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A. Cole

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  1. Yeah I'm considering either underclocking pretty much everything to run cooler, and draw less power, or figure out enough ways the PC has to work so it makes it "more efficient" for running 24/7 at its power draw. Hadn't really considered needing a ups, hopefully I can find just a small UPS for safe shutdown operations if the power goes. In terms of the UPS though, am I better just getting a single socket ups (so only the PC connected) or one with enough sockets for the amp etc so the speakers don't pop on a power surge/failure? Just a quick look and the APC Back-UPS BX - BX500CI looks like it should suit my needs, is it enough though?
  2. Yeah it is very triangular, but my case as allot of angles (and is white) so should look nice in the same set up The Denon system doesn't seem to be very future proof, it only has two speaker channels for the speakers its paired with, which means I would need another amp for the centre speaker which isn't ideal really. On-top of that, the difference between that bundle and the speakers as a pair without the amp makes it £226 for the Denon amp, which is 30w, where as the limited edition X7 is £289 (£60 more) for 2x50w (100w), many more channels and a much smaller footprint with the non limited being £239, 2x38w (76w). Budget doesn't cut it, because the RTX cards are the worst for making background noise in the PC, these are cards at like £1-2k so should have enough in there budget for proper shielding.
  3. I think I might have found my good entry point, there's a bundle at the nearest Hifix if anyone can give an opinion on the Denon DM41DABwith 2x Dali Spektors and im thinking of pairing it with the spektor vokal centre speak all coming to £595 which seems like a good entry point. I might still get an external PCI-e sound card just because I've always liked keeping up to date with them, I've got like 5 full sized PCI-e slots (mix between x8 and x16 bandwith) and i'll probably try and excuse myself for it by saying its extra shielding for the data before it leaves the pc (because RTX cards have been known to interfere with onboard audio) but deep down they just look cool and I remember seeing my cousins ugly old ass gaming pc with sound cards and all the 5.25" populated with fan controllers and shit, it was brown and hidious and i pre-2000's gaming pc and I loved it XD plus gives me more budget for HDD's and shit XD and as much as i love RJ45 cables, fiber is better on paper for pretty much everything, and there's spare fiber NIC cards at my work if I ever want one XD EDIT when I was looking into the Denon DM41DAB I noticed it only had two channels. Going back to the creative labs - sound blaster X7 It seems to plenty of connectivity for the future, would this work with the Dali Spektors? I think it would look good near a lounge TV
  4. Hey all, Some of you might have seen my other posts, I plan on converting my current system to a NAS/media centre/server when I build a new system. This post is particularly for the NAS side. Anyone with an AMD board who uses StoreMI, do you know if its a licence key that I could use on an intel system or does it need to recognise an AMD chip? the reason I ask this is I plan to actually purchase fuzedrive1000 on my next build to test if my theory of pairing a gen4 m.2 with an SSD will see improvements due to the difference in read write speeds, so I was hoping I could use the storeMI licence from my next build on my intel build instead. If not does anyone know of a tiered storage system that works on intel and specifically x99 boards? as mg 500gb SSD will be staying in the NAS anyway so I was hoping to use it as the cache. Or am I limited to intels optane drives? I don't really want to have to use Raid0 to increase HDD performance, as I would rather use redundancy raids like 1, 5 & 6.
