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[King Biscuit]

I'm building a B.A. gaming rig this winter.

I know I want a SSD for the OS.

Reading up on the difference between an i5 and i7
I want at least 16gb of RAM, I think I want DDR3, as it should be hella cheap.

GeForce 970 or 980?

Gimme your opinions eh?

 

Nerds!
Assemble!

[Daniel P]

I'm building a B.A. gaming rig this winter.

I know I want a SSD for the OS.

Reading up on the difference between an i5 and i7
I want at least 16gb of RAM, I think I want DDR3, as it should be hella cheap.

GeForce 970 or 980?

Gimme your opinions eh?

 

Nerds!
Assemble!

 

I5 got the best bang for buck especially the K(Unlocked, overclockable) Models.

 

Seance you are building it in winter this CPU is out Core i5-6600K.

 

The GPU depends on your setup Personally I get the 970 and Overclocked it or find a OC'd Models.

[King Biscuit]

I found a sweet msi 970 with 4gigs.
OC ready too.

What mobo chipsets are good?

[Daniel P]

I deleted my post due to I read it wrong. I will find you a motherboard when I get off work.

[Daniel P]

Update I found one but you need to buy DDR4 RAM and a AMD equivalent of a 970. It a Motherboard and a CPU bundle. I will post some more later. Typing on the phone sucks. http://m.tigerdirect...ts/9805471?Sku=

[Justavictim82]

I love that mobo/processor but DDR4 is so fucking expensive though. I think KB was saying he wanted DDR3 because it is significantly cheaper.  

[Daniel P]

I love that mobo/processor but DDR4 is so fucking expensive though. I think KB was saying he wanted DDR3 because it is significantly cheaper.  

I don't think their is a DDR3 version of the sixth gen I5. Just buy the first 8GB then later but the rest.

[King Biscuit]

I love that mobo/processor but DDR4 is so fucking expensive though. I think KB was saying he wanted DDR3 because it is significantly cheaper.  

 

I don't think their is a DDR3 version of the sixth gen I5. Just buy the first 8GB then later but the rest.

 

DDR4 would be sweet, but yeah, I'm trying to get as much bang for my buck as possible.

[Daniel P]

 

I love that mobo/processor but DDR4 is so fucking expensive though. I think KB was saying he wanted DDR3 because it is significantly cheaper.  

 

I don't think their is a DDR3 version of the sixth gen I5. Just buy the first 8GB then later but the rest.

 

 
DDR4 would be sweet, but yeah, I'm trying to get as much bang for my buck as possible.

Idk the prices on Amazon 8GB of DDR4 costs around 60$
http://www.amazon.co...words=8 gb ddr4

 

UPDATE: This MotherBoard can support DDR3 and it compatable to the sixth gen CPUS.

 

http://www.tigerdire...1392&CatId=9594

[King Biscuit]

so far im looking at this stuff:

 

mobo

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813131851

 

cpu

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16819113284

 

RAM

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16820231626

 

case

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16811129021

 

gpu

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814150700

 

Maybe should do an intel build too, just to compare and contrast

p.s. i should be in bed

 

3hours of sleep later:

running total (-tax+shipping) = 1016.95

she got a fat ass

[Redezra]

/me apoofs

 

I would still suggest sticking with Haswell for the time being, no real point going to Skylake if you're not going to use the DDR4. Plus as it's now two gens out of date, it'll be hell cheap.

Go with the 4790k Devil's Canyon, which is probably the best consumer CPU on the market. Chipset should be Z97 for maximum kickassery. 970 OC is a good GC but 980 Ti is one of the single most powerful cards to date, so if you can make that push, do it.

 

But that's my view here :3

 

Lots of <3

Dezra~