Cheapest possible build with a 980Ti and 4core/8threads?

[Trav_X]

What's the best balance of a 980Ti and an i7 at the best price point?

 

i was thinking a Xeon E3-1231 v3, sounds like a good idea. I also need an SSD for boot as I already have a hard drive. I also have DDR3 ram so that cuts costs.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Trav_X/saved/MKdKHx 

 

is this good?

[Trav_X]

I already have a case as well.

[Moonzy]

what are you doing with your computer exactly

 

coz i wont recommend the xeon for gaming, i would recommend skylake

[Moonzy]

ah well, ill just assume its for rendering work with gaming on the side since you opted for an i7-ish cpu

 

comments:

Spoiler

1) would personally pick 850 evo ssds, though that ocz drive is fine as well i guess

2) would pick a better psu, i recommend the EVGA SuperNOVA G2/P2 650W

 

[cortexcortex]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper T2 54.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($16.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($89.89 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($42.09 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB AMP! Omega Edition Video Card  ($619.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Amazon) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Total: $1142.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-14 19:39 EDT-0400

[Starelementpoke]

16 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

what are you doing with your computer exactly

 

coz i wont recommend the xeon for gaming, i would recommend skylake

But the 1231v3 is great for gaming...

[Moonzy]

Just now, Starelementpoke said:

But the 1231v3 is great for gaming...

it is, but skylake is even better if he's just gaming

[Kickflapper]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291727190812?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[Trav_X]

3 hours ago, Moonzy said:

what are you doing with your computer exactly

 

coz i wont recommend the xeon for gaming, i would recommend skylake

I'd do mostly gaming, along with heavy mutltitasking and game recording. A little photoshop here and there, as well as some F@H + BOINC

[Trav_X]

2 hours ago, cortexcortex said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper T2 54.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($16.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($89.89 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($42.09 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB AMP! Omega Edition Video Card  ($619.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Amazon) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Total: $1142.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-14 19:39 EDT-0400

That looks like a good build although I have some questions

 

1. People have said that a 240GB is best for boot, since you can also store a bunch of essential programs on there besides just an OS and a few files

 

2. I've heard Kingston SSD' aren't very reliable, and that some of them In certain series perform way lower that advertised

 

3. Is the 6600k good? I'm worried about my lack of hyperthreading considering I want to do stuff like Streaming, Game Recording while playing intensive games, and other CPU intensive tasks, but nothing extreme. Will I be okay with just the 4 cores 4 threads?

[IanDrexP]

1 hour ago, Trav_X said:

That looks like a good build although I have some questions

 

1. People have said that a 240GB is best for boot, since you can also store a bunch of essential programs on there besides just an OS and a few files

 

2. I've heard Kingston SSD' aren't very reliable, and that some of them In certain series perform way lower that advertised

 

3. Is the 6600k good? I'm worried about my lack of hyperthreading considering I want to do stuff like Streaming, Game Recording while playing intensive games, and other CPU intensive tasks, but nothing extreme. Will I be okay with just the 4 cores 4 threads?

1. Correct. A 240GB SSD would be better because it has a better price to performance & capacity ratio.

 

2. Kingston SSDs are good except that SSDNow V300 series unfortunately because it has been having issues with a lot of people.

 

3. An i5 is more than enough if you will be streaming using Nvidia ShadowPlay, it has negligible or no impact on game perfomance. 

[stconquest]

$127 more puts you on the newest platform:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($309.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Deepcool GAMMAXX 300 55.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($19.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($51.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($63.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB ACX 2.0+ Video Card  ($599.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  ($85.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1266.71
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 00:32 EDT-0400

[IanDrexP]

My suggestion:

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X 82.9 CFM CPU Cooler  ($39.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($87.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($87.77 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.77 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB ACX 2.0+ Video Card  ($599.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1233.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 00:37 EDT-0400

 

[Moonzy]

6 hours ago, Trav_X said:

That looks like a good build although I have some questions

 

1. People have said that a 240GB is best for boot, since you can also store a bunch of essential programs on there besides just an OS and a few files

 

2. I've heard Kingston SSD' aren't very reliable, and that some of them In certain series perform way lower that advertised

 

3. Is the 6600k good? I'm worried about my lack of hyperthreading considering I want to do stuff like Streaming, Game Recording while playing intensive games, and other CPU intensive tasks, but nothing extreme. Will I be okay with just the 4 cores 4 threads?

1. its not the best for boot, but it has a better price per gigabyte ratio, a 120gb ssd cost around $60 and a 240gb ssd cost about $80, $20 for double the capacity lol

2. not all kingston SSD has issues, just their V300, you can learn more about it here

 

3. the i5 6600k is great for gaming compared to the xeon, you can overclock it for awesome single threaded performance, as for game recording, you might as well use shadowplay since you already have it since you're going the nvidia route  recording with shadowplay will have the least impact on gaming performance compared to other software solutions

 

if you're into looks and quality

Spoiler

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ydGr99
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ydGr99/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($107.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($159.99 @ Micro Center) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($64.49 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($87.77 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.77 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($653.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($105.59 @ NZXT) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 650W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($74.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $1537.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 05:39 EDT-0400

if you're into quality (i don't recommend going below this build except maybe a cheaper case, the core components for this is already pretty bare minimum)

Spoiler

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/rNYMP6
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/rNYMP6/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.49 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($97.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($64.49 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($87.77 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.77 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($549.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Micro Center) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 650W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($74.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $1232.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 05:43 EDT-0400

 

5 hours ago, IanDrexP said:

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 

I've seen skylake not booting with crucial ballistix sports ram about 2 times now, and the issue is solved when they swapped the ram to hyperx or vengeance lpx

so i generally only would recommend hyperx or vengeance lpx, and avoid ballistix sports `-` though i heard g-skill ram is fine too, not sure

[Sir Asvald]

14 hours ago, Moonzy said:

what are you doing with your computer exactly

 

coz i wont recommend the xeon for gaming, i would recommend skylake

The Xeon 1231v3 is just like an i7 4770 execpt it does not have an iGPU. It does fine in gaming. Not all "Xeons" are bad for gaming.

