Hows my build?

[LemurWithAFemur]

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/28kPJV Thinking of upgrading and this looks like it will be the final product. Thoughts?

 

[Rawberries]

Nice build there! The only thing that i saw that wasn't so good was the psu. I would have gone 600W because of the little extra space the gpu needs. But anyways, good. (It's NOT a MUST, but if you wanted to upgrade something then it would have been the psu)

 

[LemurWithAFemur]

Nice build there! The only thing that i saw that wasn't so good was the psu. I would have gone 600W because of the little extra space the gpu needs. But anyways, good. (It's NOT a MUST, but if you wanted to upgrade something then it would have been the psu)

Thank you! 😀

 

[theonerm2]

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler and Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case are not compatible. So either pick a shorter cooler or a bigger case.

 

[LemurWithAFemur]

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler and Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case are not compatible. So either pick a shorter cooler or a bigger case.

Its wrong. I've seen many builds with the EVO and the 100r and it is fine. I have the deepcool gammaxx 400 and it says its not compatible but im running it right now. i tried to correct them but to no avail.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Nice build there! The only thing that i saw that wasn't so good was the psu. I would have gone 600W because of the little extra space the gpu needs. But anyways, good. (It's NOT a MUST, but if you wanted to upgrade something then it would have been the psu)

His PSU is fine your suggestion of an extra 50 watts does absolutely nothing on a system that will barely use 400. But you clearly missed how his CPU cooler is too large for the case.

Lemur, here is the same build but with a cooler that will fit, and its a better cooler as well:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($227.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($100.66 @ Newegg)
Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($63.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($249.00 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case ($42.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $869.60
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-29 13:42 EDT-0400

Do not buy the 212 EVO

 

[Rogue Leader]

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler and Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case are not compatible. So either pick a shorter cooler or a bigger case.

Its wrong. I've seen many builds with the EVO and the 100r and it is fine. I have the deepcool gammaxx 400 and it says its not compatible but im running it right now. i tried to correct them but to no avail.

That may be the case, but the Cryorig H7 I suggested above is a far better cooler.

 

[logainofhades]

Agree that the H7 is a better cooler, and on the CX550m being plenty, for this system. Especially when Nvidia specifies a 400w minimum.

 

[LemurWithAFemur]

Nice build there! The only thing that i saw that wasn't so good was the psu. I would have gone 600W because of the little extra space the gpu needs. But anyways, good. (It's NOT a MUST, but if you wanted to upgrade something then it would have been the psu)

His PSU is fine your suggestion of an extra 50 watts does absolutely nothing on a system that will barely use 400. But you clearly missed how his CPU cooler is too large for the case.

Lemur, here is the same build but with a cooler that will fit, and its a better cooler as well:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($227.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($100.66 @ Newegg)
Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($63.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($249.00 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case ($42.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $869.60
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-29 13:42 EDT-0400

Do not buy the 212 EVO

Thank you!

 

[Rawberries]

Nice build there! The only thing that i saw that wasn't so good was the psu. I would have gone 600W because of the little extra space the gpu needs. But anyways, good. (It's NOT a MUST, but if you wanted to upgrade something then it would have been the psu)

His PSU is fine your suggestion of an extra 50 watts does absolutely nothing on a system that will barely use 400. But you clearly missed how his CPU cooler is too large for the case.

Lemur, here is the same build but with a cooler that will fit, and its a better cooler as well:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($227.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($100.66 @ Newegg)
Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($63.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($249.00 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case ($42.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $869.60
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-29 13:42 EDT-0400

Do not buy the 212 EVO

Sorry, my mistakes.. I'm new here and i'm gonna learn if i just spend more time here.. (it's my first day) nvm, i'm sorry.

 

[theonerm2]

I would like to make a few adjustments to the build.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/cThJnn
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/cThJnn/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($294.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($66.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($63.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate FireCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive ($79.00 @ B&H)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($249.00 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ B&H)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $882.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-29 13:52 EDT-0400

I personally believe the Core i7 6700 is a better value than the Core i5 6600K. Secondly, since you're a gamer you will need more space than that SSD provides. Games are very large now so the more space the better. Also I know the power supply is overkill but that's one part you want to be overkill. Also the case should be overkill in my opinion. The parts you need to make overkill are the ones you can actually keep through many builds. If you have a good power supply you can upgrade your CPU and GPU without worry and you can keep a good power supply through more than one build. Same thing with the case. If you have a nice case you can upgrade your parts without worry and you can keep a good case to use through multiple builds.

