Build a PC: Small upgrades, feels like a new machine |
- Small upgrades, feels like a new machine
- 144hz 1440p Gaming Monitor Recommendations?
- Simple GPU Overclock and Fan Curve Guide
- Pc shocks me whenever I simultaneously touch the floor and the case
- Help building son a gaming PC
- I know this is a stupid question and I'm pfopably gonna get down voted, but if my power supply is 500W and my GPU has a recomended power supply of 500W too, will it work, or will I have to get a better ps just in case?
- is this build good for its money? will i be able to stream and game at the same time without affecting performance? i am new to pc building
- My first build, the Liquid Devil!
- AAA games crashing on high load
- Just Installed 2x8gb ram, Windows says i only have 8 installed BIOS
- Best budget gpu
- Pc shuts off randomly
- AIO fans won't spin after installing new CPU
- 2nd Build - Clean dark theme with simple rgb
- Building workstation PC for friend, feedback on this ~900 build please?
- Is my PC VR Ready?
- Very high temps when gaming with new 3600
- 1080p 144hz(or higher) monitor help?
- first build in 17 years - full RGB, professional look
- Troubled PC noob
- Does static still maker
- Mini-ITX build suggestions
- is Ryzen 5 3600 is enough for gaming,editing and streaming or i should to get ryzen 7 3700x??
| Small upgrades, feels like a new machine Posted: 02 Aug 2020 10:02 AM PDT Not sure if this type of post is allowed here. Please delete if not (and my apologies). Made a couple of small upgrades to my machine this weekend and it feels almost brand new. Built the machine about 2.5 years ago. With a Ryzen 5 1600. About a year later while trying to tidy up the wires, I pulled off the cpu fan and the CPU came with it. 2 pins broke off. It still worked, but ram slots B1,B2 no longer worked. So I just used 8gb ram for a while. This weekend I:
These were great but the thing that felt like it made the biggest impact was I opened my graphics card (RX580) and replaced the thermal paste and blew air to clean out dust. Before doing this. My GPU would overheat frequently if I tried to use anything other than "performance" graphics settings. Now it sits at 70C even on high quality at 144fps. The machine runs like it's brand new and didn't cost an arm and a leg. Feels great. [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 144hz 1440p Gaming Monitor Recommendations? Posted: 02 Aug 2020 06:40 AM PDT Hey y'all, i've been looking to upgrade my 1080p 60hz monitor for a while since i've got a GTX 1080 that can probs do with a better screen. What can y'all recommend to buy? I've been looking into the Acer Nitro VG272UP QHD 144Hz FreeSync IPS 27in Monitor for $649AUD, but i can't seem to find any reviews on that SPECIFIC model. Looking for something within that price range. [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simple GPU Overclock and Fan Curve Guide Posted: 02 Aug 2020 08:07 AM PDT Hey everyone, I just rebuilt my PC after 6 years (wooo) and noticed that there was not much info regarding general OC and fan curves (especially for my GPU). I'm pretty new to reddit but I though I would create a little guide/benchmark for anyone else who is installing one of these puppies. Disclaimer: There are 100s of different GPUs, so the exact OC and fan curve you create might differ. For reference, I am running the ASUS TUF GTX 1650 Super OC (linked here). Furthermore, make sure you have adequate PSU wattage to support any extra power required to OC your card. Note: Since we are going to both overclock and adjust the fan curve, we will start with the overclock so that the fan curve is made to deal with the temperatures the card will reach under load. Overclocking: For this, you will need Furmark and MSI afterburner. Once installed, open them both. In Furmark, select a resolution smaller than native so you can have both programs open at once (for 1080p I used 1024x768) and then click on "GPU stress test." Now, navigate to MSI afterburner. Increase the GPU core clock by 20MHz. Monitor the change in FPS and overall stability (stutters/crashes). If the fps increased and the render is stable, rinse and repeat until satisfied. With my GPU, I