PC Build Advice/Review Thread

[Boyiee]

I'm running a Core i7 4770K, 16GB DDR3, an nVidia GTX 970, 2 SSD's and a normal HDD on a 450W Silverstone Mini-ITX PSU just fine.

Yeah, exactly. But people still think you need 1200watt golds or bust.

[Kalmado]

I think the most dangerous I've lived on the psu front was using a Corsair CM 450 80+ Gold with a Pentium G3258 overclocked to 4.3ghz (stock voltage) with a 750ti 2gb. My only concern was that line from Corsair isn't the best, but it ran fine and the person I sold the build to never had any problems. I personally ran a 4690k overclocked to 4.5ghz on a Corsair H60 AiO, 2 ssd, 1hdd, 7x120mm fans, and a Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 slightly overclocked on a XFX 550w 80+ Gold (Seasonic OEM).

[Dead Phoenix]

Bah. I finished putting together my pc, but now when i try to install windows 10 from my disc, I just get the windows logo for a few minute, then my pc restarts. Not really sure what the deal is.

[Dead Phoenix]

Turns out all I needed to do to install windows 10 was shut off one of my core processors(and i apparently have to keep it off, or windows 10 won't load for me even with it installed). I really should have just got windows 7... Oh well, I least I got my new pc mostly working. Thanks for the help dudes.

[Alderaan]

6700k or 5820k? Thought and opinions?

I do a lot of rendering so i'm leaning towards the 6-core 5820k. Both are around the same price, with the 6700k being $30 cheaper. Both would be huge upgrades from my 2500k. I'd like to get some nice 1080p 60fps streaming done (regardless if i should) with plenty of headroom left over. My current cpu maxes out at 720p 60fps. Both would mean new motherboard, memory, and cooler so i've calculated all that already as well. Just looking for opinions.

[Arkanna]

6700k or 5820k? Thought and opinions?

I do a lot of rendering so i'm leaning towards the 6-core 5820k. Both are around the same price, with the 6700k being $30 cheaper. Both would be huge upgrades from my 2500k. I'd like to get some nice 1080p 60fps streaming done (regardless if i should) with plenty of headroom left over. My current cpu maxes out at 720p 60fps. Both would mean new motherboard, memory, and cooler so i've calculated all that already as well. Just looking for opinions.

The platform for the 5820k will probably be a bit more expensive. But, the 5820k will be a good bit faster for rendering. You could probably get either one and be perfectly happy, tbh.

[tyven]

you guys i ordered a new hard drive and i have never put in a new hard drive so one of you is going to have to help me, i will let you know when it arrives thx

[Arkanna]

you guys i ordered a new hard drive and i have never put in a new hard drive so one of you is going to have to help me, i will let you know when it arrives thx

Just what do you think we are, Broven? Nerds-on-call??

[jmc]

Can we get BG badges, like those geek squads ones at bestbuy? Hahaha

[tyven]

Just what do you think we are, Broven? Nerds-on-call??

That is exactly what I think! And it is GLORIOUS

[Byrthnoth]

I want a keyboard that's easy to clean. Thinking of going mechanical.

I see a million options, each of them more pretentious than the last. What do you guys recommend?

[warc]

I use: http://gaming.coolermaster.com/en/pr...kfireultimate/

I like it. The backlighting is kind of obnoxious but I rarely turn it on. I have the model with Brown switches/white backlight. Browns are the middle of the road, a good intro to mechanical key switches. Depending on your use, you might prefer a different type of switch (red/blue/brown/etc). If you don't care/know, I'd say go with browns. Quiet enough and still incredibly responsive over rubber dome keyboards.

[Gryffes]

I want a keyboard that's easy to clean. Thinking of going mechanical.

I see a million options, each of them more pretentious than the last. What do you guys recommend?

Just avoid blue keys imo, browns/reds/blacks are noisy enough as it is, blues will piss off anyone who lives with you.

Stuff like the steelseries or corsair lines are unpretentious and have good build quality. You can go up a few models for backlighting or RGB if you want that kind of thing as well.

[Arkanna]

So hay u guyz, AMD fucked up again with their latest product, the Nano. It's a smaller, air-cooled, and lower-clocked version of the Fury X. It's actually said to be a little slower than the vanilla Fury. So it should be a good bit cheaper than the Fury X, right? Right?

No, it's the same price: $649.

This is fucking ridiculous. The only thing that can explain this pricing is, that AMD is not able to produce many Fiji GPU's and knows it will sell every card it produces. If you have a small basket of apples and know you can sell all of them for $1 each, why would you sell them at $.50?

Still. How can AMD survive like this? I don't get it. Getting their shit into Xbox Ones and PS4's is the only explanation.

[Adajer]

I've never been tempted in buying anything AMD in my short years of master race nor before them while I was researching.

I have never understood the reason of buying any AMD cpu in the past 7 years or so. Maybe a 7950 or 7970 after the driver update. They have been behind the ball on everything. Fanboys and loyalists are keeping them up I suppose.

[Takiwaki]

So hay u guyz, AMD fucked up again with their latest product, the Nano. It's a smaller, air-cooled, and lower-clocked version of the Fury X. It's actually said to be a little slower than the vanilla Fury. So it should be a good bit cheaper than the Fury X, right? Right?

No, it's the same price: $649.

This is fucking ridiculous. The only thing that can explain this pricing is, that AMD is not able to produce many Fiji GPU's and knows it will sell every card it produces. If you have a small basket of apples and know you can sell all of them for $1 each, why would you sell them at $.50?

Still. How can AMD survive like this? I don't get it. Getting their shit into Xbox Ones and PS4's is the only explanation.

I sold my fury x's, never again.

[Adajer]

I sold my fury x's, never again.

looool. i remember that, dual x's day 1 right?

[Arkanna]

I've never been tempted in buying anything AMD in my short years of master race nor before them while I was researching.

I have never understood the reason of buying any AMD cpu in the past 7 years or so. Maybe a 7950 or 7970 after the driver update. They have been behind the ball on everything. Fanboys and loyalists are keeping them up I suppose.

I started building PC's and selling my works when AMD blew the shit out of Intel with the Thunderbird Athlon. Super value, great performance, overclocked like a motherfucker. It was the perfect CPU in its time, its only real fault was the fact that you could crack the CPU die easily if you were not careful since it had no heat spreader and only these little fucking foam circles around the core.

AMD has produced very competitive video cards after acquiring ATi. For a long time, they went blow-for-blow with nVidia, but not really anymore.

It's sad. I'd like AMD to remain competitive so $1000 CPU's and $500 midrange video cards don't become the norm again.

[Adajer]

[Kalmado]

I've been very happy with my crossfire 290x's, but the new stuff released has been an abysmal price to value to compete with Nvidia. I checked on Amazon and both of my 290x's are selling for $400+ (who knows if people actually buy them at that price) so I put both up. Will likely get a 980ti if both sell and pocket the change.