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    Narnash reacted to J400 in What CPU should i get if I want it to be future proof and also think about upgrading later on?   
    I would go with a ryzen chip. motherboards are cheap, cpus are cheap, and 2 years in the future, 4 cores will hardly be enough for new games. We should be expecting 5Ghz chips when zen3 gets here, and I wouldn't throw out the possibility of 10 or 12 core am4 chips by then. Also, the ryzen platform will be given time to mature and game developers will be optimizing for both multi core chips, and ryzen itself. If you buy a ryzen chip now, you will not be disappointed in the future.
     
    If you are on a very tight budget, I would recommend the 2400g, or the 2200g. if you get the 2200g, don't be surprised if you want to upgrade the cpu in the next year or two. if you buy a 2400g, you will probably be fine until am4+ 3 years from now. You will have integrated graphics to get you through the gpu apocalypse, and the future proof platform that am4 offers. 
     
    If you have a little more money however, grab the 1600. 6 cores and 12 threads for $180 is a bargain and a half. Not to mention you can get a b350 motherboard for less that $60 if you price hunt.
     
    If you buy intel, especially an i3 7100, you will probably be upgrading next year, if you are trying to play anything new that comes out. If you go with the 8 series, you are paying $100+ for a motherboard alone, but you do arguably have the 8700k to upgrade to. that is, after intel releases the 9th generation i7s with 8 cores and 16 threads. In which case, you will be buying used parts. And don't forget, that chip doesn't come with a cooler.
     
    You will also HAVE to buy a gpu now if you go with intel, as the integrated graphics won't give you much more than a minecraft playthrough and maybe the odd game of csgo. Which in the end, will destroy any budget you might have had.
     
     
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    Narnash reacted to ProjectBox153 in Wifi speed on desktop(canada rogers)   
    If the rooms are that close, why not run a cable along the baseboard? If you can’t do that, try Powerline. 
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    Narnash got a reaction from Cyberspirit in Getting frame drops after mining   
    Might be caused by mining but I think it's more likely that some kind of software (like windows, PUBG is also heavy RAM riliant  btw make sure you close browsers etc.) is running in the background. It also may be the case that your "testing" is flawed as PUBG is a multiplayer game without a discrete benchmark, so you can't be sure for reliability on your testing. 
     
    Taking PUBG for testing is also not the best idea since performance flactuates sometimes drasticly from patch to patch. 
     
    But as I said most likely something in the background or a patch (driver update maybe?) is causing issues.
     
     
     
    PS: Asuming that you reset any devolt or bios modding on your GPU you may have done for mining
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    Narnash reacted to GoldenLag in Ryzen 5 2400G & Ryzen 3 2200G APU (with Vega GPUs) review kits are being sent out   
    I have a feeling these APU's are going to be a favorite among budget pc's today and in the future the new "add a gpu" second hand PCs
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    Narnash got a reaction from 8uhbbhu8 in Scammed on ebay... Testing the 56 CORE system!   
    I really liked the video. Nice that the seller except the return (I wonder if they just did that because the buyer was LTT and they didn't wanted the bad publicity)
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    Narnash got a reaction from Stampf in Which SSD would you prefer?   
    What ever is cheaper in your region, the mid to high sata SSDs perform very similar in a way that you most likely won't notice a difference.
    pick the best GB/$ ssd that fits your needs.
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    Narnash got a reaction from Sickshooter0 in Which SSD would you prefer?   
    What ever is cheaper in your region, the mid to high sata SSDs perform very similar in a way that you most likely won't notice a difference.
    pick the best GB/$ ssd that fits your needs.
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    Narnash got a reaction from 19_blackie_73 in Which SSD would you prefer?   
    What ever is cheaper in your region, the mid to high sata SSDs perform very similar in a way that you most likely won't notice a difference.
    pick the best GB/$ ssd that fits your needs.
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    Narnash reacted to RollinLower in Tiny dust particle on the underside of my cpu.   
    you will be fine. if the CPU was out of the socket there was no current flowing through, so nothing will be damaged.
     
    just make sure it is dry before reinstalling it again.
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    Narnash reacted to Likwid in PC wont start anymore   
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    Narnash got a reaction from SaperPL in SENTRY: Console-sized gaming PC case project   
    @ZeZke @ZombiPL
     
    So as I said sióme pic'S from the EVGA GTX 1080TI SC (Black Edition) in teh Sentry. (Imgur gallery)

     

    A bit of regular GPU sag in horizontal position. The clearance between the graphics card/fans and the side wall of the case are ~ 9 mm
     

    The EVGA GTX 1080 TI SC (BE) has arround 36 mm total clearance at the end of the card (to the front of the case) .
     

