Mindstab Thrull

Played a bit today and found it dipping to about the 50s, and that's without major mobs - which I would expect to hit around 45 fps. Current setting is 4k and highest graphics settings (shadows, antialiasing, etc). Would setting to 60 (which apparently means turning on V sync) help there? Thanks Mindstab Thrull

I play a lot of Titan Quest and recently(ish) upgraded to a Ryzen 3700x and a Gigabyte Radeon RX 580 GAMING with 8GB of VRAM. The system also has 32 GB of 3200 GHz RAM (2 2-8GB kits). I'm looking to run Titan Quest Anniversary Edition with all the DLC at 4k and I still bounce between 60ish FPS and 130ish FPS. Any suggestions? If it's relevant, my monitor is an Asus VG289 and I'm running off a WD Blue NVME 1TB SSD. TIA for your feedback Mindstab Thrull Nomming ur sanities since 1864 BSE (Before the Sarpadian Empires)

Either of two options: Titan Quest, or Magic: the Gathering Online. The second one would assume it still gets regular updates when new sets come out; if not, TQ.

I'm looking for a new monitor. My computer desk is the kind that has a hutch on it, and I'd like the monitor to fit inside the hutch, which has an opening about 23 inches wide and nearly as tall. Sadly, this means a typical 27" monitor won't fit. The only requirements I really have are: - It fits in my desk. Getting a new desk just because of a monitor is a pain. With a 16:9 aspect ratio, I think 26 inches is as large as I can go; if it's 16:10, 27 should work, but that also has to account for the bezels. - HDR support. I have a second monitor that supports HDR but I can't watch HDR content without disabling the one I currently use as a secondary monitor (which, because my previous one isn't working properly anymore, got replaced with a 17" CRT). - The less expensive, the better. Under $400 Canadian is ideal. Does such a beastie exist?

A couple months back I picked up an Asus VG289Q at the local Best Buy based largely on this review: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asus-tuf-gaming-vg289q-4k-monitor and the fact that it had Pivot, which I find very useful when I'm swapping between gaming and Excel (my spreadsheets tend to be tall rather than wide). It was also cheaper at Best Buy here than in the US, coming in at under $500 after Ontario's taxes. This has 5ms response time; does that work for you, or do you need something lower?

I primarily shop at Canada Computers. The 500DX is currently $140 Canadian (about $105 US) there, and I'm not finding one on Amazon.ca either. >.> No luck at CC or Amazon.ca for that one. Was looking into Cougar. The sales rep I was talking to at CC suggested away from it (I don't remember the reasons but I've dealt with him enough to feel that it wasn't just because it was cheaper). Also only $60 which is nice. Do you think it punches a good amount above its price point? Thanks for the feedback all!

I recently upgraded my computer from a 4770k to a Ryzen 3700x. I'm looking to replace the case with something more efficient for cooling the CPU. Ideal budget would be under $100 Canadian (around 75 USD at the time of writing). System is mostly used for Titan Quest: Ragnarok, multi-instancing BlueStacks, and otherwise typical home/office usage (YouTube, Twitch, email, Excel, etc). Current list is as follows including parts I already owned and kept from upgrading: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $294.99 @ Walmart CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler $33.49 @ Newegg Motherboard MSI X570-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard $159.99 @ B&H Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory $59.68 @ Newegg Storage Samsung 840 EVO 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage Hitachi Deskstar 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card Gigabyte Radeon RX 580 8 GB GAMING 8G Video Card $184.99 @ Newegg Case Rosewill BLACKHAWK ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA G2 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Optical Drive Pioneer BDR-2209 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer $129.99 @ Amazon Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit $108.78 @ Other World Computing Monitor Asus VX248H 24.0" 1920x1080 60 Hz Monitor Monitor Asus TUF Gaming VG289Q 28.0" 3840x2160 60 Hz Monitor $383.99 @ Amazon Keyboard ROCCAT Ryos MK Pro Wired Gaming Keyboard Mouse Razer Naga Hex Wired Laser Mouse Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $1355.90 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-26 18:55 EDT-0400 Thanks! Mindstab Thrull Nomming ur sanities since 1864 BSE (before the Sarpadian Empires)

Yeah, that gets me into the notification bar area, but the problem is some notifications overflow what shows up there. So I get something like this. Any suggestions on how to expand beyond that would be greatly appreciated.

