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

[InstantLoser]

fukc it ill fork over the money for a 1080, ill be good for another year or two LOL. what monitor do you use?
Ty for reply god bless

I use a BENQ 4k 32" HDR VA panel, but I run 2x 2080 Ti Hybrids in SLI.

[Azzurri]

Thinking about selling my FT3 1080Ti and picking up a RTX 2080ti. I'd get the eVGA FTW3 2080ti, but I hate how it takes 3 spaces and not 2. Plus, I can sell my 1080ti for almost what I bought it at, at $650

[InstantLoser]

Thinking about selling my FT3 1080Ti and picking up a RTX 2080ti. I'd get the eVGA FTW3 2080ti, but I hate how it takes 3 spaces and not 2. Plus, I can sell my 1080ti for almost what I bought it at, at $650

You can get a hybrid version of the FTW3 that takes 2 slots.

https://www.evga.com/products/produc...11G-P4-2484-KR

[InstantLoser]

Jesus Christ. What's with the price difference of $600 between the lowest and highest 2080ti? They can't be that much better if they're in the same family, can they? That's 60% more cost!

Yeah the price hike isn't even remotely justified, but since AMD seems to refuse to launch anything resembling a competing product (the closest thing being the Radeon VII which is just as expensive as an RTX 2080, slower, and can't do DLSS or Ray Tracing), they have no reason to lower their prices.

[RemedySC]

Wondering if any of you brahs know what is wrong with my desktop.

My computer has been sitting for about a month as it wasn't powering on properly. It would boot, but after 5-10 seconds it would turn off and start a loop (on and off). I thought it would have been the power supply, so I changed that out today. My computer now boots, but it doesn't run properly for long.

The disk usage goes up to 100% and the whole computer slows down to a crawl.

Picture: https://imgur.com/oLAogZl

My specs:

Windows 10

Intel i7 4790k CPU @ 4.00

GeForce gtx 970 4TB Twin Frozr

Gskill 8GB DDR3 @ 1600

Samsung 840 EVO SSD

1TB WD Blue HDD

Thanks in advance.. Really hoping it is just an easy fix.

Edit - prior to the picture, the resource monitor had "system" at over 12 mil B/sec

[KilaByte]

Task Manager, nothing should 100% an SSD.

SSD could be failing but normally they don't give a warning, could be something you caught looking at that chicken porn

[RemedySC]

Task Manager, nothing should 100% an SSD.

SSD could be failing but normally they don't give a warning, could be something you caught looking at that chicken porn

Well the desktop froze while trying to navigate to the task manager. Now it turns on, but no usb/monitor output.

Edit - seeing as my desktop is 4 years old, I might just end up building another one. Tired of dealing with this ****ty one.

[MrJensenn]

Task Manager, nothing should 100% an SSD.

SSD could be failing but normally they don't give a warning, could be something you caught looking at that chicken porn

Sure you can run a ssd on 100%, but then you're doing an operation that is using all the available bandwidth, like e.g. by writing something to the disk (if the medium you're writing from has the same or more bandwidth).

The samsung ssd is out of warranty now tho, since it's from 2014.

[RemedySC]

Well the desktop froze while trying to navigate to the task manager. Now it turns on, but no usb/monitor output.

Edit - seeing as my desktop is 4 years old, I might just end up building another one. Tired of dealing with this ****ty one.

Update - I removed one of the ram sticks and am able to log in. It's going through periods of 100% disk usage where I can't do anything, to being normal for a minute or so.

Edit - Crystaldiskinfo says the ssd is 100% good... I'm thinking it might be the motherboard. The ram trick was just temporary. It booted than froze on and off until it completely locked me out. Went to reboot and again no input to monitor/usbs. If unplug the desktop and move the ram stick, it repeats the same thing.

[KramericaInd]

anyone ever get a "power surge in usb port" error message? couldnt use anything other than my mouse. now i'm connecting my xbox controller in the front usb and you can see the lights on keyboard and mouse waning? this is a new b450 tomahawk from newegg...