stopped at 80MHz. Although 100MHz was stable, there was a negligible increase in FPS so I did not think it was worth it :) Once you have your core clock figured out, we will move to the memory clock. For this section, follow the steps listed above but instead with increases of 100MHz. With my GPU, I reached +900MHz before increases in FPS were negligible. Overall I reached an average increase of 13 FPS. Once completed, make sure to save the profile in MSI afterburner. Close the GPU stress test but keep Furmark ready, we will be coming back to it later. Fan Curve: I'm sure there are tons of others ways to do this, but I find this method the most straightforward. First things first, enable user defined fan control. You will see some preset curve with a number of nodes. We will be moving those to adjust our curve. The first node we will adjust is the idle temperature. Make sure Furmark is closed and no games are running in the background. Let your computer idle and monitor the temperature at which it becomes stable. Now adjust the first node based on the temperature (x-axis) you want your card to idle at (personally I like idle at 40C). EX: If you want your card to idle at 35C, move the node up and down the y-axis @ temp = 35 until you have adequate fan speed to keep your card stable. The second node we will adjust is for light gaming. To keep this short and sweet, I would say to put this at +10C of your idle temperature and +5-10% fan speed of your idle. The third node is for full load. This is the temperature your card will run at when its pushing out max frame rate. You can now open and run Furmark. Similar to adjusting the idle temperature, move the node along the y-axis (fan speed %) at whichever temperature you see fit until the card runs stable. Personally, I chose my load temperature to be 62C - for this, my fan speed is at 60%. The fourth node is going to be for thermal throttling. This is the temperature at which your card down-clocks itself. This can be found with a quick google search. Again to keep it simple, I put this node at 20% above full load fan speed. The final node is going to be for max fan speed. This is arbitrary because (hopefully) your card will never reach this as you would be experiencing thermal throttling. However, for simplicity, I set it at 5C above thermal throttle temperature. Here is my fan curve for those who are visual: https://ibb.co/Tk71Zqy Thanks for reading and I hope this helped, Dom :) EDIT: Added some extra details. Also, please feel free to DM me your before and after OC stats :D [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pc shocks me whenever I simultaneously touch the floor and the case Posted: 02 Aug 2020 11:01 AM PDT As said in the title, If I am touching the floor with my legs, for example, any metal part of the case shocks me. If I sit on a chair and raise my legs off the ground, I feel nothing. It also affects the peripherals attached to the pc. My Keyboard is made from metal and it also shocks me if I touch the metal part while my foot is on the ground. The same goes for my headphones. Any help?? Edit #1: Forgot to mention that I had the pc for like 3 year and last month I was moved into another country and changed the psu there to avoid any issues with the 110V/220V or the 50hz vs 60hz. The previous psu was kinda bad so I got a new one. [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2020 07:32 AM PDT Hello, I've built PCs many times, but not for over 6-7 years and things have moved on. I want to build a gaming PC for my 14 year old son for his birthday at the end of August. I can't afford the gaming graphics card, so my thinking is build him a Gaming PC with a basic graphics card so he can help build it and use it for school and basic games for a few months. Then on Xmas day get him an Nvidia RTX 2060 or similar to make it become a gaming machine. Here is what I have, can you recommend any changes and a basic graphics card he can use for now? He wants the side showing with all the LED stuff (no idea how that is done yet). Plus he wants to the CPU fan to be quiet as possible. I will get him a 24inch gaming monitor too, any recommendations that are not too expensive?
