Lol fucked up so hard. The AM4 kit came in for my noctua and I can't use 2 fans with this motherboard/case combo. My second fan is just in my drawer now. On another note, with the Noctua, the CPU overclocks to 4.1-4.2 ghz by itself.
That threadripper seems interesting, but do games even come close to using more than like 4 cores these days? Does the OS self allocate that shit better? Never really looked into it. Im sure that thing would be great for multitasking if they can still eek out a solid per core performance, which I doubt because from what I know the more cores you have the worse the per core performance is. But as always I could be wrong.
Where do people go these days to shop watercooling/waterblocks? I really wish something like pcpartpicker existed for watercooling stuff.
Anyways, really considering doing a hardline watercooling setup, I love bending stainless steel tubing at work and like the look of it in cases. Trying to line up some parts so I have an idea what it'll cost. Looking at a Ryzen 2700 setup so shoot me some links if you got them.
(1) What resolution do you plan to game at? Gfx cards are overpriced still so you might not want to go overkill for your resolution on an already overpriced card.2k price range is where i'm at. Thought's before I pull the trigger?
Also.... ahem... don't laugh at me, but what is the purpose of the smaller SSD vs the larger HD drive in this build? Is the SSD for the OS specifically and games the HD? Also, if I needed to double the ram in the future for editing or whatever, it's as simple as buying it and popping it in right? I know these are facepalm worthy questions, part of the reason why I wanna build it myself and learn as I go.
Well got my HP EX920 today. I also learned that my m.2 slot is only a pcie gen2 2x slot which means it maxes out at 700-800mb/sec.
That's ok, it just means your system will be easier to upgrade sooner when next Zen or TR arrives! Its why I like upgrading work & home machines all around same time and salvaging *mistake* buys (*cough* *cough* *wink*) for work, for *easy* upgrades to rebuild pcs @ home!Well got my HP EX920 today. I also learned that my m.2 slot is only a pcie gen2 2x slot which means it maxes out at 700-800mb/sec.
Sadly I know fuck all about building a PC (last one I owned ran WinXP), but I just got a bonus at work and wanna get back into PC gaming and maybe dick around with streaming some. Was gonna go the Origin pre-built route, but now i'm thinking i'd be better off saving a few bucks and trying my hand at building one myself. Browsing pcpartpicker, Youtube, and the past few pages here this build caught my eye:
System Builder - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB STRIX GAMING OC, S340 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower - PCPartPicker
2k price range is where i'm at. Thought's before I pull the trigger?
Also.... ahem... don't laugh at me, but what is the purpose of the smaller SSD vs the larger HD drive in this build? Is the SSD for the OS specifically and games the HD? Also, if I needed to double the ram in the future for editing or whatever, it's as simple as buying it and popping it in right? I know these are facepalm worthy questions, part of the reason why I wanna build it myself and learn as I go.
(1) What resolution do you plan to game at?
Most of this has already been said, but here's my take....
Admittedly, I don't even know if I could tell the difference between 1440p and 1080p, but would like the best resolution possible for gaming. Been a console peasant for almost a decade and wanna spoil myself here. Haven't even started looking at moniters yet but i'm open for suggestions there as well. Looking to future proof as much as possible, I figure spending the extra $300 on the overpriced GPU is worth that piece of mind whereas with the storage I can always add more as I need. Following that logic, I will likely upgrade to that Samsung 970.
Also, didn't even realize the MB was the mini.... will be going full sized for sure. Any particular reason they would be the same price? That's confusing.
Thanks for the advice btw, feel like i'm just scratching the iceberg here so more stupid questions are sure to come.