Intel Build OCing Capability

[Blacidevil]

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Blacidevil/saved/tfWscf

 

This is the build I am currently working on. I am curious as to what my OCing capabilities will be. I am new to OC and curious as what my option are with this build and good resources for it. 

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

You should have no problem reaching at least 4.5+ Ghz, but you need to ask yourself, do you NEED to overclock- do you want the extra heat and strain to be put on your CPU?

[Blacidevil]

You should have no problem reaching at least 4.5+ Ghz, but you need to ask yourself, do you NEED to overclock- do you want the extra heat and strain to be put on your CPU?

 

Probably not the most demanding games I would be running would be Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 but from what I am understanding when I finally am able to upgrade my GPU I could be running into some bottlenecking problems because of such a slow processor. Right now I am going to be using a 270X

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Probably not the most demanding games I would be running would be Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 but from what I am understanding when I finally am able to upgrade my GPU I could be running into some bottlenecking problems because of such a slow processor. Right now I am going to be using a 270X

3.5Ghz is going to be more than enough for those games especially with 4 cores, however with some overclocking you may see a frame or two increase per second.

[Blacidevil]

3.5Ghz is going to be more than enough for those games especially with 4 cores, however with some overclocking you may see a frame or two increase per second.

I need more FPS for my FPS

[Curufinwe_wins]

You should have no problem reaching at least 4.5+ Ghz, but you need to ask yourself, do you NEED to overclock- do you want the extra heat and strain to be put on your CPU?

Completely ignore this comment.

 

 

This is a much better build for the price.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($368.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H110i GTX 104.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI PLUS ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($219.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($168.63 @ Amazon) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($343.24 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card  ($649.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Case: Fractal Design Define S w/Window ATX Mid Tower Case  ($88.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($94.99 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $2154.80

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-12 17:12 EDT-0400

 

DDR4 speed literally makes 0 difference whatsoever and skylake is insanely overprice. Also full tower cases are not needed or helpful in today's day and age. Finally I would never recommend spending 110 USD on a bronze + poop stick (yes seasonic is good, but it's still a meh psu for the price).

[Curufinwe_wins]

3.5Ghz is going to be more than enough for those games especially with 4 cores, however with some overclocking you may see a frame or two increase per second.

This is so insanely wrong I cannot even begin to describe the idiocy in what you are recommending.

[Blacidevil]

I got the case because that is what I fell in love with and the PSU I bought the same day because I got a deal with it. I am not currently in budget for an i7 which is why I am going with an i5 for now. I was given about a month's notice and 300$ to build this. Everything else is out of pocket. 

[Curufinwe_wins]

Proof on ram not mattering...

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8959/ddr4-haswell-e-scaling-review-2133-to-3200-with-gskill-corsair-adata-and-crucial/7

 

And an optimization of your skylake build if you really insisted on sticking with skylake (using the same white black blue colors ofc. The ram is blue btw).

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($259.99 @ B&H) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H110i GTX 104.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($149.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: Avexir Core Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($99.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($168.63 @ Amazon) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($343.24 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($619.99 @ Newegg) 

Case: Fractal Design Define S w/Window ATX Mid Tower Case  ($88.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: Antec 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $1940.80

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-12 17:21 EDT-0400

[Curufinwe_wins]

I got the case because that is what I fell in love with and the PSU I bought the same day because I got a deal with it. I am not currently in budget for an i7 which is why I am going with an i5 for now. I was given about a month's notice and 300$ to build this. Everything else is out of pocket. 

Then go with haswell and it will be in budget. Care to repost your link with what you already own?

[Master Disaster]

Completely ignore this comment.

 

 

This is a much better build for the price.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($368.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H110i GTX 104.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI PLUS ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($219.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($168.63 @ Amazon) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($343.24 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card  ($649.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Case: Fractal Design Define S w/Window ATX Mid Tower Case  ($88.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($94.99 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $2154.80

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-12 17:12 EDT-0400

 

DDR4 speed literally makes 0 difference whatsoever and skylake is insanely overprice. Also full tower cases are not needed or helpful in today's day and age. Finally I would never recommend spending 110 USD on a bronze + poop stick (yes seasonic is good, but it's still a meh psu for the price).

Says Skylake is overpriced, recommends X99?

Great logic.

[Blacidevil]

Then go with haswell and it will be in budget. Care to repost your link with what you already own?

This is my current build. I have already purchased the case. I will look into that RAM. I have just never heard of that company and am a little wary of new companies. 

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RJHzRB

[Curufinwe_wins]

Says Skylake is overpriced, recommends X99?

Great logic.

Considering an x99 build was literally the same cost of his original SKYLAKE i5! yes. x99 also gives you MASSIVE performance boosts over skylake.

 

Here are two copy pasta's I did on a previous post explaining this issue.

