Eastman51

You'll have to look yourself, unfortunately. All of the well priced ones are auctions, so anything I link could sell or end up overpriced through bids. 2700s are close to that $150 mark it seems, but you can get cheaper if you snipe an auction.

I'd personally go for a 650W or 700W. Check the PSU tier list here on the forums for recommended units.

Sounds like you have made up your mind. Clearly nothing I say will get through to you that there are better options. Any further help from me is a lost cause.

DDR4 is cheaper than DDR3. Any Ryzen 5 or Ryzen 7 will be significantly better value, and overall MUCH cheaper. The performance difference on Ryzen compared to Kaby Lake and Haswell E is basically nil. Your argument holds zero weight. Ryzen 7s are 8 core CPUs, and are significantly more modern; Ryzen 5s are 6 core yes, but they have 12 threads, so you still essentially get the performance of an older 8 core. As I mentioned above in my edit, you can do whatever you want. I'm just saying you'd be wasting money since there are better options and better value deals out there. Also, talking to some friends, they have seen X99 boards for under $100 on Facebook Marketplace; so your $200 motherboard is outrageously overpriced.

Ironically, the i7 is barely any faster than a Ryzen 5 2600. The only reason its faster is that it has more cores and threads. In single thread, performance is identical. You'd be spending more money for something with little gain and dramatically increased power consumption. Looking at eBay, you can legitimately find a Ryzen + motherboard + RAM combo for less than the cost of the 5960x (not including shipping). I don't understand your argument, at all. It makes absolutely no sense. The only thing I see here is "I want extreme edition because it sounds like its probably better than something not extreme edition" Edit: at the end of the day, no one can stop you. If you really want that 5960x, then buy it. We're all just here trying to help you save a buck. You asked, we answered with our thoughts.

that's an even worse idea..... A 1st or 2nd gen Ryzen will last plenty enough. Used Intel CPUs and their motherboards are exceptionally overpriced right now, and have been for over a year. smh my head

Big F for your 02. This is a 95, as I mentioned in my post DX trim, so it does have the 1.8L 7A-FE. The 4 speed auto was an option higher on the DX trim, the 5 speed manual was standard equipment for DX models. I expect it'll be solid enough in autox stock, but my plans should get some more performance out of it. 7As are oil burning queens, if its not burning oil its not running Supposedly its an issue with the rings getting sludged by faulty rings and/or long oil change intervals. There's a high chance I'll be getting a mostly complete, or possibly running, single rotor engine sometime next year. It'd only make about as much power as the 7A does, but the powerband would be way better. I was planning on reusing the stock transmission with some type of bellhousing adapter, and was considering rebuilding it since it'll have around 200k by the time I can do the swap. My biggest concern is tires though, for sure. There's a pick&pull near here that has a 93 with some really cool looking alloy wheels, however I'm pretty sure they're OEM so tire choice will be extremely limited. The upside is they'd be cheap and look nice. Could probably try to offset a worse tread with a wider tire, depending on how wide a tire I could fit.

Thanks for the airbox tip. I already joined the forums there, and they've been helpful. More than I can say for the Prius forums and RX-7 forums....

Ok........lol Desperate doesn't mean you should make poor financial choices. You could also get your brother some older Ryzen; probably for barely more (if not less) than the cost of the 5960x, some RAM, and its motherboard alone. Your brother just wants a working gaming system for 1080p and a working system for school and whatnot right? He certainly doesn't need an overclocked 5-6 year old system that was purchased for far more than its truly worth. I'm sure he'd be grateful if you got him literally anything that does what he wants; may as well spend as little as you can to accomplish that.

cloning the SSD and removing the HDD will accomplish the task of setting the SSD as the boot drive. The HDD has to be wiped before being used in the laptop again, how it gets wiped doesn't really matter. Not wiping it will create a conflict and the BIOS will just boot to whichever one it sees first. Cloning a drive basically means copy one drive to another, making the destination drive identical to the source. Once the clone is complete and you verify it works and have all the data, you can wipe the HDD (to clear the boot partitions) and use it for whatever you want.

$200 for a 5 year old motherboard is absolutely dumb. Compared to other CPUs, $150 isn't a bad price; but when you look at the rest, its not worth it in the slightest. then why not get an ebay GPU and hand him the i7-2600 system? you could use the $150 to get a pretty solid GPU. The 2600 can still do solid frame rates at 1080p with a good GPU. The system you have is free LOL

ironically, Haswell CPUs are just as expensive. Used hardware is all overpriced right now. Even GPUs are getting expensive just because you flat out can't buy new ones right now so people know they can charge a premium.

