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im relatively new at pc building and was wondering if my new psu hx 850 platinum grade would be fine or okay at the least my specs: core i7 9700k z370-a ii hx 850. would this be an issue and if so please can i have help with this. (yes i have just bought this power supply, and due to other people judging this power supply im just very curious)

I bought an Intel i5 9400F recently but didn’t realise it required discrete graphics, which is not a problem as I am planning to install a new graphics card to my PC, but I was courteous on why Intel sell these CPU and does it help with performance not to have onboard graphics processing?

With ryzen on the horizion, a new cpu war (hopefully) dawns near, with amd showing off a monster 8c/16t chip with a cool tdp of 95 wats, so far it is impressive. Now with interviews done, it has been revealed that ryzen will be lauching with a full stack of chips, most likely in 8,6 and 4 core flavors. What i am curious about is what do you all think pricing will be? With amd being far agressive in the past and constantly mentioning the 6900k's $1000 price tag, so what do you think ryzens flagship chip will cost?

When I look at this glorious looking Ryzen die shot, it leaves me with a question. Those cloudy looking areas, where it looks like satellite view bushes, what are those? Are they actual circuitry, or is it just empty space on the die? If they're circuitry, what do they do? If their not, why? Perhaps thermals, or room for error? Just pure technical curiosity, and if someone who knows a little something about micro-chip design it would be great to expand my own knowledge.

Hello people just to have an interest what would the best 7000 dollar gaming pc build be?

I recently upgraded to ryzen and I got a pair of corsair vengeance lpx ddr4 3000mhz ram.I've never overclocked anything so I did my research first before I started overclocking . I got everything set up and I went in to the bios and turned on xmp, it turned to 3000mhz by default, saved and exited, no boot. I went back and turned it down to 2800. No boot, so I went back again and just increased the dram voltage from 1.35v to 1.375v and increased the vddr soc voltage with an offset of 0.125v and it booted @2800mhz, tested it for a bit and its stable. If I wanted the 3000mhz I needed to increase the vddr soc votage offset from 0.125v to 0.1875v and increase the DRAM timings from (15,17,17,35) to (20,20,20,40) to get it to boot. it works fine but I just wanted to make sure if its safe with these voltages and if its safe to increase the dram timings for long time use?

So I'm just wondering what types of programs everyone uses for their editing. Personally I use mostly Adobe CS6 with the exception of Premiere and Photoshop which are CC2015. Do you think there are better programs that can be used? Any opinion is good input.

Watching their last video (A $99 Laptop?! - Pinebook) I had an idea: a comparison between different keyboard's layouts trying to look for good and bad characteristics. It would be very subjective but at the same time I would find it curious. Maybe I'm not the only one not used to see different keyboard's formats. What do you think?

Just curious and would love to see if a device such as this could be used in place of a more traditional water cooling system. https://www.ossur.com/injury-solutions/products/cold-therapy/cold-rush-device

I run world community grid, gpu grid and Rosetta. Plus FAH on another pc. I like to participate in potentially helpful programs but I'm really curious if any of these have ever actually helped with anything? Has the research done anything useful?

So I got bored at home didn't really want to game because I had to be some where in a half hour, so... I started building my dream PC that I want, but then I got curious and decide to see what the cheapest build was on pcpartpicker.com. But I didn't really search very hard to get super cheap. All I did was sort each page to low to high and click the first thing in the list. If anyone buys this and builds it or has the parts and builds it, please tell me how sh*tty it is. (benchmarks) cheap computer

Anyone know if the character from blops 4 named zero is russian or German? Tried google and reddit thinks russian.

So I was watching some of Linus's videos and I remembered that he prefers SSD for everyday use if I recall it correctly. My question is, which one is better for everyday use? Like downloading video games, photos, videos, etc. I think HDD would be better because of the cost that you can get them for like a Seagate 4TB HDD for roughly $100 (US). Wouldn't to be able to get the same storage costs hundreds of dollars if that? In all honesty, I'm just curious because isn't the cost of an SSD higher than an HDD normally? If someone could help me answer this, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

