flyingkiwi
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The crappy TV on the desk in my sister's room while she's away will do for now.You need a proper 4:3 monitor.
The crappy TV on the desk in my sister's room while she's away will do for now.You need a proper 4:3 monitor.
Doing some research on a new mobo and CPU duo. Is the Ryzen 2nd generation any good or no? Would you prefer AMD Ryzen or Intel?
if I was upgrading today, it would be a 2nd gen Ryzen. likely the 2600 or 2600x. price to performance is just too good
however, its believed that Ryzen 3 will be launching at CES2019 in a few days, so id maybe hold off
Man I messed around with 4k since I just got a 65 inch samsung 6 series, and I couldn't believe how bad my pc chugged. It felt like I was back in 2002 with the garage sale dell. My FX 8350 with DDR3 ram mustve been the bottleneck (with 128 gb boot drive and gtx 1080). Edit: I should clarify, this is literally just navigating windows I'm talking about, not doing any type of browsing or work
(I had the settings set from geforce experience, it was just quicker) and then to see that it was.
It was probably reducing quality to keep your FPS up. But that said I do think 4k is generally overrated for gaming. I'd rather have high refresh rate myself.
It also takes more of a trained eye to spot the differences, particularly in games that don't have super high res textures that support increased fidelity at higher resolutions.
Is there an issue with running fans at full speed using a 3 pin fan on a 4 pin connector?
I assume there are ways of using the BIOS to control the speed regardless.
The 3 pin fans are actually the older style. But yes there is no issue running a 3 pin on a 4 pin header.
And you can still control them via the motherboard so long as they are connected to headers on the board that have such options in the BIOS.
I found it odd that they were still selling 3 pin fans.
Yeah, I think my HD monitor is fine. 4k in TV is fine but I don't see the point for gaming.
Time to build a new rig in the next couple of months!
Getting back into researching hardware in preparation- a thing I only keep up on when a new build is happening.
My current machine is based on a Z170 board and ...sixth gen i5? But it looks like the same 1151 pin socket is still used on the Z370 mobos.
Yes, 6600K and DDR4 memory. But it's DDR4 from three years ago, so I was guessing that current speeds could be a lot higher. Your 7700K idea is an intriguing one.
Yes, 6600K and DDR4 memory. But it's DDR4 from three years ago, so I was guessing that current speeds could be a lot higher. Your 7700K idea is an intriguing one.
The GPU upgrade is part of the picture. I chose the wrong year to spend $500 on a card and have a 980Ti, which probably gets its ass kicked by everything that came out the next year. This time I'm looking at the pending RTX2060, which is supposed to launch at $360.
Damn, you guys are right about that^. Now that I look into it the performance gap is much narrower than I thought it would be, and over two generations no less.
Power draw is worse but not huge deal. Now I almost feel like I can keep coasting with the current build, other than really wanting a new case to play with.