FlufflesMcBob

I ended up with the 270R, and splashed out an extra £50 over budget (which I can tap into easily) to get a GTX 1060 6GB (stupid mining craze haha). Anyway all is good in the hood.

The pcpart picker list goes over, but I've secured similar spec parts on ebay. I spent £340 on the i7, mobo and ram from an ebay listing. £340 will go towards the other parts (SSD, PSU, HDD, Case, Watercooling), all bought new on amazon. The question is with the remaining £170, would you stretch it to get a big GPU, or would you get something like a gtx1050 for £100, and put the £70 to getting a more substantial case/SSD

I should add that in terms of settling on a GPU, I also wouldn't mind settling down with a 1050Ti, or seeing if I can snatch a 1060 3gb from eBay.

I have an £850 budget, and am building a PC for fluid simulation(CFD) /modelling(SOLIDWORKS) /gaming. I can go over it, but I don't really want to. I'm spending around £680-700 on this*: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/cvvbsJ *except I don't know which MSI x99S board I'm getting, or what RAM config, just that its 16gb DDR4. I am fully aware x99 is not on board graphics capable, which leaves me around £150 to spend on a GPU. Right now, I only play World of Warships (and light games like Dead by Daylight, no heavy FPS AAA games) - and I have a laptop with 960m that I am currently playing those on, perfectly fine. So questions: 1) Is there a better performance SSD I can get for a similar value? 2) Is there a case you guys recommend that supports more than 2x 3.5" drive bays and Corsair H100i V2 watercooling? 3) What would you do graphics card wise? I want to do something like a GTX 1060 6GB or higher but it's just too expensive right now (I'd be willing to break the £850 barrier to get one at a decent price e.g. £250), so would you wait for a price drop when mining has a false crash and ebay is flooded with scared miners and their GPUs, or would you go for a temporary scrubby GPU like a GT 730 for nothing more than video output - as again, I am fine playing games on my current laptop. It's not like solid works needs the graphics acceleration anyway, but idk about CFD. I am happy to wait on a system I can't use for a GPU to appear. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read and respond!

Have you tried other audio devices that are driverless/have different drivers (like earphones or speakers)? If those audio devices work, then the headphones are faulty/driver faulty

yeah, just trying to fact check because the deal seemed too good to be true, wanted to make sure I wasn't handicapping myself

yeah, but that is the very reason I showed that 3 vendors have very consistent pricing, which would render that solution unlikely, but it could just be a fluke

Ok. I am extremely confused right now. I am looking at (and have already purchased) a GTX 1060, namely the Gigabyte D5 6G version (6 gigbaytes), but I am struggling to understand the pricing of their lineup, and am hoping someone can shed some light. The 3 specific models I am looking at are (Gigabyte GTX 1060s, all 6 gigabytes): 1) G1 Gaming 6G - http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5958#kf (£279.99 according to scan.co.uk, ebuyer.com and overclockers.co.uk) 2) Windforce OC 6G - http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5978#kf (£259.99 according to scan.co.uk, ebuyer.com and overclockers.co.uk) 3) D5 6G - http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5983#kf (£239.99 according to ebuyer.com) As you can see with cards 1 and 2, pricing is very consistent, and are priced as the top end models. Card 3 however only appears on 1 vendor's website however, and it's pricing suggests it's a lower end model, which I have evidence for, here: http://www.gigabyte.com/press-center/news-page.aspx?nid=1450 - where at the bottom of the page, Gigabyte remarks that the D5 model (card 3) is aimed at budget builders. The next thing I have to disclose is that if you are to take card 3 as a baseline, card 2 is factory overclocked at around +50MHz, and card 1 is factory overclocked at around +100MHz, yet again reinforcing card 3 as the lowest tier of the lineup (excluding the ITX versions). Now finally the issue I have. What about the Windforce OC 6G makes it better than the card I bought (the D5), which justifies spending an extra £20 / $26USD / $33CAD for it? Against the Windforce (card 2), my card has an 8pin (opposed to 6pin), a bigger heatsink (better heat dissapation), and more power phases (6+1 as opposed to 4+1, so better overclock potential)? I mean the G1 Gaming card is obvious, because the GPUs in that line up are actually cherry picked/binned, but seriously - why is the windforce OC more expensive, for an inferior design? Am I missing something blatantly obvious (because I'm sure I can easily overclock +50MHz to the core to offset the difference between my card and the Windforce) Thank you for taking the time to read my post

Got a £12 headset from Amazon, an OK 1080p monitor with colour bleed and a power supply that hisses and turns the screen off if wires are moved in any way, and have a cooler master storm combo mouse and keyboard - the rubber membrane means the LED backlighting does nothing to light up the key and each letter looks like a splodge of incomprehensible blue light. And oh yeah, the LEDs on the mouse don't turn off when the computer is off so I have this annoying light in my room. Other than that, I'm just fine!

I currently have a gtx 750 1gb that is becoming fast outdated. I planned on buying a 480 8gb but it was out of stock whenever I checked, and I'm almost certain the story will be the same with the 1060 launch tomorrow. Not to mention nothing is even worth buying because conversion and warehouse storage prices soared in Europe, to a point where a $250USD gpu costs £240 instead of the £190 I expected. What a cruel fate this is!

According to leaked Nvidia reviewer's guides, the 1060 outperforms the RX480 in every scenario (that Nvidia listed, hint hint bias?) - it might be worth taking a peek at, especially because the embargo lifts on the 19th, and it's likely Linus will have a video on it. If you can afford to wait basically a week, I'd do so.

Looks like a damn fine projector - we are building a home theater setup and stuck between deciding on a long or short throw projector. This looks as awesome as we will need it to be!

Can you test by using a different power supply, incase that was damaged in fall? Maybe gpu isn't getting the power it needs

I think by how far did it fall, Sam meant if it fell off a table, or if your PC is on the floor to begin with, but I'm guessing the latter. *excuse the edit, the post didn't actually fully load/or I'm blind* what about power? Was the replacement test gpu of the same calibre of power draw, or will it not post because the psu broke?

Usually you wanna get the best single gpu setup rather than the same performance split over GPU because of reasons everyone else has already mentioned e.g. Better stability, less micro stutter - the question is: Why on Earth aren't you waiting for Pascal? Sure if they are too expensive get the 980, but the titan class cards debut soon, it would suck if you spent all that money and then had your gpu immediately outclassed