What are some of your regrets that you have from your current

Idk if I picked the wrong case or not. It's the old Fractal Define XL which comes with the annoying cage at the top which can't be removed.

It's pretty good but I think I could've made a better choice at that time, I bought it in 2011.

>mfw when nzxt h440
should have bought something cheaper
also fell for the custom loop water loop and multiple ssd meme

>>61388491
>multiple ssd meme

why is this a meme? having multiple SSDs is good if you find a spare SSD or whatever

>>61388491

yeah but at least your case is pretty

and why don't you like the multiple SSDs? I have one for boot, but I'm planning on buying another one down the road for games to minimize load times.

>>61388317
what is the objectively good choice for case?

>>61388599
full tower

8+ drive bays

>>61388502
>find a spare ssd
yeah if your rich maybe
mechanical drives are better to use for storage because they are much cheaper per storage
only think you'd want ssd for is OS install and maybe mpv, vim, gimp, and other regular programs you might use

>>61388534
it is but its a waste since its like in the desk and only i ever have seen it

>>61388605
who the fuck needs that many bays?

>not picking a modular PSU

i will never do this ever again, the spaghetti from a non-modular is too much

>>61388317
Picked an ugly case and bought a shitty mobo that didn't allow overclocking with a CPU that allowed overclocking.
Also a non modular PSU.

>>61388317
Getting Ryzen instead of the 7700k

Have a Fractal R2 XL bought when it was new. Used it for my Ryzen rebuild.
Bought 6x 140mm Noctua industrial fans. Great fans and airflow but now I want to upgrade cases and nothing else supports 6 140mm fans and has a tempered glass side panel and doesn't look like shit. I'm not buying new fans

When you have the best case how do you even upgrade?

>>61388599

Objectively?

That's a completely relative answer.

OP here, I should have gone with an ITX tower. liquid CPU cooler, 2x8gb RAM, and enough room for my GTX1080. That's all you really need.

But if I was building a server, I'd go with an ATX mid-tower that can hold several hard drives.

>>61388703
I have the first version of that case, there is really no point in upgrading to a new case.

>>61388708
*pats your head*

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I got a gigabyte 3d mars case for no reason. Bough it in 2011 and its still overkill , plus its ugly as fuck and has no space behind mb

>>61388683
>$0.03 has been deposited in your account
>good goy

>>61388762

wat

Non-modular PSU. The interior isn't really that cluttered, but its a fucking mess behind the motherboard try.

>>61388808
good boy.

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Not rubbered holes in my Corsair 230T but I got it for $50 so not complaining. Any recommendations? Photo is my current build without cable management

I regret going mATX with my Ryzen build. A second PCIe x16 slot would be nice.

>>61388635
Rich? So many poofags on 4chan it's pathetic.

Get a fucking job.

>>61388818
Fuck, my back panel is a mess even with a fully modular PSU.

>>61388893
>being a wagecuck
yeah no thanks nigger

I'd buy a 1080ti rather than the 1080. And I should've probably bought a better motherboard than b350

>>61388842
>RGB PSU
nice meme. otherwise looks pretty comf

>>61388907
I got the 1080 STRIX at nVidia MSRP of $549.99 for an ASSU STRIX.

>>61388317
Went with a pentium instead of an i7.
My rational at the time was that I would put together a cheap computer that can get me by while waiting for ryzen, and repurpose the pentium as a router/firewall. Ryzen came, and I realized that I should have just gotten an i7. Now I have a pc that's good enough for almost everything that I actually do, and would be able to do everything if it was actually clocked higher. I'm at a point where I can't justify an upgrade to an i7, or going full amd anymore.

>>61388928
desu the dude at microcenter recommended it to me, at $85, was looking for EVGA but eh, I can always return it in 28 days. I don't give two shits about RGB

>>61388970
fair. it's a good psu anyway

>>61388907
I have the EVGA FTW 1080, works fine by me
The only time I saw major dips was in the Argent Tower in DOOM, but I found out that was a CPU intensive area
If the TI was priced at $700 for aftermarkets, I would say I should've bought it instead, since im running 1440p

I got a cheap ASRock motherboard. It works, but I've heard bad things.

>>61388317
Non-modular PSU.

>>61388984
Yeah, I feel the same. All my components worked and all I really need is a new headset and 64GB of RAM and a 7700k, I think I'll be set for years

I bought a full tower case instead of a mid tower. It's way too big.

