Hi Holla Forums, can we have a PC rig thread...

tfw still waiting for my Gigabyte G1 Gaming 1070

she's a sorry sight, but she does the job.
Do anyone else name their computer, the way you'd name boats?

I name my tech after fruits, ATM.

Try cramming your rig into one of these. Gets fun when you have to order the floppy bracket off ebay and have to hold your third hard drive up with zipties and tape in the meantime, and that's not without finding a cooler that can clear both the case door and the indented Dell logo on the door.

Had my power supply burn out a couple of years back. some brand i'd never heard of, looked it up and found it cost £20 new. Quickly replaced it with a Corsair CX750. No issues

My only problem at the moment is my processor (AMD FX-6300). I need to overclock, but first i need a new cooler, since stock AMD ones are utter shite.

Those fucking machines, I have dealt with a number of those. And Dell seems to love inventing new ways to open up the cases and those annoying green pieces of plastic….

Luckily the 4600 models were before they riveted and backplated everything, so the only real pains are things like the missing floppy drive cage and having to fit a power and light cable header into the existing bracket.

Do you do surround gaming on the 3 monitors and how is your performance?

I've never built a pc before, and the one I have now had the mobo and processor die on it. Ive got an atx-tl500w-bk power supply, two ad3u1600w4g11-b ram, and a AMD Radeon™ R7 240 Core Edition card. What would be the best, inexpensive mobo/amd processor for these components, or should I just start anew?

I imagine this is the case that computers in Hell use.

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Sounds like you should be able to keep everything but the RAM and use whatever cpu/mobo combo you want.

I see quite a few cheap AMD processors on Amazon and Newegg, although you could also use an Intel Celeron or Pentinum unless you distrust Intel due to the vPro and ME shit.

What games do you play? Maybe another user might be able to help depending on the type of game.

Dawn of War 2, Wasteland 2, New Vegas, and a ton of games older than those listed. I'm not looking for bleeding edge, just fast enough that I'm not getting 5fps.

I can get steady 60fps on Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing with this motherfucker.

Holy fuck, that's amazing!

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If you're going to go cheap and have no qualms about used/ older parts.. here is some nice info(all from experience and spent money)

If you're going to go cheap on AMD:
What socket?
Don't go below an 760/870k or you will seriously regret it in performance. Those CPUs can be found for $50-60 and you can buy a cheap mobo for around $25-35 on eBay.

I don't know about any other AMD sockets.

My old build before the one I'm using now was

If you plan to go cheap with intel:
Don't fall for the G2358 meme.

I personally shop around for older processors because they can still keep up and run everything just fine. You can look for a prebuild on eBay and take it for the parts or look for older CPUs that where the beasts at their release. Be warned that some older Intel CPU socket boards get really expensive for no reason, but the chip gets cheaper and vice versa.

For example:

Also, I wouldn't go back farther than the first gen i7s.

Wow, thanks. This was just what I needed.

Shit, that's damn impressive. Poorfag or not.

I might do something similar for my grandfather, it might be even cheaper since porn and email doesn't need an i5/i7 at all.

on a slightly unrelated note
reckon the Smach Z will be any good when it's finally released?
I hope it makes mobile gaming devices and Steamplay viable again, the 3DS is getting a bit stale

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So i have this build right now but for some odd reason i have an Itch to build a new pc. I'm considering either

a) Building the new pc to sell

b) Sell my current right and build a new one for myself.

I think i just like the building part and then get bored and want to do it again. Any suggestions?

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It's 2016 lads get with the times.

Greetings fellow core2

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I thought I was the only one left
how's it holdin up?

Thank god. If boatmen get to call their tubs names, we should too.

Nope. They're not the same monitor resolution, so that'd look off.

I actually own a core solo too, I collect special computers.

Meh, the airflow is pretty nice since you have vents on the top and bottom. Next build however will either be a recycled case or a much better new case with better cable management. Live and learn.

What names do you have? I started it for the ease of network management since it's a bitch when tech is shit like PC-345434575 or ROKU 465464567467 and the names start looking the same.

I might change my naming theme, since my family has started to copy my naming theme.