 

[Rogue Leader]

I personally believe the Core i7 6700 is a better value than the Core i5 6600K. Secondly, since you're a gamer you will need more space than that SSD provides. Games are very large now so the more space the better. Also I know the power supply is overkill but that's one part you want to be overkill. Also the case should be overkill in my opinion. The parts you need to make overkill are the ones you can actually keep through many builds. If you have a good power supply you can upgrade your CPU and GPU without worry and you can keep a good power supply through more than one build. Same thing with the case. If you have a nice case you can upgrade your parts without worry and you can keep a good case to use through multiple builds.

Except its not. The 6600k can be overclocked and run at a higher speed per core. And the cores are the same, so other than hyperthreading which you don't need he gains no advantage for gaming at all. The 6600k will out game it any day of the week, admittedly the difference isn't huge but its there.

I do agree his storage is somewhat small but 480gb is more than enough to get him started and he can always add a HDD later, vs only having an HDD like you have which slows it all down.

Finally there is no chance he needs 650 watts, he has less than 400w worth of parts there, and the NEX series of PSUs is very low quality.

The build he already has will game better and run faster, there is no reason to do any of this.

 

[logainofhades]

I would only consider the 6700 if you do not want to overclock, and if DX12 finally brings multithreaded gaming to the table, as claimed. If you ever think you will do video editing, or game recording/live streaming, the i7 makes sense also. I have a 6700k, only because of how I use my system. If all I did was just game, and browse the internet, even my old 3570k was still enough.

 

[theonerm2]

I personally believe the Core i7 6700 is a better value than the Core i5 6600K. Secondly, since you're a gamer you will need more space than that SSD provides. Games are very large now so the more space the better. Also I know the power supply is overkill but that's one part you want to be overkill. Also the case should be overkill in my opinion. The parts you need to make overkill are the ones you can actually keep through many builds. If you have a good power supply you can upgrade your CPU and GPU without worry and you can keep a good power supply through more than one build. Same thing with the case. If you have a nice case you can upgrade your parts without worry and you can keep a good case to use through multiple builds.

Except its not. The 6600k can be overclocked and run at a higher speed per core. And the cores are the same, so other than hyperthreading which you don't need he gains no advantage for gaming at all. The 6600k will out game it any day of the week, admittedly the difference isn't huge but its there.

I do agree his storage is somewhat small but 480gb is more than enough to get him started and he can always add a HDD later, vs only having an HDD like you have which slows it all down.

Finally there is no chance he needs 650 watts, he has less than 400w worth of parts there, and the NEX series of PSUs is very low quality.

The build he already has will game better and run faster, there is no reason to do any of this.

Admittedly I didn't do any research on that power supply. I think the Core i7 6700 is better than the Core i5 6600K though still. Both are going to game about the same except for games like Battlefield 1 where hyperthreading actually does make a difference and I think we will see a lot more games like that in the coming years. I've tested Battlefield 1 on my 4770K with and without hyperthreading and it made a huge difference in the frame rate. Also hyperthreading does give better minimum frame rates in certain games. I've tested it myself and found that in GTA V I got stutter sometimes without hyperthreading but the stutter was eliminated when I turned on hyperthreading. The average frame rates were about the same but that stutter was caused by the lower minimums.

 

[Rogue Leader]

You are FAR overestimating the performance benefit of hyperthreading in gaming.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/intel-skylake-review-core-i7-6700k-and-core-i5-6600k-review-gaming-benchmarks-performance-page-4

And thats a 6700k which is clocked higher than the 6700, it runs on par with the 6600k. The truth is very few games take advantage of "8 cores" (which is what HT gives you 4 logical and 4 hyperthreads) and with the newest processors there is no chance of running into stuttering due to CPU performance.

http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-6700k-6600k-amd-fx-8370/

Additional benchmarks. Note the large advantage the 6600k has over the 6700k when the 6700k is not overclocked. Now of course you could overclock a 6700k and beat it, but thats irrelevant to our argument regarding the 6700.