HammyTheHybrid

Budget (including currency): 500$ USD

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Grand Theft Auto V, CSGO, Warframe, Minecraft, Light video editing and music producing.

Other details: Intel Core i7-3770K, GALAX GTX 660TI, 32GB RAM

He's looking to upgrade his PC, as he feels his performance over the years has tanked. He will mainly be using it for gaming, light video editing/music producing every now and then. Would like to hear some recommendations! 

I appreciate all the replies, thank you so much!!!

1 minute ago, Slottr said:

Any of the MSI B450 MAX boards don't require a bios update, and I know Asrock has a few boards that support 3000 chips out of the box

Aah alrighty, thanks

Just now, Slottr said:

Unless you need RTX then the 5700 XT would be a much better option

 

Only thing I'd change really is the motherboard. You won't need X570 unless you need PCIe 4. A B450 board will do fine

I got the x570 board to not have to do the BIOS update, sounds like a pain in the butt lol

1. Budget & Location

My budget would be around 1400-1500$ USD.

2. Aim

The aim is to play demanding games, possibly video edit and possibly even stream some. I'll be playing at 1080p, 144hz, so the parts feel a little overkill, but I want to also futureproof for games coming out in the future.

3. Monitors

I currently run one monitor, but would like to get a second one also sometime in the future.

4. Peripherals

I'd like to hopefully buy another monitor, maybe a 144hz-240hz, maybe the 360hz monitors that'll be coming out, but I wont be using the computers money for that.

5. Why are you upgrading?

I'm upgrading because I want to play current and future games at higher than 40-60FPS on the lowest settings hahah, and once again futureproof for future games. I will also be doing some light video recording/editing, maybe even livestreaming.

My main question, after filling this out is that wether I should get the RTX 2070 Super, or the AMD 5700XT. There's a 100$ difference, but from what I've researched (looking at what seems to be poorly made game benchmarking videos) There is a very little FPS difference, usually them tying out on most of the games. I've been sworn to stay with Nvidia, but if I can save 100 bucks, I might aswell should. On the other end, I really like the shadow play software, and how easy it is to just start recording videos and whatnot. 

My build is down below, I'm also hoping to get something beefier than the Ryzen 5 3600, but any other CPU after that just spikes up the price way too much for me. Any advice? I'm open to changing any other parts aswell. Thank you!

54 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

Ayy fellow 14 year old  

 

Pretty good for a first build. A lot better than my first build, try routing the CPU power connector behind the motherboard tray if there's enough space.

 

Here's what my build in the spec alpha (which is what I'm assuming that case is by the looks) looked like, try to mimic that: (Ignore the PSU cover, that was custom)

 

Wooooow that cable management is great compared to mine, and yes i do use the spec alpha  

3 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I guess it's OK. It could be better, but for a 14 year old, I doubt you'll be showing off the insides of your rig anyways. 

Its my first build, so im not experienced  

3 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Not great but there's nowhere to hide the cables, so i guess its good enough lol.

 

Also im guessing you mean i3 6100?

Ah. Thanks, and yes. A typo..

Hello! My name is Rey, I made some cable management on my computer which turned 2 months old a couple of days ago! The specs are I3-6100, 8GB Ram, 1TB HDD and a Gigabyte GTX 1060 3GB

What do you guys think of the cable management?

On 7/10/2017 at 10:39 AM, LoGiCalDrm said:

Besides WooderMarkers point, i7 puts maybe 30-50% more load on cooler. So even when cooler is bit better, temps will also be higher.

Good point.. So, should i get something like a Be quiet dark rock 3 when i get an i5? or is that overkill? Im also thinking of a cryorig H7

7 hours ago, WoodenMarker said:

Beefier cpus like quad core i5/i7's do have better stock coolers but not so much better that they'd be quieter than the smaller stock coolers used on i3's, celerons, or pentiums which are much easier to cool.

