The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition

What's the word on SSD nowadays guys , I haven't been keeping up

 

In what respect? Brands, size, cost?

 

Yes size (about 500GB) and cost?

 

I've been using Crucial MX series SSDs for a bit now, seem pretty solid and competitively priced. Can get 500GB ones for well under $200 nowadays.

 

Cool thanks for the info

 

I am an electronics designer and also looking to build a PC. Can you please give me your suggestion to build it?
I want an operating system on which i can easily install all my design softwares easily.
Suggest me a best performing processor and the graphic card.
Also what amount of hard disk and RAM should i use?

turnkey pcb assembly

 

What sort of budget do you have?

 

Which is the better cpu?

Intel Core i7-6700K
Intel core i7-5820K

 

Different purposes - the 5820K is a 6-core, the 6700K is a 4-core, but the cores are faster. If you can fully multi-thread what you're doing, 5820K is still a little faster, but the 6700K is a much better all-rounder and more efficient, also requires cheaper boards/RAM.

 

Sam

I am looking for the CPU that will give me the best bang for my bucks. I plan
to use the system for video encoding, little light gaming, messing around in Photoshop. So is it safe to say that the 5820k is the best choice for me?

 

Yes, the 5820K comes out around 18% faster than the 6700K on average with CPUMark, so particularly with video encoding in mind it will be the faster CPU. It won't be quite as fast for gaming as the 6700, but I would argue that the cores of the 5820K are plenty fast enough anyway.

 

Sam

ok thanks. i was looking at the GIGABYTE GA-X99-UD4 LGA 2011-v3 board for the 5820k, however its out of stock on newegg.com. Do you have any similar to that one? here's a link (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16813128751) to the first board.

 

Maybe something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130841 ?

 

Sam

Which would be the better memory for the msi board ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...111315-Index-_-DesktopMemory-_-20233833-S4A6A

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...111315-Index-_-DesktopMemory-_-20231828-S4A5C

 

Either should be fine - The only builds I've worked on so far with DDR4 have been an absolute disaster, so I'm not really in a good position to judge

 

hey guys have a small problem , my windows 7 will not update , getting an error code 0X80070057 , i've tried several things and no luck, anybody have a fix?

 

When's the error coming up?

 

Error 0x80070057 indicates that the windows updates have failed. The error is usually followed by a long message which is “There were some problems installing updates, but we’ll try again later.

comes up when i run microsoft app FixIt

 

Corrupt Windows Update database then, seems to be happening more often nowadays.

Try this, but when I had this, it was reformat time
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/949358

 

ok thanks i tried some of that , going to try updating in safe mode , is the safe mode key F7 ? its been a while since i've done it