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5 hours ago, Anastasios Stanislav said:

I want a GPU from Sapphire because of it's looks & cooling capabilities. As for the 480, well, a lot of them are constantly out of stock... Besides, I'll probably end up with AMD's new lineup of GPU's...

As for the PSU, the X series have gold on it, & yeah, I know the PSU is hidden, but in the future, if I upgrade to a windowed case, I do NOT want that gold. The SuperNOVA is much more color neutral.

Ok then i guess it is officially a fabulous pc gaming

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Stani/saved/dx4TWZ

 

These following components are subject to change: GPU, SSD, HDD, Case, PSU, Case Fans.

GPU: Latest from AMD (Unless there's a G-Sync PLS monitor that wont break the bank.)

SSD/HDD: Whatever's got the best bang for my $.

Case: If there's a better option than the Define Mini C, then I'll probably go for it.

PSU: If there's a better option, I'll take it. (Minimum 80+ Gold/Fully Modular)

Case Fans: Max. level of noise is 20DB.

 

Budget is whatever. So long as it makes sense. Hence me getting a brand new 3570 for 150$ (CAD). There hasn't been any groundbreaking improvements in years, & I don't really need that much computing power right now. Just what's necessary for 1080p at 60FPS at absolute highest settings.

 

NOTE: This list only contains the MSRP prices. In other words, that's the worst case scenario. All prices are in CAD... As for the items I bought, I typed in the FULL price (Shipping, Item in question, taxes etc.)

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13 minutes ago, Anastasios Stanislav said:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Stani/saved/dx4TWZ

 

These following components are subject to change: GPU, SSD, HDD, Case, PSU, Case Fans.

GPU: Latest from AMD (Unless there's a G-Sync PLS monitor that wont break the bank.)

SSD/HDD: Whatever's got the best bang for my $.

Case: If there's a better option than the Define Mini C, then I'll probably go for it.

PSU: If there's a better option, I'll take it. (Minimum 80+ Gold/Fully Modular)

Case Fans: Max. level of noise is 20DB.

 

Budget is whatever. So long as it makes sense. Hence me getting a brand new 3570 for 150$ (CAD). There hasn't been any groundbreaking improvements in years, & I don't really need that much computing power right now. Just what's necessary for 1080p at 60FPS at absolute highest settings.

The GPU is extremely overpriced, you'd better either wait or find a different seller. It is not worth THAT much.

The SSD from Crucial, same story. It's freaking overpriced. I got my 512GB 850 PRO for 160€ months ago, and it's 230€ right now. (IT, so +22% just of taxes).

Case: What do you mean by "better"? Features or personal like?

PSU: I do have a EVGA SUPERNOVA P2 1000W, actually had that for several years now and it is just fantastic. But, it doesn't change much between gold and platinum, you could spare some bucks on that too.

Fans: Search for review rather than the dB manifacturer says, you can set any fan to silent mode from the bios.

 

EDIT: Wait, are those CAD or USD?

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4 minutes ago, ErrantNyles said:

The GPU is extremely overpriced, you'd better either wait or find a different seller. It is not worth THAT much.

The SSD from Crucial, same story. It's freaking overpriced. I got my 512GB 850 PRO for 160€ months ago, and it's 230€ right now. (IT, so +22% just of taxes).

Case: What do you mean by "better"? Features or personal like?

PSU: I do have a EVGA SUPERNOVA P2 1000W, actually had that for several years now and it is just fantastic. But, it doesn't change much between gold and platinum, you could spare some bucks on that too.

Fans: Search for review rather than the dB manifacturer says, you can set any fan to silent mode from the bios.

 

EDIT: Wait, are those CAD or USD?

CANADA :(

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7 minutes ago, ErrantNyles said:

The GPU is extremely overpriced, you'd better either wait or find a different seller. It is not worth THAT much.

The SSD from Crucial, same story. It's freaking overpriced. I got my 512GB 850 PRO for 160€ months ago, and it's 230€ right now. (IT, so +22% just of taxes).

Case: What do you mean by "better"? Features or personal like?

PSU: I do have a EVGA SUPERNOVA P2 1000W, actually had that for several years now and it is just fantastic. But, it doesn't change much between gold and platinum, you could spare some bucks on that too.

Fans: Search for review rather than the dB manifacturer says, you can set any fan to silent mode from the bios.

 

EDIT: Wait, are those CAD or USD?

CASE: By better, I mean more for my money. Basically something that's cheaper.

