First custom PC in over 10 years

[doggyfromplanetwoof]

First custom PC in over 10 years

Hello,

I am new to the forums, but a very long time reader. I have always followed the latest technology and always have been fascinated by it. Well, today is the first day of my new custom PC in over 10 years. Up until today, I have been using the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 as my primary gaming needs and workstation laptops for my job (i.e. can’t play PC games).
With that said, I traded in my entire PlayStation 4 library in preparation for this new gaming/workstation PC and as such, I was able to get over $350 USD in steam gift cards from GameStop. With a few PayPal transactions, I now have over $600.00 USD in my Steam wallet waiting to be exploited. I currently have all the Valve games, Skyline Cities, and all of the Civilization franchise. Also, with the equipment I got below, I was able to get the new DX12 Hitman game, Rainbow6 Siege, The Division, and Endless Legends. I have also signed up for the Humble Bundle monthly gaming service, since I figure my steam library is pretty much empty and I would benefit from it a lot.

Build of the century!

Display:
Sony XBR43X830C 43-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2015 Model)
- Does 4-4-4 Chroma @ 4k 60Hz. So very good PC monitor.

CPU: (Plan to OC to at least 4.2Ghz)
1 x Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3 GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W BX80648I75820K Desktop Processor

Motherboard: (One of the newest X99 boards with all the features)
1 x GIGABYTE GA-X99P-SLI (rev. 1.0) LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Video Cards: (can’t wait for next gen, maybe I will wait for V2 next gen for the bugs to be iron out)
2 x XFX Radeon R9 390 DirectX 12 R9-390P-8256 8GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Double Dissipation XXX OC Video Card

Memory:
1 x G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Intel Z170 Platform / Intel X99 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-2400C15Q-32GVR

HardDrives: (Plan on installing tons of games plus redundant SSD OS/Program drives)
2 x SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 500GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-75E500B/AM
2 x Seagate Desktop HDD ST4000DM000 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Power Supply: (Should be enough, and 80 Plat!)
1 x SeaSonic Platinum SS-860XP2 860W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS PLATINUM Certified Full Modular

PC Case:
1 x Fractal Design Define R5 FD-CA-DEF-R5-BK Black Computer Case

CPU Cooler & Fans:
1 x Noctua NH-D15 SSO2 D-Type Premium CPU Cooler, NF-A15 x 2 PWM Fans
2 x Fractal Design Dynamic GP-14 140mm Fan

Add-Ons: (Free with motherboard)
1 x GIGABYTE USB 3.1 Add-on Card Model GC-USB3.1

OS:
Windows 10 PRO x64 Full Version

Headphones / Speakers:
1 x HyperX Cloud II Gaming Headset with 7.1 Virtual Surround Sound for PC/PS4/Mac/Mobile – Red
1 x Logitech Z906 500W 5.1 Speakers

Keyboard / Mouse:
1 x Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
1 x LOGITECH G502 Proteus Core Tunable Gaming Mouse

And now on to the questions!

Question 1:
Based on the hardware above, what kind of games do you recommend in getting? Now keep in mind I had most PlayStation 4 games.

Question 2:
BENCHMARKS! Again, first time PC build in over 10 years and I have been using laptops, no need to benchmark. Please help me in this area, what should I get? What do I need to stress test and with what programs? 

 

[Yuriman]

Overall it seems solid, but unless you're also doing a lot of productivity type stuff that can utilize the extra cores, I expect you could get 95-105% of the performance with a Skylake i7, which probably wouldn't need an OC for now due to high stock clocks. I also doubt you'll see any difference in the near future between 16 and 32GB of RAM, but it certainly can't hurt.

Only thing I'd definitely consider changing if you don't mind the extra cost of 2011 is that rather have one large SSD than two small ones, and would prefer M.2 over SATA.

 

[doggyfromplanetwoof]

I do plan on getting a Nvme pcie x4 SSD, but the current samsung 950 pro random 4ks ain't much better real world performance than a 850 evo/pro, I will be waiting for Gen2 of these. but I did get 2x 500 850 EVOs for redundancy, since I will do some work on this and losing a file is not an options. (Will have a custom NAS in a few weeks as well)

32GB is overkill yes, but I do web development and use photoshop, plus I will be dabbing into a few VMs, so the extra ram will benefit me as well as the extra cores. Instead of closing down my work programs, I can just alt-tab into a game and play a few and alt-tab out and do some work.

*EDIT: I already have the components and I am dead set in what I got, because I Believe it is what's best for me. Looking for answer few of the questions I had. Thank you.