Desktop PCs - Do You Still Have Them?

[jodski]

Nakaka thrill yung old school na mag set ka pa ng jumper depending on what processor and memory to install...
Tapos pag may nag amoy sunog pag on mo ng power supply, manlalamig ka ng konti and ask yourself what went wrong [emoji33] [emoji1] [emoji16] [emoji29]

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[WallyWest]

Nakaka thrill yung old school na mag set ka pa ng jumper depending on what processor and memory to install...
Tapos pag may nag amoy sunog pag on mo ng power supply, manlalamig ka ng konti and ask yourself what went wrong [emoji33] [emoji1] [emoji16] [emoji29]

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Mas madali din mag-overclock kasi unlocked pa ang multipliers ng mga processor.

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[jodski]

Mas madali din mag-overclock kasi unlocked pa ang multipliers ng mga processor.

Tapatalked

Haha... bibili ka pa ng mamahaling processor fans and magandang CPU thermal paste to avoid overheating.

I managed to burn three motherboards noon bago ako natuto mag setup ng maayos. Buti na lang nakuha pa sa warranty lahat

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[Flipo]

need help again mga bro

from suggestion of fellow tsikoters(especially boss jut) last year ito yung nabuong rig ko with 15k budget for dota 2:
-AMD A8 7600
-ASUS A88
-8GB kingston Hyper X Fury
-500watts True Rated Huntkey
-500GB HD

super satisfied ako kaso as you can see wala pa ako vidoe card.
gusto ko sana salpakan na ng Video card.
ano recommmended VC for my existing rig? yung wala na sa modify. mostly dota or pwede kaya din sana mga Call of duty or Counter strike Online.
Planning to get the VC on November pa naman

Doon mo ipost sa tipidpc; lot of expert can give you a good advice.

[jhnkvn]

Desktop PCs? Present.

I'm on my 6th generation PC na. I called them "generations" everytime I do a CPU upgrade.

1st gen: Pentium I MX 150mhz, 16mb RAM
2nd gen: Pentium III 500mhz, 64mb SD RAM, Nvidia NV4 TNT Riva 32mb
3rd gen: Pentium IV "Willamette" 1.8ghz, 128mb SDRAM, GeForce 2 MX 32mb
4th gen: Pentium IV "Northwood" 2.4ghz, 512mb DDR RAM, GeForce 4 Ti 128mb/GeForce FX 256mb
5th gen: Core2Quad "Yorkfield" 2.3ghz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, Palit GeForce 9600GT 1GB
6th gen: i7 "Sandy Bridge-E" 3.6ghz, 32GB DDR3 RAM, Sapphire HD7870 2GB Flex

I started very young as my first PC was simply a "hand me down" from the family of which it stuttered even playing Red Alert 2. The first PC I got actively engaged in building was the 3rd gen Pentium 4 rig of which we were aiming to play at medium-settings the "upcoming" Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. This was me way back in elementary

Current 6th generation was purchased around late 2013..

CPU: Intel i7 3820 3.6ghz
Mobo: Asus X79 Rampage IV Gene
Memory: 32GB G.Skill ARES 1333mhz
GPU: Sapphire HD7870 FLEX 2GB 256bit, Geforce 750Ti (work)
Casing: Cooler Master Cosmos II Ultra Tower
PSU: ThermalTake ToughPower 1200W Modular 80PLUS
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake 2.0 Extreme Watercooling (dead) replaced by Coolermaster V8 GTS
Monitor: Samsung 32EH5000 LED TV (primary), 3x Dell U3011 (work)
Primary Speakers: Logitech X-540

Primary Monitors: Dynaudio Excite X12
DAC: Musiland Monitor 01
Amplifier: Classe CAP-100
TV: Samsung 51" Plasma (forgot model tbh)

