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The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition

Discussion in 'Building a new PC' started by ddp, Sep 13, 2010.

  1. ZoSoIV

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    What's the word on SSD nowadays guys , I haven't been keeping up
     
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    In what respect? Brands, size, cost?
     
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    Yes size (about 500GB) and cost?
     
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    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.
     
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    Cool thanks for the info
     
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    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
     
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    What sort of budget do you have?
     
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    Which is the better cpu?

    Intel Core i7-6700K
    Intel core i7-5820K
     
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    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.
     
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    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?
     
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    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.
     
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    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 :p
     
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    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?
     
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    When's the error coming up?
     
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    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
     
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    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
     

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