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Hello guys,

 

I'm on stage of planning for my new PC, I have moved to States several weeks ago, and I need a new PC.

  • Budget: 2500$ for PC without peripherals 
  • Location: Brooklyn, NY
  • Aim: high fps comfortable gaming without tradeoffs in performance; streaming; video editing; some heavy load parsing (CPU related stuff); multi-tasking
  • Monitors: 120-144Hz, 1440p, 27", IPS. One monitor at the beginning will be enough. I'm looking only on IPS matrix based solutions. Waiting for the option from ASUS. I tend to have 2 monitors in my disposal. For now I have only one option
  • Peripherals: I still need keyboard, but for now I would like concentrate only on PC. ;)
  • Main Idea: to have something powerful and silent :)

Check this out, what I have for now:

 

X99 Adoption

 

 
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($299.99 @ Micro Center) 
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($125.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus X99-A ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($239.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($664.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Fractal Design Define S ATX Mid Tower Case  ($69.99 @ NCIX US) 
 
Total: $2145.41

 

For now I have some concerns:

  • Video Card, which 980ti to select. 
  • Memory, is my pick a good choice for X99 build?
  • Storage, is there any so fast options like from Intel?
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Looks gr8 and go for evga classified or gigabyte g1 or strix for 980 ti

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CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($299.99 @ Micro Center) 
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($125.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus X99-A ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($239.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($688.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $2147.41
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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do you plan on SLI in the future?

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Samsung 850 EVO 500GB & 250GB - Crucial MX300 M.2 525GB / Fractal Design Define S / Corsair K70 MX Reds / Logitech G502 / Beyerdynamic DT770 250Ohm

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since budget is $2500 the one below is beast

 
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($299.99 @ Micro Center) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($109.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X99 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($309.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB HYBRID Video Card  ($748.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Fractal Design Define S ATX Mid Tower Case  ($69.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $2495.70
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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or even better in the same price take 2 msi r9 390 NON X , and crossfire , its like 16gb of VRAM

CPU: Intel i7 8700k    MB: Gigabyte Z390    RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB     GPU: GTX 1070 Ti 8GB

 

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do you plan on SLI in the future?

 

No, I don't ;)

 

strix is shit, go for evga, msi,zotac or gigabyte

 

Hm, interesting.

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msi 980 or msi r9 390 or r9 390x

 

I don't like ATI solutions ;) Seems It's very personal. 

 

 

 

since budget is $2500 the one below is beast

 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($109.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB HYBRID Video Card  ($748.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $2495.70

 

Is Corsair H100i quieter than Kraken?

 

980Ti from EVGA so good? ;)

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I don't like ATI solutions ;) Seems It's very personal. 

 

 

 

Is Corsair H100i quieter than Kraken?

 

980Ti from EVGA so good? ;)

I don't know about the h100i vs kraken question

EVGA is one of the best vendors.Some cards are way better than any other solution available

Also EVGA Hybrid is a liquid cooled card cooler and quieter(swap fans for better silence) and faster than strix

Also EVGA is nvidia's direct vendor i guess

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This is great too 

 
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($299.99 @ Micro Center) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($109.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X99 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($309.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB HYBRID Video Card  ($748.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Corsair 750D ATX Full Tower Case  ($129.99 @ Micro Center) 
Total: $2498.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Updated list from the 1st post.

 

Switched Video Card from Asus Strix on MSI Gaming LE (thanks to Aytex, TheNeutraliser)

Switched Corsair RM850i on EVGA 850 G2 SuperNova (thanks to SeanAngelo)

 

Nothing thanks to me ? :(  :(  :(  :(

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Something like this? Unless you are going for a 5960X (899$ at Microcenter), X99 is not really worth it imo. What's the point in a X99 if you don't even have three or four GPU'S?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($359.99 @ NCIX US)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H55 57.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($53.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($139.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($109.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($678.98 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($678.98 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair Air 540 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($133.00 @ Directron)
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($117.99 @ NCIX US)
Monitor: Acer XB270HU bprz 144Hz 27.0" Monitor  ($799.99 @ Micro Center)
Total: $3162.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Open your eyes and break your chains. Console peasantry is just a state of mind.

