First off I'll go ahead and say in some points of my rig, I went way over the top, and in some areas I was a cheapo just because I did it in pieces.
I have a gaming rig that's been pretty good to me so far for the last few months. Before some changes I had a mobo/cpu combo that was an Asus Sabertooth 990fx r2.0 motherboard with an AMD 8350 black edition CPU. This setup was rocking the stock heat sink, and doing a fine job with no overclocking.
Now I have an Intel i7-4790k CPU with a Gigabyte z97x Gaming wifi-bk edition motherboard, and a corsair hydro series h100i liquid cooling system.
Other than those 3 differences everything else in this rig was the exact same as follows:
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932 Blue Edition
Power Supply: 750 watt bronze rated thermaltake "smart"
RAM: Only 1 cheapo ddr3 8gb Stick (1333 mhz) - <----- I think this is my problem?
Hard Drives : 1 SSD (250gb) running windows 7 Samsung
and 1 HDD (1tb) Seagate?
DVD: burner standard - irrelevant
GPU: 2x Nvidia GTX 660ti Graphics cards (SLI)
Sound: Sound Blaster card I got on Amazon for optical in/out
Here's what I've noticed with the difference between the AMD and the Intel chips. Nothing!
What I haven't figured out is why they both seem to perform the exact same. This comes from testing on old and new games alike. I know on benchmarks they wouldn't print out exactly the same but the intel doesn't seem any more crisp for gaming, video, or just processing performance.
And to be honest this PC performs nice, but I feel like it should be doing a lot better than it does. My theory is I screwed up on RAM and that it could make a better difference if I bought a decent set of 2 or 4 sticks. (Configuring them properly, of course.)
To give you a little background I have built only 5 PCs in my life and this one being by far the most expensive/advanced. It's very possible I could have missed something along the way. I really appreciate any input/info that you guys can throw my way.
Here's the sticks of RAM I was looking at getting :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231589&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&PageSize=10&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&IsFeedbackTab=true#scrollFullInfo
I have a gaming rig that's been pretty good to me so far for the last few months. Before some changes I had a mobo/cpu combo that was an Asus Sabertooth 990fx r2.0 motherboard with an AMD 8350 black edition CPU. This setup was rocking the stock heat sink, and doing a fine job with no overclocking.
Now I have an Intel i7-4790k CPU with a Gigabyte z97x Gaming wifi-bk edition motherboard, and a corsair hydro series h100i liquid cooling system.
Other than those 3 differences everything else in this rig was the exact same as follows:
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932 Blue Edition
Power Supply: 750 watt bronze rated thermaltake "smart"
RAM: Only 1 cheapo ddr3 8gb Stick (1333 mhz) - <----- I think this is my problem?
Hard Drives : 1 SSD (250gb) running windows 7 Samsung
and 1 HDD (1tb) Seagate?
DVD: burner standard - irrelevant
GPU: 2x Nvidia GTX 660ti Graphics cards (SLI)
Sound: Sound Blaster card I got on Amazon for optical in/out
Here's what I've noticed with the difference between the AMD and the Intel chips. Nothing!
What I haven't figured out is why they both seem to perform the exact same. This comes from testing on old and new games alike. I know on benchmarks they wouldn't print out exactly the same but the intel doesn't seem any more crisp for gaming, video, or just processing performance.
And to be honest this PC performs nice, but I feel like it should be doing a lot better than it does. My theory is I screwed up on RAM and that it could make a better difference if I bought a decent set of 2 or 4 sticks. (Configuring them properly, of course.)
To give you a little background I have built only 5 PCs in my life and this one being by far the most expensive/advanced. It's very possible I could have missed something along the way. I really appreciate any input/info that you guys can throw my way.
Here's the sticks of RAM I was looking at getting :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231589&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&PageSize=10&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&IsFeedbackTab=true#scrollFullInfo
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