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hello guys and girls

 

im looking for some help on the matter of getting a new pc for my self later this year.

then my girlfriend suddently voiced she also wants a new pc as she is tired of the Xbox 360 (guess i saw that comming, damn consols lol)

tho i'm in abit of a pickle after watching this 1 pc, 7 monitors dealio linus and the team rigged up in a youtube video.

if 1 pc, 7 monitors with sick expensive gear worked out that well, then how about 1 pc for both me and my girlfriend. tho i would want to play a game or watch a movie on it, while she plays a diffrent game.

im not that big of a techy to know how that would work if its even possible. so if you guys could channel your inner linus and help me out that would be amazing!

 

budget, 2100 USD, either 2 pc's that totals of 2100usd, or 1 pc + 3 monitors (1 for her, 2 for me)

she will be using her pc / part of the pc for games like shadow of modor.. that lotr game, the division, and perhaps doing some anime stuff D: i dont know if thats just called rendering or whatever. sorry.

id use mine for games like CSGO, WoW, World of warships, arma 3, and others. watch alot of tv shows and movies.

 

thank you in advance and have a nice day! :)

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One PC to rule them all.

- ASUS X99 Deluxe - i7 5820k - Nvidia GTX 1080ti SLi - 4x4GB EVGA SSC 2800mhz DDR4 - Samsung SM951 500 - 2x Samsung 850 EVO 512 -

- EK Supremacy EVO CPU Block - EK FC 1080 GPU Blocks - EK XRES 100 DDC - EK Coolstream XE 360 - EK Coolstream XE 240 -

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20 minutes ago, Thoaee1993 said:

after watching the linustechtips video on youtube i kinda liked the idea :D tho i guess my girlfriend could look at what im looking at interwebz wise, like lets say i was looking for an engagement ring, or gay porn for that matter lol.?

If you mean she would be able to see your history on one PC, she wouldn't. What you're doing is essentially using two separate computers that are just splitting the CPU into 2 CPU's with half the cores (virtually and that's not really how it works, just the best way to explain it). I would go for 2 separate systems because something going wrong with 2 can go real bad real fast. What kind of monitors are you looking for? 1080p or 1440?

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Feel free to PM me about absolutely anything be it tech, math, literature, etc. I'll try my best to help. I'm currently looking for a cheap used build for around $25 to set up as a home server if anyone is selling.

 

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My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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Just now, Thoaee1993 said:

@Ryoutarou97, lol.. didnt even think about that, thanks for clearing that up :D - 1080p is just fine, two pc's for around 2100 USD, id love if we could get a 144hz monitor in the budget aswell.

thanks! :)

Working on 2 builds on PCPP. How do you feel about rebates? all, only big ones, or none at all?

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Feel free to PM me about absolutely anything be it tech, math, literature, etc. I'll try my best to help. I'm currently looking for a cheap used build for around $25 to set up as a home server if anyone is selling.

 

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My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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6 minutes ago, Thoaee1993 said:

@Ryoutarou97, lol.. didnt even think about that, thanks for clearing that up :D - 1080p is just fine, two pc's for around 2100 USD, id love if we could get a 144hz monitor in the budget aswell.

thanks! :)

Also, what size monitors?

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Feel free to PM me about absolutely anything be it tech, math, literature, etc. I'll try my best to help. I'm currently looking for a cheap used build for around $25 to set up as a home server if anyone is selling.

 

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My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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1 minute ago, Thoaee1993 said:

rebates im not that fuzzed about. but if you can include NZXT S340 - Designed by Razer ATX Mid Tower Case in my pc that would be sick. :D i love the design

Sure, no problem. More questions!

If your build could OC for, say, $50 would you pay it (within budget but could be allocated somewhere else)?

Matching color scheme for both, right? Any case you think she might like? As for storage, would you go with a 240/250/256GB SSD and then a 1tb HDD, or would you rather a 500gb SSD, or something else?

