unreasonable Am I Crazy Making This System for Minecraft?

[Schyken]

So, I'm building a PC. As of current, the specs are supposed to be an FX-4350, a STRIX R9 380X, 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1866Mhz RAM, EVGA 750W PSU, a 1TB SSHD. The only things I plan on doing is playing and recording Minecraft. Sounds crazy, right? I do want to be able to edit and render the videos as well. I also plan on using a high-resolution texture pack and shaders. Is this too much? I'm still going to build it and I may dabble in some games on Steam, but I think it should be good for recording and playing? Any thoughts on this?

[tomaatvk]

2 minutes ago, Schyken said:

So, I'm building a PC. As of current, the specs are supposed to be an FX-4350, a STRIX R9 380X, 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1866Mhz RAM, EVGA 750W PSU, a 1TB SSHD. The only things I plan on doing is playing and recording Minecraft. Sounds crazy, right? I do want to be able to edit and render the videos as well. I also plan on using a high-resolution texture pack and shaders. Is this too much? I'm still going to build it and I may dabble in some games on Steam, but I think it should be good for recording and playing? Any thoughts on this?

You should really change out that CPU, I think even a skylake i3 CPU would perform as well as that one and that is not good if you're gonna be recording.

[PlayStation 2]

What 750 watt unit.

And why an SSHD.

[Paralectic]

Get a i5 4460 with a R9 380 and 8GB RAM, a decent 500w gold PSU and you're set.

[HPWebcamAble]

For recording / editing, I'd recommend an i7. Or an i5 at minimum.

Haven't been impressed by AMD's stuff, can't recommend them

 

You'd also don't need a 750W psu. 550 or 600 would be fine.

[Schyken]

Just now, Dan Castellaneta said:

What 750 watt unit.

And why an SSHD.

The SuperNOVA gold. The SSHD until I get an SSD.

 

2 minutes ago, tomaatvk said:

You should really change out that CPU, I think even a skylake i3 CPU would perform as well as that one and that is not good if you're gonna be recording.

Maybe an i5?

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, Schyken said:

The SuperNOVA gold. The SSHD until I get an SSD.

 

Maybe an i5?

Supernova Gold... there's the G1. The G2. The GQ. Come on, there's multiple units and you don't wanna be stuck with the G1.

[tomaatvk]

1 minute ago, Schyken said:

Maybe an i5?

An i5 would be great unless you're gonna start recording CPU heavy games at a high resolution (or you could get an NVidia card and use the shadowplay feature which makes the GPU record the game without taking a hit on performance and still get the AMD CPU)

[Ace0100]

There is no such thing as crazy with this build its pretty much a stranded gaming computer a good one too i would put at least an i5

[tomaatvk]

2 minutes ago, Ace0100 said:

There is no such thing as crazy with this build its pretty much a stranded gaming computer a good one too i would put at least an i5

The PSU is crazy when you look at the components

[ManWithBeard1990]

That's way too weak a CPU for the GPU you're putting in there, and it's also old-fashioned. Even lacking any L3 cache the 860K will probably have similar or better performance but with Minecraft (especially modded) being predominantly dependent on single-threaded performance Intel is really the way to go. A GPU that powerful even with nice shaders is overkill and to be frank while in DirectX it's usually pretty close AMD has tended to largely ignore OpenGL performance so perhaps an nVidia GPU might be better for Minecraft anyway.

[Ace0100]

1 minute ago, tomaatvk said:

The PSU is crazy when you look at the components

Future upgrades lol im running with my build i7 3770 970 G1 16 ram 4tbsshd SSD 240gb 2 TB HDD with a 700w psu

[tomaatvk]

12 minutes ago, Ace0100 said:

Future upgrades lol im running with my build i7 3770 970 G1 16 ram 4tbsshd SSD 240gb 2 TB HDD with a 700w psu

I'm running an i7 3770k, 980 ti, 16GB ram, 480GB PCI-e SSD, 120GB SATA SSD, 1TB SATA HDD with an RM750i (so 750 watt) and I almost max it out. Thanks to my overclocking my GPU consumes almost 500 watt and my cpu roughly 160 watt so roughly 650 watt for those 2 components alone. The rest of my system uses roughly 30 watts, my fans roughly 40 watts when all on full RPM and my LEDs roughly 25 watts. I've actually seen corsair link telling me that my system was pulling 672 watt from the PSU and after power conversion loss it was pulling roughly 740 watt from the wall. On a single GPU system.

[tomaatvk]

sorry, for whatever reason it posted twice

[Ace0100]

5 minutes ago, tomaatvk said:

sorry, for whatever reason it posted twice

its come up as one post and niice build glad im not the only one still running the 3rd gen lol

[maremp]

29 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

What 750 watt unit.

And why an SSHD.

The post says EVGA 750W, it's not like there are hundreds of EVGA models. And any one of theirs should be decent. Sure the G2 or even T2 would be much better than, say, B2, but it's still a decent psu for the price. That said, I strongly agree with others saying the 750W is an overkill for this build.

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, maremp said:

The post says EVGA 750W, it's not like there are hundreds of EVGA models. And any one of theirs should be decent. Sure the G2 or even T2 would be much better than, say, B2, but it's still a decent psu for the price. That said, I strongly agree with others saying the 750W is an overkill for this build.

I mean as long as it isn't the EVGA G1 or B1 he's fine.

[tomaatvk]

2 minutes ago, Ace0100 said:

its come up as one post and niice build glad im not the only one still running the 3rd gen lol

Once the broadwell-e series are released I'm either gonna get an 6850k or 6900k CPU because I 'need' more performance.

[maremp]

18 minutes ago, Ace0100 said:

Future upgrades lol im running with my build i7 3770 970 G1 16 ram 4tbsshd SSD 240gb 2 TB HDD with a 700w psu

High power psu with components that don't utilize even half of it's power isn't that smart, you are not hitting the optimal performance of your psu. Also buying a huge psu to be "future proof" doesn't make much sense either, unless you are planning to upgrade after less than a year of the purchase. 

[Ace0100]

1 minute ago, maremp said:

High power psu with components that don't utilize even half of it's power isn't that smart, you are not hitting the optimal performance of your psu. Also buying a huge psu to be "future proof" doesn't make much sense either, unless you are planning to upgrade after less than a year of the purchase. 

Ive had this 700w psu for years back then i didnt know much and i had it put together for me back then my build was i7 3770 8gb 1TB hdd GT 640 Atec case that was back in 2012 been upgrading over time added more HDD now SSD i did have a 670 4gb OC couple months back managed to sell it for 250 then now i have a 970 4gb G1 with 16gb ram ive been thinking of down grading the PSU since im never going to do SLI and considering getting a modular psu  P.S my case has changed to CM storm enforcer

[maremp]

5 minutes ago, Ace0100 said:

Ive had this 700w psu for years back then i didnt know much and i had it put together for me back then my build was i7 3770 8gb 1TB hdd GT 640 Atec case that was back in 2012 been upgrading over time added more HDD now SSD i did have a 670 4gb OC couple months back managed to sell it for 250 then now i have a 970 4gb G1 with 16gb ram ive been thinking of down grading the PSU since im never going to do SLI and considering getting a modular psu  P.S my case has changed to CM storm enforcer

[rose.thashton]

lol... That build isn't so much overkill as it is poorly put together. The CPU is trash, while the GPU is a great one. You don't need either for Minecraft. Even with shaders and editing/rendering. I took about 10 minutes to put something together that would be way better for a similar price. There's no reason to settle for less with AMD CPUs right now, and you definitely don't need anything over a GTX 950. If you decide to play other games, that GPU has you covered for anything at 1080p.

 

Drop 8GB of RAM if you need to save $30 or so... Buy/find a copy of Windows 10 and you're all set.

 

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