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

[xxdef1antxx]

I just bought one of these.

https://us.msi.com/Laptop/GS63-Stealth


I haven't bought a new PC since 2010 and have recently gotten back into WoW and some other steam games. Was this a solid choice for a mobile gaming laptop?

[KilaByte]

Cross posting it here from another thread just in case someone wants a super cheap large pad


My second one, great if you want an oversized pad. Cleans easy which I was going to do but for $8.51 I decided why not. (With code FJ26JS93 )


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014CP231W...language=en_US

[TrancE_AddicT]

Did anyone preorder the 9900k I am still waiting for it to ship. I basically I got all the parts for my new build and I can't start it because I wont be able to finish testing everything.

CPU - 8C 16T Intel i9 9900k (Planning to OC at 5.0GHz on all cores)
MOBO - AORUS Z390 Master ATX
Mem - 32GB (8GB x 4) Team XCalibur DDR4 4000MHz
GPU - AORUS 1080Ti (replacing it with the AORUS 2080Ti XTREME once it comes out)
Storage - 1TB m.2 Samsung 970 EVO, 750GB SATA Samsung 840 EVO(reusing from old build), 4TB HD.
Case - Thermaltake View 71 Full tower
CPU Cooler - Thermaltake Floe Riing 360mm AIO.
PSU - Thermaltake 1200W Toughpower iRGB 80 Platinum
Fans - Thermaltake Riing Premium fans.

[Fivefootkillerz]

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsal..._air_boost_8g/

vega 56 $329 after $100 coupon & $20 mir

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsal...gb_14399_with/

$143 gtx 1060 6gb obviously mined to hell and back but still good deal

[PatHead]

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsal..._air_boost_8g/

vega 56 $329 after $100 coupon & $20 mir

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsal...gb_14399_with/

$143 gtx 1060 6gb obviously mined to hell and back but still good deal

hoping for some 8700k deals, ddr4 ram, and a z370 mobo sometime this month

[MrJensenn]

I'm going to skip the 9900K for now. See what AMD comes up with in H1 2019 or later. Don't know if I want to go down the NVME route either. Higher cost but faster speed, most of which makes nil difference in gaming once a scene/level is loaded up. Right now I'm waiting for faster and more efficient processors, matured 2000 series video cards that don't die, QLC 3D NAND SATA drives, and then some. The 9900K is just too expensive anyway especially when the price will eventually come down.

Finding a large enough, non-TG case with front drive bays and wide enough to hold a Noctua cooler are crucial.

For the case the Fractal R6 has one drive bay and enough space.

As for NVME, it's not too expensive to have a 250gb or 500gb OS drive. I remember a few years ago when I used a 60gb OCZ Agility 3 just to have ssd speeds (and it cost more than a 250gb NVME drive does these days) . You could say the speeds are negligible, but the numbers doesn't lie.

The Samsung 860 Evo series, SATA specs:


The Samsung 970 Evo series NVME M.2. specs:

[FFailed]

Lmao has anyone posted this in here? Idk why but I was dying watching this with the guys accent



Heres a sweet shot of the final product

[2RDEYE]

building a new rig on black friday. my computer keeps like crashing when it starts up, i have to like power it up like 10-20 times for it to not crash. no one has been able to help me with it, so i think its better to just build a new pc. anyone know any recent decent budget builds? thinking about going budget with the mobo and cpu

[InstantLoser]

building a new rig on black friday. my computer keeps like crashing when it starts up, i have to like power it up like 10-20 times for it to not crash. no one has been able to help me with it, so i think its better to just build a new pc. anyone know any recent decent budget builds? thinking about going budget with the mobo and cpu

Try reseating everything (power connections, cards, RAM, CPU, etc). Sounds like something is arcing/not fully seated.

[2RDEYE]

Try reseating everything (power connections, cards, RAM, CPU, etc). Sounds like something is arcing/not fully seated.

i'll give it a shot maybe later this weekend. it's just so frustrating. what could it be... maybe the hard drive?

[InstantLoser]

i'll give it a shot maybe later this weekend. it's just so frustrating. what could it be... maybe the hard drive?

I highly doubt it's a hard drive issue, although I have had 1 drive that prevented the system from being able to POST, so it's not totally impossible. How many drives do you have? You might want to go down to just your OS drive and again, ensure everything is well seated/connected to power and data cables.

