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NEW PC's for the Wifey and I

Renae said:
We're looking at spending, if everything works out between 35-60k depending on how much we LOVE the vehicle. Paying cash upfront when the time comes. Might be 2 years from now, might be this spring.
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Nice, with that much cash you have plenty of options. If you like crossover style vehicles, test drive a Murano. I think you may love it and would still have quite a bit left to buy you that monster Falcon PC you want :p
 
Nap said:
Nice, with that much cash you have plenty of options. If you like crossover style vehicles, test drive a Murano. I think you may love it and would still have quite a bit left to buy you that monster Falcon PC you want :p
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LOL I'm not allowed to drop that grip unless we win millions. :p
 
Renae said:
So, my wife has a pc with 8 gigs of slow ass ram, an AMD Athalon 2 with a 1050 card in it. It's not keeping up with WoW even.

I think, by 01Dec17 I'll have 1500 to drop on a rig for her.

Basic specs:
Full tower : I like the space and the larger MB
Fans will 140mm Quiet 3 stack
Full sound dampening
i5 7600 4x 3.6GHz/8MB L3 Cache
Basic 120MM Liquid Cooling
ASUS Z270 Killer SLI MB
8GB Kingston Hyper X DDR4 3kMHz
Geforce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5
700Watt PSU
500MB Samsung SSD
12n1 Card Reader
Pro Wiring
Special Packing
Thermal Compound
For around 1600 on Cyberpower PC (This is not set there are several vendors)

I could do it for 1400 on my own, but if you muck it up, you are stuck with a broke PC/Parts Which I always worry

When Tax Return hits, I plan on this for myself:

Case:
Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Gaming Case W/ Full-size Tempered Glass Panel Window + RGB 10 Color LED
3X 140mm Enermax TB Silence UCTB14 140mm Performance Cooling with Low Noise Profile Fan

  • Sound Absorbing Foam on Side, Top And Bottom panels

  • Anti-Vibration Fan Mounts
    Power Supply Gasket
    Intel® Core™ Processor i7-8700K 3.70GHZ 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Coffee Lake) (All Venom OC Certified)
    CYBERPOWERPC HydroFluxe Custom PETG Hard-Tube Water Cooling kit 360MM
    Thermaltake High-Performance C1000 (Green) Opaque Vivid Color Coolant Series
    EK-Multioption EK-RES X3 400 Reservoir
    ASUS TUF Z370 PLUS GAMING ATX w/ RGB, USB 3.1, 3 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe [Intel Optane Ready]
    Kingston HyperX Predator (All Venom OC Levels Certified) 16GB DDR4 3k
    EVGA GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 iCX Hydro Copper Gaming Edition 11GB GDDR5X (Pascal)[VR Ready] (Single Card)
    1,000 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
    512GB SAMSUNG 960 PRO PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD - 3500MB/s Read & 2100MB/s Write
    500GB Samsung 850 EVO Series SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 540MB/s Read & 520MB/s Write
    LG 16X Internal Blu-ray Burner, BD-RE, 3D Playback DVD+RW Combo Drive
    Intel EXPI9301CTBLK Network Adapter 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express
    Microsoft LifeCam Studio 1080p HD Auto Focus Webcam
    Professional Wiring + [Black] Phanteks Premium Extension Cables sleeved set [24Pin MB + 8Pin CPU + 6+2 Pin VGA]
    Ultra Enhanced Packaging Solution - Protect Your Dream System During Transi
    Cooler Master Mastergel Maker CPU-Thermal Compound Optimized for Thermal Dissipation

    roughly 3600






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Both good rigs. The only thing I question is why does Wifey's rig need an SLI MB?
 
Nap said:
:p let me hold about 10k if you do. Had to blow all my savings fixing my house.
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I'm sorry to hear that. I never promise anything with money, did you hear about that gal that joked she'd share a jackpot at a part and all the people sued her when she won?
 
KevinKohler said:
Yup.



I'd settle for a Z. If they supercharged it.
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I used to have an 1990 300zx, with the exception of the Infiniti G37s I used to have it was my favorite car I had owned. I want one of the old R34 GTRs that weren't released in the US.
 
Renae said:
Thank you friend. Again, I'm just bouncing ideas, won't build/buy till Feb mine, her's I'm shooting for early DEC as a Christmas Present.
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Also you might need to get a new monitor unless you already have a good one because the graphics card won't do any good unless you can run the resolution or refresh rate.
 
Right now is one of the worst times to build your own PC unfortunately. Cryptocurrency mining jacked up the GPU market making AMD gpus super expensive and letting NVIDIA basically get away with price gouging because of a lack of competition. And DDR4 ram is just. I can't remember a time since it came out when it wasn't expensive
 
instagramsci said:
Right now is one of the worst times to build your own PC unfortunately. Cryptocurrency mining jacked up the GPU market making AMD gpus super expensive and letting NVIDIA basically get away with price gouging because of a lack of competition. And DDR4 ram is just. I can't remember a time since it came out when it wasn't expensive
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Yep, it is a very bad time to build your own, and frankly buy as well. Ram prices, SSD, and graphics cards (especially AMD) prices are insane.
 
instagramsci said:
Right now is one of the worst times to build your own PC unfortunately. Cryptocurrency mining jacked up the GPU market making AMD gpus super expensive and letting NVIDIA basically get away with price gouging because of a lack of competition. And DDR4 ram is just. I can't remember a time since it came out when it wasn't expensive
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A top of the line CPU has always cost about $2500 for the past 20 years due to some factor or the other. I wouldnt say this is one of the worst times to build your own PC
 
Crovax said:
A top of the line CPU has always cost about $2500 for the past 20 years due to some factor or the other. I wouldnt say this is one of the worst times to build your own PC
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CPUs are a small part of the computer price these days. And top line CPUs dont cost 2500 dollars.. what are you smoking? The intel i9 costs around 1000 dollars and is a waste of money frankly.

