PC types - whats the average cost for a decent machine these days? -- also PC death content

Axe_meister · June 2017

The Ryzen actually comes with a very good cooler.

PolarityMan · June 2017

Do you happen to know the noise profile?

Axe_meister · June 2017

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-wraith-cpu-cooler,4450-2.html

PolarityMan · June 2017

hmm 38dbA for the AMD one (although Ill need to double check the box I selected has the new one) versus 36dbA. I assume that is measured from inside the case so I do question if 2db is worth the extra 25 quid especially as I would hope the fan wouldnt be running flat out during tracking which is the most important time to have the low niose.

I think Im fairly settled on the ryzen build though, especially as my current phenom based one has done so well and will prob be re-imaged and get a little more lease of life in the garage for use with my electric drum kit.

Axe_meister · June 2017

Maybe go for G-Skill memory as these have worked well when Ryzen came out before they released a Bios Patch which fixed issues other memory sticks had.

revsorg · June 2017

@PolarityMan said:

big props to whoever posted pcpartspicker i can get a 16gb build under a grand by shopping around:

<snip>

MSI - B250M PRO-VDH Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
£66.94 Buy
Memory

Kingston - SSDNow UV400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
£73.99 Buy

Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
£83.94 Buy
Total: £984.13

</snip>

1. The Samsung Evo 250GB SSD is almost the same price as the Kingson SSDNow but benchmarks as massively faster.

2. The Motherboard you're looking at supports M.2 SSDs. The Samsung 960 Evo M.2 is £119 - but look at the benchmarks!

3. You buy Windows 10 Pro from Software Geeks for £25 saving you £59 to put toward the M.2 SSD!

PolarityMan · June 2017

revsorg said:

@PolarityMan said:

big props to whoever posted pcpartspicker i can get a 16gb build under a grand by shopping around:

<snip>

MSI - B250M PRO-VDH Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
£66.94 Buy
Memory

Kingston - SSDNow UV400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
£73.99 Buy

Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
£83.94 Buy
Total: £984.13

</snip>

1. The Samsung Evo 250GB SSD is almost the same price as the Kingson SSDNow but benchmarks as massively faster.

2. The Motherboard you're looking at supports M.2 SSDs. The Samsung 960 Evo M.2 is £119 - but look at the benchmarks!

3. You buy Windows 10 Pro from Software Geeks for £25 saving you £59 to put toward the M.2 SSD!

wow nice one on the win10 link! Im going to order that when I get home before I even pull the trigger on the build!

Where do you mount the M2 drives?

Axe_meister · June 2017

M2 drive are mounted into a dedicated slot or a PCIE slot (can't quite remember the details)

PolarityMan · June 2017

ah so its a connector on the board rather than on a wire.

revsorg · June 2017

This isn't the motherboard you're looking at but the M.2 drive slots in in just the same way

revsorg · June 2017

By the way... you might give my review of some DDR4 RAM I reviewed last year a read... a cautionary tale. I got the RAM for free as a Vine reviewer, but ended up spending £1000 to dig myself out of a hole.

Jalapeno · June 2017

Some people looking at silent PCs - do make sure you get a silenceable Graphics card too. Also if you're getting a 1Tb non-SSD disc get some soundproofing for the case - it's annoying having paid over the odds for everything to have the tic-tic-ing of a hard drive still cutting through.

Used QuietPC to put together a couple of silent PCs in the past, latest was ready-built from Overclockers and isn't that silent

PolarityMan · June 2017

revsorg said:

By the way... you might give my review of some DDR4 RAM I reviewed last year a read... a cautionary tale. I got the RAM for free as a Vine reviewer, but ended up spending £1000 to dig myself out of a hole.

Is it possible you fried one of the sticks with static? Happened to me once luckily I had enough other DIMs kicking around that I could trouble shoot it to the RAM fairly quickly.

PolarityMan · June 2017

Ok think this is my last iteration, any more thoughts before i hit the button tonight?

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/cFW4TH

Already purchesed win10 from software geeks

Drew_TNBD · June 2017

PolarityMan said:

Cant you borrow one from work?

Got a replacement coming from Intel under warranty.

PolarityMan · June 2017

It is done, swapped out the mobo for one with better fan control from gigabyte but other than that spec is the same as last update.

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