Makes sense, sorry if i seemed stupid.. x.x

1 hour ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

By any chance the pics and reviews you read were about i5/i7? i3 is lower end CPU with quite nice limits. Even locked i5 (4460 for example) doesn't hit 80C under benchmarking with Cinebench (tested with room temp being 25C).

It was about an I7 but i was expecting the heatsinks to be better depending on the CPU.

12 hours ago, WoodenMarker said:

This is normal. The stock cooler is generally not that loud but people tend to parrot what others have said as if all stock coolers are the same on all cpus. 

There are cases where an i7 might have core voltage set pretty high on auto or a case with bad ventilation can result in a loud stock cooler but this is not the norm.

My case fans are louder hahaha

3 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Nothing wrong with that. So long as it performs well and stays cool then you're fine. You might have extra airflow in the case to move hot air out faster compared to those who show higher temps or some other factors.

I have my fans set at the max in my case and its barely audible. People always make a big fuzz about their quietness  but laptops are so loud compared to computer fans lmao

So i was bored and i decided to benchmark my CPU because i wanted to see how well it did and while i was benchmarking it, it woudnt go above 60° C and it wasnt thermal throttling. This was a little odd since ive seen videos where with its stock cooler its usually around 80° .. I left it running for 10 minutes  before i took the picture so i stopped it thinking it was a bug, started it again and it never went above 60° . Heres my screenshot,

Now i probably made myself look like a fool from this but im not the biggest in tech, i started getting into tecnology like 6 months ago and so far i love computers and all these extreme tech stuffs.. I built my own computer around two months ago and its so much better than a laptop. Even if it had almost the same specs as my laptop, it still beats it 

On 5/28/2017 at 2:17 PM, Zweihander said:

Haha, nice!

 

So no more issues? Mic is working great? 

I decided to ask them again for the warranty, now its crashing my pc, and it sounds like a robot and if i sped up the sound... bad luck 

16 hours ago, Zweihander said:

I would contact customer support, or put in a ticket with them ... this is beyond me at this point.

 

If you don't mind dealing with customer support, do it ... otherwise RMA. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

So uh..... i turned my computer off for the rest of the night, i turn it back on and today its working... Alright

1 minute ago, Zweihander said:

I would contact customer support, or put in a ticket with them ... this is beyond me at this point.

 

If you don't mind dealing with customer support, do it ... otherwise RMA. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

Dont worry about it, i already contacted customer support, thanks for trying to help though! 

10 minutes ago, Zweihander said:

Choose the appropriate device and select uninstall.

 

In your case, the unrecognized device. If this isn't a solution, you could try right-clicking the unrecognized device and going to properties > details > hardware IDs and copy the first result listed and google it, you may find the driver there.

 

 

Welp... I did everything you did and its still not working, this is also what comes up for me when i click on hardware ids

2 minutes ago, Zweihander said:

Uninstall drivers for the mic, and uninstall the mic from the devices list, unplug it from your computer, restart your computer fully, plug back in the mic, check for any new device drivers.

 

Also, make sure the cord is plugged into the mic properly - this can be a known issue with the device.

How do you delete the mics drivers? they dont even show up, and ive deleted the "usb" drivers many times and still nothing, for now im just waiting for blue to answer

2 minutes ago, Zweihander said:

What version of Windows are you using?

Windows 10, take note that i got this pc 20 days ago

1 minute ago, Zweihander said:

Are you able uninstall that driver, unplug the device and then plug it back in and will it load a new driver?

Ive tried that many times, the same thing shows up.. I even tried it on other computer and the same problem happens

27 minutes ago, Zweihander said:

Try uninstalling the recording device driver, unplug the microphone, plug it back in and it should reinstall the driver.

Note: You might need to reboot your PC at some point after the driver loads.

 

If the problem still persists, I would return for a refund/exchange from place of purchase. 

It doesnt show up as a recording device driver, just shows up as an unknown usb device, heres a pic 

Hmm.. ive tought about it but i wanna try to find any solution before doing that..