I recently (this week) did some upgrades to my computer, one of which was getting a decent video card to replace my nonfunctional PNY GTX 770 (which was temporarily replaced by an even older BFG GeForce 8500 GT - weird how the number that looks smaller is the newer and better card). I got some messages on Windows 10's Notification Bar from AMD Radeon Settings but they're too long for me to read, and my google-fu has failed me thus far to figure out what's being said. Can someone help me get the entire notification? Thanks Mindstab Thrull

So, 2-RAM-slot motherboard, two 4GB DDR4-2400 sticks, 120GB SSD, monitor and Windows and I'm just under £502 after shipping costs. Until I get told I have any more leeway, I think that's as far as I can go at this point. @boggy77 I just looked up about single channel vs dual channel and to be fair, often when I hear a post like "your cpu will run at 50% of its potential", it comes off to me as an exaggeration. But according to https://www.hardwaretimes.com/dual-channel-vs-single-channel-ram-gaming-amd-ryzen/ , in some games it actually is as much as 50% difference. So I have this: PCPartPicker Part List Custom: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 Processor (4C/8T, 18 MB Cache, 3.9 GHz Max Boost) (£95.98) -- Available at Amazon at the time of writing, though PCPP says Amazon is out of stock. Motherboard: ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£57.98 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Crucial 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-2400 CL17 Memory (£32.90 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Patriot Burst 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£16.93 @ CCL Computers) Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 570 8 GB Video Card (£124.99 @ CCL Computers) Case: CiT F3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£27.99 @ AWD-IT) Custom: Be Quiet! 400W System Power 9 PSU, 80 Plus Bronze (£44.99) -- Available at Amazon at the time of writing, though PCPP says Amazon is out of stock. Monitor: LG 24MK400H-B 24.0" 1920x1080 75 Hz Monitor (£90.96 @ More Computers) Custom: Windows 10 key (£9.13) Total: £501.85 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-26 22:30 BST+0100

Yeah I wanted the 240GB SSD but needed to make cutbacks in order to plug in a motherboard that would support four DIMMs because going dual channel with only 8GB isn't going to be a great experience. Basically, I pretty much know if the system is only going to have 8GB of RAM, I want to be able to expand it, so it's either single-channel on a two-slot board until the user can afford a second stick, or dual-channel on a four-slot board. That monitor looks good but it's nearly £20 more. I assume that when I'm told a budget that there's almost no room for wiggling - maybe £10 at most, and I still try to push it under budget if I can. If I went back to single channel, I could use the original motherboard, which would save me about £12; currently an 8GB stick of DDR4-2666 is £29 which would save me an extra £3, which means if I went with the LG monitor I'd be only a couple pounds over, which might work: PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor (£96.85 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£57.98 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Patriot Signature Premium 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory (£28.92 @ Ebuyer) Storage: Silicon Power Ace A55 128 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£20.22 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 570 8 GB Video Card (£124.99 @ CCL Computers) Case: CiT F3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£27.99 @ AWD-IT) Power Supply: be quiet! System Power 9 400 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.99 @ Amazon UK) Monitor: LG 24MK400H-B 24.0" 1920x1080 75 Hz Monitor (£90.96 @ More Computers) Custom: Windows 10 key (£9.13) Total: £502.03 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-25 18:15 BST+0100

I tried. The cheapest 240ish GB SSD wasn't even £1 lower than this one, so it was either that or drop down to ~120GB for a difference of about £10. The biggest reason I went with single is that the RAM is still upgradable, since the motherboard only has two slots for memory. If I did go 2x4GB I could get 3000MHz memory for £36.89 (https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/p4cMnQ/) or almost an extra £5. If the board had four slots it wouldn't bother me so much... what about this? PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor (£96.85 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£64.95 @ AWD-IT) Memory: Patriot Viper 4 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory (£36.89 @ Ebuyer) Storage: Silicon Power Ace A55 128 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£20.22 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 570 8 GB Video Card (£124.99 @ CCL Computers) Case: CiT F3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£27.99 @ AWD-IT) Power Supply: be quiet! System Power 9 400 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.99 @ Amazon UK) Monitor: AOC E2270SWHN 21.5" 1920x1080 60 Hz Monitor (£71.72 @ Currys PC World Business) Custom: Windows 10 key (£9.13) Total: £497.73 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-25 04:23 BST+0100

Budget (including currency): £500 Country: England Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Far Cry 3, Command & Conquer Remastered 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): Got a message from a friend. She has a friend in the UK who needs a new computer and only has about £500 to spend on a system, including peripherals and presumably Windows. I remembered one Youtuber I watch likes to promote sites that sell Windows keys at a low price and looked that up and applied the appropriate redemption code to find he could get it for under £10. This is what I came up with - still needs keyboard, mouse, and ideally WIFI at some point, but combined that shouldn't be more than £25. Any recommendations? PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor (£96.85 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£57.98 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Crucial 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL22 Memory (£32.32 @ Ebuyer) Storage: Western Digital Green 240 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£28.49 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 570 8 GB Video Card (£124.99 @ CCL Computers) Case: CiT F3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£27.99 @ AWD-IT) Power Supply: be quiet! System Power 9 400 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.99 @ Amazon UK) Monitor: AOC E2270SWHN 21.5" 1920x1080 60 Hz Monitor (£71.72 @ Currys PC World Business) Custom: Windows 10 key (£9.13) Total: £494.46 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-25 03:31 BST+0100 -- Mindstab Thrull Nomming ur sanities since 1864 BSE (Before the Sarpadian Empires)

