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Spec'ing New PC - Looking for Input
I am putting together an new PC to get with my Tax Return. I have an external Dvd and the OS. Just curious if anyone sees and big issues with the hardware I am missing. Thanks
| Qty. | Image | Product Description | Unit Price | Savings | Total Price |
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| 1 |  | $109.99 | -$10.00 Instant | $99.99 | |
| 1 |  | $139.99 | $139.99 | ||
| 1 |  | $459.99 | -$30.00 Instant | $429.99 | |
| 1 |  | $139.99 | -$15.00 Instant | $124.99 | |
| 1 |  | $229.99 | $229.99 | ||
| 1 |  | $209.99 | $209.99 | ||
| 1 |  | $139.99 | -$30.00 Instant | $109.99 | |
| Subtotal: | $1,344.93 | ||||
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Just buy an Intel Core i7-7700K instead and a decent $30 cooler (I am too lazy to look). Or stick with the 7600 and spend the $100 to get a GTX 1080.
I don't see any reason to get a $110 CPU cooler if you're not going to overclock, and you've picked a CPU that isn't overclockable. Yes, Intel's stock CPU coolers are bad, but a $30 aftermarket cooler can do an excellent job at stock speeds. I'd either get a cheaper CPU cooler or else get an overclockable CPU.
32 GB is a whole lot of memory, and personally, I'd settle for 16 GB. But you've got a large enough budget that, while I'm not going to tell you that you shouldn't get 32 GB, I will tell you that 32 GB can be had for a whole lot cheaper than that:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231967
AMD Ryzen, which should mean AMD is competitive on the CPU side of things for the first time since at least before Sandy Bridge arrived in 2011, and possibly since before Conroe in 2006, depending on what you think of the Phenom II CPUs of 2009-2010. That might force Intel to cut prices to compete, and it's also possible that AMD will offer 6 or 8 cores for the same price that Intel sells 4 cores for--and without them being markedly slower cores as they are today. Or it might not matter to you. But AMD has promised that Ryzen will arrive in the first quarter of this year, and one conference talk scheduled for late February referred to the "recently released" Ryzen CPU, so it will probably be within a month.
Today, four fast CPU cores without hyperthreading is generally enough for gaming. But how long will that be the case? It might still be fine in a decade, or a few years from now, you might regret not getting more than four cores. I really don't know where this will head for gaming purposes; it's possible that the more computationally intensive things that would have had to have been done on a CPU in years past end up getting shoved off to the GPU so that you still don't need a ton of CPU cores.
On the GPU side of things, AMD has promised that Vega should arrive in the first half of this year. That will make AMD competitive at the high end of GPUs, which is likely to lead to some fairly dramatic price drops from Nvidia. There are also highly plausible rumors of a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti as a cut down version of the GP102 chip, which could easily slot in at the current GTX 1080 price, while the GTX 1070 and 1080 drop.
That said, it's easy to upgrade a GPU later. It's hard to upgrade a CPU later, as that usually requires at least a new motherboard and likely also new memory and a new OS license.
Another thing to think about is monitors. There's no reason why a monitor upgrade needs to happen at the same time as other components, but if you're going to spend that much on a gaming rig to power only a single 24" 60 Hz 1080p TN monitor, you're doing it wrong. If you've already got some very nice monitors, there may be no reason to upgrade now, though.
On the GPU side of things, part of the importance of Vega is that it could push Nvidia to slash prices. For example, if AMD launches a $600 GPU that is 30% faster than Nvidia's $600 GPU, Nvidia might decide that their formerly $600 GPU should now only be $500.
What we're setting right now in both CPU pricing (from Intel) and GPU pricing (from Nvidia) is what happens when one vendor has monopoly pricing power on high end parts. If you want a high end CPU or GPU, today, you have to pay whatever Intel or Nvidia decides to charge or do without. If AMD is competitive again (and at worst, they'll be much more competitive than they are now), then Intel and Nvidia could have to either slash prices or lose most of the high end market to AMD.
The quality of components is very high these days and paying for highly priced pieces won't get you much more apart from hefty bill.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117730 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132947 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226601 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125871 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151094
I do not think it will make any difference and I am not expecting much but it might be interesting to wait a bit for AMD CPU Ryzen.
Apart from that, some of these are repeat comments
Corsair RM series is notorious for issues
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/11/13/corsair_rm750_750w_power_supply_review/9
H series motherboard on an enthusiast level budget
No SSD or HDD
Expensive H20 Cooler on stock clocks
$1,300 should be a really nice gaming PC, this is not that PC though.
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Keep the i5 its better for gaming. Unless you plan on running 10 clients at the same time then you need i7.
If you plan on overclocking then just get a different cpu. And that particular gpu is made for overclocking. Yes I said cpu and gpu
Yes, you can get a 1070 for under $400, but not that particular model, and not that much under.
I feel instead of selling over priced hardware that does VERY little to enhance our games and give us smoother ,better game play,let's get developers to optimize and take better advantage of the hardware we have.
Game design seems so sloppy and rushed,i look back at Might N Magic,quite a bit of Ai on screen and i had a super crap PC by now a day standards ,yet it ran really good.I look at EQ2 several renditions of hardware,several years alter and it still runs like crap.
We don't need anymore hardware,we need better people in the industry and better effort on our games.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=432
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=441
Jonny Guru isn't as harsh as Hard OCP in their power supply reviews, but they're still rigorous and not afraid to denounce junk.
That said, you can get an excellent quality power supply for a lot less money than that:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151118
The one Gdemami linked is a good option if you're trying to fit a $700 budget while still getting fairly nice quality, but the original poster seems to have the budget for something better.
If 500 GB of capacity is enough for you, then the solution on storage is pretty simple: get a ~500 GB SSD and no hard drive and call it a day. If you need more capacity than that, then get both an SSD and a large hard drive with all the capacity you need. If you don't know how much capacity you need, then check what you're using now; double that should last you for some years to come.
First your mobo. You are paying more for a less capable mobo. In your budget you could aim for a z270 mobo that supports higher memory standards through OCing. Here is a quick list of 4 comparable z270 mobos:
ASUS Prime z270 $135.99
MSI z270 PC Mate $124.99
ASRock z270 pro4 $119.99
Gigabyte GA-z270-HD3 $114.99
Second you have 4 memory dimms, use them. Here is a quad channel memory at a higher clock for the same price:
G.Skill TridentZ Series 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3200 $209.99
Third you have an underwhelming case for an overwhelming price. You can go much lower if you don't mind noise. Here are some cases that look a bit better in that price range:
Phanteks Eclipse P400S Silent Edition $89.99
In Win 303 Black $89.99
Fourth your PSU is more than you need for your build. It's both not good to go for too little power and too much power. You want to get your PSU near the maximum your system requires so in typical operation it is drawing power more efficiently. Here is my recommended PSU:
Seasonic Flagship PRIME 650Watt $149.99
Fifth, if you are concerned with a quiet PC get a Hybrid cooled GPU as that is the loudest component:
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW Hybrid $439.99
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Sea Hawk X $449.99
Sixth, get an M.2 drive since you have the slots:
Crucial MX300 1TB M.2 $279.99
Those are my recommendations.
2. which monitor do you have
And then he will ask Deep Thought: "What is the meaning of life?"
To which, it will compute for 7.5 million years. And then, in a moment of utter brilliance of such sheer magnitude never before realized in the entire universe or creation, Deep Though shall reply:
"42."
*edit*
I can almost see the specs of Deep Thought now:
1 DIMM, a B-series motherboard, and a Pentium CPU (overclocked, of course)