  5. ok made a separate post for the audio side, back to the main topic then. This is my current specification for the NAS (parts I already own I have omitted the price) CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Cooler Master MasterAir MA610P Motherboard: Asus X99-DELUXE II ATX LGA2011-3 Memory: Corsair Vengeance LED 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory Storage: MyDigitalSSD SBX 128 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (£24.95 @ Amazon UK) - intended for OS and drivers only Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage: Seagate IronWolf NAS 6 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£162.49 @ Box Limited) Storage: Seagate IronWolf NAS 6 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£162.49 @ Box Limited) Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB Dual Video Card Case: NZXT Phantom 530 (Black) ATX Full Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply (£74.99 @ AWD-IT) Case Fan: NZXT FN-200RB 166.2 CFM 200 mm Fan Case Fan: Phanteks PH-F200SP_BK 110.1 CFM 200 mm Fan Case Fan: Cooler Master MasterFan MF200R RGB 90 CFM 200 mm Fan I'm hoping I can use the SSD as a tiered storage some how, rather than using raid 0 for the HDD as I would rather have a redundancy raid like 1, 5 or 6 for the HDD is there enough ram? is the CPU powerful enough? are the 2x1gb built in NIC enough or should I get a 10gb NIC card? Do I need anything like a raid controller card or will the built in controller on the X99 board suffice? Anything else you can find that might need improved? Am I better getting larger capacity HDD or smaller? Majority of use case as a NAS will be movies, music and steam library
  6. Hi all This is following on from my post in Servers and NAS, In short when I make my next build, I plan to convert my current X99 system into a NAS and media centre. I'm quite musically inclined with experience in a few different instruments, but I have never really ventured into the audiophile section. Also my father bought a load of music from a radio station that closed down years back, these seem to be FLAC or WAV files as often a single track fills the HDD (the largest HDD i saw in this box was 68gb) on-top of this I have a decent small vinyl collection which I would like to play on the system, Is it easy to switch from PC to Turntable? also I've seen these turntable to digital converters, are they crap or not? The closest two examples would be a custom speaker set up in a car (JBL), and a old hi-fi turntable system and when I say old its pre 1970's (some Japanese brand I can't remember the name for) and believe it or not when I checked online, that particular Hi-Fi set could be bought with a cylinder player as an additional extra LOL But in short, I discovered how much range some of my favourite music can have on a good system and was wondering what would be a good entry level audiophile system. I'm also particular to brand matching, but I'm only familiar with a few speaker manufactures including; JBL (car only), Rainbow (car only), Pioneer, Harmon Kardio, Bose (which I was kind of put of by the Mazda RX-8 system) and Klipsch which is way outside my price range. Thats not including manufacturers in the music industry like Peevey etc. Note - I'm not too fussed about the set up, as I've helped set up stages indoor and out including finding acoustic sweet spots. Budget is flexible as this will be an ongoing project, It will be going in a lounge set up, I would say up to £500 for a 2.0 system, up to £1200 for a 2.1 or 3.1 system and max £2000 for a 5.2 or 7.1 system, but preferably I wouldn't want to exceed £1000 so future upgrade-ability/addition is preferable I have no DAC other than whats built into my X99 board, so that would need included in the budget. Questions: Should I get a sound card? I know most people say go external dac, but I'm thinking more a way to connect to a Hi-Fi controller rather than a small external DAC. In particular I have always wanted a Creative Labs card. AMP? Sound blaster X7? is this a complete waste of budget or would it be a good head unit? Would I want a higher wattage amp? Software? what software will I need to run FLAC and other high fidelity files? will media player work or do I want something that's more like serato? Optical? right this one I have no clue about, I know how Fibre optics work but would you ever use the optical port on these speaker systems? what connection method's would you recommend ? DMX, Jacks, copper wire etc. Speakers? this I probably need most help with, can you achieve "entry audiophile" level with these home cinema systems, or can I use Cabs and Amp's that musicians use or will these not have the right range? because I can get my hands on some Vox cabs. How do you tell apart audiophile speakers from regular bookshelf/desktop speakers? (it is resistance, or range, or anything else that can help me identify them) what wattage should I be looking for a medium sized room (something that's below the VR recommended size but would still be playable without breaking anything) I'm not really going for loud, I want clear audio. Also, would you even recommend an "audiophile" set up for a home lounge?
  7. I wonder if you could stack more than 2 radiators (would need really long screws) but what if you tried sandwiching multiple layers of fans and radiators till the back was full?
