Build a PC: Simple Questions - January 24, 2021 |
- Simple Questions - January 24, 2021
- Join the r/buildapc community as we build a PC on Twitch! Live Now!
- First Build. Creating a PC to run 6 Monitors for Trading. That a will be its sole purpose. And a personal CPU for Entertainment, mainly streaming shows and reviewing charts. After getting some feedback about overkill, looking for some help if this look better? Ready to order.
- GPU is having major issues need help
- Did I screw up my PC?
- Black circle in the middle of IHS after removing CPU cooler. Should I be worried about this?
- Better gpu for warzone: Rx 6800 or 3070?
- Owners of a GeForce 1660 Ti GPU..... anyone else have fan problems?
- Thoughts on this Gaming/Streaming PC Build.
- Successfully bought 3060ti, Thoughts on this build?
- PCI card with internal type C connector
- M2 SSD behind GPU, safe ?
- XFX RX 480 (8gb) with Dual Xeon X5680 or i7-7700 (not k)
- RTX 2060 Super for 430€?
- I have 3 fans that are set to balanced and they are making a lot of noise. They are brand new LL120 fans.
- Suggestions for CPU cooler for my Micro ATX build.
- Need help buying a monitor
- Want to upgrade my PC but I’m not sure which path to go down.
- Done. As clean as I could get it. So satisfied!!
- Just got the G Pro X Wireless and they sound seriously off.. Anyone have a fix?
- Asus ROG B550-A or Asus Prime x570
- Determining cause of loud GPU buzzing?
- Tips for Cable Management?
- New thermal paste is making my CPU hotter. Help! ME
- Can't boot to USB Windows 10 install MSI B550
- Need help with the choice of ram.
| Simple Questions - January 24, 2021 Posted: 24 Jan 2021 04:00 AM PST 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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| Join the r/buildapc community as we build a PC on Twitch! Live Now! Posted: 24 Jan 2021 12:54 PM PST Hi all! We're currently building a PC and streaming it live on our Twitch Channel. From 1pm PST / 4pm EST / 9pm GMT onwards we'll live stream a PC build for you, for about 2 hours. This will be an excellent opportunity to watch, learn, and share your knowledge with other PC building enthusiasts. We'll cover all the major points as we go, and members of the mod team as well as the community are on hand to answer questions. All are welcome so watch along to get engaged in the discussion, ask questions or simply scream 'No, you don't do it like that!' at your screen as we build a high end AMD Ryzen based system from start to (hopefully) finish. Link to the buildapc twitch channel We hope to see you there! [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 24 Jan 2021 08:39 AM PST Hey All, My purpose of the build is to get a PC that can run 6 monitors. Details and high resolution in the monitors is important as I will be using them for trading, need details in the charting. That is the sole purpose of the build. Ready to start to ordering the parts if we think this build will work for me! (Mainly nervous that something will not fit). CPU Cooler, Do not have one now, do I need one of these? If so looking at the "be quiet! Dark Rock Tf." Have the budget to add this if anyone would recommend it. Will be running the PC all day and long nights. Motherboard, Selected it based of Amazon reviews and the specs. Maybe I can save some money here and get a Non-Gamer one and get what I need. Having Bluetooth available to add later is nice and need a good LAN port. Seems to have the ports I need at a good price though. Memory, PS, Fans and Case, Were selected to run the RGB lights and popularity. Thanks for the help!
