The PC Build Thread

[airborne]

Any CPU that can beat a 5950x is very impressive. How much are those CPUs?

 

[ponder]

Is it worth


In terms of mobo's is it worth spending more on one or not really if one isn't going to be overclocking? The more expensive mobo's just have more features it seems, so you get what you pay for. This upgrade is only going to happen once every few years for me I would say.

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I would just buy the cheapest MB with 4 dimm slots unless you're buying 2x16gb dimms righ now in which case 2 dimm slots would also do.

These lga1700 mbs are stupidly expensive compared to amd mbs where you get way more for your money

 

[The Voice]

Comparing the different benchmark tools and my actual use case scenarios, the temps are about 10C lower for a couple of hours and very very stable with this board and my old RAM, compared to DDR5 board and the RAM I had. I'll play and tweak a bit more. Not sure if I should make a separate thread for any interest, or suggestions?

I will push the P-Core up to 5.2GHz, and see how it goes in my day-to-day...I'm happy if the temps can stay high 85-93C.

Post pics damnit.

 

[Barbarian Conan]

Comparing the different benchmark tools and my actual use case scenarios, the temps are about 10C lower for a couple of hours and very very stable with this board and my old RAM, compared to DDR5 board and the RAM I had. I'll play and tweak a bit more. Not sure if I should make a separate thread for any interest, or suggestions?

I will push the P-Core up to 5.2GHz, and see how it goes in my day-to-day...I'm happy if the temps can stay high 85-93C.

What do you do day to day?

That is quite a bit of trouble you're going through and a very high overclock for day to day use.

 

[StrontiumDog]

What ever happened to PotterH? He used to sell CPUs for crazy cheap prices

 

[ponder]

What ever happened to PotterH? He used to sell CPUs for crazy cheap prices

Last posted on carb in Dec, his site is still up. His supplier of tray cpus must have run dry.

 

[StrontiumDog]

So as a sanity check on my i7-4790 with gtx 1080 (and before my order is finalised for my upgrade to an i5-12400) I did a reinstall of Win10 to see how Dying Light 2 (in 1440p) and RDR2 (in 1080p) behave after a clean windows install. They did run slightly better (going on feel, no hard stats to back this up) but I suppose it's to be expected if all that I had installed were nvidia drivers, msi afterburner and the respective game launchers for these games.

DL2 in 1440p with gfx details set to low-ish, with the games built in upscaling set to 'performance', runs at about 60fps (give or take a couple of frames) but this is still in the earlier less demanding areas (later on the environment gets more complex but I am not sure if it's more demand on the GPU or CPU). In 1080p with upscaling it looks terrible (due to non-native res) and FPS actually only yielding 1 or 2 FPS more.

RDR2 looks fine running in non-native res with gfx settings at medium more or less, getting 75FPS depending on how the game decides to behave or misbehave at any point in time.

Though 32GB RAM with the new PC is not really necessary, will it come in handy if I like to have lots of browser windows/tabs open? I'm thinking just get the RAM now rather than having to upgrade later on again.

Will stick with the stock cpu cooler on the i5-12400 as I believe the consensus is that it will be fine for gaming if one is not overclocking.

 

[Barbarian Conan]

So as a sanity check on my i7-4790 with gtx 1080 (and before my order is finalised for my upgrade to an i5-12400) I did a reinstall of Win10 to see how Dying Light 2 (in 1440p) and RDR2 (in 1080p) behave after a clean windows install. They did run slightly better (going on feel, no hard stats to back this up) but I suppose it's to be expected if all that I had installed were nvidia drivers, msi afterburner and the respective game launchers for these games.

DL2 in 1440p with gfx details set to low-ish, with the games built in upscaling set to 'performance', runs at about 60fps (give or take a couple of frames) but this is still in the earlier less demanding areas (later on the environment gets more complex but I am not sure if it's more demand on the GPU or CPU). In 1080p with upscaling it looks terrible (due to non-native res) and FPS actually only yielding 1 or 2 FPS more.

RDR2 looks fine running in non-native res with gfx settings at medium more or less, getting 75FPS depending on how the game decides to behave or misbehave at any point in time.

Though 32GB RAM with the new PC is not really necessary, will it come in handy if I like to have lots of browser windows/tabs open? I'm thinking just get the RAM now rather than having to upgrade later on again.

Will stick with the stock cpu cooler on the i5-12400 as I believe the consensus is that it will be fine for gaming if one is not overclocking.

How hard do you multitask?
Do you want to play Pathfinder Kingmaker while you wait for your friends to invite you to their Tarkov party, while watching a movie and working on some docs and spreadsheets? Then yes, 32GB may be useful.



If you close some stuff, when gaming, then 16GB will be enough for all games I think.
If you just browse/workf without gaming, then 16GB will also be fine for most workloads.

I got 32GB for a start, because I know I will want to upgrade to 64GB in 5 or so years' time.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Def chrome and gaming no go, I was maxing with Chrome open. Chrome loves ram

 

[StrontiumDog]

How hard do you multitask?
Do you want to play Pathfinder Kingmaker while you wait for your friends to invite you to their Tarkov party, while watching a movie and working on some docs and spreadsheets? Then yes, 32GB may be useful.

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If you close some stuff, when gaming, then 16GB will be enough for all games I think.
If you just browse/workf without gaming, then 16GB will also be fine for most workloads.

I got 32GB for a start, because I know I will want to upgrade to 64GB in 5 or so years' time.