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PSU : What about SeaSonic X Series? But the curent one is good In mY opinion

Case : If you want roomy case Fractal Design Define S is the option

Graphics Card : That is good, but i have seen other card (RX 480) that is $260 new, it is XFX GTR 8GB for complete name

 

overall it is quite good! Or should i say fabulous?

"Make it future proof for some years at least, don't buy "only slightly better" stuff that gets outdated 1 year, that's throwing money away" @pipoawas

 

-Frequencies DON'T represent everything and in many cases that is true (referring to Individual CPU Clocks).

 

Mention me if you want to summon me sooner or later

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My head on 2019 :

Note 10, S10, Samsung becomes Apple, Zen 2, 3700X, Renegade X lol

 

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Just now, Ordinarily_Greater said:

PSU : What about SeaSonic X Series? But the curent one is good In mY opinion

Case : If you want roomy case Fractal Design Define S is the option

Graphics Card : That is good, but i have seen other card (RX 480) that is $260 new, it is XFX GTR 8GB for complete name

 

overall it is quite good! Or should i say fabulous?

I want a GPU from Sapphire because of it's looks & cooling capabilities. As for the 480, well, a lot of them are constantly out of stock... Besides, I'll probably end up with AMD's new lineup of GPU's...

As for the PSU, the X series have gold on it, & yeah, I know the PSU is hidden, but in the future, if I upgrade to a windowed case, I do NOT want that gold. The SuperNOVA is much more color neutral.

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GPU: Polaris cards are overpriced due to miners. If you want something new, an nvidia 1060 6gb will do it (1050ti is hard pushed to do 1080p ultra settings 60fps) If you don't mind used then Nvidia 970, AMD 285 or 380 or 380X.

 

Storage: I cant find info on your purchased "Samsung 830" since google replaced everything with the S8 phone (Samsung must have paid Google to do so). If it's an SSD then I think a new 1TB WD Blue or anything new and cheapest will do. If it's an HDD, then I think you should buy the cheapest HDD for apps, games, whatever you want to store and cheap 128GB SSD as boot drive. If you are after speed, then maybe a large SSD makes sense? I'll digress since I think that's waste of money, but there are people doing it.

 

PSU: I'd pick the EVGA Supernova G2 550W because it's cheaper and satisfies your requirements

 

CPU cooler: Dont really see the point on using an aftermarket cooler for an locked i5, but that's up to you.

 

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

GPU: Polaris cards are overpriced due to miners. If you want something new, an nvidia 1060 6gb will do it (1050ti is hard pushed to do 1080p ultra settings 60fps) If you don't mind used then Nvidia 970, AMD 285 or 380 or 380X.

 

Storage: I cant find info on your purchased "Samsung 830" since google replaced everything with the S8 phone (Samsung must have paid Google to do so). If it's an SSD then I think a new 1TB WD Blue or anything new and cheapest will do. If it's an HDD, then I think you should buy the cheapest HDD for apps, games, whatever you want to store and cheap 128GB SSD as boot drive. If you are after speed, then maybe a large SSD makes sense? I'll digress since I think that's waste of money, but there are people doing it.

 

PSU: I'd pick the EVGA Supernova G2 550W because it's cheaper and satisfies your requirements

 

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/128gb-ssd-830-series

I'll be using an SSD for boot drive, & an HDD of 2TB. Probably a BarraCuda...

PSU, I do agree, however, I want to insure that I'm safe for future upgrades. I want lots of flexibility.

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1 minute ago, Anastasios Stanislav said:

PSU, I do agree, however, I want to insure that I'm safe for future upgrades. I want lots of flexibility.

Just checked, the 550W G2 costs $111 and 650W G2 costs $120. I'd change my idea to the 650W one.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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5 hours ago, Anastasios Stanislav said:

I want a GPU from Sapphire because of it's looks & cooling capabilities. As for the 480, well, a lot of them are constantly out of stock... Besides, I'll probably end up with AMD's new lineup of GPU's...

As for the PSU, the X series have gold on it, & yeah, I know the PSU is hidden, but in the future, if I upgrade to a windowed case, I do NOT want that gold. The SuperNOVA is much more color neutral.

Ok then i guess it is officially a fabulous pc gaming

"Make it future proof for some years at least, don't buy "only slightly better" stuff that gets outdated 1 year, that's throwing money away" @pipoawas

 

-Frequencies DON'T represent everything and in many cases that is true (referring to Individual CPU Clocks).

 

Mention me if you want to summon me sooner or later

Spoiler

My head on 2019 :

Note 10, S10, Samsung becomes Apple, Zen 2, 3700X, Renegade X lol

 

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