Could you guys give me your feedback on my soon to be setup, it's roughly close enough to what I want, however all of the parts are not final, and yeah, I think it's accurate enough to give you a close enough idea as to what the end product will be like, I won't be buying all of the parts in one go, some parts will be purchased at a later date, such as the speakers, monitor and desk. But either way, I'd like to know what you guys think about my setup.
I know that some of the parts aren't the best bang for your buck, but that's not really what I'm going for at all, I'm personally going for what suits me, what I personally want and need from my system.
I should note that I've salvaged my GTX 780 from my previous build and it still handles everything perfectly for me, so I feel there's no need to get a new graphics card. I just wanted to point out that I wouldn't be buying a GTX 780 for a new system, but as it's still so good, it's still pointless in buying a newer graphics card.
Dude, if you have that much money to burn, then buy a dual-socket Xenon and an 1080 and 32 or 64gb. An intel quad-core, a 780 and 16 GB of RAM is just weak.
Remember that the quantity of hard drives is more important than the speed of those disks. 2 250GB SSDs is faster than 1 500GB one. For mechanical disks, if buying new, then get at least 3TB ones. Store data redundantly to increase reliability.
I should've also mentioned the hard drives, they're drives that I'll be scavenging from my current PC, and keep in mind that cost include the cost of everything, the monitor, desk, speakers, etc. I mean if it were just the system, then I'd agree that the price is not that great, but considering that's not just the PC but the setup as a whole, I don't think it's too bad.
I was also planning on getting 2 x 500GB SSD's btw, but I thought that I'd just start with the 1.
EDIT: I should also note that I will not be paying that much for my mouse and keyboard. I already have purchased that mouse recently for £80, AND my keyboard is incredibly similar to the one I included in the par picker, but it only cost me £30. Amazingly, even though it's a very cheap keyboard, it feels great, looks nice, and meets my personal needs, so that was actually a great buy for me. I also doubt I'll spend that much on a monitor, I'm still debating if I should get an ultra wide monitor, as I do a lot of coding, so monitors that can be oriented may be better for me. I just though I'd get one that's a pretty price because I'll probably get 2 monitors, possibly even 3, and in total they'll cost at least that much.
Totally fair enough, but that's not what I'd personally go for, if anything, the form factor and the specific(I can't help but emphasise how specific this is to me) dimensions of that case is the main focus of this build.
Also, @Peanut253 I think that if you take away all the additional stuff and some of the stuff I already have (peripherals and the desk and what not), it's actually more like £800~900.
That cost is just the computer components that I plan to purchase.
EDIT: I also wouldn't buy that motherboard either, that's a bit overkill for what I want.
I would spend the extra 10 bucks for the full Windows 10. OEM might be a headache if you want to upgrade your cpu/mb later on. I would also look at the i5 vs the i7, for me the much cheaper i5 would be a better choice but ultimately your in a better spot to choose what suits you best. Monitors are hard cause they last so long. Have you considered either a cheaper 1080 or slightly more expensive 4k. I do like the 34 inch part. Size always matters:)
That's actually a really good point, that is clearly something I overlooked.
I've actually started to look at the i5 6500, as my current i5 runs at 3.20GHz, and it experiences 0 problems in terms of performance, so I guess that's an option? - Plus due to the fact that it's brand new, and it's not the top end, it should never get too hot, unless I were to smoother it with a pillow and ultimately kill my computer.
Yeah, I know, I'm experiencing this problem myself, but I think it would be amazing if I had monitors that I could adjust the physical settings of (height and stuff), my current one's are so cheap, they can't do that sadly.
I really like the look of the case too, it's slightly gamer looking, but not ROG gamer looking if you know what I mean?
I've noticed that my taste in cases and form factors isn't a very popular taste, however, the market does seem to be growing for people who want mini itx cases and setups that can do all of the top end stuff, and run just about anything at any setting.
I also had a quick check to see the price difference with a cheaper motherboard and a cheaper processor, like I said, the i5 6500, and the price difference is so nice that I think I can justify dropping that little bit of performance! :)
However, I just noticed that there's a WD red drive, and there's a WD red pro drive, the only difference is that the pro version has twice as much cache. And my apologies, that's a minor mistake, it's meant to be a blue drive, just because it's good enough really? - I'm actually using that drive right now and I only got it in the first place because I was running slightly low on storage, and I managed to buy the drive whilst it was on sale in a local hardware shop.
But yeah, is there actually a performance difference that's noticeable between the normal red drive and the red pro drive?
I'm about 50% of the way through, and I think that I'm pretty much bang on, for gaming alone, the i7 is not at all essential, as this video had proven, the i5 is sometimes better, it's very rare where the i7 is actually noticeably better. I mean 10% when you've got WAY over 100 FPS, I guess that you'd never notice it unless you watch it in slow motion somehow.
Sadly I don't have the money for a xeon, and I doubt I will get an i7, it just seems like it would be a bit of a waste on me, I mean I RARELY make use of applications that would benefit from hyper threading. Even when I do, they run so smoothly with my current i5 that I HIGHLY doubt I PERSONALLY would even notice the difference at all. I mean I've used slow asf tech for so long in previous years, waiting that extra second is nothing, I used to have a laptop that would take 10 minutes to boot, believe it or not. I swear it must've had a lot of heat damage, I don't think the cooling on that laptop was sufficient enough, the VGA port would get so hot, if I wore shorts, it would ever so slightly burn my leg, if held there for 10+ seconds.
