Posted: 9/7/2014 4:21:08 PM EDT
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PC I built ( and upgraded over time ) 8 years ago has finally bit the dust, and the Mobo and CPU are ancient. I am ready for a new box. I do some gaming ( not anywhere near as much as I did 8 years ago when I built the last machine! ) so I need a dedicated GPU, but most of my computer use is e-mail, forums, websurfing.
I want the best components so this box will last 8 + years like the last one. What are your thoughts on the hardware? Intel Core i7-5820K CPU Asus X99-Deluxe Motherboard 16GB (4x4GB) Vengeance LPX (DDR4 Memory!) EVGA GeForce GTX 760 Video Card - 4GB GDDR5 Thermaltake Toughpower DPS 750W Digital Power Supply Unit WD Re Datacenter 2 TB HDD Intel 530 Series 120 GB Internal SSD Intel BXRTS2011AC Sandy Bridge-E Air Cooler - CPU Fan Microsoft Windows 7 Professional With Service Pack 1 - 64-bit Price for all the above at tiger direct is just a shade over 2K. I MAY get a new case, I may just use one of the old Antecs I have laying around. Only thing I dislike about the Antecs is lack of cable routing options BEHIND the Mobo. What are your thoughts on the build? |
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Quoted: Unless your doing RAID you are wasting your cash on the WD RE drive, go with a WD black drive instead. PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RBv3WZ Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RBv3WZ/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($299.99 @ Micro Center) CPU Cooler: Intel BXRTS2011AC CPU Cooler ($21.48 @ Amazon) Motherboard: Asus X99-DELUXE ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($396.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($335.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Intel 530 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($76.50 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($165.00 @ Amazon) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 4GB Superclocked ACX Video Card ($289.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($156.50 @ Amazon) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($141.26 @ OutletPC) Total: $1883.70 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-08 10:52 EDT-0400 |
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Noted on the WD Black.
I want more than 8gb of ram, as I dont want to have to add more in 2 years, and the OS and Mobo will support it. 
I chose the Mobo I did as it was the ONLY I7 and DDR4 combo new egg is currently listing. Package is the Mobo, CPU, and Ram for $1,069. Firefinder37, thank you for saving me $150.00! |
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DDR4 is new and slow. You don't want to be stuck with 16gb of the first batch. I'd buy 8gb now. In a year or two, if you want to, you can toss the crappy 8gb and buy 16gb of faster DDR4.
BTW, don't use the stock Intel cooler. A 212 evo for $30 will run circles around that. |
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Quoted: Noted on the WD Black. I want more than 8gb of ram, as I dont want to have to add more in 2 years, and the OS and Mobo will support it. I chose the Mobo I did as it was the ONLY I7 and DDR4 combo new egg is currently listing. Package is the Mobo, CPU, and Ram for $1,069. Firefinder37, thank you for saving me $150.00! |
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Quoted: I don't think anyone should have more than one firearm. Justify why you need more than one. Quoted: Quoted: I think anything more than 8 Gb of RAM needs to be justified, so justify it. What will you be doing with this rig? Be specific. ;) I don't think anyone should have more than one firearm. Justify why you need more than one. |
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OP asked to be critiqued. We could just buy the most expensive of everything, but what's the point? Quoted:
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I think anything more than 8 Gb of RAM needs to be justified, so justify it. What will you be doing with this rig? Be specific. ;) I don't think anyone should have more than one firearm. Justify why you need more than one. Then critique the parts. I have 32GB of RAM in my PC but I'm not going to even think about justifying it to anyone. |
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No problem echo6, now you can spend the money on this http://www.nzxt.com/product/detail/120-H630.html. My latest build is using that case, and it's flippin fantastic. Quoted:
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Noted on the WD Black. I want more than 8gb of ram, as I dont want to have to add more in 2 years, and the OS and Mobo will support it.
I chose the Mobo I did as it was the ONLY I7 and DDR4 combo new egg is currently listing. Package is the Mobo, CPU, and Ram for $1,069. Firefinder37, thank you for saving me $150.00! Dead Sexy. Must Have, just got to decide which one. I dig a window on the side of the case with some blue lights inside. SATA cables with some kind of LED inside would be awesome too, but I've never found any that actually worked worth a damn. Then again, last time I looked was 5+ years ago... |
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PC I built ( and upgraded over time ) 8 years ago has finally bit the dust, and the Mobo and CPU are ancient. I am ready for a new box. I do some gaming ( not anywhere near as much as I did 8 years ago when I built the last machine! ) so I need a dedicated GPU, but most of my computer use is e-mail, forums, websurfing. I want the best components so this box will last 8 + years like the last one. What are your thoughts on the hardware? My thoughts are that you're throwing lots of money at things solely for the sake of throwing money at them. Eight years from now, at last half of the money you originally planned on spending won't matter a hill of beans - you'll still have an eight-year old architecture, eight-year old, DDR3 memory, small cache size, etc.. Buy a socket 1150 i5, a more reasonable PSU, a motherboard that costs half of the one you had planned. In synthetic benchmarks, you'll see some difference. In real-world scenarios for your use case, you simply won't see anything significant. And in five years, any small performance difference will be small compared to what a newer machine would get you. |
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My thoughts are that you're throwing lots of money at things solely for the sake of throwing money at them. Eight years from now, at last half of the money you originally planned on spending won't matter a hill of beans - you'll still have an eight-year old architecture, eight-year old, DDR3 memory, small cache size, etc.. Buy a socket 1150 i5, a more reasonable PSU, a motherboard that costs half of the one you had planned. In synthetic benchmarks, you'll see some difference. In real-world scenarios for your use case, you simply won't see anything significant. And in five years, any small performance difference will be small compared to what a newer machine would get you. Not a lot of Mobo on the market that support DDR4 yet, are you saying that I should stick with DDR3 for the build? |