For quite a while now I've been having to close Chrome or Edge and a handful of instances of media player classic, feels like one needs a machine dedicated purely for gaming to avoid impact from other apps on the game of choice. So maybe then for me it is time to go above 16GB to avoid the aforementioned inconvenience.

 

[ponder]

For quite a while now I've been having to close Chrome or Edge and a handful of instances of media player classic, feels like one needs a machine dedicated purely for gaming to avoid impact from other apps on the game of choice. So maybe then for me it is time to go above 16GB to avoid the aforementioned inconvenience.

I would shut down background apps regardless of whether I had 8 or 64gb of ram while gaming.

 

[StrontiumDog]

I would shut down background apps regardless of whether I had 8 or 64gb of ram while gaming.

Fair enough. It's more a case of those apps stealing CPU cycles I assume, each of those apps using as much as 1 or 2% adds up.

 

[wizardofid]

Thermaltake versa n27 (all black no fuss/ no hassle case) I won't say it is an ugly case, but it will go well with my all black and red theme I have.
Patriot SL 2 x 8gig ram 1600mhz
500 gig SSD
FSP 700w PSU 80+. Didn't need any thing fancier, has tier 2 caps, so yeah no complaints there.
Sinotec SBS soundbar ( didn't need any thing fancier, sound should be pretty decent)
Corsair harpoon RGB mouse

This will go into my current build of 4770K, GTX 1660

 

[kronoSX]

guys hi, how can i test a motherboard

Asus Strix Z370-F without buying ramm and cpu 1151 socket type.​

Dont want to spend 1000 rand on something that is a maybe.
Who in cape town has cheap cpu socket 1151 and cheap ram ddr4

 

[The Voice]

guys hi, how can i test a motherboard

Asus Strix Z370-F without buying ramm and cpu 1151 socket type.​

Dont want to spend 1000 rand on something that is a maybe.
Who in cape town has cheap cpu socket 1151 and cheap ram ddr4

Why do you want to “test” it? Doing a try-before-you-buy or something?

 

[kronoSX]

Why do you want to “test” it? Doing a try-before-you-buy or something?

yes a try before you buy correct
the cheapest cpu and ram combo is like 100 bucks.If the board dont work what am i to do.

 

[eddybsb4u]

Hey guys, I need help here regarding the fan setup.

I have a Phanteks Eclipse P500A DRGB case.

The case comes with 3 x 140mm DRGB fans

I have purchased extra 3 x 120mm fans and x 140 ARGB fan.

I also have a Deepcool Fan Extension Cable that supports up to 4 fans.

My motherboard is MSI B550 Gaming Plus.

These fans have different connectors, for example the two 120mm fans are 3 pin, and one 120mm and one 140mm is 4 pin.

How can I connect all of these fans to work together and be able to run them using the Mystic Light and also adjust the fan speed if needs be all at once.

Here is a summary for the fans I have;

2 x Coolermaster Masterfan MF120L Blue - 3 PIN
1 x Coolermaster Sickleflow 120 Blue - 4 PIN
1 x Coolermaster Sickleflow 140 ARGB - 4 PIN
3 x Phanteks SK 140mm D-RGB PWM - 3 PIN (These are the ones that came with the case)




1 x Deepcool Fan Extension Cable (Can accommodate up to 4 fans. Supports both 4 pin and 3 pin)

 

[Faux_Grey]

Hey guys, I need help here regarding the fan setup.

I have a Phanteks Eclipse P500A DRGB case.

The case comes with 3 x 140mm DRGB fans

I have purchased extra 3 x 120mm fans and x 140 ARGB fan.

I also have a Deepcool Fan Extension Cable that supports up to 4 fans.

My motherboard is MSI B550 Gaming Plus.

These fans have different connectors, for example the two 120mm fans are 3 pin, and one 120mm and one 140mm is 4 pin.

How can I connect all of these fans to work together and be able to run them using the Mystic Light and also adjust the fan speed if needs be all at once.

Here is a summary for the fans I have;

2 x Coolermaster Masterfan MF120L Blue - 3 PIN
1 x Coolermaster Sickleflow 120 Blue - 4 PIN
1 x Coolermaster Sickleflow 140 ARGB - 4 PIN
3 x Phanteks SK 140mm D-RGB PWM - 3 PIN (These are the ones that came with the case)

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1 x Deepcool Fan Extension Cable (Can accommodate up to 4 fans. Supports both 4 pin and 3 pin)

3-pin fan you're only gonna control over DC voltage.
Depending on your motherboard, you'll plug the 3-pole fans into the DC configured ports to control their speed that way.
You can then use a PWM fan controller for the 4-pin fans.
Alternatively just one big DC fan controller and stick on all the fans.

You can only control the ARGB fan lighting through an ARGB controller, so check if your motherboard supports ARGB functions, or you might need a controller for that.

 

[eddybsb4u]

3-pin fan you're only gonna control over DC voltage.
Depending on your motherboard, you'll plug the 3-pole fans into the DC configured ports to control their speed that way.
You can then use a PWM fan controller for the 4-pin fans.
Alternatively just one big DC fan controller and stick on all the fans.

You can only control the ARGB fan lighting through an ARGB controller, so check if your motherboard supports ARGB functions, or you might need a controller for that.

Which DC Fan controller and ARGB fan controller would you recommend?

 

[kronoSX]

guys anyone in cape town willing to sell second hand cpu for

ROG STRIX Z370-F and 1 stick ddr4 ram​

pm me
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...aming-model/&usg=AOvVaw0a_WdtoAB0Egs5mtySHhro