**Official PC rig Pics/Specs/Mods thread PART V ** GOAT PC Master Race Checking In!**

**Fivefootkillerz** · 09-30-2018, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by somfking

what is this overclocking you guys are talking about? no clue what that is lmao. and from your guys' advice definitely gonna get an SSD especially cause i looked and they're pretty inexpensive. thanks boyos!

also another issue I have is that (using fortnite as an example, but happens with all games), when I first start my computer it'll start up and load very quickly and run perfectly, but if I don't shut my PC down for a couple days it starts loading slower and slower to the point where buildings aren't even rendered when I land until I reset my PC, then it's back to normal

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guides/info for overclocking
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...clock+i5+4670k

this is about getting your ram speeds to advertised speeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTWEzTV8B54

**MrJensenn** · 10-01-2018, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by Fivefootkillerz

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guides/info for overclocking
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...clock+i5+4670k

this is about getting your ram speeds to advertised speeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTWEzTV8B54

His speeds are probably somewhat correct, it seems that speccy shows the half-speed (think half since it's dual-channel). So you do 666 mhz * 2 = 1332 mhz.
https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrac...ng_at_666_mhz/

But he should check that they are physically placed in a dual-channel mode and set the speeds to 1600 mhz in bios. (800 mhz in speccy)

**C Project** · 10-01-2018, 11:07 AM

Anyone in here rocking ThreadRipper 2? Thinking about pulling the trigger when my wife isn't looking.

Curious to know the performance on Windows 10. I won't be running Windows on it full time, but I'll probably have to use it for firmware updates, etc.

**rocketfish** · 10-01-2018, 12:55 PM

hhhhnnngggg got the samsung nvme m.2 ssd 500gb.. that thing is fukin fast. Windows cold boots as if it was in sleep mode on a regular ssd, everything is insta load. This is it for me, no going back to regular SSD they turned poverty like mechanical HDD.

**InstantLoser** · 10-01-2018, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by rocketfish

hhhhnnngggg got the samsung nvme m.2 ssd 500gb.. that thing is fukin fast. Windows cold boots as if it was in sleep mode on a regular ssd, everything is insta load. This is it for me, no going back to regular SSD they turned poverty like mechanical HDD.

Now put them in RAID 0.

Originally Posted by C Project

Anyone in here rocking ThreadRipper 2? Thinking about pulling the trigger when my wife isn't looking.

Curious to know the performance on Windows 10. I won't be running Windows on it full time, but I'll probably have to use it for firmware updates, etc.

I have a TR1 (1920x) at the moment, but considering getting a TR2 2950x eventually. The 1920x is pretty speedy. You can run it in "Gaming Mode" in which case it disables 6 cores and amps up the remaining 6 to perform better in gaming, or you can run "Creator Mode" which enables all the cores (for things like video editing).

**FFailed** · 10-01-2018, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by PositiveCrew

^that

will not pay over $300 for a 1080, or $400 for a 1080ti in this market

Are people selling Tis for $400? I might grab one if that's true

**PositiveCrew** · 10-02-2018, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by bov188

Yea I noticed the price of 1440p monitors is really attractive these days which is what’s prompting me to upgrade my GPU.

How important is gsync for gtx 1080 paired with a 1440p 144hz monitor? The only games I’m playing these days are Doom, Black Ops 4, and maybe BF5 if EA/Dice gets their **** together

G-Sync is pretty gimmicky for me

I don't see any real value in it, lots of others will disagree though

Originally Posted by FFailed

Are people selling Tis for $400? I might grab one if that's true

yeah my buddy picked up a pair of 1080tis for $700 last week on craigslist >

so jelly

if you look around you can find em for $400 for sure

Originally Posted by bov188

Going by ebay's current prices the only ones I'm seeing <$400 are auctions with 40+ bids and 6 days remaining.