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Feel free to PM me about absolutely anything be it tech, math, literature, etc. I'll try my best to help. I'm currently looking for a cheap used build for around $25 to set up as a home server if anyone is selling.

 

If you are a native speaker please use proper English if you can. Punctuation, capitalization, and spelling are as important to making your message readable as proper night theme formatting is.

 

My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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hmm. the case for her, she loves the razer case actually! so go with that.

OC build, i dont know 100% how to OC, but if and when it comes to that, im sure i can figure it out with all the help i can get here aswell as the youtube vids linus and the crew throws at us! so feel free to use a system that can OC, just tell me if you can how much it would need to be OC'ed. lets say a 3.1ghz gotta go to 3.8ghz, just so i got an idea ^^.

240gb ssd + 1TB hdd in 1

240ssd + 1TB hdd (mabye only an ssd, as i got brand new hdd in my current, tho it got a fake windows OS in it appearently (bad mother-inlaw),

so if i can remove that somehow? ))

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2 minutes ago, Thoaee1993 said:

hmm. the case for her, she loves the razer case actually! so go with that.

OC build, i dont know 100% how to OC, but if and when it comes to that, im sure i can figure it out with all the help i can get here aswell as the youtube vids linus and the crew throws at us! so feel free to use a system that can OC, just tell me if you can how much it would need to be OC'ed. lets say a 3.1ghz gotta go to 3.8ghz, just so i got an idea ^^.

240gb ssd + 1TB hdd in 1

240ssd + 1TB hdd (mabye only an ssd, as i got brand new hdd in my current, tho it got a fake windows OS in it appearently (bad mother-inlaw),

so if i can remove that somehow? ))

Still working on it (Almost nobody makes good black/green boards so it's a pretty hard one to work with so I might just fall back on a black one since there won't be enough parts to get a black/green/white theme going I think going mostly black with green ram would be better.) but just popped in to ask if you also need 2 copies of windows with it, then?

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Feel free to PM me about absolutely anything be it tech, math, literature, etc. I'll try my best to help. I'm currently looking for a cheap used build for around $25 to set up as a home server if anyone is selling.

 

If you are a native speaker please use proper English if you can. Punctuation, capitalization, and spelling are as important to making your message readable as proper night theme formatting is.

 

My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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2 minutes ago, Thoaee1993 said:

im sure whatever you come up with is great mate ^^ - i sadly do need 2 copies of windows :(

- tho im so scared of windows 10, im still using windows 7 :P (go with 10 anyways, unless its a bad idea?)

If you're using windows 7 on a desktop that you plan to swap out for this one, you might be able to get it off of there and use the free upgrade to windows 10. @TidaLWaveZ you were here earlier, how would one go about retrieving a windows license and using it on a new computer?

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Feel free to PM me about absolutely anything be it tech, math, literature, etc. I'll try my best to help. I'm currently looking for a cheap used build for around $25 to set up as a home server if anyone is selling.

 

If you are a native speaker please use proper English if you can. Punctuation, capitalization, and spelling are as important to making your message readable as proper night theme formatting is.

 

My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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2 minutes ago, Thoaee1993 said:

well.. the thing is i keep getting this popup https://gyazo.com/59d720f13fbf329e7962cd001e357882

it basicly say, it cant be verified. pretty sure my mother in law just just a OS she allready activated her self :P

Oh, alright. It's pretty much done just putting finishing touches on.

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Feel free to PM me about absolutely anything be it tech, math, literature, etc. I'll try my best to help. I'm currently looking for a cheap used build for around $25 to set up as a home server if anyone is selling.

