PC Building: My Current Selection · 5:33am Apr 12th, 2014
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4770K 3.50 GHz 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150 (All Venom OC Certified)
HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)
MEMORY: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory [+89] (Corsair Vengeance [+49])
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock Z87 Pro4 ATX w/ XFast Technology, GbLAN, 2 Gen3 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 2 PCI [+28]
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card [+729] (EVGA Superclocked W/ ACX Cooling [+13])
And Kaidan was wise in his suggestion of CyberPowerPC. I am extremely nervous about piecing together parts this expensive, and their services aren't mind-blowingly more expensive, either.
I've got quite some time to decide, regardless.
As long as I continue to successfully phase out eating out from my budget, I should be able to steadily save up. I probably won't do any serious planning until I move in August.
Well, that's a hell of a lot of top-tier gear. What kind of case are you planning to put it in?
2002694 That, I have not settled on yet.
Hrm... Can't say I like the idea of you using the on-board audio.
Deactivating the on-board card and using a dedicated sound card would give you much better results. Positional audio in games just works so much better when an actual audio processor is handling things. You can even get richer-sounding audio, and environmental effects without taxing your CPU. Not to mention you would have much less chance of getting line noise seeping in from the motherboard.
Any modern Sound Blaster card should give you much better results.
You don't have to go overboard though. I typically put a cap of $100 on what I pay for a sound card. Stay away from the cheap-o ones though, since those are usually just the on-board audio circuitry placed on a card.
Overall look very nice, only change I would suggest would be getting a SSD big enough to run your OS and Select games (around 240+ gigs) As it makes a HUGE difference in load times for both windows and games. you can get your pc booting up in mere seconds.
You make me squee. images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/32300000/Hug-rainbow-dash-32312781-378-378.jpg
2002930 Unless you are a massive audiophile you will not notice the difference. Is he mixing music? If he is, then he needs a two hundred dollar sound card. The major difference will be sound system, or most likely for us, headphones. A twenty dollar and hundred dollar headphones matter a lot more than a sound card.
Taxing his CPU? Wut. It's a Haswell i7. That's like... I don't even.
2002944 That's another hundred+ dollars that he doesn't really need. You don't need to restart your computer more than once a week, and I just put mine to sleep at night. With his processor and graphics card loading times shouldn't be a problem.
But to the man in question, mister miles, you make me squee. So much squee. My only thoughts are that in three months the EVGA 6GB version will be out easily, and I think they are the only company doing that to the 780 ti, but don't quote me on that. Do quote me in that video memory is really one of Nvadia's major flaws. Since EVGA is amazing, they are going to slam another 3 gigs of GDDR5 in that monster. Guesstimates think it'll be 50 to 75 dollars more. Most likely fifty to undercut the other companies. You know what that means? Overall price cuts!
So most likely by August that card'll be fifty dollars cheaper, and you'll be paying that current price for the 6GB version anyways. With that card, you'll be good for four to five years. Maybe six. Or just the whole rig.
What's your power supply size?
And you did yourself some major props with going with the SC AC/X cooling system. Cyperpower is totally doing it right with that. The OC on the 780 ti is massive, and yet the AC/X cooling is quieter, better, and stronger than the stock card. And it's all for so little less. As I have the normal 770 with the AC/X cooling, it's amazing.
You currently now have my dream computer... sniffle.
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It not just for restarting a computer though. The SSD provides a much smoother gaming experience as well. With the textures in games increasing in scale and detail rapidly, their filesize is growing exponentially. To get a perfectly smooth framerate in the newest game on the highest setting, you really are gonna need the blazing speed of a SSD to stream those massive textures as you run around an open world. If you are playing on medium settings, no worries, a HD is just fine, but with a 780 ti, you are gonna wanna play on Maximum and get the most enjoyment for your hard earned money. Not to mention, loading screens will be drastically reduced, so for games with lots of those, it makes them SO much more enjoyable.
2003105 Haven't noticed it. Ran AC 4 on max with nvadia's anti-aliasing at 30 FPS constantly with no tearing. With the powerhouse of a card he's having the burden's on his GPU, not his CPU or his hard drive. It's about how much memory his graphics card can hold and how much bandwidth it can handle. The 780 ti can handle a crap ton. His SATA III won't be slowing him down. Once the map is loaded he'll be fine. Considering his processor loads so quickly anyways...
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An SSD does not increase overall FPS, it smooths it out when loading new textures, such as quick transitions from low detail areas to high detail areas. I also do not know how prevalent it would be on a low FPS of 30, it is more noticeable at 60-144 fps.
It is especially useful for games like MMO's where you are constantly encountering new textures that have not been buffered into memory (players zoning in, transitioning from one zone to another).
2003124 Oh those are so minor anyways. He won't notice it, and even then the benefits are so small. In Witcher 3 the area loads constantly so he won't.
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It really is personal preference, I simply pointed out the benefits of an SSD. Load times measured in single digit seconds, are important to me, and worth the minor cost. But for other people it may not be.
2003160 In five years? Yes, currently? No. When stacked ram comes out, then I'll start recommending them left and right.
I'd suggest for a primary hard drive a good Solid State Drive. It'll keep a lot of the stress off your mechanical drive and they aren't to expensive.
solid state drives are best drives.... still kinda pricy, but I got a 128gb one for my operating system. Hopefully a 256 isn't too expensive now, you'd have room for a game or two.
And dual video cards or raid arrays are always nice, assuming you don't mind phasing showers and cell phones out alongside eating.
2003683 Sir, are you implying that I shower already?
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Yeah, everyone showers for Easter Sunday. Anyone who showers during the other 364 days of the year is just a show-off.
Tip from my side:
Use an 4670k and Take a R9 290 Tri-X as Graphics Card.
From the saved Money you can by a Crucial M500 240GB as Boot disk and still have a lot left, without loosing more than a small bit of Gaming power. (somewhere under 10% of FPS lose).
For a Case, take a look at the Corsair Obsidian Series:)