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.

[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.

[Ella`Ella]

Originally Posted by Velius2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The only recommomendation I have for you is to buy a modular Power supply

THe ones where you can detach the cords you dont use. It makes the case look alot nicer.

Have fun with the new pc!

Thanks for the tip - I think the one I have picked out might is modular. Last time I built a PC I didn't care about the wires at all until I was all finished building it, looked at it and thought, "wow, that looks like shit". I never did end up fixing it. this time around, I'm going to try and keep everything pretty tidy.

[Ella`Ella]

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

Hybrid card not worth it

Why not, Cuc? I read if I picked up the hybrid card, I should replace the stock fan with a Noctua NF-F12 industrialPPC-3000 PWM 109.9 CFM 120mm Fan. Anyone have experience with this fan? I hear it's on the louder side and I'm going for most power with least noise.

Any recs?

[khanable]

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

Why not, Cuc? I read if I picked up the hybrid card, I should replace the stock fan with a Noctua NF-F12 industrialPPC-3000 PWM 109.9 CFM 120mm Fan. Anyone have experience with this fan? I hear it's on the louder side and I'm going for most power with least noise.

Any recs?

Yeah that's a high static pressure fan. That's what you want on radiators. Running at 100% it's going to be loud (spoiler: most fans are). The key is stepping it down. Note the card still has a blower fan on it.. so it's twice the fans. You'll probably be able to set fan profiles to keep them silent while underload and maintain decent temps.

I didn't look at the price of the hybrid card; they used to be $150-200 more.. at that point, just build a real fuckin' loop.

Though the card you linked looks like it's like $50 more so.. go for it.

[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..

[Ella`Ella]

Yaw? Naw?

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[khanable]

jesus that's hideous

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