Watch this video and you'll get an understanding:

 

 

[Moonzy]

Just now, Abdul201588 said:

 

i KNOW the xeon is like an i7 4770 without igpu

BUT skylake have better single core performance, thus its better for gaming compared to the xeon

 

im not saying xeons are for servers only

[Trav_X]

9 hours ago, stconquest said:

$127 more puts you on the newest platform:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($309.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Deepcool GAMMAXX 300 55.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($19.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($51.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($63.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB ACX 2.0+ Video Card  ($599.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  ($85.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1266.71
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 00:32 EDT-0400

That's not a bad build actually  I don't need a copy of Win 10, I have one, or I could make a USB boot  so I could take that money and get a 6700k (since the price difference in my area is not much) and maybe a Z170 board, one on the cheaper end 

[Trav_X]

4 hours ago, Moonzy said:

1. its not the best for boot, but it has a better price per gigabyte ratio, a 120gb ssd cost around $60 and a 240gb ssd cost about $80, $20 for double the capacity lol

2. not all kingston SSD has issues, just their V300, you can learn more about it here

 

3. the i5 6600k is great for gaming compared to the xeon, you can overclock it for awesome single threaded performance, as for game recording, you might as well use shadowplay since you already have it since you're going the nvidia route  recording with shadowplay will have the least impact on gaming performance compared to other software solutions

 

if you're into looks and quality

  Hide contents

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ydGr99
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ydGr99/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($107.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($159.99 @ Micro Center) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($64.49 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($87.77 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.77 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($653.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($105.59 @ NZXT) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 650W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($74.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $1537.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 05:39 EDT-0400

if you're into quality (i don't recommend going below this build except maybe a cheaper case, the core components for this is already pretty bare minimum)

  Hide contents

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/rNYMP6
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/rNYMP6/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.49 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($97.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($64.49 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($87.77 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.77 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($549.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Micro Center) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 650W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($74.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $1232.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 05:43 EDT-0400

 

I've seen skylake not booting with crucial ballistix sports ram about 2 times now, and the issue is solved when they swapped the ram to hyperx or vengeance lpx

so i generally only would recommend hyperx or vengeance lpx, and avoid ballistix sports `-` though i heard g-skill ram is fine too, not sure

Thanks for the builds, I'll definitely check those out  I'm probably gonna be using ShadowPlay or OBS for recording/streaming, I'll tune some settings for finding a balance between video quality, frame rate, etc. 

 

For DDR4, I'm not a big Crucial fan, I usually go HyperX since I absolutely love my 2x 8GB DDR3 HyperX Blues.

[stconquest]

43 minutes ago, Trav_X said:

That's not a bad build actually  I don't need a copy of Win 10, I have one, or I could make a USB boot  so I could take that money and get a 6700k (since the price difference in my area is not much) and maybe a Z170 board, one on the cheaper end 

You would want a little heftier CPU cooler with the 6700K.  Maybe a Cryorig H7 or better.

[IanDrexP]

8 hours ago, Moonzy said:

 

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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/rNYMP6
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/rNYMP6/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.49 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($97.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($64.49 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($87.77 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.77 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($549.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Micro Center) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 650W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($74.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $1232.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 05:43 EDT-0400

 

I've seen skylake not booting with crucial ballistix sports ram about 2 times now, and the issue is solved when they swapped the ram to hyperx or vengeance lpx

so i generally only would recommend hyperx or vengeance lpx, and avoid ballistix sports `-` though i heard g-skill ram is fine too, not sure

Oh really  

[Moonzy]

2 minutes ago, IanDrexP said:

Oh really  

yeap, skylake is pretty picky with ram

[Trav_X]

On April 15, 2016 at 9:42 AM, stconquest said:

You would want a little heftier CPU cooler with the 6700K.  Maybe a Cryorig H7 or better.

If I go 6700k, I kinda want to OC, so an AIO might be necessary  although I don't know how to fit it in the budget

 

On April 15, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Moonzy said:

yeap, skylake is pretty picky with ram

Good thing I'm HyperX 24/7

[Streetguru]

On 4/14/2016 at 4:26 PM, Trav_X said:

 

Please tell me you already have a 4k display or 1440p 144hz display for that 980ti, otherwise it would be a waste if your display is low end. Plus new GPUs are coming soon anyways, and Maxwell cards lack proper DX12 support seemingly

 

and a  5820K is going to be a better buy than a 6700K as the 6700 already turbos to 4ghz and MSI makes some solid 1151 budget boards.

[Trav_X]

6 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Please tell me you already have a 4k display or 1440p 144hz display for that 980ti, otherwise it would be a waste if your display is low end. Plus new GPUs are coming soon anyways, and Maxwell cards lack proper DX12 support seemingly

 

and a  5820K is going to be a better buy than a 6700K as the 6700 already turbos to 4ghz and MSI makes some solid 1151 budget boards.

I'll probably be going for a 3440x1440 display for productivity and gaming. Not super intense games, but at that res I can't use a simple 960 or like a 380x for games. The reason my budget is so low at $1200 about is because the display is like $700 alone. I do plan on waiting for the next generation of Pascal cards and probably Broadwell-E. A 5820k is in my budget and I'm thinking about it, since it's less than $300 at MicroCenter which is near me.