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[Sankhya]

Can I please get some comments, suggestion and reviews on the following rig. Thinking of going for it the next month. Please suggest if you see any compatibility issues , ares of improvement etc. I  have concerns as to what monitor I should take as the GPU is quite powerful and I think I need a 120Hz 1ms Monitor to avoid bottlenecks.

 

The intention of the rig is both for gaming [at 1080p] and workstation. The workstations primary purpose will be running VMs , GNS3 etc. No rendering, video editing. Also, I am planning to add another 1070 within another year hence the 750 W CPU

 

Thank you.

 

 

 

INTEL PROCESSOR CORE i5-7600K (INTEL 7TH GEN, LGA1151 SOCKET, 6M CACHE, UP TO 4.20 GHz

COOLER MASTER CPU AIR COOLER HYPER 212 RED LED ASUS MOTHERBOARD PRIME Z270-AR (INTEL SOCKET 1151/7TH AND 6TH GENERATION CORE SERIES CPU/MAX 64GB DDR4-3866MHZ MEMORY) G.SKILL DESKTOP RAM RIPJAWS V SERIES 16GB (16GBx1) DDR4 3000MHz (F4-3000C15S-16GVR) SANDISK INTERNAL 2.5 INCH SATA 2.0 SSD Z400s 128GB (SD8SBAT-128G-1122) WD 1TB PURPLE SURVEILLANCE SATA HARD DRIVE (WD10PURX) EVGA GRAPHICS CARD PASCAL SERIES - GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 SUPERCLOCK GAMING ACX 3.0 (08G-P4-6173-KR)   CORSAIR SMPS CS750M - 750 WATT 80 PLUS GOLD CERTIFICATION SEMI MODULAR PSU WITH ACTIVE PFC CIRCLE MID TOWER CABINET (ATX) - CC 821 PRIME LG 24GM77-B - 24 INCH GAMING MONITOR (1Ms RESPONSE TIME, 144Hz REFRESH RATE, FHD TN PANEL)

[ImNotThere]

What are your intentions, gaming or workstation or both?

[Herman Mcpootis]

get a ryzen 1600 instead of an unlocked i5. z400s isn't very good and 120gb isn't enough, get a better 240gb ssd instead. the WD purple isn't for normal PCs, get a regular WD blue or seagate barracuda instead. 

[GrayTech]

4 minutes ago, Sankhya said:

INTEL PROCESSOR CORE i5-7600K (INTEL 7TH GEN, LGA1151 SOCKET, 6M CACHE, UP TO 4.20 GHz

Get a R5 1600 if you want to stream for example.

 

4 minutes ago, Sankhya said:

WD 1TB PURPLE SURVEILLANCE SATA HARD DRIVE (WD10PURX)

Why would you get a surveillance HDD? Get a WD blue or WD black instead.

 

5 minutes ago, Sankhya said:

CORSAIR SMPS CS750M - 750 WATT 80 PLUS GOLD CERTIFICATION SEMI MODULAR PSU WITH ACTIVE PFC

You don't need 750W and get a higher qualitiy PSU. The EVGA Supernova G3 650W seems like a good choice.

[Herman Mcpootis]

1 minute ago, GrayTech said:

 

 

You don't need 750W and get a higher qualitiy PSU. The EVGA Supernova G3 650W seems like a good choice.

The CS750 is a pretty good psu.

[GrayTech]

1 minute ago, herman mcpootis said:

The CS750 is a pretty good psu.

It is? Sorry for my mistake then.  

[Sankhya]

5 minutes ago, ImNotThere said:

What are your intentions, gaming or workstation or both?

The intention of the rig is both for gaming [at 1080p] and workstation. The workstations primary purpose will be running VMs , GNS3 etc. No rendering, video editing,streaming. Also, I am planning to add another 1070 within a year hence the 750 W CPU. 

[ImNotThere]

Just now, Sankhya said:

The intention of the rig is both for gaming [at 1080p] and workstation. The workstations primary purpose will be running VMs , GNS3 etc. No rendering, video editing,streaming. Also, I am planning to add another 1070 within a year hence the 750 W CPU. 

Still, i would go 1600 or if youre planning sli go for a ryzen 7

[Guest]

Ryzen R5 or R7 would be a clear better choice for VM as they favor more cores than higher clock

[Herman Mcpootis]

8 minutes ago, Sankhya said:

The intention of the rig is both for gaming [at 1080p] and workstation. The workstations primary purpose will be running VMs , GNS3 etc. No rendering, video editing,streaming. Also, I am planning to add another 1070 within a year hence the 750 W CPU. 

the ryzen 1600 has 2 extra cores with hyperthreading, get that. 

[Sankhya]

1 minute ago, ImNotThere said:

Still, i would go 1600 or if youre planning sli go for a ryzen 7

It will go way over budget [already spending a lot] , if I keep the single GPU for now and go with the 7600K will it cause any problems ? Bottlenecks ? Compatibility issues ? Gaming performance degradation ?

