Which PC Do You Pick?

[Made In Canada]

I am thinking of doing a PC build, and got bored so i built a few other ones.  What would you pick out of these three Gaming PC's?

 

There should be a straw poll somewhere, if there is not, it will be fixed very quickly.

 

Note: there is no big picture to this, just a straw poll of what you guys think is good.

[Guest]

I am thinking of doing a PC build, and got bored so i built a few other ones.  What would you pick out of these three Gaming PC's?

 

There should be a straw poll somewhere, if there is not, it will be fixed very quickly.

 

Note: there is no big picture to this, just a straw poll of what you guys think is good.

2 is the best by far

[mrswagbhinav]

All three are meh. You have too much RAM and the only difference is the mobo and CPU. So bring your RAM down to 8 GB and get the middle one.

[Goldensapling]

No Krait motherboard build, none. Krait MasterRace.

[Guest]

All three are meh. You have too much RAM and the only difference is the mobo and CPU. So bring your RAM down to 8 GB and get the middle one.

GPUs are different

[mrswagbhinav]

GPUs are different

Oh crap didn't see lol. Yeah the middle one is the best by far.

[Guest]

Also, don't get the 850 Pro get an 850 EVO.

[TheSLSAMG]

Drop the third build immediately, consider the first if doing video editing/rendering work and gaming, but build the second machine if you want to do gaming primarily. Get a better PSU though (like a Seasonic unit, a Rosewill Capstone or an EVGA G2) and get a cheaper SSD, such as the Crucial MX100.

[EthanTheFrogMan]

I am thinking of doing a PC build, and got bored so i built a few other ones.  What would you pick out of these three Gaming PC's?

 

There should be a straw poll somewhere, if there is not, it will be fixed very quickly.

 

Note: there is no big picture to this, just a straw poll of what you guys think is good.

2, and WHY OEM????????????

[Made In Canada]

Drop the third build immediately, consider the first if doing video editing/rendering work and gaming, but build the second machine if you want to do gaming primarily. Get a better PSU though (like a Seasonic unit, a Rosewill Capstone or an EVGA G2) and get a cheaper SSD, such as the Crucial MX100.

if you dont mind me asking (just out of curiosity)  why not like the 3rd option? (im kinda new to this but still am no pro)

[Made In Canada]

well, i tried to edit what i said.....

 

Drop the third build immediately, consider the first if doing video editing/rendering work and gaming, but build the second machine if you want to do gaming primarily. Get a better PSU though (like a Seasonic unit, a Rosewill Capstone or an EVGA G2) and get a cheaper SSD, such as the Crucial MX100.

what i tried to say was, why dont you like the 3rd one? 

[TheSLSAMG]

if you dont mind me asking (just out of curiosity)  why not like the 3rd option? (im kinda new to this but still am no pro)

You have a fairly sizeable budget. AMD's FX CPUs tend to be a more budget option, and for gaming, are still worse than Intel's Core i5s in most if not all titles (some titles they remain tied.)

 

As well, dual GTX 960s aren't a wise choice as it leaves little in terms of an upgrade path (meanwhile with a single GTX 970 or GTX 980 you could drop in a second) and the 2GB VRAM will be a limitation at higher resolutions. The 32GB RAM is extremely overkill for gamers and even video editors and that's about it.

[Made In Canada]

You have a fairly sizeable budget. AMD's FX CPUs tend to be a more budget option, and for gaming, are still worse than Intel's Core i5s in most if not all titles (some titles they remain tied.)

 

As well, dual GTX 960s aren't a wise choice as it leaves little in terms of an upgrade path (meanwhile with a single GTX 970 or GTX 980 you could drop in a second) and the 2GB VRAM will be a limitation at higher resolutions. The 32GB RAM is extremely overkill for gamers and even video editors and that's about it.

everybody is talking about the i5 4690k these days... whats wrong with the i7 4790k?  (like i said, im still new to this but you dont need to give me an in depth story)

[TheSLSAMG]

everybody is talking about the i5 4690k these days... whats wrong with the i7 4790k?  (like i said, im still new to this but you dont need to give me an in depth story)

Nothing wrong with the 4790K, I have one and love it to death. You don't need Hyper-Threading for games though, not yet anyways. It would be preferable to take the extra GPU power over the extra CPU power.

[Made In Canada]

Nothing wrong with the 4790K, I have one and love it to death. You don't need Hyper-Threading for games though, not yet anyways. It would be preferable to take the extra GPU power over the extra CPU power.

ohhhh okay, thanks for clearing up my confusion.

[TheSLSAMG]

ohhhh okay, thanks for clearing up my confusion.

No problem, I'm here if you need to know anything else

[Made In Canada]

No problem, I'm here if you need to know anything else

i might take you up on offer if you dont mind.  example, is there much of a difference from the 980 and 970?

[a_block_of_wood]

First build sounds like a 50% work 50% gaming machine, sacrificing some graphic performance for a beefier CPU.

 

Second build will kick the first build as far as gaming performance goes, while still capable of doing some heavy duty work, just a bit slower maybe.

 

Third build is weird. Looks more like a niche number crunching machine that needs a lot of physical cores and a lot of ram and two GPU for GPGPU task. This isn't a gaming pc.

[TheSLSAMG]

i might take you up on offer if you dont mind.  example, is there much of a difference from the 980 and 970?

The difference isn't huge. The GTX 970 is basically a cut down version of the GTX 980. Same GM204 core, but some CUDA cores, ROPs, Shaders, etc. are missing so the card wouldn't perform just like a GTX 980. However, the way they cut down the core brought up an issue of memory bandwidth. They ended up segmenting the memory bus into two parts, a 3.5GB part which operates at full speed and a 0.5GB part, which runs at around 1/7th the speed. When the card accesses more than 3.5GB VRAM, there may be noticeable stuttering in games. I personally haven't experienced it (I normally don't go over 3.5GB usage) but it is something worth noting.

[Made In Canada]

The difference isn't huge. The GTX 970 is basically a cut down version of the GTX 980. Same GM204 core, but some CUDA cores, ROPs, Shaders, etc. are missing so the card wouldn't perform just like a GTX 980. However, the way they cut down the core brought up an issue of memory bandwidth. They ended up segmenting the memory bus into two parts, a 3.5GB part which operates at full speed and a 0.5GB part, which runs at around 1/7th the speed. When the card accesses more than 3.5GB VRAM, there may be noticeable stuttering in games. I personally haven't experienced it (I normally don't go over 3.5GB usage) but it is something worth noting.

so you would you advise me getting a i5 4690k with a GTX 980 windforce G1 gaming,  or an i7 4790k with a GTX 970 windforce G1 gaming?    one more thing, what would you advise for ram...  im planning on getting 16gb so i can handle most things with ease, but if 8gb is really going to handle 80% of  things nowadays, then i might just get 8gb.

 

Updated: this will be 80%-90% gaming but i may try twitch for a bit.