>UPGRADE & BUILD ADVICE Post build list or current specs including MONITOR: pcpartpicker.com/ Provide specific use cases (e.g. video editing, competitive gaming, streaming etc.) and your country.
>NEWS New CPU and GPU generations later this year
>RECOMMENDED FORM FACTOR ATX is the standard choice, alternatively ITX or even MATX
>RECOMMENDED CPUs HTPC(4K60)/Web Browsing: i3 10105 Budget Gaming: i3 12100/F > R5 5500 Gaming: R5 5600/X, i5 12400/F+cooler Multicore: R9 5900X/5950X, i7 12700/F Best Gaming: R7 5800X3D k CPUs are not recommended
>RECOMMENDED PSUs Silver+ from Seasonic, Superflower, Corsair, EVGA (aim for 75% of total PC power) Take into account transient spikes when sizing your PSU to your GPU, especially with Nvidia cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/
I'd recommend a 5700x over the 5800x for starters since you only lose like maybe 5% performance, but it's much easier to keep cool in a small case like that.
Cannot possibly answer your GPU question without knowing what resolution and framerate you're targeting.
Luis Walker
Mostly program shaders using touchdesigner A little bit of autocad, if I do play games.. I think the most "intense" would be red dead redemption 2 @4k would like a playable frame rate 60+... might be getting into VR/AR mostly for 'immersive experiences' (not porn i promise) rather than video games.
need something small. Currently have a mid-tower and just don't have space for it. It's very crowded on my desk.
Currently have a 2060. Good card, but not sure if it can handle what I want to achieve.
Nathaniel Rogers
when are alder lake prices going to get lower bros
Eli Collins
what is this shit? why do i have to pay a premium for a plain green/blue/red/white motherboard?
Christian Allen
12100f is cheap enough for me
Levi Diaz
I just bought an used h200i from marketplace and now I'm having trouble finding a fucking itx board for a 5600g, also the fucking sfx psus are hard to find these days so I'm wondering, should I even bother or should I just get another case and start over?
Aiden Sanders
End of the month probably
Alexander Rodriguez
For people that claim to not care about how computers look, Any Forums sure shits itself anytime a component looks slightly different from normal
Adam Hughes
Already pretty low
Tyler Bailey
opinions on fractal poop air cases? anybody bought one of those? how are the stock fans?
i've been bitching about components looking silly for years
James Nguyen
i have a define ?r2? and the bitumen fell off the inside of the top panel
Evan Hall
Prices on last gen stuff are only going to go down as AMD puts its new stuff out in a few weeks and Raptor Lake comes out soon after and we get closer to holiday sales.
Ian Stewart
man, this place has really fried my brain. the first thing i see when i read "B650 LiveMixer" is "Black LivesMatter". especially with all that graffiti-like "art" on the board
Hunter Jones
not building, but purchasing question: my neighbor has a 2014 mac mini w/ an i7 and 16gb of ram, he's getting rid of it and said i could have it for 150usd. is that a good price and is it recent enough to be usable? i'll pretty much use it for recording videos for youtube and maybe basic editing. i'll probably do the majority of editing/processing on my desktop. or, worst case, is it good enough as a home media center type thing?
Yeah, that's absolutely usable for some very very minor video stuff and definitely as a media player. Having a Mac around just to tool around on for that price seems worth it.
Blake Anderson
Hey! I posted in this thread the other day about how I was building an Evangelion ASUS ROG themed PC and was getting a 12400F to save money and got shredded for buying that CPU paired with a high-end GPU. Several people told me to upgrade the CPU, but I didn't really understand why because all the benchmarks I looked at showed that for 1440p the 12400F was plenty powerful.
I decided to listen to your advice and I bought both the 12400F and the i9-12900K and went through the trouble of testing both with a 3090.
At max, the difference in FPS I saw in the games I tested at 1440p was around 10 FPS. This was in Total War Warhammer 3. In most games, the FPS difference was around 4-5. I ran several stress tests and long-term gameplay sessions in some competitive games and didn't notice any issues with the i5-12400F.
So I'm not sure why exactly anyone would need anything more than a 12400F for gaming purposes if you're playing at under 200FPS 1440p. Just thought I'd let you guys know that for recommending things to people in the future. I returned the 12900K and saved $300-400.
Chase White
does it have an SSD or is it moddable to put one in? pretty sure Macs are designed so that they run well with even as low as like 2GB RAM so with 16GB that's probably really amazing specs. i'm sure that thing will run like a dream as long as it's got an SSD in it.
Jacob Lewis
it has a haswell laptop i7 cpu, gpu is h5000, ram is soldered in, you can replace its sata 2.5 hhd with an ssd though
maybe a bad choice for a media center if you plan to watch 4k videos since it doesn't have any hardware decoders for hevc, vp9 and av1 codecs
Ethan Rivera
how stupid would it be to buy this right now if its a significant upgrade?
What? I'm pretty sure that's the general consensus unless you were buying the wrong mobo for the 12400F. The only reason to get the 12900k is if you need way more processing power for like editing AND you're going to overclock it. Otherwise it's pointless for gaming.
Benjamin Robinson
magnetic screwdrivers y/n
Hudson Ross
avoid 16xx and 20xx they are already dead
Dominic Lewis
>they are already dead what does that mean?
Carson Reed
3060 will be same price in 3 months. trust the plan.
Tyler Nelson
No support for them at all, the 3k series is already on the way out with the 4k dropping soon.
Liam Stewart
Is it safe to buy LGA1700 board now for Raptor Lake or will it require updated bios to boot?
Grayson Anderson
Well, I posted at night, so maybe the evening crew in this thread has a different opinion. It was about 5-6 replies saying the 12400F wasn't good enough.
Josiah Evans
What’s the reason for case IO cables to be so unflexible. I have a case here that has two thick USB 3 cables, one for each port, and if that isn’t enough the two cables are combined into one connector so now I have a cable that’s impossible to bend into place putting strain on the motherboard header. Why can’t they just make them flexible. It wouldn’t be a fire hazard, there are certified cables that are flexible. This is a high end case so it can’t possibly be cost cutting? It has all these QoL things yet the cables are gay. They aren’t retarded, are they?
Parker Jenkins
100% you will need a bios update since so buy a mobo with a bios update button
Eli Baker
I've just created this build and I'm wondering if everything is ok here. It'll be used not only for gaming but not heavy virtualization, programming etc. Nothing serious but I'd like to have more than less power. Thinking about cooling too as there is a lot of to choose from. And to be honest, I wouldn't like to go beyond the already estimated price.
