Hey folks. I'm looking to build a new PC (v 3.0) and wanted to get some feedback possibly from people. Thoughts? Concerns? Overkill? The most graphic intensive games I play are OW, Destiny 2- but I tend to play Maple with 3-4 clients or OSRS, plus a web browser up, and netflix/Hulu. Anyone more tech savy know if the GPU is at least enough to handle those? Better alternative? (I'm assuming it's better than my current GPU which handles it and I don't think it's a downgrade) I remember talking to some people about how newer SSD dont suffer from the "larger the volume slower it is" thing, but I'm looking to put my OS on a SSD and regular storage on a normal HDD (supplimented by my external for everything else). Anything you think I can cut down on? I'd like this to last at least 3-4 years (if that helps). Oh and my budget was 1k-1.5k PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel - Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($324.82 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($29.90 @ Newegg Marketplace) Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver - 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste ($5.95 @ Newegg) Motherboard: Asus - PRIME Z270-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($159.00 @ Amazon) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($204.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($89.89 @ OutletPC) Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($51.50 @ Amazon) Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB SC GAMING ACX 2.0 Video Card ($194.98 @ Newegg) Case: Phanteks - Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case ($108.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($89.31 @ OutletPC) Optical Drive: Asus - DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($18.88 @ OutletPC) Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($89.89 @ OutletPC) Total: $1368.09 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-01-08 10:53 EST-0500
I'd honestly go with a 7th or 8th gen i5 instead and get an NVME M.2 SSD instead of SATA. What is your current GPU? If you're upgrading to a 1050 Ti, I'd assume it's not very impressive. The 1050 Ti is a great all around card at that price point, however you can get it even cheaper for one that's slightly lower clock speed.
I'd go with AMD Ryzen 5 1600 or better, as from what I last read, Ryzen processors take advantage of the RAM speed so the higher frequency of the RAM you get, the better it is, albeit the difference isn't much, but if you are someone that wants the most bang for his buck, go that route, change the mobo accordingly as well to B350. I'm using an old laptop here, i7 4810MQ, 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD and 880M in SLI, and I have like.. 70 Chrome Tabs with uBlock Origin, CSGO and MapleRoyals ( 1 client ) running simultaneously with zero lag issues. If you're someone that's a heavier multitask guy than me, go 32GB RAM as I was almost capping my RAM usage by doing the mentioned activities above. Not sure about your GPU but as @Muff said, if the performance isn't that much different from a 1050ti, I don't think it's worth it unless your old GPU is almost dead or something.
It looks pretty fine to me, should be able to run everything smoothly, but might get an better graphic card if you plan on playing upcoming games, Atm I got gtx 1080, and I can say that im not going back too AMD. And stick with i7, it’s almost the same as i5 just better for desktop in general, its almost the same when it comes to gaming, just search up different parts comparison, and you’ll see the differences. Pretty sure you’ll be happy upgrading whatever you get!
I feel you can cut down on a few things is this still an active question or have you already built it?
Intel 6th gen and 7th gen are really bad choices for a new built if you want it to last long. Unless you are getting some nice offer because it is used, I wouldn't recommend it given that new mainstream consumer CPUs are at least 6 cores in that price range. More cores in a cpus allow for better multi threading capacity. You may see as having more capacity to do workloads. Most games today are optimised to use up to 4 cores as quad core chips have been mainstream for the longest time. Now that fast 6 cores and above CPUs have been made affordable for consumers by AMD, it would likely be the case that newer games would be optimised to use more cores and thus, would last longer. Ryzen 5 1600 possess 6core 12 threads and is an extremely value purchase given that it cost 189msrp and that it can be overclocked on a b350 board (so you don't have to buy a high end x370 board). Of course, if you really do want to stick to intel, you can look at the 8th gen coffeelake processors, which may be less value than what ryzen may offer, but are niche in that they can achieve higher single core frequency. You may also consider delaying your purchase and waiting for AMD to release their next version of Ryzen CPUs (release in q2 2018?). There has been optimistic speculations that those chips would be able to have a better oc headroom and reach possibly 4.4-4.5ghz, allowijg ryzen to be nearly as good or even better than coffeelake CPUs. I do not know what kind of FPS you are looking for in OW and Destiny 2 so you should look up benchmarks (search YouTube reviewers like hardware unboxed and others) and see how well they do with the gtx 1050ti. Maple is an old game and is easy to run so I doubt any modern GPU would actually have problems running many instances of the game. Also, if you are looking to save more money, you can look at how the APUs (CPU+integrated graphics) ryzen 2200g and 2400g perform in your game of choice. Cryptocurrency has driven up demand for GPUs drastically so you might want to hold out purchasing your GPU and wait for a better deal while temporarily using the decent GPU performance provided by the ryzen APUs. tl;dr don't buy new 6th gen or 7th gen Intel chips. Do yourself a favour and get ryzen chips if you want value or a coffeelake chip (8th gen) if you value single core performance and seriously have to stick to intel.
