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Your build makes no sense. You have a CPU with a clock speed in the 2GHz range, which may have been fine for the late 2000's, but in 2019 going into 2020? Especially with the next generation systems right around the corner? Let's not even go into the problems you're going to run into when your CPU ends up bottlenecking whatever potential power the GTX 1070 could output. If anything, I would have gone with a better CPU and got a mediocre video card for the time being until more money allowed for such.

Those RAM sticks ain't gonna work together. You have to have two of the same kind. So let's say I get something like two 16GB DDR4-2400s from Kingston. They have to be the same product on a technical level, and just to be safe, I'd go with the same color as well.

The PSU being a no name brand is also giant red flag in my book. Not because the EVGAs, the Corsairs, or the Thermaltakes never put out defective PSUs in shipments, but given how your part list screams, "I'm desperate to put a PC together," you have no guarantee of the quality of these items. The PSU may not be the most "gamer" product when it comes to PC parts, but it is one of the most important parts you want to have functioning. Just think, if you get a big storm like what I get here in the Midwest an hour and a half from Chicago, and the power goes out, would you want a power surge to destroy not only your PSU, but also your motherboard, not to mention other parts?

I don't know about anything of what the market on Mercari is like compared to eBay, but the prices on those parts are concerning, to say the least. Especially in the case of the SSDs, as those don't have as many read/write cycles to go through before biting the dust, and the sellers may have sold you trashy HDDs/SSDs in exchange for a quick buck. HDDs can fail, and if one can't sell it, I could see them definitely trying to essentially give it away.

Let me put it to you like this: I spent an entire year saving up money, trying to get parts as presents as much as I could within reason, and eventually, after a year of saving up my money, selling items that I planned to emulate on my PC to begin with, and everything in between, (mind you, this was before I had a regular day job), I bought a PC that was really good all things considered, but unfortunately, it wasn't playing anything 8th gen (which was current generation at the time. Damn, I'm starting to feel old, and I turn 25 in a few months!), so I had planned ahead by getting a good motherboard with a CPU series that could be upgraded. Back then, Intel had the G3258, which was an awesome deal back then because it was a Pentium CPU that could be overclocked to make up for it being only a dual-core CPU. It was less than a $100 compared to the i5-4690k that I wanted to get out of the gates, (and would get my hands on later anyways, but that's not the point here) but that's the thing: I planned ahead for all of this shit. I didn't even have an SSD until later on when I built my PC.

Fast forward to 2019: after working in retail for 3+ years at this point, I have this setup, more or less (some changes have been made mostly in terms of external storage that's connected to this on the regular):

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BKfpbX

Of course, this isn't all I spent my money on in the last 3 years, but that's my point here: according to your profile, it says you're 15 and living in the US. Most teenagers, back in my day (which wasn't so long ago, but I guess we're officially parts of different generations according to sociologists, but whatever), learned how to drive at age 16 and, if they were lucky like I was back when I learned to drive (which, admittedly, was when I was 18 and started going to college), allowed to drive their parents' cars until they got a job and could buy their own. Truthfully, having your own car will allow you a lot more freedom than you're aware of, especially if you're crafty. If you can drive a car with a license, and eventually get your own car (which you shouldn't cheap out on if you want to make your life easier), it will make you more employable than someone who has to depend on their parents/guardians/siblings to drive them to work every day of the week that they're scheduled. Then, you can start earning your own money, get work experience and find out what it's like in the "real world" where you can actually get more hands-on experience with a job than in college where you're given a bunch of assignments for classes that are, for the most part, irrelevant to any major that has any practical applications where there's a job that all businesses need that requires a college degree or a certificate for some reason in this day and age of prolonged adolescence, in my opinion based on my life experiences so far. Then, you can buy whatever you want, and get it brand new with warranties and everything in between if something goes wrong as opposed to just doing the equivalent of throwing money to the wall and hoping it sticks like what it looks like you're doing here.

tl;dr - Do some research before going into building a PC. But more importantly, get your act together, get life experience, and mature to where, when you're 18, you can have the life experience expected of an 18 year old so you can earn respect and admiration among people in positions of power that will allow you to become independent of your parents more quickly than if you were to just spend your high school years playing video games 24/7 and not developing any talents that could lead to a more fulfilling life if you really apply yourself. Then you can worry about entertainment, if you even have the time and willingness for it anymore.

