Fallenleader

Forgive my ignorance, but I don't do much online shopping. How can I use LT affiliate links to support LT, while ensuring I get the exact product I need from my pcpartpicker list? My list currently has 1 NCIX and 2 amazon product(s), which means that I can use an affiliate link with them.

Based on these alternative solutions, I assume the 1600 is worth the additional cost over the 1500X, which I have decided to go with. I dropped the wifi card for now, as I have a USB option, and intend to hardwire ASAP. The PSU options are nice to keep in mind, but I don't even need a PSU upgrade at this moment. I also decided to lean with a 1060. I opted to go with a cheaper NZXT case due to no crap given about fancy displaying a budget replacement machine, since I can set aside more money over time for a true no compromise upgrade. I fail to understand the point of 3000MHz ram when Linus has made multiple videos showing that the gains are minimal. Unless there is a justified reason, I will not be changing my ram option from what I currently have picked. I revised the list over time, before I even saw these replies. Here is the new list, sitting me at a sweet price point that is quickly achievable a part at a time. I would like to stick between $650 - $700 for now. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KtTj9W

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XtB8wV This is a quick build based on what I KNOW. One thing Linus and most youtubers are not accounting for audience wise, is not every potential gamer will be gaming at 1440 or even 4K, so tuting these modern parts as if they are the norm is fine and dandy for someone needing that 4K support, or want to push 1440p60+. For gaming: I want to crush 1080p60 on ultra everything. I will namely be playing BF4, SWBF/2, Destiny 2 on release Emulation is typical here, namely things like 3DS, Gamecube, Wii, PSX/2. WiiU emulation considered eventually, though my actual console is collecting dust right now because I lack an interest in many of the titles on said console. The reason for emulation is simple enough, such as the ability to improve internal resolution of the games, mods without online ban from modifications, etc. User Specific: This is where things get a bit more... murky. I need a CPU that you would use if you were planning a 1440p60 build, need 4 cores minimum, 6 maximum. The reason for this is programming games, and running VMs, such as linux. The additional power provided here, especially for programming would allow me to quickly playtest my games on the fly, while still having Unity, Visual studio, Max, and photoshop active in the background. Seems an odd request at first, until you realize just how CPU intensive things can get. I can already run Unity and Visual Studio in tandem on my phenom II x4 945, though it shows bottlenecking before I even run other utilities, and testing my game in development which is far from resource intensive at the moment (primitive cubes, spheres, etc. Uses about the same resources right now as the nintendo old 3DS) takes a good while just to run. Compiling takes ages. Multimedia: Another reasoning for the additional CPU horsepower, is video compilation. I have a YouTube channel that I share my music and occasional funny gameplay videos on. Sharing straight from my PS4 is harder than editing within a PC, and compiling videos on my current build at 720p30/1080p30 can take anywhere from 15 minutes for a 10 minute clip, to 2 hours for a full hour of gameplay. Generally speaking, it's way too slow. Perefs: I am wanting to code for VR, so oculus support is critical here. Not so crazy about using it for games aside from as 3D monitor solution rather than actual VR content. Since I am susceptible to motion sickness (I literally cannot use google cardboard or samsung VR because framerate is too low), I need to be pushing the recommended frames in VR. Leastly, I piced team red in this template because price to perf is amazing in comparison to intel right now. If I were trying to do twitch streams, or push 4k gaming, I would probably do an all in intel build, rather than trying to get my target for the lowest possible cost. Ultimately, IDGAS about fancy RGB, or even a fancy case. That motherboard I chose supports RGB, and personally I would just slap in some RGB lights and set them white or blue permanently. Not too fond of that motherboards red LED's because of this reason. Lighting option and windowed case is a definite must though, as initially I won't target RGB, but eventually I would buy the parts at a later time, once I am have spare cash to boot. So can someone help with a build here for my specific needs? I can answer any further questions if need be. I also currently own a PSU rated for 530W that can be used for now, though a case replacement is sadly necessary because of it maxing at usb 2.0, poor airflow design, as well as cosmetic damage slightly warping it.

