I'm sayin dude wants to upgrade his few year old ~$200 i5. I would hope a brand new $500 CPU would be a significant upgrade
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see, somehow these new chips are gonna make people think they need a $500 CPU
i tried explaining this to somebody on another forum a while back... most content creation programs (like lightroom) aren't even scaling well atm and see no effective benefits past 6 cores and if you have a legitimate need for more than that then it makes much more sense to just go the true workstation route and cop a xeon (or two).
people with the cash just lying around burning a hole in their pocket is one thing, but watching a person attempt to justify a $1000 cpu to themselves because they like to occasionally edit memes in photoshop and stream games over their dsl tier internet connection once in a while is just
Now, step your GPU game up, AMD 
welp i officially order my 4th build. it will be my first Intel build so im looking forward to it 
here's all the parts:
With 2nd day shipping and taxes it comes to $2,377.86
i also purchased an Asus PG27AQ 27" Widescreen 4K UltraHD IPS Gaming Monitor NVIDIA G-Sync for $599 @Ciggavelli
here's all the parts:
- 1 x ASUS STRIX Z270F GAMING LGA 1151 Intel Z270 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Motherboards - Intel ($189)
- 1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW HYBRID GAMING, 08G-P4-6288-KR, 8GB GDDR5X, RGB LED, All-In-One Watercooling ($699)
- 1 x EVGA 650 GQ 210-GQ-0650-V1 80+ GOLD 650W Semi Modular EVGA ECO Mode Power Supply (came free with PC case)
- 1 x Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz LGA 1151 91W BX80677I77700K Desktop Processor ($349)
- 1 x SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 1TB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ($324)
- 1 x Team T-Force / Night Hawk 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Memory ($219)
- 1 x Seagate FireCuda Gaming SSHD 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive ($99)
- 1 x Corsair Hydro Series H100i V2 Extreme Performance Water / Liquid CPU Cooler. ($99)
- 1 x EVGA DG-87 Gaming Case, 100-E1-1236-K0, Full Tower, K-Boost, Hardware Fan Controller(this thing is a BEAST)
With 2nd day shipping and taxes it comes to $2,377.86
i also purchased an Asus PG27AQ 27" Widescreen 4K UltraHD IPS Gaming Monitor NVIDIA G-Sync for $599 @Ciggavelli
Going to hold out for the inevitable Microcenter bundle deals.
But I will buy just to show support.
But I will buy just to show support.
System Requirements are always odd to me. The 3570 is about 40% faster than the FX 6350 in all benchmarks. I bet Sandy Bridge CPUs will run it just fine.
well I doubt they test it on every piece of hardware ever made. the 3570 might have been the oldest and weakest intel CPU they had
Just got home and had this come in today:
Was loose in the box but luckily I didn't see no damage. Must've slipped off the plastic.
Getting close to having all my parts so I can start learning how to build this. Just need the case and the graphics card. Looking at this graphics card for now:
ROG STRIX-GTX1080-O8G-GAMING | Graphics Cards | ASUS USA
The case I can buy now, looking at a nzxt one with a side window. Don't know about that brand but I think that window thing would look cool. The graphics card is a different story. I could just put it on a credit card and pay it off or just save up a bit longer and get it. Already expensive enough as it is but might as well do it right so it'll last for some time. With proper care and maintenance, this pc should last me for a long time. Hopefully I get it done soon.
I'm trying to decide on a second hard drive. I'm not really sure on the western digital ones. I had selected the wd black but that's not on Amazon anymore, don't know if it's discontinued or what. I got a Samsung ssd drive, I want to say 500gb. Don't know if I can just rock with that until I add a bigger hard drive or what. I think that should be fine to get the pc up and running?
Was loose in the box but luckily I didn't see no damage. Must've slipped off the plastic.
Getting close to having all my parts so I can start learning how to build this. Just need the case and the graphics card. Looking at this graphics card for now:
ROG STRIX-GTX1080-O8G-GAMING | Graphics Cards | ASUS USA
The case I can buy now, looking at a nzxt one with a side window. Don't know about that brand but I think that window thing would look cool. The graphics card is a different story. I could just put it on a credit card and pay it off or just save up a bit longer and get it. Already expensive enough as it is but might as well do it right so it'll last for some time. With proper care and maintenance, this pc should last me for a long time. Hopefully I get it done soon.
I'm trying to decide on a second hard drive. I'm not really sure on the western digital ones. I had selected the wd black but that's not on Amazon anymore, don't know if it's discontinued or what. I got a Samsung ssd drive, I want to say 500gb. Don't know if I can just rock with that until I add a bigger hard drive or what. I think that should be fine to get the pc up and running?
500gb SSD will be fine to get you startedJust got home and had this come in today:
Was loose in the box but luckily I didn't see no damage. Must've slipped off the plastic.
Getting close to having all my parts so I can start learning how to build this. Just need the case and the graphics card. Looking at this graphics card for now:
ROG STRIX-GTX1080-O8G-GAMING | Graphics Cards | ASUS USA
The case I can buy now, looking at a nzxt one with a side window. Don't know about that brand but I think that window thing would look cool. The graphics card is a different story. I could just put it on a credit card and pay it off or just save up a bit longer and get it. Already expensive enough as it is but might as well do it right so it'll last for some time. With proper care and maintenance, this pc should last me for a long time. Hopefully I get it done soon.
I'm trying to decide on a second hard drive. I'm not really sure on the western digital ones. I had selected the wd black but that's not on Amazon anymore, don't know if it's discontinued or what. I got a Samsung ssd drive, I want to say 500gb. Don't know if I can just rock with that until I add a bigger hard drive or what. I think that should be fine to get the pc up and running?
i'm still rocking an i5 3570k and i have no complaints.
nvm.
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1080 Ti looks good.
$1,200
