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I have a master upgrade roadmap for switching my FX system to Ryzen, it involves a fairly budget purchase of CPU, MoBo, RAM, and an SSD for now. What seems smart to me is a Ryzen 3 or 5 paired with a decent motherboard, and upgrade to an R7 later. My question is, would there be much difference between say, a B350 PC Mate and a Gaming Pro Carbon later on, would pairing an 1800X with the PC Mate later on be a bad thing? Would it be worth it to shell out extra cash on the Carbon so i don't have to upgrade it again later, or just spend it on an R5 and an extra 4 threads?

asrock X299 OC Formula motherboard: I have at most two video cards. slot population rules from manual ----------------------------------------- (1) 5 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slots* * If you install CPU with 44 lanes, PCIE1/PCIE3/PCIE4/PCIE5/PCIE7 will run at x16/x0/x0/x16/x8 or x8/x8/x8/x8/x8. * If you install CPU with 28 lanes, PCIE1/PCIE3/PCIE4/PCIE5/PCIE7 will run at x16/x0/x0/x8/x4 or x8/x8/x0/x8/x4. * If you install CPU with 16 lanes, PCIE1/PCIE3/PCIE4/PCIE5/PCIE7 will run at x16/x0/x0/x0/x4 or x8/x0/x0/x8/x4. * Please note that the 3-way SLI configuration varies depending on processor type. * Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks (2) 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x4 Slot (PCIE6: x4 mode) (Flexible PCIe)** ** If you install CPU with 28 lanes or 16 lanes, PCIE6 will be disabled. (3) 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 Slot (4) Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX, 4-Way CrossFireX, 3-Way CrossFireX TM and CrossFireX TM *** *** 4-Way CrossFireX TM is only supported with CPU with 44 lanes or 28 lanes. (5) Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI, 4-Way SLI, 3-Way SLI, and SLI **** **** 3-Way SLI TM is only supported with CPU with 44 lanes or 28 lanes; 4-Way SLI TM is only supported with CPU with 44 lanes. (6) 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE1 and PCIE5) PCIE1 (PCIe 3.0 x16 slot) is used for PCI Express x16 lane width graphics cards. PCIE2 (PCIe 2.0 x 1 slot) is used for PCI Express x 1 lane width cards. PCIE3 (PCIe 3.0 x16 slot) is used for PCI Express x 8 lane width graphics cards. PCIE4 (PCIe 3.0 x16 slot) is used for PCI Express x 8 lane width graphics cards. PCIE5 (PCIe 3.0 x16 slot) is used for PCI Express x16 lane width graphics cards. PCIE6 (PCIe 3.0 x 4 slot) is used for PCI Express x 4 lane width graphics cards. PCIE7 (PCIe 3.0 x16 slot) is used for PCI Express x 8 lane width graphics cards. PCIe Slot Configurations (For CPU with 44 PCIe lanes) PCIE1 3 4 5 7 x16 N/A N/A N/A N/A ; 1 Graphics Card x16 N/A N/A x16 N/A ; 2 Graphics Cards in 2-Way CrossFireX Mode or 2-Way SLI Mode x16 N/A N/A x16 x8 ; 3 Graphics Cards in 3-Way CrossFireX Mode or 3-Way SLI Mode x8 x8 N/A x16 x8 ; 4 Graphics Cards in 4-Way CrossFireX Mode or 4-Way SLI Mode ( last row is what I want PCIE1,PCIE3,PCIE7 at x8 and PCIE5 at x16 ); PCIe Slot Configurations (For CPU with 28 PCIe lanes) PCIE1 3 4 5 7 x16 N/A N/A N/A N/A ; 1 Graphics Card x16 N/A N/A x8 N/A ; 2 Graphics Cards in 2-Way CrossFireX Mode or 2-Way SLI Mode x8 x8 N/A x8 N/A ; 3 Graphics Cards in 3-Way CrossFireX Mode or 3-Way SLI Mode x8 x8 N/A x8 x4 ; 4 Graphics Cards in 4-Way CrossFireX Mode Suppose I have a 44 lane CPU and I set it in bios to x8/x8/x8/x8/x8: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I want to use the rest of the video slots at x8 for non-video cards: pw = physical width; slot; pw; lanes; card; PCIE1: x16 x8 ; video; PCIE2: x 1 x1 ; PCIE3: x16 x8 ; NIC 10baseT; uses x8 or x4 lanes; full speed; PCIE4: x16 x8 ; USB 3.x; uses x4 lanes; Supposedly x8 lanes available????; PCIE5: x16 x16; video; PCIE6: x 4 x4 ; thunderbolt; PCIE7: x16 x8 ; note used x44 lanes total; Suppose I have a 44 lane CPU and I have to set it to x16/x0/x0/x16/x8: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want to use the rest of the video slots at x8 for non-video cards: pw = physical width; slot; pw; lanes; card; PCIE1: x16 x16; video; PCIE2: x 1 x1 ; USB 3.x; normally requires x4 lanes; PCIE3: x16 x0 ; PCIE4: x16 x0 ; PCIE5: x16 x16; video; PCIE6: x 4 x4 ; thunderbolt; PCIE7: x16 x8 ; NIC 10baseT; uses x8 or x4 lanes; full speed; note used x44 lanes total; QUICK QUESTIONS PLEASE: -------------------------- concerned about the so-called "video" slots (PCIE1, PCIE3, PCIE4, PCIE5, PCIE7); I want to use the rest of the video slots at x8 for non-video cards, (but these motherboards are marketed exclusively to gamers who mainly care about SLI and crossfire and presumably do not want to use non-video cards); Can you put anything you want in any slot (assuming it physically fits) and assuming there are enough lanes allocated to that slot it will operate at full speed ???? more specifically: Will the motherboard force me to use x16/x0/x0/x16/x8 and run PCIE3 and PCIE4 at x0 if I plug in only one or two video cards ???? Can you put the video in one of the "video slots" for example PCIE1 and the NIC in PCIE7 as shown above with both of them working at the same time ???? Can you put a video card in PCIE1 and an NVIDIA Tesla in PCIE5 if those slots are each allocated 16 lanes ???? In bios, you can set the individual speeds (#lanes ???) of the PCIE1 ... PCIE7 slots, but what restrictions are there ???? Is this typical of all the recent motherboards with SLI/Crossfire ???? please note if you are absolutely certain about your reply before I pay for the motherboard. my existing computer is 11 years old, and I can not afford to waste my money. MUCH THANKS regards

