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So my i7-2600K finally kicked the bucket and I think it's time for a whole new build. I'm hoping to get some advice if I'm making any poor choices here as I want this build to last at least as long as my last one did.
I appreciate any thoughts/input, especially for the mobo, I did some research and the ROG seems solid, but so does the Gigabyte Aorus Ultra. Thanks!
CPU: Intel - Core i7-9700K
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i PRO 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus - ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB Black Video Card
Case: NZXT - H500i (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
I appreciate any thoughts/input, especially for the mobo, I did some research and the ROG seems solid, but so does the Gigabyte Aorus Ultra. Thanks!
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And i have read very good things about Aorus boards and will be going for Aorus Xtreme myself, but Aorus Ultra is probably amazing also.
The main English site I use for PC-hardware is https://www.overclock.net/ which has great forums.
https://forums.mmorpg.com/categories/hardware
Apart from that, the parts are fine. Without price tags, I don't know if you're going to get a good deal or massively overpay, though.
I don't actually know if the power supply is any good. EVGA makes some good power supplies and also some rather bad ones, so unless you can find a review from a reputable site of that particular unit (not just one with a similar name!), you don't really know what you're getting.
Why 3200 Mhz ram, and only 16GB? on 2 sticks?
idk I mean if you gotta stay within a budget it's likely okay but I would go with 32 Gigs, depending on money you have to spend I personally max it out.
Will likely get an i9 later this year.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/15217119
^ Oh this is at base / standard OC without overclock to 5Ghz didn't see the point because games I use don't even need it and even on an i7 im able to load up 3+ games at once on ultra leaving 2 in background to afk.
I would also advise to stay away from ASUS. The quality of their products is mediocre in my experience - over the past few years, I had 2 motherboards and 3 graphics cards by ASUS and had problems with all of them. 2/3 cards had to be replaced, one MB died completely and the other one had serious problems with its BIOS until ASUS released 3rd or 4th BIOS update months later. And even after that it is almost impossible to overclock the CPU because of the instability of the board - and that's a K Intel CPU, which are normally made to be overclocked...
Also, ASUS being a huge manufacturer constantly releasing new products in every conceivable category means they usually take a big dump on all their customers with older (1+ year old) products, as the company simply moves on. If a year after your purchase something goes wrong with your HW, good luck getting support from ASUS. They won't even waste the time it would take to laugh at you...
The Core i9-9900K is the top of the line mainstream desktop processor today, but once third generation Ryzen launches around the middle of this year, at best, it's going to look very hot and very overpriced. Buying it after that would be ridiculous unless Intel slashes prices dramatically.
If you meant a Sky Lake-X version of a Core i9, those are already tough to justify on a value for the money basis unless you have a basically unlimited budget. Once third generation Threadripper launches later this year, Sky Lake-X is going to be inferior in pretty much every way.
That's not to say that you shouldn't get one now. There's always something better coming eventually. But I am saying that you shouldn't wait until after that something better comes to buy a then-obsolete product unless it gets a huge price cut of the sort that Intel almost never offers. If you meant a future Intel Core i9 CPU that isn't yet launched, don't count on that coming this year.
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Try Kingdom Come Deliverance if you want a Game that will torture the GPU.
. CPU Intel core i7 5960x
. Mainboard Asus Rampage 5 extreme
. RAM Kit 8x8GB Corsair Dominator Platinum bus 2800
. SLI Vga MSI Titan X
. 10 x Samsung 850 Pro 1 TB
. Card raid controler adaptech 8885q
. Card ssd ocz revo 350 1T
. Card wifi asus pce AC66 dualband
. Psu corsair AX 1200i
. Case Inwin S-Flame Limited Edition
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How to increase GPU voltage for overclocking (2070 Super)?
I recently got the MSI RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio and I was overclocking it (with the stock voltage) and was able to get +110 MHz on the core and +800 MHz on the memory. I read that by increasing voltage I can extract higher frequencies from the GPU but I wanna make sure I do it safely. I'm using MSI Afterburner and I would like to know how to increase voltage properly. From what I can tell, the voltage slider is in percentages so 100% seems like a huge increase but then I also read somewhere that I should max out the slider and forget about it. So... what should I do? Thanks in advance!
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Bump up your RAM to 32G
Put OS on 250G SSD
Games on separate SSD (whatever size fits your needs)
Data on 1T HD
We should just let this thread die.