what are your specs?

Homoerotic Cougar-kun said:
I am, but I fixed the problem, so no big deal. RAM clocking was off.
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That's good, I am still not confident in any tool to accurately determine if RAM has gone bad. "Run stress tests until it crashes" is the norm and that's got too many other failure junctions to really work.

You had your clocking set manually, though?
 
Wingus Dongshire said:
That's good, I am still not confident in any tool to accurately determine if RAM has gone bad. "Run stress tests until it crashes" is the norm and that's got too many other failure junctions to really work.

You had your clocking set manually, though?
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Originally I did but at some point it got toggled back to XMP autosettings which were running it too slow (2133 instead of 2400). I'm guessing it happened when I flashed the BIOS, can't think of any other time it would have happened.

EDIT: That was a while ago, though, and this only started happening a month or two ago. Huh. Wonder if the CMOS battery is going or something?
 
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OK boys I need some help. I am getting into the VR meme, but I know my MB and CPU need an upgrade.
MSI Pro series intel 8th Gen LGA 1151 Atx (Z370-A Pro)
i5-8400 up to 4Ghz
Any suggestions of a good CPU MB combo?
 
GnomeofDoc said:
OK boys I need some help. I am getting into the VR meme, but I know my MB and CPU need an upgrade.
MSI Pro series intel 8th Gen LGA 1151 Atx (Z370-A Pro)
i5-8400 up to 4Ghz
Any suggestions of a good CPU MB combo?
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If you're committed to Intel, I dunno. I haven't bothered with those since the P4s were a thing. If you're willing to go Ryzen, my R5 2600 paired with a Radeon RX580 can do VR, albeit not FANTASTICALLY. My rig is probably baseline for VR shit.
 
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Homoerotic Cougar-kun said:
If you're committed to Intel, I dunno. I haven't bothered with those since the P4s were a thing. If you're willing to go Ryzen, my R5 2600 paired with a Radeon RX580 can do VR, albeit not FANTASTICALLY. My rig is probably baseline for VR shit.
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I got money to burn so it’s not that big of a deal. (Granted trying time keep in under like $550) I got a RTX 2070 8gig so I got the gpu all sorted just need a new cpu mb.
 
Deadwaste said:
i think your specs are more than fine tbh
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Yeah from what I have seen you really don’t need an i7 I have seen people use an i3 and it worked fine. But when I do get VR it won’t take that long to see if I need to update some of my other gear. But what I need is more SSDs baby
 
Core i5-4460
GTX 1060 6GB
8GB DDR3 RAM

It's quite outdated, but it does the job.
 
GnomeofDoc said:
OK boys I need some help. I am getting into the VR meme, but I know my MB and CPU need an upgrade.
MSI Pro series intel 8th Gen LGA 1151 Atx (Z370-A Pro)
i5-8400 up to 4Ghz
Any suggestions of a good CPU MB combo?
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You've already got a 6 core CPU. You really wont see any major increase in performance from a 8 core chip, either from intel or AMD, not enough to justify the cost IMO.

If you wanted to go now, I'd go 9700k or 3700x. For motherboards, from intel the gigabyte ultra and master z390 boards are quite nice. For AMD, same thing, the gigabyte boards are solid (if occasionally a tad buggy). The asus crosshair hero boards are nice, but not worth the high cost IMO.

Honestly, the 8400 shoud be pretty good, I'd wait for either the AMD 4000 series or for intel to finally get up off their ass and deliver a substantially faster CPU.
 
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Got her cheap from a pawn shop years ago. Obsolete, but she does OK. Has a touchscreen which pisses me off. There's another RAM slot but I don't think she needs more RAM.
 
Alright, time for an update.

I finally assembled my new PC today, which consists of:
OS; Linux Mint
Motherboard Chipset: B450, micro-ATX
CPU; Ryzen 7 3700X
GPU: Radeon RX 560
RAM: DDR4-3200 16GB
Storage: Samsung 960 EVO

Since I forgot all about cloning my hard drive onto my M.2 drive, I now have to get an adapter to switch everything on my old PC over. The cold hard facts are that any version of Linux will never be as efficient or relevant as Windows 7 or 10 is.
 
