Rate my new build

[matthew124]

After my Celeron laptop died  decided to make a pc pls rate it 1to10 

 

Main specs :

 

Intel core i5 6500 

Two Stick's of 8gb ddr4 at 2400 CL19

RX580 GPU

256gb NVME SSD

 

[voyager_]

3 minutes ago, matthew124 said:

Budget (including currency): 

Country: 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Not sure what to rate here...

[matthew124]

1 minute ago, voyager_ said:

Not sure what to rate here...

Typo my phone ghost touch

 

 

[Tetras]

8 minutes ago, matthew124 said:

decided to make a pc pls rate it 1to10 

Shiny RGB with nice colours +3

Simple aesthetics +2

Cable managed +1

CPU and graphics coolers blend nicely +2

PSU has green lines -1

Speakers from 1980 -1

 

Overall: 

6/10

 

Not bad, could do better.

[TatamiMatt]

19 minutes ago, matthew124 said:

After my Celeron laptop died  decided to make a pc pls rate it 1to10 

 

Main specs :

 

Intel core i5 6500 

Two Stick's of 8gb ddr4 at 2400 CL19

RX580 GPU

256gb NVME SSD

 

A small simple upgrade id suggest is an exhaust fan at the rear to suck out all hot air from cpu and gpu building up in the area up top as there are (i think) only 2 lower fan slots on the front

[voyager_]

5 minutes ago, Tetras said:

Shiny RGB with nice colours +3

Simple aesthetics +2

Cable managed +1

CPU and graphics coolers blend nicely +2

PSU has green lines -1

Speakers from 1980 -1

 

Overall: 

6/10

 

Not bad, could do better.

Don't hate on the speakers, some of the best ones I ever had were on old set of Boston Acoustics that came with a Gateway computer (Shit im old) in the early 2000's -late 90's I think... They sounded amazing and I was still using them 8 years ago until my sister in laws evil dog ate the cables. Or a set of Bose speakers that came will a dell. Both were that FANTASTIC beige-ish plastic that looked dirty and faded brand new.

[Tetras]

1 minute ago, voyager_ said:

Don't hate on the speakers, some of the best ones I ever had were on old set of Boston Acoustics that came with a Gateway computer (Shit im old) in the early 2000's -late 90's I think... They sounded amazing and I was still using them 8 years ago until my sister in laws evil dog ate the cables. Or a set of Bose speakers that came will a dell. Both were that FANTASTIC beige-ish plastic that looked dirty and faded brand new.

Bad dog! I had some Maxxio (think that's the brand) speakers from that era that sounded great too.

 

I actually like the speakers, but for them to work, the OP needs a beige case and monitor and a back to the future poster on the wall.

[voyager_]

maybe a 5/10, it really depends on what we are comparing it against. There some minor things I think could make it much better.

 

- What's with the white tag towards the top of the case above the cpu cooler?

- Red Sata Cable

- Get rid of the green on the power supply.

- Add a rear exhaust fan, maybe a matching rgb fan to go with the lights in the front.

- Add additional lights across the top of the case pointing down. The lighting only in the front is kinda harsh and unbalanced.

- Clean up the cables behind the pc, mine is oriented similar to yours, I used some velcro ties to bundle some of the wires so they didn't look all over the place.

- Printer paper as a mouse pad.

 

If this is your first build great job! looks overall pretty clean, only things I can say are just nitpicking. 

[voyager_]

4 minutes ago, Tetras said:

Bad dog! I had some Maxxio (think that's the brand) speakers from that era that sounded great too.

 

I actually like the speakers, but for them to work, the OP needs a beige case and monitor and a back to the future poster on the wall.

Very true. Now I feel really old, I had a few beige computers/monitors and I actually have Back to the Future, A team, and Knight Rider hotwheels on hanging by my desk at work. 

