"Proofread" My Build

[cantalOPe]

I have picked all my parts, and am going to order them in a few days. As this is my first PC, I have put this here to see if there is anything I missed, that you guys may see.

 

Note: GPU cannot be changed, as that is already ordered.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/xypXHN

[Herman Mcpootis]

Oh god... CX500. No. Go for an evga supernova non-NEX or any seasonic/XFX non-XT unit instead.

[brob]

Pick a 2x8GB memory kit like  G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory. This will leave 2 slots free for upgrading.

Get a better psu.  EVGA 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply would be an excellent choice.  SeaSonic M12II 520 Bronze is also very good and well priced.

 

[jeonjaeng]

Does anybody have experiance with that CPU cooler? From the pictures that mounting system looks like a pain

[brob]

11 minutes ago, jeonjaeng said:

Does anybody have experiance with that CPU cooler? From the pictures that mounting system looks like a pain

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/CRYORIG/H7_Universal/4.html

[Dackzy]

I see a bottleneck... The i5, anything better than a 980 will be bottlenecked by a i5 and the 1070 is more powerful than a 980.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Dackzy said:

I see a bottleneck... The i5, anything better than a 980 will be bottlenecked by a i5 and the 1070 is more powerful than a 980.

No it won't bottleneck. A single GTX 1070 and i5 6600K is a good combo.

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, lee32uk said:

No it won't bottleneck. A single GTX 1070 and i5 6600K is a good combo.

you wanna bet?

[Dackzy]

2 minutes ago, lee32uk said:

No it won't bottleneck. A single GTX 1070 and i5 6600K is a good combo.

 

[Guest]

37 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

 

So a few games show a difference at stock speeds. Look what happens when you overclock the i5 

[Dackzy]

4 minutes ago, lee32uk said:

So a few games show a difference at stock speeds. Look what happens when you overclock the i5 

and then you OC the i7 and it pulls ahead again. I am sure that even the i7 is bottlenecking the titan x in some games.

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

and then you OC the i7 and it pulls ahead again. I am sure that even the i7 is bottlenecking the titan x in some games.

The i7 is already shown in that list overclocked to 4.6GHz. If you look at the i5 6600K overclocked to 4.5GHz there isn't much difference.

[Dackzy]

9 minutes ago, lee32uk said:

The i7 is already shown in that list overclocked to 4.6GHz. If you look at the i5 6600K overclocked to 4.5GHz there isn't much difference.

so 8 fps in GTA is not much of a differenc? 6 fps difference in Far Cry 4 is also nothing?

You see this might be nothing really when you get high FPS but this can be the difference between 50 fps and 60 fps in some games or just in the same games just at high res and the problem will only get bigger with DX12, since that will put more load on the CPU.

 

A i5 6600k + RX 480 is really well balanced.

A i5 6600k + GTX 1070 is not very balanced.

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

so 8 fps in GTA is not much of a differenc? 6 fps difference in Far Cry 4 is also nothing?

You see this might be nothing really when you get high FPS but this can be the difference between 50 fps and 60 fps in some games or just in the same games just at high res and the problem will only get bigger with DX12, since that will put more load on the CPU.

 

A i5 6600k + RX 480 is really well balanced.

A i5 6600k + GTX 1070 is not very balanced.

A 6/8 fps difference is not a bottleneck though. Also once you start to go to a higher resolution (1440p+) then it will be even less of an issue.

[don_svetlio]

11 minutes ago, lee32uk said:

A 6/8 fps difference is not a bottleneck though. Also once you start to go to a higher resolution (1440p+) then it will be even less of an issue.

A 8-10fps difference is a 10% bottleneck at stock speeds of a 1070. When you OC the 1070 the bottleneck becomes 15% or so. That is not small. And it will only grow as time goes on.

[Dackzy]

10 minutes ago, lee32uk said:

A 6/8 fps difference is not a bottleneck though. Also once you start to go to a higher resolution (1440p+) then it will be even less of an issue.

Yes it is a bottleneck. A bottleneck is when something holds something else back and in this case the CPU is holding the GPU back.

[AlTech]

5 hours ago, cantalOPe said:

I have picked all my parts, and am going to order them in a few days. As this is my first PC, I have put this here to see if there is anything I missed, that you guys may see.

 

Note: GPU cannot be changed, as that is already ordered.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/xypXHN

NO WAY! STOP RIGHT THERE!

 

Use a RM650i instead of that monstrously evil CX PSU. 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

A 8-10fps difference is a 10% bottleneck at stock speeds of a 1070. When you OC the 1070 the bottleneck becomes 15% or so. That is not small. And it will only grow as time goes on.

The 6-8 fps difference is in two games (GTA V and Far Cry 4) which tells me they are either cpu intensive, badly optimised or just like higher clock speeds. If you look at AC Unity for example there is virtually no difference between the i5 and i7.

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, lee32uk said:

The 6-8 fps difference is in two games (GTA V and Far Cry 4) which tells me they are either cpu intensive, badly optimised or just like higher clock speeds. If you look at AC Unity for example there is virtually no difference between the i5 and i7.

ACU is a shit port. GTA is very well optimized - hence why you can easily see the limits of the lesser hardware.

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

Yes it is a bottleneck. A bottleneck is when something holds something else back and in this case the CPU is holding the GPU back.

Except the i5 6600K isn't holding the GTX 1070 back when overclocked. The only difference is hyperthreading.

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, lee32uk said:

The 6-8 fps difference is in two games (GTA V and Far Cry 4) which tells me they are either cpu intensive, badly optimised or just like higher clock speeds. If you look at AC Unity for example there is virtually no difference between the i5 and i7.

Yes they are CPU intensive, but games are getting more CPU intensive, heck even in freaking COD you see a small bottleneck when you OC the i5.

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, lee32uk said:

Except the i5 6600K isn't holding the GTX 1070 back when overclocked. The only difference is hyperthreading.

Yes it is, when there is 8fps difference between a i5 OCed and a i7 OCed.

[Prysin]

3 minutes ago, lee32uk said:

Except the i5 6600K isn't holding the GTX 1070 back when overclocked. The only difference is hyperthreading.

Do you know what hyperthreading is for? What its purpose is?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

Yes it is, when there is 8fps difference between a i5 OCed and a i7 OCed.

That is more than likely the worst case scenario. Frame rates fluctuate.

 

If you use the GTX 1070 at 1440p as it is meant then it won't be as big of a gap imo.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

ACU is a shit port. GTA is very well optimized - hence why you can easily see the limits of the lesser hardware.

So GTA V likes hyperthreading then, because that is the only real difference.