Notes:
1. My rig is kind-of-due for a mid-cycle upgrade but I felt that CPU "upgrades" have slowed down nowadays as the focus is more into efficiency over power. So I'll probably hold off the 7th gen until 2018.
2. My mid-cycle upgrade will probably just be a GPU upgrade and a CPU cooler upgrade. Eyeing the Geforce 1060 series as well as a Noctua D15. Also mulling replacing the 30" 1080p TV monitor with a 4K 40" one.
3. If you're wondering why I have an Ultra ATX case while doing a mATX mobo, you're not alone in that scratch-the-head moment. Reason for this is that the Cosmos II is my end-all case. I won't purchase another one as case upgrades add to the cost whenever I'm upgrading.
4. As a general rule of thumb, I usually purchase 400% the "standard memory" whenever building the next PC. For example, the 4th rig had 512MB versus 128MB then (pRO heydays). But I will tell this to anybody who wants to load up on memory:Do not do it. I haven't even exceeded 20GB (though I did reach 16GB na)
5. I started investing in PSUs on my 5th gen rig. I was sporting a 360W Antec EarthWatts PSU then but it became a limiting factor in upgrading my graphics card to a more powerful GPU.
6. I need a new GPU with 3 Displayports to take advantage of the 1600P of the Dell U3011. Medyo annoying since HDMI is limited to 1080p lang (of which I didn't know). Also, the calibration settings of these Dell U3011 isn't correct. All three aren't correct in their settings.. some are warmer off the factory. Haven't calibrated them yet as they were a recent purchase in early 2016.
7. I'm also a fan of air-cooling. Less hassle maintenance versus water cooling. This is coming from somebody whose previous closed loop AIO had the pump break down and my CPU reporting temperatures of 80C for one week. Funny as it is, I can actually run it for as long as 2 hours as I don't tax the CPU. It averaged 60-80Cs.
8. My most memorable purchase is possibly when I purchased an Intel X25M 80GB for Php13,000. That SSD revolutionized my view on "response time", it's bonkers. I still have it on the 5th gen PC up until now.
9. I generally avoid overclocking except for the first 3 months of purchase when the hype is real. As for now, factory na lahat. I don't need the additional juice and heat it brings.

Does anybody know where to buy a 3-monitor stand that can accomodate three (3) 30" monitors? I'm thinking of doing Amazon na because I can't find it locally.

[StockEngine]

Jhnkvn ikaw ba yun kilabot sa tipidpc na modder? Hahahha

Ill be assembling a pc for a photoshop &video rendering friend.

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[safeorigin]

I do occasionally overclock my PC since some of the workload of rendering videos are clock frequency dependent and not really well threaded and I find that settling for 4.5 GHz is optimal for stability. Anything more doesn't yield much rendering time and can be unstable.

[safeorigin]

seems like AMD's gonna be competitive again. i've been avoiding intel all these years. i guess i'll be able to upgrade my desktop later this year

who else is excited about AMD's new Zen architecture?

if they sell 8 cores for 200 bucks then it's gonna be AthlonXP-Athlon64 days again!

and I'm not really that concerned of wattage tbh.

[StockEngine]

40% ipc... i dont believe it lol.

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[Jun aka Pekto]

I was supposed to assemble a new PC not too long ago. But, I used the money instead to assemble gaming PCs for my two kids. The eldest got an Intel i5 4670k/R9 290x/8GB RAM while the youngest got an AMD A10-7850k/R9 380/8 GB RAM.

My current desktop PC: AMD FX-8350/GTX 770 (4GB, factory OC)/8 GB RAM) is a little over 3 years old. I thought about buying a new video card. But, I made it a point to never buy video cards priced over $350 to keep within my mid-range rule. I want to be able to run Star Citizen/SQ42 when they release. I'm hesitant to upgrade now because whatever I buy now may fall short of those games' final system requirements.

It's not like the GTX 770 is completely obsolete. I can still run DOOM 2016 at a good framerate with only minor sacrifices:



Plus, a number of my games seem to have gotten a bump in framerates. The Witcher 3, Far Cry 3, Far Cry 4...... All are running much smoother than when I originally played them.

I'm still undecided whether I'll continue buying AMD CPUs or go with Intel. The FX-8350 has done very well in non-gaming tasks (video encoding, conversion, etc). I'll get a clearer picture come 2017/2018.
All our laptops have Intel CPUs as well as my eldest kid's PC. If I upgrade now, it'll definitely be Intel.

[safeorigin]

40% ipc... i dont believe it lol.

