Thinking about building a medium range gaming PC - Intel, or AMD?
13 March 2019, 04:07 PM
#31
Scooby Regular
its only 75hz vertical (120horizontal), the 114 is an average but is a tad misleading.
14 March 2019, 01:48 PM
#32
does state freesync when you go looking for more details (amazon isnt great for tech details)
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/pc-monitors/pc-monitors/aoc-q3279vwf-quad-hd-31-5-led-monitor-black-10173606-pdt.html?store={store_code}&&istCompanyId=bec25c7e-cbcd-460d-81d5-a25372d2e3d7&istItemId=-xqlrwmmmiw&istBid=t&srcid=198&cmpid=ppc~gg~1007%20 MONITORS%20-%20IMv2%20LTC~1007%20MONITORS%20-%2010173606_exact~Exact&mctag=gg_goog_7904&kwid=GO OGLE&device=c&ds_kids=43700030783935638&tgtid=1007 %20MONITORS%20-%20IMv2%20LTC&&gclid=CjwKCAjw1KLkBRBZEiwARzyE71_F2 lnLri86k3S9Iay5l_nOCel1v8UqbbDKYFQkf5CREa5o6ZKU-hoCWN0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
product code is the same.
I would more be looking for high refresh for a gaming monitor.
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/pc-monitors/pc-monitors/aoc-q3279vwf-quad-hd-31-5-led-monitor-black-10173606-pdt.html?store={store_code}&&istCompanyId=bec25c7e-cbcd-460d-81d5-a25372d2e3d7&istItemId=-xqlrwmmmiw&istBid=t&srcid=198&cmpid=ppc~gg~1007%20 MONITORS%20-%20IMv2%20LTC~1007%20MONITORS%20-%2010173606_exact~Exact&mctag=gg_goog_7904&kwid=GO OGLE&device=c&ds_kids=43700030783935638&tgtid=1007 %20MONITORS%20-%20IMv2%20LTC&&gclid=CjwKCAjw1KLkBRBZEiwARzyE71_F2 lnLri86k3S9Iay5l_nOCel1v8UqbbDKYFQkf5CREa5o6ZKU-hoCWN0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
product code is the same.
I would more be looking for high refresh for a gaming monitor.
Refresh rate is absolutely fine for games with it. Never noticed a single hickup while playing.
No screen tearing.
No input lag.
No ghosting.
Unless your a pro gamer where ever single possible frame counts then it's not something to even worry about.
Also if your coming from a console and tv then the difference in input speed and general picture smoothness will be night and day too.
No screen tearing.
No input lag.
No ghosting.
Unless your a pro gamer where ever single possible frame counts then it's not something to even worry about.
Also if your coming from a console and tv then the difference in input speed and general picture smoothness will be night and day too.
14 March 2019, 02:02 PM
#33
Scooby Regular
it's a bit naughty how they do it tbh, doesnt mater if one orientation is 1000000000000 if the other one is 75
18 March 2019, 06:15 PM
#35
Originally Posted by Ste333
indeed... very sneaky. Whilst we're here, shall we play the "show me your gaming rigs!" game ?
Anyone got any pics of their setup, desk, monitor(s) etc ?
Anyone got any pics of their setup, desk, monitor(s) etc ?
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ccl...clebay-3198844
Last edited by Fishbowlhead; 18 March 2019 at 06:17 PM.
19 March 2019, 09:08 AM
#36
that's actually a similarish spec to what I'm going to go for...bar the 8gb memory. Would probably plump for 16.... and yeah could add a decent sized 3.5" mechanical hard drive - 1/2 tb.
Not sure if it is as great a price as it seems though...as once you add an OS, upgrade the power supply from the generic 500w, add another 8gb memory, and another hard drive.... you've added on the best part of £100+ (depending on where you get the license key)
Not sure if it is as great a price as it seems though...as once you add an OS, upgrade the power supply from the generic 500w, add another 8gb memory, and another hard drive.... you've added on the best part of £100+ (depending on where you get the license key)
19 March 2019, 11:00 PM
#39
Scooby Regular
I'm pretty sure the watermark is permanent on everything and I don't think you can't change the desktop background as personalisation is locked out. At least it used to be, maybe it's changed.
