So, info:
Canada (Ideally sourced from Memex, but NCIX is acceptable too).
Buying soon
<$3K (cheaper better where possible)
Games/Apps: Most pressing is likely to be the GTA series. I'd like to be playing on minimum 2K, with as high settings as possible. I do some programming, but by and large my gaming is fairly casual (KSP, LoL, MC, SCII, Terraria, etc.)
No radeon cards. Everyone I've known has had nothing but issues with them.
This is what I found on the notepad file where I tried brainstorming what I do
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $214.00)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 54.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($69.38 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: Asus Z170I PRO GAMING Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($213.75 @ shopRBC)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($169.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($168.98 @ DirectCanada)
Storage: Sandisk X400 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $230.00)
Storage: Seagate FireCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive ($96.98 @ DirectCanada)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition Video Card ($949.99 @ NCIX)
Case: NZXT Manta (White/Black) Mini ITX Desktop Case ($165.98 @ NCIX)
Power Supply: Corsair 860W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($239.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $2519.04
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-03 14:08 EDT-0400
How's it look? Any suggestions? Also, if someone has equitable or better RAM to recommend.... I'm not really that set on the RGB thing.
Canada (Ideally sourced from Memex, but NCIX is acceptable too).
Buying soon
<$3K (cheaper better where possible)
Games/Apps: Most pressing is likely to be the GTA series. I'd like to be playing on minimum 2K, with as high settings as possible. I do some programming, but by and large my gaming is fairly casual (KSP, LoL, MC, SCII, Terraria, etc.)
No radeon cards. Everyone I've known has had nothing but issues with them.
This is what I found on the notepad file where I tried brainstorming what I do
- Use discs occasionally
- Heavy Gaming
- USB booting
- wireless internet
- Boot, games, documents
-current boot drive 223 (240gb) less than 50% used
- game drive was 480gb, used all
USB devices
- hub
- controller
- audio mix
- mouse
- keyboard
- label maker
- phone/tab
- hard drive
DP (or HDMI to DP)
HDMI
Requirements:
- 2-4 front USB (can do without)
- disc drive not needed (front panel IO expansion?)
- 6-8 USB rear
- Wireless networking card or usb adapter
- graphics card
- 16-32gb ram
- Heavy Gaming
- USB booting
- wireless internet
- Boot, games, documents
-current boot drive 223 (240gb) less than 50% used
- game drive was 480gb, used all
USB devices
- hub
- controller
- audio mix
- mouse
- keyboard
- label maker
- phone/tab
- hard drive
DP (or HDMI to DP)
HDMI
Requirements:
- 2-4 front USB (can do without)
- disc drive not needed (front panel IO expansion?)
- 6-8 USB rear
- Wireless networking card or usb adapter
- graphics card
- 16-32gb ram
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $214.00)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 54.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($69.38 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: Asus Z170I PRO GAMING Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($213.75 @ shopRBC)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($169.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($168.98 @ DirectCanada)
Storage: Sandisk X400 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $230.00)
Storage: Seagate FireCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive ($96.98 @ DirectCanada)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition Video Card ($949.99 @ NCIX)
Case: NZXT Manta (White/Black) Mini ITX Desktop Case ($165.98 @ NCIX)
Power Supply: Corsair 860W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($239.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $2519.04
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-03 14:08 EDT-0400
How's it look? Any suggestions? Also, if someone has equitable or better RAM to recommend.... I'm not really that set on the RGB thing.