Medieval female names primarily, gives them more personality I feel.

Last one was named Johanne. The one before that was named Tenney, and the current one is called Aldreda. They're all pretty standout, but you could always use more modern names if they don't feel right.

Mine have all been names of space phenomena.
Nova was my first build
White Dwarf was my small media center PC
Red Shift is my current build that's been in a constant flux of upgrades since 2008
Wormhole was my laptop
Neutrino was my first smartphone

Not so well. It's a bottleneck for the most part. NuDoom was giving me ~40 and Overwatch was ~30. I did try overclocking it a bit before and performance gain was decent. Those with a faster, later core2 should be able to last for a while longer if they want to play the more demanding ones.

got any Pentiums?

who doesn't own a few of those sweet Pentiums?

I have a box of 20 or so.

juts waiting for a time that i the gtx 1080 isn't sold out so i can buy one

I started naming my tech stuff as characters from Nichijou
Kinda forgot to keep going with it as I got more drives and stuff. I should organize and get all this shit named.
**My first laptop was Nano.
External HDD was named Nano-Kohai.
Phone was Hakase.
iPod was Sakamoto.**
Gotten a desktop PC, with 3 extra drives, new iPod and a new phone.
Haven't named any of those things yet.

Anybody else noticed this? Seems like at literally any point it time, there's another card due out soon that'll either be better if you want to spend a lot or at least drive down prices of everything else already out if you're budget conscious, so it's a good idea to wait a little longer. But it's never the actual time to upgrade.

I keep putting off buying a computer because of this. I wait for new card announcements, then I wait for 1080 to come out. Too expensive so I wait for 1070. Still too expensive so now I'm waiting for rx480.
I should just buy a 970 and call it a day.

kawaii

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What case is that, man? I'm planning out a gaming build for my brother now, kinda digging the case.

Corsair 780T

it comes with two white intake fans.

i added a 140 mm fan at top (in can support 3 140 mm fans at the top)

and one 120 mm fan at the bottom for the card. it only spports 120 mm at the bottom.

Kind of outdated guts, but whatever.

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I'm starting university this September, and I have to share my living space in a residence with another faggot, since we don't have too much money. Now, I use my computer for gaming and game dev, both of which are vital for the safeguarding of my sanity. I'm planning on taking it with me to the residence. Thing is, since more people are going to frequent the place than me, I need some protection measures in place. I have a password on startup I have Windows 7 and barely anything else. I can take care of the software side of things, I'll probably amp up what I have. My problem are the looks. I have a cheaply made, yet really flashy case. It has plenty of blue LEDs, it's painted black and has plastic fairings painted in a silvery colour. It also has a huge side fan, also having coloured LEDs. I need to make my computer look like a piece of shit, basically, a sleeper.

So, I am in the market for an old case, preferably something slightly smaller than the usual mid-tower sized cases, and having a 90's look. If it's sized like OP's case, that'd be optimal. Any ideas/recommendations?

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What's wrong with any of those games?

I was tipping my hat to your fine taste, friend :)

Thank you my friend. Nice hat. :)

-I built this PC around Jan, so far I like the case with Cable management and the sleek look without it all looking fuzzed up, wires everywhere.

The thing is, the case is the S340, and the temps on my CPU looked messed up atm. I think it's the way my Fans are positioned. I have them set up like the Top part of the picture, though it seems all the heat redirects to the CPU heatsink and gives me shit temps. The heatsink it pointed to the back exhaust, unlike in the picture. Having a 390 doesn't help neither, when gaming, since it runs pretty hot around 80, and my CPU (When OC to 4.4GHz with 1.2v) runs to 70. Kind of freaks me out sometimes.

Was thinking of changing the fan selection to the bottom pic, and hopefully get better temps, or maybe even put 2 CPU fans on the heatsink and the both blow opposite ways.

At first I thought it might've been the thermal paste, so I bought another one, and same problem still occurs.

Anyone else have this case and ran with similiar issues? This has never happened to me before, when I only ran with the exhaust fans from the back and the top. Once I installed 2 intake fans, the temps started going up. Doesn't help that it's summer now as well, but right now it's cool around 40 F where I live atm. Those are the temps I get still.

