Cozmo

i guess i am still having trouble understanding it all and to how this all exactly works....such as why would they make their cards 16x if it seems to only need 8x?

so what your saying is, that even though one gpu would only be getting 8x, the PCIe 3.0 has enough bandwidth to support the card even with half the lanes?

so if i wanted two way sli, using a cpu that has only 28 lanes, both gpus would 8 right? because there aren't 32 lanes to accommodate both full 16x slots? if that is the case, then i would like to get a better understanding as to why i would not get less performance.

So each PCIe slot number corresponds to how many lanes from the CPU it can use, but are all these lanes based off gen one PCI for bandwidth? So if any card, lets say, gets only 8 lanes, it wouldn't matter because a gen three 8x is still faster than a gen one 16x? (did i get that right for both the lanes and how that generations of PCI work?)

Just looked at it. Looks pretty much the same to me, except it is about $200 dollars cheaper. Could you please explain about PCIe lanes? I looked at that little info box on Intel's site, but i would like a better description.

i think i will stick with the 5930K after comparing the two. I will look into other power supplies as well, but I might still pick that one.

True. I wasn't really planning on using the M.2 or U.2 (at least not that I know of) and, I honestly do not know what Thunderbolt is lol. I will look into different motherboards. Maybe I will start out with a 1tb SSD and get a large HDD as a backup drive and have it perform regular backups. I just watched some benchmarks of the Titan X Pascal vs the 1080. That thing is a beast lol. Yea, I'm definitely going to get that one then try for two way SLI when I get the money for a second one.

I would like to a custom loop. I have been watching a lot of videos on it, I think I remember hearing custom loops a little easier to maintain and don't need to be changed as much. Plus, I think it would be fun building a custom one

I chose that power supply, because it seemed to be getting great reviews. Since I am not too worried about price, I figured I could go with that one, not only because it its good, but I figured the extra wattage would be a safe bet even if it was way more than I needed. As for what I use my PC for, mostly gaming. I do dabble into photo and video editing a bit, but even though i love doing that stuff, I'm too lazy to actually do it, so I never get any better lol.

Thank you. I am going to water cool. Really nervous to do it too, because I have never done it before, and I do not want to break my stuff if I do it wrong or and it leaks lol. you are the second person who suggested a 6700K. I will definitely look into it.

I know theses are all over kill haha. I will look into the 6700K. Thank you. The motherboard had good reviews, and I'm not worried about the price. About the RAID 5, I don't know, I guess i just like how it works. I have a system that I admin at work that uses it, and after actually learning how it really works, I started to like it a little more.

I am finally building my first gaming PC. I was wondering if someone could take a look at my parts list that I have so far and see if I am either missing something or have created any bottlenecks. I do plan on water cooling, I just haven't picked out the parts yet. I may wait till I somewhat put it together to plan for it better. I have also not picked out a monitor, but I am going to get a 4K @ 60hz IPS. I am also not worried about price too much and do realize some of these parts are overkill. Part list so far: CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K Processor Motherboard: asus x99-deluxe 2 Case: COSMOS II Graphics Card: 2 ASUS GTX 1080 Strix in SLI RAM: Corsair 32Gb 2133 dual channel (4 8Gb sticks) PSU: Corsair AX1500i Storage: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2.5" SATA III 1TB (three in raid 5) (software raid controller)