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Menelaus7
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So, am about to build my first PC and I definitely got way more than I needed.  I really wish that I had started here before I did anything.  It's just kind of easy to start picking parts on PCPartpicker.com, but oh well.  Just wanted your thoughts on it anyway.... I was thinking of upgrading the CPU Master with the Corsair H100i v2.  Not sure if it is needed - as it would mostly be for looks, I think.  With the case I picked, and the big window, might look better.

 

So, I do some gaming on a 4K monitor, and we do a lot of photo/video editing - thus the need for excessive storage.  I do not plan to run the HDDs in RAID at all - I'll make external backups, as those will mostly be used for storage.  To be honest, none of the parts are open yet - so I could return some for others, I suppose, if it made sense.  

 

Overkill for sure.  But still hoping you might give me some advice, nonetheless.

 

 

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  1fe7060421242d5de0cb44a6eef92f57.256p.jpg $279.99  
  1fe7060421242d5de0cb44a6eef92f57.256p.jpg $279.99 Buy
  1fe7060421242d5de0cb44a6eef92f57.256p.jpg $279.99 Buy
Video Card 511F-zT2kzL.jpg $429.99 Buy
Case 4bb795ee7d78040f7363e5b847ce7fe2.256p.jpg $169.99 Buy
Power Supply 0e7f9999d18c9051be7fdae74113059c.med.256p.jpg $109.99 Buy Combo
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Operating System 8777b1e66da275b6e9f05704ae5ab3bd.256p.jpg $126.83 Buy
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Budget? I can improve price/performance ratio easily there.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB GDDR6 Motherboard: MSI PRESTIGE X570 CREATION
AIO: Corsair H150i Pro RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32GB 3600MHz DDR4 Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic PSU: Corsair RM850x White

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23 minutes ago, Menelaus7 said:

So, am about to build my first PC and I definitely got way more than I needed.  I really wish that I had started here before I did anything.  It's just kind of easy to start picking parts on PCPartpicker.com, but oh well.  Just wanted your thoughts on it anyway.... I was thinking of upgrading the CPU Master with the Corsair H100i v2.  Not sure if it is needed - as it would mostly be for looks, I think.  With the case I picked, and the big window, might look better.

 

So, I do some gaming on a 4K monitor, and we do a lot of photo/video editing - thus the need for excessive storage.  I do not plan to run the HDDs in RAID at all - I'll make external backups, as those will mostly be used for storage.  To be honest, none of the parts are open yet - so I could return some for others, I suppose, if it made sense.  

 

Overkill for sure.  But still hoping you might give me some advice, nonetheless.

 

 

CPU e4ea560bf121c10aece449891f4d40b4.256p.jpg $324.89 Buy
CPU Cooler ddea57de9797549e80d05fb3acb2e83d.med.256p.jpg $24.88 Buy
Motherboard f45b2ed718d6f2060b8de29b74c77947.256p.jpg $204.99 Buy
Memory no-image.png $184.99 Buy
Storage e46ea83d20b504fc691293d4a1d95bc1.med.256p.jpg $220.35 Buy
  1fe7060421242d5de0cb44a6eef92f57.256p.jpg $279.99  
  1fe7060421242d5de0cb44a6eef92f57.256p.jpg $279.99 Buy
  1fe7060421242d5de0cb44a6eef92f57.256p.jpg $279.99 Buy
Video Card 511F-zT2kzL.jpg $429.99 Buy
Case 4bb795ee7d78040f7363e5b847ce7fe2.256p.jpg $169.99 Buy
Power Supply 0e7f9999d18c9051be7fdae74113059c.med.256p.jpg $109.99 Buy Combo
Optical Drive 47778243d353f2b75a9987ef35c1c2a2.med.256p.jpg $48.88 Buy
Operating System 8777b1e66da275b6e9f05704ae5ab3bd.256p.jpg $126.83 Buy

Why do you need that much of storage space??

It would be better to buy a gtx 1080 instead of 1070 & have less storage.

 

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Trust me, I hear you.  But I already have 6TBs of data that I'll be transferring to this PC.  It will go fairly quickly.  I could always go for the better video card now, and buy another HDD in the future... but is the gtx 1080 really that much better than the 1070?

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4 minutes ago, Menelaus7 said:

Trust me, I hear you.  But I already have 6TBs of data that I'll be transferring to this PC.  It will go fairly quickly.  I could always go for the better video card now, and buy another HDD in the future... but is the gtx 1080 really that much better than the 1070?

For 4k content, yes it is better than 1070.

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They're like $200 more for just the card.  Add another $75 for the cooler - and yes, that is the cost of the HDD.  I suppose that is something that I could do.  But, will the 1070 work with 4K?  I'm not gaming all the time - just in my spare time...which is not that often....

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2 hours ago, Menelaus7 said:

What do you think?

I think that if you get this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($368.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($94.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Taichi ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($219.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LED 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($183.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: A-Data Premier 960GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($225.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Western Digital Black  6TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($279.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Western Digital Black  6TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($279.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Western Digital Black  6TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($279.99 @ B&H)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Superclocked Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card  ($649.99 @ B&H)
Case: Cooler Master MasterCase Pro 5 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($119.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G-750 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $2782.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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It would be vastly superior to the parts that you linked :)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB GDDR6 Motherboard: MSI PRESTIGE X570 CREATION
AIO: Corsair H150i Pro RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32GB 3600MHz DDR4 Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic PSU: Corsair RM850x White

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23 hours ago, Morgan MLGman said:

I think that if you get this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($368.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($94.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Taichi ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($219.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LED 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($183.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: A-Data Premier 960GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($225.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Western Digital Black  6TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($279.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Western Digital Black  6TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($279.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Western Digital Black  6TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($279.99 @ B&H)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Superclocked Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card  ($649.99 @ B&H)
Case: Cooler Master MasterCase Pro 5 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($119.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G-750 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $2782.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-16 11:47 EDT-0400

 

It would be vastly superior to the parts that you linked :)

As a noob, can you explain why this would be superior to my build?  I don't understand how the parts work together, I suppose.  X99 is an updated Mobo...and the 1080 is upgraded from the 1070 (obviously)... but how much more superior?

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23 minutes ago, Menelaus7 said:

As a noob, can you explain why this would be superior to my build?  I don't understand how the parts work together, I suppose.  X99 is an updated Mobo...and the 1080 is upgraded from the 1070 (obviously)... but how much more superior?

5820K has 6 cores and 12 threads instead of 6700k's 4 cores and 8 threads. It's simply up to over 30% faster overall. And this could come in handy for photo/video editing etc.

 

1080 is the only single card that's able to max out all games at 4K at playable framerates around 60FPS, excluding Titan XP and dual-GPU cards.

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AIO: Corsair H150i Pro RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32GB 3600MHz DDR4 Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic PSU: Corsair RM850x White

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55 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

5820K has 6 cores and 12 threads instead of 6700k's 4 cores and 8 threads. It's simply up to over 30% faster overall. And this could come in handy for photo/video editing etc.

 

1080 is the only single card that's able to max out all games at 4K at playable framerates around 60FPS, excluding Titan XP and dual-GPU cards.

Cool.  Thank you so much.

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