The RTX launched had me looking through comments on YouTube, they complain that the pricing of the RTX cards are too expensive for them, and I became quite curious. A. Who are these guys with 10-series cards, and upgrading to 20-series for these reasons: MP (multi-player) games like CSGO, Overwatch, PUBG. They are running some details at the lowest settings, and still managed to get 60fps+. They just bought it when they knew that the 20-series is just right around (1-3 months old). B. Where's your savings when you are holding a 3-4 year old cards from either team? C. This is hard to explain but they basically, were not satisfied with a high end card, and purchase every release high end card like nobody. The first A point. I have friends who are gamers too, they told me that they are playing PUBG, CSGO, DOTA2. Just for curiosity sake, I asked them if they will be playing single player, 3A games, and few of them said just one or twice, not all day. Those really have knowledge into PC building, they even stated that they played PUBG and CSGO with the so-called competitive graphical settings. With that in mind, I recommend them getting an i5-8400 (AMD equivalent tier is R5 14/500) with a 1060/70. Sure, there are two of them, with my cousin who streams that stopped me saying that they do stream, and suggest getting a better CPU, but I counter them that I do record gameplay footage, but I don't use the CPU, I use i/dGPU. I even go to my cousin's house to lend my system for a day to stream. Stream with his PC, i5-2320, but with my 1070. Streaming software is OBS to Twitch, using QS and NVENC with Twitch recommended settings. I asked him to play Overwatch, because it's a fast pace FPS, and there's really no difference at all. Plus, thinking of AMD Ryzen launch demo, no one is going to scrutinise every frame that you are streaming. Stream with my PC, i7-6700K with 1070, same thing, hard to tell the difference between the two. Although, I note that there's a quality difference between the Intel HD 2000 and 530. The 530 fairs better, it was less blocky, when moving from a screen full of the same colour to a more abstract scene (wall to an intense fight). The second A point, I mean, can't you get a temporary graphics card? I had a GTX 570 since 2012, and eagerly waiting for June 2016. So on February, I purchased a second hand 750Ti for $70. Once I got my 1070, I basically could sell the 750Ti, but I decided to keep it as a spare part. I already saved $2-3K for a 1080, but retail, they were all out of stock. I decided to get the 1070 FE (close to $1k during launch month), since it was colour neutral, and that FE shroud, it just screams premium, with a first look, without you doubting it, it screams it's metal, the only plastic part is the window heatsink and fan. I could get a 1070 aftermarket, but to me, they were ugly and long. Triple fans, and not-so-colour neutral. This sounds really weird, but I prefer having my system stable, so I do lower the power limit of my 1070 to 70%, my 6700K is not OC, I just bought it because of its OoTB higher clock speed than the 6700. Even if I OC it, I probably just make it from 40 to 41. The motherboard: Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon, what do I have to say? It's colour neutral, and 7+1 USB ports. There's the Z170A-Pro, but it's not like the Z77A-G45 and Z77A-G45 Gaming, where the only difference is the Killer Ethernet, Audio and Lucid Virtu MvP, but the Z77A-G45 Gaming doesn't exist yet (it's not out of stock, just doesn't exist yet) during my purchase. I could go with a H170 or B150 chipset, but there's something odd about the motherboard. It doesn't feel like they swap the Z170 with a H170, they really did a whole lot to the board. Finally, the RAM is running at XMP. I digress. Continuing, unless the 20-series is a surprised launched, I really feel bad for you. The second point A can be said for point B. I had a 570, a 5-6 year old card, I was able to save up a purchase a 1070. Even if I had taken the another route, waiting the graphics card after 10-series, I would have done the same thing, during launch month, I purchase a 2080. Currently, the cheapest 2080, dual fan, and colour neutral is the same price as a 1080 FE/Aftermarket during launch, 1.2-1.5K, the expensive is 2.2K. Plus, who bought a new card, of a new series, which is less than 3 months old? I recommend to my friends, who are eyeing on an upgrade from an older generation of cards (like 6/700 series) to a new one, to wait for 6 months, within 6 months, AMD or Nvidia could fork out a sweet spot card, or even if they are still eyeing on a high end card, it's probably that the price drop significantly (before the mining craze start, Aftermarket 1070 were like $600-800). Point C : That's like saying, I have a Ford Mustang 2018, and Ford is releasing a Mustang 19, there's little difference in the exterior, but they got some minor add-on which is not available on the 2018 model, I have to immediately upgrade my Mustang 18 to the 19, even the HP increase is just 50 BHP. I have a 1070, and basically happy with it, no point in upgrading. Productivity apps still do not support GPU RT only, it's a mixed of CPU+GPU, Adobe is very slow at adopting new technology (e.g. Premiere has QS support, which they could have implemented it a long time ago since 2011/12) (Photoshop has 3D option and ray tracing, but it's using CPU). I would upgrade to the 20-series, if there are productivity app that supports RT fully on the GPU, and the RT gains are worth the cost. To end off: I am surprised that the 2070 is no longer a 4K entry card, but rather a 4K capable card, and the 2080Ti can handle 4K easily, which to me, is impressive. The 1080Ti was just capable. For the competition, AMD, means that the RX 580 maybe fighting up against the 2050/60, instead of 2070 in tier-to-tier comparison.

