General computer talk/advice

Well, I'm upgrading the bad downstairs family PC, with r7 240 in it. So it's not really 'mine'. But the i5 build I mentioned would be my first PC, but it might be way too expensive, I'd prefer a beam build that's under $1000 (AUD) including monitor and stuff. I don't know if an i3 4170 would be good for that... but whatever. I'll see what you say.

 

seriously,
I would, but do you think I get $5 a week? No. I get nothing. I HELP! OMG! WTF! (stop with the scrub comments) But, seriously, I don't think I could do anything under $1000, so maybe I'll have to either just do the 950, or stick with an i3 and get a 960. I don't know. But whatever. The build with the i5 and stuff was just an idea. Possibly even outlandish for me, so if I'm gonna do a build, I may have to just do an i3 and R7 370 or something.

 

The R7 370 is worse than the 950.. I would prefer looking at some reviews benchmarks etc before I buy and decide stuff

 

Lent my brother my 700w for his new i7 6700k gtx 980ti rig because he was going to use his old 500w to power it, so I took the 500w and about a hour into GTA 5 it decided it had, had enough and with three loud bangs it was dead, managed to check most of my hardware except for my R9 and it's all still working, still glad this happened to my £300 PC and not my brothers brand new £1,500 PC.

 

I have the R7 240 in a Dell Optiplex 990, connected to my dumb TV to make it ultra-smart!
It was a nice upgrade over the integrated HD2000 graphics...

It's a decent card if you can get it for 20 bucks like I did
Even GTA V runs at 35 FPS (lowest settings with Anisotropic Filtering).

 

Old college friend came and saved the day, sold me his Corsair RM650 power supply for £50, PC is back up and stronger than ever!

 

Got it to 4Ghz stable and broke the 600 point barrier in Cinebench R15 This is monumental for such a old CPU.

 

I've heard good things about the RM650 power supply, would you recommend it? My psu isn't broken, but I suspect it causes crazy GPU coil whine and even VRM coil whine in my computer, plus I could use a modular setup.

 

RM series is really good, but you should look at the RMi series. They use top quality components (like all japanese caps) and also have Corsair Link for fan control.

 

mmmmmm control. I want more control. err, fan control that is.

Anyways, I'll look into it if you say that they're using Japanese capacitors, I know from experience the difference (that's an anecdote for another time).

 

My RM650 is really nice and I cannot complain for what I paid haha, my one also has Corsair link so maybe it is the RMi? But even under full load this PSU doesn't break a sweat and barely ramps the fan and my system is a very power hungry beast and as for coilwhine, the coilewhine I used to get with my old CoolerMaster 700w has gone.

 

Would the i5-6500 be decent enough to run, say, a T_SERIES BROOOOOOOOOO
But actually would it?

 

So, im in a bit of a dilemma as what to upgrade on my PC next.
Ive been kind of considering getting another 260x or better and then crossfiring it.
Or just getting another cpu so all games can use it instead of having dual 260xs only working on half of the games i play.
What do you guys think?
Also, just incase anybody needed my current specs:
CPU: Intel Core I3 530
GPU: AMD Radeon R7 260x
MOTHERBOARD: Asus P7P55D LE

 

My i5 4460 can run there of them, so a more recent and better CPU should be able to do it even better.

 

Time to get serious. 6 Cores 12 Threads, With a overclock I think It will make my PC a even more formidable weapon.

 

Spoiler: Psu picture

Soo i have pretty weird occurrence here. When i shut down my computer (i have proper power setting in control panel) my Kraken x61 cpu block led, gpu fan led and psus one connector led stays on.
But when i unplug my displayport cable from gpu the psu and gpu led turns off?? Cpu block led stays still on untill i turn psu off from the back.
All lights turns off when i turn off my power strip where screen and pc takes electricity.
Even weirder is when i unplug the pci-e power cables off the gpu, the fan light is still on. The only connection is the pcie slot so no fan cables goes to motherboard so it takes power from the Dp cable?

Edit: That smaller plug from MB stays lit, thats the psu led i talk about.

 

it won't overclock heavily, locked multiplier on all xeon parts

 

People have gotten 3.5 out of them, I've even heard rumors of 4Ghz.

 

For forty quid it's totally worth it IMO, even if it doesn't get to 3.5GHz

 

nvm