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| GPU is having major issues need help Posted: 24 Jan 2021 09:45 AM PST Ok so I can only get the following scenario to happen on GTA V so far: The PC after playing for a short time, will proceed to crash to a black screen and the fans go 100% power only way out of this is to hard restart the PC. I never get any crash dump files and the only thing I have managed to find is windows usually detects a hardware error when this happens with either code 193 or code 141 in reliablity history (more commonly it is error 141) This issue is driving me mad it only happens on GTA V to my knowledge I have re-installed both the current nvidia driver and the game and still it refuses to work. Any ideas? EDIT: so some updates I gathered so far Fur mark makes the gpu run at about 64 degrees after a couple of mins on 1920x1080 GTA usually crashses seemingly at random and the GPU is around 55-60 degrees when this happens [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 24 Jan 2021 07:04 AM PST I have vacuumed my pc many, many different times in the past and it usually sped it up. But today, after vacuuming it, it doesn't work. I've just read online that it's a very bad idea to vacuum your pc, which just got me really fucked in the brain. It shows the light on the pc when I turn it on and it sounds normal but the mouse doesn't glow, the wifi adapter usb doesn't glow and the monitor says no signal. I have a feeling that I've seriously fucked myself in the ass right now. I use it basically every day and everything inside looks alright but I have a terrible feeling that I may have just killed it. I've had it for over 5-6 years now and it usually worked well enough. I have gtx 960 and other from that, everything is actual dogcrap. I have been thinking of getting a 3060 pc and a whole new setup when summer comes around. Please someone help me on what I should do. I mostly vacuumed my gpu and cooler and some dust on the sides. Please give me advice on what I have to do now [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Black circle in the middle of IHS after removing CPU cooler. Should I be worried about this? Posted: 24 Jan 2021 09:04 AM PST I took off my DRP4 to upgrade my 3950X cooler and I found a black circle in the centre of the IHS. I tried cleaning it off as much as I can with IPA but no luck. The cooler also had a similar mark in the same location but wasn't black, it was more of a circular scratch. Should I be worried about this? [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Better gpu for warzone: Rx 6800 or 3070? Posted: 24 Jan 2021 07:30 AM PST I lucked out and got a 5600x cpu, now I can't decide which gpu to pair with it. I know this comparison has been posted before but wanting to hear from actual users who have had some time with these cards now in warzone at 1440p. All benchmarks I find are months old and I assume optimization has been done on these cards since then. I really only care about the fps performance in warzone to be honest and I am upgrading from a ryzen 5 3600 / rx 5700, which I get about 120-130fps at 1080 out of. Searching for the card that will give me over 144 fps at 1440 consistently. Thank you for any experience you all can share! [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owners of a GeForce 1660 Ti GPU..... anyone else have fan problems? Posted: 24 Jan 2021 09:50 AM PST So, I built my first PC late 2019 (holy moly was that scary), got the "GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Windforce OC 6G" (phew).... Right away I noticed the fans would "rev" and kind of, rattle? I didn't and still don't really, know much about PC's (I only ever owned HP laptops before), so I thought it might be just something they do. Last night after turning my PC on, I notice my second fan stopped working. What could be the issue? Has anyone else experienced these issues with their card? Is this even the right sub for this? [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thoughts on this Gaming/Streaming PC Build. Posted: 24 Jan 2021 08:56 AM PST Gaming/Streaming PC Build Help. I need a PC that can easily stream games like COD and Hitman without any lag or frame rate drop. I already have an SSD and HDD.
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| Successfully bought 3060ti, Thoughts on this build? Posted: 24 Jan 2021 10:29 AM PST I built my old computer in 2010 and left room to expand and upgrade, she still runs but it's been time for something new. Having tried to purchase a 3060ti since the day they launched I finally secured one at bestbuy. This is where my current sights are set, anyone have any thoughts or questions?
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| PCI card with internal type C connector Posted: 24 Jan 2021 10:30 AM PST Hello. I have a corsair 4000d airflow case and my motherboard does not have an internal type c port so I want to buy a PCI card to add this. I know Sylverstone makes such a card, but I can't find it locally and I would prefer this as opposed to buying from amazon. I found two cards made by Delock, but I'm confused which one I need since they use a weird naming for the internal port. https://www.delock.com/produkt/89906/merkmale.html -> internal USB 3.1 Gen 2 key A 20 pin female https://www.delock.com/produkt/89801/merkmale.html -> internal USB 3.1 Gen 2 key B 20 pin female From my understanding key B is actually used to connect two type A USB ports and type A (somethings called type E?) would actually be what I need but I'm not 100% certain because the naming for this is very confusing (thanks USB-IF). If anyone has any experience with this and could help me out I would appreciate it. Thanks. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 24 Jan 2021 06:49 AM PST I've been thinking lately to buy myself a new ssd (1tb) and I have an option to buy either m2 nvme or 2.5 sata. I know that nvme are a lot faster because I already have one. The thing is, I have one more m2 slot left but it is located behind GPU. I was wondering if gpu could maybe damage my ssd if I install it there. My GPU temps usually stay below 82°C so it isnt THAT hot and I know that nvme does like hot temperatures. I just need your opinion if I should place it there or go with 2.5 sata. Also I dont think I can fit heatsink on m2 ssd, dont think there is enough room for that. