6dracing
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Good morning fellas! I've been out of the gaming PC world for a few years now. Last PC I had was a 980x machine. I am looking to get back into it but haven't followed the pc market much. I want to build a mid to highend gaming pc. I have about a $1500 budget and not opposed to buying used CPU's from the market place. I already have a mouse, keyboard, SSD's, monitor and water cooling gear. I just need advice on Mobo, Ram, CPU, and GPU. I plan on using an EVGA 1200 watt PSU. Let me know whats best and recommendations. Thanks in advance.
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Re: Advice on new PC
Friday, January 22, 2016 3:39 PM
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I'd look for a used i7 4770k or 4790k and a nice (but not overkill) ASRock or Gigabyte Z97. 8GB DDR3 1866 is a sweet spot in price/performance, and you'll have plenty of money for a very nice GPU, GTX 980 at the minimum. You don't need a PSU or display?
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Re: Advice on new PC
Friday, January 22, 2016 4:52 PM
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The 980x is still a capable CPU. If you still have it upgrading other components might be a better way to go.
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Re: Advice on new PC
Friday, January 22, 2016 7:23 PM
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I sold everything but the monitor and above listed parts 3 years back. I do however need a psu but figured I would just go with an EVGA 1000 watt or so. I've looked at the 2001 v3 stuff but for gaming I know its not needed.
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Re: Advice on new PC
Friday, January 22, 2016 7:24 PM
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boredgunner
I'd look for a used i7 4770k or 4790k and a nice (but not overkill) ASRock or Gigabyte Z97. 8GB DDR3 1866 is a sweet spot in price/performance, and you'll have plenty of money for a very nice GPU, GTX 980 at the minimum. You don't need a PSU or display?
How do you like the 6700 series cpu? Is it worth jumping into?
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Re: Advice on new PC
Friday, January 22, 2016 7:48 PM
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No, no, no... that's not good. You should ask Xray Man for advice, he build best possible RIG at this moment. I mean it could be better, but he choose right platform and his CPU is best option. i7-5930K, X99, 32GB DDR4 GSkill 2800 for 220$. He bought Dominator Platinum, but you can save lot on GSkill. No better option, and chipset will be same for next Intel Xtreme generation. For GPU you should buy at least cheapest version of GTX980Ti, she is 150$ more than GTX980, in some cases only 100$ more but it's much stronger card, twice as difference between 980 and 970 even more than twice.
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Re: Advice on new PC
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Re: Advice on new PC
Friday, January 22, 2016 7:54 PM
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You can't buy X99 FTW, you will be in serious problem with lack of M.2. At least X99 Classified. That's very important part, because M.2 devices are one of most important advantage of new generations. Their speed is double faster than RAID of best SATA III SSD. And 512GB cost only 330$, 256GB cost 190$. You can't stay on only SATA III for next several years. If you want to save money you can pass well with X99 Micro 2, you will get and USB 3.1 connector. But mATX. For SLI is enough, that's not flaw at all. She could hold 64GB memory, no matter on 4 DIMM slots, M.2 is there, USB 3.1 is there... Why not.
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Re: Advice on new PC
Friday, January 22, 2016 8:02 PM
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which x99 mobo's have these features
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Re: Advice on new PC
Friday, January 22, 2016 8:09 PM
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I serious think that you should check and other motherboards on market, but today is very hard to choose X99 motherboard... Newegg sell GIGABYTE X99-UD3P for 169$... or 149$ after rebate I can't believe, so cheap... This should be checked nicely on different forums... Board have and some recommendations if I see good... http://www.newegg.com/Pro..._-13-128-772-_-Product
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Re: Advice on new PC
Friday, January 22, 2016 10:12 PM
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Many motherboards, somehow MSI fastest build revision with Internal USB 3.1.
ASRock and ASUS offer some Port cards for USB 3.1 except for few models...
ASUS Sabertooth is only ASUS complete X99 model, MSI have X99A MPower, X99A XPower AC,
X99A SLI Krait Edition, for GIGABYTE I'm not sure but I think they didn't build USB 3.1 with X99 at all.
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Re: Advice on new PC
Friday, January 22, 2016 10:31 PM
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Awesome man!
Thanks for the help. It will still be a month before I purchase anything. I will keep reading up to get back up to speed on all of this. Things change so quick in the PC market.
You've been great help.
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Re: Advice on new PC
Saturday, January 23, 2016 0:32 PM
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6dracing
boredgunner
I'd look for a used i7 4770k or 4790k and a nice (but not overkill) ASRock or Gigabyte Z97. 8GB DDR3 1866 is a sweet spot in price/performance, and you'll have plenty of money for a very nice GPU, GTX 980 at the minimum. You don't need a PSU or display?
How do you like the 6700 series cpu? Is it worth jumping into?
Minor improvements in single threaded games and multithreaded games over an i7 2600 non-K, even with a higher frequency. This is at 2560 x 1440 though so I'm more GPU bound than CPU bound, but consider these results. It's best to spend more on GPU in my opinion.
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Re: Advice on new PC
Monday, January 25, 2016 3:00 PM
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Thanks!
I think for future proofing I will go with 2011-v3. Now just to decide on GPU. I'm thinking 970 4 gig since I have a single monitor.
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Re: Advice on new PC
Monday, January 25, 2016 4:30 PM
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If you game on 1080, that is your best bet/bang for the bucks.
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Re: Advice on new PC
Monday, January 25, 2016 6:48 PM
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I do have a 1080p monitor right now. I do plan to upgrade to a 4k but that will be in a year or so. Will the 970 4 gig handle 4k with a single monitor? Im sure it will be at medium settings if it does
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Re: Advice on new PC
Monday, January 25, 2016 6:50 PM
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6dracing
I do have a 1080p monitor right now. I do plan to upgrade to a 4k but that will be in a year or so. Will the 970 4 gig handle 4k with a single monitor? Im sure it will be at medium settings if it does
4k overrated and impractical for gaming. 2k is the sweet spot and will be for years to come if you only have one GPU.
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Re: Advice on new PC
Monday, January 25, 2016 6:59 PM
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If you buy a 970 buy The Hybrid ! I owned a 970sc and took it back and bought a 980ti Hybrid !
This due to Temps on 970 were in the 70C+ range and the Hybrid is around 40C.
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Re: Advice on new PC
Monday, January 25, 2016 9:09 PM
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By 2k you mean 1080p or 2560x1440?
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Re: Advice on new PC
Monday, January 25, 2016 9:18 PM
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Nevermind, researched it myself.
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