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Looking over your part list: Your CPU is now 5 generations old. Your GPU is good enough for less demanding games. Your RAM is enough, but the DDR3 1600 is very slow. Your disk is fine, but an upgrade would be nice. Your motherboard is fine for those specs. The main issue here is probably the...

My laptop is on the verge of death for basically everything, and I'm interested in building a workstation PC. The use cases are mainly image and photo editing along with some tensor flow AI. Here is my PCPartpicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/NVykmq This is a first time build so...

AMD's Threadripper is the i9 competitor. The Ryzen 7 is the i7 competitor, the Ryzen 5 is the i5 competitor, etc. So why is an i9 being compared to what is equivalently an i7? I get that they have the same C/T count, but I don't think anyone expects a $500 chip to beat a $300 one. It seems like...

The main things that affect performance of a PSU are: 1: Efficiency. Watts = Volts*Amps, but there is some lost. Go for a Gold Efficiency rating, or >85% if no efficiency rating is provided. 2: Rails. PSUs have rail numbers which can effect reliability. Go for at least 2. 3: Wattage. As others...

If you want to save a little, you can drop your RAM clock speed a little and get the G.SKILL Value 8BG (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232608&cm_re=G.SKILL_value_series_8GB-_-20-232-608-_-Product). The clock speed is pretty inconsequential. I also think you should...

16 GBs of RAM is not the best $/performance upgrade. Right now, a 1060 6GB GPU is going to be pretty good. If you want, a 1070 is more expensive but definitely better. RTX won't help much in games (yet). Even in AI, a standard GTX will be fine. With the money saved not upgrading RAM and not...

You should probably go for lower voltage and higher efficiency. Go for at least Gold Standard. A 750 Watt PSU should serve you well. So long as you don't pair it with any super high TDP components, it should hold up perfectly. You can get some for under $100. On durability: PSUs generally last...

I'm trying to build a budget computer (<$1300) for basically everything but gaming. Rendering, CUDA, etc. I've put 2 part lists together. They're basically identical, except that the processor is an 8700k in one and a Ryzen 7 2700X. AMD's product page makes the 2700X very appealing...