Thanks guys, picked everything up on Friday 🙂 The RAM wasn't quite what I thought, they gave us some Kingston instead, and the last monitor was... whatever. They had the SSD in stock, all together with an extended warranty for about $1,500 and change
Timothy Kim60 said:You don't need to blow your entire budget for this kind of setup
I mean, sure, he could go with that one, but it’s definitely not my speed. That setup is more for an old acquaintance of mine—he's well into his 50s... honestly, that kind of rig is plenty for him since all he really does is scroll through the news and watch movies.
Hey, crimsonstag84 (sorry, had to say it) 😬 can I pair that RAM with this Patriot stick I've got? They don't necessarily have to be identical brands, right?
Hey guys, I need some monitor recommendations 🙂 I'm mostly looking for something around $500 inches... honestly, anything bigger than 24" feels like overkill for what I need.. The PC is just for browsing the web and watching movies—checking Best Buy or maybe grabbing some stuff from an online shop based out of Indianapolis. I'll probably just pay cash at the store when I pick it up. It’s going into this rig I picked up about two years ago... I think Halek was the one who put the whole thing together for me..
1x Intel Pentium G4560 Processor, 3500 MHz, Kaby Lake, Socket 1151 1x GIGABYTE B250M-DS3H Motherboard, Socket 1151, DDR4, VGA, DVI, HDMI 1x 4 GB PATRIOT DDR4 Memory, 2400 MHz, DIMM, CL15 1x 1 TB Hard Drive, Toshiba P300, 3.5", 7200 rpm, SATA III, HDWD110UZSVA 1x FORTRON Hexa Plus Power Supply, 400W, 80+, active, 12cm 1x MS Industrial CYCLOPS III Case, gaming, no power supply included 2x XILENCE Black & Red Case Fan, 120mm, black-red (one intake in front, one exhaust in back)
Jesse Lopez83 said:I've got an ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series card I'm looking to offload. Honestly, I have no clue what the market value is right now, so if you guys could give me a ballpark figure, I'd appreciate it. My plan is to flip this thing and put the cash toward a newer card, maybe something up to $267, that can actually handle modern titles. Even just running stuff on low settings would be a win, because my current setup is struggling... I can't even get Crysis 2 to run, whereas BF3 used to run just fine on high. It’s becoming a massive headache, especially since I picked up a bunch of games through Humble Bundle that I really want to play. Everyone keeps telling me the bottleneck is my GPU, since I'm running 4GB of RAM, an Intel Pentium 2.8, and a 64-bit system. So, if anyone knows a buyer interested in a graphics card:
ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
In great shape and perfect for a beginner build.
Feel free to drop a comment below or hit me up through the Craigslist ad I'll be posting shortly.
Best, Karlo
Man, don't make fun of the guy.🤣
What about the motherboard? Or the power supply? You need to list those details too if you want actual help.
There’s really no need for those high-end power supplies anyway. It's probably a low-power build if I'm reading this right, so if it's just meant to $47 "hold up" the components... an LC Power 460W would be plenty, and they aren't expensive, maybe around 30-$133
Will this card actually handle games like Hitman, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, or Far Cry 3? Like, can I actually launch them and play without everything breaking...
Of course you can play all of those on that card 😉
I caught a screening last night, and honestly, I still think it’s a solid movie. It doesn't quite touch the heights of the first one—because let's be real, that original was "sickeningly" perfect—but it’s still a satisfying watch... maybe just because I've always been such a fan of Liam Neeson and his style of films 😁
Stupid question, I know, but does anyone actually know... where did they hide that "shortcut" for moving files? Like, back in the Windows XP days, there was this 😁 so I didn't have to constantly copy stuff from my C: drive over to another partition first ... it just feels like everything was easier back then...
Alex Barnes93 said:The guy is basically looking for a recommendation on something with 1 GB of VRAM, if I'm following him right.
What part of this isn't clicking? I mean, what's even the point of hunting down some old "DDR2" card with 1 GB of memory when a decent 512 MB GDDR card is just going to eat its lunch anyway... So fadedorca66 is spot on—that "1 GB" label doesn't actually mean anything in this context, plus the OP didn't even bother to list a price...
Honestly, you’re better off just sitting on your cash for a bit. If you save up until you actually hit that total budget you had in mind for the whole rig, you can just go out and grab every single component at once... instead of doing this thing where you buy a GPU now, then wait two or three months to grab some other part, and then repeat the cycle... It's way smarter to just stack your money up first. 🙂
pekto1200 said:Thanks, but now I'm stuck on something else. I'm about to wipe out my old drivers and I'm seeing both an AMD Catalyst Install Manager and Nvidia PhysX... I honestly have no clue which one I actually need to get rid of here.
Man, if you're cleaning things out, just scrap both of them... it's a breeze to deal with Nvidia PhysX later..
Look, there’s no need to get all philosophical about it. Just run Driver Sweeper to wipe out those old drivers, then go ahead and install the new ones for the 7770. And if you haven't swapped the card out yet, just pull the plug on the PC, unscrew one single screw, pop the old one out, and slide the new one in. It’s really that simple... total genius at work here. 🙂
Jeremy Moore75 said:Hey everyone! So, I just picked up this card and I've got this monitor what's the best cable to hook these two beauties together? I heard using a DVI to HDMI combo isn't a bad idea!
That link for your monitor isn't even working... 🙂 Look, if your monitor has an HDMI port, just use that and call it a day. If it doesn't, use DVI. It really isn't that deep, why make things more complicated than they need to be? 🙂