I'm building a completely new computer, and while I'm pretty sure I have a decent build down, I'm not sure if it scales well. I have a budget of $2000, so I was able to get a pretty decent build picked out (PCPartPicker link), which has an i7 8770K, GTX 1080 TI, and Asus Maximus X Hero motherboard. I'm not sure if this satisfies all my needs though.
My primary needs for this system are (in order):
- Maintains needs for hopefully ~5 years at least
- Gaming (60 FPS 1440p max graphics)
- Emulation (e.g. Dolphin, Cemu)
- VR
- Recording
- Multitasking (I have ~30 tabs open right now + a number of programs like Discord/Email)
- Compiling programs
Nice-to-haves:
- Fast loading screens for gaming
- Fast boot times for VMs
- Ability to run up to 3 VMs with games in background (low settings, ~30 FPS) while maintaining decent game experience on host @ moderate settings
- Streaming
Low priority:
- Video editing
- Rendering
As for the hardware, I've made my selection so I could scale it up in the future:
- 2x8 16GB RAM instead of 4x5 16GB so I can expand to 32GB if needed in the future
- Motherboard Wi-fi support for instances where I don't have access to Ethernet
- Motherboard supports NVMe SSDs + booting from them
- Pretty sure all hardware supports overclocking if I want to in the future (may need to upgrade PSU, but that's easy to swap out)
- Case ready for water cooling if I ever want to use it in the future
- AFAIK there should be no problem if I want to scale up to SLI (with better PSU) since not much difference between x8 and x16 for GPUs
With that out of the way, my questions are: Did I miss anything with this build? It should address my use cases for the system, right? Also, I'm willing to go over-budget if I can better satisfy my use cases. For instance, if a 7820X's extra 2 cores makes a big difference for my nice-to-haves but minimally impacts gaming, I'm okay with spending more on the CPU/motherboard.
My primary needs for this system are (in order):
- Maintains needs for hopefully ~5 years at least
- Gaming (60 FPS 1440p max graphics)
- Emulation (e.g. Dolphin, Cemu)
- VR
- Recording
- Multitasking (I have ~30 tabs open right now + a number of programs like Discord/Email)
- Compiling programs
Nice-to-haves:
- Fast loading screens for gaming
- Fast boot times for VMs
- Ability to run up to 3 VMs with games in background (low settings, ~30 FPS) while maintaining decent game experience on host @ moderate settings
- Streaming
Low priority:
- Video editing
- Rendering
As for the hardware, I've made my selection so I could scale it up in the future:
- 2x8 16GB RAM instead of 4x5 16GB so I can expand to 32GB if needed in the future
- Motherboard Wi-fi support for instances where I don't have access to Ethernet
- Motherboard supports NVMe SSDs + booting from them
- Pretty sure all hardware supports overclocking if I want to in the future (may need to upgrade PSU, but that's easy to swap out)
- Case ready for water cooling if I ever want to use it in the future
- AFAIK there should be no problem if I want to scale up to SLI (with better PSU) since not much difference between x8 and x16 for GPUs
With that out of the way, my questions are: Did I miss anything with this build? It should address my use cases for the system, right? Also, I'm willing to go over-budget if I can better satisfy my use cases. For instance, if a 7820X's extra 2 cores makes a big difference for my nice-to-haves but minimally impacts gaming, I'm okay with spending more on the CPU/motherboard.