Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 A friend of mine wants to build a top of the line intell pc, whats the scoop on intell based parts now days? Asus board, what model? What cpu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 I figured you guys would be all on this one, Oh well I will look for myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrester~SPARTA~ Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 (edited) tweakers.net will give you the answer, or Hardware.info Edited May 15, 2016 by Forrester~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custard~SPARTA~ Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 I figured you guys would be all on this one, Oh well I will look for myself Haven't looked since I built my last machine so I am 9 months out of date bud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathrus~SPARTA~ Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 (edited) heh... been out of town Athlon, My personal preference is ASUS Maximus extreme motherboards.... they are rock solid and stable. RoG has an excellent customer service program far above the standard ASUS warranties/tech support. I think most of the intel i7's are awesome.... and the i5's are really good... so it is whatever he prefers. I have been having good luck with corsair gaming power supplies (not the builder series which is cheap and I have no data on them) The corsair liquid cpu cooler closed loop systems seem to work really well and are worth the few dollars more over a high end air cooler. Edited May 18, 2016 by Zathrus~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted May 21, 2016 Author Share Posted May 21, 2016 Ok , what is intells best cpu is it this one-- intel core I7 6700 skylake quad core 3.4 ghz LGA 1151 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrester~SPARTA~ Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Depends on what you want to do and spend, I use a 6600K and that does the trick more than well. My geforce 660ti is giving me problems (hangs in games) but it seems to be a driver issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathrus~SPARTA~ Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Although I currently have an AMD 7970 graphics card, If I needed to replace it I would take a serious look at the nVidia GTX970 for 1080p resolution monitors, and the GTX980 for higher res... especially 4k monitors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 (edited) He wants the titan, 12 gig vid ram, the best i7 haswell cpu, 32gig corsair 3733 ram, I tb ssd mushkin, about $3500 worth of parts, he said he wants the best they got, allrighty then show me the money and I will build it. Ile even do pics for you guys to drool over if he wants it done. He said the best of the best in a intell platform. Edited May 25, 2016 by Athlon64~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custard~SPARTA~ Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 This is the case he wants lightweight otherwise http://www.mountainmods.com/u2-ufo-mirror-black-powder-coat-solid-top-p-79.html It's what I have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MH6~SPARTA~ Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 He wants the titan, 12 gig vid ram, the best i7 haswell cpu, 32gig corsair 3733 ram, I tb ssd mushkin, about $3500 worth of parts, he said he wants the best they got, allrighty then show me the money and I will build it. Ile even do pics for you guys to drool over if he wants it done. He said the best of the best in a intell platform. Tell him to wait a few months days and get one of the new NVIDIA Pascal GTX 1080 cards. The Titan is not worth the price in my opinion. You are paying twice the cost for a card that is only slightly better than a 980 Ti. The only noticeable difference is the RAM (6GB vs 12GB) and that only matters if you are running some obscene resolution. Unless he just wants to burn money for the sake of burning money. Or if he wants to burn money and get something out of it, tell him to get a 980 Ti Hybrid, which is a self-contained water-cooled card (similar to the self-contained water-cooled CPUs like the Corsair H100 series). They also make a Titan X hybrid, though that will run you $1300 compared to the $680 of the 980 Ti. Then you can overclock it a bit and it will always run nice and cool (and quiet!) Seriously though. If he can wait, he should wait for Pascal and the 1080 series. Hell the 1070 (a $450 card) is already showing itself to be faster than the Titan X or 980 Ti, and that's the budget high-end card. The 1080 will be faster still, and the 1080 Ti faster even still. They are slated for release this summer, with the Ti versions out a few months after that I'd imagine. If I were in the market for a graphics card right now, I'd wait for the 1080. But that's just me. So the 1080 is actually coming out on the 27th (2 days). Go with the GTX 1080. Or he can wait and get the new Pascal Titan, or the 1080 Ti. But there is no word on when those are coming out, though its rumored to be sometime this year. Source: GTX 1080 is faster than the Titan X at half the cost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 Sold me, lets see what he wants to do, and how long it will be before it hits the shelfs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MH6~SPARTA~ Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Lot of places have sold out of the 1080 already. So it may be a few weeks before supply catches up. EVGA and ZOTAC have also announced their custom superclocked cards for June. The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC Gaming ACX 3.0 card will release in early June for $649.99. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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