[2RDEYE]

I highly doubt it's a hard drive issue, although I have had 1 drive that prevented the system from being able to POST, so it's not totally impossible. How many drives do you have? You might want to go down to just your OS drive and again, ensure everything is well seated/connected to power and data cables.

i just have 1 hdd and 1 ssd. maybe it's a power supply issue? i noticed that when it's colder it takes me more times to get my computer going, like a ****ing car lol. it once took me an hour to get it to boot properly. i turned it on and off like 50 times. warmer days it only takes like 1-10 tries. but it may just be luck

[InstantLoser]

i just have 1 hdd and 1 ssd. maybe it's a power supply issue? i noticed that when it's colder it takes me more times to get my computer going, like a ****ing car lol. it once took me an hour to get it to boot properly. i turned it on and off like 50 times. warmer days it only takes like 1-10 tries. but it may just be luck

Could be PSU, could be Motherboard. You could probably get a spare PSU for like $45.. might be a good idea to test something like that. Depends on how nice of a supply you want to go with of course, but you can get a decent Bronze 80+ Corsair/EVGA ~600w supply for fairly cheap.

[2RDEYE]

rx 580 4gb on sale here for $250 cad, good enough for latest games? or should i wait for a deal on the 1070ti? 1070 ti is like $550

[newcomb12]

rx 580 4gb on sale here for $250 cad, good enough for latest games? or should i wait for a deal on the 1070ti? 1070 ti is like $550

Used 1070tis can usually be found at decent prices

[2RDEYE]

Try a dryer blowing into and the external enclosure of your PSU. Use a toothpick or straws to prevent the fans from moving and producing current. Heat it up for a good 2-3 minutes. If it starts right up on a cold day, then it's your PSU that's failed. And, honestly, 90% of the time when a PC won't startup in the cold it's because the PSU is a goner. Mobos can have bad caps, but they'd bring a multitude of other problems when the computer was running normally.

seems like it is my psu then. there's no other problems besides the computer not starting up properly. i mean it gets to the screen where it says the mobo or cpu, i don't remember, and then it just doesn't go any further. hmmm... thinking about just getting a new case, my psu and case are like 10 years old now. i think the same with my mobo, and i'm still on an i5-2500k. i don't think there's any problems with the i5-2500k though

[2RDEYE]

Yeah, sometimes they'll POST a bit and then turn off or crash. A dual bios mobo will auto load the backup bios and overwrite the corrupted one. 10 years is a long stretch for a PSU. I've read they need to be swapped out every 5-6 years.

Tell you what, I'd get a Corsair HX 750-800 or a G2-G3. Can't go wrong with either lines. Use Camel Camel for price changes. That's how I score nearly everything on Amazon.

is 750+ necessary?

thinking about building a new rig with this:



or the smaller one. can't decide.

[MrJensenn]

750w+ isn't necessary at all.
Buy a good one at 500-600 and you're set.
Power usage is going down (cept for Intel's offerings).

It also depends on if you're gonna build a rig with 2080 Ti and 9900K, then you probably need 2000W or more. And preferably an industrial cooler.

[KilaByte]

^No offense but why do you always rag on anything that's not AMD ITT?

[2RDEYE]

can't decide on a case lol there's so many cool ones

[2RDEYE]

finally decided on a case:



i wanted to go with a mini-itx board but probably better off not to if this is going to be my main rig for several years.

any point in getting an expensive mobo aside from the aesthetics?

[MrJensenn]

^No offense but why do you always rag on anything that's not AMD ITT?

Well, it's easy. I like technology, I read and watch reviews.
The last 3 generations, maybe 4 if we want to talk about the 6000-series, of intel i_x cpus have been having terrible thermals.
That's why there has been a huge increase in delidding (no **** if you want it cool).

The latest generation wasn't any better EVEN tho they soldered it.
You can watch one of the best overclockers in the world check why the 9900K runs so hot: https://youtu.be/r5Doo-zgyQs.

So, sure I have been positive to AMD since they came out with Ryzen.
Ryzen has been extremely power efficient and very good thermals.
If I want to criticize AMD it would be for the "low" single-threaded performance, but they are limited by their clockspeed.

And now I was only talking about the Intel thermals, man, there are so much more to criticize about Intel and their cpus.

[Xinroth]

rx 580 4gb on sale here for $250 cad, good enough for latest games? or should i wait for a deal on the 1070ti? 1070 ti is like $550

RX 590 being released soon, price will probably dip a bit more.

The 580 (and GTX 1060 for comparison) can practically run anything 1080p on max settings at a decent framerate. I have an 1060 6gb and I ran everything on max, including witcher 3 maxed out with hairworks etc, without stuttering.

590 is going to be between the Vega 56 and 580, starting at $270 USD but comes with $180 worth of new games (3 new unreleased titles) which will prob be near $400 CAD for you i guess. But the Vega 56 is probably more worth getting if your PSU can handle it given how powerful it is, and the prices are getting darn low recently.