27 March 2019, 11:09 AM
#40
I built myself a closed loop water cooled Ryzen 5 2600, AMD 560 GPU, 16GB system from scratch for £800 last year. Prebuild systems may be slightly cheaper, but at least with self build, you buy exactly what you want in a system. I don't play games on it, mainly use it for video editing. Also check out https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ to help build your system, you pick the part and it finds the cheapest available.
28 March 2019, 08:11 AM
#41
I built myself a closed loop water cooled Ryzen 5 2600, AMD 560 GPU, 16GB system from scratch for £800 last year. Prebuild systems may be slightly cheaper, but at least with self build, you buy exactly what you want in a system. I don't play games on it, mainly use it for video editing. Also check out https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ to help build your system, you pick the part and it finds the cheapest available.
28 March 2019, 11:08 AM
#42
Scooby Regular
I think id go AMD at the moment, better bang for buck, get good cooling maybe liquid if u can, AMD tend to run hotter.
As for VGA ive been gaming for 30 years plus and i never got on with Nivida, everytime i switched i always had little niggles with either drivers or something which annoyed me, So ive been an avid user of AMD cards for years now, running a vega 64 at the moment, its blisteringly fast and does everything at 4k or less.
My view would be throw as much as you can at the VGA end and a good ssd and the rest will work fine, im still running a core i5 6 year old one, i have 32gb ram and a vega 64 and it plays everything mega fast
100FPS plus at 4k at above 1080p
Screen wise i use this
https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/...C32HG70QQUXEN/
Just remember Fsync AMD and Gsync is Nvidia
As for VGA ive been gaming for 30 years plus and i never got on with Nivida, everytime i switched i always had little niggles with either drivers or something which annoyed me, So ive been an avid user of AMD cards for years now, running a vega 64 at the moment, its blisteringly fast and does everything at 4k or less.
My view would be throw as much as you can at the VGA end and a good ssd and the rest will work fine, im still running a core i5 6 year old one, i have 32gb ram and a vega 64 and it plays everything mega fast
100FPS plus at 4k at above 1080pScreen wise i use this
https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/...C32HG70QQUXEN/
Just remember Fsync AMD and Gsync is Nvidia
Last edited by Littleted; 28 March 2019 at 11:47 AM.
13 May 2019, 07:52 AM
#45
So this got completed on the weekend and booted up:
In the end the spec I went for was:
Ryzen 5 2600x CPU
MSI B450 Pro Carbon AC board
G SKill Ripjaws 16GB RAM 3200
Sapphire RX580 Nitro + GPU
Corsair TXM550 PSU
Kingston 240gb SSD (for windows)
Seagate 2TB HDD for games/music etc
Phanteks P300 Eclipse case in white
Corsair Pro Lite RGB Keyboard and mouse
Happy so far I've got the memory to post at the desired 3200 speed which is good....and I've been dabbling with overclocking the CPU....
I OC'd the 3.6Ghz 2600x to 4.0Ghz at a reasonable voltage, but I've now read that this processor has a precision boost feature and auto OC's itself up to 4.0/4.1 if required on all cores.... so in actual fact I may have ruined it's single core performance.... (it's a 6 core). So just trying to figure that out now.
QHD *****, here we come
In the end the spec I went for was:
Ryzen 5 2600x CPU
MSI B450 Pro Carbon AC board
G SKill Ripjaws 16GB RAM 3200
Sapphire RX580 Nitro + GPU
Corsair TXM550 PSU
Kingston 240gb SSD (for windows)
Seagate 2TB HDD for games/music etc
Phanteks P300 Eclipse case in white
Corsair Pro Lite RGB Keyboard and mouse
Happy so far
I've got the memory to post at the desired 3200 speed which is good....and I've been dabbling with overclocking the CPU....I OC'd the 3.6Ghz 2600x to 4.0Ghz at a reasonable voltage, but I've now read that this processor has a precision boost feature and auto OC's itself up to 4.0/4.1 if required on all cores.... so in actual fact I may have ruined it's single core performance.... (it's a 6 core). So just trying to figure that out now.
QHD *****, here we come
Last edited by Ste333; 13 May 2019 at 08:25 AM.
13 May 2019, 09:50 AM
#46
I built myself a closed loop water cooled Ryzen 5 2600, AMD 560 GPU, 16GB system from scratch for £800 last year. Prebuild systems may be slightly cheaper, but at least with self build, you buy exactly what you want in a system. I don't play games on it, mainly use it for video editing. Also check out https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ to help build your system, you pick the part and it finds the cheapest available.
