Rate my friends build

[josh_80]

One of my friends asked me to ask you guys what you think about his build so here you go.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/W26hD3

 

[Kevern_11]

11/10

 

[Eximo]

Unnecessary?

What is the goal of the system?

Why 32GB of memory?
Why two SSDs? Why is the boot drive only 128GB?
Why not an M.2 NVMe SSD if you want performance?
Why an EATX motherboard (so few things plugged into it, $150+ wasted)
Why a mid-range air cooler on a premium high wattage chip? (Adequate, but not really a good match)
Why the extra expense of a Platinum rated supply? The wattage is a bit more then needed.

Could think of a lot of ways to spend that amount more wisely.

 

[dark_lord69]

Looks like a good build but I would wait until the GTX 1080 is released.

 

[dark_lord69]

Unnecessary?

What is the goal of the system?

Why 32GB of memory?
Why two SSDs? Why is the boot drive only 128GB?
Why not an M.2 NVMe SSD if you want performance?
Why an EATX motherboard (so few things plugged into it, $150+ wasted)
Why a mid-range air cooler on a premium high wattage chip? (Adequate, but not really a good match)
Why the extra expense of a Platinum rated supply? The wattage is a bit more then needed.

Could think of a lot of ways to spend that amount more wisely.

Agreed

 

[illuminatuz]

why is he going for the GTX 980TI when something more powerful and cheaper is launched 3 days ago!!!
wait for a month and pick the GTX 1080.. and instead of that CPU cooler, go for something like corsair H100i or something..
and why 32GB of RAM? pick just 16GB, if needed, add 16 more later in increments of 8GB.. because I don't see any point in having anything more than 16GB unless you're doing doing something like heavy photoshop/video editing at extreme level..

by those, I'd rate your friend's rig a 2/5 stars..

 

[Eximo]

On second thought, can't really do much better than that power supply for that price. It is appropriate for such an expensive build.

I would do this with plus a GTX1080.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/KnrpjX