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New RIG Appraisal - What do you Think?

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Hi LTT Folks!

 

I created a new rig with as much performance for 1080p@144hz / 1440p@60hz per buck as I could and I want to know what you ladies and gents think. I'll be using Euro's as a general estimate for the parts but do keep in mind im from Bulgaria so there is about a 5-20% on top for VAT in comparison to other countries.

 

Motherboard: MSI Z370-A Pro - 110 Euro's

PSU: Bitfenix Whisper M 650W - 97 Euro's ( I would have opted for a 500 - 550W Power supply, but none were in Storage)

CPU: Intel Core i5-8400 - 193 Euro's

GPU: MSI GTX 1070Ti Gaming 8Gb - 522 Euro

RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury DIMM 8GB@2400Mhz - Two of these, total 16Gb@2400Mhz - 178 Euro's

Case: Fractal Design - Focus G Midi tower - 50 euro's

SSD: Crucial MX500 with 500gb - 86 Euro's

 

Total cost: 1 236 Euro's

 

Let me know what you think.

 

Cheers,

Jordan

 

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That looks pretty solid! You might be able to save some money by getting a B360 motherboard instead but everything else looks good.

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I like it. The only thing, I would go with i7 if it was me, but still that build looks very good.

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10 minutes ago, J.b091 said:

I like it. The only thing, I would go with i7 if it was me, but still that build looks very good.

Thanks mate. Me too honestly, but they do come in a bit too pricey so i opted in for an i5

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5 minutes ago, J.Scrulls said:

Thanks mate. Me too honestly, but they do come in a bit too pricey so i opted in for an i5

You will be still fine with that i5. So don't worry mate :)

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Not a huge issue but you could look for a 3000 - 3200 kit of ram depending on the price difference.

 

 

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Looks great to me, only thing is, I got a 144hrz 1080p panel, and paired it with an i7 8700k and a gtx 1080, on ultra I don't get the level of performance I wanted, FC5 I think about 110 fps, forza hor 3 about the same. That said, if you turn down a few settings and don't play games that are hardware busters like those, (e-sports) you will be fine :)

 

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1 minute ago, lee32uk said:

Not a huge issue but you could look for a 3000 - 3200 kit of ram depending on the price difference.

 

 

Lee I don't think that goes with his performance per dollar thing xD

 

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Just now, lee32uk said:

Not a huge issue but you could look for a 3000 - 3200 kit of ram depending on the price difference.

 

 

I was going for a Corsair Vengeance@3000Mhz 16gb 2x8 kit, but they told me they didn't have it in stock. It was only like 15 euro's ontop of the kingston's I got. I talked it out with the vendor, turns out i was just too unlucky as the last kit was just sold out.

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1 minute ago, owen_pi said:

Looks great to me, only thing is, I got a 144hrz 1080p panel, and paired it with an i7 8700k and a gtx 1080, on ultra I don't get the level of performance I wanted, FC5 I think about 110 fps, forza hor 3 about the same. That said, if you turn down a few settings and don't play games that are hardware busters like those, (e-sports) you will be fine :)

 

Indeed, I am prepared for that. I just built it for my girlfriend as its her first PC and she knows nothing, so I kinda kept that in mind that she will be playing mostly on Ultra, slight AA, v-sync and most reflections off at 1440p@60hz 

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2 minutes ago, owen_pi said:

Lee I don't think that goes with his performance per dollar thing xD

 

Depends on the price. Just because it is a faster kit doesn't always mean it is more expensive. For example Overclockers in the UK had a 4000MHz kit on sale a few months back that was cheaper than any of the 3000MHz kits.

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Just now, owen_pi said:

lol alright, what is she coming from? Her old rig I mean

 

ooh.. I dont think we could use that thing for anything but a cupholder at this point.

Old Dell Laptop that has dual core intel CPU@1.7 or 1.9 Ghz, uses the integrated GPU which is some 2011 standard and with only 2GB of RAM. Its hard drive is the worst part, Last time I recorded 11 minutes complete boot-up time.

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You are right, but I got my 2400 ddr4 16gb t force from newegg at about 129.99

it works great :)

 

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LOL That is JUST the same as my bros PC, same boot time and old i5 4200u. Duel core O: Same specs but a bit newer, and 8 gigs of ram. I can tell you about the hard drive issue

 

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Is the disk sitting at 100% all the time? We had to disable windows update and superfetch.

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1 minute ago, owen_pi said:

Is the disk sitting at 100% all the time? We had to disable windows update and superfetch.

Same! Absolutely the same! And even after that, it was super slow! I think that those Dell's have a defective hard dive by default straight outa the factory

 

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