Budget GPU Kaby Lake?

[Pwent]

So I'm building a comp for the first time in 20 years... blew my money on the 7700K, an ASRock z270 Extreme4, and 2x8 DDR4 corsair vengeance led. 

 

So so I need a GPU that will wok well but on a budget. Ideas?

 

looking for SSD or HDD and power supply advice as well. 

[Moress]

How much do you have to spend on the GPU + SSD/HDD + PSU?

[Energycore]

3 minutes ago, Pwent said:

So I'm building a comp for the first time in 20 years... blew my money on the 7700K, an ASRock z270 Extreme4, and 2x8 DDR4 corsair vengeance led. 

 

So so I need a GPU that will wok well but on a budget. Ideas?

 

looking for SSD or HDD and power supply advice as well. 

If you're on budget why did you get a 7700K? Return it and get a 7600K.

 

Then get a high quality PSU. That's all.

 

You should also get a GTX 1070

[Romeo Bodmon]

Adata makes some cheap ass SSDs 

 

Not gunna like you should return the 7700K and get a 7600K and pair it with a Rx 480. 

 

But I get it, you wanted the best of the best. But now you're fucked. If I were you I would pick up a 480 because they're cheap (If you can get them on sale for like $220 - $180 USD, depending if you get the 4GB or the 8GB model). The 480 is a badass card and with crush any 1080p games and fare really well in 1440p gaming as well. And if you're only gaming in 1080p then anything more is way to overkill anyways. 

Then you just skipped a step and already have an upgraded CPU. So in the future when looking for more performance you'll only need to upgrade your GPU. 

 

As for the PSU I wouldn't go too cheap. You wanna make sure you have room to upgrade that graphics card in the future but you also don't want to skimp out. I say go for a respected brand like EVGA, Coolermaster and the other big names, to insure customer support if something goes wrong and just general confidence in the quality. You also want to go with something 80+ Bronze or higher. Yes I know the 80+ rating is only for efficiency and not overall build quality and reliability. BUT it is a sign that some effort went into the design of the PSU and that the main internals are pretty quality and wont burn your house down.

[Nena Trinity]

RX 470/480?

[Pwent]

1 hour ago, Moress said:

How much do you have to spend on the GPU + SSD/HDD + PSU?

$500

[Pwent]

44 minutes ago, Romeo Bodmon said:

Adata makes some cheap ass SSDs 

 

Not gunna like you should return the 7700K and get a 7600K and pair it with a Rx 480. 

 

But I get it, you wanted the best of the best. But now you're fucked. If I were you I would pick up a 480 because they're cheap (If you can get them on sale for like $220 - $180 USD, depending if you get the 4GB or the 8GB model). The 480 is a badass card and with crush any 1080p games and fare really well in 1440p gaming as well. And if you're only gaming in 1080p then anything more is way to overkill anyways. 

Then you just skipped a step and already have an upgraded CPU. So in the future when looking for more performance you'll only need to upgrade your GPU. 

 

As for the PSU I wouldn't go too cheap. You wanna make sure you have room to upgrade that graphics card in the future but you also don't want to skimp out. I say go for a respected brand like EVGA, Coolermaster and the other big names, to insure customer support if something goes wrong and just general confidence in the quality. You also want to go with something 80+ Bronze or higher. Yes I know the 80+ rating is only for efficiency and not overall build quality and reliability. BUT it is a sign that some effort went into the design of the PSU and that the main internals are pretty quality and wont burn your house down.

I was looking at the 480 and that looks the be the consensus and the white one will look great with the board, because colors are as important as function for some reason.

 

The 7700k was only $30 more at my microcenter and the z270 board was almost same price as the z170 on new egg yesterday. The ram is pretty average cost. 

 

What at do you all think of this PSU?

Thermaltake http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=17-153-309

 

How important is SSD vs HDD? I like the idea of 1 or 2 TB... I have a lot of crap I keep dragging from comp to comp. 

 

you guys/girls are great! Thanks for the quick help. 

