Building an "alreight" pc for GF

[Nipplemilk909]

hello Im planning on building a small pc that can game (not hardcore)

like an itx or micro atx build,

I wanted to center it off of something like a white and pink color build so something like this thermal lake white case 

 

i need help with other components tho, this would be my first mini build so im not too familiar with these types of components. 

 

the buget is no more than 800 on this lil Sh*$t

graphics i was think 1060 or something around that not sure 

[Himommies]

Why not wait a day for Coffee Lake

[Nipplemilk909]

Just now, Himommies said:

Why not wait a day for Coffee Lake

coffe lake you say?

[Lord Nicoll]

11 minutes ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

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Ryzen 3 and GTX 1050ti? I mean Alright and sweet spot are usually close. If I was you I'd pick a more watercooling friendly case and stick in opaque hot pink fluid with the white, that's look sick but Ima guess watercooling is out of your budget. 

[Nipplemilk909]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Ryzen 3 and GTX 1050ti? I mean Alright and sweet spot are usually close. If I was you I'd pick a more watercooling friendly case and stuck in opaque hot pink fluid with the white, that's look sick but Ima guess watercooling is out of your budget. 

not really, woter cooling is in the picture, 

this case isnt aio friendly? 

[Lord Nicoll]

2 minutes ago, Himommies said:

Why not wait a day for Coffee Lake

I personally don't have much hope for Coffee Lake, Intel clearly has shown (up until now at least) that it's way of fighting Ryzen is to trip and end up helping it.The entire SKU of Coffee Lake looks like a mess. Also AMD is still cheaper for overclocking, I don't think Coffee Lake will be more than another nail in Intels coffin. 

[Lord Nicoll]

1 minute ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

not really, woter cooling is in the picture, 

this case isnt aio friendly? 

I mean custom water cooling, hence the pink fluid. I mean a case that had more options, I haven't found a case that was moderatly sized that you couldn't fit at least a 120mm in or smaller single rad (That'd be a china special though)

Edited August 21, 2017 by Lord Nicoll
corrected grammar

[Sanctorum]

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Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-H110M-M.2 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($46.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($67.49 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: ADATA - Premier Pro SP600 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($56.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card  ($144.88 @ OutletPC) 
Case: Apevia - X-QPACK3-PK MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($55.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA - B3 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($46.98 @ Newegg) 
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Get a Coffee Lake Pentium or i3. 1050Ti is the perfect card for a girlfriend system.

[Herman Mcpootis]

it's not white and pink but:

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Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B350M-A/CSM Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($69.99 @ Amazon) 
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if pink is a must-have:

 

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Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2800 Memory  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: SanDisk - Ultra II 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($84.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($44.38 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING Video Card  ($269.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Apevia - X-QPACK3-PK MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($48.89 @ Newegg) 
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[dizmo]

What games does she play, at what resolution? I think that's one of the key things we need to know before suggesting parts.

Does she do anything else? Content creation, etc?

 

7 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

I personally don't have much hope for Coffee Lake, Intel clearly has shown (up until now at least) that it's way of fighting Ryzen is to trip and end up helping it.The entire SKU of Coffee Lake looks like a mess. Also AMD is still cheaper for overclocking, I don't think Coffee Lake will be more than another nail in Intels coffin. 

What do you mean?

i3 = 4 cores. On par with R3.

i5 = 6 cores. Generally used for gaming, so it'll likely out perform the R5.

i7= 6 cores and HT. Sure, not as many as R7, but we'll see how it performs.

 

It doesn't look like much of a mess to me.

2 minutes ago, Sanctorum said:

-snip-

Get a Coffee Lake Pentium or i3. 1050Ti is the perfect card for a girlfriend system.

Chances are the boards will be a lot more expensive than that for Coffeelake...

The 1050Ti is pretty weak, so it might not work for the games she plays.

 

[Sanctorum]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

Chances are the boards will be a lot more expensive than that for Coffeelake...

The 1050Ti is pretty weak, so it might not work for the games she plays.

 

Very much doubt it. You'll be able to get a H310 chipset motherboard for about $50. Still,with an $800 budget, he has loads of room with my suggestion to up the GPU and/or mobo if he wants. 1050Ti isn't pretty weak lol, it's a perfectly good card. In fact it's the best card for 1080p since 1060s are stupid overpriced and AND cards are impossible to find. 

[Lord Nicoll]

5 minutes ago, dizmo said:

What games does she play, at what resolution? I think that's one of the key things we need to know before suggesting parts.

Does she do anything else? Content creation, etc?

