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

[Niff]

alright I got all of the feedback i needed, thanks

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[espio100]

Apperently mineral oil cooled PC's exists.
Unfortunely they don't sell these 'DIY kits' anymore
But apperently you can just buy an aquarium and put a piece of matel in it that support your MB or something.

[Bisjac]

What neato things can i plug into a pci16 lane that im not using, besides a hd.
I got a mini itx and just using the onboard video. No spots for an expansion out the back, i would mod that thing off

[espio100]

What neato things can i plug into a pci16 lane that im not using, besides a hd.
I got a mini itx and just using the onboard video. No spots for an expansion out the back, i would mod that thing off

Over expensive PCI SSD's!
Or fan controllers
Maybe a sound card
Or just put another cheap-ish GPU in it and dedicate it for multi-monitor stuff.

[espio100]

A Seagate or Hitachi HDD?
The seagate is 45$ for 1TB but the hitachi is 70$ for 2TB (cheapest I could fine that met my requirements)
Apperently Hitachi lasts longer than seagates and its 2TB (I don't really need that) but I could "split" the drive in 2 virtual drives of 1TB and install windows on one and another OS on the other.

[Steve5451²]

Western Digital or go home.

[espio100]

Western Digital or go home.

Hmm?

[Daswiruch]

Western Digital or go home.

also that graph looks terribly skewed because it seems like hitachi and western digital have a huge difference until you actually look on the numbers on the side

[Tokthree]

HGST drives are the best for reliability/price at the moment IIRC

[Steve5451²]

I don't think it takes in to consideration how many of these drives exist. If there's much less Hitachi drives then there will be less to fail.

[espio100]

Im going to get the western digital one. Same specs as the Seagate only 5 bucks more.
Indeed if you look at the numbers on the left its like "durr only 14%" but I like my stuff to function as long as possible

[LeetZero]

Nice.

(Merely playing some CSGO)

[Lego lad]

whats better for a gaming pc, an Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor or an Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor?

the things I would wanna do:

soft shaders for bl
play ark: survival evolved (on above-minimum settings)
play The Isle (on above-minimum settings)

[espio100]

whats better for a gaming pc, an Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor or an Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor?

the things I would wanna do:

soft shaders for bl
play ark: survival evolved (on above-minimum settings)
play The Isle (on above-minimum settings)

Well you don't really need multi-threading for gaming but has a bigger bus speed wich is very usefull.
But the i5 has a bus speed of 5GT/s wich is probably fast enough.
Want multi-threading? Get the i7
Want to save money? Get the i5
Oh and by the way I happen to buy the same i5 :^)

But CPU's barely impact the FPS on games as long as you're not bottlenecking your GPU.
But seriously even my laptop with a dual core  2Ghz can run ARK on minimum. For it to run on higher settings you want a good GPU.

[Tokthree]

whats better for a gaming pc, an Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor or an Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor?

the things I would wanna do:

soft shaders for bl
play ark: survival evolved (on above-minimum settings)
play The Isle (on above-minimum settings)

Quadcore i5s for gaming, Hyperthreaded i7s for content creation. No exceptions and no questions