 

 

Well that and more expensive motherboards (like 30-50 dollars more), and more expensive ram (like 15% more per gig) and it no longer becomes such a small price difference.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($326.95 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: MSI Z97A GAMING 6 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($142.98 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Team Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($67.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $537.92

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-07 22:46 EDT-0400

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($359.99 @ B&H) 

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M7 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($216.99 @ Amazon) 

Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($88.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $665.97

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-07 22:46 EDT-0400

 

And that doesn't factor in that at a microcenter a 4790k can be had for 279 dollars, while a 6700k still costs 349 (aka add an additional 50 dollar difference there, so 180 dollars more (or nearly 35% more cost for less than 5% performance boost.)

 

Hell at that point even a comparably featured x99 setup is cheaper:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($378.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI PLUS ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($229.89 @ OutletPC) 

Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($88.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $697.87

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-07 22:51 EDT-0400

 

In case that comparison bothered people in this thread, here is US prices for literally the cheapest z/x series motherboards and ram available (noting ofc that the cheapest x99 board is better in quality than many mid-range z97/z170 boards, but not included in calculation).

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($76.98 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Team Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($67.99 @ Newegg) 

Other: i7-4790k @ microcenter ($279.99)

Total: $424.96

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-07 23:00 EDT-0400

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

Motherboard: ASRock Z170M Pro4S Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($98.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($88.99 @ Newegg) 

Other: i7-6700k @ microcenter ($349.99)

Total: $537.97

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-07 23:00 EDT-0400

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X99-UD3P (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($153.98 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($88.99 @ Newegg) 

Other: i7-5820k @ microcenter ($299.99)

Total: $542.96

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-07 23:00 EDT-0400

 

Again skylake is NOT worth it unless you literally have no where else to spend the money.

OP has access to fry's which basically guarantees they will price match the microcenter (I have done this) or a microcenter is near by.

[Curufinwe_wins]

This is my current build. I have already purchased the case. I will look into that RAM. I have just never heard of that company and am a little wary of new companies. 

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RJHzRB

ram is ram. I would highly recommend going with haswell instead.

 

This is the build I would personally recommend. You also said you already bought the psu so thats fine.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($316.95 @ SuperBiiz) 

CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($119.99 @ B&H) 

Motherboard: MSI Z97A GAMING 6 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($139.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($46.89 @ OutletPC) 

Storage: Crucial MX200 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($139.99 @ Amazon) 

Storage: Crucial MX200 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($269.99 @ Amazon) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda ES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($619.99 @ Newegg) 

Case: Corsair 760T White V2 ATX Full Tower Case  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Power Supply: SeaSonic EVO Edition 850W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Total: $1653.79

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-12 17:48 EDT-0400

 

I just added 8 more GB of your current ram since there isn't a reason to change it. The 980ti I grabbed is the same as the TFV but uses a white cooler and is dirt cheap so YAY. The x61 is better and 10 dollars cheaper, but if you really want the h110i gtx go for it. The MX200 SSD is for basically identical in both speed and reliability as the 850 Evo (crucial is micron), while being much much cheaper so thats good.

 

Overall you get an i7 instead and still save a lot. (BTW if this was confusing if you mark the psu and case on your original build as purchased then its directly equivalent and the total cost is 1825 instead of the 1654 I selected.)

[Blacidevil]

Yes but I am also a Samsung Fanboy and I like the minimalist look. A big drop in price also comes from the GPU which doesn't match my system at all. As far as specs go the the MSI isn't much better at a better price but the Gigabyte card is still quite comparable and that won't be upgraded just yet. I would rather have the i5 for the time being up until I decide I actually need an i7. As of right now what I do I don't even need this but I want to be set for the next few years.

[DildorTheDecent]

 

You should have no problem reaching at least 4.5+ Ghz, but you need to ask yourself, do you NEED to overclock- do you want the extra heat and strain to be put on your CPU?

Heat gain is a non issue if you have a decent cooler. 

 

Not the slightest idea where you're going with the 'strain' idea. 

[JustCallMeVlad]

4.6-4.8ghz

[Curufinwe_wins]

Yes but I am also a Samsung Fanboy and I like the minimalist look. A big drop in price also comes from the GPU which doesn't match my system at all. As far as specs go the the MSI isn't much better at a better price but the Gigabyte card is still quite comparable and that won't be upgraded just yet. I would rather have the i5 for the time being up until I decide I actually need an i7. As of right now what I do I don't even need this but I want to be set for the next few years.

At some point, all I can do is shrug and say you are wasting your money across the board. As long as it makes you happy... *shrug*

[App4that]

Yes but I am also a Samsung Fanboy and I like the minimalist look. A big drop in price also comes from the GPU which doesn't match my system at all. As far as specs go the the MSI isn't much better at a better price but the Gigabyte card is still quite comparable and that won't be upgraded just yet. I would rather have the i5 for the time being up until I decide I actually need an i7. As of right now what I do I don't even need this but I want to be set for the next few years.

That moment when you load Fallout 4 and realize you need a i7 to run the highest settings, not going to be a pleasant one.

 

Games are becoming more and more CPU demanding, go cheap on it and the setting you'll get to chose will be limited.