  8. @traha9 you show enthusiasm in a topic I enjoy discussing, so plenty glad to help. I think at this point, you might not know enough to get a perfect build with no bottle necks or faults (which I don't think anyone really does know the perfect build) but I think you should know enough now that you don't accidently make a bad choice. No matter what you choose at this point I think you will love it and enjoy it, and we can never 100% future proof something because if you can then those IT companies development teams aren't doing there job right. Since your new to all this, things like StoreMI and overclocking can always be played with at a later date, and I'm glad you feel like you've learnt from us all. I'm quite new to the forum (been watching linus since NCIX days) but everyone on here seems very nice and jumps at the opportunity to help, I didn't need to join this forum but im glad I did oh as the last foot note, I haven't really looked into CyberpowerPC in a long while, if there still going it means there not trash, just one itty bitty thing. The link I clicked on was fine specwise but watch out for "flashy" cases because some of the nicest looking cases have the worst airflow (corsairs crystal line up for example) which is why I've always like NZXT, very few of there cases suffer from suffocation. but keep us update if you do go for a system (there's a forum for that somewhere) and enjoy joining the PC master race
  9. OSU! its a music game which involves clicking and tracking, allot of pro gamers recommend OSU to improve aim, timing, tracking etc admittedly not the best sound tracks even if your an anime fan, but you can supposedly download track maps for western titles
  10. I've had good experiences with pioneer in the past so there a brand that I trust, for a long time I always just assumed BOSE was out of my range like Harman Kardon, but not quite Rainbow prices. Though I went of Bose very quickly after hearing the Bose systems in most Mazda RX8 (i know its old tech but still) and I was surprised my cheaper aftermarket JBL system sounded so much better I use to own a Celica before she died, with a nice sound system in that was all JBL, (2x) tweeters, (2x) 4", (2x) 6" x 8", a 4 channel 600w amp and (2x) 12" subs (I know well overkill on the subs, but I got them for an amazing deal, I believe I got both for £90, one was still sealed in box and other was missing its box) How does JBL translate into the home audio? or would you recommend against JBL? Also this is a long shot, but I have a few musician friends who have some good CAB's like Vox (speakers only without amp) would these be any good for a home audio system or am I being stupid? Also whats your opinion on me going for a sound card and external DAC? I really like creative labs so I was thinking a creative labs card paired with there sound blaster x7, is this overkill or would it be a good start point? How exactly do high end audio book shelf speakers work? should i be looking for higher impedance? is there a way to tell audiophile speakers apart from desktop other bookshelf/home audio systems? Do i need a large room for good acoustics or can you have an audiophile setup in the average lounge? how do these compare to home cinema systems like the Samsung Q90R? I'm assuming a good entry level audiophile set up will be around the Q90R price of £1500 Also though its not related to this build, the mini itx build I plan on making in the future might feature the sound blaster Katana or the Razer Nommo for desktop speakers. I've always wanted to listen to Santana on an audiophile system P.S should i be making a new post on a different part of the forums to ask all these questions? XD
  11. I plan on going for 2x 1tb gen4 NVMe (likely the sabrent rocket ones as there £30-40 cheaper than corsair and gigabyte) and until I get these gen4 NVMe I'm going to be using my Kingston 256gb m.2 for the short term, so I don't want to buy another m.2 that I will end up replacing later down the line. Plus I'm always sceptical pairing AMD and Intel components (i know there wont be problems but it just doesn't feel right) the SSD is meant to be for redundancy and extra room, if I wasn't going SSD I would probably go for a 10tb but as stated before that will be better in the current build I have when i convert it into a NAS/Media server etc. It's a bit complicated how I plan to set up the storage on this build, but I plan on buying the extended store MI licence (fuzedrive 1000) and seeing if Raid 0 is even needed for gen4 (probably not) then pair the SSD to make the vSSD. If raid 0 is pointless then 1tb of gen4 will be used for the vSSD and the other 1tb will be used for OS and intensive/large programs that aren't games, like AutoCAD, Solidworks or sketchup, Sibalius, unreal engine etc. And to finish this of I want to have a network connection to what is my current system which will be turned into a NAS for steam, movie and audio libraries. There's no point using the gen4 m.2 as the network directory because a 1gb/s network will bottle neck the 4-5gb/s read write of gen4 NVMe so it will be going from NAS to SSD then if that file/program/whatever is used often enough it will move from SSD to NVMe
  12. main airflow for the tower 900 case is the rear compartment, where it can fit something daft like 2x 480mm radiators and you would either hot cold isle it, or have it all flowing one direction. The only intake for the main compartment is those grills at the bottom, so the 120mm is the only thing providing airflow in that front compartment (which is why some reviewers didn't like it, because even if you water cool there are some components like chokes that wont be cooled and still need airflow) some people try putting a fan above the HDD rack but it doesn't realy improve much unless your modding the case. If I was going to mod that case for more fans, me being me I would try and put a 200mm fan on the bottom as an intake, but i've always loved 200mm fans for there massive airflow and sound profile.