[Romeo Bodmon]

52 minutes ago, Pwent said:

I was looking at the 480 and that looks the be the consensus and the white one will look great with the board, because colors are as important as function for some reason.

 

The 7700k was only $30 more at my microcenter and the z270 board was almost same price as the z170 on new egg yesterday. The ram is pretty average cost. 

 

What at do you all think of this PSU?

Thermaltake http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=17-153-309

 

How important is SSD vs HDD? I like the idea of 1 or 2 TB... I have a lot of crap I keep dragging from comp to comp. 

 

you guys/girls are great! Thanks for the quick help. 

SSD is no question superior to a HDD and will make your system seem a lot faster. A common route I see is to buy a 120 or 240 GB SSD to have your boot drive and your various programs/favourite game or 2. Then on the side pickup a cheap high capacity HDD to store your bulk files and Games. 

 

Games I like to have on my SSD are games like Skyrim because you are consistently having to go into loading screens and having it on an SSD will make those loading screens almost instant compared to an HDD. On the contrary a game like CS:GO I would install onto my HDD because you only need to load the map at the beginning of the game so its not a big deal if it takes you an extra 30 seconds to load in. 

 

As for that PSU....

Fully modular, 80+ gold, 750W, RGB, 5 stars..... for only $100? Now I'm from Canada so i cant fully gage that pricing but to me it seems to good to be true. I haven't had any experience with Thermal take so I can't tell you if they're quality or not. 

 

I just looked at some amazon reviews and everything seems to be pretty positive. I remember when i was shopping for a PSU I usually tried to stay away from flashy PSUs but apparently people have nothing bad to say. Which usually means no ones house has burnt down because of it. Also Amazon.ca has it listed for $225. Lmao!  

[Moress]

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($83.08 @ NCIX US) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.78 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Video Card  ($246.39 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.37 @ Jet) 
Total: $458.62
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Here you go.

[App4that]

I'd pick up a RX 480, great graphics card.

[Pwent]

Thanks everyone!

[Pwent]

7 hours ago, Moress said:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($83.08 @ NCIX US) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.78 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Video Card  ($246.39 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.37 @ Jet) 
Total: $458.62
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-07 01:20 EST-0500

Here you go.

Pcpartpicker is amazing! I can't believe I didn't know it existed. 

[Moress]

11 hours ago, Pwent said:

Pcpartpicker is amazing! I can't believe I didn't know it existed. 

You do now lol. Its probably the most useful tool to a pc enthusiast right now. Tied with benchmarking websites like Userbenchmark

[Lord Nicoll]

22 hours ago, Pwent said:

So I'm building a comp for the first time in 20 years... blew my money on the 7700K, an ASRock z270 Extreme4, and 2x8 DDR4 corsair vengeance led. 

 

So so I need a GPU that will wok well but on a budget. Ideas?

 

looking for SSD or HDD and power supply advice as well. 

Well if you wanna game, yeah the PC part picker list is probably best, but if your not gonna game then maybe just use the onboard graphics, or if all you play is simple looking games. The GTX 1060 would make a fine, if slightly unbalanced addition. 

[Moress]

1 hour ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Well if you wanna game, yeah the PC part picker list is probably best, but if your not gonna game then maybe just use the onboard graphics, or if all you play is simple looking games. The GTX 1060 would make a fine, if slightly unbalanced addition. 

You could do this. The 1070 paired with a 7700k would be great for high FPS 1080p gaming, or 60fps 1440p. The issue is the storage. You can either get the speeds of a 240 GB SSD, or capacity of a 1 TB HDD while staying within budget. The HDD will make the computer feel slow, but won't actually affect the FPS of games. While the 1070 will make games perform much faster. Further, the SSD will make everything feel snappy, but you will have to install/unintall games a lot if you play more than 3-4 (maybe even 2-3) games at a time.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: PNY CS1311 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($64.99 @ Jet) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card  ($389.67 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($49.99 @ B&H) 
Total: $504.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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