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clock for clock, they compare well to intel cpus.

the reason for the massive increase in ipc performance is because they've gone back to SMT whereas the bulldozer architecture was CMT which is more favored by heavily threaded workloads such as servers but not so much in ordinary desktop environments(mostly because software companies are slow to implement multicore/multithread workloads and are primarily single thread intensive. heck, even video encoding is mostly frequency intensive rather than core count intensive)

and most notably, they hired Jim Keller to do the most of the designing which focused on alleviating key faults of previous AMD architectures such as slow arse cache and "half core"/modular design.

that combined with the 14 nm process, you get the 40% ipc. remember that AMD was stuck at 28/32nm process for quite a WHILE...

[EQAddict]

Sold all my power hungry, heat emmanating desktop rigs. Gaming laptops only for me and the kids nowadays. Migrating everything to minimum GTX 980M for the gaming laptops. My "work" laptop is thin and light with GTX 960M. Intel core i7 4th and above gen is my preferred CPU.

Hopefull the mobile versions of the new 1060-1070-1080 nvidia graphics chips trickle down soon.



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[StockEngine]

clock for clock, they compare well to intel cpus.

the reason for the massive increase in ipc performance is because they've gone back to SMT whereas the bulldozer architecture was CMT which is more favored by heavily threaded workloads such as servers but not so much in ordinary desktop environments(mostly because software companies are slow to implement multicore/multithread workloads and are primarily single thread intensive. heck, even video encoding is mostly frequency intensive rather than core count intensive)

and most notably, they hired Jim Keller to do the most of the designing which focused on alleviating key faults of previous AMD architectures such as slow arse cache and "half core"/modular design.

that combined with the 14 nm process, you get the 40% ipc. remember that AMD was stuck at 28/32nm process for quite a WHILE...

Kabylake just killed the skylake and this new amd stuff. Intel will make a lot of money next year.

Just a moment...

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[safeorigin]

^I'm more inclined to think that they will target it the same way they did with the RX480 rather than create halo products because they need to fix their balance sheet.

[Jun aka Pekto]

Testing out the eldest kid's laptop with its SSD. I've held off on using SSDs up to this point. I'm the only one at home who hasn't made the switch. The wife's laptop also has an SSD. I'd test hers. But, she wouldn't give me her password.

From a cold (first of the day) start, the kid's laptop got to the Windows 10 login screen in more or less, 12 seconds. My desktop PC (full BIOS posting enabled) took 30 seconds. My laptop (with 750 GB SATA 5400 rpm HDD) took 15 seconds.

From the Windows 10 login screen to a usable desktop, my kid's laptop was there right away. I didn't even bother timing it. My laptop took 8 seconds while my desktop PC took 5 seconds.

I've held off on using SSDs because I rarely shut down my computers. I normally set them in Sleep Mode when idle.

I'll make the switch on my next PC.

[StockEngine]

The m.2 ssd will shave another 2-4 seconds from the sata ssd.

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[Geronimo Valino]

Has anyone tried upgrading their laptop hdd to ssd?


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[EQAddict]

Has anyone tried upgrading their laptop hdd to ssd?


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Yes. Many times on different models. Makes a gigantic difference in performance. Use arconis diskimage tools to clone your hard drive. There are many youtube videos that teach how to do it.

SSDs are a godsend. Never going back to a physical hard drive for my boot drive.



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[jut703]

Has anyone tried upgrading their laptop hdd to ssd?


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I have. Night and day difference.

Yes. Many times on different models. Makes a gigantic difference in performance. Use arconis diskimage tools to clone your hard drive. There are many youtube videos that teach how to do it.

SSDs are a godsend. Never going back to a physical hard drive for my boot drive.



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Same observation here - an SSD upgrade will bring the most tangible improvement in performance. The computer will feel faster than if you got a new CPU or more RAM.

My 8 year old Core 2 Quad PC (SSD) feels much snappier than my newer Core i5 laptop (hard drive) even if the latter has a CPU that's exponentially faster.

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[mda]

Has anyone tried upgrading their laptop hdd to ssd?


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Madali lang ito gawin sir, as long as your laptop is not too old (still using IDE), and you can actually see your hard drive when you remove the panel sa ibaba.