I was building my friends computer when it got me in the mood to do some upgrading. I was going to hold of for zen but I may not =) budget so far 800 bucks. It will probably in crease if I can win the lotto or I hold out for zen. =)
Here is my current build.
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/9kd6hq
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00)
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88X Extreme6+ ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($95.91 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($85.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card
Case: Thermaltake Core X9 Snow Edition ATX Desktop Case ($159.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Corsair Enthusiast 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($44.90)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit (Purchased For $0.00)
Monitor: Asus VN248H-P 23.8" Monitor ($134.99)
Total: $521.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Here is what I built for myself. If its not on the list i'm bring it up from my current build
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/8XHNGf
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($338.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H110i GTX 104.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($137.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($29.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($54.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $661.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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I didn't put a graphics card because I am going to use my 260x until the 480 comes out.
I just want to get others thoughts.
Oh yeah what I do Gaming and 3d rendering. maya photoshop, zbrush. Sometimes i do some handbrake videos and video editing but its not my day job =)
Should I just save my money not worry about intel and just get the 1080 =)
I say go for it.....The i7's Single Thread rating on the intel kicks the AMDs arse as well as more cores(threads)
BUT I would choose a little better drive than the Adata, while it is faster than a HDD, A Toshiba, AMD or Samsung SSD will kick its butt....
I upgraded from a 760k to i7-4790s and its nice to know I have a computer that will not slow down no matter what I throw at it (at least for now)
I would say that unless you're aiming to push the 6700K to its limits, you should get an air cooler rather than a water cooler. Considerably less expensive, smaller and quieter. It doesn't need to be a noctua monstrosity, but you want some overclocking headroom at least. I would stick with the Hyper 212 that you already have.
Other than that... you'll want more RAM down the road for rendering and video editing. But the rest looks alright.
Expect Zen's architecture to be between Ivy Bridge and Skylake IPC. And it will have SMT.
When it comes to SSD I'm ignorant. I thought about this
Samsung evo 250gb $87.69
https://amzn.com/B00OAJ412U
Is that a good price or would a smaller brand have better speeds for a cheaper price?
Id get the EVO for sure! Will smoke the Adata
Honestly, I have seen Crucial M4s boot windows just as fast as newer drives, sometimes even faster. the DMI 3.0 interface helps immensely with that. I installed SP550s in the machines at my workplace and they are extremely good drives for the money. So long as it is not an SSDnow V300, most SATA SSDs above 240GB are capable of near-saturating the SATA III bus in sequential writes, and most are performing close to 100k IOPS. The noticeable, tangible performance difference between modern SATA SSDs are negligible at best between the budget Mushkins and Adatas and the highest-end 850 EVO.
TL;DR, SSDs are getting cheaper. Cheaping out on one no longer means that you'll get a poorly performing drive.
been browsing SSD info. they talk about TLC MLC and all that hoopla so basically SSD's in a nutshell. Cheaper SSDS breakdown faster and leave you with a dead drive after awhile. I will use it as a bootdrive and will never have any sensitive information I want to keep on it. I may move pictures around if i'm messing with photoshop but I will always have backups created on old school platter drives. From what I read the sp550 uses the same chips as the 850 evo but a cheaper version and this causes the SSD to slow down after awhile. So if I buy the EVO it will not do large file slow downs and has a better warranty. If I get the SP550 I have the chance of getting HDD like speed on huge files. Am I correct?
I had a very similar system, just a bit lower cost. The Asus Z170 A is a very solid board and will serve you well for overclocking. I had a 6600K at 4.5GHz on there and used H110 for cooling. Perfect setup for games for the next few years. Rendering, handbrake... should be fine. For those purposes I might go for more cores (and I did) but as a main system with gaming in mind and on a limited budget, yeah thats fine.
Think about getting a faster stick of RAM, and get a second one as soon as possible.
Staying under the 800 mark what could I do differently to add a good video card better than the 260x
It's weird, tech specs my arse, I've used just about 75% of brands out there when I used to build fairly basic computers (100+ for a past job) for a office work / light photo editing and everyday work, and in real world everyday use nothing beats:
Samsung, Toshiba (is faster than Samsung a lot of the times), AMD (uses Toshibas flash), Intel, Mushkin, Crucial (TOTL names), Kingston HyperX, Corsairs (TOTL Names too) and Seagates (uses Toshibas flash too)
Patriot and Adata Have worked fine for me for LONG periods of time but they do not meet the advertised speeds. These 2 also show the effect of latency issues on Windows, despite the fact you might not need the 500mbps+ speed, using it in Windows vs the top name brand you CAN tell a difference between opening up programs and using it normally.
I've had these following crash on me, 4 OCZs , 2 PNYs (aside from the fact they are dog slow), 1 SP (Silicon Power), 1 Plextor, and 1 SanDisk.
But that's just MY experience.
Ok I'm now on Team Blue. AMD forgive me =) went with my original build waiting for the 480 to release and I will be good to go =) I will make a build vlog for you guys =)
OK Got my system all together and did some small benchmarks...Disclaimer I'm not a professional =)
Here are some picks of the build and my older system. FOR anyone who is thinking about the core x9 from TT be warned, The Case is huge 14.5"w x 23"L x 19"H.
Here is my OC
Here are the settings for thief and Tomb raider. (Disclaimer) Graphics card is the r7 260x. I didnt upgrade it. I am waiting for AMD's new card to come out before I upgrade it.
Battlefield 4 Settings set on Ultra using Mantle. Multiplayer using Fraps to log fps.
This is the only benchmark that really shocked me. I didn't know how CPU dependant BF4 really was. I figured it would be similar to thief and Tomb Raider.