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| XFX RX 480 (8gb) with Dual Xeon X5680 or i7-7700 (not k) Posted: 24 Jan 2021 09:42 AM PST Hey Folks I'm struggling deciding over these two because in theory the dual Xeon can perform as well as the other processor. I have a Radeon rx580 8 gb graphics card to go in either. I have two options and would love some feedback on which route to go. Below are the specs for each build and cost. Price isn't really a factor but I wouldn't want to pay more for the same performance as the i7 (if that's true?) Prebuilt PC1: Dual Xeon X5680 12GB Ram DDR3 (have extra ddr3 laying around so I can add more easily) ~1 TB SSD + HDD GPU: XFX Radeon rx580 8gb Cost: $175 —— Prebuilt PC2: I7-7700 16GB DDR4 240 SSD 1 TB HDD GPU: GeForce GT 710 (could sell for $40 ish since I'm putting the rx580 8gb one in) Cost: $320-$40= $280 I can't really find benchmarks for these two against each other especially the dual Xeon. All advice is welcome! [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 24 Jan 2021 10:01 AM PST Q: Should i get an RTX 2060 Super now for 430€ and then get a 4000 series card, or should i wait for availability to reach a normal level? [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 24 Jan 2021 10:50 AM PST My Idle temp and game temp are up a few degrees from normal. Upon startup now, it's at 36c and while gaming, 58-62. Before it would be at 29-33 on idle and while gaming, 50-56. Only thing I can think of that would cause this is I was going to overclock with MSI Afterburner and I accidentally put wrong inputs in that made my pc crash. I restarted and tried to see if there was a safeboot option in the BIOs and I don't know if I may have changed something or not by accident. Any advice/tips/suggestions would be helpful. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Suggestions for CPU cooler for my Micro ATX build. Posted: 24 Jan 2021 10:50 AM PST So I've been using the stock AMD wraith cooler for about 2 months now, but I think it's time to upgrade. My case allows a maximus CPU cooler height of 157mm. I've been struggling to find a cooler that isn't out of stock and fits that height requirement. My budget is maximus 77-100$ CAD Thanks in a advance :) [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 24 Jan 2021 10:10 AM PST I currently have a Dell U2412M moniter, and I'm pretty happy with it, but I figure its time to upgrade to something better as I just built a gaming pc that is much nicer than my current laptop. I was thinking of getting the Gigabyte G27FC to go with my new pc, but I keep hearing that its a bad choice, and the quality control is terrible. if my budget is about $250 is this as good as I'm going to get, or is it a bad choice? Edit: I want it to be at least 27" and I think I want a refresh rate around 144hz. I'm ok with it being 1080p, as I might have to limit it to that for now because I couldn't get a good graphics card. I want it to have g-sync or be g-sync compatible. viewing angles aren't that important to me, and I am willing to sacrifice a really fast response time for better picture type. my new pc has a r7 3700, 16gb ram, and a gtx 1660 super. I hope to upgrade to a 3060 ti when I can find one that I can afford, but I'm thinking that its going to be a year or so. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Want to upgrade my PC but I’m not sure which path to go down. Posted: 24 Jan 2021 08:09 AM PST I'm currently fine with the performance of my pc but I would rather invest a little now so that I don't have to overhaul everything later. The GTX 3060's that are coming out now are on my list but i'm fine with the performance of my RX 580. I was thinking of getting a new motherboard and cpu, but knowing that DDR5 comes out in 1-2 years and the motherboards or cpu's that are out now won't be compatible puts me off a lot. My plan is to buy the GTX 3060 when it comes out for a good price this year and then wait until DDR5 compatible motherboards are released when I upgrade my cpu and motherboard. Any suggestions would be cool. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Done. As clean as I could get it. So satisfied!! Posted: 24 Jan 2021 05:21 AM PST | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Just got the G Pro X Wireless and they sound seriously off.. Anyone have a fix? Posted: 24 Jan 2021 10:10 AM PST I just got this headset after being interested in them for months. Once they released the wireless version I decided it was time for a new headset, wireless being the biggest reason why. Had recently got the G915 and have been using the G703 for months and absolutely love everything about them so the headset has to ride in the same boat right? I plugged these guys in and tested spotify, everything sounded pretty damn good. As soon as I opened escape from tarkov, the main game I play, I noticed that the sound was DRASTICALLY worse than my previous headset, those being my A40's. I have tried Cold War, War zone, and other things as well, nothing sounds right. These also sound much quieter than the A40's. It sounds like a phone speaker. I've had those Astro A40's since 2015 when I only had an xbox. They worked great, and for the past 2 years since I built my PC I've been using them here as well. They are plugged into my Behringer U-phoria UMC202HD and in windows settings it allows me to set them to 2 channel, 24 bit, 48000hz studio quality. They sound absolutely perfect. After searching every single thread related to the Pro X Wireless I can not figure out what's wrong or how any of the reviews on youtube/rtings have these listed near the top of the list when it comes wireless headsets. I have tried turning off surround sound, adjusting EQ, uninstalling and reinstalling G Hub, making sure drivers are up to date, trying different USB slots, adjusting properties in windows and I cannot get these to sound right. It's not even like it's just a different sound profile than my A40's, it just sounds so terribly muffled and muddy, like I said almost like it's coming out of a phone speaker. I'm trying my hardest to believe this is just a settings issue but I'm running out of ideas. As stupid as this sounds, how does a full time streamer such as shroud listen to what I'm listening to 8+ hours a day? This is why I'm having a hard time believing this is what they are supposed to sound like. Is it simply the fact that the audio interface is allowing my A40's to achieve higher quality sound? Even still I would assume that a recently released headset by logitech with likely better specs can't even come close to 5 year old xbox headset. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated - If I can't get this fixed I'm going to have to return them. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asus ROG B550-A or Asus Prime x570 Posted: 24 Jan 2021 10:08 AM PST Hey guys. Building a new pc, with Ryzen 5600x and GTX 3070 Strix white. It has been some time since I did it last time, so I feel like a rookie. Primary use will be gaming, and it has to be one of those motherboard in title, as I want to build a complete white setup. I know that X570 would be better, but Prime x570 is also a fair amount more expensive than the Rog B550. I keep reading stuff like the B550 need BIOS upgrade and that good VRM is important. Which motherboard has the best VRM of those too? And which one is most plug n play? Best regards! [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Determining cause of loud GPU buzzing? Posted: 24 Jan 2021 07:50 AM PST Hi guys. I've had a PNY Xlr8 1650 Super for around 8 months now. I picked it up around June of last year to go into an old Dell XPS 8700 (i7 4770) as a hold over until I could fully build a PC. The power supply and everything was capable of handling it and everything went smoothly. I finally built an entirely new PC a few weeks back, Ryzen 5 5600x, MPG B550M Gaming Plus, Vengeance RGB 3200 4x8GB, and a CX650F PSU, and I reused the 1650S as all GPUs are sold out currently. For months now, I've had a very annoying buzzing sound that I always figured was the fan on it as it is a single fan unit, but have recently messed with MSI afterburner and adjusted the fan speed and noticed it's not the fan buzzing at all. It only happens when the GPU is under load, anywhere from benchmarks to playing games. It's always pretty audible and can be heard over my fans all the way until they're around 1000RPMS (4x SP120 RGB Fans). I've been reading and I assume it's coil whine, however none of the videos I listen to sound the same or even as loud as mine gets. Most say replacing the PSU can fix the coil whine (if this is it), but I have been through 4 separate PSUs and the GPU consistently makes this noise, always the same volume level as well. Here is a quick video on the noise of this. I was running the Heaven Benchmark during this video and the only other thing in the case making noise was the Artic Liquid Freezer II fans running (2x120), however they were around 500rpms. Is this still coil whine and is there any way to help reduce it? I did contact PNY earlier today to see if they are able to assist, but I'll have to wait until Monday for an answer back. I do plan on upgrading to a 3060Ti once they're easier to get, but I'd like to not go insane with this noise in the meantime. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 24 Jan 2021 10:43 AM PST I have a Cooler Master 130 Elite PC case and im currently building my gaming PC inside it but with the limited space I'm having trouble managing the cables and making space for the fans, is there any way around this or any tips to help me out? [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New thermal paste is making my CPU hotter. Help! ME Posted: 24 Jan 2021 12:27 PM PST Hey. So I got a R5 2600, and the thermal paste wasn't too good and had bubbles, plus was pretty dry. Anyway, I got the best rated, ARCTIC MX4 paste, and put a pea sized amount in the center. Now for some reason, I used to get around 78-80 degrees playing games like minecraft, and not CPU heavy games. Now, after I applied the new thermal paste, I'm getting about 95 degrees. This is kinda overboard, and I'm concerned. What do I do. I even disabled boost clock in BIOS, but it still has really high temps. The cpu cooler is installed firmly and tightly, I made sure to do a cross pattern. Should I have put more thermal paste? Help meeeee UPDATE: I took off my cooler, and behold...the thermal paste wasn't even covering half of it. I reapplied with a big sized pea in center, and dots in all corners. I am now at 30 degrees idle, than 60 idle, as well as boost clock is maxed. Thanks to the r/buildapc community. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Can't boot to USB Windows 10 install MSI B550 Posted: 24 Jan 2021 09:47 AM PST New PC build and trying to load windows. Created a USB install of W10 via Rufus. When I change the boot order in the BIOS to read USB first, restarting brings me straight back to the BIOS. If I change the BIOS mode to CSM and the boot mode to legacy + UEFI, it reads the USB and gives an error saying it's a "legacy boot of uefi only media." The suggestion is to recreate the USB using MBR partition via Rufus. When I try to do that, it is greyed out. Any suggestions? Using the windows creation tool rather than Rufus isn't an option unless it's the only option. I don't have access to a computer that can run it. Thanks [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Need help with the choice of ram. Posted: 24 Jan 2021 03:20 AM PST I'm planning on building an pc for mostly blender video editing and so on. The cpu is amd and the gpu Nvidia. I'm left with the choice between 16GB 3600mhz or 32gb 3200mhz. (32gb 3600mhz would be too expensive.) What would be the smarter choice? Are there other things I need to consider when buying ram? Edit: thank you very much for all the help and replies. I'm going to buy 32gb kit of ram (and maybe do some oc like some of you suggested) [link] [comments] |
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