Any PC Builders Out There?

Not a gamer, but I've built a few machines over the years. Current Windows machine built in March 2015:

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K @ 3.3GHz
CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 AIO Water Cooler
Motherboard: ASRock x99x Killer
Memory: 8x8GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 2400
Storage: 1x500 (Samsung 850 Evo / OS Drive), 1x500 (Samsung 840 Evo / VM Drive), 1x4TB (WD Black / User Profile Drive), 2x3TB (WD Black / Storage & Backup)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX970 4G
Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D
Power Supply: Corsair RM1000
Operating System: Windows 10 64 Bit Pro (Creator's Edition)

 

I meant 280X, my bad, probably not, I don't play video games but about once a year I have the urge to play fallout for a month, then i never touch it. let me tell you, I have yet to finish fallout 4 or skyrim

 

So many good deals right now for Black Friday! Ordered enough parts to hodgepodge a build for my wife from a leftover GPU and CPU I have.

EDIT:

Guess I should list the specs lol
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 6 core/12 thread
MSI RX 390x
ASRock A320M Promotory MB
SeaSonic S12II 520 Bronze 520W PSU
G.SKILL NT Series 4GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2133 (x2)
MasterBox Lite 3.1 mATX Case
Win 10 Home 64 bit Edition

Cost to me? Under $250 CAD lol. Awesome.

 

But what about AMD cards.. Such different number systems. Oh Hai Linus
https://youtu.be/Utv144XeHag

 

My advice, pick your price level and then buy AMD unless you're going to spend $400 or more on the GPU.

Also there is a huge difference between a M2 SSD and a SATA SSD in term of real time speed. Basically you'd need a set of high end SATA SSDs in Raid 0 to match the speed of the cheapest M2 SSD in real life testing. That's because SATA is served by the chipset while M2 drives are served directly by the CPU through PCI-E lanes in modern setups. Basically SATA puts another chip between your CPU and your SSD over an M2 setup which increases latency and can limit speeds. Now in a game this doesn't mean as much since a SATA SSD might take 5 seconds to load and an M2 SSD will roughly half that time. However, for booting up your machine, productivity tasks, and any file transfers you do a M2 drive is a huge upgrade. I highly recommend one to anyone looking for another jump over standard SATA SSDs.

 

I just built a system in August. Prices have fallen on most everything I used, except for the DDR4, which is a joke. I'm not really into gaming, my computer mostly does CPU crunching.

Ryzen 7 1700 (stock clock)
Noctua NH-U12S CPU cooler
ASUS strix B350-F
32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2400
960 EVO M.2 SSD 500GB (boot drive)
2x 2TB 7200RPM in a mirror (data)
GTX 1050 GPU
LG BD-R (yes, I still like having optical drives)
650w 80+ gold full modular PSU
Phanteks Enthoo Pro M w/tempered glass (amazing case, highly recommended)

I'm patiently waiting on DDR4 prices to drop, and at that time I'll max the system out at 64GB.

I'm not a fanboy of either AMD or Intel as far as CPUs go, and same with AMD vs NVIDIA. I go with what will work best for me, at the best price point.
If anyone is looking for deals on CPUs, I have seen the 1700x going for as low as $230 at micro center, which is a great deal right now.

I love building computers. It's come a long way from when I started back in the 2002 time range. There are a lot of customized products you can buy, and I love looking at the builds on pcpartpicker. People get really creative with some of those builds.

 

Nice build! I'm curious as to what tasks you do that requires you to have so much RAM!

Building is definitely fun. It's such an expensive hobby. If it weren't, I'd go through so many different builds on a monthly basis haha. I love microcenter... It's so hard not to buy anything when walking into that place.

 

Haven't purchased a boxed PC since 1999.

Build my own. Better quality, better performance.

 

Fellow green PC. I dropped the dual GTX770's for a single GTX1080.

 

32GB ain't what it used to be. Even 16 is a bit low for my desktop in my opinion. 8 is DEFINITELY too low for the modern web browser.

 

Have you over clocked it yet? Since you have water cooling?

 

If he's not playing games it's a likely no. That's a lot of disk in a case though yuck. I pulled all the hard drive cages out of my Define R5. My server has a 9TB RAID5 and hosts all my VMs along w/ SMB storage.

