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Re: New PC

Post by Gavrushka » Sun, 25. Jul 21, 09:15

Tamina wrote:
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Alan Phipps wrote:
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I find that doing a bit more frequent housework (eg vacuuming and dusting) in the room where the PC is does absolute wonders for reducing the numbers of dust bunnies both inside and outside the PC.
Good advice. We should all get an Alan :D Are you Roomba compatible? :D

That said, a vacuum bot with HEPA filters does wonders as well but I think having an optimal fan combination to reduce maintenance is always a good idea ^^
I'm a full time carer for someone with a badly compromised immune system, and part of creating a safer environment involves a pair of heavy duty air purifiers with HEPA filters. - Even though I have a similar vacuum cleaner, which I employ every other day, you'd be horrified by just how much crap the purifiers pull out of the air, with the prefilter for larger dust particles being the most visual indication. - I never really considered it previously, but I am sure the purifiers* go a long way to improving the pristine condition of my PC's innards.


*I run a pair of heavy duty Levoit purifiers, costing around £150 each, with filters costing a further £40.00, which are good for around 6 months if you remove the fluff/dust/hair build up on the prefilter each week. - Bonus is the filters even catch pollen so yay for allergy sufferers! (The pair are good for houses up to 200 square meters floor area with standard height ceilings.)
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Re: New PC

Post by BaronVerde » Sun, 8. Aug 21, 14:00

So, yesterday I picked everything up at the transportista's place and started assembling it. First of all, it was mentioned above that the case did not have filters on the front, but it actually does. Maybe a new series.

The only time I had to activate additional cerebral functionality (more than just turning a screwdriver) was the asembly of the processor cooler. To anyone like me trying this the first time, it is wise to do a dry assembly first to actually understand what's going on. Since there's considerable force involved and the parts are designed to fit different sockets and procesoor types when used this or that way, it might be that missing washers or plates facing the wrong side can lead to physical damage.

Now there are much less cables involved than before, they are all black and shrouded behind metal. It is a fine sight to behold :-)

Guys, question again: What monitor to choose ? Am thinking of 27", 1440p, 16:9, high contrast. What to expect of built in loudspeakers ? Probably less than from dedicated noiseproduction devices. Are there monitors with built in loudspeakers and aditional subwoofers ?

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Re: New PC

Post by CBJ » Sun, 8. Aug 21, 14:20

BaronVerde wrote:
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Am thinking of 27", 1440p, 16:9, high contrast.
This is what I'd recommend, yes.
BaronVerde wrote:
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What to expect of built in loudspeakers ? Probably less than from dedicated noiseproduction devices. Are there monitors with built in loudspeakers and aditional subwoofers ?
I wouldn't bother with built in speakers. Get a sound bar if you don't want, or have space for, separate speakers, then you can upgrade that separately from the monitor as required.

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Re: New PC

Post by red assassin » Sun, 8. Aug 21, 14:58

I use a 34" 1440p curved ultrawide (specifically, this one: https://www.lg.com/hk_en/monitor/lg-34GN850-B) which is phenomenal, but failing that a 27" 1440p is what I'd pick as well. And yes, any built-in speakers on a monitor are going to be atrocious.
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Re: New PC

Post by AjRyder » Tue, 10. Aug 21, 07:56

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I can tell you the I7 10700K is absolutely superb. (I had a new PC delivered 2 days ago.)

There's a great site for comparing components and builds, userbenchmarks, and it'll let you see how the Ryzen compares against the I7, and likewise for different graphic cards and RAM modules.
The only trouble with this website is this... The reviews are biased it is fanboy-based. Which does not give you a fair comparison of the processors. It is just someone going ooooo get this processor because I have it and it is really good...
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Re: New PC

Post by pjknibbs » Tue, 10. Aug 21, 08:51

AjRyder wrote:
Tue, 10. Aug 21, 07:56
The only trouble with this website is this... The reviews are biased it is fanboy-based. Which does not give you a fair comparison of the processors. It is just someone going ooooo get this processor because I have it and it is really good...
So ignore the reviews and just look at the raw performance numbers?

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Re: New PC

Post by BaronVerde » Tue, 10. Aug 21, 10:03

Depends on the use case, but yes, I'd say in principle it is best ignored. The site seems to be an aggregate of PCs and configurations all out there and we can never know which configurations are behind the bars shown. I mean, it is not just the processor that defines a pc's performance. One would probably need a controlled environment and comparable build to determine which processor likes which tasks the most. But I am not an expert and I may be wrong !

