**Official PC rig Pics/Specs/mods thread PART III** Mirin' Aesthetics?

[SynapticCleft]

The Dell P2715Q is on sale for $524.99 ($498.75 w/ student or work discount) right now. Going to get my partial refund tomorrow.

Also any of you guys use mechanical keyboards? I'm thinking of getting one since apparently they're really great and my Amazon Basics keyboard that I'm currently using doesn't feel that good. I just need one for a lot of writing and coding. Gaming is going to be used too, but it's not a primary focus. I've been looking at these:

Ducky Shine 4 (MX Browns)
CODE Keyboard (Not sure, switch tester coming Wednesday)
Das Professional Keyboard (MX Browns)
Something else?

Just want a backlight. Is it worth paying $222.15 for the Shine 4? I see it's one of the GOAT keyboards of all time. It's the one I want most. It's only in stock at Overclockers UK though. Everywhere else it has an estimated in stock date of March 3 (pushed back twice now).

The quality is great with Ducky keyboards. I have one myself, but I didn't buy the shine. I got the Ducky Zero since I don't really need the fancy lighting effects.

[misc_brah]

The Dell P2715Q is on sale for $524.99 ($498.75 w/ student or work discount) right now. Going to get my partial refund tomorrow.

Also any of you guys use mechanical keyboards? I'm thinking of getting one since apparently they're really great and my Amazon Basics keyboard that I'm currently using doesn't feel that good. I just need one for a lot of writing and coding. Gaming is going to be used too, but it's not a primary focus. I've been looking at these:

Ducky Shine 4 (MX Browns)
CODE Keyboard (Not sure, switch tester coming Wednesday)
Das Professional Keyboard (MX Browns)
Something else?

Just want a backlight. Is it worth paying $222.15 for the Shine 4? I see it's one of the GOAT keyboards of all time. It's the one I want most. It's only in stock at Overclockers UK though. Everywhere else it has an estimated in stock date of March 3 (pushed back twice now).

Not sure if any keyboard is worth $200+

Saying that, ducky keyboards are really nice

[OneWayFS]

I'm not sure whether the rep you or neg you for that. I was all content to wait for end of the year to get my UHD, but with a price drop like that its hard to ignore. Now I'm back to debating about it again.My 2k monitor look exactly the same at 1080p only bigger. But I've only tested a couple of games, and my gpu test (which looks fantastic at the full resolution btw) so I'm not the true gamer.

This may get you more. YOU GUYS WHO WANT A 4K MONITOR RIGHT NOW LOOK AT THIS.

Dell P2715Q on sale right now for 524.99 ($175 off Promo).
The P2715Q is $659.99 on the mobile Dell.com site! So $659.99 - $175.
Buy a $400 Dell gift card, get $50 off - $350 for $400!
$24.25 - EPP Discount (Students/Work)

GET IT FOR $460.74.

Kicking myself for buying it two days before this chit all kicked in. One of the best 4K monitors atm for this price.

I just bought my first mechanical keyboard with this new rig and am loving it so far.

Not familiar with the ones you mentioned but I tracked down the keyboards with the best reviews and went from there. My choice came down to a Logitech G710+ or a Corsair Vengeance K70 RGB. The Logitech was on sale and came with a free $140 headset and the Corsair was out of stock in store, so I went with the Logitech.

It also uses MX Browns and I'm digging them big time but I can't offer much for comparison. My work involves a lot of Excel and writing, though, and I would much prefer using this keyboard over the one I have at work. It feels fantastic to type with.

The quality is great with Ducky keyboards. I have one myself, but I didn't buy the shine. I got the Ducky Zero since I don't really need the fancy lighting effects.

Not sure if any keyboard is worth $200+

Saying that, ducky keyboards are really nice

Thanks guys, gonna see what to do come tomorrow.

[LinuxJon]

I just switched out my trashy WD 1tb blue drive for a 1tb red drive and I feel relieved. I was on my third warranty replacement of the Caviar Blue. The 1tb model of that drive is such junk.