>>61389086
Fill it up baby

>>61389009
A million times this. Next build this year or the next will definitely have a modular PSU, the spaghetti can get insane on the back.

>first build last August
>bought an i5-6600k
Really wish I had just bought the 6700k honestly, I had the money for it and much more if I had really wanted. I didn't have it in me to wait so long for Ryzen but I do wish I had one of those instead as well.

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>>61389202

Buying a cheap GPU brand. It started making weird sounds a few weeks after I bought it, and broke after, like 4 years of use.

Meanwhile the GTX 280, a GPU that's nearly 10 years old, still works perfectly.

>>61388317
i didn't make any mistakes, i just upgraded it two years later. dropped a 760 sli for a 1070.

>>61389168
The nest of cables doesn't bother me really, but my next pc will have a full modular seasonic, or superflower with custom length cables.

I got "low latency" expensive G.Skill Flare ram sticks for my Ryzen build, but the passmark tests put me in the 60th percentile and the latency is like 80ns. It's not even in the average for the same sticks on other builds.

Plus 3200MHz isn't really 3200MHz, it's 1600MHz. I got memed on hard.

>>61389086
what? a full tower case is perfect unless you're the type of person who is constantly changing apartments every month

>>61389228
it's 3200mhz, you change it in the bios

My mobo got EOL
Still rocking a 260x until gpu prices crash

>>61389228
>Plus 3200MHz isn't really 3200MHz, it's 1600MHz.
Read up what does DDR stand for.

Non-modular PSU, not enough drive bays

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I have no regrets. Even when I was a kid and cut out a retarded version of a circle on sided panel to fit an extra case fan and used scotch tape to cover the big gaps around the sides of the fan. It was worth the better temps.

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>>61388317
I should have gone with the LGA2011-v3 instead of LGA1150 & LGA1151.
I have ended up spending more money on 2 (two) systems than I would have on 1 (one) good.
The enterprise solutions would have allowed me to play CounterStrike at a whopping 60FPS with V-sync on.

>>61388842
you posted this shit numerous times yesterday and you still havent bothered cable managing the thing. fuck boy.

>>61389313
When I was younger and my pc at the time died, my father just so happened to find a random pc build at a foreclosure and ended up suiting me for a couple years. Thing ran so hot and over heated constantly despite having like 20 fans in the thing. I cut all the grills out from the fans because they were stopping the fans from pulling/exiting air and it ran 30c cooler with noise level down to bare minimum. Since then I always look for cases that have extremely large honeycomb grills for the fans.

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>>61389488
here it is actually. after 2 years of having it I sold it on craigslist for $200. I wish I copied down the specs on it.

>>61388317
I have the Mastercase, too. What's wrong with it?

>>61388762
>>61388823
I want a girl to do this to me irl. Life is suffering...
Captcha: DEAD

>>61389426
V-sync would run at 60fps, by definition, if you have a 60fps monitor.

>>61388317
Should've gotten a 2TB HDD when I bought a new one instead of a 1TB one.
Earlier it was a too loud PSU, but I switched that.

>>61388635
>mechanical drives are better because I can't afford SSD
really making me think over here

Bought a seasonic M12II evo for my build (was in a deal when I built my rig) because I read they're great and all. It has a low buzzing noise. Had it exchanged, new one did the same.
Should have just buy a (cheaper) corsair like I had on my rig before.

>>61388703
>When you have the best case how do you even upgrade?
You don't.

>>61388842
>Any recommendations?
Plug in your graphics card, it will run much better.

>>61388317
i picked a cheap cooler because I was impatient it works just fine but is uglier than sin

I regret that I let /g/ build it over 10 years ago. To this day every single original component runs perfectly and I cannot possibly bear to replace working parts. Fuck those assholes a decade ago who actually gave me good advice. I'm stuck with this garbage for who knows how much longer.

To present, it's cost me 15.6 cents per day.

>>61388317
i've built it last summer, should've get 16 GiB ram instead of 8, i thought i will buy more when i need it, guess what happened to the prices

I built a gaming PC to only hate modern gaming.

Now I can't sell the fucking thing years later even though there were upgraded and it still blows consoles the fuck out.

>>61390049
Seriously.
I got 8gb ddr4 last summer, hoping that the prices would fall a little bit by this year and then I'd get 8gb more.
Instead 8gb of ddr4 costs just as much as 16gb would have cost last year.

