My latest pc biuld.

[Stormyskyes]

Msi b250 motherboard 

I7 7700k 4.2 ghz

24gb 2133 ddr4 ram

Nividia gtx 1080 founders edition

Amd RX 570 4gb edition

H60 corsair liquid cpu cooler. 

Samsung evo 90 250gb

SanDisk 120gb ssd. 

14 th worth of hhds and external drives. 

 

Is this how you Linus?

[RadiatingLight]

Other than not having a Z270 board, it seems good/overkill I guess

[thelordofwarr]

I personally don't get why you went for a b250 motherboard and then buy a unlocked cpu but ok 

[Crunchy Dragon]

Not technically how you Linus, but I would recommend a few things:

• Change the B250 motherboard to a Z270 or go Z370 and get an 8700/8700K
• You won't be able to use both the 1080 and RX 570 in the same machine unless you're doing GPU computations or running virtualized gaming rigs.
• I would personally change the cooler to a higher end air cooler such as the Dark Rock Pro 3.

-Moved to New Builds and Planning-

[RAM555789]

Yeah, I would have gone for a better board, and 16GB of better DDR4, but overall it's a good build.

 

Edit: I would probably just sell the RX 570 and RAM and use that to get a new mobo, better cooler, and better RAM.

[Stormyskyes]

The motherboard was the only one working within  250 miles unfourtently. 

I use the rx570 for video rendering while I'm gaming. The ram is what's supported by the board 2133 ghz. The ram technically is 3000mhz but the board underclocks it to 2133. 

 

The cooler seems to be doing fine. Temps never get above 50c

And untill I get a 300 series chipset board the i7 8700k is out of the question. 

 

I had a z370 but it decided to die in under a year on me. 

[Stormyskyes]

13 minutes ago, thelordofwarr said:

I personally don't get why you went for a b250 motherboard and then buy a unlocked cpu but ok 

Why? The board supports overclocking. The b250m doesn't but the b250 does now. 

[thelordofwarr]

Since when is that? 

[thelordofwarr]

https://ark.intel.com/products/98086/Intel-B250-Chipset 

 

The chipset doesn't do, so why should it? 

[NTDaws]

2 minutes ago, Stormyskyes said:

Why? The board supports overclocking. The b250m doesn't but the b250 does now. 

Um, no it doesn't.

[thelordofwarr]

 

(source: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Z270-H270-Q270-Q250-B250---What-is-the-Difference-876/)

 

[Stormyskyes]

Just now, Being Delirious said:

Um, no it doesn't.

It has the options in the bios to overclock. Durring a stress test I was able to get it to 4.6 ghz on air and 5.1ghz on water. 

[Stormyskyes]

Just now, thelordofwarr said:

 

(source: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Z270-H270-Q270-Q250-B250---What-is-the-Difference-876/)

That's for a q250 set this is the new series. 

[NTDaws]

Just now, Stormyskyes said:

It has the options in the bios to overclock. Durring a stress test I was able to get it to 4.6 ghz on air and 5.1ghz on water. 

Maybe you base overclocked it. But you didn't do it the traditional way.

[thelordofwarr]

The only way you could would be throught the bclk clock. but that's shady af from my experience. 

[thelordofwarr]

[Stormyskyes]

3 minutes ago, thelordofwarr said:

The only way you could would be throught the bclk clock. but that's shady af from my experience. 

Yea. I've always bclk overclocked. That's why the other board didn't last long. 

[thelordofwarr]

....Why didn't you just say that in the first place. and if you know that the board doesn't last long why tf would you do it? (exspecting you don't have all the money to spare and buy new boards)

[Stormyskyes]

1 minute ago, thelordofwarr said:

....Why didn't you just say that in the first place. and if you know that the board doesn't last long why tf would you do it? (exspecting you don't have all the money to spare and buy new boards)

Because it's fun. Going in ant tweaking each individual thing is what I like to do. Besides that was the first board I actually fried that way.