Building a PC...maybe

[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.

[Uuruk]

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

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)
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.

My main computer has a 5820k. I guess it's ok but the motherboard I bought for it makes it difficult to Oc it. I have it at 4.4 and I'm happy with it there i guess.

[Baler]

i'm not trying to compare Epeans,. but wait for the deals @OP. You Won't be disappointed.

That's all I meant.

[Ella`Ella]

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

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.

I'm flirting with this idea of kicking it up to the next tier of cores.

[dafier]

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

I'm flirting with this idea of kicking it up to the next tier of cores.

My buddy bought a 6700, not the K at the time and the performance is great, but I waited about 4 months and thought about where I wanted to go. Plain and simple, I want LOTS of cores.

My kids will be old enough soon to have their own computers and I'm thinking of just creating some VMs for them. So basically my desktop is going to eventually be a server running WSUS/SCCM, either VMware or Microsoft VM, proxy server, Plex (for video/audio media share) and more. I figure with a beefy multicore i7 (I can even go with an E5 XXXX server CPU) I can't go wrong.

Then, that will give me an excuse to build another PC for myself. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EDIT: Not that coding needs a lot of CPU, but I've been learning C#. I have to admit, Microsoft Virtual Essentials is a pretty neat free program.