Future proofing and overclocking build

lebron jeems · Apr 14, 2016

I currently have made a list of parts on pcpartpicker and was wondering if this was a good idea for future proofing and doing maximum overclocks on CPUs in this socket?http://pcpartpicker.com/user/FuninatorPCBuild/saved/#view=2PvPxr

PsyKhiqZero · Apr 14, 2016

This system is decent, but it's built on a already obsolete socket. Unless you plan on buying a "upgarde" CPU off ebay, there is no way you can call this future proof. Also while this will do most games fine, many modern games require a true quad core, you will find yourself needing to upgrade the CPU real soon.

Gingerbread · Apr 14, 2016

As soon as you see that your CPU is cheaper than your cooling, that should be kind of a red flag. Better get a higher end CPU which will outperform the G3258. Personally I would go for i3-6100

techgeek · Apr 14, 2016

I really hate this term futureproofing. There really isn't any such thing. You can buy the most expensive of everything, and it's likely to have more usable life than cheaper parts, but that doesn't make it futureproof. Inevitably at some point a piece of software / game / whatever will release that makes you want to upgrade.

As for your build specifically, as has already been pointed out, that socket is one generation behind. Parts for that platform are already drying up. First the high end (low volume) stuff will be gone, then the mid range and lastly the low end stuff. However that said, Intel rarely hangs on to a socket / chipset feature set for more than two generations of CPU's. For instance LGA 1150 only had Haswell and Devils Canyon. Neither was out for very long before they were "obsoleted" by the next generation. And it wasn't known whether Devils Canyon CPU's would run on the previous 80 series chipsets or vica versa, until near DC's release. AMD on the otherhand seems to hang on to a socket for much longer. However since product longevity is subjective and highly dependent on the software used, its debatable whether having a platform last as long as AMD"s is worthwhile.

unreal9400 · Apr 14, 2016

Man that CPU ain't future proof.
Current games run so well on it because they are not optimized for quad cores.
Get an i5 instead an enjoy the maximum overclock and longevity or even an i7 or maybe a Xeon.

sizzling · Apr 14, 2016

For the reasons above I won't go into much about the motherboard but that one was no good for overclocking. Also the PSU is far too low end for overclocking, you need a good quality unit with stable outputs for overclocking.

Think of overclocking like a high performance machine, all parts must be high performance. For the budget you seem to be looking at I would forget overclocking and put the money into other parts

lebron jeems · Apr 14, 2016

Obviously I was planning on upgrading to an i7 4790k, and I was wondering if this would be able to over clock it to 4.5 GHz without any upgrades.

lebron jeems · Apr 14, 2016

techgeek :

I really hate this term futureproofing. There really isn't any such thing. You can buy the most expensive of everything, and it's likely to have more usable life than cheaper parts, but that doesn't make it futureproof. Inevitably at some point a piece of software / game / whatever will release that makes you want to upgrade.

As for your build specifically, as has already been pointed out, that socket is one generation behind. Parts for that platform are already drying up. First the high end (low volume) stuff will be gone, then the mid range and lastly the low end stuff. However that said, Intel rarely hangs on to a socket / chipset feature set for more than two generations of CPU's. For instance LGA 1150 only had Haswell and Devils Canyon. Neither was out for very long before they were "obsoleted" by the next generation. And it wasn't known whether Devils Canyon CPU's would run on the previous 80 series chipsets or vica versa, until near DC's release. AMD on the otherhand seems to hang on to a socket for much longer. However since product longevity is subjective and highly dependent on the software used, its debatable whether having a platform last as long as AMD"s is worthwhile.

I've tried amd in one of my builds, but i also made an intel build. And it only lost to amd when rendering because of fewer cores.

lebron jeems · Apr 14, 2016

unreal9400 :

Obviously I'm gonna upgrade to an i7 4790k and a gtx 980ti

lebron jeems · Apr 14, 2016

sizzling :

What's wrong with the PSU? Its gold 80 plus full?

sizzling · Apr 14, 2016

The PSU is a low quality unit, for overclocking you want tier 1 ideally. The gold rating is a measure of efficiency and not quality

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

sizzling · Apr 14, 2016

The problem with buying a 4790k is it uses an end of life socket and DDR3. While the performance is similar to a 6700k and DDR4 the Z97 board, 4790k and DDR3 wont have any options for future upgrades without a complete platform change, if your going to upgrade it might as well be the latest platform

PsyKhiqZero · Apr 14, 2016

If you have the budget to consider a i7 and 980 ti later on the road, i would wait till you could build around an i5 skylake cpu.

Again in a year or however long you wait, its going to be impossible to find a new compatible i7 for that board.

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