For instance, my new build (with a Ryzen 7 5800X) does a basic scene in little path-tracer ~6 times faster than my old one (with an I7 6700). Or, it boots in 2-3 seconds. That's certainly not just the processor (wider threading, more cache, generally more instructions per cycle), there is also faster ram (3600Mhz compared to 2800), nvme disks pcie3 compared to good old SATA 7000rpm turntables, and of course a proud owner generally inclined to accept anything that meets their overblown expectations :-) (fanboy alarm going off)

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I realized in my new PC that the fans of the AIO cooler are as loud as my vaccuum cleaner when there's calculation going on. Ok, that's an exaggeration, but nevertheless, I'll have to change them.

Saw an RX6700XT vga for 1200,- yesterday, and an RX6900XT for 1800,-. MSRP are 500,- and 650,- I think, so that's still a "thanks, but no thanks", I want an RX6800XT anyway. Hopefully it gets better towards the end of the year ...

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Re: New PC

Post by pjknibbs » Tue, 10. Aug 21, 12:40

BaronVerde wrote:
Tue, 10. Aug 21, 10:03
Depends on the use case, but yes, I'd say in principle it is best ignored. The site seems to be an aggregate of PCs and configurations all out there and we can never know which configurations are behind the bars shown.
Yeah, but given enough configurations, those errors will even out, so in a direct comparison between two processors the site gives a pretty good idea, IMHO. I wouldn't make it the only site I use for a buying decision, but it's certainly one data point worth looking at.

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Re: New PC

Post by Tamina » Tue, 10. Aug 21, 13:21

When AMD got comparable numbers to Intel, the website owner changed the rating-calculations so that Intel stayed on top (lowered Multithreading weight). When Ryzen got better in Singlethreading than Intel, the calculations were changed again, in a way that the flagship of AMD was worse then an older Intel i3 on that site.

When media reported about this, they went full victim mode and blamed an allgedly conspiracy on their social media, insulted reviewers and media. And in the aftermath they got banned on every reputable reviewer site, including the Intel subreddit https://amp.reddit.com/r/intel/comments ... om_rintel/

The remains of this story can be still seen on the About page
https://www.userbenchmark.com/page/about
The site is completely anonymous btw.. Nobody knows who those so called "Scientists and Engineers" are.

It is probably better to keep a distance from this website if you want to have a productive discussion.

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Re: New PC

Post by BaronVerde » Tue, 10. Aug 21, 14:21

Guys, I realized that when I saturate all cores with heavy calculation cpu temperature jumps to 87°C. It actually jumps like in a few seconds, I would assume that there's some damping due to the cooler.

Is that healthy ?
Did I possibly make a mistake assembling the cooler ?

It's blazingly fast tho ...

Edit: Looks like it is a common observation and AMD waves temps up to 95°C for the 5800X aside ... (third party info, no official link found)

'nother Edit: Ok, it was the overclocking. I found a BIOS setting that limits the processor to its nominal frequeny and now temperature stays well around 55°C.

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Re: New PC

Post by pjknibbs » Tue, 10. Aug 21, 16:08

BaronVerde wrote:
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Guys, I realized that when I saturate all cores with heavy calculation cpu temperature jumps to 87°C. It actually jumps like in a few seconds, I would assume that there's some damping due to the cooler.
Even overclocked it shouldn't *immediately* jump to 87C when under load, the mass of the heat sink will take a little while to go up. When you say you've got it clocked back to normal levels, is it still boosting when under heavy single-threaded loads like it should?

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Re: New PC

Post by BaronVerde » Tue, 10. Aug 21, 17:21

Haven't tried heavy single thread loads, but nope, clocked normally and under all cylinders it goes up gradually from ~33° idle temp to ~52° full steam.

That jump in a few seconds when off the chain is probably just how it behaves, not an assembly error ...

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Re: New PC

Post by Rug » Wed, 29. Sep 21, 22:29

Not quite part of this new PC thread, but I think close enough to not warrant starting a new thread entirely, so ....

I have quite an old monitor - it's a 19" 1440x900 job. Recently I had access to a 1080 monitor, which was nice, but has gone back today.

I'm feeling the need to upgrade the monitor now, but I'm not quite sure what to go for in terms of size etc. I have had the current monitor for a decade or so, and would expect the replacement to last me a number of years - with a probable PC upgrade in that time, so I think it may be worth a bit of future proofing. But currently I'm running an old i5-4670K 3.4GHz system, with a 1050ti GFX card. This works fine for the games I play (EUIV, Skyrim, Factorio, Rimworld, X4 - that kind of stuff. No fast twitch shooters). So would I be best sticking to a 24" or 25" 1080 screen, or would I see benefit from getting a 27" 1440 screen instead ?