[eXistenceLies]

Just updated my spare (2008 build gaming/streaming PC) to my spare 780 GTX, a new i5 4690K, spare 8 gigs of DDR3 1866mhz ram and a new MSI Z97S. Prob just as good as my primary gaming pc which consist of i7 4770K OCed to 4ghz, 16 gigs of DDR3 2400mhz ram, 2x 970 GTX's, Asus VI Hero, etc.

[Destor]

That's a crazy price for a quality 27" 4k monitor. I just dropped $1k on a 32".

[KRANE]

This may get you more. YOU GUYS WHO WANT A 4K MONITOR RIGHT NOW LOOK AT THIS.

Dell P2715Q on sale right now for 524.99 ($175 off Promo).
The P2715Q is $659.99 on the mobile Dell.com site! So $659.99 - $175.
Buy a $400 Dell gift card, get $50 off - $350 for $400!
$24.25 - EPP Discount (Students/Work)

GET IT FOR $460.74.

Kicking myself for buying it two days before this chit all kicked in. One of the best 4K monitors atm for this price.







Thanks guys, gonna see what to do come tomorrow.

That's less than I paid for my Dell 2k.

[Vawx]

I just switched out my trashy WD 1tb blue drive for a 1tb red drive and I feel relieved. I was on my third warranty replacement of the Caviar Blue. The 1tb model of that drive is such junk.

lol what was the problem with the blue?

Just ordered 3x 1TB Blues, you're making me nervous brah

[LinuxJon]

lol what was the problem with the blue?

Just ordered 3x 1TB Blues, you're making me nervous brah

The fail rate is TERRIBLE on them. Just look at the Newegg reviews for this model.

I bought 2. The first one failed within a month. The second failed within 6 months. I'm on the third warranty replacement of one and the second warranty replacement of the other.

I think it might be just this one specific design, but it's the worst hard drive I've ever had. I have redundant backups of everything, but it's still a PITA to have to use that all the time.

[freeburn]

i wanna return my msi 970s and get the gold edition ones soooooooo baddddddd

[eXistenceLies]

i wanna return my msi 970s and get the gold edition ones soooooooo baddddddd

can you not trade up?

[Votkastotka]

Guys I need some help. Should I buy the Gigabyte gtx 970 windforce 3x. It's not the G1, since it's too expensive for me. Should I buy it now for 390 canadian dollars, or should I wait to see if their price will drop when AMD releases the 390x.

[GetRichDieTryin]

Guys I need some help. Should I buy the Gigabyte gtx 970 windforce 3x. It's not the G1, since it's too expensive for me. Should I buy it now for 390 canadian dollars, or should I wait to see if their price will drop when AMD releases the 390x.

Depends how long you're willing to wait and if you need it right now. The cards are said to be out Q2 2015 so you could be waiting 2-4 months before the 390x is out. I would personally prefer the G1 over the windforce but with that said you could pretty easily overclock the windforce to match the G1 clocks.

[freeburn]

can you not trade up?

idk i haven't really looked into it. theres no point really, they are more expensive and just gold instead of red, i just think they look cool.

i'm still within my return window to amazon i think

[everblue]

This may get you more. YOU GUYS WHO WANT A 4K MONITOR RIGHT NOW LOOK AT THIS.

Dell P2715Q on sale right now for 524.99 ($175 off Promo).
The P2715Q is $659.99 on the mobile Dell.com site! So $659.99 - $175.
Buy a $400 Dell gift card, get $50 off - $350 for $400!
$24.25 - EPP Discount (Students/Work)

GET IT FOR $460.74.

Kicking myself for buying it two days before this chit all kicked in. One of the best 4K monitors atm for this price.








Thanks guys, gonna see what to do come tomorrow.

does that monitor really have a 60hz refresh rate @ 4k? if so I may have to pull the trigger on it

fuk just saw it was matte finish. fuk that. would rather pay more for glossy

[OneWayFS]

does that monitor really have a 60hz refresh rate @ 4k? if so I may have to pull the trigger on it

fuk just saw it was matte finish. fuk that. would rather pay more for glossy

Yeah it is. It's SST too, not MST.

It's more of a hybrid matte. It's a semi-gloss. It still looks nice though and it's really bright. I don't think we'll see any glossy 4K non-Apple monitors for a while though.

