SomeTester
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I’m just out of the loop. My laptop has the laptop version of a 1050 and it runs great so I just went with that lol. The advice I’m seeing is look at a 1650 card.looks good but why bottleneck your gfx? or do you just not need? i would at least look for a 20 series gpu.
Around $1,000 give or take a couple hundred.What is your budget?
Thermal paste is on the list and the case doesn’t have fans so I have them on list also.Thermal paste and does the case come with fans?
Thanks for the first hand info!! What gpu did you use?I just built my kid a pc for Christmas using the same ryzen cpu and motherboard. The stock cooler fan that comes with the ryzen chip was pretty good, and we decided to spend money elsewhere instead of on a replacement cooler. The cpu fan also came precoated with thermal paste.
The only thing I could find the week before xmas without paying exorbitant price was a RX580 which was a upgrade over my 1050 that he was playing fps games on. I was hoping to get a 1660 or 5700 but was worried about not having a gpu for xmas day. The Kid has a better cpu than me now.Thanks for the first hand info!! What gpu did you use?
Thanks for that. I’ll probably drop the 2.5 ssd. I already have an external optical just in case luckily. I think my new build came out to about $1400ish. I’ll be going piece by piece until I have it all. Unless tax refund season is nice and I can convince my wife lolI'm in the process of building almost this same thing but in an 8 core 4.0, and with double the ram and an onboard m.1 ssd, but same case and I THINK that's the same Mobo. However..depending on future needs I have amuch bigger psu ..and a vidcard to go with it(don't remember what kind, Nvidia something, but cost as much as the CPU(I ordered and started building it back in November and got sid tracked...it's not for me lol. Def paid more than your budget. Just under 1500 before tax, but much higher performance on every level. I wish could still share Newegg shopping carts, I used to use that to propose builds all the time.
And btw..that case and many more these days...can be interesting to work with. If you plan to use an optical drive ever...it's gotta be external or a lotta mods need to happen.
Sorry I missed the m2 drive somehow. So you're planning to run your operating system off the much slower drive? Everything this goes through tat and gets bottlenecked. You can always partition and have both on same drive: os and certain programs, and then gaming, but it's pointless to put your games on it if you're gonna have your os via sata
It's like how an am3+ chip could be used in an am2 board...but it'd be limited by the fsb
I posted a new list of parts like 2 posts up. I upped it to 32gb ram (RGB ram) and upgraded the card also.Where is the RGB Ram?!
I would listen to these guys and get a better GPU and more ram.
I personally also like liquid cooling for my CPU. For example a Kraken.
You don't want home, there's shit for controls on home.and I don't understand how a case could block us ports on a Mobo...the I/o panel takes care of all that. If the motherboard you got is the same I got in November(or similar I think I got msi board and card) you may have 2 m.2 slots. As you said about ditching the Sara one, you can go with 2 rather than a bigger on partitioned.Ok so I added more ram to 32gb, and I changed the case because that original case blocked some USB ports on the mobo.
PCPartPicker Part List
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor ($199.99 @ B&H)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5 g Thermal Paste ($6.60 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING B550-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard ($178.06 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory ($162.99 @ Corsair)
Storage: Kingston A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($27.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($139.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB GAMING OC Video Card ($649.98 @ Amazon)
Case: Anidees AI Crystal Cube ATX Mid Tower Case ($179.90 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($108.78 @ Other World Computing)
Total: $1784.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-14 21:42 EST-0500
I miss read the website. The case I picked had front USB ports but the mobo didn’t have a header to hook them up. Either way, I prefer the new cube case I picked. Compact enough to fit in my desk and off the dustier floor. And large enough to accommodate 13” gpu if need be.You don't want home, there's shit for controls on home.and I don't understand how a case could block us ports on a Mobo...the I/o panel takes care of all that. If the motherboard you got is the same I got in November(or similar I think I got msi board and card) you may have 2 m.2 slots. As you said about ditching the Sara one, you can go with 2 rather than a bigger on partitioned.
Also, of you're not using an aftermarket cooler, you don't need thermal paste.
Gotta see if I can pull up what I ordered cause it was just a hair lower with nys sales tax, but I got win7 pro instead of 10(hate 10 but if need to upgrade, it's free, and guaranteed to be pro), but I swear I got a lot more performance outta the setup.
Edit: found and posted below. As a rule, I always put the most thought into the mobo/CPU. Those are the biggest pains to replace, and give you the most room for expansion. I also try to get more powah than needed to support this upgrades. This one is only 850w, but my personal one is 1050+I also got the UPS to support it, and that thing wasn't cheap, but my computer runs 24/7 and is the entire data center for the house)
I've always used Nvidia. The one computer I have with a Radeon is the only one that crashes every few zonings, likely unrelated.any one have problems with the nvidia cards causing EQ to lock up?
Where a "Corsair PC" can not have a better named for a computer.
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You don't want home, there's shit for controls on home.and I don't understand how a case could block us ports on a Mobo...the I/o panel takes care of all that. If the motherboard you got is the same I got in November(or similar I think I got msi board and card) you may have 2 m.2 slots. As you said about ditching the Sara one, you can go with 2 rather than a bigger on partitioned.
Also, of you're not using an aftermarket cooler, you don't need thermal paste.
Gotta see if I can pull up what I ordered cause it was just a hair lower with nys sales tax, but I got win7 pro instead of 10(hate 10 but if need to upgrade, it's free, and guaranteed to be pro), but I swear I got a lot more performance outta the setup.
Edit: found and posted below. As a rule, I always put the most thought into the mobo/CPU. Those are the biggest pains to replace, and give you the most room for expansion. I also try to get more powah than needed to support this upgrades. This one is only 850w, but my personal one is 1050+I also got the UPS to support it, and that thing wasn't cheap, but my computer runs 24/7 and is the entire data center for the house)
I've done the upgrade dozens of times in the last few years. They never discontinued it just don't advertise anymore.I thought that Win 7 to Win 10 free upgrade was only within that first year that Win 10 was released? Cuz it was so shitty they had to entice people to go to it LOL
+1 for the UPS.. Protect your investment.. putting a battery pack in front of your outlet gives you filtered output power as well as a bit of time to shut down if the commercial AC dies.. Where i live, we get alot of power interruptions.. not just OUTAGES, but a TON of sag/swells in our voltage, and thats killer for electronics trying to regulate a DC output... I have UPS's installed all over.. on my TV and stereo, the headless linuxbox and my router, my water softener system, my gaming machine..
Even if its like a 1100W UPS, it is worth it..
This my hack job data rack in my basement lol.. has my UPS and ATS, with 4 x 92 Amp hour batteries beside.. keeps my boxes running !
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I've done the upgrade dozens of times in the last few years. They never discontinued it just don't advertise anymore.
I didn't think so but I did manage to get one in November. Probably old stock is all.Are you able to actually buy Windows 7 new now though?