Small, fast, good, and provincial—I upgraded my price/performance computer after a year

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The landlord I had an article about a small radiator, and many of them have “inquired” how the specific host is installed? Time passes, after one year of use, due to more and more use experience and multi-faceted needs of upgrading, the building decided to upgrade configuration!

At present, the most low-end platform is the combination of Intel's G4560+B250 motherboard! It is also the most cost-effective!

Hardware introduction

First take everyone to know the next G4560 and B250 motherboard

Intel Pentium dual-core G4560 boxed CPU processor 429 yuan a good U; bulk has been less than 300 yuan Jingdong direct link

The new version of the radio box, this box is a fan.

Pentium G4560 specifications are seven-generation kabylake architecture, dual-core four threads, clocked at 3.5GHz, L3 cache 3MB, nuclear HD610, TDP51W. Compared to the previous generation of G4400, the main frequency was increased. After Intel added the Hyper-Threading function to Pentium, the multi-tasking capability was enhanced and the performance increased greatly. The performance gap between Celeron and Pentium was opened (before Kabylake, Celeron. Compared to Pentium, castrated L3 cache, Celeron only 2MB of L3 cache, reducing the frequency), narrowing the performance gap with the Core i3, means that the 7-generation U Pentium processor has been compared to the Core i3, the overall performance increase 50%. There should be great progress for the old daily office.

The B250 chipset comes standard with an M.2 SSD interface, but actually due to the explosive and rapid development of the M.2 SSD, many manufacturers will use the chipset bus to design an M.2 SSD interface for the motherboard, although many people may No use. H110 will not have an upgraded version, and the H310 chip has already been included in Intel's mid-year release plan. As far as Intel's Optane, this generation of three 200-series chipsets all have support.


The B250's PCIe bus adds four 3.0 channels, and these four are used for the standard M.2 interface.
The memory frequency supports 2400MHz by default, DDR4 gradually matures, more and more UHF memory (2800, 3200, 3600) are already on the shelf, 2400MHz compared to 2133MHz upgrade is not very large, before the test has been compared It is better than nothing, more psychologically cool.

SOYO SY-B250D4W+ Magic Edition motherboard (Intel B250/LGA 1151) 489 yuan to send heat pipe radiator Oh! ! ! Jingdong direct link

Since the B250 chip can not be overclocked, and all aspects are very limited, it is better to choose a stable and low-cost motherboard. The landlord here combines the current price of the B250 motherboard, choose a motherboard with only 400 yuan (489 yuan to send heat pipe radiator, before sending the overclocking three Nanhai X5; now send Antec 4 heat pipe), and it is completely The various properties of the Intel B250 are in compliance with no shrinking.

The power supply part of the motherboard adopts a 4+2 combination method, which is more than enough for the 51W G4560, and those 65W non-K series i7, i5 can also be well supported. Of course, with the 95W K series is no problem, but most people do not do so ~~

The motherboard uses two 16x PCI-E slots to support dual graphics card crossfire, the realization of the X16 + X4, in the B150 era, the landlord has done this test of asymmetrical crossfire, for the Z170 double X8 gap is minimal, Compared to the B85 above the exchange of fire is a big upgrade!

The M.2 interface is also the most valuable upgrade for the B250 motherboard compared to the B150 motherboard. You can use NVMe's SSD to dramatically increase the hard disk transfer speed and work efficiency.

In addition, as the main sound version of the Soyo version of the B250, there are some features in the sound card design.

The main board adopts an independent audio power supply, digital and analog splitters, and professional audio capacitors. The triple optimization guarantees a clear output of audio, and also has a red LED dazzling light strip. The chip is a small crab chip.

Provides dual bios, eliminating the need for BIOS upgrade failures to fail; this is rare on entry-level motherboards.

Although the entry-level motherboard does not provide usb3.1, it still provides four usb3.0 interfaces and two usb2.0. Video output support DVI and HDMI, and the printer's com interface

The solder joints on the back of the motherboard were neat, and they were dealt with scratches, and they were not tied in their hands. The second PCI-e actually uses a full-length welding method.

