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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

No. You can build a moderately better PC, including a 6 core 8700, 1060 gb (better than the 3gb version in that) and a powersupply that isn't a fire risk (Unnamed 300w PSU, which is lower than even Nvidia's minimum spec). For under $1300, including a full copy of Windows 10. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($299.00 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.49 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z370P D3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($99.89 @ OutletPC) Memory: GeIL - EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($153.99 @ Newegg) Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU800 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($66.90 @ OutletPC) Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($43.31 @ Amazon) Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB G1 Gaming Video Card ($329.99 @ Newegg Business) Case: Fractal Design - Core 2300 ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ SuperBiiz) Power Supply: SeaSonic - 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ SuperBiiz) Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home Full 32/64-bit ($119.00 @ Newegg Business) Total: $1241.55 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-01 19:25 EDT-0400

I would guess a 960 give or take

Yes the first 1 to 2 numbers in a model number (ie the 9 or 10) mark the generation, and the last two are the actual model. The 1070 is equivalent to a 980ti, so much better than a 970, while a 970 is much better than a 1050 and just below a 1060.

Yes, multi-gpu solutions are not optimal. A single 980 would be a much better deal than two 280xs

There is no reason to upgrade from a 6700 to 7700k unless you have a Z270 board and will overclock, and even then with the 8000 series out its not really worth while. Don't buy a 7700k. Get a Z370 + 8600k instead

I own that monitor and like it quite a lot

That's why you need to check if your bios has a core enabled, so you will know.. Dude

A good 550 will be fine for that system. I personally suggest ~600-650 in case you want to upgrade to a more power hungry system down the line, since good PSUs can last through multiple rigs/upgrades

While higher resolutions do tend to take a majority of pressure off the CPU, the case of a 3470s and 1080ti it would still be a major issue.