You have drivers who will be transporting you across the country. The first one available has just gotten his licence and the job. He proceeds to transport you for a while. Eventually you make a stop. You are now presented with an option to choose another driver. This time, it's one who has been driving for a year and knows better routes to your destination. Later on again, you get to another stop. This time you are able to choose to replace your current driver with one who has been driving for 5 years, and knows even more efficient routes to get to your destination. The idea here is similar. For gamers, sometimes having a more stable driver could actually translate to performance. Sometimes, just a minor update to one would have a major needed change to another config. The saying "If it ain't broke..." doesn't always apply, as with computers, staying up to date on everything from SW to FW to drivers could make the difference between an optimal gaming experience or a hacker reading your banking info and spamming cat porn to your Facebook friends. At the same time though, not everything in the driver world is a winner, so people want to check first before they do something that could potentially screw them up, especially if their gaming rig is also a daily driver.

Is this a trick question? Yes, it is possible, and to double check myself, I found the answer in 30 seconds googling it. That isn't to claim you motherboard can support it. You should consult with your motherboard manufacturer on whether you can or cannot. For example, my motherboard needed a bios upgrade for me to go from an Athlon 64 to a Phenom 2 945.

I see what you mean. General idea here with this type of question on a forum where the main hardware reviewed by the LTT media group is gaming hardware is directed towards a gaming rig. I also was curious in general how most users here would consider investing a ludicrous amount of cash for a gaming PC considering that things get obsolete fast in the PC world. I also edited the title of the thread to reflect this.

I fully agree. I wouldn't go to Wal-Mart and buy a $500 pc there and expect to be able to game with it with any kind of console performance assuming it could even handle most games that people play, but I also wouldn't invest $2k in a machine where all I would be doing is watching netflix and watching kitten videos/LTT on YouTube. This poll is directed at gamers, as no average Joe or sure would bother dropping $2k for a general purpose PC unless they are just that ignorant or rich.

There are literally AIO gaming PC's (Linus showed one at the convention this year in fact), but I view them like a gaming laptop where they overcharge to shrink the parts. Even a micro ATX and monitor setup could fit in a tiny space if there is a tiny bit more room. I am not saying a gaming laptop is completely useless, I simply think the price to performance is ludicrous. I barely have room to place my full ATX computer and have to stand my PS3 vertically to fit. My new place I will be moving to will be even worse, so I will probably have to change my PC case to a slimmer ATX since my initial build will have an ATX mobo.

My last computer build was a $1200 initial cost build. Over the years I have invested around a whopping total of $1600. As I make this thread, I will be loosely throwing around the number $2k, but I essentally am implying any PC that is above the cost of $1200 USD using top of the line components. This price point isn't meant to account for the case, monitor, or aesthetics such as RGB lighting, just pure hardware such as motherboard, PSU, CPU, GPU, storage, etc. Users can easily recycle a case and aesthetics from previous builds, as they do not impact performance of a device (aside from airflow or things like that which isn't part of this topic). Having to finally retire this old XP machine, I have realized that it served it's purpose, could still squeeze life out of a few older game titles and newer less demanding titles, and this raised a question in my head: Does a super build actually justify it's ludicrous cost? Would a console be a better option? I being a game developer obviously cannot do away with a machine capable of gaming, but I do little gaming on my PC nowadays relying on my PS3 to play the titles my PC simply cannot handle at all. This point is mainly due to the fact that my PC cannot handle the games I currently enjoy or wish to enjoy. Doing away with a console as well means I loose the ability to enjoy gaming with my current friends, while I will be able to enjoy gaming with a new set of friends. For this reason, I personally have to cast the vote for the console question as a yes, it is justified if you enjoy exclusive games and have a set of friends who you enjoy gaming with, and an even bigger yes if the consoles are exploited to take advantage of things the companies withhold or simply fail to include. If I didn't have a group of friends to enjoy gaming with (on the PS4 for example), just having linux or extra features alone wouldn't justify the cost for me. There are only 3 exclusive games I would want to play, and even those games I wouldn't play often enough to budge me to drop $250 for a console, and another $90 for the games. The rest of the games I enjoy I could play on PC, and graphically would still be superior on a decent gaming rig at 1080, much less upscaled 4k if the PC could hit that resolution. But that still doesn't fully help me grasp modern performance vs cost machines. Back in XP days, dropping $2k was essentially a thing you did if you wanted a PC to last 10 years like mine has, but the advancements were faster than expected as well. Seeing a point where companies like Intel are hitting a wall of performance vs size, it wouldn't get much better within 5 years with the current trend. You just OC and bam, you are god to go. Maybe not bleeding edge or top of the line performance, but you just squeezed out an extra chunk of performance from that nifty i7. GPUs on the other hand are having a really nice performance gain from Nvidia, so this is where that gets a bit more murky. 5 years later, that 1080 might be running on par with a 780 or worse. 4k would be a commonplace thing, so you would start to see issues like I am with a 280 and gaming performance. Ultimately, I would love to hear what people think. My current view is piece by piece. totaling at $2k for a rigs life isn't that bad, compared to a $2k upfront.