    Sorry for the bad picture. The hight or better the 6&8pin PCIe power plugs make a somewhat tight fit but they fit. These are the regular hight connectors of the SilverStone SFX Series SX500-LG PSU. Maybe 18 mm clearance in hight.
     
     
    Total size conclusion of the graphics card itself are L: 270 mm ; H: 42 mm (it's Dual Slot only!) ; W: 105 mm (which should also be regular PCIe spec)
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    Narnash got a reaction from ZombiPL in SENTRY: Console-sized gaming PC case project   
    @ZeZke @ZombiPL
     
    So as I said sióme pic'S from the EVGA GTX 1080TI SC (Black Edition) in teh Sentry. (Imgur gallery)

     

    A bit of regular GPU sag in horizontal position. The clearance between the graphics card/fans and the side wall of the case are ~ 9 mm
     

    The EVGA GTX 1080 TI SC (BE) has arround 36 mm total clearance at the end of the card (to the front of the case) .
     

    Sorry for the bad picture. The hight or better the 6&8pin PCIe power plugs make a somewhat tight fit but they fit. These are the regular hight connectors of the SilverStone SFX Series SX500-LG PSU. Maybe 18 mm clearance in hight.
     
     
    Total size conclusion of the graphics card itself are L: 270 mm ; H: 42 mm (it's Dual Slot only!) ; W: 105 mm (which should also be regular PCIe spec)
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    Narnash got a reaction from BlackJackTheRipper in Beyerdynamics and Amp/Dac   
    I think you should be fine, I use DT 990 Pro's (250Ohm) myself just on the mobo with Realtek ALC1220 Audio and think it's fine. 
    I would say try first and decide than, most mid to high onboard audio can drive 250Ohm headphones just fine and if you need it you can add a amp later on.
     
     
    If the beyerdynamic's are the right one for you comes down to personal taste anyway, I like them for some they might be to neutral.
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    Narnash got a reaction from SaperPL in SENTRY: Console-sized gaming PC case project   
    It does fit with normal PCI-E connectors ( SilverStone SFX Series SX500-LG ) but it tends to flex the top/side of the case a bit when the cables are bad arranged, so it fits but low profile prefered.
     
     
    PS: can't upload photos right now since I have no internet at home atm (posting from work ) 
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    Narnash got a reaction from SaperPL in SENTRY: Console-sized gaming PC case project   
    I have a Sentry Case with a EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black Edition, temperatures aren't a problem (even though not great temps of course). It runs fine so far, with temperatures which you would expect (higher 70s under synthetic stress). I didn't run in any temperature related prblems so far, but mind you that the EVGA GTX 1080 TI SC isn't very silent.
    I may be able to take some photos in the case later at the day or in the next days (have to put in a new SSDanyway in the next days .. which unfortunately have to go on the bottom side of the motherboard) 
     
    But I think that the EVGA SC is maybe the only open-cooler design card that may fit in the Sentry (I know for sure that the MSI Armor card won't fit, cause it's to tall).
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    Narnash got a reaction from Sfekke in bitdefender threat scanner.dmp error   
    I'm the same.
     
    That plus some minor knowledge of possible dangers online. Well also regular clean OS install policy on my PC (maybe twice a year). 
    My point is that I can't do much against a serious attack anyway, I also don't use online banking and tbh an anti-virus are to slow evolving to protect you siriously.
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    Narnash got a reaction from Sfekke in which is a better choice R7 1700 vs i7 8700 non k   
    At first you would be fine with both, basicly (for gaming related workloads, a bit of streaming one or two videos here and there).
    The Intel IPC/overclocking benefit is more or less a non factor with a non K (or a nonoverclockable motherboard) CPU for the most part. But tbh you should also overclock the R7 (if you choose it) to use it's full potential (I speak about reasonable stable overclocks like maybe a 3,7GHz on all cores).
     
    All in all for pure multithreaded workloads is the R7 a better option, for most games is more or less the i7 8700 a "better" option but not by very much when you choose a i7 8700(non K). At the end I would make the choice by the better price between these two, you could pick a cheaper  motherboard with the non K intel chip but I wouldn't recomand that personally.  right now you only have the option to pick a Z370 board, which would make a i7 8700 (non K) an even stranger pick as it is.
     
     
    To repeat myself again, you will be fine with both for gaming and if you really don't want to overclock (because you you don't want to hassle with that stuff) than I recomand ou to pick the intel i7 8700 chip or at least a R7 1700x.
     
    EDIT: in red
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    Narnash got a reaction from Mike Soda in Does Ryzen Get Stuck?   
    I'm personally not a big fan of this soaking method, generally it should work, but even though it's only isopropyl alcohol it might damage plastic parts on the motherboard (if you have an acrylic window on the case it can cause microcraks fairly easily, too) leave stains on painted objects and so on.
     