>>61389910
A/S/L?

>>61390135
Does it blow other pcs the fuck out at the price that you're trying to sell it at?

>>61390162
22/M/Swe

>>61390184

Not sure because there really isn't a market around me.

>>61388317
All my mistakes I already fixed, like buying a too weak mobo TWO TIMES IN A ROW, then finally buying a decent one.

I got the NZXT H440. It has really shitty airflow for cases in its price range. I also wish I went for the R9 390 instead of the 3.5 GB 970...

I got an i5 7500 over a Ryzen 5 1600.

I haven't actually built the PC, I need a new case and PSU but /g/, how fucked am I?

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I fell for the "you never have to upgrade your case, it will last forever!" meme, and tried to build inside my old Antec 300

>>61390232
Specs, and price?

Many regrets.

For starters I got some used 280x. It has been working for a few years without giving me trouble, but I wish I went the nvidia way instead.

I got a cheap crappy H81-E33. It has been giving me problems to no end. Specially when trying to boot drives, if it detects any slight anomaly (and that's half of the fucking time) it will get stuck so I have to unplug all SATA drives, turn the thing on and off and plug them back. This has been happening more and more lately so I picked a GA-Z97-HD3 instead, I hope it works fine.

Also a cheap third world brand case that has LEDs and all that crap. I got it because it was extremely cheap for what it offered. But almost none of the frontal jacks/ports work.

And of course that I got the cheapest haswell I could find, a 4460. No overclocking, no nothing. Maybe one day, if I feel brave enough I will get a 4790k because it might prove less expensive than the equivalent for a newer socket + motherboard + DDR4 RAM.

>>61390324
say hello to your stuttering autistic PC!!!!

>>61388712
>>61389956
Thank you anons for reassuring me. The ONLY downside to this case really is that the liquid support is mediocre. I just did a front panel RGB LED mod and I...THINK it's working correctly but it's slightly too white sometimes. Not sure. It's kind of fucky, but I can reverse it if I ever want to not a big deal.

I also want to upgrade my acrylic side window to a tempered glass panel by using a normal blank panel and cutting the appropriate size hole.

I do love this case, space for days, quiet even with all the fans, and it's built like a tank. I could fit up to 8 3.5 or 2.5 drives (no special place behind the mobo for 2.5 drives, this was made before they really caught on so the trays are dual purpose) but it's just perfect.

Okay I feel better about it. I looked around everywhere and literally everything would be a downgrade of some sort, except the one fuckhuge Nanoxia, but that's just excessive for what I need.

>>61390324
Have fun having your cores at 100% with no headroom for the future. Why would you do that? Literally the only CPU I could recommend from Intel is the 7700k and I think i7 quad cores are retarded.

>>61390343
I get it, in which cases will I actually see the stuttering? In normal web browsing? In games?

>>61388317
no optical drive in my s340 elite

should have gotten the better mobo, aka the taichi. fit my build theme much better

>>61390324
If there's still time I'd take back your CPU and mobo and maybe RAM and buy Ryzen instead. The i5 is more or less obsolete.

>>61390355
SSDs you can literally throw anywhere though. I had to change place on my SSD from behind the motherboard to inside an empty 5.25" bay since the new PSU cables wouldn't fit against the wall.

>>61390324
Don't listen to the doomsayers. I5 is still fine if you're playing games or have light workloads. The R5 would be better in the long run though.

>>61390422
True. Right now the setup is:
M.2 on motherboard
4X HDD cage removed off top (it's an 8 stack that's got the top half removable and bottom relocatable) then in the 4 stack:
2.5" SSD
then 3X 3.5 HDD. Figured I wasn't going to use the tray anyhow so why not stick the SSD in there.

Also I should mention I don't plan to liquid cool anyway, as I have a Cryorig R1 Ultimate with two more Noctua IPPC fans..So 8 total in that case.

>>61390481
I lived with an A8-7410 so anything is an improvement, and I guess I can save 400ish dollars for next year and get something once I'm better informed. Also hoping for an improvement on the 1050ti I got.

>>61390152
yeah exactly, fuck this jewish shit

>>61388317
1.) Fractal Design cases are nice and minimalist but they are also heavy and bulky. Not the best computer for LAN parties when you're hauling this thing around.

2.) Should've went with a 512GB SSD instead of 256GB.

