Rate me little Bros new Gaming PC

[BRiiTASH]

Ive recently completed the custom built pc I always promised him I would. It cost me <£1000 in total, and Im pleased with it. I was aiming for a modestly powerful build that can do 1080p 60fps High-Max settings in most titles and future gamez for him for years to come.

Here are the specs:

.intel i7 5930k clocked to 4.4ghz, .Asrockmotherboard X99M Extreme 4 .16gb of corsair dominator platinum DDR4 3000Mhz RAM running at 2666mhz atm

.Geforce gtx980ti with EKWB fitted

.Samsung 950 Pro 512gb and 256gb M.2 ssd's

.Seagate Firecuda 2TB SSHD

.kingston HyperX 120gb SSD

.Corsair ax760i

.EK Revo D5 Vario Pump and Reservoir, .Alphacool 120mm 30mm thick Rad and nexxxosmonsta 120mm 80mm thick rad, .Fully custom watercooled hardtube Loop

.Silverstone ft03 PC chasis

Mix of slim 15mm 120mm fans and 2x Corsair SP120L's on the Monsta 80mm thick rad

[mxk]

Damn. Your little brother is one lucky guy.

[MegaLukey]

very nice build, a little curious why you went with a custom loop  on a budget build though

[BRiiTASH]

11 minutes ago, MegaLukey said:

very nice build, a little curious why you went with a custom loop  on a budget build though

I needed to maximise the cooling capacity of the rads that I could mount to the case, which meant mounting as large a rad ontop as possible, which the Monsta 80mm filled perfectly. There was just enough space inside to fit the additional 30mm thick rad inside with the push pull configuration, so these two rads combines gave me the effective cooling of a up to 2x240mm rads potentially. There really isnt any AIO 120MM rads that fit this role sufficiently either, and Ive got plenty of experience with custom loops now so I figuered why the hell not. Plus, theres a sense of personal achievement when a completing a custom loop, and it really makes a pc build unique and personal.

Plus, I wanted to try something no ones done before.

[Cameron Goodwin]

I'll just say this; GPU is s***, but hardline watercooling! That's amazing for your bro! I'm never even trying hardline, so this is really cool!

[BRiiTASH]

7 hours ago, Cameron Goodwin said:

I'll just say this; GPU is s***, but hardline watercooling! That's amazing for your bro! I'm never even trying hardline, so this is really cool!

A GTX 980TI is perfect for 1080p gaming though, and 6GB VRAM is ample for modern and future titles. Ive owned 1080's in sli and that was overkill for 1080p gaming because they dont scale well in SLI especially in 1080p.

Also a 980TI is almost equivilant to a 1070 and I dont think you will find anyone calling that a shit GPU. Also I only paid £200 in total for the 980TI with the Waterblock included, which is about £100 cheaper than they usually sell for on eBay and £70-100 cheaper than an aircooled 1070 sells for with a refference cooler. So its actually pretty good considering most people buy the likes of a 1060 or 1050ti which get destroyed by a 980TI with a decent OC like +100mhz Core, +150mhz vram. Also the gpu never exceeds 38'c which is great in a loop like this.

 

[Zando_]

7 minutes ago, BRiiTASH said:

A GTX 980TI is perfect for 1080p gaming though, and 6GB VRAM is ample for modern and future titles. Ive owned 1080's in sli and that was overkill for 1080p gaming because they dont scale well in SLI especially in 1080p.

Also a 980TI is almost equivilant to a 1070 and I dont think you will find anyone calling that a shit GPU. Also I only paid £200 in total for the 980TI with the Waterblock included, which is about £100 cheaper than they usually sell for on eBay and £70-100 cheaper than an aircooled 1070 sells for with a refference cooler. So its actually pretty good considering most people buy the likes of a 1060 or 1050ti which get destroyed by a 980TI with a decent OC like +100mhz Core, +150mhz vram. Also the gpu never exceeds 38'c which is great in a loop like this.

 

Can confirm, I've had two 980 Tis and I miss them. They're awesome GPUs and at least to me there's a sort of feel about them, I just like 'em. They eat anything at 1080p for snack except Rise of The Tomb Raider with very high textures, that takes about 8.5GB if you let it loose and the 980 Ti only has 6GB. Drop it to high and leave everything else on max and it's bueno. Should stomp 1440p easily as well, maybe even 4K, espesh in older titles. 

 

And I had 1080s in SLI too, lol. Never scaled well with any of my games except Battlefront 2015. That gave about 80% scaling at 1080p, then 99% at 1440p and 4K. With no AA it pinned it at 144fps in 1440p ultra, 130-144 in 4K ultra with a 5GHz 8600K. 

[BRiiTASH]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Can confirm, I've had two 980 Tis and I miss them. They're awesome GPUs and at least to me there's a sort of feel about them, I just like 'em. They eat anything at 1080p for snack except Rise of The Tomb Raider with very high textures, that takes about 8.5GB if you let it loose and the 980 Ti only has 6GB. Drop it to high and leave everything else on max and it's bueno. Should stomp 1440p easily as well, maybe even 4K, espesh in older titles. 

