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The Ryzen 3200G is significantly worse and actually £10 more expensive than the i3. The suggestion for the RX570 is very good though, thank you. And I understand that generally gaming PCs do want about 8gb, but this is a question more specifically geared towards whether GTA5 can tolerate 4GB as my partner has little to no interest in other games.

Your ryzen 5 1600 isn't the fastest but I can definitely confirm that WoW raids are terribly optimised. I was probably sitting on 20 - 30fps for the majority of my time raiding in BFA with an i5 6600 + GTX 1080.

Budget (including currency): £200 - £300 Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: GTA5 @ 1080p 60hz Other details: The main requriement is being able to play GTA5 comfortably at medium settings 1080p 60hz. No peripherals are included in the budget, it's purely for the tower. I've not kept up to date with parts over the past couple of years so I'm not really sure what to go for to get the best price:performance whilst maintaining an incredibly low budget. This computer is for my girlfriend whose most demanding task will be the GTA5. Something to note; I've already got a 240GB SSD lying around so I won't need any additional storage for now. So far I've been putting together a parts list and it's seeming really hard to find anything that would even be close to this for the budget: CPU: i3 9100f (£63) MOBO: Asus Prime H310M-K R.20 (£57) RAM: 8GB of cheap stuff (£35) PSU: Kolink 500w 80+ Bronze (£40) Case: Anything that's £20 doesn't matter. So far that puts us at around £215, leaving me with £85 to find a GPU with. Going 2nd hand isn't something I mind doing so I'd probably search for a preowned 1550/1650 or maybe even a 970. My main question is this; are there any cheaper cpu/mobo combos that could comfortably run GTA5? From what research I've done the i3 9100f is by far better than anything else at its price point. I was also thinking I could drop the RAM to 4GB but I'm not sure if that would choke up GTA5 or not, if anybody could answer that for me that would be great. Will be looking forward to any suggestions, thanks. EDIT: I'm also considering an APU but last I checked APUs were terrible, does anybody know how the new Ryzen APUs could handle GTA5?

I was looking in the recommended section and unless I missed it; there was no mention of speakers. I'm looking to get some speakers than come with a sub for around £50($75). If you know any that may cost a little bit more but are really worth it please still let me know and I will consider saving for them if it's really worth it. Thanks for reading.

My thoughts exactly.

Hardware Monitor pro is telling me that my motherboard socket temp is 95c with a max 223c. If that was true wouldn't my pc have just been completely fucked up by now? Also Speccy is reporting 36c with no variation at all, I don't believe this is true as the temp is not moving at all, only shows 36c. And other times speccy will show 90c+ with no variation. Also the air being exhausted from my system is not even remotely hot. Thanks for reading.

I just checked in my BIOS and the RAM voltage is 1.632, I just reinstalled Windows to my machine currently on 8 but I will see if I can upgrade back to 10 shortly..

I think the ram voltage is 2.448 as shown in HWMonitor? I haven't touched it, it's default. And I just hit 100c playing LoL in a custom game, surely something is wrong there? I am using the stock cooler because I couldn't get my Hyper EVO 212 to mount correctly, but 100c is stupidly high? I don't even know if it's correct because the air exhuasting from my PC wasn't hot at all

So I've just upgraded my AMD FX-8320 to an Intel core i5 6600 and in Speccy it's reporting these temperatures.. I'm 100% certain that the motherboard reading is wrong it never changes it's always 88c, is there anyway to fix this or should I just not worry about it? EDIT: I installed HWMonitor and it's reporting a different more reasonable temperature, I think Speccy may be bugged..

Can't believe I didn't think of this... This is the culprit. I believe this is an issue with Witcher 3? And the critical error is when I had to hard restart it.. Thank you. Take it as you will, it's of little concern to me.

I was playing The Witcher 3 and all of a sudden my computer just turned off?. My monitors said no signal then went off into standby, but all of my fans and leds were still on, also the hard drive activity leds were still going. After hard restarting my computer it went to functioning correctly as it should. Is there something I should be concerned about here? It's the first time something like that has ever happened. My temps were fine and this happened to the rig in my signature, so it's not incompatibility of parts. Anyone know what could of happened?

970 performs the best and they're literally silent. The fans don't even turn on until it hits 60c~ (At least for my EVGA one). I very recently upgraded from a 7970 (280x pretty much) and I'd have to recommend the 970.

It was more the restarting that got to me than the hang. My temps were more than fine.

I recently tried to overclock my rig in my signature, and during a prime95 test my system hung. It scared me so I immediately hard restarted it (during which time it turned off and on 3 times before showing the boot screen), went into the BOIS and changed all the settings back to default. Is this kind of behaviour normal? I understand that my clock wasn't stable and something was going to happen, but I was expecting a blue screen, not a hang then multiple restarts. Should I brave on or am I risking damage to my CPU?

