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[PC Build Help] 144hz-Gaming (Overwatch)

Mar 19, 2017 1:42AM PDT

Hello everybody,


I am currently compiling a low-cost PC that is designed to be able to handle Overwatch fluently and at the highest possible graphics settings on a 144hz monitor at the end of April .

Information about the SilentiumPC products, as not findable via pcpartpicker:

SilentiumPC Fera 3 HE1224 cooler
">www.alza.de/silentiumpc-regnum-rg1-d4129259.htm'] SilentiumPC Regnum RG1 Case


PCPartPicker partlist


CPU: Intel Core i5- 7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (€ 199.83 @ Mindfactory)
Thermal Compound: ARCTIC MX-2 4g Thermal Paste (€ 10.81 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (€ 92.89 @ Amazon Germany)
Memory: * Avexir Core Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory Url] (€ 103.57 @ Amazon Germany)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5 "Solid State Drive (Purchased For € 0.00)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB 3.5 "5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For € 0.00)
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 8GB RS Video Card (€ 226.34 @ Mindfactory)
PowerSupport: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For € 0.00)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200 PWM 59.1 CFM 120mm Fan (€ 13.90 @ Amazon Germany)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200 PWM 59.1 CFM 120mm Fan (€ 13.90 @ Amazon Germany)
Monitor: Acer GN246HL 24.0 "1920x1080 144Hz Monitor (€ 199.00 @ Amazon ) "
Subtotal: € 860.24
Cooler: ">www.silentiumpc.com/en/fera-3-he1224/'] Fera 3 HE1224 v2 (€ 26.90 @ alza.de)
Case: ">www.silentiumpc.com/en/regnum-rg1-pure-black/'] SilentiumPC Regnum RG1 (€ 31.90 @ alza.de)
Total: € 923.03

I have also thought about the fans through cheaper ">www.harcot.de/ventilator-radiator-k-hlung-silentiumpc-zephyr-120-pwm-computergeh-use-ventilator-570079/'] SilentiumPC Zephyr 120 PWM , which would cost only 18.99 € instead of 31.27 € (Noctua).


I hope, of course, that the RX580 will already be on the market at the end of April, so I would fall back on it rather than on the RX480, if the price remains the same level and the performance is better. I also thought about the possibility that the GTX1070 will become cheaper when the new TIs come onto the market. If it is cheap, it would be very appealing.

Now my questions:
- Do you think the AMD Ryzen CPUs that are coming soon on the market, as well as the upcoming TIs, could affect my selection?
- Is the selection made appropriate and do you have other ideas or tips for me?
- For example, I will want to install my SSD and HDD of my predecessor PC into the new PC, but I'm not sure how to do this with the formatting since I received the Windows license via the Microsoft Student Page (free of charge) and therefore I didn't keep the key or ISO somewhere. I am only going be a student up until the end of the month, so I have concerns about simply formatting the SSD.
- Is it possible to boot from the unformated SSD (which includes incompatible drivers etc.) with the new hardware and then format it afterwards, or should I format it using the Windows function (I used Win 8.1 when I did that for the last time, but have not found the option yet in Windows 10)?


Alternatively, I have prepared the following build, which I am on the upcoming AMD Ryzen 5 1500X :

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Mar 19, 2017 1:44AM PDT

PCPartPicker partlist / Price Breakdown by merchant

CPU: ">www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Zen/AMD-Ryzen%205%201500X.html'] AMD Ryzen 5 1500X (expected $ 189, that is € 175.8Cool
Thermal Compound: ARCTIC MX-2 4g Thermal Paste (€ 10.81 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: Asus PRIME B350M-A Micro ATX Motherboard (€ 95.31 @ Amazon Germany)
Memory: * Avexir Core Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory Url] (€ 103.57 @ Amazon Germany)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5 "Solid State Drive (Purchased For € 0.00)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB 3.5 "5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For € 0.00)
Video Card: AMD Radeon RX 580 (expected $ 199, € 185.19)
PowerSupport: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For € 0.00)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200 PWM 59.1 CFM 120mm Fan (€ 13.89 @ Aquatuning)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200 PWM 59.1 CFM 120mm Fan (€ 13.89 @ Aquatuning)
Monitor: Acer GN246HL 24.0 "1920x1080 144Hz Monitor (€ 199.00 @ Amazon ) "
Subtotal: € 797.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
* Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-19 06:41 CET + 0100
Cooler: ">www.silentiumpc.com/en/fera-3-he1224/'] Fera 3 HE1224 v2 (€ 26.90 @ alza.de)
Case: ">www.silentiumpc.com/en/regnum-rg1-pure-black/'] SilentiumPC Regnum RG1 (€ 31.90 @ alza.de)
Total: € 856.34


Thank you for reading, I am sorry that this has become such a text wall.

Sincerely,

obelisk

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Mar 19, 2017 7:21PM PDT

When the ryzen chips hit the market you'll have a better idea of the price.

Give it a week or two and benchmarks will hit the web.

With price and benchmarks you can chose between I5 and ryzen.

Very doubtful you can boot the old OS on new hardware.

Which means you'll need some way to reload the OS with the new hardware.

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Re: Windows
Mar 19, 2017 2:43AM PDT

Formatting a partition is making it totally empty, and can't be done from the OS booted from that partition. Using the Windows 10 installer to format the partition is a sensible first start of installing Windows.

For the options to use your old Windows 10 license on your new PC, see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12440/windows-10-activation.

Windows 10 is free to download from Microsoft. But the above link suggests you need your old license code at least. Use Belarc Advisor (free download) or Jelly Bean Keyfinder (free download also) to find it, if you forgot to write it down somewhere yourself (not very smart, is it?).