Personally I would love to slap an i5 as a starter than go up to an i7 7700k, but I have a specific budget and that actually threw me up to ~$560. Just opted to oc the i3 to max fan capable oc, then grab my LC kit after the PSU and ram upgrade for additional OCing. This should get my by as I grab my parts each month. as I replace, I intend to sell my older ones, or hang onto them as spares. Heck, I could even grab a second motherboard and have a general purpose unit once these parts are no longer needed, as I still have my parts I am recycling. The game is not very demanding at the moment as I have targeted mobile platforms and had to work with the EVGA GTX 280 SC. Superclocked or not, I cannot OC the GPU for any more juice (even tried a risky vBios mod to no avail). This actually limits what I can do with shaders and graphics, even though my current card has juice to easily triple what I have programmed already. Unfortunately I was already having occasional crashes with my 280, and that vBios mod obviously didn't make matters better (if anything it shortened it's already short life). Ultimately, I opted to build a PC rather than buy the Switch. The SDK alone will hit me at about $3000 USD in the wallet. That cost is unjustified if I don't have the equipment able to work with it, and my current build already dislikes 3DS development, though it prissily complies with my commands.

I am currently developing a PC game, had to drop the 3DS version, anticipating the Switch SDK, so I was holding off on VR. I might be bale to borrow a rift in the meantime, and was interested in how this would hold up till I finish then get a rift SDK setup going. I have currently got an android cardboard VR camera functional, but the experience and development for it SUCKS.

Very soon. this is just based on my income tax return. the cheaper replacements will be done first, which means RAM, PSU, case, etc.

I haven't yet. Not really trying to rush into a VR set until I know how it will handle coding wise, or if I would have to get a SDK. first goal is to drop my XP era $2k build for something modern.

That was something I couldn't get a good answer too. Googling says the 1050 Ti is sufficient, but then I am unable to find any videos on VR and it, much less this specific card.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Y4LcNN This is an emergency build I am having to make as my GTX 280 is dying, and my Phenom 2 x4 945 is overclocked to the max and still showing it's age more and more as I make progress programming my game. The build will contain my existing 530w PSU, my 1TB HDD, and my current ATX case, so these were not included for the moment for that reason, and I have Windows 10 already that I can install with, so there was no need to pay for something I already have. I am quite curious what my gaming experience will be like on 1080p, as well as VR with the Rift. Before people start swapping parts, I will not be able to exceed ~$460 at the moment. I intend to swap out both the CPU, GPU, and case much later, with my first replacement being my PSU and an additional 8GB ram. I will also transition to a SSD much much later in the build, as load times are not a huge concern. I am opting out of cosmetic modifications until the final system is completed, as this is unnecessary additional cost. I am opting for a nice black, white, and silver theme here, so once I do work on cosmetics, I will probably do white hard tube liquid cooling and a non RGB white LED accent light. EDIT I forgot to mention a few things: I live in the US, so $USD The main games I will be playing are rocket leauge which I can already max on a GTX 280, BF4, BF1, NFS series, ranging from classic to modern, mainly 3,4,5, shift 1 and 2, the run, and the newest one, possibly some other various games that are not very demanding. The biggest modern title I will be touching is Battlefield. My budget cap within the next 3 months is ~$460. anything higher than this other than ~$10 is not possible for now.