The above list is an excellent suggestion. However, I'd be careful with the Kingston A400 as they are notorious for being unreliable. If you could find another SSD for a similar price, that would be the only change I make here.

If you could slim down the amount of data on your HDD to under 500GB (enough to fit on the new SSD), then you could just use any old cloning software to transfer the install to the SSD. Then remove the HDD to verify the SSD works correctly. Then wipe the HDD; using diskpart and the "clean" command is the preferred method of wiping a drive here, but you could also prepare a Windows install USB, boot to it, and delete the partitions off the HDD then reboot back to the SSD. Since you have a Samsung SSD, I would highly recommend Samsung's own data transfer software; it is quite reliable and have used it myself multiple times in the past. Edit: keep in mind that you won't be able to use the SSD as a backup source as any data on it will be deleted when you clone to it or install Windows to it Edit2: After you verify the SSD cloned correctly and you have wiped the HDD, you can then reformat the HDD and use it for data storage.

Meet the $280 1995 Toyota Corolla DX I saw it listed on Facebook marketplace and just had to take a look. Poor car was going to get scrapped for what the previous owner assumed was the clutch starting to go out. The actual problem? Someone serviced the car at some point and did not re-mount the charcoal canister and fuel filter properly, so they were clattering around and getting smacked by the shift linkages. Of course, the car also ended up needing other work too. Driver's side front wheel bearing was starting to go out, causing weird noises when turning right. I also replaced the driver's side CV axle since it was old af, and the passenger side axle has been replaced at some point. Beyond that, I have just cleaned it inside and out, new tires, and caught up most of the maintenance. Last big ticket item is coolant. Then we can start thinking about upgrades and mods. I'm probably going to auto cross this thing. Its cheap, and pretty fun for what it is. However, the stock economy tuned motor is very not performance ready. The power/torque curve is garbage, and you have to short shift to get anything out of it; which I fear might suck in auto cross. It'll be fine at first to learn with, but I was thinking about sticking to my roots and going with a rotary swap; would be great for auto cross since rotaries like being at high rpms and you're always in low gear. But we'll see. I could also get 4AGE heads and make a 7AGE, do some fuel system work and get a standalone.

You're probably going to have to clone the HDD to the SSD and reformat the HDD, or backup your files on the HDD and format it before clean installing Windows to the SSD. Laptops can be notorious for unhelpful BIOS, and in your case it seems like you will have to eliminate the HDD's ability to be used as a boot drive and somehow get a bottable installation onto the SSD.

The only time I'd think clearing CMOS as part of the build process is if you bought a used motherboard. A brand new out of the box motherboard will already be loaded to its default settings, so clearing CMOS is just an extra step. But if you bought a used board, you don't know for certain if they cleared the CMOS or otherwise reset the settings before shipping

Ok, I did some research and have decided to just get a M.2 SATA for the server boot drive. And had the crazy idea to repurpose the 970 EVO as a network Steam drive. The M.2 riser card is actually a Silverstone, and box says it can do both slots at once. Not sure what kind of RAID arrays I want still, but I believe I can probably get the 2x TB HDDs and 3x 1TB HDDs in there no problem. I should have a 2x 2.5" to 1x 3.5" adapter somewhere as well, to make things a bit easier in regards to the 2 2.5" drives. Apparently going to Microcenter today, so tomorrow I'll be able to hook everything up and research RAID configurations. If anyone has input on RAID arrays, it would be greatly appreciated.

I want to strip down my main rig (fewer drives and cables for a cleaner look), while repurposing old drives/upgrading my network storage capabilities. However, I am not really sure how I should go about achieving this goal. I will have 2x 2TB HDDs and 3x 1TB HDDs I would like to use in the creation of two separate RAID arrays. I do not know which RAID configuration would be best. The 1TB HDD array will focus on storing more important data, so it should be able to suffer a drive failure or somehow be recoverable. Thoughts, opinions? I'm kind of at a loss with all these ideas and potential solutions floating around in my head. Would like some second opinions on what options I have, and which would be the best/most ideal. Thanks in advance! EDIT: It seems as though it is possible to boot off of NVMe on the T7500 using Clover. So that is an option. I could try and find a small SATA M.2 for Clover or just get a cheap USB stick. EDIT 2: Cleared out information no longer necessary due to plan change.

