Build a PC: Simple Questions - September 30, 2020 |
- Simple Questions - September 30, 2020
- Built a gaming rig for my dad
- Built a PC and now my whole family thinks I know everything about computers.
- Build Help
- Polarization film angle for TN LCD monitor.
- Just built an AMD Ryzen PC
- Build question for New RTX 3070
- My buddy installed his graphics cards & hard drives into my old PC. Fans will spin for a few seconds and then itll restart indefinantly.
- ATX case with good airflow that can fit the EVGA Supernova G2 850W PSU (180mm long) WITH 3.5" HDDs, plus some other questions
- My gpu won't work in the first slot but it will in the second slot?!?
- [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Video editing AND gaming $500 budget pc build. Any bottlenecks?
- GPU for a Dell Optiplex 9020 sff
- Trying to put together a cheap PC for gaming and digital drawing.
- Can an old PSU power a more modern system?
- PC Crashing alot
- Hey guys. I was thinking about upgrading my pc. Any suggestions?
- The RTX 3080 Gigabyte Eagle arrived, so my build is finally complete!
- PSU or Motherboard issue?
- Curved 1440p or flat 1440p gaming monitor ?
- Need help with Gigabyte x570 Aorus Elite after almost a year of booting issues.
- Looking to update my PC
- Using a 10+ year old psu in a new build?
- 550w psu
- Took apart my PC so that I could do some better cable management. Put everything back together and now I have 3 extra screws
- Sata cable caught on fire, what did I do wrong?
| Simple Questions - September 30, 2020 Posted: 30 Sep 2020 05:11 AM PDT This thread is for simple questions that don't warrant their own thread (although we strongly suggest checking the sidebar and the wiki before posting!). Please don't post involved questions that are better suited to a [Build Help], [Build Ready] or [Build Complete] post. Examples of questions:
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| Posted: 30 Sep 2020 08:05 AM PDT My dad has always loved the Flight Simulator series and got excited when the new one was coming out. He began to buy parts but quickly realized how expensive the project would be. He returned his mobo, case, ram, and offered his Ryzen 5 and 1660 card to me. I accepted them and told him how much I appreciate it. One week later I showed up to his house with all the parts I ordered to begin building. We spent the day together (longest we've hung out in months due to covid) building the pc and I walked him through creating a steam account. As he was preparing to order FS the gift pop-up showed up telling him I had just gifted the game to him and I'll see him in the sky. I'm so happy I'll get to spend time with him doing some we both love. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Built a PC and now my whole family thinks I know everything about computers. Posted: 29 Sep 2020 03:46 PM PDT Basically the title, I decided to build a gaming pc during quarantine with my dad and after a month or so of research I built it and everything works properly. However, my entire family now is under the impression that I know all about how computers work. This is not the truth AT ALL. I know where to find things in Windows settings and I know the basic function of the parts of my pc, but I still have no clue what MHz are, what motherboard specs mean, among many other things. I had to call a professional to reinstall windows for me when I got a corrupted system update. I'm by no means a computer whiz. Anyone else experienced this? [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2020 05:49 AM PDT Hi everyone, I'm wanting to build a PC which is future proof for 1080p 144fps, potentially even 1440p if I can ever afford to stretch to a 144hz 1440p monitor. I'm leaning towards a 2060 Super with a ryzen 3600X, would this be sufficient to run games such as Cold War at my required specs? Many thanks [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Polarization film angle for TN LCD monitor. Posted: 30 Sep 2020 11:56 AM PDT Here's a strange one. I need to replace the front/top polarizing film on a Dell 1913b monitor I salvaged. However, I don't know what angle it's polarized at. I can hold a small piece of polarization film to the monitor and know that the angle is perpendicular to the film at the point no light travels though, but in terms of ordering, I've got no way to distinguish between degrees without an origin for reference. So, when these films are marketed as 0, 45, 90 or 135 degrees, what