Built this 3 weeks ago

OS: Windows 10 Home
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700x (MicroCenter literally had it on sale for $129.99)
MoBo: Aorus B450m
GPU: Gigbyte Gaming OC gtx 1660 6gb
SSD: Inland Professional 480GB
RAM: G Skills Ripjaws V 16gb dual channel

All fitting inside of a Thermaltake versa h18 with a 650w modular psu
 
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an elderly i5 and a GPU from the bargain bin at a 2nd hand pc shop.
who cares hoi4 runs good enough.
 

R5 2600 with 4.2GHz overclock (cooled via Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black edition)
4x4Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4 RAM 3000MHz
MSI B450 Pro-VDH matx motherboard
Samsung 970 Evo M.2 drive 256Gb (New boot drive)
Toshiba HDD 500Gb(?) (Steam library + bulk storage)
Kingston SSD 128Gb(?) (Old boot drive, now for frequently played games)
MSI GTX 1660ti Ventus
Pcie 1x riser + pcie 1x internal USB 3.0 header expansion card
EVGA modular 650W gold cert. power supply.

5.25' bay shit:
Shitty DVD read/write drive, need to upgrade to a blu-ray+DVD+CD drive soon.
AFT 77u Pro card reader/USB hub

Rosewill Stealth midtower from 2015

i5 4690k capable of 4.25GHz OC
Old Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo (pre AM4 compliant version)
G Skill Ripjaws DDR3 2×4Gb RAM
Gigabyte Z97 atx motherboard
Pcie to NVME/M.2 adapter (for new boot drive)
Gigabyte GTX 970 Windforce
Old case fans
 
I just assembled my bro's PC for Christmas.

Ryzen 5 1600
RX 470 Nitro 4GB
16GB DDR4
ASUS B350 Prime-Plus motherboard
480GB SSD, 1TB Hard Drive
Deepcool Matrexx 55 RGB model.

I'm trading it for his old PC though, which was
Xeon x3440
R9 285 2GB
12GB DDR3
and some Asus oem board with a lepa case
 
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GNew to the community, but heres my contribution

CPU: Ryzen 9 3950x
Cooler: AORUS Liquid Cooler 360 (3 x 120mm)
GPU: RTX 2080Ti
RAM: 64GB (4x16GB) DDR4 3600MHz
SSD: 512GB Samsung 970 Pro
HDD: 4 x 14 TB Seagate Barracuda Pro
Mobo: Aorus Master X570
Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic XL
Extra Fans: 7x Cooler Master ML120R

Was gonna go Threadripper since I do a lot of production work but supply problems.
 
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Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
G.Skill 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 Trident Z 3000MHz F4-3000C15D-32GTZ
Noctua NH-D15 Multi Socket PWM CPU cooler
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Advanced 11GB
Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra Motherboard
Corsair AX760 Platinum Modular 760 Power Supply

I have a shitload of storage since I don't throw out my old hard drives as I go along; the fastest thing that I have that I run the system and games from is an ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro.

Built last year with a be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 rev 2 case - great case except for the instructions being the most cryptic bullshit. Have some extra Noctua fans in there as well, although I don't get great temperatures. I have been wondering how much of that is having to forego an intake fan because I have a 5.25" drive in there. A few degrees difference would be pretty significant.

Obviously it cost a lot (not as much as the guy above me - eek), and I still cringe when I see the 2080Ti becasue I know how much it cost. But my only regret is not spending the extra $150 or whatever for the 9900k - sure, the 9700k is great for games right now, but I'm extremely apprehensive that the lack of multithreading will bite me. It already had problems with Red Dead Redemption 2 (although fixable - Rockstar didn't optimise it properly for different setups).

I suppose not getting the Z390 Master might've been a mistake, depending on how good the better-quality sound they have on that build is (has capacity for more hard drives too but I really should start replacing my aged HDDs slowly).

Oh, and the RAM is quite old, but to my understanding RAM doesn't give much of a return in gaming above a certain capacity and speed. I'll probably upgrade it sometime in the next year.

Have a Ducky TKL keyboard and a G502, as well - G502s are way too heavy and I'll try out some lightweight ergos when I have some time.
 
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