On August 21st at 8AM PDT, Intel will officially announce their Intel CoffeeLake cpus. While the press and consumers are looking at this new cpu, for their next builds or other mobile devices, Intel has already started on its successor. The successor to CoffeeLake will be CannonLake. Intel CannonLake was supposed to be released a few years ago, but it was pushed back. There was even a demo laptop running Intel CannonLake during CES 2017. Intel CannonLake will bring the manufacturing process from 14nm on CoffeeLake down to 10nm. Both Intel CoffeeLake and Intel CannonLake will be their 8th generation processors. What that means is, we will have 8th Gen CoffeeLake at 14nm and 8th Gen CannonLake at 10nm. The successor to CannonLake, will be Intel IceLake, this will be manufacture on the 10nm+ and will be Intel's 9th generation processor. After this will be, Intel TigerLake, with no information on it, other than also being on the 10nm process. http://www.anandtech.com/show/11722/intel-reveals-ice-lake-core-architecture-10nm-plus https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-the-successor-to-8th-gen-core-processors-will-be-ice-lake-running-on-10nm-process https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/products-and-solutions/processors-and-chipsets/ice-lake/overview.html

Hi guys quick question. Could i use amd operton 6174 for gaming? Also how many would be sufficient for a rendering machine? Im looking into 4 opertons and a 980 ti or more gpus. Is there any other cheap gaming builds that I could use for rendering/gaming? Are the cheap intel xeons a good choice?

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I want to upgrade an older desktop I have. I want to put in a Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q9400. Which i know will fit in my motherboard. But i also want to install a MSI ATI Radeon HD6450 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI Low Profile PCI-Express Video Card R6450-MD1GD3/LP. I just don't know if they are compatible with each other.

Just a quick question: Would an i5-7400 bottleneck an RX 580 4gb? If so, would there be much of a difference with an RX 480 4gb?

Any chance that a you (ryzen) shortage or price spike can happen after the mining craze ends? Because everyone that is saving for the end of this will start buying systems at the same time Concluding, if I have money now, should I get my r5 1600 just in case or wait for a possible deal on it

Im planning on buying a brand new Athlon X4 860k (FM2+) for my second pc. Is it still worth buying or should I just save up and buy another cpu ?

