Andrew_C

My last visit to the forum was 6 years ago. I had to stop by to say that I couldn't agree more.

I personally might have favoured the 1700 with more memory but either way it's a sweet config!

I'm assuming it's for the WIFI/BT LED?!?! *kappa* As above, hooks, pinch and lift.

I guess it's the US part of the code but I've searched without it..

wow that really is a damn nice monitor.... but I can't seem to find it in the UK (except eBay!?)..

Hey there Heknon, thanks for the suggestions. I've had a chat and she's thinking around 24" to fit her desk nicely. Amazon would be preferred as I'm on Prime. What makes you pick any of them over each other? That's certainly what I'm struggling with, what's the best quality for my money? Cheers P.S. Nah, no gaming

Hi all, my better(-ish) half needs a monitor for photo editing. I really am capped at £200 to spend. I'm thinking IPS 1080p; just want something fairly accurate on colour. Any recommendations? Ta!

If you get chance, do give it a go some time - pull the drives. Cheers, Andy

Hey there, I know you've resolved this now but this still sounds like the issue I came across, it makes no difference if you're in the BIOS or OS. The SMART data is read by the Sea-Of-Sensors, as well as ILO. I wish I had a video of a couple of DL360G6 units I was working on a couple years back, sounded like jet engines about to take off. Quick way to find out would be pull out all the HDDs and sit in the BIOS, see if the fans spin up.

I used to get this issue with cheap (non-HP) HDDs installed where it's unable to read the SMART data. I know you said you detached your LSI raid card; any drives left in there?

The AB350M Pro4 I might go for it - it's a 50/50 thing atm. Haha I know - I'll live with the consequences! Thanks

Once again, thank you for the replies! I think I might be fretting too much over all this. I can't be certain what the performance gains (if any) would be with clocking up the memory to silly numbers. I really just wanted to get the best rendering performance I could (whilst being sensible with money / form factor). I am probably going to pull the trigger on this little lot (unless you see anything glaringly obvious I've missed). There is some potential to overclock if I actively cool down the VRM. https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/g678D8 CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£266.00 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B350M-A Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£62.96 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Corsair - Dominator Platinum 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£285.97 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£82.99 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB STRIX Video Card (£176.07 @ Amazon UK) Case: Fractal Design - Core 1500 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£50.65 @ Amazon UK) Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£76.87 @ Amazon UK) Optical Drive: Lite-On - iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer (£13.98 @ Amazon UK) Total: £1015.49 Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-09-22 14:53 BST+0100 Andy

Even if it's on the qualified vendor's list of supported components? A lot of reports of people with AB350m mobo's seeing sky high VRM temperatures themselves.

I was looking for the X370 suggested but I just don't think they really exist. If I went with the Asus - PRIME B350M-A along with Corsair - Dominator Platinum (which is on the QVL at 2933Mhz) I think I stand a good chance of making it ..

Hi everyone! Any idea if the GTX1050 will support 4 x 1080p monitors? I'm thinking (Asus - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB STRIX Video Card).. I already have the monitors and it won't be used for gaming, just productivity. Andy

Thank you guys! I'm just struggling to find a decent board in a mATX form... Any advice?

So I have the following: Go 3200 memory (not even on my radar - especially won't clock that high on this board). A reddit post with a plethora of information (confused). B350 boards seem to top out at 2667MHz. Gigabyte AM4 suck. Budget boards in general suck. Samsung B-Die might achieve 3000mhz Get a better mobo & PSU. x370 boards might clock better. Something about 1TB HDD reducing capacity with a cheap motherboard (analogy or what?). One guy saying "Asus or AsRock b350 runs it at 2933mhz".. maybe Sorry Fardin - I'm a n00b. x370 @ 2933 Go Ryzen (what about mobo?) certified memory. Whilst I honestly do appreciate everyone replying.. I'm still lost. I would like 32GB of memory, I always have a ton of stuff open from Solidworks to Premier Pro. Current laptop has 16GB and I get memory prompts from SW all the time. Does this mean I should just be going for the 2666 and be happy? What % performance hit am I likely to miss out on, on the CPU?

Hi all, I have a thread over here on a new build I am planning for work - just I need a little memory advice before I pull the trigger. This is the parts list --> https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/HZ29kT CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£266.00 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£66.22 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£259.99 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Kingston - HyperX Fury 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£52.99 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Mini Video Card (£135.98 @ Amazon UK) Power Supply: Corsair - Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£37.97 @ Amazon UK) The memory mentions something about overclocking on the motherboard vendors site. Should I only be looking at 3000 speed memory if it's in the compatability list? Or should I just play safe with 2666? What do you think? Thanks, Andy

So I concluded the following would make a nice build for our needs. https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/HZ29kT However, I'm a little unsure of the memory situation. I don't know if it's wise to go for 3000 memory without it being on the support list. Anyone advise if 2666 is really going to throttle things? What should I do?

The budget is in the OP: £1,000 - like you say, the GPU is insignificant. Cheers!

I'd just go for a bog standard 450/500W unit. Plenty of overhead and sometimes more useful connectors.

The GPU has very little impact on PhotoView 360 rendering (practically none). I really just need the GPU to load the software.

At work we use SolidWorks' PhotoView 360 to generate short animations of some of our products. It's not got the best rendering engine in the world but we are happy to work with it. Some of our recent projects have been a little more demanding on the puny 6th gen i3 I have in my laptop. We're looking to build a rendering box. I'm championing the Ryzen R7 1700 as the best bang for your buck. However, I'd love to see what you guys think? There is a grand in the pot for the essentials.. CPU, mobo, 16/32GB ram, gpu (at least a GTX750). We already have everything else lying about. Case is your standard ATX. What have you?!

Cry... Ta! But I'm in the UK.. I've rebuilt an SR20 before, I'll probably end up pulling the engine in the next week or two - rebuild over the weekend or something.

My poor baby spun a bearing ...