Building a new PC

ScarySpikes

ScarySpikes

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Agent Orange said:
Updated: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/qWsYNN

Took suggestions and I feel pretty good with this setup.
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If you haven't bought the parts already I'll throw in my two cents.


Personally, I think that the RX 480 is more future proof due to it's better handling of asynchronous compute. Either way, I highly suggest from experience you pick EVGA for Nvidia graphics cards, and either Sapphire or XFX for AMD graphics. They are both much better in terms of customer service. (I personally have an MSI 970 and I've had some issues dealing with their customer service.)


Also, pricing right now is a bit crazy, but I still don't think paying $300 for a 1060 makes sense. it should be in the 250-270 range. I would say wait until the pricing becomes more sane but I don't know if things are going to calm down on that front for a while.

Either way, the rest of the build looks pretty good. IF you wanted to, it is possible to fit a 1070 chip into a 1000 or so dollar build.

That would look like this one:http://pcpartpicker.com/list/jt7TYr
 
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mikev

mikev

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ScarySpikes said:
If you haven't bought the parts already I'll throw in my two cents.


Personally, I think that the RX 480 is more future proof due to it's better handling of asynchronous compute. Either way, I highly suggest from experience you pick EVGA for Nvidia graphics cards, and either Sapphire or XFX for AMD graphics. They are both much better in terms of customer service. (I personally have an MSI 970 and I've had some issues dealing with their customer service.)


Also, pricing right now is a bit crazy, but I still don't think paying $300 for a 1060 makes sense. it should be in the 250-270 range. I would say wait until the pricing becomes more sane but I don't know if things are going to calm down on that front for a while.

Either way, the rest of the build looks pretty good. IF you wanted to, it is possible to fit a 1070 chip into a 1000 or so dollar build.

That would look like this one:http://pcpartpicker.com/list/jt7TYr
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Skip the 2 drives and go with a larger SSD.
 
ScarySpikes

ScarySpikes

tastes like burning
mikev said:
Skip the 2 drives and go with a larger SSD.
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Doing so would still only leave a 240 Gig or so SSD, and 240 gigs fills up really quick these days with larger games. From my use, the things that benefit the most from large SSD's are OS, productivity software, and a very small selection of games. All of which could probably fit on the smaller SSD.

On the other side, storage is by far the easiest thing to add in down the line. So going for a 240 Gig SSD and either reusing your old hard drive or planning to add more SSD's or traditional hard drives is definitely a viable solution as well.

It would look something like this: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/whp89W with only the SSD, total storage goes down to 275 GB or so, all fast storage, from about 620 GB with 120 (probably 100 usable after OS) on the faster SSD.

If you have a hard drive from your old computer to transfer over, then go with this route, you get the larger storage plus you can keep your old files on from you old hard drive without having to transfer them.

My personal rig I have about 500 GB in an M.2 SATA SSD, of which right now I have only 200 Gigs filled, But 6 TB on my RAID 0 WD blue hard drives, of which 1.5 TB is in use. (Including all of my non multiplayer games, movies, music, ect.) I never have an issue with things loading too slow due to the hard drive.
 
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mikev

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OK?

This isn't about you. OP has already stated that he's got both cloud storage and external drives to utilize.
 
ScarySpikes

ScarySpikes

tastes like burning
mikev said:
OK?

This isn't about you. OP has already stated that he's got both cloud storage and external drives to utilize.
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Didn't see that.

The SSD route is better then. My point is that right now there isn't too much software that really bogs down with HDD storage. Most games, movies up to 1080p resolution or so, music, ect do just fine on those mediums.
 
Hooli

Hooli

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Coastal Coyote said:
I was so stoked when I could afford an SSD to run my operating system - talk about a major speed upgrade!
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Aren't they? After years of standard HD's I nearly fell out of my chair after the first boot-up of my system. I installed the OS on the 256GB Samsung SSD; everything else (music, games, documents, video, etc.) is archived on my 2TB standard drive. What I'd really like to try is the newest M.2 SSD. It's basically nothing but a big flash drive but you need a mobo with the appropriate slot (although PCI card adapters are available).

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soybean

soybean

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ScarySpikes said:
Doing so would still only leave a 240 Gig or so SSD, and 240 gigs fills up really quick these days with larger games. From my use, the things that benefit the most from large SSD's are OS, productivity software, and a very small selection of games. All of which could probably fit on the smaller SSD.

On the other side, storage is by far the easiest thing to add in down the line. So going for a 240 Gig SSD and either reusing your old hard drive or planning to add more SSD's or traditional hard drives is definitely a viable solution as well.

It would look something like this: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/whp89W with only the SSD, total storage goes down to 275 GB or so, all fast storage, from about 620 GB with 120 (probably 100 usable after OS) on the faster SSD.

If you have a hard drive from your old computer to transfer over, then go with this route, you get the larger storage plus you can keep your old files on from you old hard drive without having to transfer them.

My personal rig I have about 500 GB in an M.2 SATA SSD, of which right now I have only 200 Gigs filled, But 6 TB on my RAID 0 WD blue hard drives, of which 1.5 TB is in use. (Including all of my non multiplayer games, movies, music, ect.) I never have an issue with things loading too slow due to the hard drive.
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What all those goodies will look like. Build is basically one for one.
 
Hooli

Hooli

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Agent Orange said:
Does this build omit the optical drive? Cant seem to add it.
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I'd consider an external USB CD-ROM drive for driver install. I have one in my PC and other than using it during the initial build for drivers, it hasn't seen use since. :laughing Thinking of removing it in fact.
 
Agent Orange

Agent Orange

The b0y ninja
Thought you guys might want an update. Parts were ordered and my friend offered to come over an help me build my PC. Actually, he was the one that mostly put it together with me sitting there watching and asking random questions talking about bullshit. :laughing

Still, from the looks of things it didn't look overly complicated. Plugging parts to the mobo looked simple as it's labeled where stuff is supposed to go. The part that confused me was knowing where to plug the wires into all the parts from the power supply. From there its just a matter of booting up the system and installing the OS. The system works pretty well, though wire management isn't the cleanest as I'll probably have to go back in the future to streamline it.

Realizing my old Dell monitor wouldn't work as it utilizes a different plug that has different pins from the GPU. So I went online to order this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008DWITHI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

And now more or less my entire PC has been completely replaced. Just gotta get around to replacing the old nasty keyboard but that'll probably happen around Christmas.

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