Gaming PC Builds & Hardware

[BOROSUN]

Good review.

[Future240]

I’m interested in VR but my rig is not powerful enough. My 470 struggles.

[BOROSUN]

hmm
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nv...en-source.html

[BOROSUN]

AMD CEO Lisa Su – Nov 27, 2018 – 22nd Annual Credit Suisse Technology, Media & Telecom Conference
“We believe, we will be very competitive overall and that includes the high-end of the GPU market. Obviously there are new products out there from our competition. We will have our set of new products as well and we will be right there in the mix”

https://wccftech.com/amd-pledges-to-...s-in-2019/amp/

[S14DB]

https://www.pcmag.com/news/365244/nv...-graphics-card

Nvidia Unveils $2,499 Titan RTX Graphics Card
Offering 130 teraflops of performance thanks to 576 Turing Tensor Core, 72 Turing RT Cores, and 24GB of GDDR6 memory with 672GB/s of bandwidth. Nvidia claims it's the world's most powerful GPU and refers to it as the T-Rex.

Originally Posted by BOROSUN

hmm

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nv...en-source.html

I’ll believe it when they unlock the drivers to not shut down when non-Nvidia drivers are active. The blocking of hybrid PhysX pissed me off a lot.

[S14DB]

[Future240]

I finally did it....
https://imgur.com/a/62fBb4V

Yes I know my cable management is terrible.

Companion PC coming soon....

[BOROSUN]

gratz on the find.

i'm holding all purchase/build till 7nm.

i really like that google pixel slate for drawing and stuff. hoping they'll have a amd/vega~navi surface soon.

[Future240]

Thanks, I stalked eBay for quite some time. Got it for $541. I wanted to wait on 7nm but the 470 was not cutting it. Now I’m good until something beats the 2080ti for cheaper.

This card is such a huge jump in performance for me. The 470 couldn’t maintain 60fps in GTA V with reduced settings. Now I’m at 100+ fps with max settings.

[BOROSUN]

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nv...-cores),2.html

NVIDIA Titan V Raytraces Battelfield V in RTX mode at proper perf (but does not have any RT cores) hmnmmmm sneaky sneaky.

[anti tyler]

I literally bought the same 1080ti at the same time. Sold my (2) 1070 cards and basically made out about even.

Smacked a kraken G12 bracket on the 1080ti and strapped an h100i v2 to it.

I agree, I'll be hanging onto this for a little bit.

[PatPs13]

I'm long overdue for an update. Are there any buy/sell moves I can make to slowly bring myself up to speed without throwing money at a whole new build?

AMD - FX-8320 3.5 GHz 8-Core Processor
Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
Gigabyte - ATX AM3+ Motherboard
Crucial - 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Samsung - 840 EVO 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 780 3 GB WINDFORCE Video Card
Corsair - RM 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

[S14DB]

Originally Posted by PatPs13

I'm long overdue for an update. Are there any buy/sell moves I can make to slowly bring myself up to speed without throwing money at a whole new build?

AMD - FX-8320 3.5 GHz 8-Core Processor
Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
Gigabyte - ATX AM3+ Motherboard
Crucial - 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Samsung - 840 EVO 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 780 3 GB WINDFORCE Video Card
Corsair - RM 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

What is your budget.

Your GPU is like 1050/460 performance so one of the sub $200(sales) 580's would be an upgrade. Anything more than a 580/1060 will be crippled by that CPU.

Other than that you're looking at a new CPU/MoBo/RAM. Which depends on your budget. Looking at $400 to start.

Least you have a good foundation of the SSD, PSU and I assume case.

[PatPs13]

Originally Posted by S14DB

What is your budget.

Your GPU is like 1050/460 performance so one of the sub $200(sales) 580's would be an upgrade. Anything more than a 580/1060 will be crippled by that CPU.

Other than that you're looking at a new CPU/MoBo/RAM. Which depends on your budget. Looking at $400 to start.

Least you have a good foundation of the SSD, PSU and I assume case.

Yeah, case is a NZXT mid tower

I also forgot to mention, I game on this PC maybe once a month and it's non-intensive games such as Assetto Corsa and CS:GO. It's mostly used for productivity so I assume CPU and RAM are my priority. Would my upgraded CPU and RAM be bottlenecked by the GTX780 if I get one of the newer Ryzen cpu's and 16/32GB of RAM?

I just want to be able to do tons of multitasking on dual monitors with no hesitation.

Budget isn't too strict but I want to do this as cheap as possible and don't mind looking for deals on craigslist and ebay but I'm just not too sure on what to keep an eye out for CPU wise.

[anti tyler]

Originally Posted by PatPs13

Yeah, case is a NZXT mid tower

I also forgot to mention, I game on this PC maybe once a month and it's non-intensive games such as Assetto Corsa and CS:GO. It's mostly used for productivity so I assume CPU and RAM are my priority. Would my upgraded CPU and RAM be bottlenecked by the GTX780 if I get one of the newer Ryzen cpu's and 16/32GB of RAM?

I just want to be able to do tons of multitasking on dual monitors with no hesitation.

Budget isn't too strict but I want to do this as cheap as possible and don't mind looking for deals on craigslist and ebay but I'm just not too sure on what to keep an eye out for CPU wise.

Um.. Yes. Yes that 780 will be a bottleneck. Especially determined by what multiple monitors you're trying to attach to a single GTX 780.

you should consider something like a 1070ftw or something, I just sold a pair of them for $220 each. Looks like their prices went up a hair though in the past 7 days.