 

MSI 980Ti + Acer XB270HU 

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Looks gr8 and go for evga classified or gigabyte g1 or strix for 980 ti

The Strix isn't really the greatest. OP is fine with the MSI one. The only 980Tis I'd recommend are the MSI, Zotac, and EVGA ones.

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The Strix isn't really the greatest. OP is fine with the MSI one. The only 980Tis I'd recommend are the MSI, Zotac, and EVGA ones.

Yep, Gigabyte one is broken.

Open your eyes and break your chains. Console peasantry is just a state of mind.

 

MSI 980Ti + Acer XB270HU 

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Hello guys,

 

...

 

For now I have some concerns:

  • Video Card, which 980ti to select. 
  • Memory, is my pick a good choice for X99 build?
  • Storage, is there any so fast options like from Intel?

 

 

The performance differences between the top MSI, Gigabyte and EVGA GTX 980 Ti are quite small. Pick the one that has price and acoustical performance that fits your needs.

 

There are much better memory choices. Look for a 4x8GB kit of DDR4-2400 CL15 or better. If you want to explore the cost/benefit of various options read http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-750-series-400gb-versus-samsung-sm951-512gb,4143.html.

 

The Samsung SM951 M.2 drive has benchmarked better than Intel 750 in some reviews and not as well in others. Samsung has just introduced an NVMe version which should do even better. http://www.techspot.com/review/989-samsung-sm951-pcie-ssd/page10.html

 

I don't like ATI solutions ;) Seems It's very personal. 

 

 

 

Is Corsair H100i quieter than Kraken?

 

980Ti from EVGA so good? ;)

 

The H100i is not quieter than the X61, nor can it cool as well.

 

EVGA gpu are quite good.

80+ ratings certify electrical efficiency. Not quality.

 

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The performance differences between the top MSI, Gigabyte and EVGA GTX 980 Ti are quite small. Pick the one that has price and acoustical performance that fits your needs.

 

There are much better memory choices. Look for a 4x8GB kit of DDR4-2400 CL15 or better. If you want to explore the cost/benefit of various options read http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-750-series-400gb-versus-samsung-sm951-512gb,4143.html.

 

The Samsung SM951 M.2 drive has benchmarked better than Intel 750 in some reviews and not as well in others. Samsung has just introduced an NVMe version which should do even better. http://www.techspot.com/review/989-samsung-sm951-pcie-ssd/page10.html

 

 

The H100i is not quieter than the X61, nor can it cool as well.

 

EVGA gpu are quite good.

 

I'm pretty sure OP wants a 144hz gaming PC, it says in the title, those useless ssd's and 5820K's make no sense.

Open your eyes and break your chains. Console peasantry is just a state of mind.

 

MSI 980Ti + Acer XB270HU 

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The Samsung SM951 M.2 drive has benchmarked better than Intel 750 in some reviews and not as well in others. Samsung has just introduced an NVMe version which should do even better. http://www.techspot.com/review/989-samsung-sm951-pcie-ssd/page10.html

 

Interesting. Samsung SM951 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive, Paying same amount of money for extra 100GB

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I'm pretty sure OP wants a 144hz gaming PC, it says in the title, those useless ssd's and 5820K's make no sense.

 

I simply answered the OP's questions.

 

While the title mentions 144Hz gaming, the OP says "Aim: high fps comfortable gaming without tradeoffs in performance; streaming; video editing; some heavy load parsing (CPU related stuff); multi-tasking". Which suggests that X99 is in fact an appropriate platform. Streaming and video editing perform better with high speed storage.

80+ ratings certify electrical efficiency. Not quality.

 

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I simply answered the OP's questions.

 

While the title mentions 144Hz gaming, the OP says "Aim: high fps comfortable gaming without tradeoffs in performance; streaming; video editing; some heavy load parsing (CPU related stuff); multi-tasking". Which suggests that X99 is in fact an appropriate platform. Streaming and video editing perform better with high speed storage.

 

He isn't making Hollywood videos you know. Go watch Linus or other reviews of the Intel 750 it basically useless for consumer grade PC's it's only for servers.

