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

[GhenghisPWN]

Monitors are one of the few things you really shouldn't cheap out on. A goods one is 100 percent worth it.

That monitor is really fantastic for that price. Plus Costco has a 90 day return window and they ask 0 questions about refunds so it's Def worth it.

That's what I told myself. What's the point of building a good rig if I can't fully enjoy it?

I bought one. Store had 3 more in stock. I may buy one more and flip it or keep it if the one in my current possession is defected.

[eXistenceLies]

That's what I told myself. What's the point of building a good rig if I can't fully enjoy it?

I bought one. Store had 3 more in stock. I may buy one more and flip it or keep it if the one in my current possession is defected.

Do I need a membership to go there?

[freeburn]

Do I need a membership to go there?

Yeah but to be fair youre living like a peasant if you aren't a Costco member

[eXistenceLies]

Yeah but to be fair youre living like a peasant if you aren't a Costco member

Honestly...I shop HEB and Amazon pretty much.

[hellasx44]

Should i buy a used hp z420 with an intel xeon e5-2680 8 core 2.7ghz ssd and 32gb of ram for $450? - or -

should I build a computer with a 7700k 16gb ddr4 ram and ssd for around $660?

I would use the computer for school work (browsing databases and writing papers) and light gaming

[GhenghisPWN]

Do I need a membership to go there?

If you're not afraid of looking cheap I believe you could sign up, buy it, then cancel your membership for a refund of fees.

[Prototyp3]

Do I need a membership to go there?

A friend can buy you a costco giftcard that gives you access.

[ralphlaurenbrah]

I'm about to pull the trigger on my pc, should I wait a month or so for AMD's graphics cards to come out (they come out in like a month, right?) or just buy my 1080 now?

[shoelaces]

Monitors are one of the few things you really shouldn't cheap out on.

This is true because a monitor will last you multiple builds. Same with a power supply. What I do is replace my video card once every 2-3 years, then cpu/motherboard/ram every 5 years. I don't know why people build a new computer every 2 years, especially now that improvements in cpus have stagnated.

[jinda628]

Honestly...I shop HEB and Amazon pretty much.

HEB is my go to market when I was in Houston. Costco (or Sam's Club) is cheaper though due to being a wholesale club so if you have a family, you should have a Costco card. For single, not really a necessity.

But Costco really have a lot of sales throughout the year, even on electronics. Even car tires.

[InstantLoser]

HEB is my go to market when I was in Houston. Costco (or Sam's Club) is cheaper though due to being a wholesale club so if you have a family, you should have a Costco card. For single, not really a necessity.

But Costco really have a lot of sales throughout the year, even on electronics. Even car tires.

[MrJensenn]

I'm about to pull the trigger on my pc, should I wait a month or so for AMD's graphics cards to come out (they come out in like a month, right?) or just buy my 1080 now?

Their top series, Vega, aren't released until May/June.

The series coming out in a month, the RX 5XX series is a rebranded RX 4XX series.

[CrookedDink]

Should i buy a used hp z420 with an intel xeon e5-2680 8 core 2.7ghz ssd and 32gb of ram for $450? - or -

should I build a computer with a 7700k 16gb ddr4 ram and ssd for around $660?

I would use the computer for school work (browsing databases and writing papers) and light gaming

I have both a gaming PC w/ 7700k and a workstation w/ e5-2680. If you don't need the extra cores for any heavy lifting (Plex, rendering, hosting, etc...), I would get the 7700K. It's much newer and the higher clock speed will be better if you do decide to game.

[jinda628]

Should i buy a used hp z420 with an intel xeon e5-2680 8 core 2.7ghz ssd and 32gb of ram for $450? - or -

should I build a computer with a 7700k 16gb ddr4 ram and ssd for around $660?

I would use the computer for school work (browsing databases and writing papers) and light gaming

Or wait next month for Ryzen R5 with 6 cores and assemble your PC.

[FFailed]

Destiny 2 officially annouced for PC anyone in here going to buy it? I had it for xbox and played it for awhile when it first came out but I think it could be alot better playing on PC.

[CrookedDink]

Destiny 2 officially annouced for PC anyone in here going to buy it? I had it for xbox and played it for awhile when it first came out but I think it could be alot better playing on PC.

Well yeah, every FPS is better on PC

[KRANE]

Should i buy a used hp z420 with an intel xeon e5-2680 8 core 2.7ghz ssd and 32gb of ram for $450? - or -

should I build a computer with a 7700k 16gb ddr4 ram and ssd for around $660?

I would use the computer for school work (browsing databases and writing papers) and light gaming

Xeons are professional processors. They'll contain a lot of ancillaries consumers don't need and will never use.

[eXistenceLies]

HEB is my go to market when I was in Houston. Costco (or Sam's Club) is cheaper though due to being a wholesale club so if you have a family, you should have a Costco card. For single, not really a necessity.

But Costco really have a lot of sales throughout the year, even on electronics. Even car tires.

Yea...It is just the gf and I.

[MrJensenn]

What a joke nVidia is.
It's so funny that their DX12 driver implementation is utter trash and all the reviewers are testing Ryzen CPUs with nVidia cards....

What happens if you use AMD cards with their DX12 drivers? Performance increases when using both AMD and Intel CPUs.
That's how you do it.

When Vega comes out and people start benching with AMD drivers it will be pretty interesting to see the results. It will also be interesting to see results from people benchmarking using Fury, Fury X and Fury Nano.

