Ideas on spare rig with existing parts?

[Kalm_Traveler]

Since I pretty much ended up buying all new parts for the new case, I have almost a full rig sitting and am trying to decide what to do with it.

 

Currently it is:

case (Coolermaster HAF X)

mb  (Asus X99 Sabertooth)

ram (32gb 4 x 8gb 2666 Corsair Vengeance LPX)

SSD (options here, 1tb 960 pro and 512gb 950 pro)

possible HDD (4tb Seagate)

PSU (Corsair HX1000i)

and I have it's old 360mm Thermaltake CPU AIO with fans also sitting around.

 

Missing CPU and graphics card obviously, but I've been thinking would it even be worth spending money on another 2011-v3 CPU for this since none of them are particularly cheap, or should I just buy a new mb and 8700k? cost wouldn't really be all that much more and it would be a better base for gaming if it gets repurposed as a spare gaming PC or something. I'm just not sure what to do with it and want to make it into a functional build since it's just sitting there all sad and empty.

 

At first I had thought about upgrading my main platform to x299 and getting a 7900x, then bumping my 6900k back into the old case but since half of my PC usage (roughly) is for gaming it looks like on benchmarks the 6900k at 4.5gHz actually does slightly better than what most people get with a 7900x and I don't do enough multi-threaded stuff often enough to care about the increased performance on those tasks.

 

So... I figure maybe with the spare parts that a spare gaming-only rig for friends to use would be worthwhile. I could toss a Titan Xp or 1080 Ti FTW3 in there and call it good.

 

Thoughts or suggestions? What would you guys do if you had this thing laying around?

[QuirkyRobot]

5 minutes ago, Kalm_Traveler1 said:

Since I pretty much ended up buying all new parts for the new case, I have almost a full rig sitting and am trying to decide what to do with it.

 

Currently it is:

case (Coolermaster HAF X)

mb  (Asus X99 Sabertooth)

ram (32gb 4 x 8gb 2666 Corsair Vengeance LPX)

SSD (options here, 1tb 960 pro and 512gb 950 pro)

possible HDD (4tb Seagate)

PSU (Corsair HX1000i)

and I have it's old 360mm Thermaltake CPU AIO with fans also sitting around.

 

Missing CPU and graphics card obviously, but I've been thinking would it even be worth spending money on another 2011-v3 CPU for this since none of them are particularly cheap, or should I just buy a new mb and 8700k? cost wouldn't really be all that much more and it would be a better base for gaming if it gets repurposed as a spare gaming PC or something. I'm just not sure what to do with it and want to make it into a functional build since it's just sitting there all sad and empty.

 

At first I had thought about upgrading my main platform to x299 and getting a 7900x, then bumping my 6900k back into the old case but since half of my PC usage (roughly) is for gaming it looks like on benchmarks the 6900k at 4.5gHz actually does slightly better than what most people get with a 7900x and I don't do enough multi-threaded stuff often enough to care about the increased performance on those tasks.

 

So... I figure maybe with the spare parts that a spare gaming-only rig for friends to use would be worthwhile. I could toss a Titan Xp or 1080 Ti FTW3 in there and call it good.

 

Thoughts or suggestions? What would you guys do if you had this thing laying around?

Spare gaming PC is fine and all but you can also use it as a NAS/Server type of thing. Either to host games like minecraft or running a media server like Plex. I am sure other people will have other ideas.

[MidnightBanshi]

I'd put another CPU and GPU in there, because X99 in my opinion, is still a pretty hefty beast.  I'm doing up an X79 myself, so maybe I'm a bit biased...........

[Kalm_Traveler]

8 hours ago, MidnightBanshi said:

I'd put another CPU and GPU in there, because X99 in my opinion, is still a pretty hefty beast.  I'm doing up an X79 myself, so maybe I'm a bit biased...........

yeah may end up doing that, need to find a place to put it and purpose. After looking at benchmarks between the 6900k and 7900x I'll be sticking with my x99 build for the main rig for at least another year or two, but I want to find some good way to use that spare rig rather than just let it collect dust for who knows how long, you know what I mean?