In addition to talk about this, buy the motherboard to send heat activities, the landlord got the overclocking three East China Sea X5; in fact, the price alone also 80-90 yuan ~

This heatsink can be seen as very quiet through the parameters.

The fins appear to have a relatively large gap, which is conducive to the rapid flow of air, and it can be seen that the copper pipes are arranged at a certain inclination angle, so that the air flow can approach each copper pipe, so that the copper pipes are not covered and the heat dissipation efficiency is affected. .

Viewed from the top, it is a 5 heat pipe design and a cap is made at the top for aesthetics. It will not lead to the emergence of copper pipes, and it will also prevent some players from feeling that the top of the spire is not good enough to look at.

From this point of view, the arrangement of the fins is quite neat, and there is a cut in the form of a patchwork.

At the bottom of the CPU contact surface, the conventional aluminum extrusion heat sink with overclocking frequency of three is still retained; to improve the heat dissipation efficiency of this part, it is better than nothing!

The CPU contact surface of the base is directly touched by a heat pipe, three U-shaped tubes, two L-shaped tubes, and a total of 5 heat tubes! The surface is relatively smooth.

12-cm 9-page smart LED fan, on the back directly overclocked 3 LOGO, can not see the specific parameters; but the previous parameter table has been presented: 800 - 1500 rpm, 18 - 30.5 dB

The plastic Intel platform supports only 115x and 775 platforms and does not support the 1366 and 2011 platforms.

The AMD platform is all supported, including the latest Ryzen platform, and does not require a stand.

CoolerMaster rated 500W MASTERWATT LITE 500W full-mode power supply (80Plus white card / Taiwan capacitance / 85% efficiency / 3 year replacement) 299 yuan 80 PLUS white card full module Jingdong direct link

Cool cooling This power supply adopts APFC+PWM combination structure and double-tube positive circuit design, which means that it can have sufficient conversion efficiency and stability.

And it is also a short-circuit power supply, only 14.5cm in length, it is very suitable for a small space chassis installed relatively cramped.

12v can reach 456W, it is enough to use on this small platform.

Module interface, and the wire is flat, easy to manage the line.

12cm fan, using HDB dynamic hydraulic bearings, relatively quiet.

Next, assemble all the accessories!

About video card

This time, there are many options for the graphics card. In the whole machine control at the 3000 yuan stalls, the optional graphics card includes: GTX1050, GTX1050Ti, RX 470D; and the price is from 800 yuan to 1199 yuan; From 2g to 4g or even 8g.

GTX1050 2g Onda (ONDA) GTX1050 Aegis 2GD5 1354-1455MHz/7000MHz 2G799 yuan dual fan, the lowest price! Jingdong direct link SF Colorful/Colorful Tomahawk GTX1050 2G Indie Game Graphics Card Super GTX950849 Yuan Dual Fan, Good Thermal Efficiency Jingdong Direct Links ASUS PHS-GTX1050-2G Phoenix Edition GTX1050 Indie Gaming Computer Graphics 869 ASUS quality, what come! ~ Jingdong direct link GTX1050Ti 4g GALAXY Galaxy GTX 1050Ti GAMER 1366(1480)MHz/7GHz 4G/128Bit D5 PCI-E graphics card 1149 yuan No GAMER, no game Jingdong direct link


MAXSUN GTX1050Ti Terminator 4G 1291-1392MHz/7000MHz 4G/128bit GDDR5 PCI-E 3.0 Gaming Graphics 1089 yuan Backplane, with light, heat pipe cooling, and very quiet Jingdong direct link

Gigabyte GIGABYTE GTX1050Ti OC 1316-1430MHz/7008MHz 4G/128bit GDDR5 graphics card 1199 yuan technically superior, driving what? ? Jingdong direct link RX 470D Sapphire RX470D 4G D5 ITX Platinum Edition OC Games Graphics Card 1199 Single Fan, Short Card! Jingdong direct link

XFX RX 470D 4G Black Wolf version of 1226MHz/7GHz 256bit GDDR5 graphics card 1199 yuan dual fan, heat pipe cooling, good performance Jingdong direct link

