Tactical Nuke's first computer build! (MINIMIZNG COSTS)

[Tactical Nuke]

https://www.wdc.com/products/internal-storage/wd-blue-pc-desktop-hard-drive.html

here's what I'm talking about

this is an all-purpose computer, so it needs to do everything that's in the OP plus

running a youtube vid or two, drawing on my drawing tablet, playing a graphics-heavy game on shadowplay and running fl studio comfortably with all the plugins open all at the same time.

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[Kyuande]

You should do a lot of research on your parts, you might need more/less power. My $1300 build can mostly handle what yours can do.

[Tactical Nuke]

uh I'm gonna need to see that build

[Kyuande]

uh I'm gonna need to see that build

I haven't tested it all just yet but it can survive most things thrown at it based on my research and what I have seen from other people (other than games atm because I don't have a proper graphics card yet)

i7-7700k @ 4.2GHz (got it on amazon for $299 on sale woo)
3TB Seagate
Samsung 960 EVO Series M.2 SSD @ 250GB - Writes speeds at 3GB/s (much faster than SATA)
Cryorig H7 Tower Cooler (for CPU)
MSI Gaming Z270 Pro Carbon
SeaSonic 650W 80 Gold
G.Skill NT Series 8GB (this is where some programs you use struggle here but I don't use that much RAM right now)

and then a GTX 1000 series that'll be around $200-300 that can play pretty much any game, decent games at max graphics - for 3 monitors at 4k, good luck that'll be very expensive but I only need 1 or 2 monitors and this system will do fine (not at 4k)

That's why I said it can mostly handle things thrown at it. Those programs you listed can do pretty well even with these current specs (minus fl studio if you do tons of editing since the current RAM on mine won't suffice).

[Tactical Nuke]

so it's coming down to the wire, because I just ran speedkart on minimum shaders and it stuttered like forget and only ran at 7fps

if I didn't post it before, let me post my current build again

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/psqL3F

[Tactical Nuke]

found my problem



look at the graphics temperature
I was right

[Tactical Nuke]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/y7trd6

new list

[Tactical Nuke]

played ROBLOX for five or ten minutes, a front-page game that was not filled with many assets

had to stop because the card reached over 100 degrees Celsius before I noticed

[Tactical Nuke]

80k+ bricks, no shaders, 10 fps



someone want to help me finish this build

[Tactical Nuke]

So I took a look at the inside of my PC today. Covered in dust. I'm gonna clean it out with some stuff this week, but that's gonna be a temporary fix. My computer's been running slowly for a while now. I can no longer run shaders.

On a happier note, I realize now why my audio is so terrible and why speccy reports several different audio sources: I have no soundcard in this thing. I thought I did, but the more I thought about it and the more I look at speccy, it looks like sound is coming out of the graphics card.



So my question for the BLFers who make music is where can I find a good but cheap in-computer (PCI) sound card? My composition professor has me looking on Sweetwater, but all the cards there are more than half my budget.

[Tactical Nuke]

anyone know if these pc parts will be on sale for the christmas season?

[Insert Name Here²]

your gpu is absolute dog stuff, ram and cpu are fine.

Just replace the gpu with a GT 1030 or GTX 1050, it's all you need

[beachbum111111]

your gpu is absolute dog stuff, ram and cpu are fine.

Just replace the gpu with a GT 1030 or GTX 1050, it's all you need

Not everyones a budget poorcigarette. Plus his computer is on deaths door.

[MicroEDGE]

Not everyones a budget poorcigarette.

What Did He Mean By This?

[Insert Name Here²]

Not everyones a budget poorcigarette. Plus his computer is on deaths door.

the i5 and 8gb is fine for gaming, he just needs a better GPU.

He doesn't need a sound card though. But since his is broken on his PC, a cheap one will be fine.