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My nephew emailed me for computer advice.
Here is the specs he picked out. https://imgur.com/a/7kgD1C0 Any tips? |
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I appreciate all the advice and thank you for your knowledge on this, this will be my first gaming build computer and am trying to put together a good set up that's going to hold up to gaming for the next 5 years, and be able to play everything new at the most possible visual quality.
Thanks Paul,-Daniel |
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On 7/15/2018 12:51 PM, lid wrote:
My nephew emailed me for computer advice. Here is the specs he picked out. https://imgur.com/a/7kgD1C0 Any tips? Our main PC was home built 3 years ago and is still running strong with no hardware issues. What we found during the course of putting ours together, was that careful shopping got us a ton of rebates. So, pick your parts and shop around. Partspicker helped a lot. It's a pain to chop up the boxes for the barcode and send in receipts, but well worth the couple of hundred dollars we saved. |
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I appreciate all the advice and thank you for your knowledge on this, this will be my first gaming build computer and am trying to put together a good set up that's going to hold up to gaming for the next 5 years, and be able to play everything new at the most possible visual quality. Thanks Paul,-Daniel I notice you're missing a motherboard. Was that intentional ? This is a 300 series, which has a more complete set of PCIe slots. Some of the other boards only have a couple PCIe slots and a lot of M.2 connectors. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16813144106 What I find, is I have toys here with x1 connectors (and one with an x4 connector). And a little flexibility in the slots, gives me some room to plug the toys in. If you're not a collector of $40 expansion cards, perhaps this doesn't matter to you. There are around 67 boards in the $100-$200 range to choose from. In the reviews for the above board, one overclocker manages to get the 8600K to 5GHz on multipliers. Not that you have to overclock of course... At least the board works with 8600K, which was the point of looking quickly through the reviews. I'm kinda shocked at the overall price of your system, but I guess we can blame that on the video card. My system here has a $40 class video card in it, because at the time, the video card I wanted had bad drivers so I said "screw it" and moved on. And I still haven't fixed that. For one thing, modern video cards are too damn fat, and take up a lot of space inside the machine, which means I'll be making more tradeoffs if I go that way. The $40 video card is a single slot card with a relatively small heatsink. Paul |
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:39:49 -0400, Paul
wrote: wrote: My nephew emailed me for computer advice. Here is the specs he picked out. https://imgur.com/a/7kgD1C0 Any tips? First of all, for best performance on a dual channel CPU, you want two sticks of RAM. Change the single 8GB stick, to a 2x4GB kit. If you're made of money, then a 2x8GB kit would be a better first choice. The system would actually boot and work with a single 8GB stick, and you "might not even notice" this mistake. But it's a dual channel CPU, so we feed it two matched sticks for "good luck". Both the first page (first item) and the second (last item) have an 8Gb ram stick so he got 16Gb of ram, but it might be cost effective to order a 2 x 8Gb matched pair for the purpose of running them in dual channel mode. (Or maybe one of them was intended to be the missing motherboard.) |
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Motherboard specs:
MSI z270 gaming M3 LGA 1151 internal z270 HDMI SATA 6gb/s usb 3.1 ATX motherboards-Intel |
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I have reselected my choices per your advice and matched the two, now to do even more research. I feel a bit overwhelmed, its a bunch to research and take in, thank you for all the help so far. I still have many questions. Trying to learn a bit more so i can narrow my questions.
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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 |
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