17 May 2019, 01:25 AM
#49
Scooby Regular
In the past (before I got married) I always custom built the highest spec systems, overclocked the cpu, gpu and ram to within an inch of its life then sold the system on for a small profit. I've had systems with the flagship i7 chips like 3770k, 4790k, 5930k, (couldn't justify 5960x), also had 6850k, 8700k with high end cards (at the time) like gtx 980/ti, 1070/1080 etc.
I found myself addicted to Arma 3 which me and 4 lads from work played every single night 3 or 4 hours for 2-3 years non stop lol. Fantastic game but poorly made in that regardless what card I ran it suited a higher clocked cpu instead. In those days I think I had a 4790k clocked at 4.7GHz at 1.35v cooled by a custom water loop powered which had EK supremacy Evo block and alphacool nexxos rads, xspc d5 Pump/res.
After marriage I barely had anytime to play at all, and recently my PC is sat unused unless little wants to go on YouTube.
Taken a huge step down now, my current system I built using:
Corsair 760T case
i3-8350k CPU running at 4.6GHz
Gigabyte Aorus Z370 gaming K3 board
2x8GB Vengeance 3000MHz DDR4 ram
RM650x PSU
H100i aio cooler
GTX 970 G1 gaming (picked it up cheap 2nd hand)
Samsung 850 Evo SSD/mycloud nas drive storing my media
All custom cables and lighting/K70 rbg keyboard sabre mouse
XL2411T - legendary monitor I've still got
Rarely if I ever get a spare couple hours, I may fire up PUBG or Arma 3/apex. Still tempted to build a new system with either a ryzen/vega or 9700k/RTX but knowing I just don't have the time and the fact we're buying a house soon might leave it for another day.
I found myself addicted to Arma 3 which me and 4 lads from work played every single night 3 or 4 hours for 2-3 years non stop lol. Fantastic game but poorly made in that regardless what card I ran it suited a higher clocked cpu instead. In those days I think I had a 4790k clocked at 4.7GHz at 1.35v cooled by a custom water loop powered which had EK supremacy Evo block and alphacool nexxos rads, xspc d5 Pump/res.
After marriage I barely had anytime to play at all, and recently my PC is sat unused unless little wants to go on YouTube.
Taken a huge step down now, my current system I built using:
Corsair 760T case
i3-8350k CPU running at 4.6GHz
Gigabyte Aorus Z370 gaming K3 board
2x8GB Vengeance 3000MHz DDR4 ram
RM650x PSU
H100i aio cooler
GTX 970 G1 gaming (picked it up cheap 2nd hand)
Samsung 850 Evo SSD/mycloud nas drive storing my media
All custom cables and lighting/K70 rbg keyboard sabre mouse
XL2411T - legendary monitor I've still got
Rarely if I ever get a spare couple hours, I may fire up PUBG or Arma 3/apex. Still tempted to build a new system with either a ryzen/vega or 9700k/RTX but knowing I just don't have the time and the fact we're buying a house soon might leave it for another day.
24 June 2019, 01:37 PM
#50
08 July 2019, 03:21 PM
#51
tempted to make the leap (even after quote a short time) from my RX580 GPU to a 2070 Super.... and then next year to a later 3700/3800 Ryzen CPU. I only built this machine about 3 months ago, and now AMD have smashed it out of the park with their whole new line up. Annoying but clever b*stards
09 July 2019, 10:23 PM
#52
Scooby Regular
if its only 3 months old, you might get a decent amount for your current setup. Yeah AMD finally have knocked Intel off the top.
Tempted to sell my cpu and board and replace with 3800x and X470 board but knowing how little use my PC gets, there would be no point really.
Tempted to sell my cpu and board and replace with 3800x and X470 board but knowing how little use my PC gets, there would be no point really.
11 July 2019, 01:03 PM
#53
if its only 3 months old, you might get a decent amount for your current setup. Yeah AMD finally have knocked Intel off the top.
Tempted to sell my cpu and board and replace with 3800x and X470 board but knowing how little use my PC gets, there would be no point really.
Tempted to sell my cpu and board and replace with 3800x and X470 board but knowing how little use my PC gets, there would be no point really.
Going to see how I feel about it this time next year. See if PCIe 4 .0 has gained more traction with GPU's and other components too.
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