I honestly wouldn't personally recommend anything lower at this point. people are charging way too much for the lower cards right now ex; 980s selling for like $150 last I looked (keep in mind this was so brief, a blink would last longer)


16GB of ram would be just A-ok. Even @ 2133mhz.

I'm going to stay out of the CPU portion, as I'm still stuck on suggesting a 7700k. Simply because I was lucky enough to get one that can hit 5.3GHz.

[S14DB]

Originally Posted by anti tyler

Um.. Yes. Yes that 780 will be a bottleneck. Especially determined by what multiple monitors you're trying to attach to a single GTX 780.

What is he going to bottleneck on playing Assetto Corsa and CS:GO?

Originally Posted by anti tyler

you should consider something like a 1070ftw or something, I just sold a pair of them for $220 each. Looks like their prices went up a hair though in the past 7 days.



I honestly wouldn't personally recommend anything lower at this point. people are charging way too much for the lower cards right now ex; 980s selling for like $150 last I looked (keep in mind this was so brief, a blink would last longer)

I wouldn't ether but he doesn't do anything that needs GPU.

Originally Posted by anti tyler

16GB of ram would be just A-ok. Even @ 2133mhz.

Ryzen needs ram speed.

Originally Posted by anti tyler

I'm going to stay out of the CPU portion, as I'm still stuck on suggesting a 7700k. Simply because I was lucky enough to get one that can hit 5.3GHz.

Your validation link says 5ghz which the majority(78%) of 7700k's not 5.3Ghz(Top 1%).

[S14DB]

Originally Posted by PatPs13

Yeah, case is a NZXT mid tower

I also forgot to mention, I game on this PC maybe once a month and it's non-intensive games such as Assetto Corsa and CS:GO. It's mostly used for productivity so I assume CPU and RAM are my priority. Would my upgraded CPU and RAM be bottlenecked by the GTX780 if I get one of the newer Ryzen cpu's and 16/32GB of RAM?

I just want to be able to do tons of multitasking on dual monitors with no hesitation.

Budget isn't too strict but I want to do this as cheap as possible and don't mind looking for deals on craigslist and ebay but I'm just not too sure on what to keep an eye out for CPU wise.

If your Productivity software doesn't use GPU. I don't see what bottle necking would occur.

If you are going AMD:
$200 - Ryzen5 2600. X's are just pre OC'd and you got that aftermarket cooler already.
$75 B450 Motherboard. Don't need X470
$100 16gb(2x8gb) DDR4-3000, DDR4-3200, DDR4-3300, DDR4-3400(price)



https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Z4dKdX

[DoingOK]

Been running flawlessly for about a year. Just flushed and refilled the fluid.

[anti tyler]

That validation link is pushing 1 year old, I was not aware that we were engaging in some form of pissing contest. I thought we were simply offering suggestions, my apologies.

[Future240]

A 780 is not going to bottleneck a Ryzen cpu. A bottle neck is more like when I had my 7950 and my Phenom one at 2.3ghz. The cpu could not keep up with the gpu that is a bottle neck. Once I upgraded to my 4690K the 7950 could hang with it just fine.


My cpu in terms of IPC is right around a 2600/2600X (I am oc to 4.ghz) and my 1080ti does not bottleneck the cpu.


If you do get ryzen get faster ram than 2133. Ryzen loves faster ram. Some discusson on that https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comment...sweetspot_for/




Edit I also say 16gb as well. 32 is overkill for what you are doing.

[PatPs13]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, will be keeping an eye out for the deals

[Future240]

^^make a pc part picker list. Will be a lot easier to keep track of

[BOROSUN]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrac...d_at_ces_2019/

[BOROSUN]

[S14DB]

Originally Posted by BOROSUN

https://i.redd.it/q3atm6dxky821.png

G-sync came out first...

[tb13]

Tomorrow should be awesome. Really excited to see what AMD announces and when it will be available. I'm ready to jump ship and never look back.

As for that whole nVidia to support freesync thing, I think it makes them look like shady dick heads. Why not just allow everyone to use it if they have a freesync monitor? Why do they find it necessary to "test" monitors and see what is up to their standard before enabling the feature that should already be there? Only good thing that will come from this is someone will mess with the driver and make it use-able on all freesync monitors which will be fantastic. Looking forward to enabling it on my monitor for sure.

EDIT: JK, apparently nVidia will support all freesync monitors, but only will "certify" specific models.

[joeapple8]

I travel to Asia a lot and I wanted to have a portable gaming rig.
Here ya go.

Case: NFS Skyreach 4 Mini
Processor: Intel i7 8700
Graphics: GTX 1070 Mini 8gb
Ram: 16gb DDR4 Ram
SSD: Samsung 970 Pro NVME 512gb raid 0
Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix Z370-I
Power Supply : HD-Plex 400W with Alienware 330w external power brick
CPU Cooler: Cryorig C7-CU

Mods: delidded CPU, liquid metal on CPU die and copper IHS mod

P.S

- You can totally tell I've owned a 240 by using ZIP ties on the cpu cooler fan.

P.S.S

- n00b discovery but I've discovered that running raid 0 for NVME on a z370 chipset is useless because maximum available # of PCI channels on the 8700 i7 chip

Max # of PCI Express Lanes
16

[BOROSUN]

Oooh wee....5ghz. even 4.7 will be enough to crush Intel this year.

[Future240]

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13832...ry-7th-for-699

I watched the keyneote. Radeon 7 is a direct competitor to the 1080ti/2080.

[BOROSUN]

Agh 699.

Let's see performance