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Just a little update and prod for any thoughts/suggestions you may have:
I have built my system, and am awaiting delivery of the GPU ordered last night. I went with the following:
Ryzen 5 1600 (stock cooler only for now); GSkill Ripjaws 16 gb (2×8) DDR 4 3200 (I didn’t go for the ridiculously expensive 14-14-14 timed sticks, quite happy with my half the price, 15-16-16 sticks chugging away at 3200 mkz!); Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3 mobo; 128Gb Sandisc SSD for the OS, Crucial 525Gb MX300 M.2 2280 SSD for games/software other than OS; Fractal Design Define 5 case (sounds proofing panels, and an absolute dream to build in); Corsair 650 watt gold 80+ PSU; and the GPU I just ordered last night, I actually went with a 6GB 1060 in the end – the price drops made it cheaper than most RX580s, which were the serious alternative, but I also get 2 games free with this card (Dawn of War 3, and a choice of For Honour or Ghost Recon Wildlands – I’m picking Wildlands), both of which I was intending to pick up at some point. So the Asus 1060 was £248 delivered (£239.99 without delivery), minus £70+ for the games, putting it into RX570 price territory. I even debated the extra £100 for a 1070 with the games free, but my budget couldn’t quite justify it. And I currently only have a 21inch 1080p monitor anyway, so that would be wasted power.
Anyone have thoughts/input? I could move Win10 to the M2, but the difference in boot times over the Sandisc SSD is likely to be seconds at best, and everything else is going on the M2 anyway, so I feel this is the more useful setup.
I’ll be adding a large HDD at some point, for all media (not games/software) and files. I’d use my old ones, but they’re old enough I think I should look at new now. I’ll also be getting a 24inch monitor after the HDD, potentially 27inch depending on prices when I reach that point.
I’m typing this on the PC, although using an old HD3850 GPU until the 1060 arrives Tuesday (bloody bank holidays!). Apart from the GPU, it’s so quiet I need the side panel off and my ear almost inside before I can hear it.
Interesting. Considering Labour are the largest party in Europe, and a LOT of that support has happened since and because of Corbyn. I’m kind of confused when I see this line trotted out constantly about Corbyn being bad, being the death of Labour etc… He isn’t some loony left wing extremist. He’s pretty mainstream left. Our media has a very clear and obvious right wing bias, and yet every single time he’s had a vote against him, in spite of the numerous ways neo-lib Blairites have tried to undermine and hamstring him, he simply gets a larger vote to stay in power.
I’m not holding my breath, but I do hope we see a proper surprise at this election. Unfortunately, given the well-documented idiocy of people to vote against their own best interests and vote based entirely on the shite they’ve read in the paper, I’m not hoping too hard.
Which E6600 is it ? A 2.4 GHz Core2 Duo E6600 or a 3.06 GHz Pentium E6600 ?
Core 2 Duo.
Zoostorm Delta Pico Desktop PC £118.85 Intel Celeron 1037U 1.8GHz 4GB RAM + 500GB HDD + DVD Writer Intel HD Graphics Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Professional 32/64bit Digital License Download Key £9.99
That’s tiny. No space for a GPU though, and part of the appeal of the idea is using the bits I have. Are there any out there that would have a PCIx16 slot?
Thansk guys. It occurs to me I could build a simple system for basic usage (for example for my mum), if I can get a micro atx board and small case for them. PSU too. Any suggestions? I’ve never bothered with the SFF stuff, so I don’t really know what’s small, cool (temperature wise), and quality. Also matx motherboards, I don’t know what’s available still in LGA 775 and is any good. Any suggestions if I follow that route? I can see some msi and gigabyte boards on ebay, but am totally clueless as to quality of them.
£30 odd for a mobo, another £30 odd for a small case after a quick google, and then maybe a 400 watt psu. Am I missing anything there or would that be sufficient to put together something little and awesome?
I’m not sure diversification is to blame, more diversification without proper coherency between products/services. Look at the sewage company (can’t remember the name) that does fibre optic and cctv stuff too in the UK – at first glance, they are nothing alike, but when you learn that the heavy duty cabling is run underground, there’s the link. It actually makes sense. Toshiba – electronics, into nuclear power? I sort of see the paper logic, with electricity and power generation, but how does it link business-wise? Diversification is good, but wildly disconnected things don’t work very well. There should be some sort of viable interconnectivity, surely?
Ah, I’ve just order the gaming 3… what’s the problem with it? Reviews seem to be good, reddit has good info too…
As much as I’d like to, I just don’t have the budget for a bigger monitor. That Asus is over £600 which is more than half my budget for a complete PC… Of course, I could just stick with the 21inch for some time, until I can afford a bigger monitor.
2nd issue around it is I’m looking at the R5 1600 CPU and waiting for the RX500 series of GPUs, with the aim of getting an RX580. I can’t go too big a monitor as I can only afford one GPU for the time being!
I can’t see any schadenfreude to be had. They will fuck it up, and it is not them that will be dropped in shit, it is all of us, the populace at large. I really, really hope I’m wrong, but I cannot see how Brexit is anything but a complete disaster for us and every generation to come.
Approximately Total: £241.79 according to ebay… that’s including shipping to here… I’m genuinely tempted, any thoughts?
Found one that does ship to the UK… tempting… I could use credit card so it would be more protected
Motherboard updates for boardmakers to come soon too. Normally hype and excuses are clearly hype and excuses, but this time around it looks like there is substance to the claims. I gather bios updates have been improving motherboard performance incrementally almost daily, but this upcoming one should see a big jump in performance as memory issues should be resolved
I have a Q9550 with an HD7870… Still on the original Asus P5 mobo. Waiting for Ryzen 5, and that R480 does look like a sorely tempting buy…
@jason sold in Paraguay
and also Peru http://imgur.com/a/07Irs
Don’t know about elsewhere, but there are more threads with pics
Ok, given the Ryzen R5s are apparently on sale already (although not near me), there are some benchmarks surfacing which make it look like a very viable option for me (the 1600x I think, or even the 1600 given the multipliers are unlocked across the board)… I don’t know remotely enough about the state of motherboards these days to pick good options – can anyone help there?
I’d forgotten just how long I spent researching and reviewing everything last time I built! And I worked in BT at the time so had technology to hand very often!
http://www.overclock.net/t/1626317/it-may-be-that-the-ryzen-5-already-exists-for-sale
Thanks for the info peeps!
Dug out the SSD, it’s one of these – “SanDisk Plus 120GB SATAIII 2.5inch SSD”. So that would seem to be big enough for a boot drive. 😀 Are you suggesting (because I do use Steam) another, larger SSD or a hybrid SSHD would be the best bet for games? I can do that, but don’t know enough about them yet to know which would be good.
Alternatively, would an M2 drive for boot and my 128GB SSD for games (and then the 3TB of HDDs for media and files) work?
Well, I already have 3 1TB HDDs (2 external), so storage space isn’t an issue. Does an SSD make any difference to actual gameplay, apart from loading times? Do they affect framerates, or anything like that? Also, getting the use out of the items I have is part of my reasoning.
I’m thinking ahead with the CPU – GPUs as an upgrade by themselves have always made the biggest impact for a gaming system, so I’m thinking the best CPU I can get to start with, and then down the line when 1080Tis are £100, I can upgrade to one of those. Or whatever the version of GPU is that’s most value for money at the time…
It’s likely to be years before I consider another PC – my current one has been effectively running for 12 years – CPU upgraded from E6600 maybe 5 years ago, GPU I upgraded 3 times, RAM once from 2GB to 4GB Mushkin Redline…
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