Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: 2 weeks
Budget Range: $1600-1700
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Heavy Gaming, Developing (Visual Studio, Eclipse,...), Recording/Mixing using Cubase.
Are you buying a monitor: No.
Do you need to buy OS: No
Parts Preferences: Intel CPU Skylake
Overclocking: Yes in the future
SLI or Crossfire: Probably Not, Maybe in the future, don't might changing PSU if it happens.
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080, 60Mhz, 24" Monitor.
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: My system is about 10 years old, struggles to run anthing.
Additional Comments:
OK Guys, here is the deal, I'm building a new system and I want it to be strongest as possible.
Budget is about $1600-1700 (Prices are usually higher in my country i'm afraid, so I will convert your builds to NIS and see if i can afford it
, i can also stretch the budget if needed and performance is worth it.
2 Components that I have already purchased and Have to be in the final build are:
Sandisk Ultra II 960GB SSD - $244
Gigabyte GTX970 OC Windforce 3 - $335
Now here is what i've thought about:
CPU - i5-6600k / i7-6700k (if budget will suffice).
MoBo - Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming-3 / ASUS Z170-PRO-Gaming / MSI Z170A-KRAIT-GAMING.
Memory - I'm not sure what to choose here, the price differences between the lowest and higher clocks is pretty low in here, is there any reason NOT to go for 3000-3200Mhz? Anyway, here are some of the options available here:
HyperX 16GB(2x8) 2666Mhz CL15 / Crucial Ballistix 16GB(4x4) 2400Mhz / G.Skill Ripjaws 4/5 16GB(2x8) 2800Mhz/3000Mhz CL15.
Case - Again, not sure what to choose here, I care about it not being too dusty, having nice cooling and as quiet as possible.
I do NOT care about looks, pretty colors nor windows.
Some of the cases available here that i've put my eye on:
Antec P100, Corsair 200R/300R/400R, Enermax Ostrog GT, Fractal Design S/R4/R5, NZXT Phantom 410, Zalman Z11-Neo.
Cooling - would take your recommendation here and search my country for it. The Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO seems nice and in good price but i did not find it yet in my country. Also very liking the Noctua NH-D14 but it's VERY pricey...
PSU - Once again, not sure what to choose here, It seems that 650W~ would suffice to such a system, I care about a quality PSU and not a generic one, also power consumption is an issue but don't let it blow the budget...
HDD - I'm not sure I need a hard drive with 1TB SSD, do you agree? Is there anything I'm missing here? If so, 1TB-1.5TB should suffice, I would not need a lot of storage beside the SSD.
Also if this is what blows the budget, I can take my HDD from my old station - hoping not to do it though.
I'm not even sure those parts are in compatibility with one another
The plan is to play games on high-highest graphics with 60FPS+ (GTA V, Battlefield, MMORPG's that are heavy on the CPU like Guild Wars 2 and WildStar).
This system should last for years to come, with the future upgrade of GPU and maybe more RAM.
I also don't mind buying online from abroad as long as it's worth it and the source is reliable.
Sorry for the long message It's really important for me to not overkill anything buy not to cut anything too important.
Budget Range: $1600-1700
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Heavy Gaming, Developing (Visual Studio, Eclipse,...), Recording/Mixing using Cubase.
Are you buying a monitor: No.
Do you need to buy OS: No
Parts Preferences: Intel CPU Skylake
Overclocking: Yes in the future
SLI or Crossfire: Probably Not, Maybe in the future, don't might changing PSU if it happens.
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080, 60Mhz, 24" Monitor.
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: My system is about 10 years old, struggles to run anthing.
Additional Comments:
OK Guys, here is the deal, I'm building a new system and I want it to be strongest as possible.
Budget is about $1600-1700 (Prices are usually higher in my country i'm afraid, so I will convert your builds to NIS and see if i can afford it
, i can also stretch the budget if needed and performance is worth it.2 Components that I have already purchased and Have to be in the final build are:
Sandisk Ultra II 960GB SSD - $244
Gigabyte GTX970 OC Windforce 3 - $335
Now here is what i've thought about:
CPU - i5-6600k / i7-6700k (if budget will suffice).
MoBo - Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming-3 / ASUS Z170-PRO-Gaming / MSI Z170A-KRAIT-GAMING.
Memory - I'm not sure what to choose here, the price differences between the lowest and higher clocks is pretty low in here, is there any reason NOT to go for 3000-3200Mhz? Anyway, here are some of the options available here:
HyperX 16GB(2x8) 2666Mhz CL15 / Crucial Ballistix 16GB(4x4) 2400Mhz / G.Skill Ripjaws 4/5 16GB(2x8) 2800Mhz/3000Mhz CL15.
Case - Again, not sure what to choose here, I care about it not being too dusty, having nice cooling and as quiet as possible.
I do NOT care about looks, pretty colors nor windows.
Some of the cases available here that i've put my eye on:
Antec P100, Corsair 200R/300R/400R, Enermax Ostrog GT, Fractal Design S/R4/R5, NZXT Phantom 410, Zalman Z11-Neo.
Cooling - would take your recommendation here and search my country for it. The Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO seems nice and in good price but i did not find it yet in my country. Also very liking the Noctua NH-D14 but it's VERY pricey...
PSU - Once again, not sure what to choose here, It seems that 650W~ would suffice to such a system, I care about a quality PSU and not a generic one, also power consumption is an issue but don't let it blow the budget...
HDD - I'm not sure I need a hard drive with 1TB SSD, do you agree? Is there anything I'm missing here? If so, 1TB-1.5TB should suffice, I would not need a lot of storage beside the SSD.
Also if this is what blows the budget, I can take my HDD from my old station - hoping not to do it though.
I'm not even sure those parts are in compatibility with one another
The plan is to play games on high-highest graphics with 60FPS+ (GTA V, Battlefield, MMORPG's that are heavy on the CPU like Guild Wars 2 and WildStar).
This system should last for years to come, with the future upgrade of GPU and maybe more RAM.
I also don't mind buying online from abroad as long as it's worth it and the source is reliable.
Sorry for the long message
It's really important for me to not overkill anything buy not to cut anything too important.
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