Let me know what you think. Thanks [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2020 01:00 PM PDT My ps is be quiet! System Power 9 500W 80 Plus Bronze and my GPU is XFX Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2020 06:10 AM PDT upgrading from console btw. would i be able to play games at 1080p 144+ fps and stream/watch netflix simultaneously? i just want to make sure if my gaming performance will be affected if i have other tasks running. my budget is 2400aud which is around 1700usd but the hardware is much more expensive in australia. [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My first build, the Liquid Devil! Posted: 02 Aug 2020 10:41 AM PDT Hi all, I wanted to share my completed build. No I didn't post on first boot 😂 I had some help from a kind redditor but now it's finally finished. Specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/RmL2FT Pictures: Here, here, here, here, and here! I fell in love with the Liquid Devil 5700 XT from PowerColor so I built my entire pc around it. It's a monster and I have run everything I've thrown at it very smoothly. It idles around 35c-40c and at 50c when gaming. PS: If anyone can tell me where I can look to see at what Mhz my ram and gpu are running at, please let me know. I'm sure they're fine but I just wanna check. [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| AAA games crashing on high load Posted: 02 Aug 2020 07:46 AM PDT I built my own PC in November and it having serious issues now. It's crashing when I play games that put the system under load. I first noticed it in Metro Exodus in March but it was intermittent. Now many AAA games crash (Red Dead, GTA, No Man's Sky) but others like Stardew Valley and Jackbox work fine. I downloaded 3d mark and it crashes every single time on the demo run. The crashes mean the game simply stops working. Windows doesn't even think the game is not responding. Sometimes the sound keeps running even though the picture freezes. Eventually the program closes on it's own without any notification. When this happens none of my other programs are impacted. I suspect the GPU and will be getting a replacement under warranty. I also did ram tests and they came back clean. What could cause the game failure only under high load? If it's not the GPU where would you look to next? [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Just Installed 2x8gb ram, Windows says i only have 8 installed BIOS Posted: 02 Aug 2020 10:24 AM PDT Troubleshooting Help:What is your parts list? Consider formatting your parts list.
Describe your problem. List any error messages and symptoms. Be descriptive. When in my BIOS, It says I have 16 gb of ram, but when in Windows, it only says i have less than 8gb. CPUz also detects 16gb. List anything you've done in attempt to diagnose or fix the problem.
Provide any additional details you wish below. EDIT: I fixed it, I had to manually change the mhz to 3000 and reenable XMP [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2020 11:57 AM PDT I'm looking to upgrade from my rx550 I got a while back anything around $100-$200 works [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2020 11:09 AM PDT I built my pc about a month ago has been working fine for the most part but when I try to play fortnite or valorant my pc crashes I have no idea what's going on, any help is well appreciated. My parts are: ryzen 5 3600 cpu, msi b550 mb, Corsair ram 16gb 3200, WD Black m.2 ssd 500gb, evga 650W psu, NZXT h510 case, amd Radeon rx 5700xt. [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| AIO fans won't spin after installing new CPU Posted: 02 Aug 2020 09:54 AM PDT I'm new to building if you couldn't tell so I wasn't sure if this was a common problem or not but since installing and updating my bios for my new cpu, my AIO fans haven't been spinning and thus my CPU isn't being cooled. it's a i7 9700k and a h100i V2 on a Z370P D3 by gigabyte. [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd Build - Clean dark theme with simple rgb Posted: 02 Aug 2020 10:31 AM PDT My 2nd build. First was in 2012, a lot had changed since then, so had a ton of research to do on parts. Thanks to everyone who left reviews on here or put their pc's up. Drew a lot of inspiration from it. For this one I was going for a smaller case with a clean dark/simple RGB build, and even tried my first attempt at cable management, I think it turned out great. Let me know what you guys think! [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Building workstation PC for friend, feedback on this ~900 build please? Posted: 02 Aug 2020 10:28 AM PDT Hi everyone, first-time poster here. My friend recently got a research grant so they are trying to build a 900~ PC to run a software called ArcGIS. The program seems to be quite processor-heavy, so I figured that the following build with ample ram, a Ryzen 7 3600X, and a decent budget GPU