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Irn-Bru World Chat Champion
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Posted: 20:59 - 21 May 2017 Post subject: Time for a new PC |
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Right, my PC is acting up big time at the minute, some times it just reboots and crashes over and over for no reasons or it'll work for a few hours then the crashing starts again. Dunno what the crack is and don't have the patience to sort it, plus the hardware is over 6 years old now so may as well upgrade
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AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz
Asus M4A88T-V EVO
8GB Corsair DDR3 RAM
XFX HD 5830
128GB Crucial M4 SSD
Honestly still a quick PC to use, probably because of the SSD. After a new set up now that will last another 6 years and even though I don't really game on PC it would be nice to able to handle recent games.
Ryzen seems interesting and always had AMD sets up in the past so leaning that way at the minute, but it's awkward researching new hardware on a phone. Anyone recently built a PC, just sort of looking for ideas, hopefully will be ordering everything this week ____________________ KTM 990 SMT & Suzuki DR-Z 400 SM |
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Fuck you Microsoft! Burn and die!!!!! ____________________ Honda Varadero >> Triumph Speed Four >> Honda CBR1100xx |
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Anyway, have you tried a fresh OS instal?
Also, what do you use your PC for? If it's gaming, then don't get the impression that an 8 core 16 thread CPU is what you need. A faster 4 core 8 thread will still be the better choice for the next 5+ years. Put the money difference towards a better GPU. If I was to build a new gaming PC today, I'd still go with a Intel K quadcore + Z chipset mother board. The i7-7700K (4.2/4.5 GHz out of the box) costs the same money as the Ryzen 7 1700 here, knowing the Intel chip doesn't really care what RAM you use (Ryzen benefits from very fast RAM). A i5-7600K would be enough though an even 30% cheaper than the i7/R7 1700.
If you want productive work, then AMD seems to be the best choice. When AMD tries to make Ryzen look better than Intel's CPUs, they always do the synthetic and productive work benchmarks.
Before people go mental, yes the K chips don't come with a cooler, but even a cheap tower type cooler will do, if you're alright with the out of the box clock speed of the Intel. ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
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Tried reinstalling windows a few times now, bored of trying to fix it, might be software but I can't be bothered with such old hardware anymore.
Budget, I dunno. I want something that will last a while and be able to handle gaming (bf1 and such) reasonably well, £700ish should easily see to that with a case and psu.
No thanks to Mac ____________________ KTM 990 SMT & Suzuki DR-Z 400 SM |
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Posted: 06:47 - 23 May 2017 Post subject: |
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Buy it.
But cough for a larger SSD.
A 500GB Samsung Evo 850 will see you right. |
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chris-red Have you considered a TDM?
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I had Vista 64bit for 8 years, never had an issue, never had to reinstall the system. I only went to Win7 because ATi decided the Vista was not worthy of their GPU drivers anymore. New PC still runs on the Win7, but I'm kind of forced to get the Win10, as every work place I've been to had Win10, so I've got to get used to the new layout.
If I didn't do much gaming, I would stick with Fedora, by the way. ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
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Sload wrote: | Are you guys jamming up your C drive then? |
I run a SSD for the C:\ and I instal there only the modern games that require (I require) faster loading times + no hard drive noise from the case while I play. Games such as Skyrim, Witcher, GTA... an SSD makes completely nicer experience with next to no loading times, compared to PS4/Xbox One or an ordinary HDD. Even a slow SSD is significantly faster than the fastes HDD on the market today.
EDIT: I could compare the Witcher 3 PS4 and PC version. When I click at the Witcher 3 icon on my desktop, it takes less than 10 seconds to start the game (start + load of the position). PS4 we're talking minutes. The same applies for all the in game loadings (fast travel, cinematics...). The game is good enough to be entertaining on both platforms, but PC (SSD) just does it better.
Needless to say, an SSD for your system drive is a must. It always surprises me how slowly Windows runs off an HDD. ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
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C:\= 120GB Intel SSD. With Windows and a couple of choice apps, it's mostly always 50% full.
L:\ = 750GB Hybrid SSD for games. Works really well, and isn't much slower than a normal SSD.
20TB of mechanical storage as well |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 341 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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