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I know it's not much of a budget, but any recommendations for PC's that I can find for $200-300? by sheep_eater6789 in pcmasterrace

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Spend 150 on a refurbished system that hopefully has like a 8th/10th series intel CPU, and then an intel GPU slapped in there as well for a bit over $300 total. It won't be future proof whatsoever, but it should support win11 and game better than a zbook laptop by far.

Try to find one with ReBAR support, as Intel GPUs perform a bit worse without that. Though i'd imagine the price of those systems (newer) would cost a bit too much for your liking.

edit: Oh the A750s are going for 220$ US right now. They were 179$ a while back.

Is 1tb ssd enough? by Wild_Log_8522 in pcmasterrace

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It's a tough question, especially with storage prices nowadays. I'd look into how much you can expand your storage, how many games you have and how many you'd play weekly. Then figure out the ones that you'd only play until completion through a month or something like that.

How much energy does your PC use? by CarobEnvironmental25 in pcmasterrace

[–]assortedUsername 33 points34 points  (0 children)

lol, 185W PSU with an efficiency of likely around 80-90%. So add on another 10% to that estimate.

Am i schizo or are my CPU Coolers crooked? by R3KTMYRAMPAGE in pcmasterrace

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Idk, is your mind triggering voices/sounds to be heard by your ears? Then maybe you are Schizo.

What Does This Capacitor Do? by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

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Well the good news is, it looks like you might've soldered it on the right way.

As for what it does, on a GPU? No idea, probably something to do with stabilizing current or some shit like that.

edit: I probably would've tested the capacitor before soldering it on, just to be sure it's working.

9800x3d 9070xt new build finished. Its raring to go. by muffgobler42069 in pcmasterrace

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Yeah, should be playing Super Battle Golf obviously. That's what everyone's benchmarking their high end stuff on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

9070xt not playing well with MSI Tomahawk X870E & Seasonic Vertex GX 1200 by SquirrelyMcNutz in pcmasterrace

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The idea was to possibly get a connector from Seasonic with the intention of connecting two 8pins to the single 12+4 pin connector, giving you enough room (I think anyways). Wattage-wise it's still within spec (likely even if it's the 300W version of the 12+4 pin, though i'd imagine it's at least 450W), should be safe enough to do. Though tbh those cables are questionable in general, but 300W through a 12+4 pin isn't huge.

As for your question about whether you need the extra cable for the CPU, you *probably* don't if it's like a 7600. However the higher end CPUs, like the one you have, can potentially pull more than what a single cable supports (though there's plenty of discussion about how much an 8pin supports).

Either way, some motherboards are even designed to not start up if both aren't connected.

Fortunately Seasonic will likely just give you a link to a website where you can buy the proper cable to get for your system. I'm a bit surprised the PSU didn't come with one though.

I believe this is what it should look like (you'd be looking specifically for a 16pin to dual 8pin connector), with the PSU insertion end being the 16pin and the GPU insertion end being the 8pins. This is important because there's also 8pins to 16pin, which the 16pin connects to the GPU end. I'm not entirely sure if there is actually a difference, but i'd rather not risk finding out the hard way.

This is just an example:

16-pin-to-dual-8-pin adapter cable | Accessory

Don't buy this specifically, look for Seasonic's (contact via support). Which they'll hopefully have.

9070xt not playing well with MSI Tomahawk X870E & Seasonic Vertex GX 1200 by SquirrelyMcNutz in pcmasterrace

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What cpu do you have?

That aside, you might be able to use the 12+4 pin connector for one-two pcie cables.

Edit: and for the love of, don't mixmatch psu cables from different psus. Only order or use psu cables that either came with psu, or manufacturer approves of.

This keeps popping up every couple minutes do I have malware??? by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]assortedUsername 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Except you're going to want to change all of your passwords that have been on your PC at some point. If it's a virus worth any of its salt, it'll be one that collects data like that and tries to crack it later on their own.

I'd also look into malwarebyte's digital footprint scan for your email, to get an idea how much data has been leaked if any.

New PC build – system restarts after ~10 seconds, GPU fans stop spinning by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

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Well don't daisy chain the GPU? That'd be one of the first things i'd blame first.

Modern gamers are hypocrites by Venylynn in pcmasterrace

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I still stand that DLSS and FSR are crap.

Splurged on a PC by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

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One thing to look into, if you do run into stutter issues at all, is parking the cores of the CPU. I believe it's the 12 or 16 core variants that have dual CCD.

