Terra Firma

So you'd not suggest ordering a preset desk online then? I have seen some appalling reviews on some Ikea products listed on Amazon but it's kind of the option I had been considering Good suggestions tho, will keep everything in mind

Their delivery fees blow anything way out of my current budget tho It definitely is within driving distance, it's just out of the way and I don't have any other excuse to be in that area. And likewise, renting a vehicle adds to my already limited budget. Seems I'm going to have to bite the bullet anyway though

I don't actually, and what's more, I drive a convertible lmao

That's also an option i was considering, the DIY approach, but i don't know much about carpentry or what i should coat the surface with, if anything, and i don't really have much in terms of tools either

I have a very simple problem and seem completely incapable of solving it. I currently have a cheap metal/glass corner desk i bought off of Amazon, it serves me well but i also just built a new computer that's markedly heavier than my last one, and even then i didn't want to trust the glass surface with the weight of the computer. But it seems a crime and a huge waste to put this glass side panel and all my work on the floor. So that puts me in the market for either a simple table the size of a nightstand that i can put next to the desk, reserved just for the tower, or a new desk entirely. Problem being, I have two large monitors that i'm hoping to expand to three, and i'm very particular about the placement of my speakers, as i do sound work So if i'm to buy a new desk, it has to be rather large to accommodate all that AND the tower And if i'm to buy a small table, it can't be my grandmother's bedside table, it has to be aesthetically in line with the sort of modern minimalist look i'm going for. It also has to be built solidly enough to support the weight of an S340 Elite and the computer residing inside it. Advice? Suggestions? Feel free to chime in with pictures of setups and where you got your stuff, the latter being slightly more important. I'm trying to keep cost down as much as possible, as in under $150 or so, but if i can't afford it now i wouldn't mind more expensive solutions to work towards later.

Oh boy, if you could see the mess stuffed in the shroud you'd not be complimenting my management lmao I should've gone for CableMod replacements instead of extensions but I'd heard a few reviews saying that didn't always work so I went with the safe option in extensions

I'm a bit of an aesthetics slut tho, and simply preferred the Carbon lmao, but fair point. PSU my criteria was Gold rating and full modular, I wanted the 750 for future proof but I know it's wholly overkill and the 650 will do for now. The RM650x was on sale at the time for lower than anything else I liked so that was my decision made for me

I think so, but I think it had one less RGB element, or perhaps the discounts at the time made the X370 a better bet, I forget

I did, got stable 3.8 with auto voltage but was slightly uncomfortable with temps, especially since I render 40 minute long videos, so decided it could wait until I get the Kraken

Some context first. This is my first PC build, i'm upgrading from a prebuilt Ironside system with an FX 6300 under liquid @ 4.6, and a GTX 960 which i later upgraded to the card in this system. Prior to that, i had some budget laptops and a Sempron single core tower my dad built for me in middle school. Not fun. I've been doing the research since just before then, dreaming and reading and so forth The prebuilt was out of lack of confidence, and because the financing options Ironside offered made it alot more feasible to own a computer that wasn't trash. But when i got my first job, working a seasonal position at Amazon, i set aside most everything i made with this in mind. The original plan was an 8700k and a 1070Ti but as you may have read, Amazon set some records this holiday season. they fulfilled those orders with 60hr/week mandatory overtime. this was my first job. i left before the schedule changed kicked in. So. 8700k wasn't happening. Instead i settled for balance, as mentioned previously i upgraded the 960 in my old system to a Windforce 1060 6GB, and noticed very little performance increase due to the FX effect. But i knew this card wasn't bad if it could stretch it's legs, so i parted out with balancing this card in mind. Thanks to some pretty neat holiday deals, i was able to collect these parts over the course of the month of November. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Mh4K6X AMD R5 1600, all core overclock to 3.6Ghz with HWMonitor registering 1.26v -- $179 -- this was before Ryzen2 caused the price cuts, so a pretty good deal at the time -and the stock cooler (i wanted the 1700 just for the RGB stock cooler but oh well) MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon -- $139 -- i really wanted the aesthetics of the Gigabyte K7, and i also had some conflicting advice pertaining to VRM, power phases and overclockability but my experience so far is pretty good with the MSI board 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200MHz -- $166 -- this was and still is a steal, the same kit shot to $265 like three days after i placed my order. XMP3200 worked perfectly fine out of the gate, the reason i went with this kit in the first place Gigabyte Windforce OC GTX 1060 6GB -- $249 -- bought this in the middle of last year, so even the first etherium craze hadn't yet affected the GPU market. Crucial MX300 275GB -- $80 -- i really wanted an NVME, and failing that wanted a Samsung drive just for the peace of mind, but the extra few GBs on this one and the $10 i saved at the time made it reasonable. Seagate 2TB 7200RPM -- $60 Corsair RM650x -- $90 NZXT S340 Elite -- $90 -- i really wanted a Corsair 570x to match the glass of my desk, but i couldn't justify the price premium with the tighter than anticipated budget. I also got myself an NZXT Hue+ since my original intention was basically just a Black/Black and RGB LED theme, but i was missing the NZXT Kraken and RGB Corsair RAM i originally wanted. Those are now on backburner for now, along with some Aer fans and an EVGA 1080 to accommodate the 1440p UW upgrade i plan on doing at some point, as well as my stubborn refusal to turn anything down from Ultra I also opted to buy a USB version of Windows from Microsoft directly, fully understanding i could probably find cheaper means but i needed the physical USB version since i don't own a very good flash drive, and i wanted to have a legitimate copy on hand that could be transferred across any later systems anyway. All in all i spent around $1,450 for the entire thing, including GPU as well as the Hue+ and Cablemod extensions i picked up. Not bad for a first build if you ask me, which took me a bit over 3hrs to do. Installing the stock cooler was a pain, but aside from that no hiccups and i got a post on my first attempt. Due to my shorter time working and thus lower budget, i still have those few upgrades planned and i will update as they come along. I am also currently in a temporary living arrangement and don't have my full setup, otherwise i'd be posting a picture of the context this computer sits in as well. this i will also update with when i can. Thoughts, suggestions, criticisms, anything you like, discussion in general would be appreciated.

i also suspected something related to my card, i am using a dedicated dual band internal wireless card but it isn't exactly from a major brand that being said, it hasn't ever let me down or given me reason to think it's crap as for the game taking up CPU i think that's not entirely reasonable, with 12 threads it should have more than enough power, especially if i can browse the internet through multiple tabs while rendering a video without any hiccups as i've done before. and it's Forza, it's not loading open worlds, it's not loading a thousand things at once, the GPU is the bigger stress point with this game.

well i can't exactly pick up my whole setup and move it up a floor to where the router is, in the center of the living room right next to the TV. i do know that my brother, with his setup upstairs, doesn't get much different speeds from me though, and on my phone at least i've never seen the speeds get much faster even while sitting in the living room.

i'm already connected to the 5GHz band, this router has them split and named accordingly and i have everything of mine on the 5GHz band naturally.

it may also be relevant that i never see any performance issues when just playing games online, if the server isn't on the other side of the planet or something i can play games just fine with very acceptable ping but i don't know if that would be relevant to the combination of games AND large downloads

understandable i suppose, but i still feel this is a bit stupid. you're saying if i had hardline ethernet it may not be as much of an issue? i admittedly don't understand enough about networking to argue it, and when i eventually get back to MY internet, ethernet is what i used to have so i guess i'll see then but i still feel it shouldn't be an issue if the connection isn't dog trash, which i feel is true here.