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Mr. Matic's Gaming PC rig build!!

Discussion in 'Technology' started by Matic, Oct 7, 2013.

  1. Dec 14, 2016 at 12:44 AM
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    Dang 1080's in sli. Nice.

    Built my pc awhile ago using a lone gtx 1060. Serves the casual gamer in me well enough.
     
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  2. Dec 14, 2016 at 1:50 AM
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    Matic [OP] The "OFG" Baby!!!

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    OME 881 coils with OME nitrochargers shocks up front. TC UCA's OME Dakars with extra leaf in the rear. Warn 8000 winch with 80ft custom braided synth line. Custom 60ft synth extension. All pro tube bumper, Hi-lift jack, Safari Snorkel, Wilco tiregate. 2019 Jeep JLUR.
    1060 is a great card for the casual gamer. And a great price as well.
     
  3. Dec 14, 2016 at 2:09 AM
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    Glad to see other PC gamers here. I'm an AMD guy however, and just upgraded my R9 270x 2gb to an RX-480 8 gb. Still running an AM3+ board, 990FX chipset with FX-6300 3.5 GHz 6‑Core. I have an older, lower model AM3+ board. Even still, I manage to play most games without issue, although I only have an Acer 23" 1080p monitor. Still waiting to upgrade to a 27" 2k monitor. I am eagerly awaiting AMD's new chipset "Ryzen" X370 based on AM4 socket. Once a good value gaming board, memory and CPU is realized I will swap my RX-480 over and I should be able to give your setup a run for its money.
     
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  4. Dec 14, 2016 at 12:57 PM
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    I was an AMD guy from the K6 to the 965. My last AM3+ board wouldn't support the 6-core chips. Ended up going to the 2600k because it ran faster and cooler than AMDs offerings. Hoping AMD will catch up and out perform Intel again one day though.
     
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  5. Jan 4, 2017 at 1:06 AM
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    Matic [OP] The "OFG" Baby!!!

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    My very first custom build was an abit kt7a raid board. 2×20 gig wd drives in raid 0.
    512 of ram. Lol
    And a 1.333 amd thunderbird. It was a screaming machine back in its day.

    I purchased the cpu for I think $350 back then. (1997)? And the ram was worth its weight in gold.

    That was back in the day when amd was the severe underdog and was poking intels eyes with a stick. I eventually moved on to intel after a few years when amd's cpu's got wierd numbers for names.

    Screenshot_20170104-035842.jpg
     
  6. Jan 4, 2017 at 1:12 AM
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    Matic [OP] The "OFG" Baby!!!

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    Strange...it says release date was march "01". I moved to south carolina in "01" and I know I had that system built for a couple of years.

    Edit: I guess not. Several articles say 2001.
    I had a 900 duron before that. Must be what i'm thinking of cause you could superclock it to 1300 or so.

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  7. Jan 4, 2017 at 1:18 AM
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    A lot of reviews about that chip where released around the same time :notsure:
     
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  8. Jan 4, 2017 at 1:24 AM
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    Matic [OP] The "OFG" Baby!!!

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    Idk.
    I remember taking it into work and my buddy and I bridged the L1 on it with a lead pencil to unlock the Multiplier. Lol

    Old school stuff.
     
  9. Jan 4, 2017 at 1:31 AM
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    I remember doing that to one of mine. I've always thought overclocking was easier when it was done with jumpers though.
     
  10. Jan 4, 2017 at 1:34 AM
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    Ive never used jumpers in overclocking.
    I've hear of it.
    But after that 1.33, I soon switched to intel and most everything was unlocked by then.

    My current cpu is really the only chip that ive left OC'd 24/7. Back in the day I would just OC, run some benchmarks for bragging rights with my buddy's and just run them at stock speeds.
     
  11. Apr 14, 2017 at 2:09 PM
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    I guess my system is old. I'm still running 4790k with DDR3.
     
  12. Apr 14, 2017 at 2:16 PM
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    I went back to AMD :D. Couldn't be happier. Ryzen is looking like a great dollar for dollar and watt for watt match to Intel. Yes Intel is faster by about 10% per core but keep in mind most games have not been optimized for Ryzen yet. Also Anand has shown some driver issues with nVidia cards and Ryzen that are throwing the early benchmarks, that showed 20% difference in favor of Intel, out the window if you run AMD graphics.