I'm not going to reiterate everything that @Silent_Gunner just said so just read it again, but I will say that this machine will cause you nothing but problems and heartache from component failure to BSOD and bottlenecks. Wish you luck tho buddy.

Well you know, depends on what you use it for, that is a damn awesom computer for me, but then again I’m excited about the performance of my Compute stick
I wouldn’t know anything about the components and their reliability, however...

But nevertheless, if it plays the games you want it to, hey! It’s a good computer! Just don’t cheap out on things, be careful about that

if you use pc part picker it will GENERALLY be correct about part compatibility. CPU is a better investment over card. You can emulate games well with the settings cranked with a good cpu. Then when you can afford it get the gpu or a better one.

someone say ESD ?

this is what happens when you watch stupid benchmark videos.

$214.17 for a super old outdated motherboard and cpu could have gotten you a Ryzen 5 3600 + b450 motherboard from MicroCenter(if you live by one), or a Ryzen 5 2600 + B450 motherboard + Ram.

Also you overpaid for the used gtx 1070, in which Nvidia is nerfing the old gtx cards on purpose to sell their failed rtx ones.

for $630+ total, you REALLY dropped the ball, i actually feel really bad that you didnt ask people first.

bro, the psu is super old and doesnt cover the back.

theres no rear exhaust fan, no intake fan?

you just stacked a ton of hdds on top of each other

Case: If you can afford a normal ATX, go for it, better building experience, cable management and upgradability for it.

CPU: Bad choice. It's badly clocked and not good for performance, also you overpaid a lot of that, you should have gone with a Ryzen 5 1600 / 2600...
Also, it will bottleneck your GPU...

GPU: Not a bad GPU but you overpaid for a 1070 non-Ti...

RAM: Your sticks won't work well together, i would also recommend considering higher frequencies flr DDR4, also, use the same sticks for assured compatibility.

MB: The motherboard in itself isn't bad but as you choosed a bad CPU, you should change it too.

PSU: CHANGE IT ASAP!!! This is a no name, probably chinese PSU. A fire hazard... I wouldn't approach that in a kilometer... If it explodes, it will ruin your PC, and, 1000W won't spare anything...
You should go for a 750W, well rated, from a good brand, modular PSU. Trust me the PSU is THE PART where you don't want to be cheap.

Drives: Might be good but check their health with something like h2testw and others... Also, verify this isn't a chinese clone and has the real capacity mentioned. Only buy it if it's in a good state. (In general, i would recommend to avoid used drives or PSU's)

First of all, I would like to address the power supply, most of you, if not all, are commenting "its a no name" "it will explode" "get a new one" and I would like to say, 1) learn to read, the brand is Ultra, which was pretty high end for the time period in which the unit is from, 2) do your research, the JonnyGURU (a very reputable power supply analyst) review for this particular unit says that it is a great overall unit, the only issue is current ripple around 1000w-1200w, which based on my specs, it is quite unlikely that I will ever be pulling such a high wattage. Additionally you mentioned parts dying from a power surge, to which I respond, I use a surge protector, and often unplug my computer during storms.

Secondly I would like to address the CPU and talks of clock speeds being on the lower end. The CPU was probably the most cores and threads you are going to get on this platform, for this price. The clock speed is not a concern to me, because it regularly is turboing up to 2.8GHz when needed. I don't need crazy amounts of speed for what I need to use it for, it does the jobs just fine, with the amount of cores and threads. (CSGO, Minecraft, file transfer, and the occasional video encode.) It performs significantly better than my previous CPU (i5-4670k) and I enjoy the x99 platform due to the many features.
Which leads me into the motherboard, and talks of it being "outdated." To which I reply, name one feature that it doesn't have that modern boards do. It has Thunderbolt 3, it has NVMe, it has DDR4-4000 support, it has BIOS flashback, it has plenty of 3.0, 3.1, ports, it has built-in AC WiFi, it has gigabit Ethernet, excluding PCIe Gen 4, what is is lacking?

All of you have mentioned that the CPU bottlenecks the GPU, but I'm yet to see it. It performs better in graphics renders, when compared to my previous CPU which was running at 4GHz. You also mentioned I should have gone with a lesser card, and that I overpaid, to which I would respond, 1) I already had the card when building this PC, and secondly I purchased it prior to RTX-series launch, when it was a good price. NVIDIA is also not "nerfing" their old cards, which is evidenced by the fact that my card still runs the same as it did before RTX launch, and I use the latest drivers.