So say a laptop is a i7 6500U that means is 6th Gen because of the "6"? https://gyazo.com/eda5b53cb5d26ec479e9c8388b55d389 Same with this, this is from the Intel website, im guessing Mobile means Laptops? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One last question dose a graphics card matter for a school laptop? i see some laptops with 940s in them compared to just stock graphics

hey Can this processor be the motherboard L-IG41M (intel xeon X5450 3.0GHz) tnx

Does AMD Ryzen 5 stronger than intel i5 or some i7?

Introduction of Speed Shift v2. CPU reaches peak performance 10-15 milliseconds vs 30 milliseconds on Skylake Intel updates OPI 2.0 to OPI 3.0 Current Skylake NUC M.2 runs at x4 Gen 2, even though it supports x4 Gen 3 It's limited to that for stability reasons A bios updated has been released to fix that, but only limited to just a specific PC Vendor Rest of NUC builders are on their own Kaby Lake will run M.2 at x4 Gen 3, except for Core i3 7100U Y will get 10 gen 3 lanes and U will get 12 gen 3 lanes http://www.anandtech.com/show/10959/intel-launches-7th-generation-kaby-lake-i7-7700k-i5-7600k-i3-7350k

I am in the market looking for a new PC, and I have set myself a budget of around £1000-1150 for the system. The new system will be primarily used for gaming and any work will only be with light programming software or office programs. For most of the parts, I am pretty much decided on them, for a quick overview here's a basic run of what I'm getting: -Cryorig H7 air cooler -16 GB -1070 EVGA FTW -1TB hard drive -Solid state drive for the OS -Windows 10 Pro The original plan was to get the i5-6600k, however, time passed as I gathered the enough money for the rig and now I'm sat halfway through December ready to buy the system but I am just wondering if it would be worth waiting for Kabylake or even Ryzen. I don't really want to wait longer than say a few weeks into January maybe say the 20-25th to have a majority of my system ready to build, but with CES just at the beginning of January is it worth it waiting out to see if Kabylake appears then, as its heavily rumoured to do so or even to see if Ryzen makes an appearance. I would be looking at the i5-7600k in Kabylake and roughly a Ryzen equivalent of that chip. Kabylake especially is rumoured to early Jan at CES, so it looks likely that might be the way to go, but Ryzen is more up in the air, as to a release date, but would anyone say that if just Kabylake or neither chip is released early Jan it would just be worth getting Skylake or going with Kabylake if that releases early Jan, as it's likely rumoured to do so.

Hi, I am looking to do a bit of upgrading of my PC that I built earlier in the year.This is it : https://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/tassmeister/saved/GYxH...I am thinking of maybe getting an i5, or a cpu cooler or both? (is a cpu cooler necessary for an i3)I also only have a 1600x900 monitor and want to buy a 1080p monitor though am not sure when I should do that.Dont have the biggest budget as I am a student but I will save up i guess.Basically just looking for your opinions on the build.Also the games that I play are Watch Dogs, Rust, and The Forest. ( they all run perfectly fine atm, not on the highest settings though)Thanks in advance

At my beginnings in hardware, sockets were simple. You had AMD (AM3/AM3+) and Intel (LGA 775). Everything else was old or specific to servers and such, and backward-compatibility was almost a matter of decades. Now Intel has released multiple CPUs with different sockets and I'm so lost. When I had no choice but to leave the LGA775 socket, I upgraded my trusty Quad core to a Haswell i5 (4690K), still fine especially considering the new Kaby Lake equivalent is only like 30% more powerful. But it got me curious : would I have to change my motherboard if I ever upgrade ? Which socket should I choose to maximise "futureproofness" ? Is there any comprehensive list of most bought CPUs and compatible sockets?

So I got this motherboard for a really budget build I'm planning. Anyways, the seller threw in a free Intel Pentium G6950 (socket is LGA1156). Anyways, I wanted to know if this Pentium is worth keeping? I was thinking I'd sell it on eBay, but it's only worth like $5 and not worth the PayPal or seller's fees. I called my job to see if they'd buy it off of me, they said they'd only do in store trades, and it's not worth enough to do that either. So should I keep it to do a build? Take it to be recycled? Or the more fun option of making a keychain out of it? Or any other suggestions I should do with it?

I3/R3 : ?? I5/R5 : ?? I7/R7 : 9700k < 3800X 8cores / 16 threads I7/R7 : 9900k < 3900x 8cores / 16 threads My guess for R3/5 cpus R3 : 3300 6cores / 6 threads? R5 : 3500 6cores / 12 threads?

