Get your money
Breh spent 1100 between his mother and cpu to game
i7 8700k and z370 would be half of that.
you can have it all in one, my htpc is used both for my tv gaming and movies/etc
just install plex onto windows
Blames amd for nvidia prices. AMD cards could be 75% of Nvidia card price, people will still buy Nvidia because of history/brand image.
Ram prices have went down 20% - not much of a difference when 2 years ago ddr4 was 90 dollars for 16gb stick.
Crypto mining and nvidia rtx is the only bad thing that has happened in 2018 that was bad for gamers and mining died pretty early 2018 unlike 2017.
SSD are half the price from last year. We've seen a wider range of freesync monitors and freesync TV's too this year. We finally got 4K high refresh monitors with more to come in 2019. Powersupplies have gone down in value.
Cases have been trash this year.
We are finally at a point where intel i7 with igpu makes high end cpu not necessary for most video editors.
We are at a point where more than 4-6 cores with high clock speeds doesn't cost over 700 dollars.
We no longer need the most expensive and brand new card to handle so many computation task like before. Someone can use a 1070 for machine learning if they liked.
This has been one of the best years of building pc because there is real competition at every level beside high end gpu which 99% of gamers do not use or can afford. Vega and Polaris is enough for the majority who want AMD graphics.
If we were still on bulldozer, AMD would be nonexistence and intel would be releasing a .1 clock speed higher 4 core cpu i7 9700k right now. Nvidia would of stretched out 10 series for another year or 2 if Crypto mining didn't die out so quickly.
The only reason they truly released RTX is to keep a foot in the game with xbox 2 and ps5 with developers (who really made in this case) because they will now be best to optimize and build their games around gaming cpu and gpu's which they (consoles) will be using. AMD clearly doesn't have has much invested from a decade like nvidia with raytracing. We are already seeing the failing attempts at raytracing because developers were clearly not ready.
The only bad this year has a gamer/pc builder is someone like him. Who clearly can't admit Intel and Nvidia are fukking over the average gamer. Everything else has went down in prices and gives gamers more bang for their buck.
Only worth it if you are actually going multiple workloads like VM in the background while you game on windows etc
Make sure you have the refresh rate set to 144 or 165 too.
What ram do you have Corsair now has dummy ram sticks for 40 dollars (RGB PRO)
VENGEANCE RGB PRO Light Enhancement Kit — Black
That Asus motherboard is my favorite part, too bad I have no reason to spend over 600 + 1000 plus for a i9.
