-side), power supply (no real reason) and the CPU. Final build and gonna order within the next few days if nobody wants to speak up
Edit: I guess the H97 mainboard will do for an i5? Since the Z97 ones are notably more expensive.
As I understand it, the difference between the H and Z boards is that Z boards are more geared towards overclocking - which you'd need a "K" suffix processor for in any case alongside an aftermarket cooler. I'm sure Skyr, Ropid, Cyro, or any of the other blue posters will be able to break it down more if necessary, but the H97 should work as long as it has the features you are looking for.
So lately I am getting really pissed off how slow my computer is.
I am currently using a phenom x4 945 and and AMD HD 5750.
I significantly drop under 30 FPS when I turn my sc2 ingame settings on medium when I am in the middle of a 1v1 game.
Im assuming that my CPU is holding my pc back.
Ive heard about the new Intel CPU G3258 which is pretty cheap. Now my question is would I get beyond 60 frames with that CPU ? Would it make a difference overall or is it my GPU that is holding my pc back ?
On July 10 2014 10:10 Cyro wrote: Put your physics and reflections off, effects low
g3258 would perform way better, sc2 doesn't run good on any hardware though. I dunno if you could get better performance with nvidia drivers or not
Yeah I usually do that , forgot to mention it.
I have everything turned to low besides the shaders. But still I don't get any more frames.
That seems pretty fluid to me , right?
And another question I am sorry if this doesnt belong here , when I turn my graphics to the above mentioned settings , my sc2 starts to get stalls per minute. Is there a way too fix that?
On July 10 2014 20:17 Jer99 wrote: Quick question, what thermal paste should I get?
You know the CPU cooler comes with some and the GPU heatsink is preattached? If you're asking if something aftermarket might be slightly better, sure, but unless you're going after every last degree and MHz it should be fine.
Dear computer building experts, would any of you happen to know if the sample builds are outdated because I noticed the last updated was on Feb. Also, do the prices translate well to the SEA region?
You are probably just quite heavily CPU limited, i don't know about d3 in particular. You could upgrade to a Pentium g3258 or 4690k (OC) - or if you didn't want to overclock, a variety of Haswell cpu's
On July 11 2014 06:34 Jer99 wrote: This is what I'm upgrading from, my ram, GPU and everything else has been slightly upgraded but the processor stayed the same
EPT
