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Off Topic / Re: Does anyone know a durable AM4 motherboard?

« on: June 21, 2017, 06:32:12 AM »

Here's a quick rundown of most B350 chipset motherboards: https://youtu.be/ZGrxhf_xZWI
TL;DR:
#1: MSI Pro Gaming Carbon/Krait Gaming
#2: ASRock AB350(M) Pro4/K4 Gaming
#3: ASUS B350s with heatsinked VRMs
#4: All other MSI boards except the Gaming Pro (two memory slots)
#5: All Gigabyte boards with heatsinked VRMs
#6: MSI Gaming Pro

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Off Topic / Re: [MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

« on: June 17, 2017, 07:20:22 PM »

Changed the list around, got a cheaper MSI B250M Pro-VD mobo, Thermaltake Versa H15 case, and removed the extra 120mm fan of the list, this dropped the price down a whole 50 dollar (and the pentium went back to the normal price of 69 dolla)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($69.89 @ B&H)
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake - CLP0556-B 39.7 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($12.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI - B250M PRO-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($65.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill - NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($56.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.44 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GT 1030 2GB 2GH LP OC Video Card  ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Thermaltake - Versa H15 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($38.85 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: EVGA - 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: LG - UH12NS40 Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer  ($42.88 @ OutletPC)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link - TL-WN725N USB 2.0 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter  ($9.45 @ OutletPC)
Total: $452.44
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-17 19:22 EDT-0400

That looks really good, but you should try getting an SSD tho. If you skip the HDD for now you can get this: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/smBrxr/western-digital-blue-250gb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-wds250g1b0b

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Off Topic / Re: [MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

« on: June 14, 2017, 06:21:29 PM »

Because it's about 3 years old and it prevents me from also upgrading the motherboard and RAM. It also tends to be the bottleneck whenever I'm emulating some old PlayStation 2 beta discs, or when I'm doing 3D renders (and I haven't forked out for a GPU Renderer yet).

If I find a deal on the 1080 Ti or if my tax return is beefy this year, I'm in. I don't use enough multi-threaded applications for Ryzen to actually give me any benefits, and I don't really care for what VEGA might offer.

Fair enough, but you're not going to see a large performance increase by upgrading. The 7700 has maybe a 5% higher IPC and a 200MHz higher boost clock than the 4790, which isn't a whole lot for nearly 800 AUD for the CPU+board+RAM. If it's the m.2 slot you're after you can get an adapter that plugs into a PCIe slot for $40: https://www.newegg.com/global/au/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1Z5-0018-00020&cm_re=pcie_to_m2-_-1Z5-0018-00020-_-Product
As long as you have an H97 or Z97 motherboard it'll work since those chipsets both have NVMe support.

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Off Topic / Re: [MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

« on: June 14, 2017, 07:36:10 AM »

Why are you upgrading to a 7700 when you already have a 4790? It's at best 10% faster, you're better off either saving your money or buying a 1080ti.

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Off Topic / Re: [MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

« on: June 03, 2017, 05:08:03 PM »

That one requires an external drive bay which espio's case doesn't have.

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Off Topic / Re: [MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

« on: June 03, 2017, 04:04:00 PM »

I know what kind of device you're talking about, but the only ones I've found only takes full-size SD cards and connect via IDE which hasn't been on motherboards for the last five years. None that use SATA or USB though, sorry.

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Off Topic / Re: [MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

« on: June 03, 2017, 03:14:48 PM »

You get an external reader: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208939

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Off Topic / Re: Comcast is blocking Internet Archive

« on: June 02, 2017, 07:37:03 AM »

Because 4chan's the only place that's talking about it right now, except for Internet Archive's twitter.
EDIT: Nvm I'm dumb, I googled for archive.org instead of Internet Archive, seems like Reddit's talking about it too.

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Off Topic / Comcast is blocking Internet Archive

« on: June 02, 2017, 07:23:08 AM »

https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/870514798064058370
https://tweetsave.com/internetarchive/status/870514798064058370
https://tweetsvae.com/pipegreppin/status/870524708403298304

So apparently Comcast started blocking their users from accessing Internet Archive just a few days after the anti-Net Neutrality bill was passed. Any requests for archive.org are blocked by Comcasts routers, their blog at blog.archive.org still works fine IP so it's likely not a DNS issue.