  13. @HumdrumPenguin thanks for coming in and helping with this, I wasn't aware of a difference in IPC but thanks for bringing that up, something new for me to look into. But I'm sorry, but where did you get the AMD cards are hot runners? that's just not true anymore (AMD show junction and edge temperatures unlike Nvidia, but if you translate that into the same avg temp Nvidia use, the Rx line up is much more efficient and cooler) Glitches yes, but there a brand new architecture and they havent had as many bugs as Nvidias Pascal architecture did out the gate. Yeah the blower coolers suck but that's the same on any card, AMD are just not afraid to show there temperatures and they have a sensor almost directly on there die, so yeah that reads hotter than Nvidia would ever dare show (look at heat camera images) there also 7nm like the ryzen 300 series, I say this because the 3000 series dropped in temperatures and increased in efficiency, this is the same on the new RX cards which have been marketed against the rtx 2060 but been seen competing with the 2070 super (even on allot of the nvidia favouring games) I would still recomend a 2070 super mind, even if its just for the amount of support nvidia cards have compared to AMD @traha9 I wouldn't go for a 2080 super, it has very little gains over the 2080 and the 2070 super performs very well. Supposed i should of asked if you would be focusing on FPS games or more free roam? because at the moment RTX on kills frames and is unusable I'n most high pace fps games. going back to something penguin mentioned, the jump rom generations with Nvidia have been getting smaller, with that point the 1080ti still performs on par with the 2070 super (the 2070 being slightly better at newer games and the 1080 slightly better at non directX12 games) I think going from a 2070 super to 2080 super is to little gain for the extra cost. The only 2080 card I would recommend is a 2080 ti, the 2080 super was a flop compared to the other super cards, and the 2070 super pretty much a 2080 (non ti or super) but usually cheaper To your SSD question, no neither of them are gen4 m.2 SSD's, as far as I'm aware there is only sabrent, gigabyte and corsair who currently offer gen4 SSD's and an easy way to tell (other than the hammering of Gen4 advertisement) is gen4 SSD's often come with beefy coolers, to compare the 1tb gen4 sabrent rocket is $229 compaired to the non gen4 at $109. The difference between normal NVMe and SSD isn't realy enough for StoreMI to see a performance gain on either, I'm not even fully sure pairing a Gen4 m.2 with SSD will have use of StoreMI, something I'm going to be testing in my next build. but comparing avg read write speeds (very simplified) HDD at 150mb/s (on a good day) SSD at 500mb/s NVMe at 2gb/s (200mb/s) gen4 m.2 at 5gb/s (5000mb/s) There's a 4x speed difference between SSD and NVME but a 10x speed difference between gen4 and SSD. StoreMI became popular to pair HDD with a NVMe because you would see gains, but pairing SSD with NVMe doesn't seem to be popular. On the monitor, I agree with penguin there's not really a reason to get a 240hz display (if you find a great deal ne then go ahead but dont budget your build for a 240hz monitor) the refresh rates you want to go for are 120hz, 144hx and possible a 165hz (i only included the 165hz cause there is some nice monitors in that range, but again don't focus on