I'm loading and editing 6K video files from a HDD without any problem.

 

Is it so hard to do the math? If a HDD read speed is 150MB/s it means it can handle 1200Mb/s videobitrate. There is no camera in this world that can shoot that high bitrate. The Red Epic Dragon raw-uncompressed files I have tried are 600-700Mb/S. Just to give you an example, YouTube 4K bitrate is 20Mb/s and 1080P bluray's are about 50Mb/s.

 

Also, video's are rendered ON THE GPU these days. It takes 30 minutes to render a 1 minute 4K video on my CPU, and only 2 minutes on my 980TI. Having a good CPU is a myth for video-editing. I'm using a 5 year old I5 760 and those 6K uncompressed files play back in real time at 100% resolution without any problem. So only thing you need for video-editing is a good GPU for playbacking the video and for rendering it with OpenGL and 16GB of ram. You can try to use 8GB of ram, but you won't be able to buffer more the 5 seconds of 6K video.

 

Hope this clears things up...

Open your eyes and break your chains. Console peasantry is just a state of mind.

 

MSI 980Ti + Acer XB270HU 

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He isn't making Hollywood videos you know. Go watch Linus or other reviews of the Intel 750 it basically useless for consumer grade PC's it's only for servers.

I'm loading and editing 6K video files from a HDD without any problem.

 

Is it so hard to do the math? If a HDD read speed is 150MB/s it means it can handle 1200Mb/s videobitrate. There is no camera in this world that can shoot that high bitrate. The Red Epic Dragon raw-uncompressed files I have tried are 600-700Mb/S. Just to give you an example, YouTube 4K bitrate is 20Mb/s and 1080P bluray's are about 50Mb/s.

 

Also, video's are rendered ON THE GPU these days. It takes 30 minutes to render a 1 minute 4K video on my CPU, and only 2 minutes on my 980TI. Having a good CPU is a myth for video-editing. I'm using a 5 year old I5 760 and those 6K uncompressed files play back in real time at 100% resolution without any problem. So only thing you need for video-editing is a good GPU for playbacking the video and for rendering it with OpenGL and 16GB of ram. You can try to use 8GB of ram, but you won't be able to buffer more the 5 seconds of 6K video.

 

Hope this clears things up...

 

Interestingly enough systems tend to do more than one thing at a time.

 

When one gets into special effects cpu power can make a big difference. Just because one is not working in Hollywood does not mean one is not doing shatters and other complex effects. Not all of this sort of work is done using the gpu.

 

But what I really do not understand is your objection to my answering the questions posed by the OP.

80+ ratings certify electrical efficiency. Not quality.

 

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Interestingly enough systems tend to do more than one thing at a time.

 

When one gets into special effects cpu power can make a big difference. Just because one is not working in Hollywood does not mean one is not doing shatters and other complex effects. Not all of this sort of work is done using the gpu.

 

But what I really do not understand is your objection to my answering the questions posed by the OP.

 

Because two 980Ti can easily fit in a 2500$ build. Best part is that his budget doesn't include peripherals which are another 1000$ (800$ for the Acer XB270HU)

 

What's wrong with a 6700K which has hyperthreading for workstation-loads? Are we limited to only hexa-cores now for everything?

Open your eyes and break your chains. Console peasantry is just a state of mind.

 

MSI 980Ti + Acer XB270HU 

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TheConverter, thank you for your idea about Z170 Chipset, but I'm not interested in it.

Trust me, I know how to heavy load CPU (whatever I will have), and I'm type of the person, which would like to have 3.1 sec compilation time, that is only 2 sec faster for example ;)

Also there is a statement in the topic title, that I would like to go with X99 chipset. ;)

If you have good ideas about components that could be swapped in my current build, I will be grateful. 

And if we are talking about 2000 MB/s drives, I just would like to have such experience to build my own opinion for it ;)

 

Question:

If I want to have frontal intake in Define S with Kraken, does it fit ok?

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Question:

If I want to have frontal intake in Define S with Kraken, does it fit ok?

 

Yes.

80+ ratings certify electrical efficiency. Not quality.

 

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