planning a new build.

[Tydfil]

hey all, i built my current rig in 2010 with longevity in mind, so i went a bit ham on it and a bit ott to the point of its only needed a new PSU (cleaning accident) GFX (age and hard life killed the original) and some fans as the bearings went. there is still plenty of life left in the old girl yet but im moving to a new country in a few months and in the months that follow im planning to build a new machine, something that will last as long as this one. its been a while since ive built one so would like a little help with choosing parts. so far im looking at an ASUS motherboard, maybe an ROG STRIX X299-E or XE (whatever the differences are between them im not sure) i like ASUS boards and have one running at the moment from when i build my current rig in 2010. That with a current Gen intel I5 cpu, keep my current GFX as it is only a few years old and a ASUS NVIDIA GTX 1060 (new one only if totally necessary). put an m.2, SSD, and HDD in there, use the on-board sound as to be honest i have a sound card in my current rig and have never really used it. cooling wise i have a hybrid system at the moment water-cooled cpu and fans. before you get angry at me its only basic wc as i was toying with it at the time and not confident enough to wc an entire system. a quite case it a must. oh and ram wise, 16-32gb is more than enough i think. even though the boards can utilise 128gb, its probably not worth it having that much.

 

any ideas, thoughts, suggestions? all are welcome.

 

Thanks in advance.  

 

[Jurrunio]

X299 makes zero sense if you don't make money out of it imo, and pairing it with a GTX 1060 is just a waste of money as that's a lot of GPU bottleneck.

 

what will you do with it.

[Tydfil]

game, work stuff, general usage, video calls. upgrades in the future, want it to last a while and be future proof, to a degree

[Anomnomnomaly]

X299 is a waste of money in my opinion... Save some money on something cheaper, you can still get some decent ASUS boards.

 

Plus intel have a habit of killing off chipsets with new gens of CPU's... which in the past has rendered CPU upgrades impossible... It's one of the things that bugs me about intel over the years... and why I've normally gone AMD as you can be certain they support each socket for at least 4yrs. AM3 was mid 2000's and then went AM3 in around 2010 and survived until AM4 in 2017... and AM4 is supported until 2020 minimum and likely well beyond that before you'll probably get an AM4+ socket.

 

If you're only going for a 1060, then intel may not actually be the best value CPU to go for... and the 1160's are supposed to be out soon... as well as the 2060. Unless you are looking to pick a 1060 up second hand.  Which could be the better option anyway, nothing wrong with buying used parts.