getting that refresh rate) something thats probably going to be more noticeable is pixel response time, you want to get a monitor with 1-4ms response time (this is allot to do with ghosting) If you have the desk space, those ultra wide's are incredibly immersive (and often come with in built systems to switch the display multiple virtual monitors) Back on the CPU, there's a clear reason AMD has taken over the consumer market, these Ryzen products are the best things to come to computers since AMD announced the first dual core, Intel is not in trouble per say because there business scope is more than just desktop/server processors, but last year ryzen 2000 series outsold intel, and this year will be the same and AMD deserves this because they innovated where intel said "nobody needs that" time and time again Case fans, most cases ship with 1-3 fans depending on the manufacturer and case tier, normally a fan on exhaust and an intake fan, but dont forget AIO's (and air coolers) come with there own fans as well, you shouldn't need to worry about fans out the gate, and you can always buy a cheep pack of fans (they dont have to branded like corsair or noctua, but the cheep fans understandably don't normally last as long) Cooler even a decent air cooler (not even a high end air cooler) could give you some overclocking head room on ryzen chips, but I would still recommend a 240 or 280mm AIO because even your idle temps will be a good 10 degrees cooler, and radiators are just better to reduce heat stack on long loads This is again something most don't look into, and these figures are not accurate and just used for descriptive purposes, say you load Tomb raider and as you start playing, your air cooler says 65*, after 1 hour that air cooler can "creep" in temperature to 75*+ (normally not that bad) AIO's however have less creep because of how they work, you will see that temperature difference between the input and output of the radiator, but 10 mins playing compared to 1 hour an AIO will not increase in avg temp by as much as and air cooler. The bigger cooling solution you have the less creep it should see. It's why water cooling will always be applicable because your spreading that heat dissipation more and more, so there is less chance for your heat to stack up (that the actual heat loss coolers are designed for) because even before you actively cool something, the amount of area that heat can fill means it takes much longer for the avg to increase, its like getting a bucket of tap water, and adding boiling water till the buckets hot compared to doing the same in a bath tub, takes allot more heat or allot longer for that water to increase in temp.
  14. if your not going coloured coolant (which plain water is better for long term anyway) then might I recommend matting/frosting your tubes (I believe you can get this effect by sanding them) as these look wicked with RGB glow (no idea who/what that build is, just searched frosted hardline) 2 loops wont work as a redundancy, not unless you realise a pump has crapped out and jerry rick the loop to the second pump, single series loops will run redundant of one pump limping as you say, but if your GPU loop is dead and you power on your system that can very quickly mean dead GPU's Dual loop is almost like Raid 0, more performance as your GPU and CPU are getting cooled separately, but there's no redundancy if a pump fails.
