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[mpf200]

Anything to change? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HcVsRG

[food158]

Just now, mpf200 said:

Anything to change? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HcVsRG

Why such expensive ram?

[brob]

Is there a motherboard?

[Woldraxe]

No motherboard?

[seon123]

A cheaper HDD, change the cooler to the H5, and the PSU to the Focus Plus Gold 550W. 

[Unimaginative Name]

3 minutes ago, food158 said:

Why such expensive ram?

RAM is currently insanely expensive, so that's not a bad deal.

1) OS, just don't forget

2) Motherboard, pretty darn important

 

EDIT: I would go with an NVMe M.2 SSD, maybe a WD Black Series drive. and Z370 board will have and M.2 slot and it will be a little faster for about the same price.

[food158]

Just now, Unimaginative Name said:

RAM is currently insanely expensive, so that's not a bad deal.

1) OS, just don't forget

2) Motherboard, pretty darn important

Yeah, but the thing is the ram is DDR4-3000; not like 2400 which would lower the price.

[Unimaginative Name]

Just now, food158 said:

Yeah, but the thing is the ram is DDR4-3000; not like 2400 which would lower the price.

Yeah, on PCPartPicker the cheapest 2x8GB kits are about $165, and it has no heat spreader (good looking cover), if he's going for easy speed and aesthetic, this is fine, but there are other options. I personally have 2400 ram OC'd to 3000, but currently, there seems to be little price advantage to going with 2400.

[seon123]

3 minutes ago, food158 said:

Yeah, but the thing is the ram is DDR4-3000; not like 2400 which would lower the price.

Why save 0,7% of the PC price to get 5% worse performance?

[Judd]

7 minutes ago, food158 said:

 

8 minutes ago, mpf200 said:

Anything to change? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HcVsRG

Why such expensive ram?

 

The ram is actually okay for 16gb due to the Nand Flash shortage.

[iRileyx]

7 minutes ago, Unimaginative Name said:

 

EDIT: I would go with an NVMe M.2 SSD, maybe a WD Black Series drive. and Z370 board will have and M.2 slot and it will be a little faster for about the same price.

NVMe SSD's are pointless for consumers at the moment, unless he's gonna be transferring files for a couple hours per day, the 850 evo will serve him just fine.

 

Build seems fine, make sure you get a Z370 board(not hard, theyre the only available boards atm anyway) so you can overclock your cpu.

[brob]

2 minutes ago, food158 said:

Yeah, but the thing is the ram is DDR4-3000; not like 2400 which would lower the price.

The difference between DDR4-2133 2x8GB and the OP kit is around $16. The difference between DDR4-2666, the Coffee Lake memory controller rated speed, and the OP kit is less than $10. The OP memory pick strikes me as quite reasonable.

[food158]

1 minute ago, Unimaginative Name said:

Yeah, on PCPartPicker the cheapest 2x8GB kits are about $165, and it has no heat spreader (good looking cover), if he's going for easy speed and aesthetic, this is fine, but there are other options. I personally have 2400 ram OC'd to 3000, but currently, there seems to be little price advantage to going with 2400.

Is the price difference really that minuscule? My thinking was Intel doesn't have much benefit compared to something like a Ryzen in terms of RAM speed.

[food158]

1 minute ago, brob said:

The difference between DDR4-2133 2x8GB and the OP kit is around $16. The difference between DDR4-2666, the Coffee Lake memory controller rated speed, and the OP kit is less than $10. The OP memory pick strikes me as quite reasonable.

That price difference makes me sad.

[mpf200]

10 minutes ago, food158 said:

Why such expensive ram?

that ram is not that much have you looked at prices recently??

[food158]

Just now, mpf200 said:

that ram is not that much have you looked at prices recently??

It seems I haven't.

[Unimaginative Name]

3 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

NVMe SSD's are pointless for consumers at the moment, unless he's gonna be transferring files for a couple hours per day, the 850 evo will serve him just fine.

 

Build seems fine, make sure you get a Z370 board(not hard, theyre the only available boards atm anyway) so you can overclock your cpu.

The price difference between the 850 EVO and an NVMe drive is only $10, which isn't that unreasonable. At least get an M.2, because awesome (and the prices are equal).

[seon123]

2 minutes ago, Unimaginative Name said:

The price difference between the 850 EVO and an NVMe drive is only $10, which isn't that unreasonable. At least get an M.2, because awesome (and the prices are equal).

No. Because there's more to an SSD than sequential writes. In 4K performance, low end NVMe SSDs tend to fall behind good SATA SSDs.