3.) GTX 680 was a meme and I paid an extra ~$100 for a marginal improvement over a 670.

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My case is way too big and kind of falling apart, but it was the best thing I could find back in the days, I bought G.Skill memory which is kind of terrible, both of my RAM sticks failed within 3 years so I had to change them. My Antec 620 HCG PSU is meh.

The rest is cool though.

I bought the R9 380 and a couple of months later AMD released the RX 480

>>61388317
locked cpu

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>>61390497
I just have a Fractal Design Core 2500, it has four 3.5"/2.5" bays + one SSD place behind the motherboard. I have the bottom cage removed and two HDDs in the top one, plus the SSD thrown in one of the 5.25" bays. I will probably by some cheap 5.25" to 2.5" converter from China though.

None really.
But it is showing it's age.
I think next year I'm going to do a new build

i bought an fx 6300 and not a g4560, now im here with a 3 yr old mobo that's not linux compatible till bios update comes.

fml

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>>61390324

>>61390784
>tfw not a corelet anymore
feels good

Case is too big (corsair 700D) because I had 4 house moves since buying it.
I'll buy a new case with Vega and redo the water loop at the same time, then it will be perfect.

>>61390784
fucking house fire

>>61390324
You fucked up on the CPU.

>>61388317
Cheaper out on the PSU and it died quickly, now I've got an ATX PSU sitting behind my mITX case

>>61388317
Nothing really apart from the fact that I should have upgraded my GPU sooner, before the mining craze. I probably could have gotten a 1060 6G but I opted for a used 970 since it's pretty much the only mid range Nvidia card that's not inflated right now.

Buying a GTX670. It killed my Corsair AX PSU and its temp Seasonic replacement until I just removed the GPU and everything else worked fine.
GPU was then out of warranty and just a lump of scrap while Corsair wise kind enough to replace the PSU luckily.

>>61388317
same, wish I had gotten a plain black case instead of some shitty white one with a stupid window

>>61388317
It's the best notebook I ever had, but it didn't lasted me forever.

>>61388317
I should have paid more for the motherboard. It has a whine in the audio Jacks and also I really should have replaced the case instead of reusing it.

>>61389912
What kind of monitor do you think I have? :^)

>>61388317

I should have gotten a 280mm radiator instead of a 240mm one.

Temps are fine, but I would like to have quieter fans on it. I guess I may have to find some ultra quiet 120mm fans. Any ideas?

>>61388317
what's wrong with that case anon? was looking on getting one for me

>>61390823

I can attest to this. The 1700 is amazing.

I bought my current case in 2010. It originally came with a mounted HD cage bracket, but being younger (18) and a moron I ripped the cages out thinking it was some scrap metal that some asshole left in the case (it was used when I bought it).

Anyway 7 years down the line still using the same case, I've had to come up with creative ways to safely install other Hard Drives, really I should buy a new one but for some reason cases have gone up in price and I just cant be fucked to spend the cash.

The front I/O is fucked too.

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>>61390823
>>61392291
Might go for this while I wait for Zen desu. Have you niggas tried rpcs3?

>>61392365

I only play one game (Rainbow Six Siege) so no.

>>61392365
Zen2, what the fuck happened.

>>61388643
A lot of people buy a case with nine 5.25" bays to make a home server.
Populate them with hard drive cages.

I bought a top shelf 800w 80+ Titanium PSU for a system that will consume 350-400w at peak loads. I have room to grow. But not enough money for what I want.

>>61392490
Atleast you know you're not the only one who does such things. I see it daily here, people spending too much money on PSUs for wattages they don't even need. Shit is sad.

>>61392439
This. A tower plus 3x5.25" -> 5x3.5" hot swap bay adapters is still massively cheaper than a 3U/4U rack mount chassis with hot swap bays.

Buying for my second ever build. My biggest regret was not pulling the trigger and losing both sales and discount codes the other day. Also, not pulling the trigger on the 1700 when it was in the high $200s.

>>61392514
I bought it for a full loop, dual GPU, Ryzen build. But life got in the way and bills came in.

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>>61388317

>PSU, whilst great value has really chunky cables. That or I suck at cable management, but I've tried countless times.

>It's fucking messy. But airflow is perf. Temps are low!

>Case mesh lets lots of dust in

>Really fucking dusty

>Heatsink scratches the acrylic window

>Can't mount SSD anywhere, so it's just hanging by it's cables sat next to my HDD cage.