  15. @traha9 ill tag you instead of quote all that. SSD if your talking about a sabret rocket gen4 m.2 then yes, 100% go x570 and ditch a HDD all together, the main point of a HDD is they can still offer loads of room and what I call overspill (say you don't realise your gaming ssd is getting full but you install another game, It was more for convenience to use Store MI in that case) I haven't yet had chance to test then gen4 speeds myself, but holy crap those reviews are insane, my theory is that you might even see a use case for StoreMI in this case, using a gen4 m.2 paired with an SSD, as the difference between SSD and Gen4 m.2 looks like it might just be in the range for performance improvement using store MI the size of the m.2 wouldn't really matter for store MI, its just the licence you get free can only utilise 128gb, which it should automatically partition, if not just us dksmgmt.msc in the start command and make a partition manually. to answer HDD relevancy in 2019 there's two key points I would use, 1 - games 5 years ago where 5-10gb not 40+gb, this is important because 2 - most SSD's cap at 4tb, M.2 usually 2tb, for £100 less than a 4tb SSD you can get a 10tb HDD, there capacity keeps them alive (granted a 1tb or 2tb m.2 will take a while to fill at current in 2019, but I haven't seen the trend in game file size decreasing, if anything its growing faster, remember Red Dead II is just shy of 100gb for one game) If your not going for Gen4 m.2 or planning to later, then I would probably still recommend the x470 boards cause there a good deal cheaper than X570 boards N.B talking about expensive motherboards, have a look at the full water block boards like the gigabyte z390 or the asrock x570, there prices will make your eyes water MOBO again going back to gen4 m.2, this makes the difference as no real gen4 PCI-e GPU's have been made to take full use of this Gen4 band with, so at this time the insane read/write speeds of Gen4 M.2 is the only real reason to go for an x570 board, cause otherwise your just paying more for the newest thing without getting any more functionality and getting those small crappy fans and there high pitch (not high noise) wir. to answer your overclocking question in short, NO the AMD processors are not at there full cap out the gate, It may seem that way because its still early days for the 3000 series, as BIOS and general software compatibility improves, so will the overclocking potential for these CPU's, but your also right, unless your manually overclocking or extreme cooling, at the moment the in built core boost system will get as much as feasibly from the chip at this point, but as time goes on and people have the chance to play, I have a strange feeling these 7nm CPU's might see days similar to the Bulldozer days, that's why I'm so hyped for 7nm threadripper (back in the day AMD held the higher core clock crown, something daft like 8.4ghz) and to touch on how long this can get, I'm not even mentioning silicon binning (where for example only certain 9900k's will be made perfectly enough to reach 5-5.1ghz) But even now people are finding increased core clocks on 3rd gen ryzen with undervolting (that's a huge topic in itself) and 7nm+ is yet to come To the next point, im not going to repeat the gen4 m.2 cause ill need to do it another 10 times. But be careful with what future proof it, with WIFI 6 coming to motherboards as a new feature, many X570 boards still come with 1gb/s NIC (ethernet) even though they could easily be 10gb/s NIC there not because most companies only moves to 1gb/s a couple years ago, only newer houses are getting installed with cat5e/cat6 even though CAT7&8 are available, some technologies come out and its quite some time before they become mainstream use. but at the same time games are only just moving to minimum requirements being 4 cores, but at the same time to run AAA titles at max settings takes a heck of allot of power, so its tricky. but to answer in short its going to be at least 4 years before gen4 m.2's become mainstream or even fully utalised (lets be honest, how much stuff do you have that NEEDS 5gb/s write speeds, if your a streaming dealing with 8k red footage fair enough) It's like going back to the HDD's, there still very relevant in allot of use cases, for cost or storage size. future proof can be a scare word, not everything in your PC is going to suffer from the same thing that happened to DVD drives an 5.25" drives on cases (that was a rare case where streaming suddenly boomed and you could buy and download games online) For your MOBO list, I'm partial to the ASrock board, but that's because ASrock have always been close to AMD (like EVGA are with Nvidia) so they have really good AMD hardware, and I can't really thing of anything against the other brands listed there (I know tomahawks can be tricky, but there obviously going to focus on user experience on there high end boards) in short have a look at the boards and if you decide against gen.4 m.2 then just choose the one you like, can be cost or looks, you'r not planning on overclocking and NZXT will test and set up everything for you