[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[Darksaber2213]

droppin a 4k image of my pc

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[Pentium]

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.

[Insert Name Here²]

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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

[dirtymurphy]

what do you guys think of my new setup?

[Pentium]

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

[Insert Name Here²]

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

an SSD in my budget and opinion, would be a waste of money, it costs twice as much for only a quarter of the space. Plus, hard drives are fine to me. I live on a 5400rpm laptop drive and honestly it's pretty snappy in my experience, so a 7200rpm would be even better.

Thanks for a suggestion, but an SSD would not be smart in my build, the price of it would completely eliminate the money I've tried to shave off of it, while downgrading my experience in terms of actual space I need. If I had a higher budget, I'd go for it, but my budget does not allow for it.

[Insert Name Here²]

what do you guys think of my new setup?
[img  width=400]https://i.warosu.org/data/g/img/0586/95/1485636474297.jpg[/img]

can it run minesweeper???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[Ipquarx]

it costs twice as much for only a quarter of the space.

they're around 5.5x the cost per gigabyte, to be more precise, which is a little better than you're thinking
you can get a 512GB one for $140

[Insert Name Here²]

they're around 5.5x the cost per gigabyte, to be more precise, which is a little better than you're thinking
you can get a 512GB one for $140

Again, that's still insanely expensive and a waste of money in my budget. I'm trying to go for value per dollar that fits my needs, not randomly blow money on something I can get for a third of the price and be just as good (in my opinion and use)

My use doesn't need an SSD, nor does my budget fit it

[Willco2]

what do you guys think of my new setup?

...does minecraft even support SLI?

[dirtymurphy]

...does minecraft even support SLI?

i just wanna know why he has two 1080s and three monitors for memecraft

[Cowboy Dude]

So today all of a sudden my main monitor freaked out and is stuck to a maximum resolution of 1024 by 768 instead of 1920 by 1080. I have a GTX 1070 and a Dell S2740L monitor.

I already: uninstalled and reinstalled the Nvidia drivers, added a custom resolution (which windows didn't like), unplugged and replugged the monitors, restarted my pc, updated drivers, installed driver via cd that came with my card, checked monitor settings.

I'm running out of options here.

Edit: for some reason the Nvidia Control panel thinks my problematic monitor is DVI when it's HDMI. Same thing happened to my DVI monitor being read as HDMI.

[Trogtor]

i dont know where else to post this but google chrome keeps giving me a privacy error for secure.newegg.com and its annoying because im trying to check out but every time i click on the check out cart i get this stupid error

[img ]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/74371816000327680/330755564613271562/VF1spaz.png[/img]

can anyone else confirm its happening to them?

its working now

[Trogtor]

lol gay i got a news letter from newegg with a bunch of sales and one of them was a promo code for a gtx 1080 ti and i got excited but it was like 10 dollars off.

[Jasa]

I'm amazed with how far Intel has come with their integrated graphics.

I bought a refurbished Acer Aspire ES1-572-35HJ and swapped the 1TB Toshiba for a 250GB Samsung SSD. Decreased the boot time from 2½ minutes to 12 seconds.
Even with the integrated graphics I was getting playable framerates on a loving integrated graphics Core i3 laptop so I doubled the memory from 8 to 16 and got around 80% more FPS across the board thanks to dual channel.