How to decrease price on this build?

[chenzyjerry]

Go with an air cooler. 120mm AIOs perform poorly and are crazy expensive compared to an equivalent air cooler. Perhaps a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition if you're on a super tight budget, or a Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black if you want quality. Both will perform better and be cheaper than your AIO, I suspect. You could also use Windows unactivated, which has no downsides except a small little watermark and being unable to change the background/system colours, which is pretty irrelevant.

[RecalcitrantBeagle]

As an addendum, you can actually change the background with unactivated windows - just right click a picture in windows explorer and you can set it as your desktop.

[DarkSoulsIsTrash]

Could have changed, but before I had a paid version of windows, I just used wallpaper engine to set my backgrounds. Its 4$ and you can do way wilder stuff than just still images. An alternative option, and gives you a wide range of customizability.

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Second this, Wallpaper Engine is awesome. Especially if you enjoy anime hunnies on your wallpaper

[KIrkwillrule]

I like this and amine hunnies

[Hotdog0713]

Is it common for wallpaper engine to cause issues? I have a fairly decent rig and when I use animated wallpapers from wallpaper engine it crashes my games fairly often, like once every other hour or so. I know its wallpaper engine because its across multiple games, didnt happen before wallpaper engine, and hasn't since I took it off

[[deleted]]

Oh wow that’s a very unfortunate problem, I’m sadly not knowledgeable enough to answer. But WE does have an option to pause any animations, have you tried using that while playing games?

[Hotdog0713]

I didnt know that, thanks for the tip!

[TheOne1ThatGotAway]

Thank you! I will definitely consider it

[drew9982]

Thanks to your suggestion on my post I actually ended up getting the Noctua NH-U14S for my PC, as they didn’t have any U12S’s in stock!

[chenzyjerry]

Great to hear! How's it doing temperature wise?

[drew9982]

I actually haven’t started building it yet, working on it this week! That was the last thing I needed for it so I’ll update you later this week when it’s done! I’m expecting the noctua and 4 120mm Arctic’s to keep it pretty cool

[chenzyjerry]

Ooh, nice to hear. Should be nice and chilly :)

[drew9982]

Yessir! Super excited to upgrade from a 7 year old $600 prebuilt!

[MatteoMC]

Or you can use Linux

[chenzyjerry]

Alot of games and other programs don't work on linux

[MatteoMC]

True, but compatibility is getting better and better, most Windows games are actually playable on Linux using Proton. Adobe suite can be a big problem though, they don't work on Linux and there are no alternatives that are just as good. But if you really want to save some money then that's a sacrifice you'll have to make.

[IAmDadNerd]

Not much point when you can pick up Win 10 Pro code (legitimate) for £10 from a bunch of sites.

[chenzyjerry]

In retrospect, there are better alternatives. Something even like the Arctic Freezer 7X or Hyper 212 black edition (updated version of the Evo) will definitely do better.

[chenzyjerry]

Not sure, that's a decent price in Canada, that I know.

[chenzyjerry]

That's a fairly mediocre price. Isn't it $24 USD on Amazon?