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metso
By metso
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I'd rather wait for 2-3 months than regret for years.

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, RKRiley said:

The Z170 board will be fine, most of them ship with updated BIOS's now anyway.

Sure, makes sense if he's saving a good buck but why go back 2 generations (even if we ignore that coffee lake is mostly a paper launch) when you can go z270, which is the intended Kaby Lake platform ?

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4 minutes ago, strat guy said:

Sure, makes sense if he's saving a good buck but why go back 2 generations (even if we ignore that coffee lake is mostly a paper launch) when you can go z270, which is the intended Kaby Lake platform ?

Because Z170 to Z270 gives no performance difference and also barely any advantages over Z170.

Unless he plans to stream 4k netflix, that's the only thing i can think of Kaby Lake has that Skylake chipsets don't.  My mistake with that actually, pretty sure that's just the cpu that has to be Kaby lake, can still be an older chipset.

 

 

         

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I'd recommend switching out the 960 evo with this: https://www.inet.se/produkt/4304782/samsung-850-series-evo-250gb and save some money. And getting this: https://www.inet.se/produkt/x101814/corsair-hydro-h100i-v2 instead of the deepcool since it's cheaper, unless you want the deepcool for aesthetics.

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1 minute ago, Alexsolo said:

The board wouldn't make a difference anyways, he'll get the same performance out of it.

Optane memory might be useful to speed up mechanical drives.. 

 

Unless there's a good cost benefit, why not just go z270  (a mature/retired platform) :P

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3 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Because Z170 to Z270 gives no performance difference and also barely any advantages over Z170.

Unless he plans to stream 4k netflix, that's the only thing i can think of Kaby Lake has that Skylake chipsets don't.

Hmm, this salty Kaby Laker smells a salty Skylaker.. yes ? :P

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20 minutes ago, Alexsolo said:

Why would he regret this build? I'm still running an i5 3550 and super happy with it! 

There's always going to be something "latest and greatest" so it's best to just pick something and go with it. Plus performance difference between generations is around 5-20% increase.

With a GTX 970 an i5 3550 is fine. With a GTX 1080 like OP choose then it's preferred to use a 6 core CPU. Even the i5-8400 is a better pick because it allows better upgrade options (also seems to score better minimum FPS with Ryzen 1600 than i7 7700k, not sure about 6 core Coffee Lake)

 

Performance increase is 5-10% single threaded, but a lot more than that multi threaded because Coffee has 2 extra real cores.

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 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Only a 1600 :P 

Nice, expect some signifacant performance scaling in games if more games keep up with CPU multi core/multi thread optimization trend but I hope not, my last build (2500k) lasted me a good 5+ years without the need to upgradeCPU/MOBO/RAM and only somewhat recent games like GTA V and Mass Effect: Andromeda (biggest let down ever)  where it was bottlenecking my 1070 (3rd GPU upgrade) even at 4.6 ghz made me finally upgrade.

 

It's just so much easier to swap out a graphics card than it is to build a whole new rig and re-download everything (that process is painful AF)

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