so should be plain sailing RAM Like I said before, 3600mhz seems to be the sweet spot of cost to performance for 3rd gen ryzen, 2x8gb sticks will be enough for a while still, more wont hurt if you want it, If your worried about future proofing this then just look at populating 2 ram slots, so 2x8gb for 16gb or 2x16 for 32gb, easiest and most effective way to future proof ram is just leave to slots open because if you come to the point of needing more ram, your going to enjoy the gains of just doubling your ram. CASE first to blast it out the way, the only difference between the H500 and H500i (or any I model) is the I models get a load of RGB products thrown it for usually cheaper than buying them separate. of top of my head I think the H700 to H700I includes 3rgb fans, the rgb control hub and an LED strip built in Case Cooling - if your new to this for now try and stick to TDP (this is very oversimplified, but it takes into account how much power drawn and heat is being put out by a component) so if your cooler has a higher TDP than your CPU then it will cool the cpu (yeah there's 101 variables like airflow, but as a general) if your cooler is just above the TDP it will run toasts but wont or shouldn't throttle, having a much higher TDP on your cooler means your CPU can boost more. From your use case (not overclocking) and how good ryzen is becoming, even a 240mm AIO or decent air cooler is plenty enough to cool the CPU and allot it to boost, going 360mm AIO is a bit overkill For the actual case, the H500 is a good case, I just have a personal thing against single 120mm roof exhausts, but that's not to say there bad, sometimes its the opposite as there is sometimes less dead airflow and turbulence, but if you look at the brand new H510 it has a 120mm exhaust, there still plenty good. please don't take my personal dislike of top mount 120mm to heart, its your build. PSU you might need a larger psu for x570 over x470 though im not sure how much extra power the x570 boards can pull, but either way 650 and 750w are plenty enough, PSU's are wonderfully simple in some ways, even the high end systems don't often need more than 850w, very few have started really needing the 1kw PSU's So any PSU between 600-800 will last a long time (I'm moving my HX750i PSU to my next build because its more than enough) because as technologies improve they should become more efficient, meaning needing less power for similar or better performance, the 3000 series are a great example of this, im going for the 3700x in my next build (mini itx) because its only 65w TDP where as my current i7-5930 from 6 years ago is 140w and gets stomped by the 3700x in every single way. going back to future proofing though, my current PC will still be relevant for another 2 years before I even start seeing a difference in performance (like having to move to min settings to run games) WINDOWS 10 PRO, WINDOWS 10 PRO!! let me tell you a funny story, I work refurbishing laptops and we laugh at how many people get windows 10 pro, because they will never need pro over home, pro is for more business use where you need a high level of admin access to connect to large networks, or configure settings that only an IT technician would bother going into. Windows 10 pro is not needed in short your fine having a non activated windows and the main loss you will have is not being able to customize your desktop background, but I would recommend getting a windows 10 home package of ebay, you can find some that bundle Microsoft documents (or now days a year office 365 because Microsoft a greedy ********************) for your last note, AMD is not stupid enough to do what intel did (sticking with the same low profile stock cooler for every CPU, the only real change in some being a copper middle for the high end chips) and every one of the ryzen CPU's comes with a cooler that will meet the minimum requirements because AMD don't want to shoot themselves in the foot, there not only an underdog but there unfavoured from there past reputation and against the sheer size of intel's support and fans, but as true for any CPU you can buy (going back to the dark ages of single core) you will see improvements getting a better cooler than stock. But yeah AMD have some really good included coolers (shame this stuck with that awkward lever mount)
  16. Pump per loop is the most common effective boost, you'll get more gains from two sperate loops than an uncalibrated single loop, its just if your willing to do the maths you can see gains over twin loop systems by properly configurating flow rates and pressures, but it is just so much more work and effort for a slight gain. Dual loop also has the bonus of two different fluid colours, I use to love watching the tower 900 builds when it had not long came out, most common was two loops, one for GPU one for CPU, it was also very common for pastel colours to be used in the coolant rather than clear or metallic, I don't think ever seen a build that involved painting the case if you want to do something really unique? don't know what taste you have but for example a matt metallic pain with fluorescent or metallic coolant would look wicked. I'm interested what specs your putting in this, or what level your willing to go for a custom feel. Like this is WAY outside the box but I've always wondered if with some clever cut outs, if you could mount a second mini-itx system above those HDD sleds and use the HDD sled opening to run the cabling
