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1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Lisa Su would be proud

 

Seriously though, Ryzens are pretty amazing chips and I bet you saw a pretty gigantic jump in performance after the upgrade?

Honestly?

I've not seen that much of an improvment. Little things here and there like being able to scrub through AE timelines smoothly and extract things slightly faster are pretty great. I reckon most of my noticable gains have come from moving from an a mixed sata2 and 3 board to pure NVME. I can run Minecraft at 60fps now with shaders, which is pretty great. The ram boost has been quite nice, 24 was getting a little restrictive; 64 opens up some room to grow. I do enjoy watching the CPU cores tick away in Task Manager tho.

Up until last month; the 1366 masterrace was (and is) going strong for me. Got myself one of them fancy pants new Ryzens now tho.

Just now, Smithyy said:

 

 

No particular aesthetic in mind - but I am hoping to go for a white/blue look, although this is secondary to the purpose/features. 

In that case, the Taichi would work great for you; but if the feature set of the Aorus board is a better fit, it is also a very neutral coloured board, and if it's anything like mine, it'll have an ARGB strip on the underside of the board, so you can throw in some of them blue gamer lights too

At that point it really does come down to an Aesthetics/Feature showdown.

Do you have a particular colour scheme either in place, or in mind that would benefit from one over the other?

What features do you want? What features don't you care about?

Are you concerned about warrenty?

What are the reliability of the boards?

I agree with you that the ROG board is pretty ugly. All this being said, I literally just bought a new Aorus board for my next build which is currently sitting next to me, so I guess i'd have to throw my hand in with them, purely because it's essentually the ATX version of the board that I got, so feature wise, it's probably the best fit for me.

The Aorus board has more rear USB, which is real nice, but the Asrock board has a combo PS/2 port; which is also pretty nice. So it's a real pick-your-poison decision that all really comes down to a combination of personal preferance and if you really have a specific use case that requires something.

Personally i'd lean towards more relevant features over aesthetics; but that's mainly because I plan my builds around the mobo i choose and not the other way around.

If you're able and there's no wierd IT-related rubberstamping or red tape, OpenVPN would definetley be your best bet if you had to set one up yourself. I would look into if your orginisation already has a vpn service available to other users within the municipality and hook into that. Added benifit of if something goes wrong, it's not your fault.

Example:

my old work was for local government; we used their VPN solution (Cisco AnyConnect) when working from home to allow us to hook into our support infrastructure on-site.

8 minutes ago, CutePanda said:

i was turning off the safe mode while playing pubg pc lite on the nvidia control panel, and...........

i accidentaly hit the restore option in the manage 3d settings- global settings and the display is likee too thin or idk how to say it, but there were black bars on the top and bottom. i prefer using 1280x768 res and when i checked the display option, its the same, i use a 75 hz tv as my monitor and in it it shows 1280x1024 res, i dont know how to change things back to normal. pls pls help meeeeee!!!!!!!1

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Check to make sure your desktop size and rotation are correct for your settings:

A quick google suggests it's a .NET or DX issue. Try reinstalling.

What have you tried so far?

VRChat is a solid shout

4 hours ago, fpo said:

worth buying or naw?

  Depends on who you speak to, development is slow and updates are often breaky. Scope creep is real. They bring some cool features sometimes tho.

4 hours ago, fpo said:

IE is there stuff to do?

  There's plenty of death stranding drug smuggling runs to be had, and some more recent combat missions. Mining was recently added with some cool looking things

4 hours ago, fpo said:

Does it run not terrible?

Depends on the patch iirc. My pc chugs a bit, but it's old. but i'd say it runs ok

4 hours ago, rentaspoon said:

• Ships spawned at Area18 immediately explode. W/A: Avoid Area18.

Don't tell me what not to do

1 minute ago, Wauthar said:

Cut off one head and 7 will grow in its place

11 hours ago, givingtnt said:

Something something @ixi_your_face did it !

Generic response denying involvement

16 hours ago, Otto_iii said:

the state of 

Wait, you're telling me that you're not supposed to stand there? 

2 minutes ago, rentaspoon said:

Discord is down!

 

Back to the old school chat

so dusty in here

1 minute ago, ante.kurnik1990 said:

Keyboard region stayed the same, i can login to any account in safe mode without problems but as soon as i exit safe mode the issue is back

 

I will try UBCD, thanks

well if you can get into it in safe mode; prolly just change the password in there, that'll be easier.

Have you checked to see if your keyboard region has maybe reset? I can see that causing issues if the password has special charicters like #, ", @ or £.

Failing that, look up UBCD, it has a tool called Offline NT password & registry editor. Give that a try. I've not used it since at least win7 so idk if it still works for 10, but i'm guessing it'll work (hopefully)

Also keep UBCD, super useful. 

afterthought edit: 

This will only work for local accounts, just incase someone comes along later on

ASUS list that mobo as having:

1 x M.2_FAN connector
1 x CPU Fan connector(s) 
1 x CPU OPT Fan connector(s) 
2 x Chassis Fan connector(s) 
1 x 5-pin EXT_FAN(Extension Fan) connector
1 x AIO PUMP Header

as it's an AIO, you'd wanna have them connected to the CPU fan connectors (most likely).