Just curious of what others think, as I said before I had heard that the chip I was buying was ran really hot so I did a delid, this broke the chip because I was too agressive and cracked the PCB part. I got a new chip and as expected with a slight overclock it runs hot but only under max load. What some people told me is that it is ok for a CPU to run in the 90s or 95 for long peroids of time as they are designed to run at high temperatures. This makes sense as lots of electronic chips are designed to run pretty hot so what I am wondering is what others think? I do not plan to delid this one and if I were to drop my clock from 4500 to 4300 it would keep it 90 or below under max load. I am running on water but as we all know intel puts an insulating penut butter layer between the chip and IHS so while that still helps a lot it does not do the same as a delid. So is hot ok?

Hello i was just curious how far would you drive to a local business that you enjoyed frequenting?

Hey here's video idea ....a PC with highest configuration available till today vs apple I Mac pro latest version .....who is going to win???????

I know people are into PC's/This Forum enough to help me out... Curious to what you guys/gals would pay for such things as a complete unit. TLDR - Want Pricing Advice For a Sale Keep reading... GPU/Monitor reciepts located, 1+1/2 years left Warranty on both, using Win8.1x64 because Win10BetaBlows. CPU (Bought new in Box 12 months ago) Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.50GHz AllCore Turbo, Speedstep Enabled https://ark.intel.com/products/80807/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_40-GHz CPU COOLING (4 Yrs old)(Different Fans Used) Intel 120mm AIO Liquid Cooler - BXTS13X Push/Pull Config 1000Rpm/1400Rpm https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/products/boards-kits/desktop-thermal-solutions/bxts13x.html RAM (Two Kits Used- 8GB = 4yrs old, 16GB = 2yrs old) 24.0GB (2x4+2x8)in Dual-Channel @ 2400MHz https://www.gskill.com/en/product/f3-2400c11d-16gsr https://www.gskill.com/en/product/f3-2400c10d-8gzh Motherboard (2 yrs old, originally with i5 4690, now i7-K) MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition Supports 4th and 5th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors for LGA 1150 socket Supports DDR3-3300(OC) Memory SATA Express + M.2 + USB 3.0 + SATA 6Gb/s Multi-GPU (2x8): NVIDIA SLI & AMD CrossFire https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z97S-SLI-Krait-Edition/Specification GPU 8GB GALAX EX-OC(Black) GeForce GTX 1070 (NVIDIA) http://www.galax.com/en/graphics-card/10-series/galax-geforcer-gtx-1070-exoc.html Storage (Ranged Ages, SSHD is newest member) 128GB Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB (Windows OS) 256GB* Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series (*SSD Raid0) 256GB* Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series (*SSD Raid0) 2TB Seagate SSHD ST2000DX002 (SSHD Storage) Seen as 128GB/512GB*/2TB Power Supply CM Masterwatt Lite 700w http://www.coolermaster.com/powersupply/power-supplies-by-wattage/masterwatt-lite-230v-700w/ Optical Drives No optical disk drives detected Audio Onboard High Definition Audio Case - CM N600 (Drivecages Removed/ScuffMarks in some areas) Likely replacing with $50+ case for rebuild. Monitor LG 29" ULTRAWIDE (UM68P Model) 2560x1080 @ 75Hz http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-29UM68-P-ultrawide-monitor So... taken into account,...All together, rebuilt, cable managed,... CPU is likely good for 70-120FPS before getting CPU necked in most titles. The GTX1070 holds up nicely,...I've never seen any instance of dropped GPU usages with specifically uncapped framerate scenarios. Looking for Opinions,...Used Cost for YOU personally,..Maximum/Willing2Pay? I'm from Australia, but I can convert your USD opinions anyway, just an FYI.