 

Nice setup! I rarely seen green builds. It's certainly nice seeing another green brother!

 

digitaLbraVo is correct, no overclocking. At least not yet. For now it seems snappy enough as is. If it starts feeling slow, I may give it a bump. Yup, lots of drives producing lots of heat and lots of fans moving it through the case.

 

Tired of all them blue rigs . Everybody does that. I wanted something a bit different. Hard to find stuff that is themed green though you basically have to buy separate LED sticks for it.

I let my server do all that work.

 

Dual CPU
Sixteen-Core
Sleeved Power Supply

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670 SR0KX 2.60GHz Eight-Core x2 ($165 Total)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 Liquid CPU Cooler x2 ($121.14 Total)
Motherboard: Asus Z9PA-D8 ($338.17)
Memory: Hynix 4GB 1Rx4 PC3-12800R Server Dim ECC x8 ($72 Total)
OS Storage: Plextor M8Pe 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD ($219.99)
OS Storage Adapter: Lycom DT-120 M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter ($20.50)
Storage: Intel 510 Series 120GB SATA III MLC Internal SSD (Recycled $314.99)
Storage Adapter: SEDNA PCIe SATA III SSD Adapter with 1 SATA III Port with Built In Power Circuit ($25.90)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC GAMING, 4GB GDDR5, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC) ($147.22)
Case: Streacom F12C Black Aluminum Chassis ($250)
Power Supply: SeaSonic X650 Gold ATX12V V2.3/EPS 12V V2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Full Modular Active PFC (Recycled $95.99)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-P12 120 mm Nine Blade SSO Bearing Fan x3 (Recycled $74.97 Total)
Keyboard: Logitech K750 2.4GHz Wireless Solar Powered Keyboard (Recycled $69.99)
Mouse: Logitech Wireless Mouse M505 (Recycled $29.99)

Total: $1,359.92 + $585.93 Original price recycled hardware









UPS: Eaton 5P 750 LCD 120V 750 VA/600W - 8 x NEMA 5-15R ($337.99)

Modem: NETGEAR CM500 DOCSIS 3.0 ($99.99)
Router: NETGEAR R7000 Nighthawk AC1900 Dual Band ($217.53)

Server: Synology DiskStation 8-Bay Diskless Network Attached Storage (DS1813+) ($984.78)
Server RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 2GB DDR3 1333MHz SODIMM x2 ($29.99 ea)
Server Storage: WD Gold 8TB Datacenter Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 128MB Cache - WD8002FRYZ x4 (RAID 1 x2) ($429.76 ea warranty replacements of WD4000FYYZ $275.95 ea)
Server OS Storage: Kingston SSDNow M Series 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC Internal SSD (Recycled $250.99)

 

16 cores for life bro.

 

Yeah, I used to do multiple/separate machines. Thanks to virtualization, I don't have to do that any more.

 

I don't really need all the RAM, but if I can get it for cheap when it finally drops, it'll be all max'd out and a bit more future proofed. I'll take a look at what I use right now with all 16 threads at 100%. The crunching I do has different sciences, right now I am crunching primarily cancer workunits, which have (I believe) a fairly low RAM requirement. But other work can be a hog on memory, so it will fluctuate.

I have a love/hate relationship with microcenter. Sometimes I can find some killer deals on stuff there, hell I just saw an ad for a 1700x for $230, and if you do a combo with a mobo, you get another $30 off But when I walk in to the store, it looks like a tornado just went through it. Crap everywhere, nothing having any sort of organization to it. And the sales guys are like vultures there. If they see you walking around with something, they run over and put their ID sticker on it like they helped you. I walk away, peel it off, and toss it on the floor. They didn't help me, they aint getting credit for the sale. I have recently started buying online, and doing in store pickup. It's nice to just walk over and everything is already set aside with no having to find everything.

 

My first "red" build as I hate the color red but hey everything else matched. Been out of the pc game for awhile but I still enjoy a couple games and editing. This build was about 3 years ago. I feel a new build in the next year or so with the new i7 chipset! I really like the new rog gear.
Steam alias "Azhiaziam"
Cpu i7
VCard evga 2gb
16 g skill
250ssd
1tb had
Evga mobo
Asus monitor
Steelseries keyboard
Evga mice