PC Build Advice/Review II: 3090 or Bust.

[DrClout]

Thanks to Khalmado, I bought that same card second hand off Reddit for $130. Major steal!

R/hardwareswap

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[Rulke]

So my dad has a HP Pavilion 500 desktop that he doesn't need. It's in great shape and I want to give it to my niece and nephew (12, 14 yrs) for mild gaming. The computer they currently have is ancient and would stutter playing minecraft. Anyway, this HP has 1 pci-express 2.0 gpu slot. And its a tiny case so I can't get a big card in there. I was thinking a MSI GeForce GT 730 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIA73M6XS9657 . The PSU is 300w and this card only draws 49w, is that ok? I haven't had to work with such a bare bones system in a while so I want to make sure there isn't an overdraw of power or if I should pursue another GPU. Thanks!

[Isiolia]

You'd probably be better off going for a GT 1030 instead, which has replaced the GT 730 on the market and is significantly faster. It's still a small card with a low power draw. A GT 1050 is a major step up, and still not a giant card, but does require a bit more power (far as I know they're less of a guaranteed thing with prebuilt systems and smaller PSUs).

[Rulke]

That sounds great, thank you!

[Jamison]

I'm on a Ryzen 1700 with 16gigs of ram. I'd really like to move to 32gig for running VM's and giving Plex a RAMDisk.

Current kit is the Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 which is hitting 3000 speed without a problem. I can get a matching 16gig kit for $180 which, right now, is a really good price. It's not Samsung b-die though and I'm worried about the performance penalty that Ryzen usually sees with more than 2 sticks of ram.

Any thoughts if this is a decent idea or if I'm going to need to invest in b-die to not hurt myself too much?

[Stromgarde]

I've been experiencing issues with the quality of power coming out of the wall going into my desktop tower, so I'm looking into getting a UPS to prevent the power strip breaker from tripping again or dirty power from damaging the hardware. What sort of UPS should I be looking at? PSU on the desktop is 850 watts for a 980ti/6700k combo.

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[Salodin]

What are you trying to do? Just account for uneven power from the wall or run your pc for a few minutes after the power goes out? If its the former then you don't need a crazy large or expensive UPS to just normalize the flow from the wall, but if you want to run a pc for a few minutes after a power outage prepare to spend quite a bit.

[Stromgarde]

Mostly the former. I'd be fine with a short duration of backup power in the ~5 minute range, just enough to wrap up and shut down properly. I also live near a MicroCenter if that makes any difference.

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[Cream Soda]

Any budget friendly CPU options?

Built my PC about 4 years ago and even then just got something that would "Get the job done"

Constantly hitting high CPUsage when I'm doing something like streaming so I wanted to know if there's anything that would be cheap enough but still a clear upgrade to my Intel(R)core(TM)i5-4670K; 3.4ghz

[DrClout]

Any budget friendly CPU options?

Built my PC about 4 years ago and even then just got something that would "Get the job done"

Constantly hitting high CPUsage when I'm doing something like streaming so I wanted to know if there's anything that would be cheap enough but still a clear upgrade to my Intel(R)core(TM)i5-4670K; 3.4ghz

What's your budget looking like fam

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[Tokitoki]

Make sure you check that the new CPU is compatible with your mobo too.

[Kalmado]

Any budget friendly CPU options?

Built my PC about 4 years ago and even then just got something that would "Get the job done"

Constantly hitting high CPUsage when I'm doing something like streaming so I wanted to know if there's anything that would be cheap enough but still a clear upgrade to my Intel(R)core(TM)i5-4670K; 3.4ghz

I wouldn't think that cpu would be giving issues, especially because you aren't playing the most demanding games while streaming right? Maybe give full specs of your current build and we'll see what we can do!

[Cream Soda]

I wouldn't think that cpu would be giving issues, especially because you aren't playing the most demanding games while streaming right? Maybe give full specs of your current build and we'll see what we can do!

I stream to two platforms at once; directly (not using a re-stream type deal). I'm trying to grow my twitch, but in the meantime I also stream on FB live because that's the only spot I can get more than 2 viewers at a time.

As far as budget goes, I'm just window shopping for now and seeing what options are at this point.

as far as specs go

https://pastebin.com/vZdhY2z1

[Arkanna]

Software encoding your stream can be pretty intensive. If you've got a capable nVidia card, you could try using NVENC. If you already are, or don't have an nVidia card that can do it, a clear CPU upgrade for you would probably cost $200ish (Core i7 6700k on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-...epid=217572652)

You could also consider going to a Ryzen box, that CPU tends to offer more per dollar on work-like tasks, like encoding video, due to their high core count (I have experience with this, I love my Ryzen box).

8GB memory is about the minimum you can run for your purposes, also.

[Kalmado]

I don't have access to pastebin so I can't tell whatcha got.

I'm about to start recording and streaming myself. Depending on how powerful your current GPU is, probably looking at about $400+ for cpu/mb/16gb ram on a DDR4 board.

While my CPU isn't budget (R7 1700x) I'm very interested to see how it does. I plan to do twitch and record using OBS to upload later to YT.

[Arkanna]

I don't have access to pastebin so I can't tell whatcha got.

I'm about to start recording and streaming myself. Depending on how powerful your current GPU is, probably looking at about $400+ for cpu/mb/16gb ram on a DDR4 board.

While my CPU isn't budget (R7 1700x) I'm very interested to see how it does. I plan to do twitch and record using OBS to upload later to YT.

It will do pretty well. I stream from time to time with a Ryzen 7 1700 and it works fine.

Cream's running Windows 10 on a Core i5 4670K with 8GB memory and a Radeon R9 200-series GPU.

[Kalmado]

It will do pretty well. I stream from time to time with a Ryzen 7 1700 and it works fine.

Cream's running Windows 10 on a Core i5 4670K with 8GB memory and a Radeon R9 200-series GPU.

I'm replacing my AIO on my CPU and will put up some new pics. Pretty much different rig than before. Running a Vega 64 Limited and that fucker gets loud.

Supposedly Ryzen is better for streamers vs the I5 equivalent. I wish I had a I5 to play with. I'd imagine adding another 8GB ram would help a bit.

[Boyiee]

Threw this together online a while back for a friend but he hadn't been able to make any of the purchases. Still relevant? What to change?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mLN9hq

He's going to build it in handfuls at a time. Prob no gpu right now, cpu/mobo/ram/box first probably.

edit: he plays wow, pubg prob, ow prob, bf5 prob.

[Arkanna]

Still perfectly viable, imo. You can probably find a used GPU for a reasonable price now. That build is lacking in bulk storage though, unless 500GB is enough for everything...

[Boyiee]

Still perfectly viable, imo. You can probably find a used GPU for a reasonable price now. That build is lacking in bulk storage though, unless 500GB is enough for everything...

I think he's got a hdd and psu he'll reuse or something.

Honestly I don't get bulk storage. Haven't needed more than 500gb in 15 years. But I do have an OS SSD and game SSD.