[OddOod]

21 minutes ago, Tetras said:

PSU has green lines -1

 

Should be -12
That thing is a bomb

[venomtail]

Dude's using ripped pieces of paper as a mouse pad. I'm not rating this cause clearly we're worlds apart and I don't like a lot of it, like not sure if he can afford coolaid broke. Like less than a $100 PC... Just wouldn't be fair.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

21 minutes ago, OddOod said:

Should be -12
That thing is a bomb

smh

 

if it has been working for awhile (over a year) itll continue to work just fine for the forseeable future

 

yes its a shit unit and thats evident by the fact that the combined 12v rail wattage is only 456w (19a + 19a) but mainly the fact that its a multirail psu which are generally dogshit units on the lower end of psus

 

even then that doesnt instantly classify it as a bomb unless there have been multiple reports of catastrophic failiure where it does actually explode like the gigabyte pgm awhile back

 

"bad" psu =/= guaranteed catastrophic failiure in *insert random arbitrary about of time*

[BahnStormer]

TL'DR: Not gonna be mean.... Overall layout is really tidy for your first build and it's a solid start on what I assume was a very tight budget. Overall: 6/10

 

That said... it would have been interesting to see what your budget was, then we can rate the efficiency of how you spent your money  

 

Without that, I'm rating based on overall choice of components as I don't place any weight on RGB/design... but cable management gets some weighting as it affects airflow

 

Concerns:

 

RAM is fairly painfully slow, even for an i5-6500, but with an H-series motherboard, it probably wasn't worth spending anything on RAM anyway.

 

PSU doesn't look great, but probably enough for that build.

 

Exhaust fan would be a decent idea.

 

Alternatives:

 

Personally I would have tried to get a B350/B450 motherboard and a Ryzen 5 1600, possibly some reasonable spec Corsair LPX 3200C16 RAM:

 

e.g. these, taken from eBay recent sales / buy-it-now for something else I was looking at:

 

Ryzen 5 1600/1600X ($40/$50)

Asus B450 Prime ($40)

Corsair LPX 3200C16 ($40) (note that the photos in this advert shows it is the Samsung B-Die variant - might even run 3600C16 with a 5000 series CPU!) 

Dark Rock PX4 cooler ($17)

 

<$150 and that would be an ideal build to drop a 5700X3D into as soon as your budget stretches that far.

 

ASUS Prime isn't great for VRMs, but it's fine for the lower end or 3D V-cache CPUs: I'm currently running a 5800X3D on exactly that motherboard!

 

Completely mute point if you only paid $50 for the CPU, RAM, motherboard and cooler anyway....

 

Even ignoring the upgrade potential, that CPU would have been closer to an i5-7600K than the i5-7500, so I assume better than an i5-6500.

 

[matthew124]

7 hours ago, BahnStormer said:

TL'DR: Not gonna be mean.... Overall layout is really tidy for your first build and it's a solid start on what I assume was a very tight budget. Overall: 6/10

 

That said... it would have been interesting to see what your budget was, then we can rate the efficiency of how you spent your money  

 

Without that, I'm rating based on overall choice of components as I don't place any weight on RGB/design... but cable management gets some weighting as it affects airflow

 

Concerns:

 

RAM is fairly painfully slow, even for an i5-6500, but with an H-series motherboard, it probably wasn't worth spending anything on RAM anyway.

 

PSU doesn't look great, but probably enough for that build.

 

Exhaust fan would be a decent idea.

 

Alternatives:

 

Personally I would have tried to get a B350/B450 motherboard and a Ryzen 5 1600, possibly some reasonable spec Corsair LPX 3200C16 RAM:

 

e.g. these, taken from eBay recent sales / buy-it-now for something else I was looking at:

 

Ryzen 5 1600/1600X ($40/$50)

Asus B450 Prime ($40)

Corsair LPX 3200C16 ($40) (note that the photos in this advert shows it is the Samsung B-Die variant - might even run 3600C16 with a 5000 series CPU!) 

Dark Rock PX4 cooler ($17)

 

<$150 and that would be an ideal build to drop a 5700X3D into as soon as your budget stretches that far.

 

ASUS Prime isn't great for VRMs, but it's fine for the lower end or 3D V-cache CPUs: I'm currently running a 5800X3D on exactly that motherboard!

 

Completely mute point if you only paid $50 for the CPU, RAM, motherboard and cooler anyway....

 

Even ignoring the upgrade potential, that CPU would have been closer to an i5-7600K than the i5-7500, so I assume better than an i5-6500.

 

next year I'm going to upgrade the CPU into a Intel i7 6thgen 

[matthew124]

10 hours ago, Tetras said:

Shiny RGB with nice colours +3

Simple aesthetics +2

Cable managed +1

CPU and graphics coolers blend nicely +2

PSU has green lines -1

Speakers from 1980 -1

 

Overall: 

6/10

 

Not bad, could do better.

