Urgent (Black Fr): $2k High End Gaming / Heavy Use Build

[Geeksmirage]

Sounds good. I'll test out my new PSU and if I'm grossly underpowered, then I may return it.

Thanks again for all the help guys! I really really appreciate it all!
Cant wait to start building it all!

 

[mfenn]

Let us know how it goes! 🙂

 

[Geeksmirage]

Let us know how it goes! 🙂

Will do!

 

[fixbsod]

I would say the i5-2500k is fine and just drop in a Geforce 970. If you're not encoding videos then you don't need the cores. You yourself noted that even with the 100 tabs open cpu usage is still 20-30% and the only issue seems to be a little ram starvation. Large RAM sticks get extremely expensive very quickly (4x8 GB kits like $325-400+ vs $160 for 4x4).

I would be looking specifically at getting a boot SSD -- you have this so I would try installing it.

And as you game a faster GPU as 6870 ain't cutting it -- I'd recommend a Geforce 970 (Gigabyte or MSI), another $349.

If you are really RAM starved perhaps 32 GB ?? Sounds like all you really need is to drop in that Samsung 840 and upgrade the RAM.

edit-- perhaps a bit late as it seems you may have already purchased some stuff .... my opinion still stands tho

 

[Geeksmirage]

I would say the i5-2500k is fine and just drop in a Geforce 970. If you're not encoding videos then you don't need the cores. You yourself noted that even with the 100 tabs open cpu usage is still 20-30% and the only issue seems to be a little ram starvation. Large RAM sticks get extremely expensive very quickly (4x8 GB kits like $325-400+ vs $160 for 4x4).

I would be looking specifically at getting a boot SSD -- you have this so I would try installing it.

And as you game a faster GPU as 6870 ain't cutting it -- I'd recommend a Geforce 970 (Gigabyte or MSI), another $349.

If you are really RAM starved perhaps 32 GB ?? Sounds like all you really need is to drop in that Samsung 840 and upgrade the RAM.

edit-- perhaps a bit late as it seems you may have already purchased some stuff .... my opinion still stands tho

I already hit 20-40/50% CPU easily. Disk is an issue, but a SSD should fix some of that. Even on a brand new clean system, I was easily able to hit 40% CPU usage, without anything installed by opening a bunch of tabs on chrome. I have 20GB DDR31600 and I generally use 12-13GB, a few times I hit about 18GB and have to restart.

Hence, I mainly wanted to processor upgrade. Along with that, it seemed like a good time to upgrade. Hence, I got some new stuff, so I should I have no issues at all for the forseeable future. And then I can use my old box as a RAID Box or for backups.
Since I was doing that anyways.

 

[escrow4]

Well the X99 Extreme 4 supports 128GB of RAM. That should last for a few months . . . .

 

[XavierMace]

If it's not too late...

The X61 gets you the cooling of the H110 with the features of the H100i and with better fans. That would be my recommendation.

 

[soccerballtux]

I already hit 20-40/50% CPU easily. Disk is an issue, but a SSD should fix some of that. Even on a brand new clean system, I was easily able to hit 40% CPU usage, without anything installed by opening a bunch of tabs on chrome. I have 20GB DDR31600 and I generally use 12-13GB, a few times I hit about 18GB and have to restart.

Hence, I mainly wanted to processor upgrade. Along with that, it seemed like a good time to upgrade. Hence, I got some new stuff, so I should I have no issues at all for the forseeable future. And then I can use my old box as a RAID Box or for backups.
Since I was doing that anyways.

you shouldn't need to reboot, just log off

 

[Geeksmirage]

@Escrow4 I should be good with 32GB, if I need more, I can always get 64.
@Xaiver, Unfortunately, Ive already got my parts.
@soccerballtux Interesting, I have to try this out.