Building a PC...maybe

[Ella`Ella]

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

I think you're going way overboard on the processor. For a non-4K gaming PC, there's 0 reason to go beyond a i7 6700k as you'll be capped by your GPU for the near future. You can just buy a new chip years down the road when/if 4K gaming becomes a thing and you need a better chip.

You may want to wait for a 1080 Ti as well. I'm guessing they'll be available this month sometime. Only issue is that I would expect them to sell above MSRP for the first 2 months. See if you can get one at MSRP.

If you are on a budget, I would consider going AMD w/ your GPU. This would only be if you're wanting to buy a 1070 or below. AMD cards are a decent bit behind a 1080, or Titan Pascal, but there is very large savings for being able to use a Free-Sync (AMD) Monitor as opposed to a G-sync Monitor (Nvidia). Monitors are very important for a build now days. There's really only 2 choices for an IPS, gsync, 165hz monitors (PG279Q and the XB271HU). They're also never on sale and usually back-ordered on sites that sell them at/below MSRP.



Have this case in black. It really is the best case on the market.
They've come down in price to 160-170 as well.

Thanks for the feedback on the processor. Actually, the only reason I am going with the current one is because I am able to get any (ANY) intel processor for 50% off new. Was considering even going up to a 6 core for down the road (even though no games utilize this now).

Also, with the GPU, i don't know about rocking a Ti right now even if they do come out - the TI line is always overpriced in my opinion, and probably wouldn't cost too much less than if I just bought another 1080 down the road and SLI'd the two if need be.

But, I do understand that some parts of the build are overkill.