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Welcome to my PC building guide on here i will be going over easy pointers on helping people deciding what to do and help them in understanding building PC such as compatibility bottlenecking etc.
Contents
[1]---------- Intro to Building a PC
---[1.1]----- What do i get (Basics)
---[1.2]----- What do i get (Detailed)
Section [1] Intro to Building a PC
I WANNA BUILD a PC...... what do i get? (Basics) ---- [1.1]
This is where most people start and just have no clue and either give up or get someone else to get the parts for them and so they buy the parts but have no idea why these parts a picked.
This first thing you need to think about is your budget how much do you want to spend on your first computer.
The second thing is what are you going to use it for. will you be gaming, watching films, web browsing or rendering. Of course you might as well be doing it all of this but its best to pick a side you want go towards as you might have a budget £500 but might suck in rendering.
The third thing is do your research on parts and check compatibility, i know this can be draining but could save you alot of money but also can get your better performance with you money.
Ok what parts are recommended for me. What do i get (Detailed) ---- [1.2]
Now you that set some ground rules for you and explained you can't just get any thing and expect it do everything and also will of given you a starting Point.
Now i will explain the differences with AMD and Intel.
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)
AMD are known for there high stock clock speeds and overclocking capabilities. (Probably lost here now but i will explain these later). Another thing about AMD is there prices, there processors and Graphics Cards tend to be cheaper than Intel and Nvidia which makes them excel in price per performance.
The downside with AMD is they generate alot of heat even at stock settings also they use a huge amount of wattage which means you need a beefy PSU to support them. Also there not great a single thread processing compared to Intel. Although they make up with general more cores and higher clock Speed for even the same amount of price.
AMD also have whats there Kaveri architecture which are APU processors. These processors have built in GPU cores as well. The APU GPU cores are based of the R7 GPU series. These are great for Budget builds as you can do whats called Hybrid Crossfire which i will explain later on.
A big downfall with AMD CPUs is they dont have hyper threading.
Intel
Intel are costly CPUs but you get what you pay which is high Quailty performance with there CPUs. Unlike AMD overclocking with intel can be a pain and takes a while tweak with to get a good overclock.
Intel excel are single core threading. Although with Hyperthreading they are great at multi-core threading as well.
Overall it depends on your budget if you want cheap yet quick AMD. if you want high quality and better performance in Rendering, editing then Intel is for you.
Now that i have spoke about CPUs lets talk about what kind of parts you should go for when building PCs.
Gaming
These PCs can be quite hard as there are so many factors such as Resolution FPS in games, then there all the technologies in games use like nvidia hairworks and so on.
Quad cores a recommended although pretty much all games use 2 Cores its nice to have extra cores for things like skype teamspeak or music and things like that also if you going 4k its nice to have 4 cores.
You mainly want to spend the majority of your money on a GPU as that tends to be the Core of you gaming machine.
i know this is very bare i will update later on its getting late and i don't want type much more atm i want freetime
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"The downside with AMD is they generate alot of heat even at stock settings"
umm.. last time I checked they run cooler than Intel CPU's. TJMax on an AMD CPU is 63 Degrees, whereas with Intel it's normally 95-100C.
"huge amount of wattage which means you need a beefy PSU to support them"
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My FX-6300
while the 4690K uses 84W. oh a 'huge amount' more
umm.. last time I checked they run cooler than Intel CPU's. TJMax on an AMD CPU is 63 Degrees, whereas with Intel it's normally 95-100C.
"huge amount of wattage which means you need a beefy PSU to support them"
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My FX-6300
while the 4690K uses 84W. oh a 'huge amount' more
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To add to Zayev's point The only AMD CPU's that have heat problems is the stupid 9590 one's you should never buy.
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Now i will explain the differences with AMD and Intel.
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)
AMD are known for there high stock clock speeds and overclocking capabilities. (Probably lost here now but i will explain these later). Another thing about AMD is there prices, there processors and Graphics Cards tend to be cheaper than Intel and Nvidia which makes them excel in price per performance.
The downside with AMD is they generate alot of heat even at stock settings also they use a huge amount of wattage which means you need a beefy PSU to support them. Also there not great a single thread processing compared to Intel. Although they make up with general more cores and higher clock Speed for even the same amount of price.
AMD also have whats there Kaveri architecture which are APU processors. These processors have built in GPU cores as well. The APU GPU cores are based of the R7 GPU series. These are great for Budget builds as you can do whats called Hybrid Crossfire which i will explain later on.
A big downfall with AMD CPUs is they dont have hyper threading.
Intel
Intel are costly CPUs but you get what you pay which is high Quailty performance with there CPUs. Unlike AMD overclocking with intel can be a pain and takes a while tweak with to get a good overclock.
Intel excel are single core threading. Although with Hyperthreading they are great at multi-core threading as well.
Overall it depends on your budget if you want cheap yet quick AMD. if you want high quality and better performance in Rendering, editing then Intel is for you.
This kind of generalization is not true and I don't know where anyone gets these ideas.
1. Current AMD CPUs have lower operating temps than Intel's. What matters is how close the temp is to TJ Max and this is determined by cooling, ambient air temp, and airflow. None of these have anything to do with Intel or AMD. 90C may be a safe operating temp for one circuit but damage another.
2. Intel uses Hyper-threading, AMD uses core modules. Different means to the same end which is more usable threads with fewer complete physical cores.
3. Intel vs. AMD in price:performance varies at different price points and changes every generation. Don't generalize.
4. Intel makes high-wattage CPUs, too. Characteristics of one generation of CPU don't reflect ALL CPUs AMD/Intel have ever made.
5. What does "High quality performance" mean?
6. How is Intel overclocking a pain?
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There are so many grammatical issues in the guide.
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Zayev wrote "The downside with AMD is they generate alot of heat even at stock settings"
umm.. last time I checked they run cooler than Intel CPU's. TJMax on an AMD CPU is 63 Degrees, whereas with Intel it's normally 95-100C.
"huge amount of wattage which means you need a beefy PSU to support them"
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My FX-6300
while the 4690K uses 84W. oh a 'huge amount' more
what intel do you have my GF uses a i5-4670k with a stock cooler heres sits at around 30 idle and when shes on games and stuff its only around 60-65
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vDubbzy wrote There are so many grammatical issues in the guide.
sorry i have dyslexia i also struggle with english as well :/
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Sheperdebops wroteZayev wrote "The downside with AMD is they generate alot of heat even at stock settings"
umm.. last time I checked they run cooler than Intel CPU's. TJMax on an AMD CPU is 63 Degrees, whereas with Intel it's normally 95-100C.
"huge amount of wattage which means you need a beefy PSU to support them"
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My FX-6300
while the 4690K uses 84W. oh a 'huge amount' more
what intel do you have my GF uses a i5-4670k with a stock cooler heres sits at around 30 idle and when shes on games and stuff its only around 60-65
"what intel do you have"
ummm.. I said what CPU I have and the included CPU-Z image shows that I have an AMD FX-6300 which mine never goes above 30C on H100i but at 4.4GHz.
plus I said TJMax, which is what the CPU is rated for. With AMD, if it goes above 63C then it could end badly for the CPU, however an Intel chip can happily sit at 90C..
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