Official Building/Upgrading thread

[heisenberg]

i ran a semi budget build, running a 1060 and the 7600k.

pubg setting on a mixture of very low / low settings i get 140fps usually in both maps,

[ForbiddenX]

I'm looking to build a RAID system where I can plug my laptop in right into it. Kind of like this Drobo.

I don't necessarily need it to be a NAS but I want to be able to just plug a USB from that box to my laptop and edit photos / videos from it if I need to.

Would my best option be to buy someting like the drobo instead of building something? It seems quite expensive and I hope I can build something a bit cheaper.

Right now my workflow is just Photos -> Import into External -> Backup to NAS

I want it to be

Photos -> Import to external / copy into raid -> back up to NAS.

[Akinari]

Any good deals on AIO water cooling?

[Mr.Money]

Oculus Rift with touch controls dropped to $450 yesterday but went back up $529 ...lets just see if amazon.ca drops lower than that for boxing day...we'll see


edit: microsoft deal at $699.00 with audio strap and free 70 dollar game on stream for vive..
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/stor...1770-122617-CA
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[TOS'd]

wireless router recommendations?

[rice cooker]

xmas present for myself

[asian_XL]

BALLA!!!

[Mr.Money]

4k gaming...awwwe shit.

[twitchyzero]

start mining

[yameen]

bought this entry level gaming desktop since i only do casual gaming. most of the time i'll surf the web, stream, watch movies on my desktop.

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX69327

[Manic!]

YouTube

For laptops Intel claims 9 hours of battery life and better performance than a Maxq 1060 laptop.

Nvida is up at 8 p.m. Wild rumors have Nvida releasing 11 series GPU's with volta.

[twitchyzero]

start mining your laptops

[Manic!]

Originally Posted by twitchyzero

start mining your laptops

People already are. With good results.

[Gh0stRider]

damn, i was only able to afford the 1070 ti.

[underscore]

What would cause a video card to only be using some of it's available memory? It's a 3GB card, but in game GPU-Z shows the "Memory Usage (Dedicated) only going to ~500MB. It's a Gigabyte 7970 (GV-R797D5-3GD-B).

[Reeyal]

Originally Posted by underscore

What would cause a video card to only be using some of it's available memory? It's a 3GB card, but in game GPU-Z shows the "Memory Usage (Dedicated) only going to ~500MB. It's a Gigabyte 7970 (GV-R797D5-3GD-B).

What game/application are you running that the GPU is using 500MB? I have a 1080 with 8GB, and I don't think I've ever seen it using up all of the memory while using it for daily tasks/games.

[underscore]

I was running Guild Wars 2 and then PassMark, PM got it a little higher but it was still under a GB. In game it's showing 100% load and full clock but getting terrible framerates, I put my 7870 back in and get 4-5x the framerate in the same conditions.

[twitchyzero]

sounds rare but maybe some of the memory dies, died
what does it say under properties under device manager, or info from your driver? does it report full vram?

[Reeyal]

That's odd man. RMA the card?

[DragonChi]

Originally Posted by underscore

What would cause a video card to only be using some of it's available memory? It's a 3GB card, but in game GPU-Z shows the "Memory Usage (Dedicated) only going to ~500MB. It's a Gigabyte 7970 (GV-R797D5-3GD-B).

If it is a new card, you could try a clean driver install. Boot into safe mode and run Display Driver Uninstall. Then normal boot into Windows and install the latest driver package.

I bought a brand new card and had to RMA yesterday due to memory issues.

To confirm, I used MSI Kombustor on the memory profile to recreate the issue.

[underscore]

I don't see any listing for memory in the properties under device manager, GPU-Z shows some info on the main tab but I'm not sure what it's actually measuring vs just pulling from what it "should" have. I updated to the latest drivers from AMD since the ones from Gigabyte were extremely old.

I'll swap them back this evening and give Kombuster a shot. The card is used but within the eBay return window still if I can't get this thing working properly.

[ForbiddenX]

Anyone have a pretty decent streaming computer? My friend and I are working on a project and I need to live stream a pre-recorded video to youtube, not necessarily gaming. I thought my PC would be able to handle it no problem but I seemed to start dropping frames 30 minutes into it then it stopped.

Specs:
CPU: i5 4670k
MOBO: Gigabyte Z87MX-D3H
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
GPU: ASUS GTX 770

Would it be the i5 that's causing the slowdowns? I'm not running anything else except OBS and the video is just a regular 1080p mp4.

[Razor Ramon HG]

Originally Posted by ForbiddenX

Anyone have a pretty decent streaming computer? My friend and I are working on a project and I need to live stream a pre-recorded video to youtube, not necessarily gaming. I thought my PC would be able to handle it no problem but I seemed to start dropping frames 30 minutes into it then it stopped.

Specs:
CPU: i5 4670k
MOBO: Gigabyte Z87MX-D3H
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
GPU: ASUS GTX 770

Would it be the i5 that's causing the slowdowns? I'm not running anything else except OBS and the video is just a regular 1080p mp4.

It's the i5. You want an i7 at the bare minimum. Ryzens are great if you plan on doing a lot of streaming into the future.

[ForbiddenX]

Originally Posted by Razor Ramon HG

It's the i5. You want an i7 at the bare minimum. Ryzens are great if you plan on doing a lot of streaming into the future.

Thanks I'll take a look into the Ryzens. The streaming is only about 30 minutes once a week but we're looking to scale that soon to possibly everyday. Once we get it that frequent, we can't really afford any hiccups once it's daily lol.

[Manic!]

If it's pre recorded why are you streaming it?