[KilaByte]

Kind of thinking about a new case, something with tempered glass side and possibly front but with a basement. I'd love something with a tinted glass that doesn't show too much unless you light it up. Any recommendations?

[Xinroth]

The division 2 is wrecking my PC. 8gb RAM really doesn't cut it much nowadays. Even the Witcher 3 ran perfectly fine but TD2 is hogging my RAM. Time to upgrade to 16 but also get a second gaming pc for my gaming room setup.

https://flash.newegg.com/product/83-...9f047f0a240613

Some really juicy specs for $1399, albeit the meh-motherboard.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...rebbr=1&cm_sp=

This was for $1080 the other day and it's more processor/gpu than I could ever need on a 1080p either way. decisions, decisions. What's the deal with pre-builts getting ridiculously cheap nowadays?

Even with wholesale prices, blows my mind certain Pcs go on sale already assembled much cheaper than picking your own parts + windows/peripherals

[InstantLoser]

Kind of thinking about a new case, something with tempered glass side and possibly front but with a basement. I'd love something with a tinted glass that doesn't show too much unless you light it up. Any recommendations?

I use a Thermaltake Core X5, but it's huge and the glass isn't tinted. Depends on how much crap you're going to shoehorn in there as to whether or not you need that kind of space. I like it though.

[Carbonfibre]

sighhhh canadian garbage GPU prices


on scale of potato how stupid is it to pay $650 for GTX 2070.



should I return it and get 1660 TI for $350?


and wait for prices to drop in year or two.

[freeburn]

The division 2 is wrecking my PC. 8gb RAM really doesn't cut it much nowadays. Even the Witcher 3 ran perfectly fine but TD2 is hogging my RAM. Time to upgrade to 16 but also get a second gaming pc for my gaming room setup.

https://flash.newegg.com/product/83-...9f047f0a240613

Some really juicy specs for $1399, albeit the meh-motherboard.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...rebbr=1&cm_sp=

This was for $1080 the other day and it's more processor/gpu than I could ever need on a 1080p either way. decisions, decisions. What's the deal with pre-builts getting ridiculously cheap nowadays?

Even with wholesale prices, blows my mind certain Pcs go on sale already assembled much cheaper than picking your own parts + windows/peripherals

To be fair d2 runs like poop to an extent. I think their servers cause alot of frame drops cause I play with a Canadian dude and we get lag spike frame drops at the exact same time

[Xinroth]

To be fair d2 runs like poop to an extent. I think their servers cause alot of frame drops cause I play with a Canadian dude and we get lag spike frame drops at the exact same time

Oddly enough 90+% of my game freezes occur when I play with my friend, who is Canadian. Else I'm just solo-ing **** around. Not sure how the servers work so I can't make sense of it beside Ram/CPU eating chit.

[.aeterna]

does anyone have a razer blade

[Papweboy007]

Well the desktop froze while trying to navigate to the task manager. Now it turns on, but no usb/monitor output.

Edit - seeing as my desktop is 4 years old, I might just end up building another one. Tired of dealing with this ****ty one.

Seems like I remember reading about this problem somewhere a couple years ago and it was something going wrong in the windows 10 os.

[BeNicePlz]

Nice rigs.

[MrJensenn]

looking for a wireless and backlit kb/mouse for desktop.

my aging logitech g15 and g9x are feeling their age. mouse double clicks, keys on g15 are getting hard to press, wire covers are fraying. considering cleaning/fixing and reusing but really want to go wireless.

i cant find chit as far as wireless/backlit for a decent price. dont really care about mechanical or gaming, but i like the macro software for the g15.

any suggestions?

Afaik, logitech has the best wireless mice atleast. You could go for their more office mice, but they have some decent cheaper gaming mice such as G603, G602 and G305.

There are few kbs with high bandwidth wireless with lightning etc. Logitech G613 is maybe the best option for mech/gaming, if not office keyboards is prob the way to go.