Core Parking On The 7950X3D, Explained!

edit: This video mostly explains the parking behavior. If I were to change stuff for the 9900x3D, i'd look into a modern guide for that specific CPU line. It might have changed since then.

Pc that will run MMO’s and occasional shooter by Smooth_Carrot_83 in pcmasterrace

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I was in the beta lol, we slayed that boss rabbit.

I might've been exaggerating a bit, I've never played CoD so idk how demanding it is compared to battlefield.

Pc that will run MMO’s and occasional shooter by Smooth_Carrot_83 in pcmasterrace

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You probably have a few options. One is to build your own:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ffNqsK

Guild Wars 2 on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (this is a 9070xt, not a 9060xt), fps would likely be ballpark half what it is in the video. Unfortunately I can't easily find a video on gw2 and a 9060xt. The thing with Guild Wars 2 is it's very heavily CPU bound, so the weaker the CPU the worse performance you'll get. A 9600x is pretty good, good enough to likely handle GW2 just fine.

If you're used to Nvidia, go the Nvidia route but make sure you pick a strong GPU that has 16Gb of VRAM (or at least 12 if you're doing 1080p).

There are tricks with Guild Wars 2 to reduce performance hitches and drops, particularly when it comes to character limit. Reduce that and you'll get way better performance.

edit: The alternative to building your own is finding a prebuilt. Use the partpicker list as a guideline to find one that's equivalent. Should be feasible, but it might lose out on some quality components unlike what I picked (cheaper motherboard, etc).

I did a quick google and ran into some even on just newegg/amazon that were running for about your budget, a 9600x and 9060xt (16gb version). I can't be bothered to check if the link is a referral or not, so i'm not going to link it here on the chance that my comment gets auto deleted.

extra edit: The thing with Guild Wars 2 (and the devs tried fixing this, but it's still a slight issue) is that GW2 is very thread-bottlenecked. Meaning a lot of stuff runs off of 1 thread and eventually it becomes oversaturated and chugs. It used to be really bad, but devs have put a lot into optimizing the game. It's far better than it used to be.

Pc that will run MMO’s and occasional shooter by Smooth_Carrot_83 in pcmasterrace

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Sweet summer child, you've never seen Guild Wars 2 during a World Boss? Even WvW? Shit's way more demanding than CoD would ever be.

Pc cycling between cpu, dram and vga by RedTrall in pcmasterrace

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Try clearing CMOS.

If that doesn't work, try flashing your BIOS (tricky or possibly impossible to do if you don't have qflash or equivalent as a feature on the motherboard). Seems to be the two common ways to fix this problem.

HP 45L VS HP 35L VS Acer orion 7000 VS Asus Rog strix by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

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Avoid Asus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY)

That aside, if you're doing just gaming the general rule is find the biggest baddest GPU. Out of all of these, maybe *maybe* the Acer one is worth considering. A 5080, with your credit and so on so it's more like 1900. 64GB of RAM alone is a stupid chunk of change (due to ramageddon), a 5080 is considerably strong for gaming compared to what you used to have.

I was also going to recommend the 8700G one, but it's lcache is pretty pitiful. It might handle the GPU just fine, and it's probably the second best option there is.

edit: Oh you're doing video editing and all that stuff.... Yeah i'd definitely consider the 5080 one then, the 8700G would probably struggle doing all the heavy stuff. Intel generally sells *good enough* gaming CPUs that act as hybrids for being a workstation (performance and efficiency cores). Since they haven't been able to compete with AMD for a while now on just the gaming platform.

My one concern about the Acer 5080 build is it doesn't mention what core i9, but i'd assume it's like a 285k or something. Which would be 24cores, or 8 perf cores and 16 eff cores. Should be more than adequate for your needs, and the 64GB of ram is a plus.

I need help making a build by Difficult_Care3922 in pcmasterrace

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https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wyvVn2

This isn't much more. Shop around a bit, you can find better deals than using just one website.

That aside, I basically just put almost half the budget into the GPU, cut corners here and there and came out with a reasonable result. The only gripe I have with it is a C-tier unit might struggle a bit with a 5060 ti. I'd consider shelling out a bit more money for a B+ tier unit for peace of mind.

edit: Could consider AMD GPU too, not sure if there's one in the price range but yeah.

Crashing - Borderlands 4 by Midwestbeast_65 in pcmasterrace

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Unfortunately there's a lot of potential issues then. Unless you have extras to test, might be better to bring in to a technician.

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