Hi, I am currently considering an upgrade from Intel 5820K and am wondering if with all the flaws such as Zombieland and the impact the possible fixes will have on performance is it now time to join team AMD. I am doing this as I have been for a while doing virtualisation and want to give myself a bit more breathing room when it comes to the number of VMs that I can run at once, I also game and some video editing. I have been considering the i9 9920X/9960X and threadripper 2950X (I do realise there is a difference in cores with the 9920X) but my biggest concern is what kind of perfomance impact the fixes will have, I know Intel tends to be better for gaming but with the hit to performance will it be? Any advice or information would be grearly appreciated. Thanks

Hey guys. I'm looking to do a little 1080p gaming footage editing and and looking to upgrade my Dell Inspiron 3650. I have an i5 6400 and was wondering if the upgrade would be worth the cost. I also was curious if my 1050ti with 1 stick of 8gb of ddr3 would be enough or if I should get 16gb in dual channel. I was also curious if it'd be worth it to get an SSD. I'm sorry for the length but I'm a noob so wanted to be thorough. Have a good one

So I upgraded my computer a couple months ago and I was somewhat misinformed via tomshardware... I chose a strix z390-h gaming MB for my i9 9900k and a h100i rgb pro, I was told it would be good at stock. I see the error in my ways now... although its not unusable the VRM temps may reach around 47 degrees Celcius. The cpu on the other hand isnt terrible temps but from what I see online from other people they are getting slightly better temps whilst playing a game on the same settings with the same specs except different motherboards and coolers. I now feel the need to upgrade my computer, again lol. (rip my wallet dude) I was looking at the gigabyte z390 aorus pro but I don't know a good cooler that can keep the i9 9900k nice and cool. Can anybody give me any recommendations? My budget is like $420.00 CDN Custom water loops aren't off the table but if I can get something cheaper that will work almost as good as a closed loop water cooling system that'd be kinda cool but I know that's sorta unrealistic. The h100i sounds somewhat like a jet taking off of a runway until i turned off turbo boost short power max and lowered the core voltage offset. Now its bearable. I should add that I only have a gold EVGA 750w supernova G2, and an MSI 2080 ti Trio and 32gb of ram

What Cpu is recommended for $400 beginner budget PC

I recently built my first PC and I don't believe that I am getting the frames I should be getting. Here is a PCPartPicker list of components. In GTA 5 I can rarely break 60 frames a second. I'm basing my idea that I should be getting higher frames from this video I found when I was trying to figure out why my framerate was so low. I have overclocked my GPU using MSI Afterburner and that didn't improve my performance in games. I have not overclocked my CPU yet but I am going to do that soon. When I play Minecraft it can't get above 60 frames and there is a lot of stuttering when moving. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening?

I have an Intel Pentium G4560 with a GTX 1050 which is a super budget build but it worked for gaming getting like 80-120 FPS. I want to be able to stream and play games like Fortnite and CS:GO and I need advice. Should I buy a CPU or GPU, and which one. I have about $465 (CAD) right now and can possibly get some more money (a small amount). I only have a 60hz monitor so I am not sure what to upgrade. Motherboard: AsRock H110M-HDS GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1050 2GB CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 Full Build: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5 GHz Dual-Core Processor $74.99 @ PC-Canada Motherboard ASRock - H110M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $92.93 @ Newegg Canada Marketplace Memory G.Skill - Aegis 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory $62.99 @ Newegg Canada Storage Toshiba - 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $56.99 @ PC-Canada Video Card Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB G1 Gaming Video Card $237.05 @ Vuugo Case DIYPC - MA01-R MicroATX Mini Tower Case $39.99 @ Newegg Canada Power Supply EVGA - 400 W ATX Power Supply $39.99 @ Mike's Computer Shop Monitor BenQ - GW2270 21.5" 1920x1080 60 Hz Monitor $109.99 @ Amazon Canada Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $714.92 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-13 23:15 EST-0500

I have a Intel Pentium G4560 and GTX 1050 I have 460 CAD to spend on my PC and I wanted to upgrade my CPU. Would a Ryzen 1700 be fine as it is on sale for $270 CAD right now and with the motherboard I would be spending 350 which is better than a 7700 going for 380 alone. I am not too aware of the effects of bottlenecking so I am not sure what to do... I want to use my PC for gaming, streaming and normal use.