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

[Pentium]

That build is absolutely terrible; 8 year old processor, tons of pointless expansion cards and unbalanced AF. Give me some stores that you can buy parts from and I'll put something together.

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[carolcat]

Prebuilding pc for a friend who has little to no knowledge of PC's.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8fWDRB
Is this compitable? Also his budget is €800

noooooo. the cpu is outdated, you really don't need those expansions, and the case uses usb 3.0 but the mobo has no headers for it

[Mule]

Prebuilding pc for a friend who has little to no knowledge of PC's.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8fWDRB
Is this compitable? Also his budget is €800

Also do not, do not use that much of an overkill PSU I would not exceed 500w for this build, scrap the sound card, scrap the RJ-45 nic. Use the money saved from those components to buy a better CPU. The 970 is going to bottleneck that piece of crap to infinity and as is it wouldnt boot. You need RAM. You can get a decent I3 for not much more and a lga 1150 motherboard and 8gigs of ddr3 to match. This is also not necessary but I would go with and 960 then get an i5 aswell.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117447 - i3 CPU

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130731&cm_re=lga_1150-_-13-130-731-_-Product  -Motherboard

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231567&cm_re=8gb_ddr3-_-20-231-567-_-Product -RAM

[Swat 3]

I would rather a 960 and an i5 haswell, or ask your friend if he's ok with saving a little bit more money so he can get an 970.

[espio100]

Also do not, do not use that much of an overkill PSU I would not exceed 500w for this build, scrap the sound card, scrap the RJ-45 nic. Use the money saved from those components to buy a better CPU. The 970 is going to bottleneck that piece of crap to infinity and as is it wouldnt boot. You need RAM. You can get a decent I3 for not much more and a lga 1150 motherboard and 8gigs of ddr3 to match. This is also not necessary but I would go with and 960 then get an i5 aswell.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117447 - i3 CPU

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130731&cm_re=lga_1150-_-13-130-731-_-Product  -Motherboard

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231567&cm_re=8gb_ddr3-_-20-231-567-_-Product -RAM

Oh lord I forgot the ram. And I just picked a cheap-ish quadcore cpu.

EDIT: Dis 'k? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/T97XwP

[Mule]

EDIT: Dis 'k? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/T97XwP

Perfect.

[shitlord]

Oh lord I forgot the ram. And I just picked a cheap-ish quadcore cpu.

EDIT: Dis 'k? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/T97XwP

ditch the lan card still

also you need to worry about the GPU covering up that last slot like it did on my micro atx board
i would suggest just using a USB wireless card

[Mule]

ditch the lan card still

My bad, I only checked the cpu mobo ram and graphics, yeah this is built into the motherboard you don't need it.

[Majorth]

Hey guys, is there a huge difference between DDR3 and DDR4 RAM?

[Pie Crust]

DDR4 is out for motherboards? Whoa.

[shitlord]

Hey guys, is there a huge difference between DDR3 and DDR4 RAM?

Overall, comparing DDR4 to DDR3, there is little difference to separate the two. In a couple of small instances one is better than the other, but on those edge cases it might be prudent to say that we cannot make a final decision until we can synchronize the rest of the system, such as the size of CPU caches. When we can perform such tests, we will run some more numbers.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8959/ddr4-haswell-e-scaling-review-2133-to-3200-with-gskill-corsair-adata-and-crucial/8

[Ninja Decoy]

DDR4 is out for motherboards? Whoa.

What? DDR4 has been out for a while now. Right now its standard on motherboards that hold the socket LGA 2011-3 and LGA1151, which is what the newer intel CPUs are on.

Currently DDR4 cannot be used with AMD cpus simply due to hardware restrictions.

You may mean GDDR5, which is exclusively video card memory.

[Majorth]

-snip-

Thanks!

You may mean GDDR5, which is exclusively video card memory.

Oh, it probably is that.

[espio100]

My bad, I only checked the cpu mobo ram and graphics, yeah this is built into the motherboard you don't need it.

Ohwait really? Neat.

[Dragonslayer182]

So, I'm thinking about getting a new GPU for my computer. I have an FX-4100 cpu, 8gb RAM, and a Radeon 7770 GHZ edition 1gb. What should I get for 200$?