>Nowhere to put my PC except on the window ledge. Luckily it's white so it reflects the sun's heat

wish i bought a laptop instead

>>61388635
>>find a spare ssd
>yeah if your rich maybe

I got 120GB on ebay for £25 or something, used, free postage.

Hoo boy

>gigantic gaymur case
>gigantic water cooler with 2x140mm radiator
>(I don't even overclock seriously. Yay component life?)
>750W GPU... with non-modular cables and really crappy efficiency and generally considered housefire tier
>later somehow managed to upgrade to a gaymur sound card

At least my CPU and GPU choices were consistently well-informed, both during initial build and after upgrade.

>>61388317
asrock

they might have some good boards out now, but when i built this, they really didn't

>>61388928

Still, 80 Plus Gold. Who cares what gimmicks it's got. I don't think he bought on RGB alone.

>>61392439
Fucking power innefecient to use a full tower for server

>>61392622
This is just the most stupid thing i've ever seen. I applaud you for your commitment though.

>>61392680
a bigger case doesn't need more power sweetey...

>>61388317

Not enough VRAM, kind of hard to upgrade storage.

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I bought this shitty $10 mouse on amazon because I thought the expensive mice are just a meme right? It doesn't matter.

Wrong

>>61388317
I lost the data of all my hard drives.

>>61392701
My 6700k sure does and all the extra shit like a graphics card

Just get a NUC

>>61392809
Happened to me as well, but I was able to recover it. Where did you fuck up?

>>61392825
I'm not exactly sure what happened. Probably got short circuited after I swapped to a new case. Got mad as hell and bought 4x 1TB SSD.

>>61390324
I got the 7500 instead of waiting and getting the 1600. It's bad in daily tasks, but good for 1080p games on max(assuming GPU doesn't bottleneck). And don't get me started on trying to watch a video while having a cpu intensive game running. Next build is definitely going to be a Zen2

>>61388317
It is 7 years old and I spent less than $300, but I can't be fucked to upgrade because it still does everything I need it to do.

Not going ahead and using ECC memory on my Xeon rig.

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Regretted my old antec 902
Recently bought a full tower case
No regrets, thing is great but I should probably get some more fans for muh airflow

>>61388317
bought a gigabyte wireless adapter for my first build because PC part picker said it was the top picked and best part, but there was a version that had built in bluetooth that I didn't even realize.

>>61393096
what did you lose anon? was it important?

>>61393096
Why the fuck pay the (((Xeon))) tax on a workstation if you're not even gonna use like one of the only two features putting it above an i7?

>>61388337
Same but I converted the top cd racks into hard drive bays with this http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/ex-36a2/

And took out all the bottom stuff to mount a 280mm radiator. Has worked well for the last 3 years.

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I think I've fried the motherboard somehow. The lights go on and the fan starts but then everything stops and it reboots.

Fuck this I don't know what I'm doing, why didn't I just get someone to build it for me

I really wish I had gotten a transparent side panel on my 400R.

test

>>61392785
I bought a g400 5 years ago and never looked back. I expect the MX5*fags are also on the same boat.

>>61393428
Clear your CMOS.

>>61388317
getting a 2400 MHz ddr4 instead of a 3200 or 3000 MHz which was 13.62$ more for single 8 GB stick

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Bought a G751JT for 1k a couple years ago, 965m and shitty 5400 rpm drive made me want to pull my hair out. Just recently got a refurb G751JY (980m) for 850 (only got due to good deal) and the added ssd, g-sync, better hdd, and better gpu are perfect for me.

>>61393843
>buy a gaymen laptop once
>buy a gaymen laptop twice

>>61392813
And what? Attach all your drives through the USB port?

>>61393202
Safety from the NSA's rowhammer backdoor.

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I bought this board from the SLI and overclocking hype. Later found out SLI isn't even that good. I didn't know about CPU power phases. I can't go above 3Ghz on a core2quad.

>>61388667
You're just retarded.

>>61389228
>DDR4
>Plus 3200MHz isn't really 3200MHz, it's 1600MHz.
You're just a fucking retard.

>>61392785
Pretty sure that's not really a stupid decision since a mouse is probably the single easiest thing to upgrade (it's even lighter and smaller than a keyboard, monitor, or pair of headphones) and at $10 you didn't even lose and significant amount of money.

