PC Build Advice/Review II: 3090 or Bust.

[Tokitoki]

My only thought is, where's your bulk storage? 250GB goes fast.

I've got a a 250GB SSD, a 1TB HDD, and a 2TB HDD in my current PC. I'd take the SSD and either of the HDDs out and put them in the new one.

[Zetanio]

My only thought is, where's your bulk storage? 250GB goes fast.

He has a snail drive from his old build.

[Arkanna]

Understood, sorry if I missed it.

[Salodin]

Depending on where you buy the parts, I'd be very surprised if you couldn't find a combo deal between the cpu/ram or gpu/ram, or even gpu/psu, motherboard/cpu. You doing this on amazon? new egg? Also, that isn't too shabby for what you're getting; only other thing I'd recommend is patience depending on how long you're willing to wait for a sale or price drop to happen.

edit: actually just realized that ram is 3000mhz, might not find a combo with ram at that speed.

Is this your motherboard? That's $40 cheaper than on amazon, but only for the next 14 hours. You can bundle things with it too from there, lots of options.

[Tokitoki]

Depending on where you buy the parts, I'd be very surprised if you couldn't find a combo deal between the cpu/ram or gpu/ram, or even gpu/psu, motherboard/cpu. You doing this on amazon? new egg? Also, that isn't too shabby for what you're getting; only other thing I'd recommend is patience depending on how long you're willing to wait for a sale or price drop to happen.

edit: actually just realized that ram is 3000mhz, might not find a combo with ram at that speed.

Is this your motherboard? That's $40 cheaper than on amazon, but only for the next 14 hours. You can bundle things with it too from there, lots of options.

I checked out some of the CPU/RAM combos, but they were all more expensive than what I've got and they were slower speed. I chose Amazon for some of the ones where Amazon was a couple dollars higher because I have Prime so I get free two-day shipping, where the other vendors were charging $15+ for shipping.

That MoBo is the Z170, the one I have on my build thing is the Z270. I honestly don't know what the difference is. Maybe more M.2 slots and an updated something?

[Salodin]

Ah, thats what I get for skimming. The z170 needs a bios update iirc to work with the 7700k, as well as having some extra pcie lanes that you won't use unless you're using more than 1 gpu. You'd save enough money on that to make it worth it imo, even if you put that money into another part, but bios updates are a pita as well so maybe you should just spend the extra money lol. I'd still peruse newegg, they often have great sales or rebates.

edit: just looked it up, you'd need a 6th gen cpu to install the bios update on the z170 anyways, so don't do that lol.

[Tokitoki]

Yeah I'll keep an eye out for a little bit. Like I said, there are some combo deals on Newegg, but they end up more expensive than what I current have. That said, it doesn;t look like anything I chose is actually on sale, so there's always a chance I can get something cheaper. The closest thing is the RAM and CPU I'm looking at, but it comes with a $230 MoBo. Don't plan on spending that much on the MoBo.

[Zetanio]

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/m4thematical/saved/xxkJxr

This is what my friend is building

Gonna be strictly 1080 with that 1060GTX seems like he's wasting a ton of money and I can't talk him out of it.

My friend built this thing with a 1070. Barely games and plays on 1080p.

[Arkanna]

Money to burn baby

[Zetanio]

It makes me sad.

[Hellfury]

My friend built this thing with a 1070. Barely games and plays on 1080p.

I am slightly bemused that he put in all that hardware.. and a 1060..

[Zetanio]

He has a 1070

[Tokitoki]

You're making me nervous. I was basically going to build that.

[Gryffes]

My friend built this thing with a 1070. Barely games and plays on 1080p.

He mustve plugged his monitor into the igpu on the motherboard port or something equally dumb.

[DrClout]

He mustve plugged his monitor into the igpu on the motherboard port or something equally dumb.

Or simply applied settings to function at 1080p exclusively or even just limited to a 1080p monitor.

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[Zetanio]

I meant he built a giant fucking gaming rig and barely utilizes it. He's asking about 4K monitors now at least. He doesn't seem to understand that Freesync doesn't work with GeForce cards though.

[Tokitoki]

I meant he built a giant fucking gaming rig and barely utilizes it. He's asking about 4K monitors now at least. He doesn't seem to understand that Freesync doesn't work with GeForce cards though.

OOOOOOOOOOH

I read it as the computer could barely run games at 1080p. I was so confused.

The G-Sync/Free-Sync is good to know. I'm looking to replace my monitor sooner rather than later with a 144Hz I think. Wasn't sure about the Sync stuff.

[Zetanio]

I don't think it actually matters much but I've been wrong before.
He's easily maxing out every single game on 1080p. 60+ FPS.

[Tokitoki]

From slickdeals.net link: i7-7700k for $40 off (309.99). I'm guessing this is probably the best deal I'll get on this processor, no?

EDIT: Also this: ASUS VG248QE 24" Full HD 1920x1080 144Hz 1ms HDMI Gaming Monitor for $200 seems like a pretty good deal. It's only $25 off, but 1ms, 144Hz, and 1080p are exactly what I was looking for.

[Tokitoki]

Sorry to bump, but was looking for opinions. Is there any reason why the 7700k would be getting a price drop soon?

As far as the monitor goes, my only real hesitation is 1080 vs 1440. That monitor above looks like a good deal, but I'm not sure what I should expect to pay for a decent 1440 monitor. I see anything from $300 to $600 for a 23-27" monitor with decent response time. Some of those are 60Hz which is kind of meh.