Build suggestions?

[Jv2391]

Can someone review my build and tell me if I should change something? I am confident this is a solid build, but I want some input from others.

i7 6800k 3.4 GHz 6 core LGA2011 V3, Corsair Hydro series H50 liquid CPU cooler, 32 GBs G Skill RipJaws DDR4 RAM 3000, Gigabyte x99 ultimate gaming mobo, Currently i have a GeForce GTX 970 graphics card (but plan on getting a 1080, and eventually a second one for SLI gaming, but that is much later). I can add in the case if that makes any difference.

[hoodyracoon]

It's fine, overkill though, im running with a gtx 970 on a westmere xeon(same gen as the original i7s) cpu with no bottlenecks. Heres my post on the cheapest used "gameing" pc you can build without bottlenecks, 

 

[hoodyracoon]

On 8/31/2016 at 0:16 AM, Jv2391 said:

Can someone review my build and tell me if I should change something? I am confident this is a solid build, but I want some input from others.

i7 6800k 3.4 GHz 6 core LGA2011 V3, Corsair Hydro series H50 liquid CPU cooler, 32 GBs G Skill RipJaws DDR4 RAM 3000, Gigabyte x99 ultimate gaming mobo, Currently i have a GeForce GTX 970 graphics card (but plan on getting a 1080, and eventually a second one for SLI gaming, but that is much later). I can add in the case if that makes any difference.

You can go down to a i5 easily and you wont be sacrificing gaming performance in anyway unless you're playing games like City skylines that are super cpu intensive(those are rare, but should still run really well anyways)

[Jv2391]

1 hour ago, hoodyracoon said:

It's fine, overkill though, im running with a gtx 970 on a westmere xeon(same gen as the original i7s) cpu with no bottlenecks. Heres my post on the cheapest used "gameing" pc you can build without bottlenecks, 

 

I am kind of just trying to do a little future proofing as well. I know tech is ever changing and what not, but I want to insure that I won't need to do any major upgrading for a few years. Also thinking 4k gaming as well because I will want to do that and hopefully this build will handle it.

[hoodyracoon]

46 minutes ago, Jv2391 said:

I am kind of just trying to do a little future proofing as well. I know tech is ever changing and what not, but I want to insure that I won't need to do any major upgrading for a few years. Also thinking 4k gaming as well because I will want to do that and hopefully this build will handle it.

i dont know how future proof you can be unfortunately, the pcie 4.0 spec will be released begining of next year and i expect all the cards will switch over to it before the end of 2019, so the longest your going to have with a new gfx card in it will be 3 years anyhow. pcie 4.0 is'n backwards compatible fiy

[Jv2391]

11 minutes ago, hoodyracoon said:

i dont know how future proof you can be unfortunately, the pcie 4.0 spec will be released begining of next year and i expect all the cards will switch over to it before the end of 2019, so the longest your going to have with a new gfx card in it will be 3 years anyhow  

I will need to think about this. Thanks for the info.

[hoodyracoon]

1 hour ago, Jv2391 said:

I will need to think about this. Thanks for the info.

yeah this will be the first time since pc's switched from agp that new gfx cards wont be usable in old systems because they decided to change the connector, though old cards will work in the new slot, if were lucky there will be a raiser board that wont introduce to much latency or eat into performance. oh and if you want to know how my trash can system useing a 5 year old cpu does in battlefield 1(just tested it 5 mins ago) it gets 80fps solid with only slight drops to 78-79 fps cpu is a w3550 and gpu is a gtx 970, settings are 1080p ultra with no AA

 

edit-did default ultra setting and got these

min-70fps max-119 avg 89.072

bf1 2016-09-02 02-10-48-33 fps.csv

bf1 2016-09-02 02-12-03-65.bmp