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I'm deciding on a PC for a friend who does coding and modding for Xbox and PS3. Is Console Coding/Modding GPU bound because he's on tight budget so I need to decide on getting a good CPU but crappy GPU/iGPU or a mid-tier CPU and okay GPU

My Realtek HD audio manager prompts to tell me what device was plugged in, if I pick headphones, I can hear audio perfectly fine but microphone doesn't register on my PC what so ever

My PC won't enable me to hear audio and speak through the microphone at the same time when plugged into the audio port and I don't know how to fix

ITX build

OBS?

Yeah I worded that badly, naturally CPU/GPUs with higher TDP naturally consume more power as they are hotter but you can't necessarily judge the power consumption from the TDP eg. 390 only consumes 60W more than 970 under load

You're making the general confusion. TDP has zero correlation with wattage or power consumption, it's rather a measure of cooling and how much heat it can output. But low TDP would still be nice for a 24/7 machine

If you can't afford a real case don't bother making your own unless you know what you're doing. Just setup an open bench

use MSI AB

yes

Just get 5 140mm and your done, place two at front, one at back and two up top

GPU would always generally have bigger impact on gaming and since i5 is little far off the i7 in gaming besides HT, the i5/970 would be better

More pixels less CPU dependant more GPU dependant, i3 wouldn't bottleneck a top end GPU at 4K

Won't bottleneck anything unless it's 3 980Ti, 1440p is less CPU dependant

With your budget you might as well opt for a 390X and I changed PSU PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($223.99 @ SuperBiiz) CPU Cooler: be quiet! PURE ROCK 51.4 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($34.90 @ Newegg) Motherboard: ASRock Z97 PRO3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($97.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($27.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Silicon Power S60 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($39.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($45.88 @ OutletPC) Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390X 8GB Tri-X OC Video Card ($408.98 @ Newegg) Case: NZXT S340 (Black/Blue) ATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ Micro Center) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($89.98 @ Mac Mall) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($89.99 @ NCIX US) Monitor: Acer G257HU smidpx 60Hz 25.0" Monitor ($254.10 @ B&H) Keyboard: Logitech G710 Plus Wired Gaming Keyboard ($84.99 @ Amazon) Mouse: Logitech G502 Wired Optical Mouse ($64.99 @ Amazon) Headphones: Logitech G430 7.1 Channel Headset ($54.99 @ Newegg) Other: Glasholm Table x 2 ($80.00) Total: $1643.75 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-01 13:16 EST-0500

It's perfectly fine

less multitasking, can't open as many programs at once, some games utilize more cores where a i3 may lack and less offload on the CPU usage, less Intel features this is generally speaking though, some specific CPU tasks that isn't general usage benefit a lot more from using an i5 such as rendering or editing

Tried buying something from it? Overcharge on tax and shipping

I would upgrade since you don't really have a good quality PSU atm but there's not exactly any harm in going overkill on wattage

Even 650W would be adequate so I would go for 750W

Good PSU, quite overkill on wattage tbf

What is this build for? Honestly doesn't even look like it's worth having tbh

I wouldn't get OEMs and the stock cooler might work

MSI Afterburner?

Not any fps difference worth the upgrade. DX12 still isn't a factor yet so I wouldn't worry