Anything that ends within days/hours is upwards of $450... And I assume would end somewhere in the $500 range. Without another 15% off promo from ebay I don't see how you can pick one up for $400. And even with another promo you'll have to be quick

There's a $500 buy it now w/ $200 shipping fee lmao
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-NVIDIA...EAAOSwzUxbsdbT

Personally, I'm not comfortable buying used but that's just me

idk what you're seeing, but eBay has a good amount of sub $400 1080tis, and is really saturated at $450-$500 each

**Cheap5.0** · 10-03-2018, 09:57 AM

Anyone regularly playing BF4 still?

**chickenallday** · 10-03-2018, 10:31 AM

Anyone knowledgeable about surface products? I need something for basic browsing, streaming, and some MS office like word, excel, powerpoint, onenote.

Was thinking about a Surface Go. Everyone bashes it because of the Pentium Gold CPU, but most reviews say its amazing regardless. A Surface Pro 5 (2017 version) would be about $200-300 more for an i5, but I dont want to spend that extra money unless the Go really can't handle MS office suite

**MrJensenn** · 10-03-2018, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by chickenallday

Anyone knowledgeable about surface products? I need something for basic browsing, streaming, and some MS office like word, excel, powerpoint, onenote.

Was thinking about a Surface Go. Everyone bashes it because of the Pentium Gold CPU, but most reviews say its amazing regardless. A Surface Pro 5 (2017 version) would be about $200-300 more for an i5, but I dont want to spend that extra money unless the Go really can't handle MS office suite

I myself bought an iPad 2018 with the Apple Pencil to annotate and take notes from research papers for my thesis work. I use it to compliment my laptops and workstation and it works flawlessly. At first I didn't use it for else than the pdf reading, but now I read newspapers, other news, lots of streaming (twitch and youtube), OneNote, Outlook, Word and much more. It's really convenient and fast, just how I guess Apple have managed to keep having customers despite charging a premium. The integration with Sonos is extremly well executed, without having to log into anything else than Spotify I can just choose to play on my Sonos speaker. The same goes for printing, it just automatically found one of my printers on the network without any need to setup anything.

The iPad 2018 edition is the most bang for the buck tablet you can currently buy on the market since the only competition in the "high" end segment is Samsung and Windows, both charging considerably more for their offerings compared to the 2018 iPad. Of course you could take into consideration the Huawei, but the quality isn't as good as the competition. Sony have unfortunately stepped out from the tablet market, which is a shame since they had very thin, light weight, high performing waterproof tablets.

Price comp:
Surface go - 540$ (amazon.com)
Surface go keyboard - 130$ (ms.com)
Edit: can be bought from MS on Amazon with both for 616.99$ 8gb/128gb

iPad pro 10.5 - 583$ (amazon.com)
Apple Smart Keyboard for 10.5 - 99.99$ (amazon.com
(Smart connector for the keyboard - really convenient with magnets)

iPad 2018 (9.8") - 364.94$ (amazon.com)
Keyboard case (3rd party) - around 50 or so bucks (amazon.com)
(Additionally if you want you can buy the Apple Pencil for 94.88$ (amazon.com))

**iifymbro** · 10-05-2018, 06:03 AM

Originally Posted by Cheap5.0

Anyone regularly playing BF4 still?

They ruined it for me when the player base started getting broken up into DLC quarantines

**J1n** · 10-09-2018, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by PositiveCrew

G-Sync is pretty gimmicky for me

I don't see any real value in it, lots of others will disagree though

yeah my buddy picked up a pair of 1080tis for $700 last week on craigslist >

so jelly

if you look around you can find em for $400 for sure

idk what you're seeing, but eBay has a good amount of sub $400 1080tis, and is really saturated at $450-$500 each

[img]https://i.imgur.com/0DhogyX.png[/ig]

The only issues with Gsync (and freesync) is if you run a game in windowed mode or you have multiple monitors. other than that its pretty flawless.

