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I'd get a 860 EVO 250GB SSD, but other than that it's a pretty good build. Nice!

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Hey Guys,

 

I’m building my 1st gaming PC which will predominately be used for VR sim racing but also other titles like BFV.

 

I’ve not spec’d or built a gaming PC before so I apologise for any ignorances.

 

I’ve ordered the Tower, CPU and Motherboard.

I did some research into the motherboard after and from what I’ve read it might of been worth going for a more expensive board due to less than ideal heat management with the 8 core CPU, but for now that’s what I’m stuck with.

 

My main point of concern is what graphics card to go for? The RTX range of cards seem to be the most readily available but I’m aware that Ray Tracing is a gimmick that half’s the FPS and with what I’ll be using it for irrelevant. 

Also the mircon GDDR6 memory can fail? is there a list of RTX cards using the better Samsung memory? 

 

Cheers

 

James

 

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You don't have an ssd in that build. I'd get a Samsung 860 EVO.

PC Specs:

CPU: AMD 1700x Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 Motherboard: Asus Crosshair VI Hero RAM: 4 * 8GB G.Skill RGB DDR4 Graphics: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC2 Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 500GB Case: Fractal Design Meshify C PSU: EVGA 750w G3 Monitors: Dell SG2716DG +  2x Dell U2515H

 

Freenas specs:

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V2 Cooler: Some noctua cooler Motherboard: Supermicro X9 SRL-F RAM: 8 * 8GB Samsung DDR3 ECC Storage: 6 * 4TB Seagate 7200 RPM RAIDZ2 Controller: LSI H220 Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro PSU: EVGA 650w G3

 

Phone: iPhone 6S 32 GB Space Grey

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I'd get a 860 EVO 250GB SSD, but other than that it's a pretty good build. Nice!

Ryzen 7 3700X / 16GB RAM / Optane SSD / GTX 1650 / Solus Linux

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The cooler sucks

 

The case is huge so beware.

 

The RTX 2070 is terrible value, go with 2060 instead.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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That looks pretty good, similar to what I specced for a guy a few weeks ago. Though, I would take into consideration an AMD vega 64, they are running for a around 400 USD, or 300 pounds, and the performance is around the same.

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Cheers, I choose that tower knowing it would be future proof if I wanted to go further and hopefully it making it easier to build. Definitely going to add an SSD at a later.

 

I’ll have a look at some other GPUs. Any personal recommendations on CPU coolers

 

Thanks again. 

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Just buy a decent air cooler. Thermalright Macho, Scythe Mugen 5 are under 50£ and only lose a couple of degrees to Noctua d15. I would also check out Nzxt h500 or Fractal Design Define/Meshify C instead of that huge case. With those savings you could get a decent motherboard for overclocking. Asrock z390 extreme4 or something with similar vrm(5+2phases).

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2 minutes ago, Kernpoint said:

Cheers, I choose that tower knowing it would be future proof if I wanted to go further and hopefully it making it easier to build. Definitely going to add an SSD at a later.

 

I’ll have a look at some other GPUs. Any personal recommendations on CPU coolers

 

Thanks again. 

Get an ssd now. It makes such an incredible boost to speed and they're honestly really cheap now.

PC Specs:

CPU: AMD 1700x Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 Motherboard: Asus Crosshair VI Hero RAM: 4 * 8GB G.Skill RGB DDR4 Graphics: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC2 Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 500GB Case: Fractal Design Meshify C PSU: EVGA 750w G3 Monitors: Dell SG2716DG +  2x Dell U2515H

 

Freenas specs:

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V2 Cooler: Some noctua cooler Motherboard: Supermicro X9 SRL-F RAM: 8 * 8GB Samsung DDR3 ECC Storage: 6 * 4TB Seagate 7200 RPM RAIDZ2 Controller: LSI H220 Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro PSU: EVGA 650w G3

 

Phone: iPhone 6S 32 GB Space Grey

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