Hello everyone, new to the forum so notice me if I am infringing the rules. Also forgive my inability to write in proper English.
I am new to the subject of building PCs from scratch as well, and i have some confusion about some things.
I will list the components I was thinking of buying and related problems in choosing theme.
1) I've started with thinking about the purpose of the machine. It's intended for general purpose,web-application development and general app. development (for my studies), and some gaming (not very requiering one).
2) Next i looked at the CPUs going straight with intel, since its the one i am familiar with.
Among Intel's CPUs I went with the I5-6600K since I wanted to overclock it (more on this later)
and tought that I had no need for an I7-6700k(with 2MB cache more, some higher clockrate and double the threads), yet I am unsure if I should maybe dump more money on the CPU and take theme away from elsewhere.
3)I than choosed the chipset, leaning towards the Z170 knowing that it supports Cpu/memory overclocking.(Eventhou on intel's Z170 chipset's page it state that "[/u]It supports overclocking functionalities for 6th gen processors[/u]". Am I missing something?) Though here i have started encountering some problems not really knowing what to look for in a chipset. Are there compatibilitiy problem between CPU-chipset?Or is it just a metter of how many connections i need?(eg. sata, PCIe etc.) Some help in this regard would be lovely.
4)With my not-so-resoned choices above I moved to the motherboard. Well more problems!Beside the facts that there are litteraly hundreds of mobo to choose from, and that each and everyone of theme offers special features as well. I have ended up going for an Asus Z170-P.
5)Now for memory. I think 2x8Gb will suit my needs, Ddr4 was my choice since both the Cpu and the motherboard supported it. For the frequency of the ram i was going with the 2133Mhz seeing that the CPU supports "DDR4 1866/2133 @1.35v" but than I started encountering ram stick that worked on 3000Mhz, i saw that the motherboard supports such frequency but i haven't found a CPU that state support for that frequency!So i was, once again, really confused!Do I just ignore the fact that all processors i saw on intel's website supports, at max, ddr4 at 2133Mhz?
6)GPU. Well no real problem here as it came down to my needs. I dont render video, 3d or such so it's basicly for videogames only. Since I play light-wight games a GeForce GTX 950 might work.
7)SSD, 250Gb for programs and OS + some hardrive storage.
8)COOLING, I wanted to try the EK-KIT L360 for my CPU. I saw Ek disourage cooling both the cpu and the gpu with a 360 rad. If i was not to overclock any of theme, do you think i could cool both the cpu and the gpu with it?(ofcourse by adding necessary components)
9)PSU. A 650W 80+ psu. (650 might be overkill!?But i did not want to go short on W in case i want to upgrade the system).
If you ended up to this point : Thank you for taking the time to read a scrub-confused-non-english-speaker post!I am lookin foward to your feedback.
I am new to the subject of building PCs from scratch as well, and i have some confusion about some things.
I will list the components I was thinking of buying and related problems in choosing theme.
1) I've started with thinking about the purpose of the machine. It's intended for general purpose,web-application development and general app. development (for my studies), and some gaming (not very requiering one).
2) Next i looked at the CPUs going straight with intel, since its the one i am familiar with.
Among Intel's CPUs I went with the I5-6600K since I wanted to overclock it (more on this later)
and tought that I had no need for an I7-6700k(with 2MB cache more, some higher clockrate and double the threads), yet I am unsure if I should maybe dump more money on the CPU and take theme away from elsewhere.
3)I than choosed the chipset, leaning towards the Z170 knowing that it supports Cpu/memory overclocking.(Eventhou on intel's Z170 chipset's page it state that "[/u]It supports overclocking functionalities for 6th gen processors[/u]". Am I missing something?) Though here i have started encountering some problems not really knowing what to look for in a chipset. Are there compatibilitiy problem between CPU-chipset?Or is it just a metter of how many connections i need?(eg. sata, PCIe etc.) Some help in this regard would be lovely.
4)With my not-so-resoned choices above I moved to the motherboard. Well more problems!Beside the facts that there are litteraly hundreds of mobo to choose from, and that each and everyone of theme offers special features as well. I have ended up going for an Asus Z170-P.
5)Now for memory. I think 2x8Gb will suit my needs, Ddr4 was my choice since both the Cpu and the motherboard supported it. For the frequency of the ram i was going with the 2133Mhz seeing that the CPU supports "DDR4 1866/2133 @1.35v" but than I started encountering ram stick that worked on 3000Mhz, i saw that the motherboard supports such frequency but i haven't found a CPU that state support for that frequency!So i was, once again, really confused!Do I just ignore the fact that all processors i saw on intel's website supports, at max, ddr4 at 2133Mhz?
6)GPU. Well no real problem here as it came down to my needs. I dont render video, 3d or such so it's basicly for videogames only. Since I play light-wight games a GeForce GTX 950 might work.
7)SSD, 250Gb for programs and OS + some hardrive storage.
8)COOLING, I wanted to try the EK-KIT L360 for my CPU. I saw Ek disourage cooling both the cpu and the gpu with a 360 rad. If i was not to overclock any of theme, do you think i could cool both the cpu and the gpu with it?(ofcourse by adding necessary components)
9)PSU. A 650W 80+ psu. (650 might be overkill!?But i did not want to go short on W in case i want to upgrade the system).
If you ended up to this point : Thank you for taking the time to read a scrub-confused-non-english-speaker post!I am lookin foward to your feedback.