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tlmills82

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About tlmills82

  • Birthday Aug 09, 1982

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Gas City, Indiana

System

  • CPU
    Intel i5 4690k
  • Motherboard
    MSI Z97 Gaming 5
  • RAM
    8GB GSkill Ripjaws 1866
  • GPU
    Asus Strix GTX970
  • Case
    Fractal Design R5 Windowed
  • Storage
    250GB Samsung 850 EVO
  • PSU
    EVGA 750 G2
  • Display(s)
    ASUS VG248QE
  • Cooling
    Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO
  • Keyboard
    Corsair K30
  • Mouse
    Logitech G600
  • Operating System
    Windows 8.1
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  1. Gaming, and maybe some streaming if I ever bring myself around to doing that lol.
  2. I'm in the process of buying parts I need to get my new PC up and running (as I find them in stock). I'm going with a 5600x and likely a 3060ti or 3070, still haven't quite decided on that yet. I'm curious as to what people's opinions are on getting a pretty good b550 board (MSI Tomahawk) vs a slightly lower end x570 such as the ASUS TUF gaming series? I'll have the one NVME storage drive for OS and a few frequently played/long load time games. But I'm not sure, besides the multiple gen4 pcie lanes for storage, what the main benefits to going with x570 is. Ideally I'd just buy the x570 Tomahawk but it's not in stock for MSRP that I can find anywhere.
  3. Still really bad at appraising used parts. I'm looking at buying a decent gaming pc for my kiddo. I found this on marketplace and was curious what you think it may be worth. CPU: Intel Core i5-9400F 6-Core 2.9 GHz Cooler: DEEPCOOL GAMMAX GTE V2 Motherboard: ASRock B365 Phantom Gaming 4 RAM: Team T-FORCE Vulcan Z 3200MHz 3200 MHz (max speed) 16GB (2 X 8 GB) Video Card: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 Ti OC 6G PSU: EVGA 500W BR Bronze Storage: Intel 665p (1.0 TB) Wifi: MSI AX905C WIFI He didn't list the case but it looks to be an NZXT 510. Budget (including currency): Country: Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):
  4. What about: PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor ($279.99 @ Best Buy) Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard ($114.99 @ Best Buy) Memory: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory ($58.83 @ Amazon) Storage: Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($50.99 @ Best Buy) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB SC ULTRA GAMING Video Card ($304.84 @ Office Depot) Case: Phanteks Eclipse P300A Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case ($54.18 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GA 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($96.26 @ Newegg) Total: $960.08 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-27 14:26 EST-0500
  5. https://www.newegg.com/thermaltake-toughpower-gx2-gold-ps-tpd-0600nnfagu-2-600w/p/N82E16817153415?Item=N82E16817153415&Tpk=17-153-415 That's the link they sent me.
  6. They use thermaltake PSUs I emailed the manufacturer and they claim to only use TT
  7. Trying to help my sister get her a gaming pc for games like ARK, Overwatch, Minecraft and a few others. She's budgeted $1200 US for the PC and peripherals. I've been trying to put together a build for around $950US to leave room for a monitor, keyboard, mouse and headset. I came up with this below: PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor ($279.99 @ Best Buy) Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard ($114.99 @ Best Buy) Memory: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory ($58.83 @ Amazon) Storage: Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($50.99 @ Best Buy) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB SC ULTRA GAMING Video Card ($304.84 @ Office Depot) Case: Phanteks Eclipse P300A Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case ($54.18 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GA 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($96.26 @ Newegg) Total: $960.08 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-27 14:26 EST-0500 But I see newegg has some killer deals on pre builts as well. https://www.newegg.com/abs-computer-technologies-ala220/p/N82E16883102991 https://www.newegg.com/abs-computer-technologies-ali416/p/N82E16883102994?Item=N82E16883102994 Budget (including currency): 1200 US Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: ARK, Overwatch, Minecraft, photoshop Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Need Monitor, keyboard, mouse and Headset.
  8. Did you see that 950$ pre built? It seems quite the value
  9. That's true, but $1200 with all peripherals makes the budget on the pc around $950US. Your build looks good, but a 2060 should be quite a bit better than a 1660 super, right?
  10. My sister finally got enough money to buy her system. I've looked at building one and I can't seem to get anything in budget that's a decent pc or in stock. So I started looking for pre built systems. She's going to be using it for some gaming (ARK, Overwatch, and a few other games) as well as some photo editing. She'd budgeted $1200 US with a little wiggle room for the PC and all peripherals (Monitor, Keyboard, mouse and a headset). I've found what seem to be 2 decent options on newegg, main difference being the CPU. The question I have is which of these would you buy, or would I still be better off going for a parts list, even with limited stock available everywhere? https://www.newegg.com/abs-computer-technologies-ali416/p/N82E16883102994?Item=N82E16883102994 https://www.newegg.com/abs-computer-technologies-ala220/p/N82E16883102991 if I got one of those 2 would it be worth getting a 1440 monitor or should I just stick with high refresh 1080p?
  11. My daughter (8) wants to get into some light PC gaming. I’m not wanting to spend a fortune on a system just in case she doesn’t stick with it. So I’ve been browsing Facebook Marketplace for a used system. She’s mainly playing Minecraft, ROBLOX and a game called Star Stable for now, but may expand in the future to other light titles. I found what seems like a decent deal today, I’m curious to see if I’m correct about it being an okay entry level machine. It’s listed for $350 US.
  12. Would something like this be a better deal? PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($159.49 @ Amazon) Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard ($114.99 @ B&H) Memory: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory ($58.83 @ Newegg) Storage: Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($47.99 @ Best Buy) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.99 @ Adorama) Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB KO GAMING Video Card ($362.94 @ Office Depot) Case: Phanteks Eclipse P300 ATX Mid Tower Case ($54.18 @ Newegg) Power Supply: SeaSonic S12III 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.18 @ Newegg) Total: $892.59 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-06 13:55 EST-0500
  13. That was my exact thought process. I worry about the PSU in that build, but otherwise it looks pretty decent. I've not done any research on the 10 series Intel cpus so I'm not familiar with this one, but I did look at a couple of youtube videos and it says they're pretty decent for the price.
  14. I'm pretty much set on her not getting one. For her needs a 20 series should be fine I'd guess.
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