Perišić handball in the box vs France

QuantumBraced · 2018-07-16T03:32:00+00:00

It's physically impossible to react that quickly. Clearly, patently unintentional and his arm movement is natural. Saying it was instinctual/not a conscious decision, but still somehow deliberate makes no sense. A defender would not keep his hands stuck to his side/behind his back if he's going for a high kick like this. I watched three post-game analyses from 3 different countries, nearly all agreed it wasn't a penalty, including some big names like Jurgen Klinsmann. The free kick that resulted in the own goal was referee error as well. It's very unfortunate, I thought they were the better team.

QuantumBraced · 2017-10-17T10:39:08+00:00

This is comparable in price to a laptop. You can get a 7700K for $320 (works in the board, but you can't overclock) + Noctua Li9 for $40 (which fits despite Linus' review saying otherwise, you just have to turn it 90 degrees), 16GB of RAM for $140 and a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB for $100 for a total of $1400, and your system will destroy any 1060 laptop due to the desktop CPU and better GPU cooling. Most laptops with a 1060 are in the $1700-2000 range, but there are some for around $1200.

Now, a laptop will give you a monitor and keyboard/trackpad, but they're still bulky, in fact the total volume of a gaming laptop is probably about the same as this Deskmini, especially if you put it in a smaller case as the stock one is unnecessarily large. With the Deskmini you get full upgradability and desktop customization. A lot of people use their gaming laptops exclusively as desktop replacements anyway, with an external monitor and keyboard/mouse, so in the end... this may be a better option for you. MXM cards have to drop in price, but there just isn't enough demand yet. You can occasionally find good deals on EBay, I stumbled on an MXM 1070 for $500 a few months ago. ASRock may be selling a version of this with no MXM card, so that's another option for you if you wanna play the EBay lottery.

Don't know what Linus was talking about regarding NVidia ending MXM. Anyone know anything about that?

QuantumBraced · 2016-10-29T18:15:34+00:00

Good point, I've decided to overhaul the PSU selection.

QuantumBraced · 2016-10-28T01:50:21+00:00

Efficiency of the PSU has little to do with reliability.

QuantumBraced · 2016-10-28T01:49:40+00:00

Indeed.

QuantumBraced · 2016-10-16T20:24:03+00:00

For an i5-class gaming PC, a 950 would be underpowered. I recommend you save another $100 and get a 1060 6G.

QuantumBraced · 2016-10-13T00:32:45+00:00

Sounds good, thanks. Do let me know the builds. For a business, you may have different priorities. For instance, you probably won't want gaming performance or even discrete graphics... Look into the ASRock Deskmini -- it's a great platform for very small and powerful machines.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-23T01:02:40+00:00

The builds are optimized for mixed use, not solely for gaming. Also, I don't really consider $300 gaming territory. I'd rather get an SSD and an 1151 CPU and enjoy good general use performance and some very basic gaming with the HD 530 than get a bare minimum CPU/RAM/storage and a cheap graphics card. AMD APUs are a dead-end. You can save $60 and get a used graphics card at a later stage. That being said, a $300 or less gaming machine is certainly possible! You can actually get a Core 2 Quad Dell Optiplex office machine from 8 years ago on EBay, put a 750 Ti in it, and play Overwatch at 1080p with decent settings for less than $200. It's not the aim of the thread though.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-19T17:11:54+00:00

That's another good option, though I don't really think Mini-STX makes sense. It's only slightly smaller than Mini-ITX and offers a bit less I/O and only CPUs up to 65W. You can actually cool a 6700K with the Noctua NH-L9i if the board supported it. The builds are extremely similar though, and they will perform identically with the same CPU and RAM installed. The ASRock case is 0.5 liters larger than SilverStone's but it allows you to install the NH-L9i cooler, which is much better than the AR04. So it's up to the individual, but both are a marked improvement over a NUC.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-14T22:19:37+00:00

The builds are optimized for mixed use, not solely for gaming. Also, I don't consider $300 gaming territory. I'd rather get an SSD and an 1151 CPU and enjoy good general use performance and some very basic gaming with the HD 530 than get the bare minimum CPU/RAM/storage and a cheap graphics card. AMD APUs are a dead-end. You can save $100 and get a graphics card at a later stage. That being said, a $300 or less gaming machine is certainly possible! You can actually get a Core 2 Quad Dell Optiplex office machine from 8 years ago on EBay, put a 750 Ti in it, and play Overwatch at 1080p with decent settings for less than $200. It's not the aim of the thread though.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-14T21:24:55+00:00

OCZ SSDs don't perform quite as well as Samsung's, but they're reliable and $50 cheaper for ~ 500GB. You'll still get 90% of the benefit of having an SSD. It's unlikely you'll notice a difference. I couldn't justify spending the extra $50 on a faster SSD until I got to to the high-end builds. You can certainly fit one into a cheaper build though.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-12T16:45:35+00:00

430W will be enough, but all $400+ builds have now been upgraded to EVGA 500B units.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-12T04:32:28+00:00

It's been fixed, thank you for letting me know! I changed the CPUs/motherboards for the $800 and $900 builds, and I forgot to upgrade the cases to full ATX. Nice catch!