Hi guys how much do you think Linus pays for electricity and the internet at the warehouse?

With recent moves to USB-C in a lot of devices like phones, laptops, and peripherals that often have no other connectivity we are kind of moving to the age of dongles and adapter for RJ-45 are getting increasingly popular. So people are buying an adapter to connect their laptop or phone to a wired network. So here is a thought: why is there no internet router devices with USB-C interface? Benefits of such device: - could be used as a host for storage and peripherals like cellular modems, webcams, and printers for diverse feature set (basically what some routers are capable of with custom firmware project such as OpenWrt) - could be used as a peripheral device for a phone, PC, console or other classes of devices connected with USB-C cable directly to eliminate the need of dongles and potentially reduce sizes of device that would otherwise use RJ-45 port. Yeah, USB specs allow for way shorter ranges than ethernet cables can allow, but for wide range of applications cables up to 8 meters long would be enough. So are there such devices and if no, why?

No hate, but I only made this account on Linus's site just so that there's a chance he'd make a video out of what I found, even though this might be something that's already been talked about/ For some context, I'm currently in the market for a laptop, on that can run my usual gaming sessions and smoothly sail through my Unreal Engine experience. So naturally, I've been looking through Newegg for a laptop that suits my needs. It was all fine and dandy until I found this. A barebones laptop? Now I'm not exactly sure if this is normal, but the description says that you can put any LGA 1151 processor inside of this thing. Not only have I never seen anything like it, I'm actually thinking about doing it. So if anyone has actually bought this and done it, I'd like to know how, and what it was like. 'Cause there are no reviews on this thing. That's all though, let me know if this is noteworthy, or even remotely interesting.

Due to the recent issues surrounding both Intel and AMD's CPU's is it worth changing build plans and siding with AMD's processor's to avoid performance loss? Any thoughts or comments are appreciated, Pulpypanda.

I had this idea for like years ago but didn’t find any answer so I decided to ask the community for answer. Can you run games on external hard drive or ssd equivalent? Because with my understanding we install games outside the system drive (C:/) and game initiate all the dlls from that drive to play so can it be done? It would be great if this becomes a video

So I'm no stranger to building a PC, I'm not well versed but I'm no stranger. My first and current build is a budget build that took me a year to finish because I didn't have a job at the time of making it, it's specs if you're interested are as follows - CPU: AMD A8-7600(Yes I know, athlon x4 860k would have been better, live and learn) MOBO: ASUS A88XM-A(Actually believe this is a brilliant motherboard for the money on FM2+) RAM: 2 sticks 8 gigs for dual channel DDR3 1866mhz Kingston Fury GPU: GTX 960 Strix (It was originally a GTX 750 but I had some spare cash floating around a few months back) HDD: A shitty ass laptop hard drive at 320gb. Budget af PSU: CORSAIR VS550 (Which once again was an upgrade when the one I had in my previous case came bundled blew. I know shocker right? pun intended) Anyway now that I'm working again I was looking into building a PC I could use as all round as I could get it. I'm thinking about creating content for youtube so I wanted something that could handle video editing rather easily, and be able to game some AAA titles. Now keep in mind that if this build is a great build to go with I wont exactly be running straight to my local maplins to buy every part out right so each part will be bought over time and as such I don't mind saving a few extra pennies here and there for something a bit better. I was wondering what you guys thought of this build, and what limitations am I looking at? could I improve this with no MAJOR bumps in cost? This is the build: PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/tKwz6X Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/tKwz6X/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£293.88 @ Aria PC) CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£119.99 @ Novatech) Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£161.11 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Kingston Savage 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2666 Memory (£74.95 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£78.99 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£89.99 @ Novatech) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.99 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card (£359.99 @ Scan.co.uk) Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Acrylic ATX Mid Tower Case (£68.31 @ CCL Computers) Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Gold S 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£123.48 @ Scan.co.uk) Total: £1413.68 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-09 13:41 BST+0100