I've been planning on building a PC for quite sometime now but I might be able to actually build one come this summer. I've asked for some opinions on this build before on a different forum (LinusTechTips) which I've been a rather active member for almost two years now.
Anyways this is the build. I plan on mostly gaming with it, if I ever get a decent camera (something from Canon or Sony) I might do some photo editing and maybe video editing if I ever get into that. The budget, I wanted to keep it under $2,100 but the build I have here is $120 over that so, yeah.
Now because I'm building it this summer, I'll get either an R9 480X or GTX 1070. Though I really hope that the 480X is as good as I hope, which I want to perform similar or better than a 390X. I could save a little money and not get a second SSD or partition off 500GB of the 2TB HDD for Linux since I think it'd be pretty cool actually have Linux installed on a PC rather than just using a live USB to use Linux for short time frames.
The base system looks good to me. On the graphics: Maybe take your old GPU with you until Polaris launches. Then you can decide if you want to go green or red.
Yeah looks pretty good. Now if you are dead set on that particular keyboard than disregard this: I'd personally get a cheaper keyboard and get a Cryorig R1 ultimate. Better overclocking headroom. But that's just my opinion.
I'm not deadset on that keyboard, I could probably go for like a Logitech G710 (I think that's the one with the MX Brown Switches) I just liked the idea of having RGB, though I think the G710/G710 have white LEDs so that's fine. Technically no lighting would be fine too but. The R1 Ultimate is so big. Though I suppose because it is bigger it would cool the i5 even better than the H5 could. I was originally considering going with the H7 but I felt that I might not be able to get too good of an overclock, and a few people over at the LTT forum said they really liked their H5 and kept their CPUs pretty cool at idle.
Originally, I had been sure that I would be fine just trying to get a leftover R9 380X or 390X, but then I realized that Polaris or Pascal might allow me to get a cheaper GPU to get similar or better performance since I wanted something good for 1440p gaming at high or ultra settings getting at least 50FPS.
Solid build specially if you wait for Polaris and if Polaris turns out to be as good. Only thing I'd possibly change is going for a free sync monitor see if you can find one
Well I could also save a little money and just not getting a second SSD for Linux and still keep the Strafe RGB (MX Brown), also I might be able to save a little money on the GPU and get similar performance if the 480X or GTX 1070 have about R9 390X performance. Which they both should be able to get.
