PatrickHogan

tyvm

Hi there, I've had a PC for about 1 year now and it's finally time to upgrade to a 144hz monitor which is arriving today (very excited). I do have a few questions though. 1. Do I need to be getting 144fps to maximise it? I mostly play R6 and sit at around 120fps on max settings, sometimes spiking to 180 or sitting at 135 but probably averaging 120, will this be ok? I only really care about fps for siege as the other games I play (mostly GTA 5) are more demanding and not competitive so the refresh rate won't be as influential. 2. If I do need ton be getting 144fps, how would you recommend finding the extra 20 frames bearing in mind siege is a CPU heavy game. Other than getting another 8GB stick of RAM as I only have 8GB at the moment and I don't want to upgrade if I don't have to. Pretty much just asking if overclocking my CPU/GPU/RAM speed will do anything and if so how would I do it/are there any good posts or videos you would recommend as the ones I've watched go a bit fast and I don't really understand. Thanks in advance :)

Ive tried that and everything else is normal CPU stress is usually like 50% and all temps are low the only thing abnormal is the GPU

So ive had my PC for about 4 months and up until the past week its been great. Since then, its rare i can get through a full game of r6 without my GPU (RX580 8GB) reaching 100% and the game crashing. I dont know how to fix this, I've updated the drivers to the latest ones and I dont think i have a virus as i have norton which prevents them existing in the first place as well as regularly scanning and removing them. The only thing i can see left to do is reinstall teh game and i really dont want to do that since it takes 6hrs. Any suggestions? The image is a graph of the gpu usage. Note that the GPU and CPU temps are low and the ram being used is about 4gb out of 8.

Thanks

Yeah that explains it. He had me worried because of the SATA SSD I had brought moments earlier

Told you I was a noob lmao. Thanks for the help though

Hey so I was watching an LTT video earlier today (one about the £1500 PCs maybe I cant remember) and he briefly mentioned that the SSD had a SATA connected rather than an M.2 which apparently means that it's no faster than a standard HDD. This was the first time I've heard this and I just wanted to check if I understood it right. Nobody else (Bitwit etc) has mentioned it so I guess I'm understanding it wrong - highly possible, I've only got into this because I'm replacing my Xbox with a PC over the holidays and because of the research I've done in chrome my YouTube recommended section is full of LTT videos lol

the athlon x4 i had is more expensive than the 200 ge and the ryzen 3 is 3.1ghz rather than the athlon x4 which is 3.5 ghz so the cpu sould be fine shouldnt it? the board works well though.

riiiighht. the compatibility filter on pc part picker was stopping loads of other cpus and motherboards and these were the best i could find

£491? right on budget

What about this? PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ckycP3 Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ckycP3/by_merchant/ CPU: AMD - Athlon X4 950 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor (£47.80 @ PC World Business) Motherboard: ASRock - A320M-DGS Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£40.49 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Team - Vulcan 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£56.59 @ CCL Computers) Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£62.34 @ Aria PC) Storage: Western Digital - Blue 1 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.94 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3 GB GAMING Video Card (£179.98 @ Ebuyer) Case: CiT - CIT-F3BLACKBLUE MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£29.49 @ Amazon UK) Power Supply: XFX - XT 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£35.93 @ CCL Computers) Total: £491.56 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-24 16:29 GMT+0000

look round at prices not copy the exact builds

ok thanks a lot ill have a look round and see what i can find

the second build?