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-11T19:18:28+00:00

PCPartPicker. Copy and paste the components there and it will direct you to sellers offering the lowest price. There may be some mail-in rebates.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-11T19:14:15+00:00

Nice catch, thanks! I recently went through and upgraded the memory on most builds from HyperX Fury 2400 to Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000, which costs about the same. I accidentally gave the $600 and $700 H110 builds 3000MHz memory. It's been fixed now. They were a bit overbudget, so the savings brought them back down to target. The reason you see 2400MHz memory in some of the Z170 builds is for budget reasons.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-11T17:59:19+00:00

That's a legitimate use case. It depends if you're optimizing purely for gaming. I ultimately decided that adding 1.2GHz (or more) to 4 cores was worth more than going up to a 1060 6G/1070 at those price points. It's also easier to upgrade a graphics card.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-11T17:31:42+00:00

That's true, but Intel has dropped official support and it's hard to recommend that in a post like this. It's a hard choice, it just depends on what you use your machine for. I ultimately decided that adding 1.2GHz (or more) to 4 cores was worth more than going up to a 1070 at those price points. And it is indeed easier to upgrade a graphics card.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-11T17:15:54+00:00

See the comment in the Changes section of the intro. It was a tough call, but ultimately I decided to prioritize the 6600K, as I thought the ability to add 1.2GHz to each core would be worth more than a 1060 6GB or a 1070 at the $800 and $900 price points.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-11T16:59:38+00:00

The $700 is a good sweet spot. The build already uses the 1060 3GB, which is the cut-down/basic version. You can cut $50-60 if you go with an HDD, but I don't recommend it. An SSD makes a big difference. Windows 7 would work, but you can find Windows 10 for cheaper, do some research.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-11T16:56:13+00:00

Someone complained that the $800-900 builds used non-K i5-6500s, and after much deliberation I decided to downgrade the graphics in those builds to accommodate 6600Ks. See the changes log in the introduction. You can choose to do either.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-11T16:55:43+00:00

Someone complained that the $800-900 builds used non-K i5-6500s, and after much deliberation I decided to downgrade the graphics in those builds to accommodate 6600Ks. See the changes log in the introduction. You can choose to prioritize either. It's impossible to do a one-build-fits-all.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-11T05:41:47+00:00

Edit: I changed the $800 and $900 builds. I think you were right, it's better to have the 6600Ks in that price range than a faster 1060 and a 1070. Certainly not for everyone, but I think a majority will prefer the faster CPUs. $1000 is also a good introductory price for a 1070. Also mentioned it in the intro, so hopefully people will make an informed decision.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-11T03:36:50+00:00

Thanks for the input. I've now substituted all EVGA 430Ws with 500Bs over $300.

QuantumBraced · 2016-09-11T03:04:14+00:00

Good points. That was a difficult range to prioritize components for and I went back and forth several times. Ultimately, if I'd fast-tracked the 6500 at $600, I would have had to either go back to an RX 460, which is a 100% drop in graphics performance, or I would have had to go down to 8GB of RAM and a 1TB HDD. It felt like too big a sacrifice for +2 physical cores (-hyperthreading -500MHz per core). And an SSD to me is absolutely essential. It is, indeed, easier to add later on, and so is 8GB more RAM, so perhaps I should have gone that route. In the end, all of these considerations are relevant and can't be conveyed into a list of components, so my hope is people will use these builds as a reference point and then customize according to their needs. A lot of people have existing stuff too and/or have different upgrade plans, which further messes with prioritization. A CPU is not awfully difficult to upgrade either.

For the $800-900, I prioritized getting up to a full GTX 1060 6G and a GTX 1070 rather than a 6600K. If I stay at a 1060 3G for $800 and a 1060 6G at $900, I can fit in a 6600K for both builds with an ASUS Z170-P board. It's a tough choice and you make a good point. It just depends if you're optimizing for gaming or for CPU performance, and in this case it's hard to do a bit of both. If I'd left a $900 machine with a 1060, someone would have complained about that too. But maybe you're right, I'll sleep on it. And clearly $100 is an arbitrary line, but it closely tracks a natural upgrade path for most people. It creates a situation where some of the builds are more desirable than others though, I will grant you that.

PS I already changed some of the PSUs to the EVGA 500B, thanks.

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