 

 

Just and FYI .....The last game I played was Fifa 15 and then nothing after that , yes , nothing !!!! So I am hungry and I need to go over the entire 2015 ,2016 , 2017 titles.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Sankhya said:

It will go way over budget [already spending a lot] , if I keep the single GPU for now and go with the 7600K will it cause any problems ? Bottlenecks ? Compatibility issues ? Gaming performance degradation ?

 

 

Just and FYI .....The last game I played was Fifa 15 and then nothing after that , yes , nothing !!!! So I am hungry and I need to go over the entire 2015 ,2016 , 2017 titles.

How is that so? R5 1600 costs less than i5 7600k. Where are you buying from?

[Herman Mcpootis]

2 minutes ago, Sankhya said:

It will go way over budget [already spending a lot] , if I keep the single GPU for now and go with the 7600K will it cause any problems ? Bottlenecks ? Compatibility issues ? Gaming performance degradation ?

 

 

Just and FYI .....The last game I played was Fifa 15 and then nothing after that , yes , nothing !!!! So I am hungry and I need to go over the entire 2015 ,2016 , 2017 titles.

the 7600k will have much more stuttering and frame drops compared to the ryzen 1600, don't limit yourself to just intel cpus and get ryzen instead, gaming performance is on-par but the 1600 won't bottleneck the 1070 and will be much better suited for VM work.

[Sankhya]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

How is that so? R5 1600 costs less than i5 7600k. Where are you buying from?

yeah r5 1600 costs similar to 7600K in my country [maybe a bit less even] ,I replied keeping in mind your suggestion of Ryzen 7

[Guest]

Just now, Sankhya said:

yeah r5 1600 costs similar to 7600K in my country [maybe a bit less even] ,I replied keeping in mind your suggestion of Ryzen 7

ah well r5 1600 would be better

 

[Sankhya]

3 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

the 7600k will have much more stuttering and frame drops compared to the ryzen 1600, don't limit yourself to just intel cpus and get ryzen instead, gaming performance is on-par but the 1600 won't bottleneck the 1070 and will be much better suited for VM work.

woaaahhh !!!  The 7600k has stutters and drops ? Thats bad then.

[Herman Mcpootis]

1 minute ago, Sankhya said:

yeah r5 1600 costs similar to 7600K in my country [maybe a bit less even] ,I replied keeping in mind your suggestion of Ryzen 7

the ryzen 7 would cost around an intel i7 6700/7700k. it'll perform worse for gaming but much better for VMs with the extra 4 cores. if you can afford it then get it but if you can't a 1600 will do fine.

[Herman Mcpootis]

1 minute ago, Sankhya said:

woaaahhh !!!  The 7600k has stutters and drops ? Thats bad then.

it'll have more stuttering and frame drops at 144hz gaming. not until it's outright unplayable but with 144hz it's better to go with a faster cpu for as much performance as possible.

[Sankhya]

Just now, herman mcpootis said:

it'll have more stuttering and frame drops at 144hz gaming. not until it's outright unplayable but with 144hz it's better to go with a faster cpu for as much performance as possible.

aye aye,Captain !! Let me start looking for some AM4 stuff then

[stealth80]

Ryzen 1600 all day long, just make sure you get fast DDR4 to reduce latency across the infinity fabric = increase FPS. Agesa update 1006 is coming soon allowing upto 4000mhz ram, so there's no need to buy top end boards anymore, but if you are planning SLI later you MUST get an X370 board as B series boards only do crossfire

 

 

[Guest]

21 minutes ago, Sankhya said:

The intention of the rig is both for gaming [at 1080p] and workstation. The workstations primary purpose will be running VMs , GNS3 etc. No rendering, video editing,streaming. Also, I am planning to add another 1070 within a year hence the 750 W CPU. 

Why are you planning to SLI ? You don't need it for 1080p. The GTX 1070 is also good for 1440p. 

[Sankhya]

Just now, lee32uk said:

Why are you planning to SLI ? You don't need it for 1080p. The GTX 1070 is also good for 1440p. 

So the plan is to satisfy the gaming and workstation needs for now and upgrade to a 165Hz monitor with 1440p and add a 1070 a year later. Cannot do that now as this rig in my country will cost me 1,30,000 units of my currency.

[Guest]

Just now, Sankhya said:

So the plan is to satisfy the gaming and workstation needs for now and upgrade to a 165Hz monitor with 1440p and add a 1070 a year later. Cannot do that now as this rig in my country will cost me 1,30,000 units of my currency.

Not every game supports SLI though, and some don't scale great for the 2nd gpu. If it was me I would maybe go with a cheaper gpu for the time being (RX 480/580 or GTX 1060 etc) and a non SLI board and then buy the best gpu I could afford when moving to 1440p.