[PositiveCrew]

Kind of thinking about a new case, something with tempered glass side and possibly front but with a basement. I'd love something with a tinted glass that doesn't show too much unless you light it up. Any recommendations?

Fractal Design Meshify C fooooorrr suuureeee



they have a very dark tinted version too which I ended up with on accident, that sounds perfect for you

[PrimarisIn]

Hi guys, looking to upgrade my desktop because im getting crashes (no video input crash, have to reboot)/high cpu temps when playing video games. its getting laggy even when just scanning antivirus. i guess its time, running a gtx 970 and i5-4690 cpu atm.

I saw a deal on alienware from dell. u get a 9th gen intel i9 9900k cpu and rtx 2080 ti oc'd, 16 gb ram and 256 gb ssd + 2tb hdd for $3.6k canadian. i looked at other prebuilt gaming rigs and to have a 2080 ti, it starts around that price point and then ramping up.

Is this a good deal, guys? I looked at amazon.ca and memory express (canadian shop) and i think i found a good deal for an alienware rig. it was actually priced at $4.4k cad and now its $3.6k.

thoughts? i want to do some 4k gaming with good frame rates and also for 5.1 or 7.1 sound system in the future.


edit: yea looks like my cpu crapped out. temperature got to 71 degress celcius after a minutes of mcafee antivirus. utilization from cpu is at 94-99% just running that and chrome. ideally, i would just get a new cpu and motherboard because the 970 is still running fine at 1080p, but i can get the alienware rig in installment loans with no interest paid if paid in full in 12 months. then i can put this pc in the living room to stream movies or whatever...

[MisterJustice]

Hi guys, looking to upgrade my desktop because im getting crashes (no video input crash, have to reboot)/high cpu temps when playing video games. its getting laggy even when just scanning antivirus. i guess its time, running a gtx 970 and i5-4690 cpu atm.

I saw a deal on alienware from dell. u get a 9th gen intel i9 9900k cpu and rtx 2080 ti oc'd, 16 gb ram and 256 gb ssd + 2tb hdd for $3.6k canadian. i looked at other prebuilt gaming rigs and to have a 2080 ti, it starts around that price point and then ramping up.

Is this a good deal, guys? I looked at amazon.ca and memory express (canadian shop) and i think i found a good deal for an alienware rig. it was actually priced at $4.4k cad and now its $3.6k.

thoughts? i want to do some 4k gaming with good frame rates and also for 5.1 or 7.1 sound system in the future.


edit: yea looks like my cpu crapped out. temperature got to 71 degress celcius after a minutes of mcafee antivirus. utilization from cpu is at 94-99% just running that and chrome. ideally, i would just get a new cpu and motherboard because the 970 is still running fine at 1080p, but i can get the alienware rig in installment loans with no interest paid if paid in full in 12 months. then i can put this pc in the living room to stream movies or whatever...

could always try to clean out the old thermal paste under the cpu cooler and put new thermal paste, also clean the dust and re-install windows if you can, sometimes its easier to start fresh

[InstantLoser]

Fractal Design Meshify C fooooorrr suuureeee

[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZxk50KXcAIayLJ.jpg[img]

they have a very dark tinted version too which I ended up with on accident, that sounds perfect for you

Man that's sharp looking.

[KramericaInd]

Fractal Design Meshify C fooooorrr suuureeee



they have a very dark tinted version too which I ended up with on accident, that sounds perfect for you

I simply had to have this case, but i couldnt find the dark variant anywhere. ended up getting it from walmart out of all places. the geometric design on the front mesh, full tempered glass panel unlike the h500 with that ghastly looking steel portion at the bottom, tinted glass which honestly looks better with minimal rbg, this case is aesthetic and functional. efficient space makes wire management so easy despite the case being on the smaller end, dedicated areas for SSDs, no longer do you have to buy the adapters.

ONLY ISSUE IS i cannot seem to bring my gpu temps down. I have two 140mm fans in the front and one exhaust in the back and the gpu temps DO NOT budge.

