Building a PC...maybe

[Ella`Ella]

Hey pals,

I built a PC a long time ago when D3 came out. Built it to play that game with all settings maxed out. Anyways, that piece of shit never worked right from day one and by time I was fed up, everything was out of warranty so I just dealt with it. Anyways, thinking about building a new PC and was curious if ya'll had any input or feedback.

Below is what I am thinking...

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card
Case: Corsair 750D ATX Full Tower Case
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter
Fan Controller: NZXT SENTRY 3 Fan Controller

[khanable]

Kraken x62, an nvme m.2 sdd over lame 2.5", and the grid+ is pretty dope over the sentry

Arctic silver hasn't aged too well iirc, might be better alternatives

GL





And concede

[Ella`Ella]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Kraken x62, an nvme m.2 sdd over lame 2.5", and the grid+ is pretty dope over the sentry

Arctic silver hasn't aged too well iirc, might be better alternatives

GL





And concede

Couldn't find the grid+.

Is the X62 really worth the extra $40bucks just for the LED lighting. Side note on LED lighting - i hate that shit and end up ripping most of it out. NerdGlow.

I'm note sure I even need Arctic Silver with the cooling I'm going for. First time doing liquid cool, so really just threw that in out of habit - plus it's only $6.

M.2 - dafuq does this plug into? PCI express?

[khanable]

Originally Posted by Ella`Ella [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Couldn't find the grid+.

Is the X62 really worth the extra $40bucks just for the LED lighting. Side note on LED lighting - i hate that shit and end up ripping most of it out. NerdGlow.

I'm note sure I even need Arctic Silver with the cooling I'm going for. First time doing liquid cool, so really just threw that in out of habit - plus it's only $6.

M.2 - dafuq does this plug into? PCI express?

$40 for newer. Casuals don't have the newest.

M.2 slot is on your motherboard. It's on the bottom right of that axis - look for the 3 screw pegs. NVME Ssd's are significantly faster than Sata ones (as long as you get quality shit). Not a massive boost in games tbh, but again, casuals save money here.

[Ella`Ella]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

$40 for newer. Casuals don't have the newest.

M.2 slot is on your motherboard. It's on the bottom right of that axis - look for the 3 screw pegs. NVME Ssd's are significantly faster than Sata ones (as long as you get quality shit). Not a massive boost in games tbh, but again, casuals save money here.

Sold on the M.2. Adding it to cart.

Also have a 2TB 7200RPM at home I'm going to throw in this thing.

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They do CPU/mobo combos and wipe $30 off the mobo price. It's still a walk-in place which may be nice if you need shit in a pinch.

Maybe I'll go there after I static zap the first motherboard from doing something dumb like building this in socks on carpet.

[dafier]

IMO if you are going to build a computer in which you can upgrade later and that will last a long time....go with:

2011-3 Mother Board and Processor
XX GB of DDR4
M2.2280 PCI-E x3/4 SSD with SATA SSDs as storage/backup.
Blu-Ray burner
Nvidia 1060 - 1080 card. Anyone of them right now will be awesome for you and will fit in a price range that is reasonable to most people.

The reason why I wouldn't go with a 1151 chipset/processor is that plain and simple, they are only quad core. Why settle for quad when you can get Hex or better for either the same price or a little more. Also, when Ryzen is released Intel processors Hex core + processors will drop in price.

Ryzen results are very impressive, so if you want to go AMD, that's the ONLY selection of CPU I would suggest. I ran an 8150, then 8350 FX processor for about 5 or 6 years total. I was happy until I got my setup now...

ASROCK Taichi MB
i7-5820k (which I bought in september of 2016 for only 325$ new) (EDIT) - Corsair H55 for cooling.
32GB of DDR4, quad channel (4GBx8)
GTX 1060 3GB (160$ new)
240GB SSD SATA3
480GB SSD SATA3
My backup drive is mechanical and large.

That processor is crazy over clockable and I've yet to peg it outside of running Prime95 and Handbreak.

Hope this helps.

[Ella`Ella]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Kraken x62, an nvme m.2 sdd over lame 2.5", and the grid+ is pretty dope over the sentry

Arctic silver hasn't aged too well iirc, might be better alternatives

GL





And concede

After doing some research - I did kick the x61 up to the x62. Thing has some rave reviews on it and apparently has the largest stock fans on the market which are said to be relatively quiet. Do you know anything about this personally or should I consider throwing more Noctua's on this bitch too?

[khanable]

Originally Posted by Ella`Ella [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

After doing some research - I did kick the x61 up to the x62. Thing has some rave reviews on it and apparently has the largest stock fans on the market which are said to be relatively quiet. Do you know anything about this personally or should I consider throwing more Noctua's on this bitch too?

Noctua's aint cheap. I'd run with the stock fans and see how they work out for you. If they're not able to keep shit decently cool at low rpm/noise look into dropping $100 on the fancy fans.

TBH I think the stock fans on all that shit will be fine.. especially with a fan controller that will allow you to keep them at low rpm..

[Masakizt]

That case is a beast. Unless youre going to have dual GPUs and all the bells and whistles its probably overkill..

This case looks sick in silver. Check it out

http://www.phanteks.com/Enthoo-Evolv-ATX.html

[Ella`Ella]

Originally Posted by Masakizt [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That case is a beast. Unless youre going to have dual GPUs and all the bells and whistles its probably overkill..

This case looks sick in silver. Check it out

http://www.phanteks.com/Enthoo-Evolv-ATX.html

This case looks boss - only thing that comes to mind is it looks like heat displacement might be a problem with it?