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DiegoTorres
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I'd recommend if you can avoid Gigabyte when it comes to AMD boards. If you can, search for Asrock or asus, even MSI.

Also, for your PC, maybe a 1050 or 1050 ti would do well

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Probably something like a GTX 1050 or 750Ti. Look around on your local listings, maybe you're lucky and have a lot of GPUs for really good deals. Anything Pascal or Polaris-based is crazy high, so the used market is pretty much the best place to get GPUs at this point in time.

 

Kepler-based cards(GTX 700-series) are particularly good deals since they're not worth mining on but still perform well enough for 1080p.

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Just now, katoptrys said:

MSI.

MSI's VRMs are pretty crap, I would take Gigabyte over them any day.

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

MSI's VRMs are pretty crap, I would take Gigabyte over them any day.

I dunno, mine has been doing pretty nicely. Temps are good and OC is stable

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2x8GB 3200MHz Corsair Vengeance C16 - Corsair 400C White - EVGA 650 GQ

 

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1 minute ago, katoptrys said:

I dunno, mine has been doing pretty nicely. Temps are good and OC is stable

I've heard quite a few reports of MSI's VRMs failing and/or not being the best quality so I've avoided them. As you can see in my signature I chose ASRock for my rig. Mostly because it was the only board that would fit my aesthetic...

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1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've heard quite a few reports of MSI's VRMs failing and/or not being the best quality so I've avoided them. As you can see in my signature I chose ASRock for my rig. Mostly because it was the only board that would fit my aesthetic...

Makes sense. My choice was kind of aesthetic too, and it was also the only board in the pricepoint with decent features here. I was told (after buying the mobo) that Asrock or Asus were the best choices. Then MSI was kinda eh, and Gigabyte was only good for Intel builds

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2x8GB 3200MHz Corsair Vengeance C16 - Corsair 400C White - EVGA 650 GQ

 

  Razer Deathadder Chroma - Razer Blackwidow Tournament Edition Chroma - Sennheiser HD 598 SR - LG 24MP59G-P

 

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1 minute ago, katoptrys said:

I dunno, mine has been doing pretty nicely. Temps are good and OC is stable

How about VRM temps? Steve from Hardware Unboxed did burn his finger on the VRM heatsink of an Aorus (Gigabyte with differeny name) mobo, the X370 Gaming 5 I believe.

 

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've heard quite a few reports of MSI's VRMs failing and/or not being the best quality so I've avoided them. As you can see in my signature I chose ASRock for my rig. Mostly because it was the only board that would fit my aesthetic...

MSI's not as bad as it was. Back when Ryzen first launches, the RAM support issue is more prominent on MSI's product. Then they released the B350M Gaming Pro, a mobo with chipset that supports overclocking but the VRM doesnt. That's what gives MSI the bad names.

 

After the BIOS fixes MSI mobos are much more acceptable, though at this price point it cant beat Asrock or even Asus's offerings.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

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Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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