LordArcturus

Yea never understood the names either, honestly HTC One (M7), HTC One M8, HTC One M9 and then HTC 10? linearity is not a thing this year apparently.

Yay another phone variant I may or may not switch to when needed cuz I have had my HTC One M7 since mid 2014, but honestly, I think it is time I switched to a new phone, while this one is good, I don't think it can handle the usage scenarios I have it under, and this thing heats up like hell when it runs for over 20 minutes with full brightness (I can hold it when it is at its highest temps, but it causes such discomfort I'd rather drop it in ice). Also I would rather they kept using 1080P until they had new battery tech that allows for at least as long as the usage time of older HTC One's with the 1440p cuz I eat through the battery on this phone like crazy (I can run the battery down to like 30% in 3 hours flat) and since these do not (maybe) use quick charging technology in the M7 it takes me until 5 in the morning to recharge it (might be cuz I have music running for an hour) The one thing that I never understand is how they price phones now, I got my HTC One M7 before the prices jumped up, at like 200$ I would think is the original price, but now some phones are costing me as much as 2 PC Components or so maybe even 3, why is it they jumped so high so fast?

Oh I do use it, I am half overthinking it, and also over planning on future compatibility and me being a noob at this compounded it even more. Oh I know, I had reservations in how I could build it on my first ACTUAL build I was nervous as hell and it almost lead me to back out and wait for someone else to do it for me and I watched them do it, and replicate their way of doing it, but I did it, not necessarily RIGHT but I did it *tried building the PC in a dumb way* Overthinking is as bad as under thinking with me, in fact it is worse. OK, bad knowledge on how PSU's work, that will be fixed, just need to go read/watch videos regarding PSU how they work and what they can and cannot do etc.

OK typo, I will give you that I am thinking overly uselessly on most of this but I have a weird way of stating the most unlikely things ever, so yea, Rookie Mistakes are lovely.

Is this alright or am I wrong in my thinking, tell me what you think about my thinking methodology on this info, thanks for your critique. (MAJOR RULE FOR PC BUILDING NEVER LET STATIC ELECTRICITY JUMP ONTO COMPONENTS IT WILL FRY THEM, USE STATIC ELECTRICITY BANDS AND HOLD ONTO A GROUNDED PIECE OF METAL.) PC planning is annoying, seriously, never get into it, I have to factor in power consumption, CPU TDP (Thermal Dispersion), GPU TDP, plan for more storage bays, wire management, and a whole load of other things And that is just the stuff that is on the surface, ya also need to look out for size restrictions on components, the power that you need to plan for (PSU Watt size, efficiency and how much you have left for future amounts) GPU, has about 6 things ya need to check for, 2 are physical, how much space is required and what you have for safety allowances and also sagging if it is heavy enough and has no back plate to add rigidity, if it sags too much it can cause distortion damage and snap your ???$ card in half You also need to plan further into everything else, namely how long will this PC remain actively compatible for the future, GPU's if possible should be replaced in 3 years of the current GPU Architecture being phased out for a new one (like Maxwell and Pascal for nVidia) if you don't and your GPU is not up to it anymore, it will not play games of new generations well, in fact it may even be worse than that, the new games won't be optimized for older cards than current generations, and cause massive screen tearing, the GPU can overheat trying to keep up with the games needs or the current memory is not enough and the game even on lower settings could go over the Video RAM specs and this can crash your PC since that card was not designed for VRam intensive games (2GB or 2048MB is the lowest possible VRam amount in this age unless you use a laptop of an older model, than it will go to 1024MB or 1GB of VRam) PSU or Power Supply Units are even more necessary for future planning, if you under power it during planning you can and will have a compatibility issue if you need to update to a new component or add more, I think that over planning is safe planning for the very reason of this, if you buy a 550W PSU, you need to stay under 490W you NEED to because if it goes above that, you could kill your system in a overload type situation, if you overload a PSU it WILL kill at least 3 major components, your Motherboard, GPU and CPU if you are a very unlucky person it could kill EVERYTHING that is using this PSU as a power source, namely the three above, the PSU itself, HDD's, SSD's, CD Drives, fans, additional components that need power delivered via Motherboard like a Wifi Network card, RAID Array Card, Sound Cards etc. Motherboard, you need to plan this for a reason you need to make a plan in your head write down everything you want and need and add a few extras as well, PCIE slots you want 2? get one extra from a tier higher board than what you need for future upgrades to your PC build just as a precaution for GPU's Workstation class GPU's, or some other equipment that needs a PCIE slot in any form,also search for several other things that you may not need at that moment but could need down the line, M.2 slots, SATA Express or SATA 6/Gbps slots, fan header slots etc. the reason for the SATA and M.2 slots is simple, you need storage if you are working on a lot of things that need to be saved for later, if you render and upload art, videos or other things like this for a living, you will need a lot of space. CPU, OK now we enter the higher tier planning, what do you need now and what will you need later, I am a Gamer with some streaming/video making on the side, so I do not need a Workstation class CPU or a Server one so no need for that unless I were making either a Workstation PC or Server PC, so we will stick to Intel i7 Core CPU's these typically have 4 Physical Cores and 4 Logical Cores these i7 CPU's have Hyperthreading capability which means they can take heavy work loads while staying semi cost effective to a degree, these CPU's go for 280$ all the way to 450$ in some cases if it is a K model (K is Unlocked or Over Clocking class CPU Models) if you have more physical cores it means more power for Rendering, Computing and some other jargon I don't know, it is the main work horse of your PC, Speed or the Core Clocking is a very useful thing in some cases, but not as much now as back in earlier CPU Architectures, the typical core clocks of a i7 nowadays have a minimum of 3.2GHz maximum on Non-K Models are 4.0GHz, on a K Model it can go up to 4.6GHz in the latest model (Skylake Models and some Haswell Refresh models) if you have sufficient cooling on the CPU, remember cooling is a MUST, do NOT under plan the cooling otherwise you WILL fry these CPU's, the reason is these CPU's can and WILL reach up to 70-80 degrees Celsius or around 150-180 Degrees Fahrenheit at minimum so cool these properly and have some extra cooling ability and it will be fine, if you put the CPU Cooler on right at least. I probably forgot some stuff that I forgot to look at, if so tell me and I will look into it, this is info I have been thinking on since 3 months ago, I am new, inexperienced and not very knowledged on PC Building and other related things, so be as harsh as necessary if I make errors in my rolling list of rules, planning knowledge and to dos and not to do.

