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Hello guys,

So I am getting my new rig together. I don't have a whole lot of disposable income at the moment, so I figured I would get the components that would let me expand later but not limit me right now. This is my config as I have it now (parts ordered yesterday)

Intel i7- 6800K Processor
MSI X99A Godlike Gaming Carbon Motherboard
32 GB Corsair LPX DDR4 - 3200 Mhz (2 X 16 GB)
MSI GeForce 1070 X 8G
InWin 909 Black Case
2 TB Seagate Baracuda 7200 RPM Drive.
EVGA G2 650 W PSU
Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler

My major investments were in the case and the motherboard because I figured they would allow me to expand later. Its my intention to sell the processor and the video card and upgrade to a 6950X and 1080. I also intend to purchase a Samsung 950 Pro 512 GB and make it my primary drive and have a XSPC based custom cooling loop and max out the RAM to 128 GB.

Here's my concern : Did I mess up by choosing the 6800K instead of the 6850K given that it only has 28 PCIe lanes? For my current use (with just one video card) - am I right in assuming that I would be ok? Also if I were to purchase the Samsung 950 Pro - before I update the CPU to 6950X - Could I still use it? Out of all the parts I intend to purchase in the future I am least likely to purchase the video card upgrade as I am not a hard core gamer ( I have two Dell S2715H monitors with a max res of 1920X1080) . I will mostly use my PC for work and I usually have to have 4 or more vagrant / Virtual machine instances running simultaneously (hence the RAM and Processor upgrades). I intend to play Witcher 3 and the new Blood and Wine DLC and perhaps No Man's Sky. I am assuming my current config is more than adequate for these games.

I would be very grateful for any advice and guidance.
 
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Both of those chips don't even max out one lane together, let alone 8!
The 950pro is limited to 4x, no no problems there, you should have the max performance. Just remember that to boot from NVME mode you should be using Win 10, Server 2016 (preview), or a newer version of Linux . Other versions are an option, but not very good options...
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You're totally fine bro. For 1080p there's no reason to upgrade to the 1080 anyway. I mean, if you run into disposable income, sure. But you're going to be hitting very high FPS on all of those titles. I'm not sure about the virtual machines, but I think you'll still be fine. Nice foresight on getting the extra RAM.
 
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It's a high end system regardless of the CPU mixup. If you intend to get the 6950x later, then you'll have basically no issue in the long run. In the mean time the 950PRO will use up 4x, leaving you with 8x for the rest of the components other than GPU, so no issue at all (unless you have multiple 10gigE )

I would definitely advise upgrading the memory before CPU or GPU if VMs are your primary need, 32gb might seem like a lot but gets eaten up really quickly if you start adding database style server vms!
 
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Thanks guys.

@Acapella : I have a pretty useless Dell Latitude laptop from work and it basically takes 20 minutes for my VMs to boot up and our local hardware guru suggested that it is because the laptop is severely limited by the lack of RAM (8 GB). I have an oracle 12 instance running inside one of the VM's and it takes forever to run even a simple query. So i figured I would max out the RAM on my new build to avoid such issues.

@basroll : Thank you. That puts my mind to ease a bit. The MB comes with two Killer E2400 Ethernet chips built in. Will this affect the amount of PCIe lanes I will have available after the video card and the Samsung 950 PRO? Theoretically the 950PRO can run upto 32GB/s - I know I will never likely see those speeds in real life but will I be able to get close to that kind of speed?

Thanks again!
 
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Both of those chips don't even max out one lane together, let alone 8!
The 950pro is limited to 4x, no no problems there, you should have the max performance. Just remember that to boot from NVME mode you should be using Win 10, Server 2016 (preview), or a newer version of Linux . Other versions are an option, but not very good options ;)

And if you can, spend the extra few bucks on a TPM20 module in case you want to/need to fiddle with hardware based encryption
 
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Thanks mate. I have to run Windows 10 because of the games but I generally work on Ubuntu. I will probably have dual booting sorted if the VM's aren't fast enough. But its good to know that I will be able to get close to the advertised performance with Windows 10. I just need to figure out how to transfer my license over. I had the Windows 10 on my previous rig that I have now sold off and I uninstalled the Windows copy before I sold it. But as I understand the free upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10 is tied to hardware so it might not be transferable. I still have my Windows 7 copy and I extracted the Windows 10 keys from my previous rig. Hopefully that will be good enough. I don't really do much with encryption but I might get a couple of Raspberry Pis or an Intel Joule if I had any money left over!

Thanks again mate!.

 
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Win 10 Pro with Client Hyper-V is a beast for VMs, have two systems running that and it's basically like running the OS on bare metal
 
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That's good to know! I know that Vagrant has some issues with Hyper-V's networking so I don't know if I could use it but its certainly an option!.

Cheers mate.
 
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