Poll: Yes or no for gaming PC.

[Leroy Vaneman]

Quick background info:

Not looking to OC, ONLY GPU will be upgraded in ~3 years. SSD options are known but not included at the moment.

1 x ASUS GTX770-DC2OC-2GD5
1 x Intel® Core™ i7-4770
1 x Cooler Master G650M
1 x MSI B85-G41 PC Mate
1 x Western Digital Black, 1 TB
1 x Crucial 16 GB DDR3-1600 Kit

 

[tiny voices]

NO. Get an h87 motherboard, drop to 8gb RAM, and an i5 not an i7.

 

[Leroy Vaneman]

NO. Get an h87 motherboard, drop to 8gb RAM, and an i5 not an i7.

Why would I possibly want 8gb RAM for a PC that has to last years? Thats moronic if you ask me.

 

[tiny voices]

Because games use 3.3gb RAM now and most use less than that. I promise no gaming computer will benefit from more than 8gb RAM for a few years.

 

[Leroy Vaneman]

Because games use 3.3gb RAM now and most use less than that. I promise no gaming computer will benefit from more than 8gb RAM for a few years.

There are plenty of games who list 4gb RAM as a minimum now.

 

[tiny voices]

Right, that is true. Boot one of them up and look at your memory usage. I'll bet you will be surprised to see it between 1.5-3gb in most of them.

 

[MDXX]

Lol he said thats moronic. Man if a video game uses 16gb of ram that game better blow real life out of the water!

 

[Leroy Vaneman]

Lol he said thats moronic. Man if a video game uses 16gb of ram that game better blow real life out of the water!

So yeah, thats what plenty of people said a few years ago about about 2gb ram or 4gb ram.

 

[MDXX]

Lol he said thats moronic. Man if a video game uses 16gb of ram that game better blow real life out of the water!

So yeah, thats what plenty of people said a few years ago about about 2gb ram or 4gb ram.

You dont need 16gb of ram nor do you need an i7. AMD next year might be realeasing some very good APU processors that could run gaming better than current CPUs

 

[tiny voices]

Lol he said thats moronic. Man if a video game uses 16gb of ram that game better blow real life out of the water!

So yeah, thats what plenty of people said a few years ago about about 2gb ram or 4gb ram.

You can max pretty much any current game with 4gb RAM easily.

 

[leeb2013]

not sure about helping if I also risk being called moronic. Some people just don't seem to appreciate other people's time trying to help them.

 

[Leroy Vaneman]

not sure about helping if I also risk being called moronic. Some people just don't seem to appreciate other people's time trying to help them.

Or you could actually read and realise that whats actually being said is that particular STATEMENT SEEMS moronic to ME. Thats a world of difference.

 

[MDXX]

not sure about helping if I also risk being called moronic. Some people just don't seem to appreciate other people's time trying to help them.

Or you could actually read and realise that whats actually being said is that particular STATEMENT SEEMS moronic to ME. Thats a world of difference.

You need to take a chill pill. 2 of us have told you not to get 16gb

 

[Leroy Vaneman]

not sure about helping if I also risk being called moronic. Some people just don't seem to appreciate other people's time trying to help them.

Or you could actually read and realise that whats actually being said is that particular STATEMENT SEEMS moronic to ME. Thats a world of difference.

You need to take a chill pill. 2 of us have told you not to get 16gb

But that'd drop you to 8gb seeing as practically no CPUs support triple channel for 12gb. And 8gb is plenty for now, I know. But game reqs are gonna rise eventually and this thing has to last at LEAST 5 years.

 

[tiny voices]

Also, don't get the i7. Get an i5. Identical performance. The CPUs will be showing their age before hyper threading makes a bit of difference in gaming.

that motherboard is also WAY too cheap and bottom-end for a build of this caliber. You REALLY want an h87 board.

 

[tiny voices]

not sure about helping if I also risk being called moronic. Some people just don't seem to appreciate other people's time trying to help them.

Or you could actually read and realise that whats actually being said is that particular STATEMENT SEEMS moronic to ME. Thats a world of difference.

You need to take a chill pill. 2 of us have told you not to get 16gb

But that'd drop you to 8gb seeing as practically no CPUs support triple channel for 12gb. And 8gb is plenty for now, I know. But game reqs are gonna rise eventually and this thing has to last at LEAST 5 years.

I'm sorry, it will not last 5 years. Even an i7 4820k and SLI titans will barely last 5 years. Possibly wouldn't even last 5 years. Technology is changing so fast that there is no way. Being "futureproof" does not exist anymore.

In 1-2 years we will have ddr4 RAM which will render your 16gb RAM pointless, for example.

 

[Leroy Vaneman]

Also, don't get the i7. Get an i5. Identical performance. The CPUs will be showing their age before hyper threading makes a bit of difference in gaming.

that motherboard is also WAY too cheap and bottom-end for a build of this caliber. You REALLY want an h87 board.

What difference would a mobo make, performance wise in gaming?

 

[tiny voices]

No performance difference at all. Just better quality and more options. More power phases for better stability for high end CPUs.

 

[MDXX]

Id even vouch to get an amd fx 8350 over an i5