ramthor's monster build

not that impressive for 6k might need to spend a lil more water-cooling maybe a better cpu etc more storage in ssd form
 
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crinkleshoes said:
Going by the prices quoted for 1080, it sounds like he is comparing reference Titan X-P (the only one available) to AIB 1080... so a "decent" 1080ti could easily hit the £1000 mark.

1080Ti Founders Edition will probably be £800-900, like you say.

Although £629 for a Gigabyte G1 1080 is a good price compared to founders... although IMO, the new founders cooler is actually better than the cooler on the G1.

As for H-E vs B-E... it depends on the chip... for the 6 and 8 core variants, the older chips seem to be getting a slightly higher overclock which cancels out much of a difference between them. So it's a bit difficult to decide between them in this case... but personally, I like the latest tech, even if it's not a huge improvement over the last gen. It would be a good reason not to upgrade from one generation to the next... but if both are on the market at the same time for not a massive price difference in relation to the build, I would pick the newer tech.
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The Founders Editions of the GTX 1070/ GTX 1080 had a higher RRP than the AIB versions. Even now they are more expensive. Assuming the 1080 ti follows suit then the AIB cards will be cheaper than the Founders.

Which new Founders Edition Cooler ?

I wouldn't pay an extra £50 just to have the latest cpu, but everyone has different reasoning. I wouldn't knock someone for doing it. Just my personal opinion.
 
You would be extremely dumb to not tide yourself over for 2x 1080ti or the next Titan both probably easily before xmas.
Buying the old ones is really stupid unless 2nd hand
 
Efour said:
You would be extremely dumb to not tide yourself over for 2x 1080ti or the next Titan both probably easily before xmas.
Buying the old ones is really stupid unless 2nd hand
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Agree.
Also, it is extremely stupid and dumb not to read the OP and then comment.
 
ramthor said:
Agree.
Also, it is extremely stupid and dumb not to read the OP and then comment.
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well said mate i'm sick of people flaming you or the other guy who specced you windows 10 home even tho you stated you needed PRO for the remote log in LOL

I think the rig you pecced is pretty decent i'd only make a few minor changes mainly to the PSU for something with a better warranty like the EVGA P2.

maybe swap the ram out for the corsair LED ( cheaper) or maybe the dominator rog LED( more exspensive) will match the rampage 5 edition 10 pretty well.
 
bigjimmyauk said:
well said mate i'm sick of people flaming you or the other guy who specced you windows 10 home even tho you stated you needed PRO for the remote log in LOL

I think the rig you pecced is pretty decent i'd only make a few minor changes mainly to the PSU for something with a better warranty like the EVGA P2.

maybe swap the ram out for the corsair LED ( cheaper) or maybe the dominator rog LED( more exspensive) will match the rampage 5 edition 10 pretty well.
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The Corsair HXi in his original spec has the same length warranty as the EVGA P2.
 
lee32uk said:
The Corsair HXi in his original spec has the same length warranty as the EVGA P2.
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nope the corsair is 7 years the evga is 10 years if you register it on the evga site

and to be honest corsair warranty is awful i couldn't claim on the last one i had because there stupid warranty sticker was peeling from the psu. i even made them aware of it when i purchased the psu and they said wouldn't be an issue came to claim for a fault and they said no sorry we won't do that now.

also the corsair link software is a waste of time so no point going for the 1200i
 
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My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £4,974.83
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Now add another £~1100 for Titan XP (direct from NVidia) and you have a monster PC with 6TB of RAID 0 SSDs (+large M.2 for OS), an amazing monitor and more than enough RAM :cool:
 
bigjimmyauk said:
well said mate i'm sick of people flaming you or the other guy who specced you windows 10 home even tho you stated you needed PRO for the remote log in LOL

I think the rig you pecced is pretty decent i'd only make a few minor changes mainly to the PSU for something with a better warranty like the EVGA P2.

maybe swap the ram out for the corsair LED ( cheaper) or maybe the dominator rog LED( more exspensive) will match the rampage 5 edition 10 pretty well.
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lee32uk said:
The Corsair HXi in his original spec has the same length warranty as the EVGA P2.
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Maybe I am missing something obvious but regarding PSUs, EVGA SuperNova P2 1200W is £234.95 and has a 10 years warranty while Corsair HX1200i 1200W is £219.95 but has 7 years warranty. I wonder if those 3 years make any difference since technology progresses and we will probably need different type of PSUs in 7 years time. But you do have a point and £15 for a 3 years extra warranty is a good deal. Are there any other differences between the 2 of them?

Regarding the RAM I can't seem to find the 32GB version of the Corsair Dominator ROG series. There is only the 16GB version and it says on Corsair's website it is optimized for Intel 100 Series system builds, meaning Z170 chipsets.
 
bigjimmyauk said:
nope the corsair is 7 years the evga is 10 years if you register it on the evga site

and to be honest corsair warranty is awful i could claim on the last one i had because there stupid warranty sticker was peeling from the psu. i even made them aware of it when i purchased the psu and they said wouldn't be an issue came to claim for a fault and they said no sorry we won't do that now.
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The Corsair warranty is 10 years.

http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/compan...elect-psu-warranties-from-7-years-to-10-years

I haven't ever dealt with Corsair for an RMA so no idea how good they are. There is a Corsair rep who posts on the forum though who would be able to assist with any claim.
 
ramthor said:
Maybe I am missing something obvious but regarding PSUs, EVGA SuperNova P2 1200W is £234.95 and has a 10 years warranty while Corsair HX1200i 1200W is £219.95 but has 7 years warranty. I wonder if those 3 years make any difference since technology progresses and we will probably need different type of PSUs in 7 years time. But you do have a point and £15 for a 3 years extra warranty is a good deal. Are there any other differences between the 2 of them?

