re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

I can meet at the Outlet this weekend.

We can do Wendy's again.

Can see my dog in person! She is on her period, wearing some bottoms. It's cute.

Went in garage to take pic of underside. I care so little about air coolers I don't even remove thermal paste.

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This monitor I just bought is pretty nasty. What's the best way to clean a display? Microfiber cloth and water?

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I SWEAR IF YOUR MONITOR HAS ANY FREESYNC OR GSYNC.....


thats what you always told me when i was trying to buy one.... but what did you get?


I chose to stay 1080 and go 240hz over 1440/144hz

Back in like 2013, I built a PC with this thread's assistance. The PSU has been dying for a year or 2 now and deciding when to turn on; finally the GPU bricked; can't get the motherboard past b2.

So anyway, it's time for a new build. Might re-use case, and I already bought a Rm850x PSU to replace the one I have now, but I never installed it. So after a couple of days of catching up on hardware, this is where I'm at:

PCPartPicker Part List: LINK

CPU: Intel - Core i7-9700K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor ($389.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i PRO 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($109.99 @ Corsair)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z390 DESIGNARE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($269.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($187.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB XC GAMING Video Card ($273.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $1231.95

Really I don't know what motherboard I should be getting; that's just tomshardware's pick for best Z390. Anything wrong with this setup, that I don't know? like something about to be outdated? Sticking with a 1440 monitor I bought from Barracuda for now; could this do 4k?.

Oh, I'm now seeing they are coming out with 3xxx lineup of AMD cpus in like 2 weeks. I gotta look into that.
Also maybe stepping up to RTX 2070

Overclocking?

LINK

Have fun

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Back in like 2013, I built a PC with this thread's assistance. The PSU has been dying for a year or 2 now and deciding when to turn on; finally the GPU bricked; can't get the motherboard past b2.

So anyway, it's time for a new build. Might re-use case, and I already bought a Rm850x PSU to replace the one I have now, but I never installed it. So after a couple of days of catching up on hardware, this is where I'm at:

PCPartPicker Part List: LINK

CPU: Intel - Core i7-9700K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor ($389.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i PRO 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($109.99 @ Corsair)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z390 DESIGNARE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($269.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($187.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB XC GAMING Video Card ($273.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $1231.95

Really I don't know what motherboard I should be getting; that's just tomshardware's pick for best Z390. Anything wrong with this setup, that I don't know? like something about to be outdated? Sticking with a 1440 monitor I bought from Barracuda for now; could this do 4k?.

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Either get an 9400F now or wait a couple of weeks for the Ryzen 3000 series.
No need for 32gb of RAM.
And yeah, you're definitely gonna need more than a 1660 Ti for 4k.

The 9400F is already only $140 at Microcenter.

Single Core IPC is still won by Intel by very little and make an even bigger showing in Single Core Performance with those higher boost clocks.

But really the gap in "IPC" (Instruction Per Cycle) is not very large anymore. They are right on Intel's heels.

I'm in love with the RED Team right now. It feels like the old days when we had good competition.

However, just on the CPU side of their business. I'm still very disappointed with nearly everything that comes out of their graphics department on the top end. Those midrange products are nice, but it doesn't help out the consumer much in the fight against nVidia's price points. Simply is frustrating they can't put out a product or choose to not go after the top end part of the market. However, AMD is doing the right thing and putting resources where they can be the most effective in gaining back market share. They nearly destroyed the company when they did try going head to head with nVidia AND Intel in the 2010s. AMD was a company without focus which resulted in shtty designs and overspending, poor PE and EV. They are now a company that is hyper-focused on areas they currently do well by allocating the majority of resources to that part of the business, while basically keeping the other side of the business in a "maintenance" mode until the right time.