Budget will be flexible, but I'd say £300 would be right at the very top end, but could be justified if it is going to be a piece of kit that I'll be happy with in 5 years time. I know the future is impossible to be certain about, but I expect some of you have some good ideas of what's likely to be in the pipeline...

Or am I such a dinosaur that it's time to bite the bullet and upgrade the lot. Faster processor, Memory, SSD instead of spinning rust, as well as the monitor - the whole shebang ? If so, then recommendations welcome ! I don't want anything that's all shiny neon fans and the like though. I'd prefer just a plan black box that works noticeably faster than I have become used to if I go down this route. Budget for PC and monitor bundle could be £1500 perhaps, but less would be much more palatable. But I'm not really noticing problems with what I have now (apart from the screen size and resolution, but that's the only more modern stuff I've experienced - so I may be seriously missing out !)

Help ?

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Re: New PC

Post by red assassin » Wed, 29. Sep 21, 22:34

I wouldn't buy anything less than a 27" 1440p at this point. My partner uses a Dell S2721DS, which is great for the money and within your budget. (Other monitors exist.) Your 1050 might struggle a bit with the higher resolution on some games, but you can always turn it down if it's too much of a problem and most of the games you play should be absolutely fine. (She has a 1060.)
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Re: New PC

Post by CBJ » Thu, 30. Sep 21, 01:20

I have to concur with red assassin here regarding the size and resolution, and indeed the supplier too, especially now that IPS panels have trickled down to the sub-£300 models.

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Re: New PC

Post by pjknibbs » Thu, 30. Sep 21, 07:48

I'm going to disagree with m'learned colleagues here--given the stated specs of your PC I don't think it'll handle 1440p all that well. 1080p would be fine. And now isn't a good time to do a major PC upgrade because of the ridiculous prices of graphics cards right now. An SSD upgrade would be totally something you should look at, though--SSDs are cheap and give an immediate shot in the arm to general usability of your PC.

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Re: New PC

Post by Rug » Thu, 30. Sep 21, 08:54

What does a 1440 screen look like running a game at 1080? Does the scaling make for a blurry image? I should have asked this at the same time as the original post, but it did not occur to me until too late.

Thanks for the replies so far.

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Re: New PC

Post by CBJ » Thu, 30. Sep 21, 09:43

A scaled image will never be quite as sharp as a native resolution one, but it's less of an issue than it used to be, partly because of the smaller dot pitch and partly because the scaling systems themselves have improved. Whether it's an issue will depend on which games you can and can't run at native resolutions, and how it looks for the individual games that you can't run at native resolution. Bear in mind that you also have the option of running some games in windowed mode, which allows you to keep native resolution at the expense of a bit of size and immersion; again, whether this is actually a decent option depends somewhat on the game.

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Re: New PC

Post by jlehtone » Thu, 30. Sep 21, 11:54

There is also the option to not scale, i.e. to have the extra pixels of 1440p black around the 1080p image, but changing resolutions often is not so fun.

The Dell S2721DS has pixel pitch: 0.2331 mm. A 24" (Dell, 1920x1080) has pitch: 0.2745 mm. A 22" (Dell, 1920x1080) has pitch: 0.249 mm x 0.241 mm. A 1920x1080 block of the 27" 1440p display is thus a bit smaller than 22" display. (A 27" 1080p display has pitch: 0.3114 mm -- larger pixels.)

Older 24" Dell with 1440p has pitch 0.206 mm. One* can see aliasing on 24" 1080p, while not really on that 24" 1440p. Turning on anti-aliasing levels, but then the GPU works more.

I had 3440x1440 with GTX 970 and it was ok (by my standards), but 970 is much stronger than 1050. Can't remember whether I had 2560x1440 with GTX [45]60 or only after getting the 970.


A fact is that once you get more screen estate, it is really hard to go back, "downsize".


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Re: New PC

Post by BaronVerde » Wed, 20. Oct 21, 00:07

Guys builders and gamers,

my new graphics card has 2 pcie power connectors. The power supply comes with cables that have two serial plugs on the appliance end. Should I use one cable to the power supply or two (distribute load ?) ?

My old gtx 970 drained about the same power as the new 6700xt (a bit more than 300W max) but only had one connector.

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