 

What do you mean?

i3 = 4 cores. On par with R3.

i5 = 6 cores. Generally used for gaming, so it'll likely out perform the R5.

i7= 6 cores and HT. Sure, not as many as R7, but we'll see how it performs.

There are claims the i3s still have hyperthreading, if true, that would make no sense, The i5 gets just two more cores and the i3 becomes the i7. The high end Xeon range, their flagship 28 core Xeon (with just 48 PCIe lanes and 6 channel memory) is $13,011, granted this is a "platnium edition" (what ever that means) this CPU clearly isn't going to look good against EPYC* and lets not forget the mess with X299, intel is running around scared throwing out so much right now, some of it's good, some is bad, I'll wait for pricing and confirmed specs for Coffee Lake, but my bet is still that it's gonna be the same un-coordinated messy scared response from Intel to AMD. 

 

*Thankfully us folks in the server area know the Xeon is still competitive, you buy the CPU best suited to your task, The Xeon still has lots going for it, however it's in the niche areas, EPYC will dominate the mainstream areas. 

[ARikozuM]

14 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

I personally don't have much hope for Coffee Lake, Intel clearly has shown (up until now at least) that it's way of fighting Ryzen is to trip and end up helping it.The entire SKU of Coffee Lake looks like a mess. Also AMD is still cheaper for overclocking, I don't think Coffee Lake will be more than another nail in Intels coffin. 

A 4C/8T i7 is beating an 8C/16T R7... Intel'ls hexa-core i5 will likely demolish the R7 in gaming and streaming thanks to better single-threaded performance. 

[Nipplemilk909]

5 minutes ago, dizmo said:

What games does she play, at what resolution? I think that's one of the key things we need to know before suggesting parts.

Does she do anything else? Content creation, etc?

 

What do you mean?

i3 = 4 cores. On par with R3.

i5 = 6 cores. Generally used for gaming, so it'll likely out perform the R5.

i7= 6 cores and HT. Sure, not as many as R7, but we'll see how it performs.

 

It doesn't look like much of a mess to me.

Chances are the boards will be a lot more expensive than that for Coffeelake...

The 1050Ti is pretty weak, so it might not work for the games she plays.

 

at most shell play one or two AAA games like battle filed  but mostly plays dont starv, tetris and mindsweaper lol 

 

shes barely getting into it 

[Lord Nicoll]

2 minutes ago, Sanctorum said:

Very much doubt it. You'll be able to get a H310 chipset motherboard for about $50. Still,with an $800 budget, he has loads of room with my suggestion to up the GPU and/or mobo if he wants. 1050Ti isn't pretty weak lol, it's a perfectly good card. In fact it's the best card for 1080p since 1060s are stupid overpriced and AND cards are impossible to find. 

Brand new boards aren't usually that cheap, and don't usually launch that fast either. 

[Shura]

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Memory: Team - Elite Plus 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($44.38 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING Video Card  ($269.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: Apevia - X-EnerQ-PK MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($48.89 @ OutletPC)
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Total: $735.78
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[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

A 4C/8T i7 is beating an 8C/16T R7... Intel'ls hexa-core i5 will likely demolish the R7 in gaming and streaming thanks to better single-threaded performance. 

Owning a 4c/8t I7, I know, I picked this over  Ryzen CPU purely for the 144Hz experience. I still love my i7 7700K, but I know damn well Intel charged a fuck load more than it was worth. This isn't the server market, you don't buy the best regardless of price, Ryzen destroys Intel for price to performance, what most people care about. I cared about overclocking (when I saw 5GHz I jumped) and high refresh rates. 

[dizmo]

3 minutes ago, Sanctorum said:

Very much doubt it. You'll be able to get a H310 chipset motherboard for about $50. Still,with an $800 budget, he has loads of room with my suggestion to up the GPU and/or mobo if he wants. 1050Ti isn't pretty weak lol, it's a perfectly good card. In fact it's the best card for 1080p since 1060s are stupid overpriced and AND cards are impossible to find. 

Funny, on launch there weren't any motherboards that cheap on the B250 chipset. Just took a look, and there still isn't.

The 1050Ti is weak. A lot of games, it'll barely hit 35 fps at 1080p. Granted, we don't know what she plays, but you even didn't ask. I can find a 1060 easily. I'm sure the OP can as well.

2 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

A 4C/8T i7 is beating an 8C/16T R7... Intel'ls hexa-core i5 will likely demolish the R7 in gaming and streaming thanks to better single-threaded performance. 

I don't know why everyone is assuming Intel will fail. It's like they're all drinking AMD Koolaid or something.

They're getting an IPC bump and a core increase. So what they lacked, they now have. Personally I don't see how they can perform lower than what AMD has.