TLDW:

The Nivida API (or Cards, or both) seems to be really ****ed up. And because everyone is benching with Nvidia Cards, the benchmarks suck - hard.

We already saw this in some other cases ... now we really need a Fury X vs. 1080. He also said, when Vega gets out in some weeks, it will destroy any Nvidia Card in this game (and I can believe this...) - IMO it seems like the DX12 API IS really bad, but they optimized for the majority of the gamers with high single clocks that can feed the single Nvidia pipeline fast enough... They never had to think about many cores for the majority of the gamers.... and here it seems to begin lacking.

i7700 vs. 1800X, 1800X at 2667 RAM
1070 OC
480 Stock CF

Geothermal Valley:

(480 in CF)

7700 DX12: 1070 91,06 FPS - 480 101,16 FPS

7700 DX11: 1070 79,65 FPS - 480 55,50 FPS

1800 DX12: 1070 68,16 FPS - 480 94,87 FPS

1800 DX11: 1070 59,50 FPS - 480 50,30 FPS

480 single with stock clocks in GV at worst 21% slower then the 1070 in DX12 (overall 10% slower) on Ryzen....

Soviet Installation:

(480 in CF)

7700 DX12: 1070 98,30 FPS - 480 104,90 FPS

7700 DX11: 1070 97,20 FPS - 480 71,20 FPS

1800 DX12: 1070 73,67 FPS - 480 98,77 FPS

1800 DX11: 1070 75,60 FPS - 480 64,55 FPS

[MrJensenn]

Even more testing being done now after the AdoredTV video...

https://youtu.be/QBf2lvfKkxA

Specs of the computer running the test:

Spoiler!

Specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 1700
Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3
2x8GB DDR4-2400
AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB / 17.2.1 WHQL
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB / 378.92 WHQL
Windows 10 64Bit

[freeburn]

Ayyyyyyy I got my job to mark down that monitor to 375 dollars cause its the display one

[CrookedDink]

Ayyyyyyy I got my job to mark down that monitor to 375 dollars cause its the display one

Bullchit insider trading!

[freeburn]

Bullchit insider trading!

Haha my manager tried to give it to me for 430 I was like dude no one will ever buy that display mark it down to 375 and I'll walk out with it tonight and I don't even need it packaged up or anything. He's like fine whatever just take it

[ralphlaurenbrah]

Even more testing being done now after the AdoredTV video...

https://youtu.be/QBf2lvfKkxA

Specs of the computer running the test:

Spoiler!

Specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 1700
Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3
2x8GB DDR4-2400
AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB / 17.2.1 WHQL
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB / 378.92 WHQL
Windows 10 64Bit

Cliffs of the cliffs in layman's terms? So I guess it's worth waiting for the rx 580?

[QuicK88]

Looking at spending about $1500 ish on a Gaming PC build soon. Is it worth waiting to see how all of this AMD hype turns out? Will it have any impact for my price range? Just starting to look now since I haven't been in the market for a PC in like 10 years.

[shoelaces]

Looking at spending about $1500 ish on a Gaming PC build soon. Is it worth waiting to see how all of this AMD hype turns out? Will it have any impact for my price range? Just starting to look now since I haven't been in the market for a PC in like 10 years.

If you aren't in a hurry wait until later this year when coffee lake comes out. My money is on that volta will also launch late this year too.

[MrJensenn]

Cliffs of the cliffs in layman's terms? So I guess it's worth waiting for the rx 580?

In DX12 compatible games (most of the new games today), AMD drivers are much more optimized and will squeeze out a lot more frames than nVidia's drivers. You can choose to use DX11 mode in which nVidia is better optimized than AMD.

In the end DX12 is the new and is what will be used in the future, DX11 is old technology.

If I would buy a GPU now? Nah, I would wait.
I am considering buying Ryzen myself, but I currently have a 980Ti - so either I need to sell it or wait for optimization for DX12 which will utilize CPUs better (thus also the new Ryzen CPUs).

Looking at spending about $1500 ish on a Gaming PC build soon. Is it worth waiting to see how all of this AMD hype turns out? Will it have any impact for my price range? Just starting to look now since I haven't been in the market for a PC in like 10 years.

Definitively - nVidia have had a long time to make their DX12 drivers more mature, but the latest numbers show a huge disparity between AMD and nVidia. Vega will most likely be very good GPUs.

Ryzen is also maturing and their midrange CPUs are being released 11th of April and they will be very strong.

So to recap -- To get best utilization of CPUs & GPUs, DX12 needs to be used. nVidia currently has a bad implementation and AMD has a mature implementation (Which also helps Intel CPUs).

From just the one benchmark above - AMD's DX12 implementation is 24% more efficient than the comparable nVidia implementation.

[InstantLoser]

Please enjoy my **** video of the badass monitor I bought yesterday. Also, click like.

[eod8989]

Is there anyway I could hook my ps4 up to my gaming monitor with like an hdmi splitter if my ps4 is already hooked up to my television? I have a dvi port free on my monitor

[InstantLoser]

Is there anyway I could hook my ps4 up to my gaming monitor with like an hdmi splitter if my ps4 is already hooked up to my television? I have a dvi port free on my monitor

That'd probably work (using the splitter as you suggested) as long as you only expect to game on either one or the other at any given time. I'm assuming you're just trying to avoid having to disconnect the cable every time you want to move it from the TV to the monitor and back?