>>61388317
My current build is a 2600k, 7970 and some Samsung SSD in a full tower case. I can't remember the last time I bought a part (a couple years at least) and the machine runs like a fucking champ.

Zero regrets.

>>61394026
USB c does that yes

>>61393934
Better than your fagbook pro featuring poo in loo "pro" 560

>>61388317
Buying a used Xeon E3-1231 v3 instead of waiting for Ryzen, I mean it's fantastic for the money and I get to keep my 16GiB of DDR3 I bought when it was dirt cheap but my upgrade path is pretty much non existent.

>>61394584
>buying anything Apple
>buying cumstained Thinkpads

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Has anyone actually got their hands on a Wraith Max with RGB?
As far as I can tell, they were pretty much just promotional material for the platform, and I can't even find OEM desktops that use it.

I kind of want to get one for my 1700X when I retire my system as a server and swap out the AIO, but I can't find the Wraith Max anywhere, even on ebay.

>>61388317
building an ATX rig for no reason
will always go mITX from here on out

>>61394551
NUC + decent external RAID enclosure is going to cost way more than the power savings vs. repurposed older hardware.

NUC + garbage external RAID enclosure will maybe break even and also maybe lose all your data.

>>61394551
WELCOME TO THE STORAGE BOTTLENECK MOTHERFUCKERS

>>61394810
It was so good that some companies that make coolers threatened to stop supporting AMD products if they actually sold it

It'd probably have come with the 6 and 8 core X models

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>>61388317
Case: while the p400s looks nice, I realized that I really don't give a shit about lights or windowed side panels, I knew I should have went with FD.

size: this ties with the case, I have an atx mobo and I regret having it because I don't use most of the space, so I should have stuck with matx.

>>61395498
>threatened to stop supporting AMD products if they actually sold it
What the fuck?
Really?

I wanted one so badly because it's the best looking cooler with RGB support. There aren't any products that look as nice as it does, and no companies have made 4-pin 12v RGB fans that look as good as the ring design on the stock coolers. The only reasonable good RGB fan that I have seen is the Cooler Master one, and that's a pretty cheap implementation.

I'd pay a fair amount for a good looking fan with 12V 4-pin RGB, that has a Fluid Dynamic or Mag-Lev bearing that I could put on a CPU cooler.

should have just bought a 1 tb ssd instead of a 256 ssd and 1 tb hdd.

sff meme, really limited me on what gpu I could get and now i'm stuck with a low profile 1050

>>61396019
Can you mount sideways with a riser, or did you go full retard SFF?

0 ragerts

>>61395077
Not really an issue when I just want to get some anime or music off the mass storage

>>61394948
But yeah that's why I'm thinking just buy a refurbished desktop for a torrent server

>>61395498
This is why I hate cooler Master and similar companies, they sell that ugly hyper 212 Evo shit and water cooling is $100 so the whole market is fucked

>>61396173
what do you mean sideways with a riser? the case is an hp prebuilt one and it's tiny.

>>61394810
MasterAir Pro 4 CPU Air Cooler with Continuous Direct Contact Technology 2.0 (AM4 bracket available via Cooler Master USA) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M5K6DKW

Only thing I can find comparable though no RGB

>>61396710
Ah....
Yeah, nah. You went full retard SFF.

This is the layout inside the NFC S4 Mini.
As you can see, the GPU is layed out horizontally (with reference to the motherboard), using a riser to create the right angle.

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>>61396844
>pic

>>61396819
That's literally just their standard air cooler design with a 120mm Masterfan Pro Balance RGB slapped on it.

>>61388683
meme

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>>61395498
Sauce me up familia. Not even TR will carry them?

>>61396916
Good meme

>>61396976
It was never intended to be sold to consumers.
The Wraith Max was intended to go along with some OEM SKUs for prebuilt desktops, but as far as I can tell, only very limited stock was produced as I have never actually seen it in a machine besides the Ryzen launch demo machines.

>>61396869
Yeah that's fine, it's better than the hyper 212 and looks nice

>>61388317
Not really a regret but I thought my FD Define R5 would feel more quality than it does, and that the dust filters would be more substantial.

Maybe I should have got an NVMe SSD also, who knows.

Pretty happy with it otherwise.

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>>61396844
oops

Bought a fucking case that has the filter on the fucking BACK.

>>61388317
HOLY SHIT THE FRACTAL DESIGN NANO S IS ABSOLUTE T R A S H.