Now, the RAM. First of, they function fine together, I've had no issues, they just run at the speed of the slowest stick, which is how RAM and just about anything computer related works, it runs at the slowest speed in the chain. Secondly, incompatibility would like be caused by the motherboard ram topology, or the memory controller on the CPU. Not that the speed matters, because the memory controller on the CPU isn't strong enough or just doesn't support overclocking.

Now the Drives, there aren't as many in the system as there are in the pic, there are only three hard drives, which are separated with foam inserts. The drives are fine. I used Crystal Disk Info to check the SMART status and all drives passed, and just to double check I used Intel's own SSD tuning software to check the SSDs, and they have 97% or higher health left and are rated unlikely to fail. Regarding suggestion of fake SSDs, they are real, I did a disk test and they met the spec, and I have also filled them to the brim and not had any issues.

Regarding fans, there is an intake at the front and the cooler pushes out the back. Temps are not an issue, the CPU is in the high 40's low 50's, which is as expected from a $20 cooler on a $700 (new) CPU. The GPU rarely goes above 65C and often the fans are not spinning because its cool enough, and the drives are also fine, because they have the intake right in front of them, pulling fresh air over them.

Lastly, I realize that I could've gone differently, made many different choices. You're right! I could've gone Ryzen, with B450, I could've gotten matching sticks of ram (although not the same capacity for the price), I could've bought new drives, I could've done a million things different, the thing you have to understand is: I don't have a job, my money for parts comes from selling things I get for cheap prices, so I buy parts as I get money, and I buy what fits what I need for a low price, I didn't cheap out on any part of this build, I just bought what was a good deal. I will be doing a "better build" I plan to save for a while and do a 2600(x) mini ITX build in the Fractal Design Node 202.

I appreciate the feed back.

you overpaid for the gtx1070 and the xeon by $50 and the x99 is overkill and $147is still too expensive. You probably should have thoroughly researched options before deciding (seems like impulse to me).

$700 is the range of a mid-high end editing/gaming pc. And you basically built a super overpriced budget PC. This post been bothering me all day LOL. i want to know what inspired you to build your PC and the process you made to in choosing the parts. I know I almost made a ton of mistakes had i not diligently researched parts.

@TheSecurityGuy Your point about not having a job and having to sell things is exactly why I was suggesting you should get a job. Hell, you could get an unofficial job mowing others' lawns at your age and make money that way! It'll give you something legit to sell to your employer as job experience when you go for your first job!

Also, outperforming an i5-4670k isn't exactly an accurate assessment. Yes, that Xeon may have more cores, but if you want better performance in CS:GO, it favors fewer, stronger cores as opposed to a larger number that are weaker in every way.

As for the video card, the way you phrased it was as if you bought it for this build. Not that it was imported from a previous build!

And as for the mobo, I have one with most of those features in an ITX form factor, and it's rocking a GTX 1080, i7-8700k, and 16GB of Kingston FURY DDR4-RAM that both have the same ratings as the setup! Maybe your mobo did it first, IDK, but if we were saying that the first thing to do something was good, then we shouldn't call Karate Champ and the OG Street Fighter bad games, should we?

As for fake SSDs, I think people are referring to DRAM-less SSDs. As in, cheaper SSDs you can get that are cheaper than the Samsung drives.

PSU: By looking around the internet, it seems like Ultra isn't that great... Like some PSUs that decided to break and stuff... Don't base yourself on one reviewer though... Look at all the experiences people got with those parts. If it's not at least 80+ Bronze, stay away from it...

CPU: You might still want to change it. Please note that bottlenecking doesn't mean that you can't run at good framerates... It means that a portion of your GPU's power goes to waste... You could get a better deal with a Ryzen 5 for that price

MB: I never said your MB was bad, just that you'll have to change it if you change your CPU as this is an older intel.

RAM: Yep that's roght, they take the slowest one speed... Meaning that your less faster stick will bottleneck the older. Also, 16GB + 8GB don't miw that well... It would be the slowest ram with the lowest capacity in priority so...

Drives : If you tested them correctly, good, you got a good deal (I'm more worried from the 2$ drive though). Make sure to use an SSD as main storage and that you formatted your drives correctly though.