Recent content by Pc6777

If you plan on keeping this new PC as long as your last one, I would go with the best you can afford and consider 8 cores/16 threads. Between those 2 I would pick the 5600x.

I store spare parts in bins well packaged inside at room tempature, and ive heard reforming caps can get psus in storage that havnt been powered on in a long time to work normal.

I made it for personal use i was gona print it

I wrote this up, and i'm gonna print it and store it for future use, is it accurate? PC Component Capacitor Reforming Guide IMPORTANT READ ME After a electronic computer part/device that contains capacitors has been sitting in storage for a few years or even many years it needs to 'warm...

Ok good, my worst power supplies are middle of the road and my best ones are tier A and B so I don't think my psus will effect my Mobo lifetime.

How do modern caps compare? Are cheap modern caps still well designed enough to last a while?

Will using lower power cpus also help a motherboard last longer? I have one k series chip(6700k) but I use that with a z series board at stock, my other cpus are an i5 6500 and i3 6100.

They weren't hit by the infamous cap pluege?

All my psus are at least decent now, got rid of the garbage I used to use, it seems good power will make it so the motherboards filtering caps will have to do less work, which extends the mobos life beacuase burden is taken off it.

I don't have anything that old, mostly Skylake stuff.

How do the caps in h110m/non oc Intel boards compare to z series chipset boards? Is there a big difference?

The psus in my main systems are tier A and B, and the psu in my throwaway media center system with an i3 6100, RX 460 and Asus h110m board is okish(evga GD v1 non modular, 5 year warranty). I got rid of all my w1s and replaced them recently. And I have an extra Mobo sitting in a bin(it's...

How long will the avarage Mobo last if used a few hours per day? I have some older hardware and I'm wordering how much longer it will keep on going. Also, do more expensive "z series" motherboards last longer and use better capacitors, or are they just more expensive beacuase more...

My i3 6100 can handle 4k hvec 265 with software decoding, it uses half the cpu but runs great.

A lot of the time the power supply will suck(not always), most people buying prebuilts don't look at psu specs so that's how they bring down cost, a kid of the time more basic motherboards are used, which isnt a bad thing, helps bring down cost. I haven't bought a prebuilt before so I'm not sure...