Erik005

Yeah, that's what I did. Windows says that the resolution is set to 4K and I set New Vegas to 4K in the options. Do you know of any games that have their visuals vastly improved by the 4K setting? For instance, I just ran the Witcher 3 at 1440p and 4K, it looked nice, but I'm not so sure about the difference between that and 1080p. It also stuttered a little, so I had to lower some of the settings. As an additional question of mine: I have a GTX 1070 and an i7 7700k (both at factory settings). How well do you think my PC would perform across the board with higher resolutions and/or settings? Do you have any tips or recommendations? I think you should go for medium settings on 4K with a GTX 1070

A refurbished board is actually not a bad choice in a build like this.

A B250 board would be a good alternative. You can not update the BIOS without replacing the processor on your board.

Yes this is exactly it, your motherboard needs an update to use the processor you have. https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B150M-GAMING-PRO#support-cpu Your processor is supported from version 4.5 Unfortunately you need a slightly older processor to do the update, maybe a local computer shop can help.

You download a small file from the motherboard manufacturer's website, put it on an usb-drive and run in in the bios. You would need a gen 6 processor to get in to the BIOS. Maybe a local Computer shop can update the BIOS for you. Or you could send back your motherboard and buy a B250 board instead. That assumes you can at least get the MB to post though. He isn't even getting that far. You would need a 6th gen processor to post, entire forums where filled with these questions when kaby lake came out and people bought cheap b150 boards. A major tech forum in my country had a cheap skylake celeron that was passed around between users.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgCx-zUoKRI You download a small file from the motherboard manufacturer's website, put it on an usb-drive and run in in the bios. You would need a gen 6 processor to get in to the BIOS. Maybe a local Computer shop can update the BIOS for you. Or you could send back your motherboard and buy a B250 board instead.

Your motherboard probably needs a BIOS update, you have a 7th gen processor on a 6th gen board.

Yes, the prices for intel processors are way to high at the moment. AMD is the way to go at the moment.

With a 4K monitor you can't really get ultra 60fps in every game with the 1080ti A good 1440p monitor might be a better fit for the 1080 You can run 4K with a 1080 if you turn down the quality settings though, but that is all your choice.

Also it is a laptop CPU, so it might be soldered to the motherboard and lack any kind of upgrade ability. It might even have a custom DC PSU

Why not simply replace the current drive with a large SSD?

An AMD ryzen 2600X would suit your needs. As for the GPU, it depends on the resolution of your monitor. A nvidia 1060 6gb or AMD RX580 should do for 1080p 16GB of RAM should be appropriate for a modern gaming system.

Ok, you have made some weird choices. Why a processor with an igpu? Why not a regular ryzen 1300x? Why an expensive x470 board? Crossfire is dead, just get a single card.

I would go with Noctua, But they are apparently even more expensive in Canada. https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAB985BG2903 Also if the PSU is as old as the case I would consider replacing it.

Yes, but they're all SATA while I need SAS. SAS can handle the SATA protocol, but not the other way round. Last time I was in Rotterdam was to see the Rolling Stones in 1983... I was born 3 years later, I like the stones though. This is the most modern board that has a SAS controller sadly, I think you are out of luck. https://nl.hardware.info/product/264880/asrock-x99-extreme11/specificaties This is the cheapest controller. https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/416126/lsi-megaraid-raid-controller-sas-9341-4i-sgl-4-port-intern.html

I'm from Rotterdam :D 15min drive from Alternate and a 15 min drive from Informatique. The M.2 connector is basically 4 extra PCIe 3.0 lanes straight from the processor, there are a lot of options there.

I found an interesting adapter, sorry it is in Dutch but you get the idea :laugh: https://www.allekabels.nl/m2-ssd/15535/1370104/m2-ngff-naar-4x-7-polig-sata-adapter.html Replaces a nvme drive with 4 sata ports. The Z390 with an 8 core looks interesting and cheaper than a x299 with the i7-7820X The i7-7820X will be made obsolete by the s1151 octo-core. I fully understand your problem, I had a x79 system for years to get extra SATA ports

There is always a bottleneck and in games it should be the GPU. You should indeed scratch the term, it only comes into play with i3's an C2Q or C2D and only the first generation i5s and i7s are somewhat of a bottleneck. I've tested what would bottleneck my GTX970 and found that a i7-930 definitely was a bottleneck. i7-990X, i5-2500k, i7-3770 and my Xeon 2680v2 where all OK.

If you are only going to game get an 2700x, Threadripper is for heavy number crunching.

If you have a 1080p screen the GTX1080 would be a giant waste of money. The 1080 is for 1440p or even 4k

Not surprised by XP professional that is the worst windows by far. Even if you manage to install it, it's unstable and most drivers are non-existent.

I know that's beside the question, but why? "Modern X299 chipsets" is an oxymoron; you're looking at 3 year old technology, repackaged with more cores. Intel Z370 is better at less-recent games, AMD Threadripper at everything else. There might be a narrow niche where you need specific games at a certain level of performance, but not at their best, for the sake of still second-rate multithreading performance - but there's a lot fewer people actually inside that niche than people who think they are. FWIW, Intel plans to release an 8-core 1151/Z390 chip later this year. If X299 was waiting for something to completely obsolete it, this is it. It will easily outperform 10-core and match 12-core X299 chips in productivity, wipe the floor with them in games. Still won't match Threadripper, but the latter is there and it's finally competitive in games as well. Unless you're one of the few people who will get the 16-18 core version, the X299 isn't worth bothering with. Even Ryzen 2 is an option, they are very close to coffee lake clock for clock. Threadripper seems an awesome platform with lots of pcie lanes. Also you have to be careful with x299 boards, some don't have the proper vrm's to support the higher end processors.

Your current motherboard is very rare to include a SAS controller I don't think you are going to find a consumer board that has them. But x299 has plenty of PCIe lanes so you could just get a PCIe SAS controller card and not lose any of your hard drives.

I guess that, while frequencies went up, manufacturers have never found a way to get latency lower for those frequencies. Because, it's not just a matter of getting latency as low as possible; it's a matter of getting it as low as possible for the frequency in use. I found this article as I was also wandering why latency goes up with RAM speeds. https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/ii/posts/arm-techcon-paper-why-dram-latency-is-getting-worse If I dig trough my RAM pile I see some DDR-400 with a tight 3-3-3 timing

970 pro gamer aura i think its called. It came recommended from newegg when i bought the cpu. The board is indeed a good match for the 8350. I think 40 FPS for a 1050ti would be expected at higher 1080p settings on Witcher 3