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Yea I was hoping to get everything at once at Microcenter and they're basically out of GPUs, but ordering a 5600xt and picking up the rest might be my route

Budget (including currency): $300-600 Country: USA (Michigan) Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, mostly playing Rust, Escape from Tarkov, Last Oasis, Fallout 76, Bannerlord. Little bit of everything Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I'm looking to upgrade my current rig. I'm running an I5-4590, GTX 970 and 4x4 1600mhz DDR3 ram. At my local Microcenter I can get a Gigabyte B450m, R5 3600, and 16gb 3200mhz ram for about $300. I can also get a Rx 5700 for $330, but that would more than double the cost of the upgrade. My question is if my GTX 970 would be a massive bottleneck to the games I mentioned above and if the cost of upgrading to the specifically 5700 would be worth it?

Its not manually overclocked but does use the the GPU overdrive or whatever thats called from Nvidia, we will try manually clocking it to factory rating tomorrow

Hey all, been awhile. My brother's PC has been having some crashing problems over the last couple weeks. It'll crash during gaming, and while Idle. Itll have graphical artifacting and then crash. When it boots up it'll be locked to some resolution below 1080p (cant remember specific res) and say that the GPU has an error. The pc told us that it was critical registry errors and would go into a boot loop, so i booted from a flash drive and reinstalled windows. Of course my first thought is that the GPU is dieing, but I would guess that some of the software workarounds that have worked for a few days to a week at a time wouldn't fix a hardware issue. Things we have done: Restarted the pc Restarted the pc in safemode and: reverted back to previous gpu drivers updated all drivers to newest available reinstalled drivers reinstalled windows 10 Some of these things will fix it for a few days at a time, then itll happen again. This also happened when he first got the pc back in the winter of 2018, but we reinstalled windows and it worked fine for almost 2 years so we figured it was some kind of software issue, until it started back. I would say just RMA the gpu and be done with it, but with the current crisis we can't really ship anything out for awhile so I'm hoping to find a fix. Some ideas I have to go forward: Bios flash Switch PCIE slot Maybe its a hard-drive issue? (Because its not ONLY gpu issues) Switch the 2070 out for a 1050ti we have laying in an old build for now Burn it in holy fire Build: 1700x (not overclocked) Asus B450 prime Hyper 212 evo EVGA G2 750w PSU Nvidia 2070 16gb vengeance lpx Samsung 850 - 1gb SSD Sorry if I missed anything and feel free to ask for more info, some of this is just from the top of my head since he's asleep and I'm awake stressing about this

That's not how that list works. The tier list is edited to represent the quality of a unit in comparison to others. The G3 doesn't have problems because they moved it down the list, they moved it down the list to represent the problems it has. The G3 is a fine unit, but how you describe the Tier list is plain wrong

Hello all! My brother and I recently got back into Wargaming (Warhammer 40k specifically) and have been thinking about getting a 3d printer so we can print out our own terrain and perhaps some bits and bobs for our models. I know basically nothing about 3d printers and this was the first place I thought to ask for a general run down. Anyone have a good suggestion for a 3d printer that is accurate enough to print terrain that size and is ~$300-500?

Go for the Rx 570

So I'm headed out to help my brother buy his parts for his first ever custom gaming PC. We were looking at AMD CPUs due to their great cost/performance, and i noticed the local store we are going to have their R7 2700s priced at $230 but their R7 1700xs are $140. Is the 2700 worth almost double of a 1700x?

Was that an option in the post? No? Didn't think so. For half the cost go for the 970

It doesn't even look good enough to use as a paperweight

So I've been out of the loop with school and work for like 6-8 months now, so I'm not quite sure on whats the current state of hardware when it comes to new systems. My brother is in the early stages of planning a new rig, we don't even have a set budget yet. But I wanted to get an update on everything before we start planning. So whats the scoop on hardware? Any huge pricing issues still? Any new hardware on the horizon (like releasing in the next ~4-6 months) that's worth waiting for?

SLI is generally discouraged because very few games support it, and even less to a meaningful way. Sell the 1070 and buy a 1080.

3000mhz ram is rated to go UP to 3000mhz, if its in a board that doesnt support that high of speeds it will simply run at a lower speed.

Current motherboards could need a bios update to support the new gen of CPUs, but other than that it ought to work