The performance of the above three types of graphics cards is also pretty good, Onda GTX1050 2g version of the coupon plus praise back to the present down only 759 yuan, of course, special offer is not every day, here is to remind everyone to pay attention to Zhang Aunt's preferential recommendations, if necessary You can promptly subscribe to the keywords needed for the product in Aunt Zhang so that you will not miss a good price. And MAXSUN GTX1050Ti Terminator 4g This graphics card sells better, with heat pipe (although only one), but also with belief lights and metal backplane, occasionally play overclocking should be possible. On the A card, XFX's RX470G 4G Black Wolf version performs better. After all, the 470D still has some heat, and the dual fans can provide better cooling effects on the graphics card. The landlord selected a GTX1050 2g public card from MSI, and the performance of Onda's GTX1050 2g is similar to that of Onda's GTX1050 2g. Because it is a public version of the card, it no longer displays too much.

Chassis is relatively square, the motherboard can lie flat inside ~~

Mount the chassis, power on

The CPU fan is blue

MSI GTX1050 graphics card, appearance LOW, pure public version of the design only, do not need external power supply, TDP is 75W. In fact this kind of low-power card, with a small fan is enough ~ ~

Magic version of the LED light, red!

There is no Chinese option for the BIOS of the Mainboard, but it may be a test for some friends who are not very good at English. However, there is no need to worry too much. The default settings are good because I use a USB drive. Install the system, adjust the boot disk read order ~ ~

As for the installation system, connect a USB drive, and then a shuttle, GHOST get!

Enter the Win10 system

Dual core 4 threads, 3.5g clock speed; just slightly inferior to i3 in the instruction set

DDR4 -2133 dual-channel memory, compared to a single channel, the performance is about 15% increase it, after all, memory is so expensive, not to buy can buy; can match memory performance with a cost-effective program is not easy ah ~

CPU-Z official website identification!

The 1.79.0 version of CPU-Z, for the reference option canceled the i3 series, so it can only be compared with the same price APU, the result is 25% stronger than A10-7850k

The number of multi-threaded scores for running chess can reach 7200. It seems that Pentium Plus Hyper-Threading has brought a lot of improvement.


Master Lu's overall recognition ~~

Then, using Lu masters to run points, the new running sub-items were optimized for some old hardware scores and remained unchanged for the newly released hardware. The score of 90479 can be regarded as a mid-range computer; of course, it also includes laptop users.

The stand-by temperature of the whole machine is very low, because the accessories are basically low-power consumption, but the CPU is only more than 30 degrees; the hard disk, graphics card, and motherboard are all between 20-30 degrees.

The stress test on the CPU, but not more than 52 degrees, and at this time the fan has become the minimum speed, which is something I am puzzled, follow-up to study, but this is not a big problem ~ ~

In the external directly with the temperature tester to test the bottom radiator heat sink, only 22 degrees ~ ~

Thanks to new processes and processes, the current CPUs and graphics cards are really getting more and more power saving, and no more than 150W.

to sum up

1. First of all, the configuration of the building is just 3,000 yuan, and the application of the graphics card is more important. LOL and CF can run perfectly at 2K resolution. The performance of the CPU is sufficient for most families; of course, if you are playing a large game, you are recommended to use high-end CPUs such as i5, i7, and 1600X.

2. This set of motherboards, memory, and graphics cards are all selected to be close to the public version of the settings, can not be super, do not provide super space; toss the "hidden", is to use peace of mind, for some do not like tossing, more Users who focus on practicality are a more practical choice.

3. The radiator and power supply have certain reserved space. It is possible to upgrade the i5 and i7 in the future. If you change the U better, the graphics card can be upgraded again. After all, it is a 500W power supply with a GTX1080Ti. Enough ~~

Some digressions:

Overall, the CPUs of AMD and Intel are a war of positive damage in 2017. As an option for entry-level and low-end markets, the price range of 300-500 yuan is the range between APU and Pentium. AMD's U has a good overall graphics card performance, and overall performance depends on a little better, while the need for discrete graphics partners seems to be the preferred Intel.

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