- Nov 24, 2015
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So for starters here is my current hardware setup.
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MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard
AMD PhenomII x6 1090t Black Edition
- 3.2Ghz, 3.6Ghz Turbo Core 9mb cache (waiting to water cool before overclocking but i know that it can be overclocked to 3.8-4.0 and maintain stability)
Sapphire Radeon RX480 Nitro+ 8GB OC edition (currently overclocked to 1345mhz @ 2200mhz memory clock @ +45% power (in AMD Wattman) - I have seen this card overclocked to 1460mhz @ 160w @ 1.18v and staying well under 50c when water cooled and still being totally stable.
16Gb G-Skill Ripjaws DDR3 @ 1600mhz (cpu-z is showing it running at 450mhz, is it failing?)
128 Gb Adata SSD
2x 2Tb WD Black 7200rpm HDD
*cooling*
right now I'm using a 240mm top exhaust fan with 2 120mm front intake fans, 1 140mm rear exhaust fan, and a pair of 120mm fans mounted to a 45mm thick Cooler Master CPU cooling block.
I'm looking to install a custom GPU & CPU water cooling system.
*what I'm considering upgrading*
CPU - AMD fx-8350
RAM - 32Gb @ 2133mhz
I am also strongly considering adding a second rx480 later on, but I am somewhat on the fence about getting a GTX 1070 or 1080 instead, however if I do then I will need to push back my plan to water cool for at least 6 months because finding a 1070 or 1080 will cost me AT LEAST as much as I have worked out i will have to spend on my water cooling for 1 cpu and 1 gpu.
It should be noted that I stream daily on twitch in 720p and I run multiple programs while streaming.
OBS Studio - on average this seams to use around 20% - 25% of my CPU while gaming.
Adobe Audition - I use this for real time voice editing for noise filtering and sound compression and on average it seams to use about 10% - 15% of CPU
I also use my system for some medium load rendering work in After Effects, 3Ds Max, Photoshop, and Unreal 4... but with After Effects being WAY more demanding than any of the others which run super smooth and super fast almost all the time.
As for what games I play and stream, here's a general list
Skyrim (not special edition)
Fallout 4
Final Fantasy XIII - XIII II - XIII Lightnings Return
Star Wars : Kotor - Kotor II - The Old Republic - Empire At War
Kerbal Space Program
TERA Online
Mass Effect 1 - 3
Minecraft
and some game design in 3ds Max, Photoshop and Unreal 4
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*NOTE* - I am a total MOD whore, I run such an insane amount of mods on so many games that, for example... I cant even add more mods to Skyrim because the game can only handle 255 .esp files which I used up all of that space and I am much the same way with basically any and every game I install and play. If there are mods, then I shall install mods... lots and lots of mods.
_________________________________________
MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard
AMD PhenomII x6 1090t Black Edition
- 3.2Ghz, 3.6Ghz Turbo Core 9mb cache (waiting to water cool before overclocking but i know that it can be overclocked to 3.8-4.0 and maintain stability)
Sapphire Radeon RX480 Nitro+ 8GB OC edition (currently overclocked to 1345mhz @ 2200mhz memory clock @ +45% power (in AMD Wattman) - I have seen this card overclocked to 1460mhz @ 160w @ 1.18v and staying well under 50c when water cooled and still being totally stable.
16Gb G-Skill Ripjaws DDR3 @ 1600mhz (cpu-z is showing it running at 450mhz, is it failing?)
128 Gb Adata SSD
2x 2Tb WD Black 7200rpm HDD
*cooling*
right now I'm using a 240mm top exhaust fan with 2 120mm front intake fans, 1 140mm rear exhaust fan, and a pair of 120mm fans mounted to a 45mm thick Cooler Master CPU cooling block.
I'm looking to install a custom GPU & CPU water cooling system.
*what I'm considering upgrading*
CPU - AMD fx-8350
RAM - 32Gb @ 2133mhz
I am also strongly considering adding a second rx480 later on, but I am somewhat on the fence about getting a GTX 1070 or 1080 instead, however if I do then I will need to push back my plan to water cool for at least 6 months because finding a 1070 or 1080 will cost me AT LEAST as much as I have worked out i will have to spend on my water cooling for 1 cpu and 1 gpu.
It should be noted that I stream daily on twitch in 720p and I run multiple programs while streaming.
OBS Studio - on average this seams to use around 20% - 25% of my CPU while gaming.
Adobe Audition - I use this for real time voice editing for noise filtering and sound compression and on average it seams to use about 10% - 15% of CPU
I also use my system for some medium load rendering work in After Effects, 3Ds Max, Photoshop, and Unreal 4... but with After Effects being WAY more demanding than any of the others which run super smooth and super fast almost all the time.
As for what games I play and stream, here's a general list
Skyrim (not special edition)
Fallout 4
Final Fantasy XIII - XIII II - XIII Lightnings Return
Star Wars : Kotor - Kotor II - The Old Republic - Empire At War
Kerbal Space Program
TERA Online
Mass Effect 1 - 3
Minecraft
and some game design in 3ds Max, Photoshop and Unreal 4
_________________________________________________
*NOTE* - I am a total MOD whore, I run such an insane amount of mods on so many games that, for example... I cant even add more mods to Skyrim because the game can only handle 255 .esp files which I used up all of that space and I am much the same way with basically any and every game I install and play. If there are mods, then I shall install mods... lots and lots of mods.
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