Desktop Computers

So how much you think I could flip this for: i7-960, 24gb ram, 980gtx, 250gb ssd, in antec 900 with some middling thermaltake 1000w psu

It's an 840 Pro, I can handle 1+ petabyte of writes.

Just the Evo.

My Skylake build is up and running. Thanks for the tips everyone. The MSI card was a good tip Orcus. My case is so quiet I can barely tell the computer is on.

I just ordered a brand new PC over the weekend. Special lady friend is getting the old one, which is actually still halfway decent (4670 w/ 680 GTX). Man we're getting fucked up North on prices right now. In any case, please critique and let me know if I made any giant boners. Obviously it's not a budget build, but nor am I doing anything stupid with quad SLI or anything along those lines. I might pick up another 980 Ti in the future, but doubt I'll need the power (still went with the larger PSU just in case). Ignore the shitty keyboard and wireless adapter, those are for the old one.

I went with the Acer monitor because I've heard great things about G-sync (tearing bothers the shit out of me), but still wanted to stick with an IPS monitor. It's replacing a nearly 10 year old 24" Dell Ultrasharp, which has been a phenomenal monitor.

Fucking hell, those prices suck, lol.

You might do a little reading on PCI-E SSD drives as C:/boot drives. Seems like a lot of people still have problems with using them as boot drives, and bioses not wanting to recognize them, making fresh windows installs a pain in the ass. Back when I was reading about it last year or so, it seemed like a lot of the issues were with Windows 7 not having the proper drivers to recognize these drives, but maybe Win 8/10 has fixed this issue? I haven't looked up any updated info since last year.

You might start with this:
http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hp.../CS-035481.htm

I like that Intels offical site states "Because NVMe is still a maturing technology, configuring your system to boot from an NVMe SSD can be a confusing task" LOL thats never good when the manufacturer admits that it is "confusing" to install.

Yeah, that's one of the things that I was concerned about when I put the 750 on the order. At first I just had a Samsung, but then I was looking at drive performance on Anandtech's Bench and I was like "fuck yeah that thing is fast!". I'll do some proper research on it before cracking the box, but I would think that with Windows 10 and a bleeding edge motherboard, that things should go kinda sorta smoothly.

joeboo_sl said:

Fucking hell, those prices suck, lol.

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I was just curious...pieced that all together here in the US at our pricing

Intel Core i5-6600K, EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti - System Build - PCPartPicker

$2670 US vs $3490 Canadian (left the wireless router out of both figures)

Damn...are you anywhere close to the border or know anyone just over the border you could ship to? That's a damn lot of money.

Dude, that's pretty much straight exchange rate. Buying it across the border would do me zero good, because I'd just have to pay the exchange anyways. If anything I'd probably be another few percent worse off, since the loonie has dropped another couple percent in the last week, generally prices trail the true exchange rate by months, and Visa will generally fuck you about 2.5% on the rate.

I did recently get a fair chunk of US-based ETF's (VTI, VT, VGK, VWO, VPL) journalled over to the US dollar side of my investment account (which I didn't even realize existed until two weeks ago, whoops). Those will generate a few thousand bucks a year of US dollars. I'll get a US dollar checking and Visa account, assuming the fees aren't too onerous, and then I won't have to give a shit about the exchange rate anymore.

But that's for future purchases and vacations. Doesn't do me much good right now.

I don't know why, but I was thinking that $1 Canadian was worth more than $1 US. Guess not...looks like the current exchange rate has the US dollar valued about 30% higher than a Canadian dollar...which would explain the ~30% price difference on those parts.

It's dropped something like 15-20% in the last year. It's a petro currency at this point. It was trucking along at about 90 cents last year, but now it's around 75 cents.

Eomer_sl said:

I went with the Acer monitor because I've heard great things about G-sync (tearing bothers the shit out of me), but still wanted to stick with an IPS monitor. It's replacing a nearly 10 year old 24" Dell Ultrasharp, which has been a phenomenal monitor.

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You won't regret that decision at all. G-Sync is fucking awesome and while I ended getting the ASUS (more or less the something but not an IPS) it was one of those purchases that is along the lines of making the jump from HDD to SSD in terms of noticeable difference in gaming/computer performance. Just unreal how much better it is. And the funny thing is I (probably) had that same 24" Dell UltraSharp for my gaming monitor before I got my G-Sync too. Like you said it was/is an great monitor but god damn 144 mhz + G-Sync is great.

I still use the UltraSharp as my primary non-gaming monitor (movies/TV shows/internet monitor/etc). God I'm excited for you (no homo).

Off this topic: Holy fuck where are the i7-6700k CPU's. I want to build my new computer already, god damnit!

Anyone see any glaring issues with ordering these parts for my Skylake build? I'll be getting the CPU/Motherboard from Microcenter whenever the fuck they get it. Mostly just concernedabout the RAM, really.

Edit: Should I look at the Intel 750 or Samsung SM951 for my SSD? Is it really worth it?