would do the trick. Is there anything y'all recommend I change in the build? Not shown on the pcpartpicker list is the following $40 Windows Professional promo I was going to suggest they use since ArcGIS requires Windows. Thanks in advance for the suggestions/help! [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2020 08:39 AM PDT I finished my first PC build yesterday and I was wondering if there is a way to know if its VR ready. the parts I have are: Motherboard - B450 Tomahawk Max Graphics Card - MSI 1050 (cant remember the rest) CPU - Ryzen 7 2700x w/ wraith cooler Windows 10 If you need to know more parts just tell me in the comments. Thanks in advance [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Very high temps when gaming with new 3600 Posted: 02 Aug 2020 01:36 PM PDT Hi! I've just installed a 3600 in my build and I'm having a few issues. At first, my idle temps were quite high, but after resetting the bios I've noticed that they are more stable. However, I've noticed very high CPU temps when gaming. I understand that the stock cooler isn't great, and I am planning to get an aftermarket CPU cooler, but surely it can't be this bad? I'm also having some issues with reading my CPU temperature since each program has a different reading. AIDA64 reports a CPU temperature and a CPU Diode temperature, which are usually very dissimilar. Which of these two are the actual CPU temperature? Ryzen Master's reading is more similar to the CPU Diode temperature, so I'm assuming that is the correct reading? Temps:
Specs:
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| 1080p 144hz(or higher) monitor help? Posted: 02 Aug 2020 01:19 PM PDT I'm looking for a monitor mainly for FPS games. I'm limited through Canadian amazon. My highest I can afford is the Acer XF0 XF250Q CBMIIPRX. Some of the reviews do have me worried. Other options I see are Acer XFA240, BenQ ZOWIE XL2411P and the LG Ultragear 24GL600F. A lot of choices and I'm kinda over whelmed. [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| first build in 17 years - full RGB, professional look Posted: 02 Aug 2020 11:33 AM PDT For a family member who gave up trying to learn an iMac lol Full RGB Images: https://imgur.com/a/qVtV9qX Video: https://imgur.com/a/xsn79LU Parts: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/s92pCL Components not listed: Segotep Argus ATX Mid Tower Gaming Desktop Computer Case Boots up in under 5 seconds. Very pleased overall. Overall cost was ~$1100. [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2020 01:00 PM PDT I need help with my first time build. As a cable lineman, I finally saved up enough to build my first. I did research and tried to learn as much as I can about pc parts for building a gaming pc. But I dont know what site is best to order the part and can someone from that site build build the pc for me and have it delivered or is it something I need to put together. Except the monitor and peripherals,this is what I have so far. CPU: AMD RYZEN 5 3600X CPU Cooler: COOLER MASTER HYPER 212 Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING Memory: KINGSTON HYPER X PREDATOR RGB 16GB Storage: WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR BLACK 2TB 7200RPM INTERNAL HARD DRIVE Video card: SAPHIRE NITRO RADEON RX 5700XT Case: DARK FLASH DLM21 MESH Power supply: COOLER MASTER MWE GOLD Is this all compatible as well ? I dont know if these parts work well together and how do I go about finding a site that will have these options for me? Please and thank you for those who can help me better understand or if there are flaws in my setup. It's supposed to be a bit of a budget setup but I hope it works. [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2020 11:11 AM PDT About to build my pc and do I really need to worry about static electricity [link] [comments] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2020 12:37 PM PDT hello! I am building a mini-ITX PC for my brother who is looking to do some gaming. I am trying to keep costs around $800 and this is what I have come up with. He wants a hint of red in the case so that's why i have the red G.Skill ripjaw. I am trying to make a small but mighty computer, any suggestions on improving this build while keeping costs as close or under $800 as possible? EDIT:the price of the motherboard is actually $199.99 Thanks in advance for helping me!
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| is Ryzen 5 3600 is enough for gaming,editing and streaming or i should to get ryzen 7 3700x?? Posted: 02 Aug 2020 12:06 PM PDT actually i have limited budget i'm building a pc with these specification B450m DS3H RAM 16 GB GTX 1660 SUPER 1 TB HDD 120 GB SSD 650 W PSU since i know Ryzen 5 3600 is more than enough for Gaming but i have no idea if i will be good idea to use it for Gaming,streaming & editing [link] [comments] |
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