[Advice Needed] Long Lasting Skylake Build.

[foreign-]

I know they are cheaper but still didn't answer the question why R9 Fury (not X) over lets say GTX 980... People on the other forum also suggested to go with AMD Fury but no one tells why exactly they are making such suggestions. I would understand if they say "get R9 Fury but not GTX 980 if you need GSync/FreeSync monitor since FreeSync is a cheaper option..."

[Streetguru]

17 minutes ago, foreign- said:

I know they are cheaper but still didn't answer the question why R9 Fury (not X) over lets say GTX 980... People on the other forum also suggested to go with AMD Fury but no one tells why exactly they are making such suggestions. I would understand if they say "get R9 Fury but not GTX 980 if you need GSync/FreeSync monitor since FreeSync is a cheaper option..."

Well it's faster than a 980, and DX12, free-sync yadda, yadda

 

it's better for the money, which is usually the best option overall. especially with the new GPUs so close to coming out

[foreign-]

Yeah, I'm not ready to pay $1500 or so for a flagship pascal card  

 

If I was getting a 1080p monitor I would definitely get gtx 970 or R9 fury instead but for 1440p I think those cards a little too weak considering I'm not planning to upgrade a GPU any time soon.

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, foreign- said:

Yeah, I'm not ready to pay $1500 or so for a flagship pascal card  

 

If I was getting a 1080p monitor I would definitely get gtx 970 or R9 fury instead but for 1440p I think those cards a little too weak considering I'm not planning to upgrade a GPU any time soon.

the 970/390 are already going to be fine for 1440p

 

aside from that, that's not how PC hardware works man, price stays the same, performance increases

[foreign-]

It's not my opinion regarding the price of a pascal flagship cards but some trusted reviewers... However, I'm building a PC now so I need a GPU now, there always will be something around the corner and if I always wait for something new to be released I will never buy anything. Obviously, if I had a decent card already I would buy the rest and wait for pascal but its not my case.

 

Just imagine, in a 3 months comes out GTX 1070 and 1080, you don't buy it and wait for a 1080 Ti, another 3 months later Ti comes out but you obviously don't want a reference card but good custom pcb one, you wait another 3-4 months and then Nvidia Volta is being announced, you jump into forums to ask for an advice whether you should buy 1080 Ti or wait for volta and everything repeats...  

[foreign-]

BTW, according to all the benchmarks I've seen 970 and R9 Fury are too weak for 2k, at least for my liking...

[Rabih.H]

11 hours ago, Streetguru said:

GPUs have way more performance gains compared to CPUs, usually the next gen top end  GPU is equal to Dual GPUs from the previous top end, at least 20-30% more performance usually.

 

the 6700K makes no sense to buy most times because the 5820K usually costs as much and gives you more performance, yet another place that money is better spent, as the X99 motherboards add some cost, but then you have a 6 core CPU vs a 4 core, and you can still overclock it should your heart desire, and it makes more sense to OC the 5820K as it only turbos to 3.6ghz. And then you're spending $100 more for probably 20%+ more performance overall.
 

 

 

Well of course not, you have the highest performing GPU, though the goal should be performance per dollar in most cases, because new stuff is always coming out, which is why my build gives fairly comparable performance at a much lower cost, as when you buy more expensive products generally your performance per dollar goes down.

and even if it's highly reviewed, a grey market key is still going to be a grey market key that may be revoked at any time, it may be legitimate technically, but it's an a grey area of the law, and it's basically only a step away from software piracy.



X99 version of your build with most of the other, non performance per dollar stuff, though the hard drive situation is different from yours, given it's comparable cost the 5820K makes a lot more sense than the 6700K if you really want to overclock for some reason.

 

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Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£53.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£40.39 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury 4GB Tri-X Video Card  (£429.95 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£36.57 @ Amazon UK)
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No matter how much performance increase you get, it would not make sense to spend $430 on a GPU, and then spend an additional $600+ creating a total cost of $1000 for a GPU that will perform 20 - 30% better. It would be a wiser option to buy something like an R9 380 or something cheaper for now, and then spend the money on a decent GPU when it does come out.

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, Rabih.H said:

No matter how much performance increase you get, it would not make sense to spend $430 on a GPU, and then spend an additional $600+ creating a total cost of $1000 for a GPU that will perform 20 - 30% better. It would be a wiser option to buy something like an R9 380 or something cheaper for now, and then spend the money on a decent GPU when it does come out.

That would be assuming you don't sell your old GPU after you get your new one though, and a Fury is still going to push games very well for a 1440p 144hz display

[Rabih.H]

6 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

That would be assuming you don't sell your old GPU after you get your new one though, and a Fury is still going to push games very well for a 1440p 144hz display

GPUs lose a lot of resell value. You would be down at least $100.

[foreign-]

Everything has just arrived. 

 

Thank you all for your time and effort. 

 

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