Budget constraint's. Next year I'm going upgrade to a i7 6th gen or if my parents upgrade the power plan I'm going to buy an i7 8th gen

 

[matthew124]

7 hours ago, BahnStormer said:

TL'DR: Not gonna be mean.... Overall layout is really tidy for your first build and it's a solid start on what I assume was a very tight budget. Overall: 6/10

 

That said... it would have been interesting to see what your budget was, then we can rate the efficiency of how you spent your money  

 

Without that, I'm rating based on overall choice of components as I don't place any weight on RGB/design... but cable management gets some weighting as it affects airflow

 

Concerns:

 

RAM is fairly painfully slow, even for an i5-6500, but with an H-series motherboard, it probably wasn't worth spending anything on RAM anyway.

 

PSU doesn't look great, but probably enough for that build.

 

Exhaust fan would be a decent idea.

 

Alternatives:

 

Personally I would have tried to get a B350/B450 motherboard and a Ryzen 5 1600, possibly some reasonable spec Corsair LPX 3200C16 RAM:

 

e.g. these, taken from eBay recent sales / buy-it-now for something else I was looking at:

 

Ryzen 5 1600/1600X ($40/$50)

Asus B450 Prime ($40)

Corsair LPX 3200C16 ($40) (note that the photos in this advert shows it is the Samsung B-Die variant - might even run 3600C16 with a 5000 series CPU!) 

Dark Rock PX4 cooler ($17)

 

<$150 and that would be an ideal build to drop a 5700X3D into as soon as your budget stretches that far.

 

ASUS Prime isn't great for VRMs, but it's fine for the lower end or 3D V-cache CPUs: I'm currently running a 5800X3D on exactly that motherboard!

 

Completely mute point if you only paid $50 for the CPU, RAM, motherboard and cooler anyway....

 

Even ignoring the upgrade potential, that CPU would have been closer to an i5-7600K than the i5-7500, so I assume better than an i5-6500.

 

Thanks for the advice, I will use this as a reference for an upgrade plan 

[matthew124]

9 hours ago, voyager_ said:

Don't hate on the speakers, some of the best ones I ever had were on old set of Boston Acoustics that came with a Gateway computer (Shit im old) in the early 2000's -late 90's I think... They sounded amazing and I was still using them 8 years ago until my sister in laws evil dog ate the cables. Or a set of Bose speakers that came will a dell. Both were that FANTASTIC beige-ish plastic that looked dirty and faded brand new.

It's an hand me down speaker

[matthew124]

9 hours ago, OddOod said:

Should be -12
That thing is a bomb

Budget constraint's

 

[matthew124]

11 hours ago, TatamiMatt said:

A small simple upgrade id suggest is an exhaust fan at the rear to suck out all hot air from cpu and gpu building up in the area up top as there are (i think) only 2 lower fan slots on the front

the top part is vented 

mes design with a magnetic dust filter

 

[matthew124]

10 hours ago, venomtail said:

Dude's using ripped pieces of paper as a mouse pad. I'm not rating this cause clearly we're worlds apart and I don't like a lot of it, like not sure if he can afford coolaid broke. Like less than a $100 PC... Just wouldn't be fair.

its 283,70$

 

[OU812]

sucks

[matthew124]

OK

 

[matthew124]

5 hours ago, matthew124 said:

Thanks for the advice, I will use this as a reference for an upgrade plan 

if i convert my currency to USD its about 283 $

 

[TatamiMatt]

6 hours ago, matthew124 said:

the top part is vented 

mes design with a magnetic dust filter

 

Still, air doesnt really move by itself, i have 7 front fans which move a LOT of air and a dual tower cooler which shoves air straight out the rear, i removed an exhaust fan for another computer i was building and it raised temps by 2-3 degrees under load, even just a super cheap one will get air moving in the right direction

[BahnStormer]

2 hours ago, TatamiMatt said:

Still, air doesnt really move by itself, i have 7 front fans which move a LOT of air and a dual tower cooler which shoves air straight out the rear, i removed an exhaust fan for another computer i was building and it raised temps by 2-3 degrees under load, even just a super cheap one will get air moving in the right direction

I'm not saying it would work in this case, but you can use positive pressure design; if the fans are well gasketed and the rest of the case is sealed (except for a rear exhaust area), the only place for the air to escape would be that space.... does get dusty though!