Bill wrote:
wrote:
Case 1 x iBUYPOWER Snowblind Element [Restock Date: 11/27]
LED Fan Lighting 1 x 3x [RGB] Raidmax NV-R120B 120mm RGB LED Ring Fan
Case Lighting 1 x Snowblind White LEDs
Processor 1 x Intel® Core™ i7-8700K Processor (6x 3.70GHz/12MB L3
Cache)
Processor Cooling 1 x DEEPCOOL Captain 120EX Gamer Storm 120mm
Liquid CPU Cooling System - RGB
Memory 1 x 16 GB [8 GB X2] DDR4-3000 Memory Module - Certified
Major Brand Gaming Memory
Video Card 1 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 - 8GB (VR-Ready) - FREE
Upgrade to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 MSI ARMOR OC 8GB
Motherboard 1 x GIGABYTE Z370XP SLI -- RGB Fusion, 3x PCIe x16, 1x
USB 3.1 Gen2, 6x USB 3.1 Gen1 [Intel Optane Ready]
Power Supply 1 x 800 Watt - Standard 80 PLUS Bronze - (includes
White Sleeved Cables)
Primary Hard Drive 1 x 16 GB Intel® Optane™ Memory Accelerator M.2
PCIe NVMe + 1 TB 7200RPM Hard Drive - (OS Drive)
Data Hard Drive 1 x 1 TB Hard Drive -- 32MB Cache, 7200RPM, 6.0Gb/s
- Single Drive
Sound Card 1 x 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard
Network Card 1 x Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100)

New build list



As long as you're going to detail your components, why not add prices to
help make it more informative?

Cheers,
Bill

https://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Intel-Z370-Element

If you scroll down to the video card choice, you'll see
the default choice is:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 - 8GB (VR-Ready)
FREE Upgrade to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 MSI ARMOR OC 8GB

He is buying from a menu.

I wondered about the branding on the computer case,
and your question got me curious enough to look it up.

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If you scroll down to the non-default memory section,
there you can see the brandings they offer.

16 GB [8 GB X2] DDR4-3000 Memory Module (w/ RGB Lighting)
ADATA XPG SPECTRIX D41 (RGB LED)
ADATA XPG SPECTRIX D40 (RGB LED)
G.SKILL Trident Z (RGB LED)
Corsair Vengeance (RGB LED)

Of those, I'd select the G.SKILL, for no other
reason than I own some.

So when the default install says

Certified Major Brand Gaming Memory

it's probably the ADATA product. In the regular market, the
ADATA might be a bit cheaper. You can look some up on Newegg
to see how the prices compare on each.

And fancy memory doesn't help a whole hell of
a lot. Years ago it used to matter. Wasting all your
money on fancy RAM now, isn't quite as clever.

I had a couple Core2 systems, and one had DDR2-533 (slow),
and it hardly mattered. What did matter, was the cache on
one Core2 system was smaller than the other, and 7ZIP
ran at 2/3rds of the speed, on the gutless system. One
CPU had 2MB cache, the other 6MB. Only 7ZIP cared about
this. Games didn't care at all.

Paul