Regarding the RAM I can't seem to find the 32GB version of the Corsair Dominator ROG series. There is only the 16GB version and it says on Corsair's website it is optimized for Intel 100 Series system builds, meaning Z170 chipsets.
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thats only there because of the rog memory profile allowing 3333mhz it will be fine on X99 upto 3200Mhz

regarding the PSU the components are made by superflower, corsair PSU really have taken some nose dives over the years and suffered some serious QC issues and failures. Also like i say the link software has many bugs and more thsn likely you'll use it then we will see you posting about high idle clocks, random reboots and failures. My boss has the exact same PSU in his X99 rig i built for him and i've had to disable the link software.

I did lots of research and reviews before i got my PSU and came to the conclusion the P2 was the one to go for.

plus they are cheaper than the corsair your just looking in the wrong places.
 
ramthor said:
Maybe I am missing something obvious but regarding PSUs, EVGA SuperNova P2 1200W is £234.95 and has a 10 years warranty while Corsair HX1200i 1200W is £219.95 but has 7 years warranty. I wonder if those 3 years make any difference since technology progresses and we will probably need different type of PSUs in 7 years time. But you do have a point and £15 for a 3 years extra warranty is a good deal. Are there any other differences between the 2 of them?

Regarding the RAM I can't seem to find the 32GB version of the Corsair Dominator ROG series. There is only the 16GB version and it says on Corsair's website it is optimized for Intel 100 Series system builds, meaning Z170 chipsets.
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Corsair extended the warranty to 10 years, see link above. You probably wouldn't need that long of a warranty. I would say that 5 years is plenty for a psu.

You should be able to drop 2 x 16GB kits in there. The Dual channel kits are optimised for Skylake, but should still work fine with a quad memory controller on X99. Ask the shop before you order to make sure.
 
lee32uk said:
The Corsair warranty is 10 years.

http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/compan...elect-psu-warranties-from-7-years-to-10-years

I haven't ever dealt with Corsair for an RMA so no idea how good they are. There is a Corsair rep who posts on the forum though who would be able to assist with any claim.
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I had a Corsair PSU fail... I had to post it to Netherlands but their turnaround was quite quick so I had a new PSU within 2 weeks of sending the old one off... most of that was postage time.
 
lee32uk said:
Corsair extended the warranty to 10 years, see link above. You probably wouldn't need that long of a warranty. I would say that 5 years is plenty for a psu.

You should be able to drop 2 x 16GB kits in there. The Dual channel kits are optimised for Skylake, but should still work fine with a quad memory controller on X99. Ask the shop before you order to make sure.
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Is this the kit you are referring to?
It is also described here and Asus Rampage is not mentioned in the supported motherboards list.
It seems like a terrible gamble just for some flashy lights and some marginal performance increase if any.
 
lee32uk said:
Corsair extended the warranty to 10 years, see link above. You probably wouldn't need that long of a warranty. I would say that 5 years is plenty for a psu.

You should be able to drop 2 x 16GB kits in there. The Dual channel kits are optimised for Skylake, but should still work fine with a quad memory controller on X99. Ask the shop before you order to make sure.
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Mixing kits, even of the same brand and model - can cause problems... especially with the IMCs on these chips as they're quite sensitive.

For 32GB, it's best to buy a single 4x8GB kit.

There are better memory kits available at other retailers... I'm surprised OcUK are a bit behind the curve at the moment on the memory they are offering.

For example... I have a Corsair 3600 MHz 16-16-16-36 kit and there's nothing close to that on the OcUK website at the moment.

It's running at 3400MHz due to the limitations of the IMC on my CPU... but it is even stable at 12-12-12-32-1T timings, which I was very impressed by and a noticeable speed improvement.
 
ramthor said:
Is this the kit you are referring to?
It is also described here and Asus Rampage is not mentioned in the supported motherboards list.
It seems like a terrible gamble just for some flashy lights and some marginal performance increase if any.
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The photo in that Corsair link has 8 sticks sitting in an X99 motherboard ;) It's just optimised for Z170, but will be OK in X99 too.

This is the kit I'm getting really good results with on X99:

http://www.corsair.com/en/vengeance...600mhz-c16-memory-kit-red-cmk32gx4m4b3600c16r

Highly recommended... one of the best kits on the market at the moment - even better than the Dominator kits available at the moment and easily competes with the speed of the best G.Skill memory on the market too.

This kit would also be good if you want LED memory:

http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/vengea...z-c16-memory-kit-white-led-cmu32gx4m4c3400c16
 
EVH said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £4,974.83
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Now add another £~1100 for Titan XP (direct from NVidia) and you have a monster PC with 6TB of RAID 0 SSDs (+large M.2 for OS), an amazing monitor and more than enough RAM :cool:
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Thank you for your trouble making this config. It does look nice and I know in single threaded tasks i7 6700K is mildly superior to 6850K. On the other hand you lose 2 cores which can make the difference in DirectX12 and other non-gaming tasks.
I'm not trying to sound posh or offend anyone but since 6700K has integrated graphics it was clearly designed for a different kind of market.
Your config is still a monster of a PC but maybe not as future proof?
 
EVH said:
Did you like the spec ^? ;)
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Yes and no... he mentioned that one of his main intended uses is 4k video editing and while the 6700k will still be a massive upgrade from his current CPU - the extra cores of the chip he specced will really benefit him.

With such a usage scenario... I would be tempted to switch the spec around a bit more and get an 8 or 10 core CPU even for that type of usage scenario.

I like all the extra SSD storage though :D
 
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