  17. wow that looks like a weird mashup of games, first think that comes to mind is Civ with those hex grids definitely looks good so ill add it to the view game play list (normaly game plays give a quick synopsis of the game ontop) Liking these recommendations so far guys and gals
  18. one of the reasons I've been looking into the media side is to finally have a look though my fathers old ass FLAC/WAV collection, not entirely sure what format there all in, there just a collection from when a small radio studio closed down I'm more musically sided towards instruments etc, though I love the richness and range even Vinyl has over MP3, How much would it cost to home entry level/home cinema? I can map out sound paths and probably find acoustic sweet spots. I remember part of the selling point of X99 boards at the time was this "performance sharing" networking, i only briefly looked into it at the time as I wasn't as IT capable 6 years ago as I am now
  19. I've got one of the lego marvel games, don't remember which one Looks good, Added to the list for now (i can only afford so much so ill have to pick and choose) might have to look into this, it looks almost mine-craft like, ill have a look at some gameplay videos and see if this is up our streat
  20. The difference between AMD and Intel in FPS is largely irrelevant, a couple of frames you probably won't notice and most (not all) of the performance is dependant on the GPU anyway. you'll normally always get better frames at lower resolution (I say normally because Radeon VIII was weird in that 4k gaming would often perform better) There's plenty of videos and benchmarks on this topic if you want to see the difference in FPS, but mostly its 10-20 max difference
  21. I'm looking for some good local multiplayer games (preferably cheap ones) I have some friends visiting that I haven't seen in a while, Ones bringing his PS4 and I have a PS4 controller for my PC Where looking for good 2 player games (there's 3 of us but we will swap off) nothing too intense, just chill enjoyable gameplay A good example of a game we all enjoy being Brawlhalla, I've been tempted to find a DBZ Budokai 3 copy to play I already have a few games installed like Black ops (good old Zombies) and borderlands (though that's a bit on the intensive range) If there cross platform compatible (if that even exists yet) that's a bonus.
  22. @tarekslimani I challenge you to find a dual socket AM4 motherboard
  23. It's a catch 20/20 at the moment Despite the wild claims, the 9900k still performs better for gaming only for a few reasons. but i would still go 3900x for your build. Intel Pro: Higher clock speeds, a good 9900k chip can stably reach 5ghz on decent cooling, AMD can't make this claim (YET) More support for Intel, Intel have dominated the market for years and have such still have much better support in games than AMD chips, this will likely change as AMD is taking dominance in the consumer market. AMD Pro: More Cores, you like leaving games open so this will be usefull 7nm process (bundling in all those things like lower temps, lower power draw) UPGRADE ABILITY, though not entirely confirmed yet, its likely intels 10nm CPUs (when we eventually get them) will be on a new socket (again) but AMD have already confirmed there sticking with AM4 for quite some time, this is a big pro for AMD Storage, alongside x570 boards now having PCI-e gen4 which have the best read/write speeds you could ask for a personal build, there is also Store MI included with most Ryzen chips, if you don't know what AMD Store MI is, its a tiered storage system (usually only seen in servers) have a look into it as it might be of interest. And lastly, AMD's favourite topic to bring up, Cost. Outright in every way the 3900x is just so much better value for money than the 9900k, that difference in cost even covers the increase in price on X570 boards.
  24. Linus has done a video "7 gamers 1 CPU" which would be useful to watch Honestly not sure if a single GPU will be powerful enough, might be the only use case that still needs SLI/NvLink Is G.Skill bringing out 32gb sticks? I thought only corsair have done this so far, also check the motherboard specifications as it probably won't support 128gb's of RAM How do you plan on splitting 12 cores between 7 people? you might have to wait for the 3950x with 16 cores or go Threadripper (which would probably be better for this anyway) There's different ways to go about this, each having benefits and drawbacks, but I have a feeling you will be creating virtual machines. Is this just a fun project or do you plan on using it allot? It seemed to be allot of work for linus to set up and he had dedicated GPU's (or that might be his 12 workstations 1 pc video)
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