[INSANEREACH]

How will this do in playing the latest PC games, not looking at needing to play at ultra settings.

4.0GHz Six Core, Desktop Gaming PC, Computer Complete Full Package Including: Windows 8.1 Operating System, 22" Monitor, Headset, Gamer's Keyboard & Mouse Set AND a Neon Blue Internal Lighting Kit (New 4.0GHz AMD FX 6300 Fast Six 6-Core Processor, 2GB AMD Radeon R9 270 Graphics Card, Raijintek Aidos CPU Fan Cooler, High Grade 500W PSU, 1TB Hard Drive, 16GB 1600Mhz RAM)

[LinuxJon]

How will this do in playing the latest PC games, not looking at needing to play at ultra settings.

4.0GHz Six Core, Desktop Gaming PC, Computer Complete Full Package Including: Windows 8.1 Operating System, 22" Monitor, Headset, Gamer's Keyboard & Mouse Set AND a Neon Blue Internal Lighting Kit (New 4.0GHz AMD FX 6300 Fast Six 6-Core Processor, 2GB AMD Radeon R9 270 Graphics Card, Raijintek Aidos CPU Fan Cooler, High Grade 500W PSU, 1TB Hard Drive, 16GB 1600Mhz RAM)

It depends on what you're paying for it. You could build a better rig for under $700 if you did some shopping.

[GetRichDieTryin]

How will this do in playing the latest PC games, not looking at needing to play at ultra settings.

4.0GHz Six Core, Desktop Gaming PC, Computer Complete Full Package Including: Windows 8.1 Operating System, 22" Monitor, Headset, Gamer's Keyboard & Mouse Set AND a Neon Blue Internal Lighting Kit (New 4.0GHz AMD FX 6300 Fast Six 6-Core Processor, 2GB AMD Radeon R9 270 Graphics Card, Raijintek Aidos CPU Fan Cooler, High Grade 500W PSU, 1TB Hard Drive, 16GB 1600Mhz RAM)

A R9 270 isn't going to be running any of the latest games at ultra lol. Post a budget and location and someone will create you a parts list.

[8EE8EE5EE]

A R9 270 isn't going to be running any of the latest games at ultra lol. Post a budget and location and someone will create you a parts list.

USED HD 7970 > R9 270, R9 280 srs.

get a used 7970 if you're on that tight of a budget its the exact same thing as a r9 280x and you can find them for under $150... look on reddits hardware swap thingy people on there will sell to you cheappppp like $120 cheap.

[Vawx]

The fail rate is TERRIBLE on them. Just look at the Newegg reviews for this model.

I bought 2. The first one failed within a month. The second failed within 6 months. I'm on the third warranty replacement of one and the second warranty replacement of the other.

I think it might be just this one specific design, but it's the worst hard drive I've ever had. I have redundant backups of everything, but it's still a PITA to have to use that all the time.

Fuk that man. It seems these things tend to happen in streaks. These drives are still 4/5 stars on NewEgg but of course most of the 1 star reviews are people that went through 2 or 3 drives while others have no problems at all.

I've already got them ordered with the rest of my parts so I'm gonna try them out. Two drives will be in RAID 1 with my sensitive data backed up. If they crap out early I'll be quick to switch to the blacks or another brand entirely.

[LinuxJon]

Fuk that man. It seems these things tend to happen in streaks. These drives are still 4/5 stars on NewEgg but of course most of the 1 star reviews are people that went through 2 or 3 drives while others have no problems at all.

I've already got them ordered with the rest of my parts so I'm gonna try them out. Two drives will be in RAID 1 with my sensitive data backed up. If they crap out early I'll be quick to switch to the blacks or another brand entirely.

WD recommends only Red drives be used in RAID arrays. Not blue, not black, not green or purple.

I've run WD blue drives in RAID 1 before, but it's not a suggested use.

[1quick1]

wut up brahs. I've been staying out of this thread to avoid going full retard and buying 3 - 980's to play a game (Arma 3) that would run the same with a GTX670.

How my brahs been?

[1quick1]

Yo Blue, I went to hit you up on PM. Tell them noobs to stop PM'in you to build them a PC.