**PSVita** · 10-13-2018, 04:16 AM

My pc is garbage. I bought a 1050 ti the other month though. (seems like gpu's have dropped in price since about 3 months ago, this cost me £200/$230)

Playing every game really well surprisingly, I thought the cpu would kill it but I'm getting really high fps in gta v, cs go etc. Only game I'm having trouble with is pubg. The loading's slow as phuck.

Do I need to upgrade cpu to fix that or is that a ram issue? I've only got 8gb of ram. Just looking at upgrading my pc bit by bit.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz

Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

RAM 8.0 GB

Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 (build 17134), 64-bit

**iifymbro** · 10-13-2018, 04:45 AM

Originally Posted by PSVita

My pc is garbage. I bought a 1050 ti the other month though. (seems like gpu's have dropped in price since about 3 months ago, this cost me £200/$230)

Playing every game really well surprisingly, I thought the cpu would kill it but I'm getting really high fps in gta v, cs go etc. Only game I'm having trouble with is pubg. The loading's slow as phuck.

Do I need to upgrade cpu to fix that or is that a ram issue? I've only got 8gb of ram. Just looking at upgrading my pc bit by bit.

that's a pubg issue, lol game is trash

**freeburn** · 10-13-2018, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by iifymbro

that's a pubg issue, lol game is trash

This, never use that as a benchmark for how your PC is running cause pubg is dog ****

**RunoC** · 10-13-2018, 05:38 PM

Should be fine while playing Black Ops 4 right? It`s a laptop by the way

**BeastlyChange** · 10-14-2018, 03:09 PM

you guys feel its worth to upgrade from my i5-3570k? Currently OC'ing it at 4.2ghz with no issues, 16gb DDR3 w/ 1060 6GB.. just hesitant as it will be a pricey jump as I need to get a new mobo / ram too

**KilaByte** · 10-14-2018, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by BeastlyChange

you guys feel its worth to upgrade from my i5-3570k? Currently OC'ing it at 4.2ghz with no issues, 16gb DDR3 w/ 1060 6GB.. just hesitant as it will be a pricey jump as I need to get a new mobo / ram too

That's not bottlenecking anything, esp OC'd, unless you're stepping up from 1080p I wouldn't bother. I'm assuming this is for gaming.

**MakeItMatt** · 10-15-2018, 12:45 AM

Hey men getting ready to build a new PC. My current build is 6 years old, with a 660TI and i5 3570k

Gonna be going bigger this time.
Want this new build to last me a while just like my current one
Just cant decide on the GPU. I'm gonna be getting a 9700k when it releases, and am looking at either a 1080ti or rtx 2080.
I think the extra features with the 2080 are gonna be sweet once they're utilized (I want this thing future proof like I said)

But dont know when they're coming out with the 2070Ti..

What do?

**irollurmom** · 10-15-2018, 01:53 AM

Originally Posted by MakeItMatt

Hey men getting ready to build a new PC. My current build is 6 years old, with a 660TI and i5 3570k

Gonna be going bigger this time.
Want this new build to last me a while just like my current one
Just cant decide on the GPU. I'm gonna be getting a 9700k when it releases, and am looking at either a 1080ti or rtx 2080.
I think the extra features with the 2080 are gonna be sweet once they're utilized (I want this thing future proof like I said)

But dont know when they're coming out with the 2070Ti..

What do?

Get the 2080. I bought the 980 the day it was released and I can still get 4K 60fps at near max settings on most AAA games. The most recent being the previous Assassin's Creed game.

Edit: forgot to put 4K 60fps

**J1n** · 10-17-2018, 07:53 AM

Originally Posted by irollurmom

Get the 2080. I bought the 980 the day it was released and I can still get 4K 60fps at near max settings on most AAA games. The most recent being the previous Assassin's Creed game.

Edit: forgot to put 4K 60fps

thats a lie. 980 isnt that powerful. i know cause i had that card for the last 2 years.

1080ti doesnt even get 60fps @ 4k max settings on the new AC game.

im on a 2080ti right now and i only get 70-80 fps on the new AC game @ max settings and 1440p ultrawide.

**J1n** · 10-19-2018, 12:02 PM