Seriously, find me a single fucking GPU that doesn't end up running at 100% fan speed in that dumb fucking piece of trash while also throttling, seriously, it's the worst case I've ever owned, the layout is genuinely awful.

>>61389228
You are of below average intelligence to say the least.

>>61395839
I didn't even know there was a beefier model than the Spire that comes with the 1700. I just knew the 1700's is incrementally better than the ones packed in with R5s, and that the 1400 has the most basic. That said, the spire looks really cool and I'm not an LED guy in any way, shape, or form.

So basically if you want the best AMD cooler on the market then you need to buy a 1700?

>>61389526
is that like a fucking voodoo 3 in there or some dumb shit?

I bought a 500 GB HDD because it was the cheapest one available. I could have bought the 1 TB model for $5 more, but I thought I'd never fill up the 500 GB HDD.

>>61388317
It was already obsolete when I bought it in 2012, but I couldn't (and still can't) afford anything better.

>>61389086
Opposite for me. It's so much easier to work with a full tower.

>>61389993
Just sell it on craigslist.

>>61392785
I bought a cheap wireless tecknet mouse recently. I wanted to return it, but they don't accept returns.

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>>61397981
The best AMD cooler on the market is the 125W TDP Wraith cooler that comes with the 8350/8370/6350/7890K

>>61398600
Apparently you can just order this off Amazon..
https://www.amazon.com/WRAITH-SILENT-COOLER-Heatpipes-Connector/dp/B06XP5GFFH/

>>61388635
>poorfag detected

Biggest regret to date was my fractal Define R4. I kinda wish I went with something a little more flashy(?).

>>61399114
Titanium > black

>>61398600
That doesn't look too bad desu. How does it perform? I'm thinking of replacing the 212 EVO.

>>61399327
Yea in hindsight the titanium would've been sexy as fuck, especially as I could've done some custom engravings on the side/front. But the titanium wasn't available here when I built. I'm eying up the P400S with glass side.

>>61388842
>any recommendations
try flipping your case 90 degrees, there should be four little feet for it to stand on

>>61388317
Literally just built a PC yesterday and I think the only regret is not having enough modular cable for all my hard drives.
I'm going to go buy two more and a hard drive at a local computer store.

>>61388502
You could run the SSDs in Raid so if one fails (which it will) you can still boot and get your shit off your computer.

>>61388683
I'm not sure if you're serious but just in case could you tell me your specs?

What cpu benchmark number do you get when you run cinebench?
I get 1075 with 16Gb of ram at 3200Mhz

>>61388317
Using RAM for an intel build in a Ryzen system. Ryzen is awesome but you can't just throw whatever memory at it and get rated speeds.

>>61392622
>on the window ledge
I hope you like single event upsets.

Here was my mistake. (https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/amd-sued-over-allegedly-misleading-bulldozer-core-count/)

>>61388317

I think probably my choice of case, I didnt really think about what a bitch it would be to transfer hardware to another case until i had my cooling loop completely set up.

>>61399567
I did exactly that
Bought the cheapest DDR4 3200Mhz kit in stock, which was g.skill Ripjaws V for me
Works just fine at 3200

>>61399349
It performs about the same, but is slightly louder under load. It's almost silent at idle.
One benefit of the Wraith is that it forces air down across your VRM and other motherboard components, keeping the whole system cool, not just the CPU.

>>61388317
>What are some of your regrets that you have from your current PC build?
Buying something from NZXT that required CAM was a huge fucking mistake. Just booting the machine and hoping CAM actually detected the cooler and spun the fans correctly worked maybe 40% of the time, and now it turns out the shitty ass software has been datamining people's machines and sending literally GIGS of data every month to feed it to their overpriced prebuilt store. They are worse than Razer.

>>61389952
what wattage man? I'm planning to buy the 520w one but I just read your post

>>61398600
I'm liking my wraith spire so far.

Living in hot as fuck florida, and it's hard to get my CPU to break a sweat

>>61389952
Typically anything below 80+ silver isn't going to be especially good. Some manufacturers do a good job, but when they're making something 80+/Bronze, it's being built down to a price point, so the component choice and build quality suffer.
It's hard to know what a PSU is going to be like until you actually get it, and I don't think you made a mistake in your choice, but it's just unfortunate that the M12II Evo appears to have that problem.

