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Helping buddy make a build

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Hello all!

my buddy is looking at spending around $800 us on building himself a new computer for editing and gaming. He already has a few parts (ram, ssd, hdd, motherboard. He currently has a lga 1150 board (Gigabyte - GA-Z97X-SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard) I'm not sure what the best CPU for this model will be. I think we can build him a damn good pc for this price but I don't know whether to go i5,i7, or even Xeon (had no idea this was even an option on this board but apparently it is!?).

any help would be greatly appreciated thank you

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What parts do he have? CPU can be as good as i7-4770k or 4790k, but if the rest doesnt keep up then there are unlocked i5s available.

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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He has 16 ddr3, 1tb hdd, 256ssd, and that motherboard. I think the vast majority is gonna be spent on the CPU and gpu since we can get a good case for 50 and ps for about 50 as well, and of course windows but that's not included in price since he can just grab it off an old pc he has.

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11 minutes ago, unkindstatistic said:

He has 16 ddr3, 1tb hdd, 256ssd, and that motherboard. I think the vast majority is gonna be spent on the CPU and gpu since we can get a good case for 50 and ps for about 50 as well, and of course windows but that's not included in price since he can just grab it off an old pc he has.

go for a i7 4790k and a 1070-1080 then, that should all be within his $800 budget.

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1231 V3, 4770K, 4790K or 5775C, whatever is cheapest. 4790K will overclock the best. 

1070, a decent PSU and a case should be doable with the rest of the budget. You may want to wait for the 1070 Ti. 1080 Performance for ~1070 price

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