-Also my goddamn PSU capacitor blew up like 2 weeks ago. Goddamn EVGA. Didn't bother to warranty it, since this shit weighs a lot, and shipping would end up costing a lot. Decided to buy a new Gold rated PSU from corsair.

The PSU that blew up was the G2 750 Supernova if you were interested to know.

I read replacing messed up capacitors are easy to replace if that's all that happened, anyone have insight on that procedure? Or can a local small pop shop do it?

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There is literally nothing wrong with liking Portal. You're a faggot who lets others dictate your tastes.

ALWAYS have your fronts fans as intake and back and top fans as exhaust

I have not figured out what direction is best for the side fans though

Try to keep the air pressure negative, it causes the heat to move around better.

Positive air pressure can be beneficial as well, in the end it depends on the case, but most will benefit from negative air pressure

It was a boring puzzle game with a shitty story that tried too hard to be funny. Co-op in 2 was fun though

Recently I started getting games (multiple completely unrelated games) having bright (like 0, 0, 255) multi-color random pixels randomly on screen then crashing. It got more and more frequent over the days since it started and I noticed when it happens in windowed games it says the graphic drivers crash.

I didn't change anything system related before it started happening.

Am I right to suspect my graphics card dieing is the cause? I haven't tried any games that would make it crash recently (I planed to wait till new cards come out and lower the prices on the old ones and don't want to have to buy one right away which I fear I'd have to if it died completely) and I haven't seen any other issues for the past ~month.

Love it

It's likely on it's way out. Check and see if it's just overheating, though.

I can hear the fan going crazy just before it starts happening.

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get a lian-li

good cases, look like 90's ones.

oh, in that case you may actually want to get a prodigy then (OP case). nice and portable, well built. bit hard to work in, but good with a couple of tweaks. it only fits mini-itx or i think there's a micro-atx version as well.

I'm not even /k/, and I can feel the churning of autismatic rage.

I need to build a 350~450$ PC for my brother's birthday, it need to be in a small mini-itx case and have wifi. what would be good, the kid's just playing minecraft and shit, but I still want the PC to have a little more power to play higher-end games

I cant choose between the athlon x4 and the pentium, and 750ti and r9 260x
reviews all seem bias and I dont think a dual core is acceptable these days

[spoilers]also need to be in maple syrup dollars[/spoilers]

anyway, pic related is my main idea

already have the case and a 1tb hard drive

any suggestions?

cant do that, it need to be build in 2 weeks, tired of playing the waiting game

im retarded

I already have a computer, I can't afford to swap more parts. I need a smaller case, but one that can fit ATX.

Plus, to add to that, the Prodigy is like 80 bucks on Amazon and the one I got can support mirco-atx since that's the kind of board I got. My folks think my computer is massive but that's because before I built my main computer, I was considering a tiny, Mac Mini-esque machine or using an Intel NUC kit.

Consider using PCPartPicker for the lowest price.

Dual core is fine, is your bro making videos as well? Maybe not if you aren't trying to shove an i5 or anything on it.

Also, just do ** for spoilers. Much easier.

Literally the only positive to that case is the symmetric handles, and even then for the sole purpose of being raised from it's resting place thanks to the bottom one. Unless you own or have access to a monitor at every locale you intend to lug the thing to.
Mine's not too flashy but it keeps things cool.

I don't think you thought your plan all the way through.
With the Furies you could have maybe scaled down to a 1000W with a platinum rating for about the same price.
How many servers do you host m8

Is that what he's buying or what he already has?

I don't imagine anyone buying two 280s at this point in time considering what you've already mentioned so maybe this is already built (like mine with the crossfire 290x)

I got a good deal on the 280's last year.

It's already built and running.

Best GPU/CPU on total rig budget of $500?

Tossing around a low-grade i5 or an i3 because Intel's better for emulation from what I've heard but I have no idea of which one would be best, along with an affordable but decent GPU.

Oh, right, and since we're all laughing at eachother's toasters here.

i5, you can always overclock it.

used lga1366 xeon and a used 7970 or 290

u wot