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I'm trying to hold off making a new build until Zen 3 drops along with the 3000 series of RTX cards or Big Navi, but it's honestly getting quite painful gaming on this, especially the monitor. I'm only trying to play some simple games like Valorant at 1080p, ideally at 144Hz. The problem is I'm locked into the G Sync only monitors as the GPU doesn't support FreeSync, meaning a budget GPU upgrade or sidegrade to AMD and a budget 144Hz monitor is still going to set me back around £300 to £400 easy. Any advice? I know it's reporting an incompatibility with the CPU cooler, I don't know why, as it seems to be working? PCPartPicker Part List CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For £0.00) CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE_BL 78.1 CFM CPU Cooler (Purchased For £0.00) Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (Purchased For £0.00) Memory: Kingston 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£38.38 @ Currys PC World Business) Memory: Kingston 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£38.38 @ Currys PC World Business) Memory: Kingston 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£38.38 @ Currys PC World Business) Storage: Kingston A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For £0.00) Storage: SanDisk Ultra II 960 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For £0.00) Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4 GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (Purchased For £0.00) Case: NZXT Phantom ATX Full Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair Enthusiast 850 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For £0.00) Monitor: AOC i2769Vm 27.0" 1920x1080 60 Hz Monitor (Purchased For £0.00) Total: £115.14 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-28 03:56 BST+0100

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Just wanted to say thanks for your input to all of you. I'm now starting to wonder if a Ryzen 3600 and RX5700XT build could be a suitable cheaper alternative.

The games relevant to me the most would be Battlefield V, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Metro EXODUS. Less so Borderlands 3.

It would be an MSI 4GB GTX 970.

The Sapphire Nitro+ is one of the main models of 5700XT I was looking at. Really like the look of it, like how the special edition includes the RGB fans. Something else I completely forgot to cover in my main post was the pricing of GSync vs Free Sync, especially as some G Sync monitors are starting to support FreeSync. Sounds pretty much the same situation I'm in now. Comparing both series, I feel like the AMD side has a better literal value price to performance, but the Nvidia side offers a feature set that I would likely notice the lack of with an AMD card.

How accurate did you find the G703? I'm considering getting one, but worried about the accuracy of it compared to wired mice. The version I'd be buying would have the hero sensor.

So what's people's opinions and experiences on these two series of cards. From the UK the 2070S seem to be around the £450 to £550 mark, whilst the 5700XT are around £300 to £400. I've read that the 5700XTs are still heavily hit by lots of different driver problems, such as stuttering above 144Hz, black screen issues and so on. They also don't come with the NVENC encoder for streaming, but that is a huge price difference so still not sure how easy it is to compare to each other, especially as AMD seem to have their own streaming solutions. Any owners of either series, especially if experiencing having used both want to add their experiences using these cards?

Hey. I built my own mech a short while ago using tactile switches. I'm from the UK though so I used a UK based supplier site, picking some samples of the tactile switches I thought I'd like to try. Made my own little switch tester and decided on Zilents V2 at 65 G from ZealPC, although I took part in a group-buy and when there was a sale on, making it a lot cheaper than it would normally cost. Lubing can make a large difference in both the feel and sound of your switches, and even the choice of lube will make a difference in itself. Too thick and you'll lose a lot of the tactility/the bump in the switch. Too thin lube and it won't make much of a difference. I believe thicker lube is normally used on linear switches, whereas the thinner lube is often for the tactile based switches. It's not mandatory but it's like a refinement stage. People also lube the stablisers which you find under the backspace, enter, shift and spacebar keys as they can rattle and ping alot without lubing them, especially on boards which are going for silent use. Consider your keyboard case also, as that material can greatly affect the acoustics i.e metal vs plastic or even wood. The sound of your keyboard might not bother you, but for some people the sound of pinging switches can drive them mad and some places even sell foam padding to help dampen the sound inside the keyboard. Unless you buy a hotswap PCB, you'll need to buy a soldering iron, solder kit, and possibly a solder sucker incase you make any mistakes. Don't buy the exact amount of switches you need. I.E if you needed 60 switches, don't buy 60. Buy something like 10 more than you actually need. As some may unfortunately be broken and you may end up needing to replace a few. Finding PCBs with RGB seems to be pretty easy, and since you're US based I'm assuming you'll be using the ANSI layout which is a lot easier than finding ISO layout for us UK users. Unless I'm mistaken, I believe US 87 Key layout is basically US tenkeyless, so that should be an easy standard PCB size to find. When you start getting into unusual layouts you'll have difficulty finding PCBs and finding keycap sets that include all the keys as standard so it will be extremely difficult to find a complete matching set. I can't really provide US based suppliers because I'm not from that country. In short, building your own mech is somewhat fun, and gives you a higher level of control over the kind of board you're going to be using on a daily basis but it is very, very expensive and can quickly get to ridiculous prices. Especially when you find yourself considering buying keycap sets that come close to £150 or $200 which is essentially a bit of plastic. Nearly purchased a set, but ended up cancelling as the ISO kit didn't reach the required order levels needed to manufacture them. People that don't understand will call you insane for doing so when you can just go on Amazon and order a mechanical keyboard for around £100/$150 or less.

So unless I'm mistaken, 1080p 240Hz seems to be becoming more popular with gamers now, with some people also trying to move to 1440p 144hz. We're already starting to see some 1080p 280Hz panels and even a 1080p 360Hz Panel, but the question I want to ask is this; Do we even have the GPUs aside from the extremely expensive 2080 Tis to support 240Hz? Let alone these even higher kind of framerates other than playing games like CSGO or Overwatch on minimum/low settings? What's the kind of hardware-level needed to play some of these triple AAA games like Doom Eternal, COD etc at 1080p 240Hz or 1440p 144Hz with decent graphics settings such as High?

Hey both, I've taken some pictures if it would help you give some recommendations/advice as to how I could fix the cable. Perhaps it's an easy fix?

Yeah, reusing and working with older hardware has a nice sentiment to it. What do you use your home server primarily for? I might do the same with my own, playing about and learning things would be a nice way to kill some time. Nice CPU though, I was wondering how much more you gain in terms of both performance and heat comparing the 3700x to the 3900x. I've heard people recommending saving extra for the 3900x if you plan to stream and edit.

My last proper gaming/editing PC was way back around 2007 to 2010. I built my brother's first gaming PC in 2011 which has an i7 3770k and had a GTX670, which is now replaced by an MSI GTX 970 4GB (Might be one of the ones that is really 3.5GB) Been working on laptops and office PCs since then really, always wanted to get into some nice high refresh rate gaming for things like COD, CSGO etc but never gotten around to doing it. Brother has finally built his own PC with a bit of my help and he's now running an i7 9700k with a RTX 2070 Super, so he's let me have his old i7 3770k & GTX 970 build. Don't think it's really going to be able to do much more than low settings all round and still struggle to get a consistent 60fps.

Wouldn't it be better to just clean it wearing gloves, open the box outside etc?

Yeah that's what I'm expecting, rising prices on everything but given that the RTX 2000 series is a couple of years old and the AM4 will turn four years old I feel like I'm running the risk of buying right as it's about to become dated.