I spent close to 2,200 building a top of line rig in 2011 and I'm looking to upgrade. The budget for a new rig is 1500-2100 though I can add more if need be.
I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse already so it's not an issue. I want at least a gtx1080 gpu; the monitor itself can be bought later and doesn't factor into my initial 1.5K.
I want top of the line future proofing as far as the gpu and cpu is concerned and a nice mobo.
I have little time to decide; it's now or never otherwise that money is going away.
I think I can spend that much. But does that leave me enough money for a computer case, a mobo, a very good cpu, and other components with the remaining 800-1200 dollars?
Leo Reyes
>The money will be gone as soon as month But that's not how money works for adults.
Jonathan Jackson
Was going to suggest a R7 1700 build but someone already posted one so I'm just going to recommend that one.
Gabriel Scott
That makes no sense you impatient child
Aaron Lewis
Oops meant for
Cameron Smith
I CAN use my old case and PSU, both very good.
I have a few questions about 8 core amd processors though. I feel like I'd rather go intel quad core. Also, I wouldn't mind a slightly better brain of SSD or one with at least one with 500 gigs on it or maybe even a 1tb SSD
Joseph Ramirez
GTX 1080 or wait 3-9 months on next gen
Kayden Taylor
>1080ti >700usd >870aud converted >1080ti in australia is $1200-1400
Lmao this place is so retarded for tech, better off shipping parts across the world
Xavier Adams
I'm sorry, this money will be given to someone else soon, not me, if I don't make a decision with a few days.
I'd rather not go too much into the details, but yes, that's what is happening here. It has nothing to do with impatience.
Asher Taylor
>I have a few questions about 8 core amd processors though. I feel like I'd rather go intel quad core. Jesus Christ.
Juan Harris
How many games even utilize 8 cores. Shouldn't I be going with a quad core with each core clocked at 4.2 ghz?
Robert Butler
Can't you just tell them yes you want it and have them write you a check?
Jonathan Wright
To follow up since you think I'm such a dunce, your elitism Asperger-ness is showing; I am thinking of an i7 7700k.
Tell me with your infinite knowledge which is better for games. the R7 or the i7
Parker Bailey
It's more complicated than that. Short answer is no. Longer answer is that I cannot ask for more money afterwards if I got a check right now.
Mason Brooks
Well you can definitely build a peecee with a 1080ti and 1700x or 7700k for $2k so got for it.
For Storage would you prefer a faster M.2 drive or a bigger but slower SSD
Jonathan King
Translation: My Mom and Dad won't buy it for me after my Birthday.
Mason Williams
They're both perfectly fine for games. The R7 1700 regularly goes on sale for $270 and comes with a perfectly fine cooler that will help you get a solid OC. The 7700k goes on sale for $330 with a regular MSRP of $390, it comes with no cooler so you're throwing out another $30 minimum. If you want the 7700k to pull 144mhz@1440p or higher, you're talking about delidding it. You're literally jumping through hoops to eke out performance, and you're buying an LGA 1151 board--and if you're not buying top of the line, nice z270 to pair with that, you'd be spending money poorly.
You know, I don't know, I don't regularly spend other people's money for my own shit, so I care about things like value and price efficiency. If all you care about is spending as much as you can, why not invest in the BLAZING speeds of the x299 platform? I'd recommend the i5 7620x, as it is worth the money and just makes sense to exist.
Josiah Scott
Sounds about right for gamer kiddies
Landon Lewis
Wow, $2000 gaming pc for a birthday. I'd have been lucky if I could convince my parents to pay for half of a GPU back in those days.
Easton Gray
Haha, good guess. That's not it though.
As an update. For everyone, I will be making a paypal account and putting 1.5K in it so that this money does not go away.
If I decide to spend 2k or 1900 on a pc, I can get the remainder of that money at a later time.
So yes, I might decide to wait until the next GPU comes out to maybe drive down the price of the TI gtx180.
At the top end of your budget I focused on quieter parts as well as OCing plus 32gb of RAM which is more then you will ever need RAM speed dosen't really matter with Intel
Just remeber this is for either 120hz 1440p or 60hz 4k gaming so make sure your monitor supports one of those
Cooper Campbell
Watercool?
Alexander Young
I mean at 2100$ thousand not accounting for a monitor you can pretty much go all out (not counting SLI builds that is)
Mason Hughes
The seasonic is only 2 dollars more.
Hudson Hill
amdtism
Jaxon Martin
Perhaps. Most likely even. Possibly not, though. I am done with SLI builds.
Thanks, I am looking into this
Aaron Clark
Which part?
Adrian Kelly
That would only make sense if I would stick to one company no matter the product. I've only ever bought Intel processors before Ryzen. The tech doesn't suck and has great value. If the shoe was on the other foot, I'd go Intel just as easily.
I have a 1800X myself and I gotta say that 4.2 MHz OC is 1 / 1000 golden ticket CPU. 3.8-3.9 is realistic and maybe 4 GHz if you get lucky.
Elijah Thompson
There's a thread for this.
Gavin Rogers
Every Ryzen 7 processor hits 3.8GHz at reasonable voltage, and about every 1700X will hit 3.9 at reasonable voltage. Good chance for 4GHz too.
Ryan Clark
lol what mobo?
also put the voltage up and you can achieve 4ghz easily
Benjamin Hall
C6H and I can get 4 GHz if I crank voltage to 1.4v currently running at 3.9 tho
Ethan Brown
Wait for 8700k.
Nolan Foster
Honestly good budget
Get the 1080. Buy an i7 with DDR 4 ram + mobo, that's 1200-1400 already. Then you can choose the case and aftermarket cooler
Liam Martin
here's mine, on game-mode(auto mode or some shit from sli plus mobo) at 4ghz it puts the voltage up to 1.45 which is pretty scary, but the systems is stable
i tried 4.1ghz in auto-mode and in cinebench it crashed, probably because it needed like 1.475/1.5 voltage which i don't want to give it
To be honest i think a got a pretty good CPUs, but i'm lucky because i was cheap on the mobo so it kind of balances out.
Also what most people forget is that cooling is very important, i got a h110i AIO and it keeps my shit cool.As a side-note, from what i've seen people who hit 4.2GHz on 1800x use 360mm AIOs or custom water loops
Hunter Parker
GV104 will just be 3584 shaders vs 3840 shaders on GP102. That "12nm" process won't be too much an improvement.
Noah Johnson
850W seasonic titanium for 199 on amazon vs 197
Camden Russell
How much did she take you for?
Daniel Perry
I just bought an Asus 1080Ti Strix I'm very happy with how quiet it is under load, a huge step up from the blower type GTX 680 I had before. I've read the modern blower types are still quite noisy.
IMO you shouldn't buy "top of the line" and then not upgrade for though. Much more economical to only buy what you need in the next 12 months or so, and upgrade whenever you feel something is getting slow. Hardware prices drop very fast.
Ian Martinez
You said you want future proofing, so definitely the r7. That's not even close. Even today the difference is less than 5% for the biggest piece of shit unoptimized game, usually less than 2%.