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

There are claims the i3s still have hyperthreading, if true, that would make no sense, The i5 gets just two more cores and the i3 becomes the i7. The high end Xeon range, their flagship 28 core Xeon (with just 48 PCIe lanes and 6 channel memory) is $13,011, granted this is a "platnium edition" (what ever that means) this CPU clearly isn't going to look good against EPYC* and lets not forget the mess with X299, intel is running around scared throwing out so much right now, some of it's good, some is bad, I'll wait for pricing and confirmed specs for Coffee Lake, but my bet is still that it's gonna be the same un-coordinated messy scared response from Intel to AMD. 

 

*Thankfully us folks in the server area know the Xeon is still competitive, you buy the CPU best suited to your task, The Xeon still has lots going for it, however it's in the niche areas, EPYC will dominate the mainstream areas. 

I think that's just a rumor. I've seem more solid evidence of a 4c/4t i3.

The i3 doesn't become an i7, because the i7 will have 6c/12t...

Why are you mentioning Xeons? They have nothing to do with the consumer platform.

[dizmo]

5 minutes ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

at most shell play one or two AAA games like battle filed  but mostly plays dont starv, tetris and mindsweaper lol 

 

shes barely getting into it 

For BF she'd be fine with a 1050Ti, but if she seems to be getting more into it then I'd get a 1060 just to be on the safe side. Some games the 1050Ti can barely get 30fps.

Does she like pink more, or white more?

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Owning a 4c/8t I7, I know, I picked this over  Ryzen CPU purely for the 144Hz experience. I still love my i7 7700K, but I know damn well Intel charged a fuck load more than it was worth. This isn't the server market, you don't buy the best regardless of price, Ryzen destroys Intel for price to performance, what most people care about. I cared about overclocking (when I saw 5GHz I jumped) and high refresh rates. 

I went performance with the i5-4690K beating the 9590 (or whatever that toaster was called). I don't mind paying more for more power. I think price/performance is a useless metric in some cases if we're talking about more cores, that aren't fully utilized and likely won't be for a long time, along with low frequency leaving it behind where it could have been much better.  

 

i3's are becoming 4C/4T as Pentiums are now 2C/4T. 

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, dizmo said:

Funny, on launch there weren't any motherboards that cheap on the B250 chipset. Just took a look, and there still isn't.

The 1050Ti is weak. A lot of games, it'll barely hit 35 fps at 1080p. Granted, we don't know what she plays, but you even didn't ask. I can find a 1060 easily. I'm sure the OP can as well.

I don't know why everyone is assuming Intel will fail. It's like they're all drinking AMD Koolaid or something.

They're getting an IPC bump and a core increase. So what they lacked, they now have. Personally I don't see how they can perform lower than what AMD has.

I think that's just a rumor. I've seem more solid evidence of a 4c/4t i3.

The i3 doesn't become an i7, because the i7 will have 6c/12t...

Why are you mentioning Xeons? They have nothing to do with the consumer platform.

Because Intel has been treating the consumer pricing line like Xeons for a while (charging way way more for a tiny gain and other odd features that only come with certain products) along come AMD and disrupts them. I mentioned Xeons also because it's a large part of Intels revenue, which is why I think Intel will fall on tough times, Ryzen won't do it, EPYC might. 

[Nipplemilk909]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

For BF she'd be fine with a 1050Ti, but if she seems to be getting more into it then I'd get a 1060 just to be on the safe side. Some games the 1050Ti can barely get 30fps.

Does she like pink more, or white more?

pink more 

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

I went performance with the i5-4690K beating the 9590 (or whatever that toaster was called). I don't mind paying more for more power. I think price/performance is a useless metric in some cases if we're talking about more cores, that aren't fully utilized and likely won't be for a long time, along with low frequency leaving it behind where it could have been much better.  

 

i3's are becoming 4C/4T as Pentiums are now 2C/4T. 

That would make more sense, but Intel has been quite unpredictable as of late. I'd have hoped they'd really knuckle down and stand firm against AMD but they're only now getting their footing but you can tell it's still very wobbly footing and they're feeling in the dark for that ace they had. 

[ARikozuM]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

That would make more sense, but Intel has been quite unpredictable as of late. I'd have hoped they'd really knuckle down and stand firm against AMD but they're only now getting their footing but you can tell it's still very wobbly footing and they're feeling in the dark for that ace they had. 

Coffee Lake has been on the roadmap for 2017/2018 since 2013/2014... 

[Lord Nicoll]

1 minute ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

pink more 

RGB set to pink? Maybe just straight up pink LEDs and pink custom sleeved cables. You also don't want to over do the pink. just have it accent the white.