one-armed dwarf Posted October 10, 2019 Posted October 10, 2019 What's the deal with the lego? Does it really strain the PCI slot connection otherwise? I don't have a PC anymore.. I really want to build a giant fuck off PC. Miss my old one ?
Jimboxy Posted October 10, 2019 Posted October 10, 2019 There is quite a bad sag on that end of the card. Apperently it's nothing to worry about but I didn't like the way it looked.
DisturbedSwan Posted October 27, 2019 Posted October 27, 2019 Very nice @Jimbo Xiii! That case is bloody gorgeous ?
Jimboxy Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 Final bit of modding I think. I added: Sleeved cable extenstion Two RGB LED strips, one in the top of the case, one running down the inside front panel, controlled from the RGB header on the motherboard A 2tb mechincal HDD to use as slow storage and swap disc between my two Windows 10 installs The sleeved extensions look really cool, but it has meant a lot more cable length to manage in the back of the case, which I will need to revisit at some point 3
one-armed dwarf Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 Looks like a Mako reactor (By which I mean it looks cool)
Jimboxy Posted December 6, 2019 Posted December 6, 2019 1 minute ago, one-armed dwarf said: Looks like a Mako reactor (By which I mean it looks cool) That is a good point, I might run with that.
one-armed dwarf Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 oof Spending that money makes me sick to my stomach but consoles ain't cutting it for me right now. There might be a mismatch here between the processor and memory, the CPU is fast but the RAM is fairly standard speed. But I got confused reading the specs of the motherboard which said it needed to be overclocked to support faster RAM so I didn't want to feck around with that. PCpartpicker reports no config issues anyway and I doubt RAM speed will be a problem for ages. 3
spatular Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 27 minutes ago, one-armed dwarf said: it needed to be overclocked to support faster RAM so I didn't want to feck around with that. don't worry about it, it's just how ram is these days, its a bios setting "enable xmp" or something like that, think that's all you have to do, it gets the settings from the RAM. personally i wouldn't get a 9700k (8c/8t) unless it was a good deal, amd are better value currently (3700x is 8c/16t comes with a cooler and is cheaper), only reason to go intel is to go nuts and get a i9 imo, even then i think i'd just go with AMD. realises you've already ordered it... that's just me, and intel are slightly better for games, i'm sure the pc will be kick ass
one-armed dwarf Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 oof Spatular you're giving me buyer anxiety right now and I've had 4 cups of coffee to get through this Friday. But yeah I had a convo today with our contractor who's like 'AMD are pulling way ahead with throughput these days'. Concurrency and single threaded performance are way up for them apparently. Streaming, video decoding, heavy duty tasks with lots of threads AMD are way way better at. But I went with Intel cause it still seems they have that slight edge for gaming. I bet they lose it though. The Cyberpunk benchmarks will be interesting to see. I also realise this is kind of a bad time to build a good PC. I see that the 2060 got discounted but those discounts haven't taken effect yet on Overclockers. Also we have the next gen ahead of us. But I wanted a PC so bah humbug to being sensible about things.
spatular Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 yeah you can always wait with PC's but you have to go for it at some point. some of the components i got are now a lot cheaper too, oh well. also your case looks ace, please post pics when you've built it!
DisturbedSwan Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 Very nice @one-armed dwarf! I always wondered what happened with the old PC you built a few years ago. Did you sell it? Good man for going with Intel and Nvidia, I personally still don't rate AMD. I've got the same GPU in my machine - albeit MSI rather than Gigabyte.
one-armed dwarf Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 I sold off lots of parts yeah. I mentioned before but I was getting ready to leave London and transporting the PC across would have been a load of faff (v expensive). You'd be wrong to not rate AMD these days though in the CPU space. They are objectively better than Intel right now on a throughput and price for near everything except gaming. If you're a streamer or do lots of processing of videos AMD will just be a better choice. GPU, yeah it's a different story.
Jimboxy Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 My build is 100 % team red (uugh, sorry) and it works like a dream. I was even thinking about selling my rx580 for an rx5600xt as they are out performing 1660 TI's at a cheaper price point. Intel do still have an edge in gaming, but it's slight at best at this point. At the end of the day though, you are talking about marginal differences. Looking forward to seeing the finished build dude, love seeing other people's PC's.
DANGERMAN Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 Yeah, an extra 3% gain (or whatever Intel have) sounds decent, but if you're getting 60fps then you're only talking about 2 frames, it's nothing in real terms That said, money willing I'm aiming for an I9 ?
one-armed dwarf Posted January 25, 2020 Posted January 25, 2020 I also need to get a microphone for discord. Does anyone here use one or have a good recommendation? Purely for calling out mechanics in MMOs, not content creation or streaming or any of that zoomer stuff. ?
DisturbedSwan Posted January 25, 2020 Posted January 25, 2020 I’ve got the Hyper X Cloud II headphones @one-armed dwarf which come with a removable plug in mic so it acts as a headset as well. They have been excellent for me and are stupidly comfy. 1
Popular Post one-armed dwarf Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Posted January 27, 2020 Working from home today to sign for all my OC deliveries, which all just arrived. So now it's just CPU, SSD and WiFi adapter from Amazon, which arrive tomorrow apparently. So will probably start building this thing today. Then if I get hungry later maybe there will be some haribos with my graphics card. Surprised by the speed of the delivery from UK to Ireland, think when I ordered before from OC and was actually in the UK it actually took longer. Edit, haribo confirmed. I shall want for nothing this month 6
one-armed dwarf Posted January 27, 2020 Posted January 27, 2020 Day 1, just psu and motherboard. Took me an age. This case is actually quite small and harder to work within than the one I had previously so not sure I can give it a ringing endorsement. The PSU is enclosed in a really annoying way. So after I get the CPU its going to be storage, then CPU, RAM, heatsink and GPU installed in that order I think. Hopefully it all works fine in the end lol ?? 4
regemond Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 Just so you don't think you're talking to a wall here, I have zero interest in building my own PC, but I really like seeing people put theirs together, so keep the pics and progress coming!
Jimboxy Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 @one-armed dwarf is the front of that case clear as well? Looks nice.
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