The machine I currently work on (where I'm typing this post right now) seems to work fine in general. However, I've recently got into a particular game on my Android phone to the point where I've installed Bluestacks and have three (!) instances of it running on my PC, giving me three accounts for the game. With one instance my computer is fine, but with all three open my PC tends to lag. (Note I tend to leave them open all the time, which might be part of the issue as well.) As a result I'm looking to update to a newer system, with more cores, threads, and faster memory. At this point I'm running on an i7-4770k with 12GB of DDR3, and I'm considering either a Ryzen 5 2600 or 2600X, or a 2700X (all three currently in the 150-250 CAD range) and 16 GB of DDR4-3200 (Team's T-FORCE Vulcan Z kit is currently $100). Ideally I want to keep it under C$450 for CPU/RAM/mobo; the rest of the hardware I have is currently fine for now. Suggestions for a decent motherboard would be appreciated. I'm mostly seeing the X parts because they tend to start at higher clocks, and I don't really overclock much. From what I'm picking up, more cores/threads also seems to be more relevant over faster cores. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Mindstab Thrull Nomming ur sanities since 1837 BSE (Before the Sarpadian Empires)

Wait.. is he from Vancouver, BC, or Vancouver, WA? (Cheek, meet tongue...) Mindstab Thrull

I think 15" would probably be enough to get started. Thing is, the machine can always be replaced once enough money has come in from work. I personally am only expecting this machine to be needed once she's hired for maybe a year or so for this task. Mindstab Thrull

That says it's $1100 and I presume that's USD. Maybe I should have mentioned in the main body as well as the topic that I was looking at Canadian dollars (comes to roughly 750 US), so a bit more than I was looking to spend. Do you have any suggestions on brands or lines to avoid? Also I find that when I search for other stuff, it's hard to narrow down options on eBay (eg show me the laptops on this list that have an i5 and cut out the rest). Maybe I am just bad at eBay

So I have a friend attending college for trades (welding to start) and at some point is going to need to pick up a laptop for industrial graphic design work for when she finishes her course next year. Any suggestions on models or lines to look into? Dedicated graphics is a necessity here. EDIT: The $1000 in the topic is Canadian dollars, which at the current rate of exchange is approximately $750 US. Thanks Mindstab Thrull

If you really want it OFF off, you have two main options: 1. Check the Power Supply. Most have a switch which will cut power to the PSU altogether. This means when you shut down your PC, you'll need to hit the power button at the back of the computer as well. 2. Plug your computer into a power strip or something similar. This is similar to #1, as pressing the power button on here will cut power to the computer altogether. There are other things to check as well, such as whether Windows or a BIOS setting are involved in keeping power going. I'd start with shutting down the PSU after the OS has shut down first though.

I don't count MIR's myself because sometimes there's a lot of difficulty actually getting it properly processed from what I've seen. I'm also probably looking at a couple more weeks before I pick it up, so if it's on sale then I should be good (it'll also be closer to Christmas so that might help). In case it got missed, here's the chassis in question: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/LvnG3C/fractal-design-case-fdcacore500bk

Erk, ok. So in that case I should stick with the CX450M instead. That helps a lot. As that's about $70, if there's one that's not much more expensive and happens to be on sale when I go to pick it up, which one should I be looking for?

Closest I see is the 500W MasterWatt at https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=569_33_1238_442&item_id=109057 Though the 600W seems to be the same price at this point? https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=569_33_1238_442&item_id=109062 All three seem to be the same price currently - $70 each. Considering the 600W and the 500W are the same price, I guess it's between the 600W Masterwatt and the CX450M. Apart from the extra wattage headroom (not necessary for this build), is there any reason to take the Masterwatt over the Corsair?

Thanks, went and picked it up this weekend. My primary local computer shop is Canada Computers. If I'm just looking for a fairly low-wattage PSU (say 500W is probably more than I need) at Bronze, do you have a specific recommendation (or a couple)? I don't know PSU's well enough to be able to tell which PSU I should grab just by reading the table.

So I've nearly got my living room computer built. I'm down to needing the CPU and the PSU at this point. At this point I'm at PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price Motherboard Asus - ROG STRIX X470-I GAMING Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard $255.62 @ Mike's Computer Shop Memory G.Skill - Aegis 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $80.99 @ Newegg Canada Storage ADATA - XPG SX6000 256 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $64.99 @ Canada Computers Case Fractal Design - Core 500 Mini ITX Desktop Case $80.99 @ PC-Canada Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $482.59 Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-16 21:19 EST-0500 Trying to decide which Ryzen CPU to use, thinking of going with the 2400. Plan on adding a dedicated GPU later but I want decent gaming performance out of the box. Any suggestions? I do also plan on adding a mechanical hard drive for storage as well as an optical drive (and a second stick of memory) eventually, but realistically I can't imagine this thing pulling more than 500W, probably less than 400. Are higher 80 PLUS ratings actually worth it at that point, or am I spending more on Gold than I really need to?

I want a good gaming machine but something upgradable, so starting off with maybe a Ryzen 2600, 8GB RAM (eventually 16). The graphics card is yet to be determined but it's probably going to be closer to Christmas when I get one. Still hacking out the actual specs.