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I have recently purchased a new gaming machine. Would like to know if the specs i have are very good would there be any changes that you would reccomed for the future.

Thanks all


Intel Core i7 6700k 4 GHz
Asus Republic of Gamers Maximus VIII Hero
32GB DDR4 Hyper X Fury
128GB Samsung 850 Evo M2 SSD
1TB Toshiba Hybrid SSHD
2x Asus GTX 970 Strix 4GB (8GB in total see picture of GTA V showing 8gb) These Cards overclocks to 1460 GHZ Making them faster than a pair of GTX 980's!!!
Asus Republic of gamer's SLI Bridge
Corsair RM1000x Power Supply
Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Case
2x Phanteks 140mm Fans
1x Koolance Triple Radiator
1x Dual Radiator
4x Corsair SP120 PWM Fans
1x Corsair SP120 DC Fan
EK Asus Certifed Motherboard and CPU Waterblock
EK Monarch RAM covers
EK RAM Waterblock
2X EK Asus GTX 970 Strix Waterblocks
2x EK Asus GTX 970 Strix Back Covers
EK PWM PUMP with Plexi Top
EK Reservoir
NZXT Hue+ RGB LED Lighting System
Pastel Red Coolant
Full Set of Monsoon Fittings
Steel Series Apex 350 Gaming Keyboard
Corsair RGB Sabre Mouse
 
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Look at all them pretty red tubes ;-)

Good rig ,good price at the end of the day.
I'd echo everything USAFRet said really - they guy spent around £300 just on water cooling & fans !!

The bugbear really is the sli 970's really simply because dual graphics support seems to be disappearing from most new titles now , the fact the 1060 doesn't even support sli is a clear indication of that.
However worst case scenario you'll get single GPU performance & a single heavily overclocked 970 is still primarily decent enough.

Your issue will be ever trying to sell those cards though , without having the know how to remove the custom blocks & refit the original sinks, shroud & fans (which I guess you dont have) no one is really going to want to...
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Sure it looks lovely & all & yes its a powerful rig .
But you've spent way too much on aftermarket cooling & the sli 970's make very very little sense when a single 1080 would perform substantially better in 95% of games.
& no you don't have 8gb useable vram , you still only have 4gb.
So yes its a nice setup but you could have spent a lot more wisely IMO - I can only imagine how much that custom cooling totalled out to.
 
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Thanks for the comments so far guy .

I did forget to mentioned this is my first gaming machine that i have purchased. this was already p rebuilt so upgrades if need are on the table.
 
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Why wouldn't you ask for help before buying, we could have built something better for less. Sli is not supported by all games, 2016 was poor for sli support. The 970's don't do well with DX12 and you stuck with 4gb VRAM.
 
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support wasn't there at the time. And only just find out about these forums like a hour ago. but please note i only paid £1000 for everything and few more items i haven't listed
 
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Wow I thought it was all new. For £1000 you got an awesome deal
 
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Oh no pal (i'm black not stupid lol ) all the parts in the machine are new like 5 months old but (got a few receipts) machine never been used. i took the seal off it and everything's the guy just brought a 10k machine (dont ask).

so from what i have got sizzling what would be your recommend upgrades to keep it future proof for now?
 
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Just an fyi vram doesnt stack in SLI it mirrors so even though gta may report 8gb only 4gb is usable.

Overall its not a bad system you likely could have done better from a price to performance stand point by making a few changes like 16gb of ram and a single 1070 or 1080 and a smaller PSU.
 
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For any confirmation request like this, there will always be personal nitpicks.

My thoughts:
SSD - too small
Fans - too many
water cooling - too much money on that
RAM - probably too much
PSU - too large
Too much bling

But that's just me.
You got it...use it. Change stuff later.
 
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Just use it and see if you find any limits. The problem with changing the gpu's is you will need new water cooling blocks. What monitor are you going to use?
 
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i already have LG ultra-wide screens.. please find images of set up below.

[Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/W46GGjt.jpg)
[Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/hmqP0C4.jpg)
[Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/UarbJQ3.jpg)
 
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Look at all them pretty red tubes ;-)

Good rig ,good price at the end of the day.
I'd echo everything USAFRet said really - they guy spent around £300 just on water cooling & fans !!

The bugbear really is the sli 970's really simply because dual graphics support seems to be disappearing from most new titles now , the fact the 1060 doesn't even support sli is a clear indication of that.
However worst case scenario you'll get single GPU performance & a single heavily overclocked 970 is still primarily decent enough.

Your issue will be ever trying to sell those cards though , without having the know how to remove the custom blocks & refit the original sinks, shroud & fans (which I guess you dont have) no one is really going to want to buy them.

New gpu's aren't an issue ,use the standard coolers with a new card & just cap the loop.
Overclockers actually sell 1070/1080 cards with Pre fitted ek blocks - expensive though
 
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Thanks for the response madmatt. if the GPU is the only issue then that's minor problem in my eyes as that can be changed in the future. I wouldn't even bother selling the cards as i got them near enough free if that makes sense. Along as everything else is future proof and GPU can be changed to the motherboard i have then all is good.
 
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