[2RDEYE]

RX 590 being released soon, price will probably dip a bit more.

The 580 (and GTX 1060 for comparison) can practically run anything 1080p on max settings at a decent framerate. I have an 1060 6gb and I ran everything on max, including witcher 3 maxed out with hairworks etc, without stuttering.

590 is going to be between the Vega 56 and 580, starting at $270 USD but comes with $180 worth of new games (3 new unreleased titles) which will prob be near $400 CAD for you i guess. But the Vega 56 is probably more worth getting if your PSU can handle it given how powerful it is, and the prices are getting darn low recently.

hmm $400 is a little too high I think. 1070 is like $500.

i want something that would be able to handle cyberpunk 2077 at max settings with 60fps on 1080p. i know it's hard to say though cause it's going to be a long time before it's released, but i'm thinking the 1070 ti would be the most reliable. prices for gpu's after that one is too high for me anyways lol. absolute max i'll pay for a gpu is $500.

think i'm going to end up spending $1000 for this new rig though. unless any of you know how to create a really good budget gaming rig. i already have my ssd and hdd, so the costs for those are already done. but case + mobo +psu + cpu + gpu. i don't think i need to upgrade my ram. and the case i settled for is already like $120. also need a new monitor. still on a 20" tn panel. but i can wait for a while i guess, all the 24" inch monitors should go gown in price i assume.

[Fivefootkillerz]

590 is a waste of time reeeee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIoyn-_m89Q

[Xinroth]

hmm $400 is a little too high I think. 1070 is like $500.

i want something that would be able to handle cyberpunk 2077 at max settings with 60fps on 1080p. i know it's hard to say though cause it's going to be a long time before it's released, but i'm thinking the 1070 ti would be the most reliable. prices for gpu's after that one is too high for me anyways lol. absolute max i'll pay for a gpu is $500.

think i'm going to end up spending $1000 for this new rig though. unless any of you know how to create a really good budget gaming rig. i already have my ssd and hdd, so the costs for those are already done. but case + mobo +psu + cpu + gpu. i don't think i need to upgrade my ram. and the case i settled for is already like $120. also need a new monitor. still on a 20" tn panel. but i can wait for a while i guess, all the 24" inch monitors should go gown in price i assume.

MSI 24" optix g24c sells for $150 here (black friday sale, and occasionally on Ebay on that price - New)- one of the best bangs for the buck. also a 1060/580 will very likely run Max/High at 1080p 60 fps. a 1070 TI is pretty overkill for what you're trying to get. Even then, a Vega 56 is much better once you flash it essentially into a Vega 64. Will pull more power than a 1070 TI but it's better and with a freesync (instead of Gsync) monitor, you're saving hundreds of dollars.

590 is a waste of time reeeee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIoyn-_m89Q

Agree unless you want to get the games with it too.

The 580 is on sale now for $160. Vega 56 is hovering around ~300 now as well and it's most likely the best bang for the buck, much better than a 590.

[Fivefootkillerz]

MSI 24" optix g24c sells for $150 here (black friday sale, and occasionally on Ebay on that price - New)- one of the best bangs for the buck. also a 1060/580 will very likely run Max/High at 1080p 60 fps. a 1070 TI is pretty overkill for what you're trying to get. Even then, a Vega 56 is much better once you flash it essentially into a Vega 64. Will pull more power than a 1070 TI but it's better and with a freesync (instead of Gsync) monitor, you're saving hundreds of dollars.




Agree unless you want to get the games with it too.

The 580 is on sale now for $160. Vega 56 is hovering around ~300 now as well and it's most likely the best bang for the buck, much better than a 590.

yeah game bundle is pretty decant this time around. you can even get vega 64 for $410 atm + the same bundle. if you sold those games you could expect 60-100 bucks or more back not bad!

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2E16814930007&

[everblue]

i need a new keyboard. several of my keys don't work

What's the bestt, highest quality, most reliable, and most durable keyboard that i an buy? looking to spend about 150-300

[Rawp0wer1O1]

Nothing too huge, got a 1080 @ microcenter for $380 to pair with my 780 for a project.





If a 2080ti comes in stock within the next 30days i might exchange as a xmas present to myself

[J1n]

i need a new keyboard. several of my keys don't work

What's the bestt, highest quality, most reliable, and most durable keyboard that i an buy? looking to spend about 150-300

Just buy a good mechanical keyboard. What you need to decide on is what kind of switch to get. i like brown and red switches. use brown at work and red at home. buy a cheap switch kit to test out if you arent sure. i got one off amazon for $6.