Gil

I've been pc gaming since I was a kid and I'm now 34 years old. I have had many gpu's over the years to compare it to. I've had cards that ran well over 90C and actually sounded like hair dyers. Cards that would literally burn you if you touched them. This thing runs about the same temps as the rx 580 I just replaced, and if I put my ear by the case it is definitely louder, but it is not loud. These "reviewers" are always using extremes because nobody will watch them if they keep saying everything is just what it's supposed to be. The reference cooler is fine for most people. If i was trying to squeeze every last bit of performance out of my pc I'd want a better cooler, but I'd understand I'm spending more money for a negligible performance difference. That would be for fun. If somebody wants a really good card for $400, this is a really good card for $400. Everything stock with fan set to 50% only got to 66C in Timespy and it's apparently running at 1941 MHz, 36 MHz over the advertised boost clock.

There is nothing wrong with the stock cooler. I'm getting 1800+ MHz with the fan set at 50% and can't hear it over the normal background noise of living in the real world. I'm sure in a sound studio it's loud, but the ambient background in my bedroom is 50 db when my air conditioner is running and these "reviews" claiming it's too loud say the fan noise measures at 44 db.

I don't see how I could have a better experience than I'm having with my 5700 xt. With the fan set to 50% it maxed out at 71C playing The Division 2 for 3 hours and I cannot hear it over my air conditioner.

I've been reading more and have decided I'm going to try to hold off till I can afford a crosshair VII with some quality memory. All these lower end x470 boards just look like trash and my intention is to upgrade the cpu at some point so I want the best quality board I can get. I should have just been saving for an upgrade this whole time so this didn't happen.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor ($224.89 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard ($119.99 @ Amazon) Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($197.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA - 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.99 @ Amazon) Total: $612.86 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-24 14:18 EDT-0400 So, after a bunch of reading I've come up with this. I'm not 100% on it, but it seems like a solid base. From what I'm seeing the extra cores on the 2700 aren't going to give me much benefit in the tasks I will ask it to perform most often, so the $60+ price difference can go to better spec memory which supposedly helps ryzen pretty significantly in lightly threaded applications. The motherboard is just because lots of people recommend it and the only boards that actually seem better are twice the price and completely out of my budget. The power supply is just a place holder, it's a good price though. I paid like 2.5 times as much for a similar spec seasonic psu that was in my now dead z77 machine. Thanks to those that have replied so far. It's probably going to be at least a week or two till I actually buy the parts, so feel free to try to convince me I'm wrong till then. I'm very much behind the times with pc hardware, so i'm sure most people here are better informed than me.

Probably not streaming. I live in the US. I may do some 3d modeling and printing as a hobby which I forgot to mention but am reminded of now while looking at the 3d printer next to my desk lol

I have a thermalright macho 120 right now, but I don't think it has a bracket for am4 socket

I've just come up with mostly the same build myself, but not really sure what is different with the x and non x ryzen chips unless it's just clock speed.

I'm coming from a 3570k build that still delivered acceptable performance till recently when a short in one of the modular psu cables fried the motherboard. I don't want to spend a couple hundred fixing something that's already old just to get rid of it next year, so I'm upgrading early. I haven't really made up my mind, but I'm probably going with AMD just because I don't do anything at a high enough level that I need the best of the best and I'd like to throw some money towards the underdog. Budget is like $500-600 US for CPU, Motherboard, Ram, and PSU, maybe an aftermarket cooler if there is room in the budget. I already have what seems like a good enough Zotac "premium edition" 240 gb ssd boot drive and some storage drives as well as a Coolermaster HAF 932 Advanced case that I like and probably going to keep my gtx 770 for a bit to see what happens with gpu prices unless I see some crazy deal when I'm buying the other stuff. Everything will have to be ordered online because I don't have any decent stores near me. I mostly do general office type work with some photo editing as well as youtube/netflix and a fair amount of gaming on a 1080p 144hz monitor. I sometimes record music as well and am a moderate to heavy multitasker.

No.

With certain recordings I needed my headphones to be louder than my motherboard sound was able to go. As an added bonus people in mumble say my mic sounds cleaner now.

Those specific koss headphones as well as the sportapro version and ksc75 clip on earphones that use the same drivers are actually very good. Most other koss headphones I've listened too are pretty terrible though, even the more expensive ones. The portapros will probably sound "better" to most people than the clip on version because they provide a better seal which emphasizes the bass and allows for lower volume to be used which may also be a plus for your situation since they leak sound tremendously.

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I mostly play fps now because it's a simple genera. When all you have to do is click on the enemies it's easier to deal with the ridiculous nonsense the developers did to ruin the game. In more complex games, like RTS or even some RPG's, there are so many things that can break the gameplay that it's just too risky for me to put in the time, especially in the competitive online game types that I enjoy playing. Also, no attention span anymore. The internet has completely destroyed my attention span. I can't even watch a movie all the way through without also doing something else.

Logitech has the best warranty. How do you think they can get away with that?