EPT16GB of RAM is definitely a good bet with integrated graphics as the graphics will take gigabytes of it and 8GB would limit future upgrades too. RAM is relatively cheap at the moment.
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Cyro
United Kingdom20321 Posts
16GB of RAM is definitely a good bet with integrated graphics as the graphics will take gigabytes of it and 8GB would limit future upgrades too. RAM is relatively cheap at the moment. | ||
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Craton
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Amui
Canada10567 Posts
On January 16 2020 03:22 Craton wrote: 6/8 pin GPU adapters are a recipe for a fire. The cables they're "adapting" from are not rated anywhere near the power that can be drawn from 6/8 connectors. I'd be more concerned about the PSU that it's drawing from than the cables themselves. Cable amp rating is generally quite conservative, and in a case with moderate airflow it shouldn't be a concern. 6 pin in general should be okay if the 12V rail connected to the molex can supply enough, as it's within the connector spec, especially if using 2 INDEPENDENT Molex lines, or if you know the card isn't going to take the full 75W. That being said, I would be extremely wary of using it for 8pin. Older or more underpowered PSU's won't have the same level of filtering on that 12V rail, as it's designed for lower power accessories like CD drives and hard drives, and they likely have lower power ratings on that rail in general. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20321 Posts
ATM i strongly recommend avoiding any RDNA card as the whole family are still having major problems 6 months after launch due to not having any particularly stable driver yet, which will carry over to the 5600 series and any other RDNA-based GPU. Even heavily amd-biased forums are flooded with stability complaints and people jumping ship to older AMD or Nvidia based cards so that they can run the games that they used to run on their old cards without crashing multiple times a day. The tech is a huge leap over prior AMD GPU's but software and launch planning has been disastrous for all consumers and card manufacturers. AMD even doubled down and systematically denied information / misled reviewers. The GPU team is so much less competent in seemingly every way than the CPU team :x 22:43+ in above vid, Steve has some similar opinions although he's more forgiving of the software than me. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26058 Posts
It does struggle even with Pillars of Eternity, specifically when there is a lot of particle effects, so at least I know it’s the GPU that’s likely bottlenecking things. Luckily my friend stopped gaming entirely so I have his graphics card sitting around, which would be a significant upgrade indeed. Embarrassingly I cannot get said card to actually work. I logged my components into PC part picker and they’re all compatible with my motherboard, the PSU is putting out more than enough to drive everything too. But it will not work, there’s no monitor output at all so I can’t even look around in BIOS while it’s hooked up. Any ideas? I’d heard updating the BIOS firmware might work but briefly reading about it it sounds a less simple/more risky action than I’d have thought initially. | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26058 Posts
Sapphire Radeon RX 480 4 GB NITRO+ 4G Video Card Not good with model names thank god I saved the components on PCpartpicker lol | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
9005 Posts
If I remember more, I'll post. But someone will surely have a fix by the end of the day. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23482 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26058 Posts
On February 07 2020 05:01 GreenHorizons wrote: Not sure what kind of monitor connection you're using but you're plugged into the graphics card not the mobo right? Feel like someone did this a few months ago so I figured I'd mention it just in case. Jesus GH give me some bloody credit man :p Granted I once stuck my PC in for repairs and that was the issue then. The service people were rather polite but I assume they had a good laugh behind the scenes. | ||
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bt
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zatic
Zurich15355 Posts
On December 26 2019 23:05 zatic wrote: The FC750R looks perfect, thanks. But I can't seem to find them anywhere in stock and shipping to EU  Thanks anyway. Took over 4 weeks to ship, but I finally have it. Truly a great keyboard, love it! Typing feels so pleasant, but still getting used to it for gaming. | ||
Poopi
France12905 Posts
I bought a 1TB SATA SSD to use for games (my HDD is a bit too slow and the main SSD ain’t big enough for too much games). I tried to plug it but I had no screw to keep it locked (why don’t they give screws in the box? Isn’t it standard size?...) Fine apparently you can just let it hang in the case, I just have to plug it... but they don’t give the SATA cable to plug it, how is it possible to sell something incomplete? So I used the cable from my HDD (they work the same right?) and I’ll have to buy it a cable to be able to use it again. Hopefully everything works out. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26058 Posts
On February 23 2020 05:37 Poopi wrote: I didn’t think I was that bad at building computers lol :/. I bought a 1TB SATA SSD to use for games (my HDD is a bit too slow and the main SSD ain’t big enough for too much games). I tried to plug it but I had no screw to keep it locked (why don’t they give screws in the box? Isn’t it standard size?...) Fine apparently you can just let it hang in the case, I just have to plug it... but they don’t give the SATA cable to plug it, how is it possible to sell something incomplete? So I used the cable from my HDD (they work the same right?) and I’ll have to buy it a cable to be able to use it again. Hopefully everything works out. I think at one stage I was alternating between having a functioning optical drive and hooking up my second hard drive, and swapping the SATA cable as required. So you’re not alone there lol. I have also (twice) wiped entire hard drives absent-mindedly, so I’m probably more incompetent on balance. I’m unsure as to why they don’t tend to bundle such things in (in my experience anyway), luckily my dad has left behind enough screws, bolts and various types of cables to do me for a lifetime. Think I have over 30 Ethernet cables sitting around alone. | ||
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Craton
United States17266 Posts
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Poopi
France12905 Posts
Anyways, I had to plug the HDD back otherwise I couldn’t even go to BIOS, it booted on some random Grub, probably because windows was on SSD but Linux on HDD and the ability to choose which OS at the start on HDD as well I guess? Still haven’t bothered to buy the needed cable, I thought I might had one in my motherboard box at my mom’s flat but I wasn’t able to find said box. Quite a pity | ||
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Craton
United States17266 Posts
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claybones
United States244 Posts
I want something high-end with a focus on CPU intensive gaming. I was looking at the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X since it seems like it'll be strong for a while and the price point is around what I was targeting. I'd appreciate any suggestions for good motherboards and alternative CPU options. I also welcome an explanation of the logic behind your suggestions as that would help inform my decision. Thank you. | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
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MOBOs depends on the CPU you go with. I got an ASUS mobo for my 3700x. | ||
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zatic
Zurich15355 Posts
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