Gaming Rig Help

[SmartenUp]

Parts I already own: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/n6GVrH

 

I have $1000 - ish before taxes for the CPU, CPU Cooler, Motherboard, Ram.

Leaning towards a 6700K + a Noctua nh-d15 because I am going to OC.

Can't figure out what mobo + ram would be good.

 

I play Arma 3, Stream moderately, some video editing.

Let me know what else I missed. 

Cheers!

 

EDIT: I know the GTX 960 sucks, and I will get something top of the line when the new cards drop later this year.

[KezzaMcFezza]

3 minutes ago, SmartenUp said:

Parts I already own: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/n6GVrH

 

I have $1000 - ish before taxes for the CPU, CPU Cooler, Motherboard, Ram.

Leaning towards a 6700K + a Noctua nh-d15 because I am going to OC.

Can't figure out what mobo + ram would be good.

 

I play Arma 3, Stream moderately, some video editing.

Let me know what else I missed. 

Cheers!

 

EDIT: I know the GTX 960 sucks, and I will get something top of the line when the new cards drop later this year.

Get 16GB ram. try the corsair vengence kit. And just go for the most popular mobo that people use for their 6700k.

 

Hope this helps

[l_zheng101]

The Asus Z-170 Deluxe is a great choice for a mobo but it is not cheap, and if not that then the Asus Z-170 A will do. For the RAM, I would suggest some Corsair DDR4 LPX.

 

p.s: the 960 doesn't suck, it just will bottleneck your CPU

[That13thGuy]

22 minutes ago, SmartenUp said:

Parts I already own: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/n6GVrH

 

I have $1000 - ish before taxes for the CPU, CPU Cooler, Motherboard, Ram.

Leaning towards a 6700K + a Noctua nh-d15 because I am going to OC.

Can't figure out what mobo + ram would be good.

 

I play Arma 3, Stream moderately, some video editing.

Let me know what else I missed. 

Cheers!

 

EDIT: I know the GTX 960 sucks, and I will get something top of the line when the new cards drop later this year.

gtx 960 doesn't suck at all, it's really good for 1080p 60fps gaming however the cpu will be "bottlenecked", it's basically a fit for a titan x but that's okay.

[DragonTamer1]

Might want to drop one of the SSDs to give yourself a bit more headroom in your budget. Right now you are at risk of going over the $1k mark with the 6700k, motherboard and RAM.

 

960 isn't a bad card, it's just not as good as the 970... or 980... or 980ti... I was actually thinking about buying one for the family system.

[SmartenUp]

2 hours ago, DragonTamer1 said:

Might want to drop one of the SSDs to give yourself a bit more headroom in your budget. Right now you are at risk of going over the $1k mark with the 6700k, motherboard and RAM.

 

960 isn't a bad card, it's just not as good as the 970... or 980... or 980ti... I was actually thinking about buying one for the family system.

Oh, I had these parts laying around from a previous build already. Not spenong anything

 

P.S. I was actually testing something with the evo 850's (8 of them), 4 is the best raid 0 with them. Didn't return any because they rock. 2 ended up unused at all. Thus welcome to by 2nd home PC!

2 hours ago, l_zheng101 said:

The Asus Z-170 Deluxe is a great choice for a mobo but it is not cheap, and if not that then the Asus Z-170 A will do. For the RAM, I would suggest some Corsair DDR4 LPX.

 

p.s: the 960 doesn't suck, it just will bottleneck your CPU

Thank you! Will look into both of them.

[BurblingBarbacoa]

• Ok. The parts you currently have are pretty good. I wouldn't even bother putting in the dad drive but whatever. If you have it and use it then go for it
• I think if all you do is a bit of video stuff and gaming as well as general home PC use then the terabyte of SSD storage is good. You can always grab another SSD or a big hard drive in the future 
• I think a 6600k is fine. You will still be able to OC, you will get identical gaming preformance to the 6700k and you can totally edit with it. I know that in people's mind i7 equals editing beast, and while that is true, an i5 is fine for editing and streaming unless you are really doing it on a daily basis. 
• Grab 16gb of ram. For editing and streaming some and even just general use it is a good idea. And it is not that much more than an 8gb kit. 
• As for a cooler, yes the nhd15 is a good choice. There are other options. The nhd14 is also a great choice as is the BeQuiet! Dark Rock 3/Pro 3. The one I would reccomend from what I have seen on it so far is the new CoolerMaster MasterAir Maker 8. Looks great, super quiet and is as good as the nhd15 in the cooling department. And don't even think about a closed loop watercooler. Just don't. 
• The 960 is shit? Um. No? It's a low to mid range card but for 1080p it is well fine. I would keep it and see how it does. If you need to upgrade or you start using higher resolution and/or refresh rate monitors than so be it.

anyway, hope I helped  tell me what you think  

[BurblingBarbacoa]

3 hours ago, DragonTamer1 said:

Might want to drop one of the SSDs to give yourself a bit more headroom in your budget. Right now you are at risk of going over the $1k mark with the 6700k, motherboard and RAM.

 

960 isn't a bad card, it's just not as good as the 970... or 980... or 980ti... I was actually thinking about buying one for the family system.

Yep it's a pretty nice card. Keep in mind that the 950 and the 380 are better cards for the money. 

[SmartenUp]

6 minutes ago, BurblingBarbacoa said:

• Ok. The parts you currently have are pretty good. I wouldn't even bother putting in the dad drive but whatever. If you have it and use it then go for it
• I think if all you do is a bit of video stuff and gaming as well as general home PC use then the terabyte of SSD storage is good. You can always grab another SSD or a big hard drive in the future 
• I think a 6600k is fine. You will still be able to OC, you will get identical gaming preformance to the 6700k and you can totally edit with it. I know that in people's mind i7 equals editing beast, and while that is true, an i5 is fine for editing and streaming unless you are really doing it on a daily basis. 
• Grab 16gb of ram. For editing and streaming some and even just general use it is a good idea. And it is not that much more than an 8gb kit. 
• As for a cooler, yes the nhd15 is a good choice. There are other options. The nhd14 is also a great choice as is the BeQuiet! Dark Rock 3/Pro 3. The one I would reccomend from what I have seen on it so far is the new CoolerMaster MasterAir Maker 8. Looks great, super quiet and is as good as the nhd15 in the cooling department. And don't even think about a closed loop watercooler. Just don't. 
• The 960 is shit? Um. No? It's a low to mid range card but for 1080p it is well fine. I would keep it and see how it does. If you need to upgrade or you start using higher resolution and/or refresh rate monitors than so be it.

anyway, hope I helped  tell me what you think  

1) What's a dad drive?

2) Yeah, I mean 1TB is fine for the day to day stuff. I didn't bother including the storage HDD's which I have mountains of.

3) I'm going for the 6700k mostly because I want the best cpu performance. But I get that they are very similar.

4) 16 GB is what I'm looking it myself.

5.) The nhd15 impressed me, so I'm going with something that not only get plenty of praise, but I see first had kick ass!

6) I just mean GTX 960 is not your GAMING CARD, I would get the 980ti within this build if it wasn't for the new cards being around the corner.

[BurblingBarbacoa]

1 hour ago, SmartenUp said:

1) What's a dad drive?

2) Yeah, I mean 1TB is fine for the day to day stuff. I didn't bother including the storage HDD's which I have mountains of.

3) I'm going for the 6700k mostly because I want the best cpu performance. But I get that they are very similar.

4) 16 GB is what I'm looking it myself.

5.) The nhd15 impressed me, so I'm going with something that not only get plenty of praise, but I see first had kick ass!

6) I just mean GTX 960 is not your GAMING CARD, I would get the 980ti within this build if it wasn't for the new cards being around the corner.

• That meant to say dvd drive. You know. The optical drive. Autocorrect. 
• Ok cool. 
• Hm. Ok. It's fine if you just kinda want the best of the best but it doesn't seem like you need an i7. As I said. Gaming: i5 is fine. 1080p video editing: i5 is fine. General use: i5 is fine. Especially overclocked, you will not really see much of a preformance jump with the i7 even editing videos if they are only at 1080p and you don't plan on doing some of the most mlg pro haxor after effects shit ever. 
• Cool. 16gb is good. 
• Yeah as I agree it is supposed to kick ass and I'm definently a Noctua fanboy, like I use Noctua coolers on sandy bridge i3s and Pentiums but the MasterAir Maker 8 is amazing. It is supposed to be about as good as the d15, it is supposed to be quieter and although I have a soft sport for noctuas colour scheme, it looks way better. I'll include a picture of both so you can compare here. 
• Im still not really sure why you are talking about with the 960 but ok.