I would surround game if I had the 3 monitors, but it's not that big of a deal to me, more of an extra than my main priority. Thank you for the advice and the monitor suggestion, it appears to be much nicer than the LG one I had originally.

I have £200~ to spend on new monitors and I'm currently considering these choices: 3 of these: http://www.ebuyer.com/612424-acer-k222hql-21-5-led-vga-monitor-um-ww3ee-001 or 2 of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-22MP65HQ-22-inch-Widescreen-Monitor/dp/B00HYZXLWS/ref=sr_1_6?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1422739072&sr=1-6&keywords=1080p+ips+monitor So pretty much my problem is that I don't really know what's going to offer me the best gaming/overall experience, 3 TN panel monitors, or 2 IPS panels. I'd be very grateful to hear what you have to say and if you know any other monitors that are better than the ones that I have picked out. Thanks for reading.

After a while of putting up with the sub par single threaded performance of my processor I've finally had enough and am now going to buy an i5. The i5 I've opted for is this one. I know that it's locked, I have no intention of overclocking, so why spend the extra money? The rig that it'd be going in is the one in my signature, now the colour scheme of my rig is black and orange and looks pretty good at the minute, does anyone know any motherboards are black for a Haswell socket that aren't too expensive? I'd be looking for around £70 and under ideally. This is what my current motherboard looks like for reference:

I've been using old drivers for a while, and since I've bought CoD:AW I heard that the newer drivers helped with some of the frame rate issues, which they did. The problem that I've ran into is that everything looks terrible (Especially red fonts). I can't screenshot it as it would look fine to you, but I tried to take some pictures on my phone.

That's what we initially did and we believe that it has caused the issues that we're currently experiencing, I know that my Windows 8 disc works and would greatly prefer to use it.

So recently my friend got parts for a new computer and we're having problems, the details can be found here if anyone would like to try and help ( http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/243605-built-a-new-pc-with-a-friend-and-it-frequently-hangs/#entry3336272 ). To the point: He has a key for Windows 8.1, I have a Windows 8 disk, are they compatible? Thanks for reading.

Yes, tried the stable drivers and we've also ran memtests and there are no faults with his RAM. This is what I was thinking, next time I'm over I'm going to try and re-install Windows 8. Not the RAM, I was thinking it was the Windows install, but I've also read here that people were having issues with the 7850k and ASUS boards and now it's starting to get pretty confusing as there are people claiming different things solved their common issue. Going to try the fresh install next time I'm over his. We've currently updated the BIOS and drivers. And we can't as mentioned in the OP when he tries to load the windows updates it just instantly closes.

So he recently bought a new PC consisting of: AMD A10-7850k (Stock cooler) Asus A88XM-A Corsair CX430 Seagate barracuda 2TB HDD Windows 8.1 pro 64bit The computer boots fine initially, but when he tries to install/download large files the computer randomly hangs. Completely frozen with no errors or anything of the sort, then after that when he reboots the PC via hard restart it will sometimes show the Windows 8 loading logo then go straight to a black screen and would require him to reboot the PC multiple times until it finally boots. Also, another problem is he tried to install Windows updates and the computer hung, and after rebooting whenever he tries to load Windows updates it just immediately closes, thus making it impossible to install his Windows updates. We have no idea what's causing this, I would really appreciate any kind of help that you have to offer.

I cleaned it out using a pin and compressed air, it didn't help a bit. The odd thing is that my phone only doesn't detect those specific earbuds, my other headphones work fine, and the earbuds work fine too because I tested them in my PC. If there was moisture in there, it would be creating an electrical circuit meaning that it would always detect headphones in there, while it is in fact not picking up my earbuds at all. I'm not sure how I would go about downgrading my version of android without causing any loss to my data, are there any guides that can clearly explain how to do this?

I was listening to music on my phone then all of a sudden the music started playing out the speakers. Since then, every time I plug in my earphones my phone just doesn't detect that they're plugged in. To make sure it wasn't a problem with the jack, I plugged my Steel Series Siberia V2's into my phone and it was playing sound through them as it should, and I plugged my earphones into my PC to make sure that they were working, and they were. I really have no idea what's going on, do any of you?

Over the past year I've had a total of 4 headsets, all of them have broke within a month or so of regular use and it's starting to get to me. Does anyone know a headset that costs around £40? I'm more looking for actual build quality and durability over audio/mic quality as I really don't want to end up buying another pair. This is a list of the headsets I've owned and had break on me in the past year and will not buy again: Corsair HS40 Microsoft lifechat lx-3000 Turtlebeach z2 ThermalTake TT eSports Shock Thanks for reading.