Setting up a new rig

[RyanStitch]

Hi, I would like to setup a new rig for gaming and workstation this are my choices. Please give me some advice to improve the performance but the budget around 1500 USD or less: 

 

Motherboard: Asus Z170-Pro Gaming

CPU: Intel i5 6500

SSD: Samsung 850PRO 256GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 3TB

HDD: Seagete Barracuda 1TB (from an old computer)

GPU: Asus ROG Strix GTX1060 OC 6BG
Ram: G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-2666 16GB (2x8GB) PC4-21300

PSU: Corsair RMi Series 850W

Casis: Corsair Carbide series 200R

 

 

[Cereal5]

you only really need a Z170 motherboard if you buy an overclockable chip (ending with "K"). I recommend an H170 or H110 board, to save a few dollars. Also, you would be plenty fine with a good quality 550 or 650W power supply, something like an EVGA 650 G2

[RyanStitch]

Okay, thanks for the advice. How about the Ram is it ok?

[Oswin]

16 gb I a lot of ram just go for 8

[RyanStitch]

 

should i go for 2x4gb or 1x8gb?

 

about the SSD should i go for samsung 850 EVO 250gb or samsung 850 PRO 256gb? 

 

[Oswin]

btw good choice on the GPU

[Cereal5]

1 minute ago, RyanStitch said:

Okay, thanks for the advice. How about the Ram is it ok?

remember to quote when replying otherwise we dont get a notification. Your RAM looks good. you said your budget is 1500 or less?

[akio123008]

800W PSU?? that's very powerful. probably too powerful for your system. Also, for 1500 USD you can get better hardware than the i5 6500 and gtx 1060.

[RyanStitch]

2 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

remember to quote when replying otherwise we dont get a notification. Your RAM looks good. you said your budget is 1500 or less?

 

yup my budget is 1300-1500.

[RyanStitch]

7 minutes ago, Oswin said:

16 gb I a lot of ram just go for 8

 

should i go for 2x4gb or 1x8gb?

 

about the SSD should i go for samsung 850 EVO 250gb or samsung 850 PRO 256gb? 

[Cereal5]

2 minutes ago, RyanStitch said:

yup my budget is 1300-1500.

What resolutioni and refresh rate do you play at?

[RyanStitch]

4 minutes ago, akio123008 said:

800W PSU?? that's very powerful. probably too powerful for your system. Also, for 1500 USD you can get better hardware than the i5 6500 and gtx 1060.

 

any suggestion what PSU power and CPU and GPU?

[Oswin]

Just now, RyanStitch said:

 

should i go for 2x4gb or 1x8gb?

 

about the SSD should i go for samsung 850 EVO 250gb or samsung 850 PRO 256gb? 

just go for 1x8 if you are getting a h110m mobo

[Oswin]

2 minutes ago, RyanStitch said:

any suggestion what PSU power and CPU and GPU?

the cpu and  gpu is fine

[RyanStitch]

4 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

What resolutioni and refresh rate do you play at?

1440p 120hz

 

[akio123008]

2 minutes ago, RyanStitch said:

any suggestion what PSU power and CPU and GPU?

Well, for the PSU, I think 500W is enough, for the CPU, at least get an i5 6600k, it's not that much more expensive, but more powerful, and overclockable. Since you have a z170 mobo, it would be a waste of money to put in a cpu that's not even OC'able.

[Cereal5]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($294.68 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($26.50 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus H170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($124.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($66.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($95.00 @ B&H) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.49 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC GAMING Video Card  ($399.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($66.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: Corsair RMx 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($89.99 @ Amazon) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($27.00) 
Total: $1241.62
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-18 04:23 EDT-0400

 

CPU - the i7 will give you considerably more processing power than the i5 and will also give better performance in games.

GPU - this will be good for 1440p at 60 fps on high or 100+ on medium, but you can upgrade to a GTX 1080 to get those guaranteed 120+ fps on high/max

PSU - Very solid reliable PSU

OS - you can get windows 10 from kinguin.net for about $27

[Brian McKee]

I'm sick of people pretending like 8 gigs of ram is good enough. It's not even good enough for chrome as my laptop painfully shows.