position is that relative to? Is the origin vertical or horizontal? Also which direction is the degree? Clockwise or CCW? Edit: man c'mon if you don't know then you don't know. That's fine but please don't downvote because I'd really like some help. Just because you can't help me doesn't mean you should downvote :( [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2020 10:47 AM PDT At one time I thought I would just buy someone's old PC build and be done with it. I don't see much turnover nowadays, however, so people don't seem to be building PCs as much anymore and so not much is available. So, I forked over the dough for a new Ryzen PC, everything except the case and power supply and monitor. Cost a good chunk of change, much more than the last time I did a build. I'm very happy I did. I even bought a new used graphics card (that there is still a lot of turnover in). And I'm still waiting for someone to recommend an application that uses the graphics card as I don't care for games. I must say, I am so pleasantly surprised at the upgrade on many levels. The motherboard cost me, too, but it does almost everything! One happy upgrader here. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Build question for New RTX 3070 Posted: 30 Sep 2020 07:26 AM PDT Hey so basically i need to upgrade my whole PC had a Gtx 970 for 4 years now and its time. I set a 1200€ max price tag and wanted to start off with a RTX 2070 Super but thankfully i waited those few weeks because the new RTX 3000 series are coming. My Question is if a AMD Ryzen 5 3600 will be enough to support the new GPUs do i need to invest more? I heard the 3080 definetly needs a strong CPU to be able to fully make it useful. Is it also the case for the 3070? And what Motherboard would you recommend for a 3070 build? Its going to build the pc for the first time by myself so im no expert at all any help would be nice. thx in advance. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2020 12:11 PM PDT We actually took the whole PC apart and rebuilt it so all our connections should be good. Thanks much for the help! No display ever shows. Its a bit old but should be compatible as we both had same brands of hard drives. Card is really alll thats different. Case: Corsair 750D, 2x front 140mm Corsair fans w/ red led, 1x rear 140mm Corsair fan w/ red LED OS: Windows 10 Home 64 Bit Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z97-HD3 (rev. 2.0) LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Processor: Intel I5-4690k 3.5 GHz CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H110i GT 280 mm Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 SDRAM Hard Drive: 1TB 3.5 Maintstream Blue (belongs to him) Solid State: PNY - CS1100 120GB Internal Serial ATA III (Belongs to Him) Graphics Card: 2x EVGA 560s (his) Power Supply: Corsair CS750M, 750 watts. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2020 02:47 PM PDT Hey guys. I'll be building a Zen 3 (probably a 8c/16t CPU) + RTX 3070 system soon, and I already have some components purchased, which are:
And I can't decide on the case I should be using. I have many questions: - First and foremost, which case should I buy? - Should I go with an AIO or an air cooler for the CPU? If I go with an AIO, should I mount it on the front or the top? I really want my Ryzen 5700X or whatever they call it to sustain high boost clocks and not throttle. - Why is choosing a case so hard? Some cases I've considered are:
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| My gpu won't work in the first slot but it will in the second slot?!? Posted: 30 Sep 2020 11:23 AM PDT How do I make the motherboard use the first slot? I have a b550-A Pro and I'm using an RTX 3080. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Video editing AND gaming $500 budget pc build. Any bottlenecks? Posted: 30 Sep 2020 09:20 AM PDT Here is my very first pc I'm trying to build. I'll be playing games like Portal 2, Minecraft, and No Man's Sky. But my main use case is to do some light to mid video editing. Nothing 4k and super special effects. Just color correction, cutting videos, and creating scenes. I already have 2 500GB SATA HDDs. I'm planning to install the OS on the SSD, and all my video editing, gaming files on the HDDs. Is it a dumb idea or? - Any suggestions? - How's the upgrade path looking like? BTW, yes I am very tight on budget :( 520USD is max I can do, and I wanna spare the 20 bucks for a functional keyboard. Cheers!