    MSI B350 TOMAHAWK AM4 AMD B350 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI ATX

    Ryzen 1600 Base Clock 3.2 GHz with AMD Wraith Cooler but I'll take it right to 4 GHz as soon as over the counter liquid solutions come preboxed for AM4
    Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB PC4-17000 Dual Channel DDR4 Kit (2 x 8GB), Red (I'll switch to something faster once Ryzen BIOS is more stable with OC'd Ram)

    So far I'm getting more stable and faster frame rates in the games I commonly play over the 6600K I was running up till yesterday with 2666 Mhz ram. I had the opportunity to sell that rig to a friend who had one die on him so I did, my company just started doing a lot of GIS information stitching and imagery processing so the 6 core 12 thread Ryzen for under $300 CAD made way more sense than a similar Intel processor for over $500.

     
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    I heard Ryzen has an issue with the L2 cache on some chips.

    AMD had bus speed issues with Bulldozer chips too. Didn't just affect GPU performance, but stuff like SATA read/write speeds as well. I haven't seriously looked at an AMD chip since PileDriver though. It would be nice to see AMD offer some stiff competition to Intel again.
     
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    The FMA3 issue discovered in 3rd party testing is already fixed:

    https://www.extremetech.com/computing/246304-amd-fix-coming-fused-multiply-add-fma3-ryzen-bug

    Also Windows 10 has a glitch where it can't recognise the difference between a physical core and a thread which leads to some other weird issues like Windows thinking the Ryzen has over 100 MB of on die Cache lol. Actually some reviewers think this is why Ryzen shows some funny hiccups in games with SMT enabled. Rest assured both Microsoft and AMD know it's a software issue and apparently it's already been patched. The same thing happened on Windows 7 when Intel releases Hyperthreading on the i7.
     
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    I had a bad experience with Corsair RAM on my last build. Won't use them again. I've been using Crucial Ballistic in my current rig.
     
  16. Apr 15, 2017 at 1:12 PM
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    Saw you build man... top notch!
     
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    I used Corsair for years until I had 3 out of 4 bad sticks in a batch. I switched the G Skill and I've never looked back.

    Looks like the manufactures that use Samsung chips in their RAM usually score better in real world tests for some reason. I know G Skill only uses Samsung modules now. I don't know about the rest.
     
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    Thanks. I was pretty excited for Ryzen and it took all of my being to wait for the Ryzen 5. When I saw the stats and reviews on Ryzen 7 I knew it wasn't for me, that chip is a Broadwell-E slayer for guys who stream and edit piles of video but it's not really tuned for games, even the multi-thread supporting games can't make use of 8 real cores. A 6 core 12 thread setup is perfect at a $225 price point including cooler. At the speed you can take Ryzen up to, around 4.0 Ghz, it runs just behind a 4.8 Ghz Skylake i5 in per core performance but trounces it if you do anything that can make use of multiple cores and threads. Plus the fact that a B350 board gives you every single top end feature except Crossfire, which I don't need, at half the price of Intels boards, yeah I was sold. The bonus that my company is giving me work load that will run 50-60% faster on this processor over my Kaby Lake i5 is just the gravy on top. Now all I need is liquid cooling lol.

    Pretty much every reviewer is saying go with the Ryzen 1600 if you are building a gaming rig right now. AMD has successfully released a processor to compete with Intel in the two places it counts, dollar for dollar and watt for watt. The fact that it's about 10% slower per core than Intel is covered up well by the extra threads and cores that AMD is giving out at the same price point. I didn't know if AMD had it in them to catch up to Intel, but it looks like they did. Best part is that Ryzen still needs to be optimized for games and apparently there is a roadmap for Ryzen over the next four years to follow up Intels move to 10nm. Fun stuff, hopefully this will drive Intel to lower their price point and innovate again.
     
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    Went with water cooling and the new RGB G Skill Trident Ram. Really cleaned up the look and the Ram effects look amazing. Can't say enough about how awesome the effects are actually, it's not just light up Ram. Check out YouTube if you want to see what it can do, the controller is still in Beta but I got it working with an AM4 B350 board. Only drawback is I've had issues hitting the 3200 MHz rated speed. I'm up to 2933 MHz right now though and if you know anything about overclocking with the Ryzen that's pretty good for non certified AMD ram. I'm confident I can get 3200 MHz somehow. It is the same chip as in some of the other products that hit 3200 MHz no problem, I might just have to do some digging around in BIOS to get the timings to work out.

    Oh and the water cooler creams AMD Wraith. Now with the Wraith I used the stock thermal paste since I knew I'd be pulling off the cooler once I got my compatability with AM4 figured out. With the H60 I went with my go to Arctic Silver 5. So there is probably 5c right there just with far better paste. However I'm now running 20c cooler at idle and when running Prime95. Ryzen loves AIO's apparently lol.
     
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    Does AMD have xmp profiles like Intel boards? That's the only way my ram would hit it's advertised speeds.
     

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