Temporary Gaming Rig & Slight Adjustments

Kuuwahi

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So I'm compiling a Partial temporary gaming PC for the misses.

Reason for partial is that she will be having my current rig once I upgrade (To which I'm waiting for Pascal and Cannonlake)

The Things that will be changing to this rig upon me upgrading is the AMD Board, CPU as I will be moving them to another PC.

This build already has:

KB / Mouse
PSU will Be Corsair AX1200
RAM 16GB Corsair Vengence LP 1600MHz
HD MSI 7970

Any Recommendations to the current purchases below ?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £451.95
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Have a look here at the cpu/board/RAM - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18726469

Thats still cheaper than the CPU+AM3 board combined?

There are even some DDR3 socket 1151 boards, but DDr3 and skylake isnt a good combo.


Or even last gen board and CPU,

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £166.48
(includes shipping: £10.50)
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stulid said:
Have a look here at the cpu/board/RAM - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18726469

Thats still cheaper than the CPU+AM3 board combined?

There are even some DDR3 socket 1151 boards, but DDr3 and skylake isnt a good combo.


Or even last gen board and CPU,

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £166.48
(includes shipping: £10.50)
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How would this i3 stack up to the AMD 4350 in terms of gaming and general use as it will be retired to an office PC upon upgrading my main rig.


pandem0nium said:
Whats your budget? Also there's no graphics card in the build you posted.
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Budget is as low as possible for the Mobo and CPU as they're only temporary.

I'm going to buy an MSI HD7970 from a friend for £50 for the time being, then her PC will have my 2 x GTX 680 4GB's when I upgrade.
 
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stulid said:
CPU comparison as close as I can get it - www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1273?vs=1197
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So it seems as if that the i3 is better than the AMD. And looking at that i3 it seems to cope as good as the bottom tier i5's for the most part.

The i3 seems to cope for the time being so how does the board compare to the Asus one I have attached? Last time I had a Gigabyte board it went pop.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £462.95
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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The board will still be used but in another rig and Asus is a brand I trust.

Also had AOC monitors before that packed up. I use and trust Asus products, and the monitor is here to stay for as long as possible.

Also with the green build she wants the red bit would drive her nuts and I would be to blame haha

Thanks for your help Stulid, solid as always.

If you know much about open loop WaterCooling I could use your help in the Watercooling category :-).
 
 
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Z97 with a locked CPU for an (eventual-)office PC is utterly pointless. I'd be looking at a B or H chipset. Also where did the i5 come from? An i3 would be plenty, you're "up selling" yourself. :p

Also the PSU is too high-capacity, try and get at least a bronze rated one (gold better).
 
joeyjojo said:
Z97 with a locked CPU for an (eventual-)office PC is utterly pointless. I'd be looking at a B or H chipset. Also where did the i5 come from? An i3 would be plenty, you're "up selling" yourself. :p

Also the PSU is too high-capacity, try and get at least a bronze rated one (gold better).
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I thought about the Mobo and locked CPU. However when Pascal is out and if I like what I see then I will be buying a new GPU for my Main rig. This means my current SLI cards will go to this PC so the Z97 supports lane splitting for SLI which could benefit.

The i5 is due to wanting a quad core atleast. As the misses plays Guild Wars 2 a good CPU is required as GW2 heavily relies on CPU more so than GPU.

Also as an 'Office' pc it would be nice if it could run some specific things as streaming an external source might be on the cards for it.

what do you mean by too High-Capacity ?

Cheers for the feedback.
 
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Getting it just for PCIe lanes doesn't add up as the performance difference is about 1%. It sounds like you're determined to make it a serious gaming machine in which case I'd say cough up the extra £24 if possible and get the 4790K. At least then you can utilise the overclockability of the board.

I meant it's got too many watts for just an i5 and 7970, but you've switched for a 500W unit I think now which is the right direction. I'd urge you to at least get an 80+ bronze unit, with silver and gold obviously being better. I don't think you've said what the SLI cards that might be going into it are but I guess you'll want one big enough for them.

Personally I'd stick closer to your original thinking, get a pentium and overclock the nuts off it (GW2 loves high clocks), add one of your SLI cards (sell the other) and get a little Gold rated PSU. The G3258 of years gone by seems to cope pretty well at max settings..

 
joeyjojo said:
It sounds like you're determined to make it a serious gaming machine in which case I'd say cough up the extra £24 if possible and get the 4790K. At least then you can utilise the overclockability of the board.
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This is my number 1 problem.

I'm so used to building and upgrading my Rig I always aim as High as possible.
I struggle with not going all out :D but it seems to leak out as seen haha.

joeyjojo said:
I don't think you've said what the SLI cards that might be going into it are but I guess you'll want one big enough for them.
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Ah I posted them Up in the first post. Its 2x GTX 680 4GB FTW editions

Problem I have here is parts of the PC are temporal but the time frame as to how temp is unknown

joeyjojo said:
I'd say cough up the extra £24 if possible and get the 4790K
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I can only assume you mean the 4690K as the 4790K is £290 :)
 
 
Stealthploit said:
I would go for an Asrock 970 Pro3 R2.0 mother board compare it to your current and see

i would love to see even a small SSD for the operating system at least
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Tad late now as I have already ordered it :D, thank you anyway.

In regards to the SSD, the misses will be getting that when funds permit.
 
joeyjojo said:
SSD should be the number 1 priority, I should have mentioned that earlier. Nobody should consider a regular HDD for OS/games. :cool:
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Although I agree and have 3 myself ;), It's something that you must live without to appreciate.

As she already plans on getting an SSD, it would be nice for her to notice the difference for herself. Which would also help teach her why specific things make such differences.

Its all about the learning curve for her as this is her first rig :).
 
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