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6eswxs/comcast_now_selectively_blocking_archiveorg_to/
http://archive.is/elarV
4chan thread: http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/60703104/is-comcast-blocking-archiveorg-for-anyone-else
http://archive.is/QZaNM

Discuss, I guess.

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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS] Terrorist attack on Stockholm

« on: April 07, 2017, 01:56:17 PM »

This was bound to happen sooner or later, sadly, and we have our inept politicians to thank for it. There's been at least 100 and as many as 300 known IS members living here as early as 2014 that regularly travel to training camps in the middle east. Not only are suspected terrorists not investigated and convicted/deported when they return, but they're given free housing in an attempt to 'rehabilitate' them.
It's a goddamn shame.

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Off Topic / Re: New phone or new GPU?

« on: April 04, 2017, 10:23:01 AM »

Get a cheap phone like a Moto G4 and spend the rest on the GPU.

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Off Topic / Re: What April Fools have you seen this year?

« on: April 01, 2017, 05:36:05 PM »

Reddit added a new subreddit called 'place' which is some kind of community pixel art thing. Also /r/buildapc became /r/the_linus.

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Off Topic / Re: [MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

« on: February 26, 2017, 01:45:22 PM »

FYI those Intel price cuts have already been debunked as false, they're standard MicroCenter prices AFAIK.

Speaking of Ryzen, there are some good and some bad news. Bad news: only Ryzen 7 is going launch on March 2nd, Ryzen 5 comes in Q2 and Ryzen won't be released until sometime in the second half of the year.
The good news: the top-tier Ryzen 5 1600X will run at the same clock speeds as the 1800X.

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Off Topic / Re: [MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

« on: February 13, 2017, 08:26:12 AM »

Official launch is on March 2nd or 3rd (I forgot), and that's supposed to be a full launch with retail availability and everything. It's not entirely clear if it's the full product stack or just the 8-cores being launched, but either way the rest of the models aren't far away.

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Off Topic / Re: [MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

« on: February 13, 2017, 08:09:48 AM »

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($189.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI B150 Gaming M3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($94.99 @ Jet)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($54.97 @ Jet)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.33 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GAMING X 4G Video Card  ($159.99 @ B&H)
Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ B&H)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($43.88 @ OutletPC)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  ($17.98 @ Newegg)
Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter  ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $691.11
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-02-12 15:08 EST-0500

we got $20+ cheaper, and i still got some pretty nice parts in.
think this is about good?

This looks really nice, though I really recommend you get an SSD since it makes an enormous difference in system speed. If don't have enough money for both the SSD and HDD you could always drop the hard drive and add it later when you can afford it. I also think you should wait until AMD Ryzen is released since you'll either be able to get a faster CPU for the same price or an almost equal CPU for less.

Speaking of which, I think there hasn't been enough talk about Ryzen over here so let me get the hype train up to speed. A user on a Chinese forum leaked a price list of the Ryzen CPUs: http://tieba.baidu.com/p/4975965039?pn=0&
Reddit user Nestledrink then took said list and added approximated US prices, and this is the result:

Some highlights:
- The middle-of-the-pack 8-core CPU, the Ryzen 7 1700X which IIRC AMD demoed against the 6900K at the New Horizons' event, costs less than half of the 6900K despite having comparable performance.
- The cheapest 8-core on the other hand is only $7 more than Intels fastest socket 1151 CPU, the 7700K, despite having twice the cores.
- The cheapest hexa-core, the Ryzen 5 1500, lands smack-bang in the middle of the i5 segment.
- The Ryzen 5 1300, a lower clocked i7 equivalent, is not only cheaper than all of the i5s, but is cheaper or the same price as the i3-7350K!
- The Ryzen 3 quad-cores essentially make the i3s obsolete, especially now that the Pentiums have Hyperthreading.
Obviously these are all rumours but if they're true then holy stuff Intel are f u c k e d .