The daily driver in its natural habitat.

My coworker finally drove his supercharged Z32 to work again. Needless to say, its much faster than my 7. Makes roughly 300 wheel, but has not been dyno tested; it was already built when he bought it.

Hello. I have been off the forums for a little while, but now that I know this thread exists I might check back more frequently? Who knows. I own a 2009 Toyota Prius and a 1983 Mazda RX-7. I like both. I also have plenty of stories to tell. (This is an old photo, but one of the better ones I have of both cars)

I ended up sticking the AIO into the ITX machine and saw a significant improvement. As I have experienced in the past, Ryzen is pretty temperature sensitive. I gained a good 30 points in Cinebench R15 and am running about 10C lower overall. Leaning heavily towards leaving the i5 in the HTPC at this point.

Yea, I figured the C7 likely wouldn't be a good idea. if I didn't have a DVD drive I could probably get away with a taller cooler; but part of the point of the HTPC is to playback movies and such. That's 2 for 2 on 500W for i7/970, my wallet is liking its chances right now

Budget (including currency): as low as possible while being quality and compatible Country: USA I build PCs for fun, and do like to use most if not all of the systems I build. Today's topic is Haswell. Currently I have an HTPC with an i5-4670k, Cryorig C7, 32GB DDR3, Asus Q87M-E/CSM, a 1070, Seasonic 650W Gold, 1TB HDD, 1TB SSD, DVD burner, and is in a Silverstone Grandia GD09. I recently acquired an i7-4790k, a Phanteks PH-TCD12X, a Gigabyte Z87x-UDH4, and some DDR3. I have a spare case (Corsair Carbide 100R), with spare fans, a GTX 960 and 970 (both are Asus Turbo cards), and a lot more spare DDR3. I want to build a Haswell tower to provide a nice range of PCs for my collection. However, the i7 provides an interesting idea. Why not swap the Z87x and the i7 into the HTPC for a bit more grunt? My only concern with this though, is that the i7 might run hot on the slim Cryorig C7 and hurt performance (not to mention produce a lot of heat). In which case, putting the i7 in the tower case would be a better idea since it would have a better cooler and more airflow. I also had the idea of taking the 1TB HDD out of the HTPC, it doesn't need it, and saving it for something else. Plan is for a 256GB SSD in the Haswell tower, I won't use it a ton and won't play too many games on it; I have plenty of spare HDDs if the Haswell PC needs more storage. I also have a Ryzen based ITX machine I recently built. It ran great when I was testing it out with the 970. However, when I got my new used 1080 in, CPU temps rose by about 10C. Its a Silverstone Sugo SG13, Ryzen 5 2400G, and an EVGA 1080 FTW. I was thinking about swapping the stock Wraith Stealth, but slim CPU coolers are a little overpriced imo. Currently its got a Corsair SP120 at the front for airflow. I noticed during some benchmarking that the GPU is blowing hot air out the front of the case, and think this might be part of the CPU temp problem (in addition to the fact that its gone from an older blower style to a newer downdraft style cooler). I was thinking about trying a higher airflow fan, something like an Arctic P12; but was not sure if that would actually help. I'd be looking, ideally, for 10C drop in temps; but even getting the temps below 80C would be good enough. I know the SG13 is technically made for AIOs and supports ATX PSUs; however I have an SFX PSU so there is some extra clearance (but I am not sure if using SFX is the 61mm of clearance they are talking about), and the large 1080 FTW would likely get in the way of an AIO. I do have a Corsair 120mm AIO and accompanying AM4 bracket, so I suppose I could test that. So, now we get to my questions. How do you think the 4790k will do in the GD09 with the C7? Would it be worth it to swap? I doubt I will OC, especially if its in the HTPC (I typically don't OC anyways). I have found a couple of reasonably priced EVGA bronze PSUs, 500W for $60 and 600W for $74. I think I would go with the 500W if the tower gets the i5, but would probably get the 600W if the tower gets the i7. Would those wattages make sense? Or would I need to use the 960 over the 970 due to power limitations? The HTPC will likely retain 32GB, if only because why not and I have so many 8GB DDR3 sticks. I could put 32GB in the tower, but its probably not worth it. What fans would you recommend for the ITX PC? Or should I just get a new CPU air cooler instead? Or do you think the AIO would fit?