>.> Wow... failure in checking everything is fine in your memory usage lol, welp that is how ya crash a game, OBS and possibly screw up memory xD. I also have the same feeling of 8GB of memory (mind you I use 1886MHz G.Skill Sniper Gaming or whatever they call their damn memory these days in a 2 x 4GB stick style), I am planning on upping to 2 x 8GB modules so I have as much allowance as possible.

110% Power Target, 85C Temp Target, 150MHz Clock Offset, 0MHz Mem Clock Offset. still crashes. So I think even if I were to add 5% more or 10% more I have reached my theoretical top clock without overvoltage changes, which even if I were a expert in OC, I wouldn't attempt. Safe OC: 100MHz, 100% Power Target, 80C Temp Target, 0MHz Memory Clock Offset.

This is my settings for my OC, at the safest level.

LMAO I just crashed War Thunder by going over my VRam OK above 140MHz OC and my drivers crash, max limit without going and adding on extra stuff to stabilize it.

So if I were to ad 140MHz on top of my original 60MHz if it jumped over the default temp cap it will throttle, hmm... okay, I'mma go start testing this thing than wish me luck, or not, and laugh at me perform a noob mistake and overkill OC.

Ah that would explain the 126MHz+ added clocking speed, thanks, for that tidbit of info. Still need ta find my highest OC value that I can use safely without burning the GPU out.

I have had my EVGA 950 FTW for about 2 months or so, I am currently running a stable 44-51C, 1503MHz full load with around 60%-70% of the VRam used. So is this a high efficiency OC or is this a very conservative OC and should I start testing it on high OC's to find a sweet spot for OC, Stability and Temps. War Thunder Benchmark Max Graphics Settings

Hmm... this thread may or may not be done already, but I am lazy, so, mods ya can murder (AKA merge mine into the other thread like this) if needed. Let's get started shall we. This thread will show off a build or builds that we all classify as Dream Machines in the fact they are not only overpriced and excessively so at that, but are also a bit unrealistic. Post what you would love to have but is a dream in here. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2cGLWZ $2396.46 Boredom tends to get to me, so what I do in boredom, is think up insane things namely PC builds no one in their right mind would make because of price, necessity or just plain WHY would we NEED this type of build just for gaming. :3