 

And I had 1080s in SLI too, lol. Never scaled well with any of my games except Battlefront 2015. That gave about 80% scaling at 1080p, then 99% at 1440p and 4K. With no AA it pinned it at 144fps in 1440p ultra, 130-144 in 4K ultra with a 5GHz 8600K. 

Im know what you mean when you talk about having an affinity towards a certain bit of tech. For me its the X99 Platform. IMO its by far one of the best value platforms now which still has support for new tech like M.2 and multi gpu setups with a i7 5930k or higher. Also it was one of intels last platforms in which you could get the cpus to OC around 50-60% higher with little to no experience with overclocking, and all with a AIO setup too. My current i7 5820k will keep me going until I can find a cpu that supports the same minimum of pcie lanes and can hit 5ghz stable as Im trying to build a 1080p 240hz gaming pc for my new ASUS PG258Q monitor but the cpus and gpus are only now capable of reliably delivering that and they are grossly expensive.

I only paid £200 for my cpu and mobo combo used on eBay and the idea of having to spend X2 that just for the cpu doesnt sit well with me anymore.

[Zando_]

6 minutes ago, BRiiTASH said:

Im know what you mean when you talk about having an affinity towards a certain bit of tech. For me its the X99 Platform. IMO its by far one of the best value platforms now which still has support for new tech like M.2 and multi gpu setups with a i7 5930k or higher. Also it was one of intels last platforms in which you could get the cpus to OC around 50-60% higher with little to no experience with overclocking, and all with a AIO setup too. My current i7 5820k will keep me going until I can find a cpu that supports the same minimum of pcie lanes and can hit 5ghz stable as Im trying to build a 1080p 240hz gaming pc for my new ASUS PG258Q monitor but the cpus and gpus are only now capable of reliably delivering that and they are grossly expensive.

I only paid £200 for my cpu and mobo combo used on eBay and the idea of having to spend X2 that just for the cpu doesnt sit well with me anymore.

Nice! I'll hopefully eventually get some X99 stuff. X79 is also on my list, but right now I'm on X58. The CPUs are so damn cheap and they OC quite well (4.5GHz up from the stock 3 or so on an X5675 is not too hard). I've got an SR-2 rn, once I get a case for it I plan to put that all together and run two X5675s for a total of 12c/24t. Rn I have an ASUS Rampage III Formula with an X5675 at 4.41GHz, it keeps up pretty well with a 1080 Ti at 1080p. Trading that Mobo and a few others away for a laptop to use while I move and get my SR-2 rig together though. But the X platforms from Intel seem to be pretty darn cool, maybe X299 will be affordable enough to tinker with for fun in 10 years or so (that's about how old most X58 stuff is). Doubt the CPUs will ever be as cheap though, since there's not absolute masses of unlocked Xeons being dumped by server companies. 

[BRiiTASH]

4 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Nice! I'll hopefully eventually get some X99 stuff. X79 is also on my list, but right now I'm on X58. The CPUs are so damn cheap and they OC quite well (4.5GHz up from the stock 3 or so on an X5675 is not too hard). I've got an SR-2 rn, once I get a case for it I plan to put that all together and run two X5675s for a total of 12c/24t. Rn I have an ASUS Rampage III Formula with an X5675 at 4.41GHz, it keeps up pretty well with a 1080 Ti at 1080p. Trading that Mobo and a few others away for a laptop to use while I move and get my SR-2 rig together though. But the X platforms from Intel seem to be pretty darn cool, maybe X299 will be affordable enough to tinker with for fun in 10 years or so (that's about how old most X58 stuff is). Doubt the CPUs will ever be as cheap though, since there's not absolute masses of unlocked Xeons being dumped by server companies. 

Yeah new intel cpus are ridiculously expensive now. Personally I might jump onto the AMD Threadripper platform if their cpus like the 1950x drop as low as £350-£400 because at that price the 16 cores make sense. Also Asrock did a X399M Taichi mobo that would also fit in my current case and it supports up to 3x M.2 SSDs mounted to the board itself.

[Cameron Goodwin]

On 1/25/2019 at 3:28 PM, BRiiTASH said:

So its actually pretty good considering most people buy the likes of a 1060 or 1050ti which get destroyed by a 980TI with a decent OC like +100mhz Core, +150mhz vram. Also the gpu never exceeds 38'c which is great in a loop like this.

  

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Yeah, I was thinking about that (via userbenchmark) and I do see your point. I initially thought, "Hm... with all this nice hardware, wouldn't he use a 1060 if the budget allowed?" Then, you look at my specs and I just have no hardware and everyone criticizes me for not knowing because I've never used the hardware, but I actually do have personal experience with a 980ti, my friend has one. Though he knows nothing about PCs and is scared I will break it if I OC it.