[Xinroth]

$3.6k canadian.[/B] i looked at other prebuilt gaming rigs and to have a 2080 ti, it starts around that price point and then ramping up.

Do they come with Rocket engineering software?

Do you live near the US border where you can get a PC shipped/bought somewhere and take with you to the lame north? If you really need top of the line everything, you can get it around $2-2.2k here depending on promos/rebates.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/d7ZxJ8

The i9 you're looking at would be $100-150 more expensive, but youre looking at more RAM/SSD/HDD, liquid cooling for $2200 without the rebates/promos etc.

[PrimarisIn]

could always try to clean out the old thermal paste under the cpu cooler and put new thermal paste, also clean the dust and re-install windows if you can, sometimes its easier to start fresh

im actually not sure if its a virus/malware or hardware problem. it started from dota 2 crashing all the time (no video display) and it randomly uninstalled. quite a few people experienced it too. i just played fallout 4 for a couple of hours and both the gpu and cpu temps got up to 70 degrees c. after idling now they are both high thirties. i got this pc in 2015 and cleaned it a couple years later and there were barely any dust in it at all.

Do they come with Rocket engineering software?

Do you live near the US border where you can get a PC shipped/bought somewhere and take with you to the lame north? If you really need top of the line everything, you can get it around $2-2.2k here depending on promos/rebates.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/d7ZxJ8

The i9 you're looking at would be $100-150 more expensive, but youre looking at more RAM/SSD/HDD, liquid cooling for $2200 without the rebates/promos etc.

hmm interesting... looks like those come to 3k cad which isnt a bad deal at all. yea i live a couple hours from the border but have no us address to pick it up from. i was actually looking at ibuypower and they got some good deals but import duties and tax would be at least a couple hundos i bet.

the alienware im thinking of getting is the aurora r8, which got 4.5 stars from toms guide and 78% from pc gamer with their only complaints being that its a bit loud and of course the price premium. the review from toms guide was only 2 days ago and they show similar specs for the aurora r8 at 3 grand usd (i think):



so the one i customized has the 9900k cpu and ti version of the 2080 for ~$3575 cad, including 1 year limited warranty with onsite service. i got approved from the dell financial services for an order not above $3500 so im waiting to hear from a rep and seeing what my next options are.

[RemedySC]

Seems like I remember reading about this problem somewhere a couple years ago and it was something going wrong in the windows 10 os.

Attempted a reinstall of windows 10, as I was able to slowly navigate the settings. Literally took a day and a half to complete the reinstall (3-4% per hour), and now it won't even turn on LOL.

Done with this computer. Going to buy a new motherboard/CPU/Ram and upgrade to DDR4. Everything else should still be good, and I'll just upgrade the rest over time.

[MisterJustice]

im actually not sure if its a virus/malware or hardware problem. it started from dota 2 crashing all the time (no video display) and it randomly uninstalled. quite a few people experienced it too. i just played fallout 4 for a couple of hours and both the gpu and cpu temps got up to 70 degrees c. after idling now they are both high thirties. i got this pc in 2015 and cleaned it a couple years later and there were barely any dust in it at all.

70C for GPU is not bad at all under load, even for CPU thats nothing to really worry about. idle temps are fine aswell to be honest. Your problems mainly seem to be software related, possibly driver corruption or bad drivers. CPU's themselves rarely "go bad" unless you do some extreme overclocking. I would guess a fresh clean install of windows and being mindful of drivers installed should do a decent job in fixing this problem. It might even only be related to the GPU drivers for which you could use "DDU" (google it) to completely clean out your GPU drivers from the system (and after that install new ones). If that doesnt work then sometimes it really is faster to just start with fresh Windows install, just need to backup your stuff but that should be regular practice anyways so...

[PositiveCrew]

ONLY ISSUE IS i cannot seem to bring my gpu temps down. I have two 140mm fans in the front and one exhaust in the back and the gpu temps DO NOT budge.

what temps do you run?

I have SLI 1080tis and living in Michigan at this time of year, here are my temps after about 5 hours of Apex Legends: