Think I overkilled...

[Flowey]

So as the title said I'm kind of slowly realizing I overkilled my build, wanted to stop asking myself that question, so, quick intro, it's a mainly gaming rig  which I wanted to still have around and don't need to upgrade for a few years.  Here's the pcpartpicker list

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/minutmaidman/saved/#view=XYkV3C

I payed something around 2000$ for that PC, now the canadian loonie has gotten better so its valued at 1500$, which is sad.

 

So, free of charge, tell me what I overkilled on so that next time I save a few bucks!

[DXMember]

it's an ok build,

probably didn't need both of those drives at the sime time

 

[Rck010]

3 minutes ago, Flowey said:

So as the title said I'm kind of slowly realizing I overkilled my build, wanted to stop asking myself that question, so, quick intro, it's a mainly gaming rig  which I wanted to still have around and don't need to upgrade for a few years.  Here's the pcpartpicker list

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/minutmaidman/saved/#view=XYkV3C

I payed something around 2000$ for that PC, now the canadian loonie has gotten better so its valued at 1500$, which is sad.

 

So, free of charge, tell me what I overkilled on so that next time I save a few bucks!

I don't see any overkill, pretty solid build to me. Nothing wrong with.. Don't look at prices afterwards when it comes to computer hardware, just don't.

[Bananasplit_00]

only thing overkill here is the PSU, you do NOT need 750W

[Charcoal_]

Its reasonable and will last a long time in terms of performance. You didn't need the second HDD really. The PSU will probably allow for Crossfire, that's all that's really overkill.

[lh99]

that isn´t overkill at all

 

[Flowey]

6 minutes ago, Rck010 said:

I don't see any overkill, pretty solid build to me. Nothing wrong with.. Don't look at prices afterwards when it comes to computer hardware, just don't.

HAHAHA that's what started this thought process to be honest, I'll never do that again

[Rck010]

5 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

only thing overkill here is the PSU, you do NOT need 750W

Always nice to have headroom for overclocking and future upgrades. Nothing wrong with a 750w here in my opinion. Now if he went with a 1000w or something, then i'd agree.

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, Rck010 said:

Always nice to have headroom for overclocking and future upgrades. Nothing wrong with a 750w here in my opinion. Now if he went with a 1000w or something, then i'd agree.

he would be fine with like 500W  i think he should atleast step down to something around 650W

[Flowey]

8 minutes ago, DXMember said:

it's an ok build,

probably didn't need both of those drives at the sime time

 

Oh I wanted RAID 1 just to be secured in case the HDD failed that'Ms why I got 2 1tb drive, otherwise would obviously have gone for a 2tb single drive.

[Flowey]

Here some reason I went for the parts I did.

14 minutes ago, DXMember said:

it's an ok build,

probably didn't need both of those drives at the sime time

 

 

13 minutes ago, Rck010 said:

I don't see any overkill, pretty solid build to me. Nothing wrong with.. Don't look at prices afterwards when it comes to computer hardware, just don't.

 

13 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

only thing overkill here is the PSU, you do NOT need 750W

 

11 minutes ago, Charcoal_ said:

Its reasonable and will last a long time in terms of performance. You didn't need the second HDD really. The PSU will probably allow for Crossfire, that's all that's really overkill.

 

10 minutes ago, lh99 said:

that isn´t overkill at all

 

The case I wanted because you know, looks good

Went for the i5-6600k for future proofing with Skylake

Wanted RAID 1 on my 2 HDD, that's why I got 2

Wanted an SSD for my most played games and OS of course

Went with the 750W PSU cause I'm definitly going to upgrade in the future

The mobo I definitly overspent on, no excuses or anything there

Same for RAM, could easily have went for 2400mhx over 3200, which I'm not even overclocking right now.

CPU cooler was handed over by a friend, didn't spend a dime on that.

 

STill feels like I overkilled tho.

[Rck010]

8 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

he would be fine with like 500W  i think he should atleast step down to something around 650W

Difference on newegg is a whopping $ 10,00 US Dollar. He'd be stupid to go for the 650w.

[Johannes_Lazor]

PC hardware prices drops as rocks in water. Just dont bother looking back, look forwards instead.

[lh99]

overkill would be

caselabs cas

i7 5960x

rampage 5 extreme

2 950pros in raid 0

5 6tb red in raid 5

corsair ax 1500

128gb ddr4 corsair vengance

custom loop

[Flowey]

5 minutes ago, Rck010 said:

Difference on newegg is a whopping $ 10,00 US Dollar. He'd be stupid to go for the 650w.

Got the 750W for less then the 500W on a promotion, first part I buyed, launched my spending spree.

[Flowey]

4 minutes ago, lh99 said:

overkill would be

caselabs cas

i7 5960x

rampage 5 extreme

2 950pros in raid 0

5 6tb red in raid 5

corsair ax 1500

128gb ddr4 corsair vengance

custom loop

enthusiatics level overkill reached, at that point you might as well get a used car

[Rolling Potatoe]

looks like a standard enthusiast gamer pc. 

The parts mostly have good price/performance with maybe

100-150$ extra splurged to have a nicer mobo, case and psu.

[Flowey]

1 minute ago, Rolling Potatoe said:

looks like a standard enthusiast gamer pc. 

The parts mostly have good price/performance with maybe

100-150$ extra splurged to have a nicer mobo, case and psu.

I took a look at current prices, that's my mistake.

[Rolling Potatoe]

Just now, Flowey said:

I took a look at current prices, that's my mistake.

Yeah you can never win with hardware, it always looses value no matter when you buy it.........

....except there is a mining craze again, its funny to sell your gpu at profit after a year or two of use.

[Moonzy]

is it overkill?

maaaaybe?

 

nah, just no

 

get a single 2tb hard disk lol

and maybe a lower wattage psu `-` 550~650W will do just fine