Re: CPU/Motherboard/RAM Combination Advice?
2017/08/16 00:23:51
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I have 3 different computers and building a 4th, why?
Each one has a pacific purpose.
One is my main computer that I do searching the web, email, banking, SETI at Home, and play older games.
It's a 6 year old X58 motherboard (Asus Sabertooth, it sucks and will be replaced with another X58 motherboard this week). Asus customer support sucks.
It has a i7 980X CPU (6 core) with 24 GB ram and a EVGA 1050 Ti GPU.
My other computer is a X58 Asus P6t Deluxe Version 2, love this motherboard.
This has a i7 975X (4 core), 12 GB ram a small ssd drive and a 6 Tb Seagate hard drive with 2 EVGA 1050 Ti GPU.
I run Plex media server, DVDFAB (a video ripper and converter) and SETI at home.
DVDFAB uses the cuda cores for high speed translation of video formats so I have to turn off SETI as it uses the cuda cores too.
With 1 EVGA 1050 Ti DVDFAB does up to 500 frames per second, with 2 it does up to 1400 frames per second.
My monster is built around a Cosmos II case, i7 6980x (10 core CPU), 4 Corsair Dominator Platinum 3000 MHz 16 GB (32 total) (so I can use the 4 channel memory), EVGA 1080 Hybrid GPU, EVGA 1080 super clocked GPU, EVGA X99 Classified motherboard that has a 4 core Sound Blaster GPU.
A small ssd drive for OS and a 1 Tb Seagate barracuda hard drive.
I plan to add 2 more 1080's GPU's as the motherboard supports 4.
Although this would be a great video editing machine I do not use it for that.
I use it for SETI at Home only.
Lastly, the new one I'm building has a EVGA case (DG-85) that I suggest you don't buy as it has no provision for a DVD drive. You have to buy a external USB one.
I plan to replace my P6T with this one.
So far no cpu, ram, gpu.
So what are you using your new computer for?
I suggest you buy from EVGA as there customer service is way above anyone else.
In conclusion, buy motherboards, video cards from EVGA.
CPU, RAM, Cases from someone else.