Regardless, there is only one chipset at the moment that can handle Coffee Lake, which means no competition. Motherboards for the new Intel chips are relatively expensive to other years.

RAM is expensive, because "someone" has been buying up DDR4 ram... yes some fruit company.

SSD are expensive because of some strange "we dunno why" excuse.

and then there is the big one... Graphics cards. This is the real killer often, since especially AMD/ATI cards are being bought for crypto mining. Nvidia cards have fallen from their highs, but are still relatively high in price.

No matter how you slice and dice it, price wise, parts have been relatively cheaper in other years.
 
PeteEU said:
CPUs are a small part of the computer price these days. And top line CPUs dont cost 2500 dollars.. what are you smoking? The intel i9 costs around 1000 dollars and is a waste of money frankly.

Regardless, there is only one chipset at the moment that can handle Coffee Lake, which means no competition. Motherboards for the new Intel chips are relatively expensive to other years.

RAM is expensive, because "someone" has been buying up DDR4 ram... yes some fruit company.

SSD are expensive because of some strange "we dunno why" excuse.

and then there is the big one... Graphics cards. This is the real killer often, since especially AMD/ATI cards are being bought for crypto mining. Nvidia cards have fallen from their highs, but are still relatively high in price.

No matter how you slice and dice it, price wise, parts have been relatively cheaper in other years.
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When I said CPU I meant the whole system, sorry. And a top of the line system hasn't been relatively cheaper because there is always one factor or another that has pushed the price up.
 
Crovax said:
When I said CPU I meant the whole system, sorry. And a top of the line system hasn't been relatively cheaper because there is always one factor or another that has pushed the price up.
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That makes better sense, but still no. A top gaming machine a couple of years ago would cost around 1000 dollars and you could go over if you pushed it. A 2500 dollar machine would be a gaming laptop or a fruit company computer.

Now days you can in fact get a 2000+ gaming CPU from Intel.. I kid you not. Went checking and found it.. utterly insane. Throw in a couple of Titan X 1080s (each around 2000 dollars), and we are talking about a "top of the line" machine nearing 10k.

The i7 7700k is considered the "best for bang" CPU by Intel at the moment and is about 340 dollars. Add in a 500 dollar GPU, with 16 GB of DDR 4 (180$) and you are at the 1000+ dollar computer on 3 parts. SSD and motherboard can easily add another 300 dollars, and then there is of course the case and all the other eye candy.

Lets put it this way... I remember when a stick of 8 GB ram was under 50 bucks. I also remember when a top of the line GPU was under 400 dollars. Prices are much higher than just a couple of years ago, especially with ram and GPUs.

If I were going for a new build today, I would seriously check out Ryzen that is for sure.. but wait a while if possible to get a GPU. There is something wrong when the GPU is almost double the price of the CPU...
 
PeteEU said:
That makes better sense, but still no. A top gaming machine a couple of years ago would cost around 1000 dollars and you could go over if you pushed it. A 2500 dollar machine would be a gaming laptop or a fruit company computer.
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Simply untrue. The GTX 780ti which came out in november of 2013 was $700

Now days you can in fact get a 2000+ gaming CPU from Intel.. I kid you not. Went checking and found it.. utterly insane. Throw in a couple of Titan X 1080s (each around 2000 dollars), and we are talking about a "top of the line" machine nearing 10k.

The i7 7700k is considered the "best for bang" CPU by Intel at the moment and is about 340 dollars. Add in a 500 dollar GPU, with 16 GB of DDR 4 (180$) and you are at the 1000+ dollar computer on 3 parts. SSD and motherboard can easily add another 300 dollars, and then there is of course the case and all the other eye candy.

Lets put it this way... I remember when a stick of 8 GB ram was under 50 bucks. I also remember when a top of the line GPU was under 400 dollars. Prices are much higher than just a couple of years ago, especially with ram and GPUs.

If I were going for a new build today, I would seriously check out Ryzen that is for sure.. but wait a while if possible to get a GPU. There is something wrong when the GPU is almost double the price of the CPU...
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Here is the PC I built earlier this year and paid a similar price for it

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($318.69 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H115i 104.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($139.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus - STRIX Z270-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($185.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($193.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($233.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB FTW3 GAMING iCX Video Card ($799.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Phanteks - Enthoo Evolv ATX Glass ATX Mid Tower Case ($189.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $2162.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-10-29 13:11 EDT-0400

Thats the same price that you claim a "Titan X 1080" is which is not a thing BTW its just the Titan X and the GTX 1080ti is about 98% as good as it for $700
 
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