    As long the themal paste is not ancient old the whole heatsink removal is fairly unlikely to cause any issues, also a "pulled CPU with heatsink" is not damaged at all in most cases. Slightly bent pins are very easy to fix and ripped pins by sticky heatsinks are maybe case by one of a 1000 of those who pulled their CPU and heatsink together.
    Ryzen is a young platform, warm paste has a lower viscosity I think you should be fine. Just don't rip, pull and twist the whole thing like a jackass than should nothing get damadged.
     
    BTW so far I removed (changed) my Ryzen CPU heatsink now in my system 3 times and replaced the heatsink in the Ryzen system of a friend once and so far I didn't pulled it out of it's socket, so I guess it's less of an issue on this platform.
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    Narnash got a reaction from Mike Soda in Does Ryzen Get Stuck?   
    Nah ... it's not really stuck. Thermal paste ist just a sticky stuff and the PGA style sockets just can't hold the CPU as strongly in place as the LGA sockets intel use (LGA is pushing the PCB of the CPU down and PGA just "clamps" all pins in it's hole, you can see the mechanism when you "close" socket without a CPU in it)
     
    To make sure you don't damage anything you can just twist very gently and see if the cooler can already "slide" a bit when you removed the screws from the cooler (than it should be safe to remove it normaly), a still a bit warm CPU and thermal paste can help with that (just let the CPU heat up a bit befre you try to remove the cooler).
     You can also try (if you can) to open the socket with the cooler still on top than you can remove CPU and cooler together and get the CPU of the cooler by twisting it.
     
    Just make sure when you remove the CPU to pull it straight up (as I said a bit of gentle twisting while you don't pull it is OK, but twist and pull like most people do on intel sockets might bent pins if you unlucky*) the CPU might get removed with it put that's usually fine.
     
     
     
    PS: a few bent pins are not a super big issue though, razor blades, ball point pens, needles, tweezer and a magnifing lens can bent them back fairly easily. BTW even ripped of pins can be soldered back on ( I did it myself once) and heard from a a friend that a nice jeweler soldered a pin back on for him.
     
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    Narnash got a reaction from LukeHebb in Mining   
    Mind you that you have to pay off the actual graphics card first before you make any real profit.
     
    You're right however that "profit" is highly reliant upon factors like the actual electricity and hardware cost in that area. Also the needed space, probably cooling/ventilation/AC, and fluctuations in bitcoin/ether/monero have to be factored in to make a profit.
    Well and also a bit of time unless you do that as your hobby (also a bit of time is if your new to the subject or you can't get any  hardware at economical pices)
     
     
    .... you also have a risk (at least in Germany) since you probably don't pay tax on that extra income, as a student or only when mining with your own PCs hardware when you not use it you're probably fine, as long you don't expand this hobby (and it is a hobby, in the very low scale since you probably never make "real profit" factoring time,hardware and electricity ) by to much.
    And by the way as soon you get trouble with the tax authorities you truly didn't made any profit with your mining hobby.
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    Narnash got a reaction from Mortis Angelus in Max thickness for custom mobo stand-offs?   
    You can buy regular mainboard standoffs in different hights, they are usually M3 threaded and 5 mm hex wide. The holes are usually also big enough to fit M4 screws, the actual standoff schouldn't be wider than the small metalized (solder to ground the motherboard) areas around the hole (I guess 8-10 mm)
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    Narnash reacted to Rolling Potatoe in Computer shut off and won't post   
    Breadboard it, remove everything except the cooler, do a cmos reset, connect a mobo speaker or what have you and then start adding components and try it out.
    You should also try out another gpu and psu if you have one or at least try another pcie slot.
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    Narnash reacted to Strayan_Hades in No Campaign directing doorknockers with app, labelled ‘creepy’ by social media users   
    I personally don't understand why this such a big issue this whole debate. God the world feels like its ending with the amount of crime and terrorism going on and Now our power.
     
    An we get these radical methods exposing our privacy and safety just to vote for one side... 
     
    This is not democracy.
     
    Hope they just pass this through so our government focuses on the real issues with our country.
     
    I vote "Yes" to gay marriage.
     
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    Narnash reacted to Senzelian in Where's the budget sweet spot for gaming?   
    $0
    You are spending nothing and you don't gain anything. Couldn't be any better.
     
    Srsly tho, that depends on where you live. But most likely around 800-1200 USD.
    If you want to build a new gaming PC you should ask yourself what you want and how much money you have to achieve that goal and not just how much money you're able to burn.
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    Narnash got a reaction from ChazTec in Dead pixel?   
    I guess my monitor at work is to crappy dirty to see that.
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