The PC gaming Thread. Steam/GOG/Origin/Etc. Game/Software/Hardware talk

Looks slick and has plenty of upgrade abd variety on ram choices. Friend of my went MSI and i believe he got this board as well.

Raz0rs’s PC building is noobish. What a chump.

I don’t see you helping, Forest Chest, so shut it.

@ShaftAgent Scrap that build for one with an X99 MOBO, DDR4 RAM and an Intel processor.

8GB of DDR4 ram is $80(wat) and X99 MOBO’s are in the ~200 range right now. Put one of these together now then slap a new GPU with HBM memory in there later on and you’d be good to go for years. Guaranteed to last the PS4 generation and then some.

I aint about to help your puny ass. I built my dope ass PC on my own with no help from srk. I did all the reasearch and work myself. You busta.

Ain’t nothing wrong in asking for help.

i wanted to bitchout and make an AMD build but y’all won’t let me :sad:

first things first, doodle on a piece of paper and get an idea of your design before you start trying to design your case seriously.

second things second. get on Sketchup. figure out how to make shapes and learn to extrude them to form boxes/polygons. use it to make forms of your internals so you can figure out how to arrange them to fit in a ā€œcaseā€. you can be lazy, but don’t be sloppy. a gfx card can be a simple box; you don’t have to draw every single chip. go to Newegg for info on the parts you want to put in your build. they will give you exact dimensions of the part. input those exact dimensions into your Sketchup drawings.

if you want to work with sheet metal (i don’t normally, but my next scratch build will have a bunch of it.) don’t go to big box stores like Home Depot. look for a roofing or sheet metal place in your area. you might pay a few dollars more for the metal, but they usually are more experienced in making accurate cuts and could possibly bend the metal for you. here’s an article on how to make a bending brake on the cheap if you want to do it yourself.

http://www.ch601.org/tools/bendbrake/brakeplans.pdf

for inspiration, i go to http://www.contemporist.com/ and try to visualize how i would design a computer that would fit in the pictures of the spaces they post. architect Frank Gehry wads up pieces of paper and tapes them to other wadded up pieces of paper. it’s goofy, but it works for him

Thanks, man. I’m trying to decide how I’m going to form my business. I’m either going to heavily mod cases or just design my on. I figured that designing my own is considerably more work, but probably easier to work with than trying to adapt a commercial case to my customer’s needs.

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I don’t know who you mean by ā€œy’all,ā€ but you should already know how I feel about this. :coffee:

You can use the higher voltage RAM fine. You just have to make sure your motherboard allows you to manually change the voltage. The chips that are used in good sticks are rated properly to scale up beyond 1.75v even higher than 2.0v which is far more than enough for anybody. You aren’t going to fry anything, void any warranties or cause any more damage than you would overclocking a CPU or GPU, something that is done all the time.

I don’t want to run the risk of changing the voltage in the BIOS. Last thing I want is to have it freak out or some shit and frying a $300 CPU. It’s fine, though. I have come to accept that I will have to upgrade pretty much my entire PC now. It’s due time, anyway. Last I upgraded my PC was the fall of 2010.

I’m going to wait for the SFV beta to go up and I’ll test it on my PC. If it bottle necks on my processor, I’ll go with the i5-6600K, which means I’ll need to get DDR4 RAM and a new motherboard. That’s fine, I guess, so long as they don’t do to 1151 that they did to the 1155 chipset. Either way, i5-6600Ks are out of stock almost everywhere and Amazon has the price inflated. Shit doesn’t even come with a stock fucking heatsink which is even more irritating making it ANOTHER part I have to buy.

Building PCs is for the birds.

I really can’t see gaming taking such a huge leap as to skip 16gb requirements and go straight to 32gb requirements, even by next console generation (if there even is a next gen).

By the time games require that much RAM, they will likely require much more powerful processors, video cards, and the rest, so you’re overkilling your RAM, to no real effect.

Finally caved in and picked up Pillars of Eternity, seems it will never go on sale for under 50% off :frowning:

You won’t fry anything. You’re being irrational. Changing the voltage won’t any more fry your RAM than having it happen randomly on its own. If you increase the voltage too high the system simply won’t boot and you will have to go back in and lower it. That’s it. No manufacturer is going to intentionally include a setting that can insta fry your system. If the over-volt is too much you will know it as soon as you start to do something with it and your system starts flaking out. Again, all you have to do is turn it off and lower the settings.

If you do it right, very small increments of +.1 volts at a time then you will be fine. Follow a guide.

Ah man, all I get is that scrub is shitty at building computers.

Man, that game invokes some feels.

Don’t know if want. :frowning:

You gotta learn somehow, man. :tup:

I’ve built my last two rigs, you fucking walking fossils. But these last couple of years Intel has dropped a fuckton of different chipsets. They were all dropped within a year or two for a different one. I just need a specific chip in order to decide how to proceed.

Anyone planning on checking out the Starwars Battlefront beta next week?

Do you understand my frustrations with Intel now? I have three AMD motherboards that can support the CPU, memory and graphics card that I’m currently using. These parts date back as far as 2009. The latest iterations are every bit as capable as their Intel counterparts.

Don’t buy Intel unless you fully rebuild as opposed to upgrade. I’ve rebuilt because it’s my preference, but if I ever had to go with budget builds, then AMD it is. I can always upgrade at my leisure.

But please, tell me how an extra 14 FPS or 8 seconds of .rar file packing makes any real life difference. :rofl:

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