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| GPU for a Dell Optiplex 9020 sff Posted: 30 Sep 2020 10:41 AM PDT Hi guys!I got a good deal on a Dell Optiplex 9020 SFF and I would appreciate a little help choosing the optimal GPU for it. I'm planning to use it for 1080p gaming. spec:- Intel Core i7-4770 3.4GHz (Turbo up to 3.9GHz) 8MB Cache;- 16GB DDR3;- Standard 255W PSU Doing some research, I found some people using the GTX 1650 low profile without changing the PSU. Considering a SFF, is that some more powerful GPU that would fit in the system or is the 1650 the best i can get? Thanks a lot for the help [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trying to put together a cheap PC for gaming and digital drawing. Posted: 30 Sep 2020 12:22 PM PDT Hey everyone, i hope i am at the right place here. I´m trying to help my sister in law build a PC. She wants to use it for her Digital Art and she wants be able to game with it, lots of Indie Games, maybe a few AAA Titles. I am not too good at this stuff myself, so far i have: ASRock B450 Pro4, Mainboard AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, CPU Xilence A402 Performance C Series, CPU Cooler G.Skill DIMM 16GB DDR4-3200 Kit GIGABYTE GTX 1650 OC 4G Be quiet! PURE BASE 600 Tower SilentiumPC Elementum E2 550W 80Plus EU WD Green SSD 240GB, 1 or 2 TB HDD will be added aswell This comes to about 570€ in total. Can anybody help me out and say if this is a good build? Maybe some tips to switch out components to get the price down a bit more? I appreciate any help i can get, thanks. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Can an old PSU power a more modern system? Posted: 30 Sep 2020 12:19 PM PDT I have an old PC (12-13 years old) lying around with a 600W PSU. Mobo, GPU and RAM are so dated now it's probably not worth keeping, but I've recently upgraded my main PC with new mobo, RAM and GPU so now I'm sitting on some 4-5 year old hardware not in use. Specifically an i7 4790k, GeForce 970 and 16gb of DDR3 RAM. TL:DR: Can a 12-13 old 600w PSU safely power my 4-5 year old leftover hardware or is this a bad idea? Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. The PSU in question is the Chieftec cft-600-14cs. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2020 01:25 PM PDT Need help with my PC, it crashes alot when starting up and whilst its on. Happens rarely during a game. See photos for error codes. https://imgur.com/a/SLkjjYi [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hey guys. I was thinking about upgrading my pc. Any suggestions? Posted: 30 Sep 2020 11:12 AM PDT https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KDLKJb I don't really have an idea for a budget, so fire away! [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The RTX 3080 Gigabyte Eagle arrived, so my build is finally complete! Posted: 30 Sep 2020 01:19 AM PDT Thank you all for your support! I was planning this build for about 11 months, couldn't be more happy :) Partslist: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/yDk9hg Now how do I attach a picture... Here we go! https://imgur.com/a/liYoaBh First note: You do not need RGB RAM if you get the Dark Rock 4 Pro, you can't see it anyway... [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2020 01:58 PM PDT So i've recently built my PC and when i try and turn it on it doesn't appear to post, i've tried troubleshooting by removing ram sticks and trying different slots, removing the battery on the motherboard for a few minutes and reseating my GPU and CPU to no luck. One issue that's making me question what it could be is a few seconds after i press the power button on the fans speed up and the LEDs on them flicker on and off and eventually turn back on and work normally. What i initially thought was a DOA motherboard may be a PSU issue Specs:
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| Curved 1440p or flat 1440p gaming monitor ? Posted: 30 Sep 2020 12:23 PM PDT I heard the curved monitors the brightness from the edges decreases is that noticable? [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Need help with Gigabyte x570 Aorus Elite after almost a year of booting issues. Posted: 30 Sep 2020 01:45 PM PDT So I made this post about it on r/gigabyte, but I thought it was time to get more help. To summarise, since this build a year ago, after powering on, the motherboard will not boot. Generally I will have to try a few times before it does. Fans spin, RAM lights up, motherboard lights come on. The fans will rev up, and if they do for more than a few seconds, generally it will hang there and I know it won't boot. If it quiets after a second or two, it does. After booting, the PC has no issues. Performs exactly as I want, but I want this boot issue sorted. Things I have tried
I thought I had managed to fix it last night. The PSU was outside the case, and the cables had been removed and plugged in again. It boot 5 times in a row. Furthermore, the rev up of the fans and subsiding occurred far quicker than usual, usually in under a second. The I removed it all again and tried it with the PSU inside the case, but not secured and with the back panel off. Got it 4 times in a row on the first try, same quick speed as before. Note that I do not have fast boot enabled. Then today I secured everything again, and it's back to doing what it usually does. Took it all out again, tried to recreate situation from before, no dice. Got it to boot maybe a few times, but only at most twice in a row, and only quickly once. I think the Bios also reset on me one of those times. My Specifications:
I am not overclocking anything. I need help and at this point I don't know what else to do. Edit: One last thing I can think of is moving the PC just before I started this investigation, and it turned off. No idea why, I assume something came loose. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2020 12:11 PM PDT Hi everyone! I recently became employed once again and also have recently gotten a hold of my old desktop computer as well. I originally built this computer in 2013 and I am looking to start upgrading it again. I used to play a lot of videogames but now I work as a music producer and audio engineer and would like to be able to use all of my high intensity plugins without worrying about overruns. I was mostly able to do this on my laptop before now, as I got a fairly powerful one a couple of years ago, but a dedicated production / engineering PC would definitely be beneficial and my desktop is currently not up to the task. In the future I would also like to be able to play games on it, but that's not necessarily a priority at the moment. I have a picture of my specs here, and my case is an NZXT phantom large tower. I am fairly confident in its ability to support nearly any size of PCI-E card (including graphics cards) and motherboard. My PSU is 750W if I remember correctly. Things I want to upgrade: - RAM (needs to be at least 16 gigs but 32 would be better) - Motherboard (I know nothing about these anymore) - Processor (I would like to switch to intel, but I am open to entertaining the possibility of a modern AMD chip, given comparable speeds and quality control) - Storage (I would like to get an extra drive, preferably an SSD with at least 500 gigs of storage if not a terabyte) - Last but not least - GPU (not as important as the other things, as GPU use isn't super heavy when editing audio) Questions: - Which parts should I upgrade first, eg should I upgrade the motherboard first and start bolting parts on afterwards or would it be a good investment to get RAM first as it's cheapest? - For other audiophiles or producers / engineers: Is there a benefit to getting a dedicated sound card? I currently use a presonus audiobox 96 audio interface for home use, so I would need a sound card that used USB output from the PCI-E deck preferably. Related to that: do sound cards handle MIDI? Would I be able to connect my midi keyboard directly to the sound card or should I continue to route it through the audio interface if I were to get one? - What processor / motherboard combination would be the most beneficial for music production / clock speeds to ensure that there is no bottlenecking throughout the system? - Should I upgrade my PSU to 1000w or 1500w, or am I safe with a 750w? Thanks for all the help in advance! I look forward to any advice you guys are willing to give. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Using a 10+ year old psu in a new build? Posted: 30 Sep 2020 12:04 PM PDT In 2008 i had a pc i used till 2012, and it had a decent PSU, a coolermaster rs 520 asaaa-a1 After i dismantled that pc i put the PSU + all the modular cables back in it's box where it was kept till now 2020. between 2012 and 2020 i had another pc with a coolermaster rs-650-ACAA-D3 that was 650watts. Now im going for a new build and am considering using either of those PSU's, but i'm not sure how responsible that is. The calculated estimated wattage should be around 392watts for the new system. Looking at the 2008 psu, it seems is pretty prestine condition....and the befit is that it's modular, while the other is not. I am wondering if i should try to sell the PSU's and get a new modular one, or if using either of them is still a safe choice? for my next build i'm going for a:
Keyboard, mouse, monitor upgrades ill have to worry about later due budget limits And i'm wondering if i should wait till end november to get some nice black friday discounts. My last pc was quite old and still had a 670 nvidea gpu and was the first one i build, till it's gpu died in 2019. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2020 01:38 PM PDT Will a Corsair gold 80+ 550w psu work with a: Ryzen 5 3600 2060 super B450-f mobo 6 case fans Liquid cooling with 2 fans 16gb ram [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sata cable caught on fire, what did I do wrong? Posted: 30 Sep 2020 12:48 PM PDT I just bought a new PSU, motherboard, and case and once I turned on the power on the case and it kept turning on then back off very quickly so I tried rearranging the cables incase they were too tight or bent in a bad way and then after the 3rd try it stayed powered on and the sata cable going to the rgb/fan controller instantly started melting and smoking...what happened?? To clarify the sata cable attached to the power supply doesn't look to have gotten damaged at all, only part attached to the controller is what melted. Afterwords I plugged in my old power supply to everything except the rgb controller since the cable is now melted and everything else is working perfectly fine luckily. Could it have been a faulty power supply? Faulty sata cable on the rgb controller? Faulty sata cable on the power supply? Maybe I plugged something in incorrectly? Specs: NZXT H510 Elite Asus prime z370-a Intel i5 8400 Corsair CX750m Corsair Vengance Pro rgb 16gb Kingston 1tb m.2 ssd [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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