Wolther

6 minutes ago, Jrasero said:

oh Cumberland County right?  Yeah I grew up in the town of Cumberland which is like 15 minutes outside of Portland.  How's the weather up there?  

Ah the usual, cold and can't see over the snow banks lmao and yeah Cumberland County 

18 minutes ago, Jrasero said:

Yeah I guess that's the most important thing.  I have tested everything yet, just switched out the AIO last night.  Hey where in Maine are you from?  I used to live in Cumberland and went to UMO

Ah I'm from Cumberland too, Naples specifically 

I mean, I would just care about your max temps, seeing as how you got a decent overclock on atm, I would test it. 

Hello, gpu temperatures in the 70s are very safe, and actually is a good temperature compared to lower quality fan coolers.. To keep it short, temperatures in the upper 80s is where concern should be met, won't cause any damage, but it isn't something I like to have my cards at. 

1 hour ago, Midniteb0ne said:

He has an r5 1400 which is imo terrible, so I'm upgrading it to an r7 1700 which is just 169$ rn. I'll overclock the CPU so the difference should be negligible. And no I won't be recording or streaming at least not right now but I am going to get into Game Development and machine learning. But before I can do that I'll need to learn calculus and linear algebra and I'll need to get good at phyton so by the time I'll actually do something I'll probably have upgraded my GPU.

 

Which one would be better the R5 2600 or the R7 1700 assuming that I overclock both of them to 3.8-4.0 GHz?

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R5 2600 is ideal since it gives a higher single threaded performance when compared to the R7 1700. For your sake and not just word of mouth I would look into some (recent) benchmarks comparing the two overclocked CPUs. Keep in mind the 2600 should be able to get a higher overclock than the 1700.  In the end it is up to you, if you feel like you want to get serious with more intensive workloads find out the power needed to deliver those. I am not well educated on the resources those task perform but since you're getting into it I feel it maybe something important to know. For gaming six cores is more than plenty, even if you wanted to have your desktop flooded with open programs. tl;dr for gaming the six cores on the 2600 is all you need, even allows for a lot of multitasking alongside gaming. Trade off is 2 less cores for a higher single thread increase. For your future tasks I would research if you need 8 cores. If you do then might as well get the 1700 with a sacrifice to your gaming fps. 

Also seeing as how he's giving you his mb, what's he doing with his cpu? 

Be more descriptive. "Games" is too vague. Why the r7 1700, you going be recording/streaming your gameplay too? 

Guessing the led flashes red. 

Did you put a overclock on your cpu? You can try resetting your cmos.

Dont think it would let itself fry unless you did something stupid to it (like very high voltage)

may need to rma it if all else fails could be a bad chip 

Facebook will give your information for even the smallest amount of money, no surprise to me if they come to an agreement rather quickly. 

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Ew, why? Pretty soon in the future we're going to have to open a different client for every triple-A game we want to play 

The esports argument is a very boring and old debate.. it also has been debated a thousand times in the past and the argumentative points are well established. It does NOT need to show up everytime there is news about something related to esports.. Please keep to the topic of the article 

No you can keep everything, no need to wipe your storage 

55 minutes ago, jonrosalia said:

hes got a E6500 not even close to 6th gen this new cpu is a major find. hes got wolfdale class cpu 2010ish launch

Oh, when I heard dual core and 6700 I instantly thought of skylake i3 processors like the 6100/6300 my bad

No I wouldn’t. You can buy a ryzen 3 (4c,8t) for cheaper. Since you have a 6th gen intel you have ddr4, so you’re gonna have to buy ddr3 ram too if you get that i7

Ryzen 5 1600 can be had for $150 new and that’s 6 core 12 t

3 hours ago, moneyfire82 said:

How bout this?

 

https://gyazo.com/50ddc89b338a1f1f718d326b14de2156

works, although that's a 16 gig kit, idk if your system already comes with 8 gb or not 

23 minutes ago, moneyfire82 said:

Thanks!  Any opinion on which brand I should choose? 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/RTJkcf/gskill-memory-f42666c15s8gvr

i usually go by theme, but this would be the cheapest yet realiable option i’d go for 

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/memory/#t=14&Z=8192001&sort=price&s=402666&h=0&xcx=0

would pick one of these, made sure it’s 288 pin and the same frequency, timings shouldn’t matter really 

you can change it to your country if you’re not from u.s

12 minutes ago, zimou13 said:

8GB is more than enough for games. Most motherboards supports DDR3 ram, so buy the DDR3 module. For the speed i recommend at least 1600MHz. If you're going to buy 8GB, buy 2 sticks of 4GB [usually written like 8GB (2 X 4)]and run it in dual channel mode.

No this is wrong, it is not about “most”. all recent motherboards only support ddr4. You need to look at the system and decide based on either the motherboard it says or the ram listed. Never recommend something just because it is ‘common’ 

I’d just soak it in alcohol if it is really caked on that bad. Then apply some nice elbow grease 

You’re fine, you can even do a small oc with ryzen stock coolers, there isn’t gonna be any lifespan losses running stock

You can pick up a used 1060 6gb pretty easily for 200-220

if you’re not going to do used then I would prolly wait for next gen or just pick up a 1060 3gb

1 minute ago, Sernefarian said:

Even without an overclock the 8700K does in fact beat the 8700. The clocks on the two models are different with the 8700K having a higher base clock and higher turbo clock

The turbo is about 100 mhz difference, not worth the cost 

3 minutes ago, uReqt said:

@Wolther Im really wanting a Water cooler as I think the rgb they have looks perfect, with a build like this can I still have one? also is there risks it can leak if its a AIO

If you just want the rgb, you can replace the fans with a rgb one, but if it’s also the water cooler you want there shouldn’t be any problems. 

You can use the one you wanted originally or look at nzxt https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/2RdFf7/nzxt-kraken-x62-rev-2-982-cfm-liquid-cpu-cooler-rl-krx62-02

2 minutes ago, uReqt said:

@Wolther Is there a good looking Air cooler in which wouldn't stick out?

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/FRYLrH/be-quiet-dark-rock-4-cpu-cooler-bk021 

fits build theme, is quiet