So to answer your question: No. You need an extension/splitter/hub thing.

if you wanna be Mr FancyPants, you could go for something like the NZXT Grid+ V3 or this. If you don't care about crazy stuff like PWM, you could go the old-school splitter way instead.

Have you checked your network discovery settings?

Moved to PC Gaming.

If you're doing it for your own use, pretty much any drive formatting facility will be good enough for your needs. You can format the ssd from windows' installer, if you delete the partitions in the drive selection menu. But if you want to be thorough, you can install Linux on a USB stick and boot to that, format the SSD from Linux using a facility like GParted and then install windows after that.

But to be honest, you'd probably just be faster popping the windows install media in and deleting the partitions.

2 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Well, there's also a matter of whether he'll be able to upgrade anything later at all, there are a lot of teenage kids coming here for building tips and part lists, OP said he's got 500 pounds to spend, maybe that's all he got from his parents for a PC and he wants a complete all-around machine that'll last as long as possible without any upgrades, and if he does - the list I composed is the perfect match for him.

 

Though sure, if as you said he's got the option to upgrade slowly and add those parts over the course of time then sure, it's a good idea to ditch some stuff in favor of getting a faster CPU and add it later such as RAM, storage, a quieter cooler etc.

which is exactly why i said have a solid base in the first place. If you spend money now on a dual core and build a system based on that, it'll be outdated by the end of next month.

Even if you are not able to upgrade over time (which i highly doubt) a solid base would be a better fit than some hastily cobbled together build that come the end of march will be worthless. Sure it may sacrifice boot times, but really? who actually cares about weather the PC takes 9 or 19 seconds to boot? why the rush? it's not going anywhere.

a better footing = a better experience, and leaves options open for future expansion.

10 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

It is worth waiting for, but there won't be a such low-end CPU, from what I researched in the past few months, AMD is planning to use the current FX lineup with reduced prices to use as their low-end lineup for around a year after Ryzen launches until they release their own low-end line such as Athlons based on the Zen architecture.

 

Since SSD's are so cheap atm, a 120GB one as an OS drive wouldn't hurt and would speed up the PC very noticeably, I personally couldn't switch to a PC without SSD now cause I'd get brain cancer just from all the waiting, it's like a night-and-day difference to me...

 

As for Ryzen prices, have a look here:

The cheapest Ryzen CPU is going to supposedly cost 129$, the Pentium is over twice as cheap. See my point? He'd have to sacrifice the GPU budget to get it, not worth it within a 500 pounds one... Of course he could get only 8GBs of RAM, but getting 16 right away leaves him good within that area for a good couple of years, though I agree that it's too expensive atm.

The prices of ryzen itself doesn't matter as much as the price adjustments that would follow. As you said, 

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AMD is planning to use the current FX lineup with reduced prices to use as their low-end lineup for around a year after Ryzen launches

Therefore, it would be a good thing to wait to see what those prices drop to. Maybe even intel will adjust their pricing accordingly.

On the SSD part; You might not want to use a PC without an SSD, but on budget builds luxuries are the first sacrifice. You need to look at the bigger picture; he'd be much better off getting a solid base and building on that than getting a weak base and piling on top of that. If you drop the SSD, and stick with a single mass storage HDD, you can add budget elsewhere where he would really feel it; such as CPU horsepower or GPU horsepower. Boot times are pretty insignificant if the PC itself can't hold a steady fps in games.

1 minute ago, Samwise1765 said:

So i definitely should wait a couple extra weeks for ryzen to drop?

I would say so, yeah. Then reevaluate the situation.

3 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Though I disagree whether it's worth it. Ryzen will not target builds this low-end. From the leaked pricing lists the cheapest CPUs will be 4C/4T and will be 100$+

Around the end of this month/early March. But as I said above, it's not worth to wait in your case, this is what you should get:

I would definitely say it's worth the wait, considering that there's no point in buying an entire system with a dual core, then you find out in 3 weeks that you could have build a quad core w/ hyper-threading^ish if you just waited. Evaluate first, purchase later.

Your build definetly could use some touch ups though;

For a start, i wouldn't bother with a hybrid storage solution on a budget build; keep it simple. a 1-3TB hdd would be better suited here, especially as one can be added in the future.

RAM - the only issue with RAM atm is that it's woefully overpriced. Not much you can do there other than sit in a corner and cry that you missed the window for cheap DIMMs

I'd still wait. You could easily squeeze in the 4c/4t ryzen chip and upgrade down the line with an ssd etc, etc. IMO you get more value for your money this way.

before everyone else says it; wait until ryzen comes out and see what the pricing is really like. IF they are close to the leaked numbers, you may just be able to get yourself an actually decent build on £500.

Pretty much everyone is holding their breath for ryzen atm, so lets hope that pulls through, or at the very least, upsets intel's crazy pricing somewhat.