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[DerBear]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/CQ4cyf

Here is my part picker list it is just outside my strict budget of$850 w/ operating system . Im looking to use the desktop for gaming/ music recording and editing . Ideally would perfer a intel based computer . I'm not against cheaping out on most things as long as the motherboard is easily upgradable . Thank you for the help!

 

[captaincharisma]

if you are only going to be using one GPU you can save money by going with a H97 motherboard. the Z series boards are only worth getting if you were going to overclock or do an SLI or crossfire GPU setup

 

[WildCard999]

No need going with a older Haswell Intel socket. For around $850 you can get a Skylake Xeon which is similar to a i7 (4cores/8threads) however its much cheaper which should be better for any editing software however I'm not too sure how demanding music editing software is.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($251.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X150M-PLUS WS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($78.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($49.97 @ Jet)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($44.98 @ Jet)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($40.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB OCV1 Video Card ($249.89 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $841.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-16 17:41 EST-0500

If you do only require a i5 then I would go with this.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($201.89 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI B250M PRO-VDH Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($79.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($94.97 @ Jet)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($44.98 @ Jet)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($40.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB OCV1 Video Card ($249.89 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $837.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-16 18:01 EST-0500

*EDIT for Kabylake.*

 

[Eximo]

Hmm, not much of a price difference between Skylake/Kabylake and your Haswell build.

Anything you could do with less of. Power supply is a little large. Do you need the hard drive immediately, or would a larger SSD get you by until you can add the HDD later?

There are certainly cheaper cases, though that is a nice choice.

 

[Eximo]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($201.89 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($114.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($51.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: PNY CS1311 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($64.99 @ Jet)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($249.99 @ Jet)
Case: BitFenix Comrade ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($90.72 @ B&H)
Total: $864.55
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-16 17:54 EST-0500

 

[WildCard999]

Eximo, Locked CPU with unlocked MB?

 

[elbert]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($201.89 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI B250 PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($94.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($49.97 @ Jet)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($44.98 @ Jet)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.66 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($249.99 @ Jet)
Case: NZXT Phantom 240 ATX Mid Tower Case ($63.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($54.89 @ B&H)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($88.58 @ OutletPC)
Total: $898.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-16 18:03 EST-0500

 

[DerBear]

No need going with a older Haswell Intel socket. For around $850 you can get a Skylake Xeon which is similar to a i7 (4cores/8threads) however its much cheaper which should be better for any editing software however I'm not too sure how demanding music editing software is.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($251.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X150M-PLUS WS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($78.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($49.97 @ Jet)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($44.98 @ Jet)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($40.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB OCV1 Video Card ($249.89 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $841.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-16 17:41 EST-0500

If you do only require a i5 then I would go with this.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($201.89 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI B250M PRO-VDH Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($79.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($94.97 @ Jet)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($44.98 @ Jet)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($40.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB OCV1 Video Card ($249.89 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $837.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-16 18:01 EST-0500

*EDIT for Kabylake.*

How does the skylark end Xeon do for gaming ? And is your Xeon build compared to my i5 build as far as overall gaming performance and general quickness as a desktop for multitasking?

 

[DerBear]

if you are only going to be using one GPU you can save money by going with a H97 motherboard. the Z series boards are only worth getting if you were going to overclock or do an SLI or crossfire GPU setup

Yeah I was mainly looking for future upgrade compatibility For more ram, second gpu etc.

 

[DerBear]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($201.89 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI B250 PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($94.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($49.97 @ Jet)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($44.98 @ Jet)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.66 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($249.99 @ Jet)
Case: NZXT Phantom 240 ATX Mid Tower Case ($63.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($54.89 @ B&H)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($88.58 @ OutletPC)
Total: $898.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-16 18:03 EST-0500

Am I loosing any performance with this build compared to mine?

 

[WildCard999]

@DerBear, Gaming wise you won't notice a difference unless there's a game that can utilize the extra hyper-threading which I don't really think there at the moment. The biggest difference would be video production/editing but for music the i5 would probably be fine.

 

[elbert]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($201.89 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI B250 PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($94.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($49.97 @ Jet)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($44.98 @ Jet)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.66 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($249.99 @ Jet)
Case: NZXT Phantom 240 ATX Mid Tower Case ($63.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($54.89 @ B&H)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($88.58 @ OutletPC)
Total: $898.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-16 18:03 EST-0500

Am I loosing any performance with this build compared to mine?

It has a faster CPU and memory. Its more expandable and supports the newest M.2, USB, plus other kabylake advantages.

 

[Eximo]

Eximo, Locked CPU with unlocked MB?

He asked for upgrade ability, and he was already considering a Z class board with a locked processor for roughly the same amount.

We might see one more processor line with LGA1151 so it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to pick up a Z170 that might not be able to handle it. Not that the i5 would need replacing any time soon.