[OneWayFS]

Got my switch sampler in today. fukkin made my switch choice harder. It was either browns or clears.

Decided to play it safe and went with MX Browns and got the Das Keyboard 4 Professional Silent Edition. Just dropped $160 on a keyboard, outragous. This chit is going right back to Amazon if it isn't worth it.

[niktak11]

Any brahs here build their own NAS? I've been thinking about building one instead of adding more drives to my desktop (so I don't have to leave it on 24/7) but I briefly glanced at newegg and it looks like all the NASs that hold 5+ drives are quite spendy. I feel like o could build something for $300 or less (not including HDDs obviously but I'm not really sure on the hardware requirements for a NAS)

[CrossCounter]

Got my switch sampler in today. fukkin made my switch choice harder. It was either browns or clears.

Decided to play it safe and went with MX Browns and got the Das Keyboard 4 Professional Silent Edition. Just dropped $160 on a keyboard, outragous. This chit is going right back to Amazon if it isn't worth it.

If you live near a best buy, you could've went in and tried the switches in-store on a full keyboard first. I think it's a lot different than just pressing a single key on the tester.

Best Buy usually has a few of these on display:
Razer BW Ultimate 2013 - Cherry MX Blue
Razer BW Ultimate 2014 - "Razer Greens" which are slightly modified Kailh Blues
Corsair K65/K70 - Cherry MX Red
Logitech G710+ - Cherry MX Brown
Logitech G910 - Romer G

[Vawx]

Thoughts on these cases?

Antec Three Hundred 2

Fractal Design Define R4

Ignore those prices, they're both about $100. Originally I wanted to go with the Antec but it was out of stock. The Fractal Design is kind of ugly IMO but still a simple, clean case + it has 2 extra USB ports in the front.

They're both pretty basic cases, but I'm not sure which I prefer. Or maybe someone has a better recommendation around $100

WD recommends only Red drives be used in RAID arrays. Not blue, not black, not green or purple.

I've run WD blue drives in RAID 1 before, but it's not a suggested use.

Hadn't heard this, but I did some research and sure enough WD recommends Red drives for RAID. However in terms of RAID 1 I haven't found much to suggest Reds make a huge difference. This one guy even claims Blue is better.

According to a top-level tech at Western Digital, (it took me 2 hours to get this guy on the phone) you should always use raid-rated drives for RAID 0, 5 & 10. Otherwise, your drives could constantly get rebuilt, every time there are drop outs.

HOWEVER, he said that regular desktop drives are not only fine for RAID-1, they are actually preferable. TLER can actually be problematic with RAID-1, which is simply redundant writing. (no reads.)

I dunno, but this guy has been a backup tech for 45 years, so I'm inclined to believe him.

Now that may or may not be true, but I believe any difference would be marginal at best. I'm backing up 1 home drive, not running a server.

[OneWayFS]

Upgraded my RAM to 16GB today. Less than 50% RAM usage now. Feels good.

Also I developed a stuttering problem on Chrome (before I upgraded and it persisted after). When playing 1080p in full screen the video would stutter, like it was running a few frames shorter than 30 (no audio stutter). This isn't attributed to my monitor as it only just started happening yesterday or the day before. The only thing I've done in that time is install CrashPlan for backups.

To fix the problem I disabled the flash plugin at chrome://plugins. It fixed the problem completely but now I can't see flash objects (not a huge deal) and most importantly these forums lag now when I scroll. Like it delays scrolling, etc. It only happens on this site. Wtf brahs.

Anyone ever experience either of these problems?



EDIT: Reenabled flash and it started again. Smooth as fuk in windowed, choppy in fullscreen. Probably gonna reinstall W8.1 tomorrow, this install feels pretty fuarked among other problems. Frustrating.

[KilaByte]

Got my switch sampler in today. fukkin made my switch choice harder. It was either browns or clears.

Decided to play it safe and went with MX Browns and got the Das Keyboard 4 Professional Silent Edition. Just dropped $160 on a keyboard, outragous. This chit is going right back to Amazon if it isn't worth it.

Like somebody mentioned, most local BBs should have that, Microcenter nearby?