Re-Using Factory GPU in New Build?

[BriscoBones]

Budget (including currency): 

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Video Streaming, Light/Casual Gaming

 

 

Planning a "living room" pc build, for youtube/netflix but also either light duty or story driven gaming, minecraft or narcosis type titles.

I had an xbox in the living room, but stopped gaming on it after building my first PC, only used it for netflix/Youtube, and now have sold it to fund this new build.

Parts list so far:

B550I

DDR4-3200 2x16gb ram

Ryzen 5 3500X (for now, until there's something worth replacing my 7 3800XT with in my main rig, so i can swap the 3800XT into the living room build)

750W PSU

2x m.2's (500gb and 1tb for boot/programs and game library)

 

 

Now for the GPU, I have a GTX 1060 3gb out of a factory HP desktop, will that work? Or is there some locked driver crap that will make it incompatible?

I know its not the best GPU, but its free lol

This will just be a temporary card, until GPU's are readily available and price comes down.

Then, like with the CPU on my main computer, I plan to upgrade my desktop's GPU and re-use its old one in the living room build.

[Grabhanem]

It should work fine - I'm running an HP 1070 in my system.

[tkitch]

Nope, you can reuse it.  It's probably some variety of custom card, but will still use normal NVidia drivers.

 

(See the Gamers Nexus latest videos about the Dell "gaming desktop" piece of crap they reviewed) 

[Lairlair]

Sounds good, this should meet your needs perfectly.

In my opinion you could even go with less horsepower on the CPU and less ram to save some money and focus on making the PC very silent and good looking for your living room. But it seems you have a clear plan already and if you've got the money why the heck not do both.

[Herman Mcpootis]

I've heard of motherboards getting locked down by OEMs but never a GPU, it should run just fine.

[BriscoBones]

Well Phase 1: Part 1, is complete lol

Switched to a 360mm cooler in my desktop and swapped all the stock case fans out to ML PRO's. This way I can run the old 240mm cooler and the old case fans in the living room PC.

 

I decided to hook up the office rig to the living room TV just to check and make sure everything was working before I set it back up in the office.

During this time I also wanted to try out the living peripherals, K63 with lapboard and Dark Core Pro SE

 

So far, I have run into two issues.

The keyboard and mouse feel... not laggy per se, but definitely not crisp like Im used to. Spongy is the best term I can think of.

At first I wanted to blame wireless (I have been running wired mouse and keyboard for 2 years now), but then I started wondering if it was either my dongle plug in location or even the TV (the TV itself or display settings via TV or computer)

Dongle's are located in the front USB 3.0 slots about 1.5 meters from the mouse and keyboard (wondering if its better to run them in the mobo IO or if its a driver issue)

HDMI connection and the TV Is an LG Smart LED 70" 4k

Zoomed in 250% in display settings

 

The other issue is that my idle cpu temps are a little hotter than before and the corsair capellix is reading a different temp

Gonna start off by saying the cooler had thermal paste on it already, but should I have added more or done my own?

My old idle was around 35c on NZXT (and ambient in that room is 15-20F hotter than my living room), right now the H150i Capellix says im idling at 31, BUT NZXT says im idling at 50.

So, my concern is the difference in temps and the capellix's different temp causing cooling issues (like if my fan speeds are going off the capellix, which is 20 degrees cooler than the cpu)

 

Followed the instructions on the H150i kit, the pump is plugged into CPU_FAN (NZXT's cpu fan speed is actually reporting the pump speed)

and usb 2.0 on the mobo

Everything else is hooked into the core commander

Although I have not installed any extra drivers

 

TIA

 

Bonus question:
Is there any way to get iCUE to control all my RGB?

Right now Im using iCUE for pump and fans, but armoury crate for the RAM, and RGB Fusion for the mobo accent.

So, not only does nothing sync up but even if I want to make changes i have to use three different softwares, really annoying

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

I dont know why youd want to have rgb in a living room pc, isnt that kinda distracting when watching a movie (assuming rainbow puke rgb)?

 

If you feel like the gpu is lacking in performance then i think youd wanna flash the bios with another 1060 bios which isnt locked down, cause oems put crappy bioses on their gpus that limit overclocking with tools such as msi afterburner. Though since its a living room pc theres no reason to do this unless you are gonna use it for heavy gaming.

[BriscoBones]

So I finally got the living room PC built

B550i Pro Mini-ITX

Ryzen 5 3600x

GTX 1060

Two Crucial P2 Drives - 500GB/1000GB

 

Weird problem, one of my drives isn't showing up.

I'm running the 500GB boot drive in the "B" slot (on the back of the MOBO)

However, the 1TB drive in the "A" slot isn't showing up. It shows up in my BIOS and it shows up in Device Manager, but cant find it in file explorer or anywhere else.

I have tried updating my drivers and uninstalling the drive and restarting with no success.

[IkeaGnome]

Just now, BriscoBones said:

It shows up in my BIOS and it shows up in Device Manager

In Device manager, are you able to format it and give it a letter? As in D :   Windows might just not know where to look for that drive.

[BriscoBones]

3 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

In Device manager, are you able to format it and give it a letter? As in D :   Windows might just not know where to look for that drive.

Ill go try that right now!

[YoungBlade]

If Device Manager doesn't work to make it show up in Explorer, you may need to format it in Disk Management.

[IkeaGnome]

11 hours ago, YoungBlade said:

If Device Manager doesn't work to make it show up in Explorer, you may need to format it in Disk Management.

Glad you caught that. 

[BriscoBones]

Disk Management did the trick, thanks!