new build - replacing Sandy Bridge

[Dbrons]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wG6zsJ

I'm going to use the new computer to work on my large video and music collection. I'll put the ssd boot drive and a couple HDD probably a WD Black I have and an 8tb Seagate. The rest of my drives will stay in My Sandy Bridge computer.

It's been 6 years so I'm really looking forward to finally building a new system. Look forward to the M2 drive, USB3.1 thunderbolt 3, and fooling around with some overclocking. I'll probably settle down eventually and run it stock though.

Most of what I list here is pretty firm. I'm going to start buying the parts next week after I get my taxes paid. I have the money for this system but I would ask opinions on a couple things.

The 960 EVO could save me $80 would it make any difference? Also, I sometimes use a ram disk as my computer can get bogged down downloading large files due to high speeds I get here.
So I have listed 32 gb of ddr4. 16 gb could save me about $110.

Other than that I'd listen to any suggestions. I'm an intel person, and since my last build I'm into the liquid cooling too.
Anyone try getting that Arctic cooler in an r5? I'm pretty flexible with the setup as most of my drives will be external. I'm going to try to get it on the bottom or front. (I have my Sandy Bridge in a Define r3 so I know the Fractal Design a bit) thanks for any thoughts. oh, yes running onboard graphics. Dave

 

[Joshua French]

Go with Ryzen R7 or R5. It is better with multi threading and supports ECC Memory, unlike the I7's. Anything that is like a nas could benefit from ECC. You would need like a gt 610 or gt 720 or something though.

 

[Dbrons]

Go with Ryzen R7 or R5. It is better with multi threading and supports ECC Memory, unlike the I7's. Anything that is like a nas could benefit from ECC. You would need like a gt 610 or gt 720 or something though.

Thanks but I'm going to stick with Intel. Dave

 

[Viking2121]

Since you want to stay with Intel I'll recommend only Intel. Now when you say "I'm going to use the new computer to work on my large video and music collection" are you going to be editing these videos and media?

If not and i7 is not really needed, i3 or a new Pentium might even do if you are just file managing, but I'll stick with an i5 for the best all round performer. An i5 6400 is a pretty capable chip and is not power hungry, but you can't overclock it if you are into that sort of thing. The i5 7400 is a bit faster, but of course costs more. The i5 6600K or the 7600K is the highest end i5 you can get, and its unlocked so as long as you get a "Z" chipset you can overclock it.

Now for higher end of things, a locked i7 like a non k 6700 or a non k i7 7700 are going to get you 4 extra threads over the i5 and can help in things that need multiple threads like video editing or music production. Of course the K versions allow overclocking on a "Z" motherboard.

The really top end of things which might be useless for your needs, an i7 6800K and a x99 motherboard, the 6800k provides 28 PCIE lanes and 6 cores and 12 threads so you can do things like adding in a ton of expansion cards without sharing resources with something else like what most Z170 and Z270 boards and the like. They are not cheap though. I got my self the 5820k over the 6800k, it was cheaper and the 5820k typically overclocks further with less voltage. Or if you need the 40PCIE lanes the 5930k or the 6850k which will cost an arm and a leg.

But like I said Im not sure what you are trying to do exactly.

 

[Dbrons]

What I'm trying to do really is to fit that fat push/pull cooler in the define r5 I'm definitely going with the 7700k as I do unpack lots of archives and repair wirh par2 and I have quite a large backlog to work on. I do conversion and rebuilding of blurays sometimes but par2 especially can take forever to read a 50gb archive. Plus it can cause my 2600k to overheat.

But really I wouldn't care if I were just going to read email, I'm a computer hobbyist and I just feel like fooling around with overclocking to 5 Ghz. My sandy Bridge I run at stock - ripjaws ram wouldn't run at its rated speed, and I couldnt get it stable overclocked much.

I look forward to the new Corsair ram ddr4 at 3000. To usb 3.1, M2, optane lots of things - it's been 6 years since I built myself a computer - I'm going to build a nice one