 

Get 16 gigs, it's not that much more and you'll definitely use it at some point.

[Cereal5]

1 minute ago, Brian McKee said:

It's not even good enough for chrome

Chrome destroys your RAM lmao

[akio123008]

As all of these replies show, for 1500 USD you can get a MUCH faster pc, with 16 gigs of RAM, and even a core i7 6700. Actually, you could even get a 6700K.

[Brian McKee]

1 minute ago, Cereal5 said:

Chrome destroys your RAM lmao

Anything with chromium will destroy it but Chrome is def the worst offender. I hate this shiz.

[Matias_Chambers]

Here's what I would recommend:

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/8wZYXH
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/8wZYXH/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($329.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($114.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Extreme3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($101.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($66.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial MX300 525GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($119.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 8GB AMP! Edition Video Card  ($604.00 @ B&H) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($66.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 650W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($104.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $1496.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-18 04:30 EDT-0400

[RyanStitch]

3 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($294.68 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($26.50 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus H170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($124.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($66.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($95.00 @ B&H) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.49 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC GAMING Video Card  ($399.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($66.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: Corsair RMx 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($89.99 @ Amazon) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($27.00) 
Total: $1241.62
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-18 04:23 EDT-0400

 

CPU - the i7 will give you considerably more processing power than the i5 and will also give better performance in games.

GPU - this will be good for 1440p at 60 fps on high or 100+ on medium, but you can upgrade to a GTX 1080 to get those guaranteed 120+ fps on high/max

PSU - Very solid reliable PSU

OS - you can get windows 1- from kinguin.net for about $27

 

SSD: how is the performance of the samsung PRO and EVO differ?

GPU: how is the performance of EVGA GTX1070 differ from ASUS GTX1070. (im from singapore the GPU available here would be ASUS, Gigabyte, Zotac and palit)
 

[Gonio]

Stay 16 with RAM. 8 Is overall edge, but with 16 no need to worry anymore. So 16. The speed is not needed and the extra performance is so marginal that you most likely never would notice, but i'f it's a marginal budget increase over the 2133/2400 stick with that speed.

 

For the SSD: you will overall not notice that difference in performance so only reason why would be the longer warranty. So would say 850 evo. You can also consider for your budget to take the 750 evo. It's their newer budget SSD. Nice thing of it is that it almost performs the same as the 850, but for a nicer price. Also doubt you would notice that difference in performance, but this one has 3 years warranty instead of 5.

 

Don't go crazy with 850w PSU, so take a 550 or 650 atmost and save the dosh. With those you can still run a OCed titan Xp setup without issues.

Even for a possible SLI with like 1070 orso the 650 is enough.

 

GPU is fine: 1070 Strix is a very good performing cooler = important because of GPU boost but it's a relative noisy one compared to some other good performers (no jet though). If you find silence also important consider the MSI gaming variants or the EVGA ACX 3.0 coolers. From the current gen coolers I prefer EVGA. Good performing and also silent.

 

Since you already put a Z170 board in take an unlocked variant. Even if you don't OC now it can be used to increase useable lifespan in the future by several years. If you hit the performance limit of a locked CPU you need a upgrade. Thats more expensive in the long run.

Even if you had no Z170 I would still recommend going unlocked because of above reason. Many people in the past have thanked me for making them do that.

 

It only requires you to have an seperate cooler then (unless you already have one). If not recommend the Scythe Fuma, imo the very best aircooler currently: High end performance trading blows with the top Noctua's but at a very decent pricepoint.

[Cereal5]

1 minute ago, RyanStitch said:

SSD: how is the performance of the samsung PRO and EVO differ?

GPU: how is the performance of EVGA GTX1070 differ from ASUS GTX1070. (im from singapore the GPU available here would be ASUS, Gigabyte, Zotac and palit)
 

You can upgrade the build I put together with a Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1080 for about $215 dollars more.

 

SSD - Pro and Evo perform basically identical

GPU - I would go for the gtx 1080 because a 1070 would struggle to push out over 60-80 fps in 1440p (medium to high settings)