2014-02-06, 01:10 AM
Dudewitbow Wrote:dat PSU quality(just note that it cannot sustain 880w on the 12v rail, so if you ever plan on dual gpus in the future, don't unless you change the power supply.
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1. Mobo: LGA 2011 choices arent much, at this price point, you really only have the Sabertooth and the Deluxe(slightly newer chipset, cost more)
2. Fine with IB-EK model, just dont haphazardly spend money for the black sticker given with the IB-EX
3. Personally not a fan of low end single 120mm watercooling units on upper tier processors, it works, but will not stretch out the muscle the processor can potentially give
4. GFX card: very unbalanced, most people who go LGA 2011 get top tier gpus(780, 780ti, Titan, 290, 290X). GPU horsepower > CPU horsepower for performance gain. GPU's are also the ones that age the quickest. going only mid tier RIGHT before the release of 20nm GPU's later this year will bite you quickly as the year passes on by.
5. Ram is your own choice. just find whats most of value. sweet spot tends to be around 1866 cl 9. not going to say much as ram is more relevant to synthetics and IGPUs
6. EVO is fine for genreal use, just note that it uses TLC memory and not MLC memory, so its only slightly slower in write speed(read is about the same) to comparable Sata III SSD's
7. No need to comment on HDD, HDD world is pretty stagnant
8. Thermalpaste: depends on how permanent the release is, Coollaboratory liquid pro/ultra is top tier, except its near permanent once its attached on. Here's an in depth review on methodology and practical applications of TIM and the follow up review on several TIM's
case is fine though, albeit im not really a CM person when it comes to cases, the HAF X has enough to get around
PSU was a gift but if it's bad I can buy a better one if I need to dual gpu.
2+1. Other processor I was looking at is the i7-4771 and I guess maybe the SABERTOOTH Z87 to go with it.
3. Didn't really considered overclocking since the processor has a lot of power on it's own and it probably wouldn't do much for me so maybe the H100i or a different cooler entirely if I wanted to go that route?
4. The 780 and up is kind of a big price jump for me. The 290 could be doable but then I'd lose out on physx, though there aren't too many games that use it, unless I also get an nvidia card and use the patch. I think I can wait for the newer cards to come out and see what they have to offer.
6. I'll start reading up on that it looks like something I should consider.
8. I'll read those too. If I stick with the LGA 2011 then permanent probably won't be a problem.
Case was a gift too.