A build for me

Hello all, it's come to that time where i am wanting to move up in hardware, not a small jump at all, i mean a gigantic leap.

This is my current PC.

World's fastest Phenom II B55 Firestrike Rig so it does have something :P (FS 1.0)

I am currently at 1080P 75hz, my PC does the job, it's not comfortable though any more for me.

My aims are higher resolution or 144hz or even both (1440P 144hz)
Also moving to a much faster CPU.

I do some work loads with my PC such as rendering and encoding, i don't need much ram for this though.
I run Windows 10 Pro 64.

I don't have a solid budget, i am willing to pay bit by bit even if i have to spread it across 3 months or so.

All help is much appreciated :)

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HwB723

Here is a suggestion if you are willing to wait a bit the newer line of gpu's should be coming out pretty soon I would suggest you wait for them it really dose help to have a budget even ballpark estimate because that would really help in the build process. Also from what I hear the R9 390 is a stronger card but because your last system had an Nvidia I just stuck to that and the 980 came down in price as well so that helped.

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I live in the UK too, sorry for not mentioning, thanks for the parts suggestions it really helps.

I will look at it and adjust things i think i may like and report back here :)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£289.98 @ Ebuyer)
CPU Cooler: Swiftech H220-X 55.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£115.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Extreme6+ ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£160.75 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£70.98 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£228.00 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master MasterCase Pro 5 ATX Mid Tower Case (£114.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£96.92 @ More Computers)
Optical Drive: LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer (£49.99 @ Novatech)
Monitor: Acer XB240H ABPR 144Hz 24.0" Monitor (£309.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Total: £1436.16
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-08 08:13 BST+0100

I will continue using the GTX 580 until Pascal and Polaris launch?

The ASRock board comes with Assassin's Creed Syndicate (SCAN)

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asrock-z170-extreme6plus-intel-z170-s-1151-ddr4-satae-m2-(pcie-sata)-2-way-sli-3-way-crossfire-gbe-u

Best just to save up

Includes a 1440p 144hz IPS display, just don't buy the ASUS one as it only has free-sync up to 90hz, while the ACER one here has free-sync up to 144hz.

also US based build, so some parts might not be optimal

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/mQmRf7
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/mQmRf7/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor (£329.99 @ Novatech)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£26.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard (£218.53 @ More Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£66.29 @ More Computers)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£53.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.95 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 390 8GB Double Dissipation Video Card (£256.98 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case (£34.28 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£76.99 @ Novatech)
Monitor: Acer XF270HU 144Hz 27.0" Monitor (£439.98 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £1543.96

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Thanks for your suggestion, X99 seems to be a rip off for what i will be doing, i doubt Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere once in a blue moon will really justify the price over the much lower priced Skylake IMO, plus Skylake is faster at raw gaming?

looks pretty solid though I wouldn't get the blue ray drive because they don't work very well and if you wanted to play blue rays its better to get an actual player. On top of that the blue ray drive doesn’t come with software and the software that is out there is kind of hit and miss. And Skylake should be faster in gaming

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Thanks, yeah i will remove that then, i can always blow some cash on a 2nd hand PS3 or something i guess.

skylake is 5% faster than haswell so not too much of a difference clock for clock.

it's more for the platform, and it basically costs the same if you factor everything in, the CPU/Motherboard is hardly more expensive than what you have there, and the only thing you have to save some money on is the cooler, but the Hyper 212 EVO/X will be fine for a mild OC if you aren't in a hot area.

I like to push things to their limit's (reasonable limit)

5ghz etc which is doable on both platforms.

I'm not sure if me and you are looking at the same prices, X99 is far more expensive, the boards even low end are ludicrous.

Plus basic encode and rendering... i can't justify it TBH, i already stream to Twitch and my internet is my limiting factor not processing power, so even then the 6700K is going to blow my AMD chip into the next cosmos.

i would get a xeon 2670 off ebay. they are going for about 70$ USD atm and are hyper threaded 8 core's.


atm the market is being flooded by discontinued servers so you can one of these dirt cheap. run off a x99 board like the one guru suggested. cant be overclocked, but more cores and better performance then anything under 1k$

and ofc with x99 you can upgrade the cpu to a overclockable one down the road.

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£289.98 @ Ebuyer)
CPU Cooler: Swiftech H220-X 55.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£115.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Extreme6+ ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£160.75 @ Amazon UK)
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CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor (£329.99 @ Novatech)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£26.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard (£218.53 @ More Computers)
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effectively the same for more CPU performance and the better overall platform.

aside from that, good luck hitting 5ghz,here's the average for haswell-E from the overclockers forum, I'm sure there's one for skylake somewhere

http://www.overclock.net/t/1510388/haswell-e-overclock-leaderboard-owners-club

skylake info

I hit 5.2 on Sandy, and 4.5 on this AMD chip i use right now.

Sometimes it just takes a pair of balls, and some deeper tweaking.

That CM Hyper 212 won't do anything for a 5820K with a little bit of volts... you must be mad.

5960X OC'd to 4.4ghz here

Yeah that's like my CPU at 3.6ghz, it's not enough to get the most out of the chip which is the reasonable limit, unreasonable is LN2 and DICE... crazy runs or Helium.

The only thing you need to take into consideration is the TDP, obviously intel have dun goofed before with the 4770K and 4670K with trhe internal application of Thermal compound, but that aside, TDP is everything.

My chip exceeds the Phenom II x4 traditional TDP as it's an unlocked dual core, so we are already above 140w which is the same TDP as the 5820K, i run my Phenom under a liquid cooler (H100).

Max temp this chip will allow is 62c which is not comparable to the intel CPU's, they have a higher ceiling but they still scale temps the same as the AMD chips, they are just higher numbers.

Ya I dunno, overclocking has lost it's luster a bit, like the i7 6700 already has a turbo speed of 4ghz, really not much reason to go past that for most cases.

Still though even if you don't have the mega cooler the 6700K gives you, you have the way better platform and additional CPU cores to work with on the 5820K, or Broadwell EP was just announced/released and that has Skylake's extra 5% performance since it's broadwell naturally.

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Hey it's all to come yet, i'm not buying yet so i have time to take up the x99 route, so thanks anyway, i do like diversity in options :)

And then there's also the PCI-e lane thing if you ever want to blow some cash on NVME drives, 28 lane max for Z170 I think, and 40 lane for X99 if you go for the higher end chip of the 5930K

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Actually it's only 20 lanes on Z170... that's interesting, my system right now has more lanes than that o.0
790FX (38 lanes)

And the 5820K can supply a full 28 lanes...