new build

[John Galt]

i have yet to install an os on it or anything yet but the build is complete

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2fK7v

i got a different dvd drive when i went shopping at micro center, and have yet toi pick up a new tb hdd (i have multiples in other computers i may just throw in there)

[The Comrade]

why intel? if you stopped at an i5 why even bother, let alone getting liquid cooling.

also that RAM is really slow. DDR3 1600 g.skill is what i have in my computer. and it's about four years old now.

and an MSI 680 with 2 gigs of vram for 400 dollars? galt, i'm disappoint.

[John Galt]

i didn't pay those prices, i was just linking the build parts. i got the vcard for under 200, and it came with a free copy of the new splinter cell game and assasin's creed black flag.

it's an i7-4770K. there is no faster intel haswell chip on the market. i mean i could have got the ultra i7s from ivy bridge... but im not spending 1K on a processor. why intel? because intel is the best?

ddr4 ram isn't even out yet genius. 1600 megatransfers per second is really really slow i know, but i jsut couldn't justify going up by 500

[The Comrade]

ooo my bad. thought it was an i5.

either way

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819113347

this would justify water cooling, is benchmarked better, and is a comparable price.

and i didn't say anything about ddr4. but you could have gotten 8 gigs of ddr3 2400 for like 60 dollars. that's what i just did. you bought 16 gigs of four year old RAM. so, you pretty much overpaid for that motherboard too. aside from getting the right socket, you could have just gotten some 60 dollar board.

[Spider]

Planning on a serious OC on the CPU?

Personally, I'd have gone with an i5-4670K, forgone the liquid cooling loop, and put that extra 200 bucks towards a GTX 780. No way you'd bottleneck a 780 with a 4670K. They still overclock pretty well, but I think you'd have been OK with a moderate 1GHz OC on the 4670k on air, considering the lower temps of the Haswell's. Maybe use a bit cheaper RAM (I've tested slower and faster ram in my current rig. The stuff that costs 40% less is only about a single FPS slower) and buy a moderate air cooler. Maybe Noctua.

I suspect with a 680 you're going to top out the GPU with a lot more CPU headroom left over, especially considering the (assumed) OC.

But that's just me. I dig your build. If you're doing some stuff where a screaming CPU is priority, more power to you.

I do know sometime in the spring when I do a new build (I've been running the same hardware for years now. The consoles basically freeze graphics in place, so there is no reason to step up.) I'm going to follow you're lead and spring for SSD for boot, but I'm probably going to leave the system on a test bench rather than an enclosure. I've also been considering a pure SSD system, since I have a file server in the closet, and just have a PC with no spinning drives, and put the savings towards more SSD capacity. 21st century FTW.

If I do a case, it will be a mini-ITX setup. I don't think full tower ATX cases are really that necessary anymore. The thermal loads are a lot lower than they used to be.

[John Galt]

its not only for gaming, also videos of me gaming, plus processing such videos. plus photowork. plus work. AT THE SAME TIME. no really, i probably will. well, some of those things anyway. plus i like to have 150 tabs of chrome open at once

comrade i dunno why you're always so negative and hateful about everything, but i suspect its because your mom won't get you the computer you want

i got the processor for half off, plus i saved 50 off the mb buying it together with the processor. was a hell of a deal, couldn't pass up (got it a bit ago, been acquiring parts since), and i built the machine around that. if gpu becomes an actual issue i can get another one. tbh i don't know much about gpus, likely because their naming/numbering conventions are intentionally confusing

the old box is going to become a server, but i'll probably throw in a hdd or two in my case at some point. they are cheap anyway. the old box's 2tb are almost full (lots and lots of raw pictures)

oh and i went with this set up because i just wanted to be sure about all the cooling, and it looked nice. the box is separated into two, as you can see in the picture there is no power supply visible. it's on the other side (it's pretty damn big), which holds the wires, the dvd drive, and can hold 5 ssds. makes the side where cooling is important super clean and neat. and yeah, i did do some of the things because it looks cool. i probably could have gotten away with stock cpu cooler and not gone crazy with OC, but i wanted it to look good, cool well, and be able to be heavily OCd

[The Comrade]

i'm trying to help you, honky.

plus my current build is better than yours bruh

[Spider]

Ya I was wondering about the PSU. I was squinting at the picture like, "No power supply. And yet it runs. Hmmm. Must be a trick of the shadows or something." Neato.

I doubt your 680 is going to cause any issues. Its beefcake. At 1920X1080 you'll steamroll the next gen stuff methinks. I'm still using my trusty HD 5870 from years ago...still chews through pretty much everything, so long as I don't start trying to push a high res display with it. Picked up Far Cry 3 for $7 in the steam sale...maxes it out at right around 27-30 FPS @1200p. So I can't imagine a 680 being anything but a beast. The new consoles hardware is kinda pathetic, so sadly, I don't think there is going to be much use for crazy GPUs unless you wanna push crazy resolutions and multiple monitors.

Wait. 150 tabs. lolwut.

[The Comrade]

really though galt you gotta get some better RAM. even if you didn't pay full price for that there's way better options for less.

[Professor]

OK, don't know much about computers. But, I need a 3-monitor setup for work. Don't want to spend much, as it's not for gaming. I just need to have 3 monitors running at the same time for spreadsheets, documents, e-mails, etc.

What's the cheapest way to accomplish this? My IT guy bought a card that said it did 3, but it only "supports" 3 monitors, while only being able to run 2 at one time.