I'm a PhD student working in the fields of reinforcement learning and traffic control. Useful websites: - helps compare monitors, - makes designing a PC easier. 8) AIOs don't noticably improve performance past 240mm. 7) "Bottlenecks" rarely matter and "Future-proofing" is a myth. 6) OCing is a dead meme, you probably shouldn’t bother.
5) Tower coolers are usually good enough, unless you go top tier Intel or plan on OCing. 4) paying for looks is fine, just don’t break the bank. 3) While I recommend getting an NVMe drive, you don’t need to splurge for an expensive drive with DRam cache, DRamless drives are fine for gamers.
2) only get as much RAM as you need, getting more won’t (typically) make your PC faster. Paying more typically only gets you features you won’t use. Please remember to mark solutions once you have the information you need.Ĭommon build advice: 1) Buy the cheapest (well reviewed) motherboard that has the features you need. Please try to be clear and specific, you'll get a better answer. Expand for common PC building advice, a short bio and a list of my components and other tech. I edit my messages after sending them alot, please refresh before posting your reply. I might be experienced, but I'm human and I do make mistakes. Luckily, after I let the screws off a bit and booted the PC I found that nothing had been damaged and the cooler was doing it's job.
I tried to account for this but ended up screwing it down too far and severely bending the mounting brackets. So I ended up using the intel mounting screws which were 4mm longer. It came pre-installed on an intel board and while It probably arrived with a set of screws for AM4 mounting, I couldn't find them. See I got my Arctic Freezer 12 when I was building my first PC as part of a motherboard+CPU+RAM combos with a i5-9600k. My solution was the Arctic Freezer 12, except that came with other problems. I contemplated reusing the same stock cooler I'd used for my 3400G but decided it likely wouldn't be enough to get the best out of the new chip. However, I didn't really want to buy a cooler for it at the time. So in an effort to speed up the experiments, I decided to buy a used 5700X. See each concurrent experiment I was running needed 3/4 threads so, as I only had 8 threads to play with, I could only really run 2 (maybe 3 but they'd run slower) experiments at a time. The Arctic Freezer 12 installation happened when I wanted to upgrade my 3400G equiped secondary PC that I use for AI and traffic sim workloads, related to my research, and game server hosting. My only real "story" would be the install of my Arctic Freezer 12.
But luckily those were all pretty uneventful installs (The last one took me several attempts cause I wanted it to be top mounted in a pull configuration, so the fans took ages to line up and half way through it became clear that the case didn't actually support an AIO of that size, forcing me to make case modifications with some pliers to get the AIO to fit). Since getting more confident with computer components, I've installed: 2 AM4 stock coolers, 1 LGA1700 stock cooler, an NH-D15, a Thermalright Peerless Assassin and a Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420. The first two machines I build used motherboard+CPU+RAM combos, so the cooler came pre installed.