Just one thing, does it still buzz when you load up the system? If not, you can disable C-states in your BIOS so that it draws more power at idle, but stops the PSU from buzzing.

>>61388317
I picked an oversised version of a case, a crappy motherboard for overclocking, and an AiO watercooler with super long tubing

>>61399761
Yeah, the Spire is an excellent cooler. If I'd got a 1700 instead of the 1700X, I probably would have stuck with it.

>>61399602
I like AMD, but I never recommended the dozer turd.

>>61399543
>You could run the SSDs in Raid so if one fails (which it will) you can still boot and get your shit off your computer.

like, who doesn't use ssd just for os and hdd for everything else?

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I bought a LGA 775 Ryzen :/

ATX instead of ITX

>>61399801

Ssd fail meme, have chink hdd with 30k hours and it's still going strong.

>>61388317
Skylake i5 6500 with a z170 board that only supports ddr3. Come, laugh at me.

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>>61400074

When ram was 20 usd per 4gb I only got a 4gb stick thinking I'll upgrade later
Now the prices twofolded

Got a g4400 thinking it was good enough for games, it is barely enough and bottleneck my gt 960
All the rest is fine

I live close to an industrial area, there's a lot of dust. What are some good dust-proof cases? I don't really want to have to blow dust out every month.

>>61388317

Corsair sucks, I have the trampstamp k95
Corsair sucks, I have two of their SSDs that spit out random errors that I had attributed to an aging motherboard before getting a new system.
Intel sucks. Bought a 7700k and now AMD is pushing their shit in.

>>61399350
Could always buy the door on eBay

>>61400786
>he fell for the 7700K meme

It's ok, anon, just don't delid it and you'll have an effective space heater for winter.

>>61401242
What?
Delidding lets it run faster and consume more power, generating more heat...
Higher temperature doesn't always mean more heat, especially when that high temperature is behind an insulator.

building a new computer at all. i didnt need an i7 machine an anthlon phenom ii x4 was fine for my needs

>>61400711
use a humidifier fir your housr

>>61401268
>higher temperature doesn't always mean more heat

Please re-read that statement and then kill yourself.

1156 ATX

I just want e-ATX now and Ryzen.

>>61400711
the only option is passive cooling, any kind of dust filters for fans is just going to make a bigger problem

dust filters catch large pieces of dust, but do not catch the small pieces of dust
in fact, the small pieces of dust were probably statically clinging to the larger pieces of dust, and now that you've captured the large pieces, they're being stripped off and into the case

small dust particles are going to cling to everything and make a really uniform layer of dust that will not be easily blown off, you're going to have to get in their with a horse hair paintbrush and WIPE your components if you're using good dust filters

just accept the beneficial properties of the large dust

>>61401287
Go read a physics textbook.

>>61388317
Same. I have an Arc Midi R2, which is a great case, but I wanted something that's easily moved. I should've gone for a mini itx case. I have a NAS anyway, so drive bays are kinda not needed anyway.
I could switch, but switching motherboards is probably the most intensive part switch you can do.

>>61390324
What are you crying for? That CPU is more than enough for gaming at least. If you're planning to do video editing etc., buy Ryzen

>>61388317
i regret everything, wrong mobo size, wrong case, wrong monitor, wrong cooler, wrong keyboard, wrong cpu

>>61388317
I regret choosing a Define R4. Had nothing but vibration/resonance issues since day one.

>Got a S340 meme case instead of any tempered glass case
>Paired a non-k cpu with a Z-170 board
>16gb of ram @$90 instead of getting a 32 gb kit

That was my first full build last December after years of replacing parts on a prebuilt

>>61388317
Biggest regret was buying a PC.

Should've purchased a Mac instead, at least then I could play games on it.

(Totally kidding, if you couldn't work that out then you shouldn't be on here)

Biggest regret, not spending the extra coin on a quality PC, instead letting my mum shop for one for me at the local HI-FI store. The salesman ruined a little boys dreams that day. Thanks mum.

>>61390329
Same here, with my old Antec P280. I thought that case would look awesome and last forever, after a few builds it felt like I was propping up a dying old man.

i picked a meme case (pic related), meme RAM instead of buying more, cheap RAM, went ATX instead of ITX, fell for the r9 290 meme (although kind of glad about that because due to miners, i'm about to sell that and buy a 980) bought a meme gaming power supply, etc.

ryzen build coming this christmas from daddies credit card.

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>>61403356
edit:I'm gay