 

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My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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For her with a slightly stronger CPU for animation & such (prototype while figuring out how 3 monitors between the two works out. I would like to get her build up to a skylake i5 for h.265 hardware encode & IPC if possible):

 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/q6Br23
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/q6Br23/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($159.99 @ Micro Center) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H-A Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($59.49 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($36.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($83.14 @ Micro Center) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 380X 4GB WINDFORCE 2X Video Card  ($219.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT S340 - Designed by Razer ATX Mid Tower Case  ($88.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($55.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  ($87.95 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $867.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-16 20:20 EDT-0400

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My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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7 minutes ago, Ryoutarou97 said:

For her with a slightly stronger CPU for animation & such (prototype while figuring out how 3 monitors between the two works out. I would like to get her build up to a skylake i5 for h.265 hardware encode & IPC if possible):

she only needs 1 monitor :) where i need two -  i got no idea what this H.265 hardware encode and IPC is tho :D sounds good tho :D haha

The GPU. R9 380X 4gb, thats like inbetween the GTX 960 and 970right? never had anything AMD :P havnt looked much into it as i got no clue, only just learning about intel / nvidia when it comes to GPU and some CPUs

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Here's yours (pretty much the same, but I can tip the budget in your favor if you like :P. PCPP doesn't seem to want to turn off rebates so I'll just tell you this one is actually $40 more without them)

 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zwqbNG
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zwqbNG/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($174.89 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H-A Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($59.49 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($36.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($83.14 @ Micro Center) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380X 4GB DD XXX OC Video Card  ($208.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT S340 - Designed by Razer ATX Mid Tower Case  ($88.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($55.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  ($87.95 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $871.20
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-16 20:30 EDT-0400

 

Edit: But you can take off $50 for the 1TB drive if you can move the data off your old drive and then wipe it *windows removal included, but someone else would have to help w/ that because I am as bad with software stuff as I am good with hardware).

 

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Feel free to PM me about absolutely anything be it tech, math, literature, etc. I'll try my best to help. I'm currently looking for a cheap used build for around $25 to set up as a home server if anyone is selling.

 

If you are a native speaker please use proper English if you can. Punctuation, capitalization, and spelling are as important to making your message readable as proper night theme formatting is.

 

My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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As for monitors I think you would have a more satisfying expirience if you went with 60hz and put the money you would put into higher refresh rates into the build instead. 24" good?

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My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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Here's a 24" monitor: https://pcpartpicker.com/part/aoc-monitor-e2425swd ($100 each)

and here's a 23.8" IPS monitor: https://pcpartpicker.com/part/acer-monitor-umqg6aa001 ($110 each) 

 

which means I'll have to cut into the budget because as it stand it's about $150 over.

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Feel free to PM me about absolutely anything be it tech, math, literature, etc. I'll try my best to help. I'm currently looking for a cheap used build for around $25 to set up as a home server if anyone is selling.

 

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My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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2 minutes ago, Thoaee1993 said:

150 over is acceptable :) pretty sure i can handle putting 150USD to the side ;) tho what would the price be if it was 1ms?

For some reason all the 1ms monitors are rebated down to the same price, but I would not recommend paying for one since manufacturer statistics are often inaccurate and might refer to input lag or response time either of which generally are unnoticeable (maybe to a pro CS:GO gamer) until they get too high at which point you're more likely to notice it from low reviews than manufacturer specs.

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Feel free to PM me about absolutely anything be it tech, math, literature, etc. I'll try my best to help. I'm currently looking for a cheap used build for around $25 to set up as a home server if anyone is selling.

 

If you are a native speaker please use proper English if you can. Punctuation, capitalization, and spelling are as important to making your message readable as proper night theme formatting is.

 

My build is fully operational, but won't be posted until after I get a GPU in it and the case arted up.

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1 hour ago, Ryoutarou97 said:

If you're using windows 7 on a desktop that you plan to swap out for this one, you might be able to get it off of there and use the free upgrade to windows 10. @TidaLWaveZ you were here earlier, how would one go about retrieving a windows license and using it on a new computer?

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- EK Supremacy EVO CPU Block - EK FC 1080 GPU Blocks - EK XRES 100 DDC - EK Coolstream XE 360 - EK Coolstream XE 240 -

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