Another "New PC Build" Help

Fro said:
You could have bought this. It's cheap and relatively small. You don't need much to cool a CPU running at stock speeds.

I have the same case you bought and the cooler looks good in it, imo.
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I was looking at that one but the problem comes with the ram I have - 4x 4GB sticks and was worried about the size of sticks not fitting with cooler attached.
 
weelzSA said:
I was looking at that one but the problem comes with the ram I have - 4x 4GB sticks and was worried about the size of sticks not fitting with cooler attached.
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That is the very first one I wanted to recommend but I watched a couple of videos where I saw it had another bracket you had to install on the front of the MB, I'm sure it would've sat directly against the left most RAM slot.

See this video from about 3:15:

[video=youtube;4l4br_1XZw4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l4br_1XZw4[/video]

Side note, that video is from a local guy so maybe give him a like and subscribe.
 
Soul Assassin said:
That is the very first one I wanted to recommend but I watched a couple of videos where I saw it had another bracket you had to install on the front of the MB, I'm sure it would've sat directly against the left most RAM slot.

See this video from about 3:15:

[video=youtube;4l4br_1XZw4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l4br_1XZw4[/video]

Side note, that video is from a local guy so maybe give him a like and subscribe.
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Yeah I'm very sure it would have caused problems as these sticks are quite tall apparently so I'd rather be safe than sorry.
 
AIO cooler paid for. Also ordered the PSU (and thermal paste which I almost forgot about).

Just need to order case and CPU and then wait for it to all arrive.
 
weelzSA said:
AIO cooler paid for. Also ordered the PSU (and thermal paste which I almost forgot about).

Just need to order case and CPU and then wait for it to all arrive.
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You should watch the Corsair how to video of the H100i just so you know what's up even if it's straight forward.

I see you can also change the LED colour on the waterblock so you can have that red as well.
 
Motherboard and Ram arrived today. Honestly thought it only be Monday.

The ram heat sinks are MASSIVE! I can honestly say I saved money and time by not buying a normal air cooler and then having to order a new one cause of fitment issues.
 
weelzSA said:
Motherboard and Ram arrived today. Honestly thought it only be Monday.

The ram heat sinks are MASSIVE! I can honestly say I saved money and time by not buying a normal air cooler and then having to order a new one cause of fitment issues.
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Pics please, RAM and MB.

You really scored with that board, I see it even has a built in headphone amp and two M.2 slots.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Pics please, RAM and MB.

You really scored with that board, I see it even has a built in headphone amp and two M.2 slots.
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Yeah very happy with deal especially for what the board can handle and future upgrades. Didn't know about the headphone amp - will it also work with studio monitors connected?

Will take pics later. I'm so keen to see it alive but got 2 weeks of waiting min still.
 
weelzSA said:
Yeah very happy with deal especially for what the board can handle and future upgrades. Didn't know about the headphone amp - will it also work with studio monitors connected?

Will take pics later. I'm so keen to see it alive but got 2 weeks of waiting min still.
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It's going to do something:

"High quality 120 dB SNR stereo playback output and 113 dB SNR recording input"
 
Soul Assassin said:
It's going to do something:

"High quality 120 dB SNR stereo playback output and 113 dB SNR recording input"
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That's great news. When I'm finish building will do some research to see if there specific way to connect for best sound etc.
 
weelzSA said:
Didn't know about the headphone amp - will it also work with studio monitors connected?
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32-600Ω impedance, your monitors will probably be 4 or 8Ω and the MB will not have the power to drive a set of normal monitors.

If you want to use monitors feed the line out to a external amp to drive the speakers.
 
ponder said:
32-600Ω impedance, your monitors will probably be 4 or 8Ω and the MB will not have the power to drive a set of normal monitors.

If you want to use monitors feed the line out to a external amp to drive the speakers.
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If he used his monitors with the onboard on his previous MB this will definitely not be worse but yes, headphone amp, more meant for something like the 600Ω Beyerdynamic etc.
 
Soul Assassin said:
If he used his monitors with the onboard on his previous MB this will definitely not be worse but yes, headphone amp, more meant for something like the 600Ω Beyerdynamic etc.
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Haha I honestly don't know what that "Beyerdynamic" word means.
 
weelzSA said:
Yeah very happy with deal especially for what the board can handle and future upgrades. Didn't know about the headphone amp - will it also work with studio monitors connected?

Will take pics later. I'm so keen to see it alive but got 2 weeks of waiting min still.
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Depends is your studio monitors passive or active? If active as in have integrated amplifiers then yes. Haven't seen all the specs but if you have passive studio monitors then probably not.
 
So just out of interest - my current Plex Server is running the Intel G3258 Anniversary Edition. My question is does it make more sense swapping that for the current i5 chip my current PC and then giving the the G3258 pc to my daughter to use (will be used for internet, homework, youtube and light gaming - will be her first pc in her room so very very light gaming to start with using onboard GPU) or will the i5 not make any difference on the Plex Server? The Plex Server literally is only used for Plex and downloads - not even a keyboard or screen connected.

There will never be more than 3 or 4 concurrent connections to the server via Roku (typically only 2 at a time).

What do you think is the best thing to do in this situation? If there will be a noticeable difference I might consider swapping the CPU's but if there a very small difference and my daughter new PC is going to suffer then I won't.
 
As far as I can remember we have almost exactly the same server setup and I'm not looking to change it anytime soon.

Even 1080P HEVC files play just fine with the G3258.

But I think it's going to be either or really with the i5 more than likely being underutilised in both situations, also it's the same chipset and everything so swapping them out will take 5 minutes without reinstalling any software/drivers if at some point you think the server needs the i5.

Also if you feel the G3258 starts to struggle you can easily overclock it by another 1GHz.
 
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