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Hum. Regarding what you want, i'd say that 500W is reaaaaally overkill for that spec with no GPU. Like really.
Think you could be fine with <400W, but dunno what you can find in that range. Also, it depends if you intend to get a GPU for that comp in the future (seems not from what i understood).
You might try to get an ssd as well, they are quite cheap now and it Will imporve significantly your QoL using the PC.
Apart from taht, well, all seems good to me since I dont know the requirements for the softwares you said you wanted to run. Just make sure your socket on mobo is compatible with the cpu you bought (1151 + kaby lake seems ok to me), double check your case is compatible with your micro ATX mobo, and there you go.
Seems good to me, but you might wanna wait for some return from other people to confirm what i said.
Sc2 runs poorly so you can't get max benefit from high refresh rate monitors regardless of the hardware but it helps somewhat (60hz is just really bad, going to 100hz should be worth a lot to most people) and the engine renders the mouse cursor independantly of the rest of the screen at the monitor refresh rate AFAIK (not sure on the details there) which helps.
Adaptive sync techs (Gsync, freesync) are beneficial on games like sc2 which have uneven frametime distributions and they work better with higher refresh rate monitors due to the wider range and lower time spent to refresh a frame even at low framerates.
4k won't change anything graphically but you have 4x more pixels than 1080p to show basically the same thing on the screen. Improved pixel density can make things look crisper and cleaner especially since sc2 does not support MSAA or Supersampling natively so it has jagged lines on the edge of objects that are cleaned up a lot by better resolutions. The UI scaling on sc2 and other blizzard games is much better than average among games so it should be pretty nice to use.
SC2 doesn't take much graphics power. I'm not sure of the exact performance levels but my intuition is that a gtx1060 / 980 level card would have no problem with max settings 4k, maybe even something weaker. Lower graphical settings (often used for competition) are a lot easier to run, too.
A friend is considering buying a 1060 and is leaning towards the 3GB variant. I've been reading some reviews and when they compare the 3GB vs the 6GB they tend to lean towards the 6GB for "future-proofing." It seems the 6GB tend to have between 5-10 % more in performance but where I live the price difference is considerable higher than that so it's doesn't really seem worth it for performance sake right now.
Is there some current consensus on how much memory you need for 1080p at a reasonable high graphic settings? It kinda seems suicidal for companies to make games that require more when so many will be sub 3 GB for some time.
Games have been occasionally passing 3.5GB VRAM on max settings 1080p for about 2-3 years now (RIP gtx970) but almost all of them either don't use that much VRAM or have settings like texture quality that can be reduced to get under 3GB of VRAM used.
I'd say that it works fine today if you keep that in mind but will probably hurt in 3 years time
Ok, thanks for the input. I think he rather save a few bucks now and buy a new in a couple of years if necessary. Either is enough for the games he's currently playing and who knows about the future.
On May 11 2017 16:28 SkrollK wrote: Hum. Regarding what you want, i'd say that 500W is reaaaaally overkill for that spec with no GPU. Like really.
Think you could be fine with <400W, but dunno what you can find in that range. Also, it depends if you intend to get a GPU for that comp in the future (seems not from what i understood).
You might try to get an ssd as well, they are quite cheap now and it Will imporve significantly your QoL using the PC.
Apart from taht, well, all seems good to me since I dont know the requirements for the softwares you said you wanted to run. Just make sure your socket on mobo is compatible with the cpu you bought (1151 + kaby lake seems ok to me), double check your case is compatible with your micro ATX mobo, and there you go.
Seems good to me, but you might wanna wait for some return from other people to confirm what i said.
Thanks man, sorry for late reply.
Yeah, felt the same way about the power supply. Will knock it down a notch.
I thought the MSI H270M LGA1151 was a Kaby Lake - the H270 is for the locked processor chipset right?
Hello guys I need some help building my own PC. I need it for gaming / streaming old + new games on 24' 1920x1080 on good settings or lower settings on 144Hz. budget depends, just want to get a good value out of my money.
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor ($339.99 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: Thermalright - Macho Rev.B 73.6 CFM CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00) Motherboard: MSI - B350 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard ($97.98 @ Newegg) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($136.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Crucial - MX300 750GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $0.00) Storage: Crucial - MX300 750GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $0.00) Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($79.89 @ OutletPC) Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB STRIX Video Card (Purchased For $0.00) Case: Fractal Design - Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($104.99 @ SuperBiiz) Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.89 @ OutletPC) Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (Purchased For $0.00) Sound Card: Asus - Xonar DG 24-bit 96 KHz Sound Card (Purchased For $0.00) Monitor: BenQ - XL2411 24.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor (Purchased For $0.00) Total: $859.73 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-27 13:53 EDT-0400
I dont need to buy the monitor, the GPU, the SSDs, the Sound card and the CPU Cooler as i already have them ( + 2 120mm Case fans) I need to get the kit from Thermalright to use the Macho. I thought about picking another case (i took a liking to the NZXT S340 Elite, but the macho doesnt fit and i dont want to spend too much money unnecessarily, im open for suggestions tho)
if i wanted to get the NZXT S340 Elite, which cooler would you recommend? budget max 70-80€, any AiO Watercooling options? I would really appreciate your help, thank you in advance!
I've got the x60 (not the x62). Why are you asking?
If it's about whether it'll fit in the case, it should. More here. The fans it comes with look to be fluid dynamic bearings, which iirc should be fine to run vertically.
On May 29 2017 11:34 Craton wrote: I've got the x60 (not the x62). Why are you asking?
If it's about whether it'll fit in the case, it should. More here. The fans it comes with look to be fluid dynamic bearings, which iirc should be fine to run vertically.
Oh, i didnt even write my question. sorry. :'D Do you have any problems with the CAM software? i read a lot of bad reviews about it. i'm a bit reluctant to buy it even though its hardware is supposed to be better than the other AiO solutions.
Finally Flash can build a PC to multibox 5 sessions of Dota so he can form a 1 man Dota team
Can't wait to see the pricing compared to AMD's 16 core threadripper
The initial pricing that Intel gave was more than twice as expensive as rumored threadripper price core-for-core and it's also not coming until 2018 even though it's a 2015 architecture and version of 14nm (which they have since upgraded to 14nm+ for kaby lake and 14nm++ for coffee lake, shipping in q3 '17 last i heard)
High core count half of the lineup 2-3 quarters late and coming with a rumored socket revision to support them properly because they made it up on the spot after the threadripper announcement.
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