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A friend of mine gave me these parts without a case and stock cpu cooler.

Intel Core i3-8100

Gigabyte Z370 AORUS GAMING WIFI (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151

1x ADATA XPG Spectrix D40 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16
1x ADATA XPG Spectrix D40 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16
1x PNY GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3 GB
Silverstone Strider Platinum 1200 W 80+ Platinum
 

This is my current setup:

Asus P8P67

Intel 2600k

16GB Ram

GTX 980

850 Watts PSU

1TB SSD

144hz monitor

 

Now, I only game on my pc. From my initial research, if I were to put it his parts together in a case, the gaming performance would be very similar in games just newer components. For a thousand dollars, I was thinking upgrading his CPU to a 8700k with a better video card ... Would getting another GTX 1060 in SLI would be a better choice? What would you guys suggest???

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1 minute ago, Axel8rate said:

A friend of mine gave me these parts without a case and stock cpu cooler.

Intel Core i3-8100

Gigabyte Z370 AORUS GAMING WIFI (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151

1x ADATA XPG Spectrix D40 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16
1x ADATA XPG Spectrix D40 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16
1x PNY GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3 GB
Silverstone Strider Platinum 1200 W 80+ Platinum
 

This is my current setup:

Asus P8P67

Intel 2600k

16GB Ram

GTX 980

850 Watts PSU

1TB SSD

144hz monitor

 

Now, I only game on my pc. From my initial research, if I were to put it his parts together in a case, the gaming performance would be very similar in games just newer components. For a thousand dollars, I was thinking upgrading his CPU to a 8700k with a better video card .. What would you guys suggest???

For $1000 I would buy a used 8700k, and a new decent AIO or air cooler, And then I'd wait for a 3080 to come in stock. Also make sure his case has good airflow.

geometry is hard
b550 > x570

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3 minutes ago, Axel8rate said:

...without a case and stock cpu cooler.

For a thousand dollars, I was thinking upgrading his CPU to a 8700k with a better video card ... Would getting another GTX

1060 in SLI would be a better choice?

SLI is dead.

Don't get a stock cooler.

PLEASE STOP [Killing] ME I WILL GIVE Y OU ANOTHER DEAL.

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21 minutes ago, Axel8rate said:

Would getting another GTX 1060 in SLI would be a better choice?

Well the 1060 doesn't support SLI either way so unfortunately that's not an option.

 

Also I recommend using the GTX 980 instead of the 1060 3GB, as it's more similar in performance to a 1060 6GB. You should hang onto that until you save up for a nice upgrade to one of the newer cards being put out by Nvidia or AMD in 2021

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

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I would get an 8700K, 9700K, or even a 9900K for that board.   Would last you 4-5 years easily.

 

Pop a 3070 or even 3060Ti on it and you have a very good 1440p machine, or stellar 1080p machine.

 

 

Edit:  Do you have a Microcenter nearby?  Also, that PSU is the odd man out, why the hell did he have that?

 

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16 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Edit:  Do you have a Microcenter nearby?  Also, that PSU is the odd man out, why the hell did he have that?

 

No microcenter, Florida man here lol... It was from a Crypto Mining build, he was running dual gfx for that, the gtx 1060 is from another pc.

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