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Desktop build halp
- Thread starter Zeus
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ily Astro.
I created a build for roughly $1100.
This is pretty much all you could ever really need in a computer. Hopefully, you have the extra $100 right now as that will help you down the road from having to replace.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/d9mJHx
This is pretty much all you could ever really need in a computer. Hopefully, you have the extra $100 right now as that will help you down the road from having to replace.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/d9mJHx
Here's your build at $1230. Yes, it's over budget, but here's why.
The build is going to last much longer than the others posted in the thread. You get more power, higher cooling efficiency, and a greater potential for upgrades.
Out of the box, it will be very fast for your needs. 16GB of RAM will be great for multitasking and recording video. The video card and CPU will run almost every recent release at high settings with high FPS (assuming you're using a 1080p 60Hz monitor).
You also get a nice red/black colour scheme with a compact case for portability, should you want to take it to LANs.
If the budget really is a big deal, you can swap out the cooler for something cheaper, and also half the RAM to 8GB instead. These will affect long term performance though.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($226.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($88.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII IMPACT Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($214.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($114.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($339.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: BitFenix Colossus Mini Mini ITX Tower Case ($88.98 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: Corsair CSM 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($56.50 @ Newegg)
Total: $1231.41
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-21 02:20 EDT-0400
The build is going to last much longer than the others posted in the thread. You get more power, higher cooling efficiency, and a greater potential for upgrades.
Out of the box, it will be very fast for your needs. 16GB of RAM will be great for multitasking and recording video. The video card and CPU will run almost every recent release at high settings with high FPS (assuming you're using a 1080p 60Hz monitor).
You also get a nice red/black colour scheme with a compact case for portability, should you want to take it to LANs.
If the budget really is a big deal, you can swap out the cooler for something cheaper, and also half the RAM to 8GB instead. These will affect long term performance though.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($226.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($88.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII IMPACT Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($214.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($114.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($339.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: BitFenix Colossus Mini Mini ITX Tower Case ($88.98 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: Corsair CSM 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($56.50 @ Newegg)
Total: $1231.41
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-21 02:20 EDT-0400
Zeus said:
Paying almost $200 over the cost of my build for under 5 fps more (depending on the game) and a worse Power Supply..
Also, concerning the GPU's performance... I'd suggest going for a AMD 290x due to the 4GB VRAM
Yes I know the GTX 970 is 4GB but it all runs slower than advertised and 0.5GB of it runs even slower than the rest.
The fact is it really isn't that big of a deal as far as performance goes (except resolution and anti aliasing), the biggest issue comes down to the false advertising, if they would have advertised the 970 as having 3.5Gb nobody would say it's a bad card.
But there's an actual BANDWIDTH issue. Not just memory issue. Ultimately due to the design of the crossbars and the memory controllers, it is not possible for 1 crossbar port to carry the full load of 2 memory channels in all circumstances. The crossbar port and its attached ROP/L2 unit can access both memory channels at once, splitting up the 4 operations among them, but there is only 1 read return bus and 1 write data bas, and hence in practice it cannot issue identical operations to both memory channels at once . As a result NVIDIA has segmented the GTX 970’s memory into the now-familiar 3.5GB and 512MB segments. In the case of the 3.5GB segment, this behaves otherwise identically to a fully enabled card such as the GTX 980, with the 1KB stride being striped over 7 crossbar ports, and hence 7 DRAM modules. Meanwhile the 8th and final DRAM module sits in its own 512MB segment, and must be addressed by the crossbar on its own.
This in turn is why the 224GB/sec memory bandwidth number for the GTX 970 is technically correct and yet still not entirely useful as we move past the memory controllers, as it is not possible to actually get that much bandwidth at once when doing a pure read or a pure write. In the case of pure reads for example, GTX 970 can read the 3.5GB segment at 196GB/sec (7GHz * 7 ports * 32-bits), or it can read the 512MB segment at 28GB/sec, but it cannot read from both at once; it is a true XOR situation. The same is also true for writes, as only one segment can be written to at a time." (quoting Aesthetics from HF as he's very knowledgeable)
and seeing as nearly all AAA games uses above 3.5GB and future proofing is not existent on the GTX 970. Sure its not problem when you crank anti aliasing all way down to bare minimum, but who buys $400 card to do bare minimum? especially when cards can do more than just that for the same price. (290x)
Therefore, the 290x outperforms it when it comes to resolution and AA.
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