The orange VS series is pretty bad—it's basically Corsair's bottom-of-the-line stuff. Don't even think about trying to run a 2070 Super on that; you really need to pick up a better PC Power Supply.
Edward Thompson86 said:If I run into any trouble with it, I'll just swap out the power supply from this rig.
If it works better, and since we aren't sure what the issue is, you should probably just make the switch right away. Personally, I wouldn't even try booting up an Argus PC using an NVIDIA RTX 2070.
Adam Moore3 said:Nobody is ever going to notice the difference in a Hard Drive, period. The motherboard is "better"? In what way? Just because it says B450 instead of Intel H110? These are all entry-level boards that basically only differ by having a few extra connectors here or there. If you had at least picked a board with four RAM slots, maybe I'd agree, but as it stands, there is zero real difference.
A "better" motherboard and a faster Hard Drive that won't even feel fast versus a graphics card that’s roughly 60-70% more powerful on average. Tough choice... 🙂
You didn't mention anything about the 60-month warranty, nor did you touch on COD2 or those older games.
The Kingston Hard Drive comes with a 36-month warranty and runs about 2.5 times slower than the Patriot NVMe drive, which offers a 60-month warranty. The B450 board is a step up from the Intel H110. The buyer mentioned they just want to play older titles like Call of Duty 2 and various management sims. Cutting the price on the Hard Drive and motherboard just to squeeze in a better GPU didn't make much sense here.
Newegg The r5 1600 AF is basically identical to the 2600 $300 Asrock A320M-HDV R3.0/R4.0, AM4 $125 DDR4 8GB (1x8) Corsair 3000 MHz Dominator Black CL15, HX430C15FB3/8 $107 All of that comes out to about $230 That bundle at Micro Center includes $550 the older first-gen Ryzen r5 1600
Kenneth Ortiz4 said:Unfortunately, the OP hasn't received a single helpful suggestion here, just people complaining about what isn't an option... plus, apparently, AMD isn't even on their radar.🙂
If you're looking to pick up Intel now that they aren't the absolute best value and can't compete on price with AMD, just go to a shop and have them build an Intel rig for you. You asked for advice, and the reality is that comparing a 7nm Ryzen 5 3600 to a 14nm i5 10600k isn't even a fair fight technologically. There was a time when AMD was considered too hot and was lagging way behind Intel, but today they lead in almost everything except single-core gaming, period.
VSDC provides solid hardware acceleration settings, allowing you to leverage both Nvidia and Intel architectures. To put its performance to the test, I put together a short film using five different clips—ranging from SD and 1080p up to 4K—applying a standard set of transitions. I exported the final project as a 1080p30 MPEG-4 file at 15Mbps using H.264 High Profile, with the audio set to MPEG AAC at 192 Kbps. My test rig was an Asus Zen AiO Pro equipped with 16GB of RAM, a quad-core Intel Core i7-6700T processor, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M dedicated graphics card, and a 4K touchscreen, all running 64-bit Windows 10 Home.
Rendering this nearly five-minute clip took VSDC Video Editor exactly 3:37. For comparison, the heavy hitters were much faster, with PowerDirector finishing in just 1:34 and Pinnacle Studio taking 1:39. On the bright side, VSDC easily outpaced Ashampoo Movie Studio Pro, which clocked in at 5:34, and Vegas Movie Studio, which took 6:19.
Andrew Kelly52 said:Could I get a valuation on an old setup?
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo GFX: 1024MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX Series (Sapphire/PCPartner) RAM: 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2, 4x2GB Kingmax/Apacer MBO: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2N HDD1: 1863GB Western Digital Blue SCSI Disk Device HDD2: 232GB Western Digital WDC WD25 00AAJS-00Z0A SCSI Disk Device PSU: Corsair Case Case: CoolerMaster Centurion
Maybe try selling the 8gb ddr2, the ati hd 6800, and the scsi disk separately.
Samuel Richardson5 said:I sold my 2070 and now I'm looking for something used in the $400 range $267 for web browsing, 1080p60 YouTube, and playing an occasional WRC rally (2004) to tide me over until the next generation. My power supply is an EVGA 650W.
480 4GB / 570 4GB / 970 3.5GB / GTX 1060 3GB
I'm not sure which of the high-end models were mined on most heavily, so I'd like to avoid those.
Just grab a new GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 for $200. It comes with a 3-year warranty, supports 4K, and will even run Dirt Rally 2.0 (2019) on low settings.
James Stewart94 said:I just got back from scuba diving, $1067 though I'm a bit skeptical about how they'll put that build together... It might be tough to get the performance you're dreaming of. It's strange because those games aren't even that demanding, and I don't plan on running them at max settings anyway... I just want to be able to jump in for a quick match every now and then.
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Try heading over to Micro Center or maybe Best Buy; that local shop doesn't have any CPUs in stock right now, and honestly, their service isn't great. What you've got planned should run perfectly fine on a 3400g.
Timothy Kim60 said:I'm not sure about the GPU, since you can pick up something more powerful for $250-$100, though then again, a new card comes with all those modern features...
That first one is probably $500-$200
The first one likely includes a standard Power Supply and case, given that the "bundle" is listed at $1000-$400
Grab a case around 14x14x7 inches so you can actually fit a standard power supply in there. Honestly, relying on a 120W 19V adapter seems like a recipe for disaster, especially since that AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 3400 g can pull up to 116 watts all by itself when you're pushing multi-threaded tasks.