Almost done with my build:
Corsair 900D
Intel 6800k (Many overclocks coming)
GTX 1080TI
Asrock X99 Taichi motherboard (First Asrock board)
32GB (for now) of Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4
240 GB SSD for OS and a few 500GB SSDs for games
Custom acrylic motherboard tray and mid plate from Coldzero
Custom sleeved PS cables from Cablemods (blue and white, not installed yet)
I didn't like the routing for the GPU cables, so i am trying out the EVGA Powerlink to shorten the distance.
Still deciding on what RGB kit I want to go with.

Oh yeah, it is water cooled
Barrow CPU block (trying it out)
EK GPU block
2x Bitspower reservoir
2 D5 pumps hidden in the basement
Mayhems pastel blue and white coolants
Many Bitspower fittings
2x 4x120 radiators with corsair sp120 fans

Separate water loops for the GPU and CPU with hand bent PETG tubing ( a few need to be re-done, mainly the return line from cpu to res, it's a bit off)
I'll be adding to front fans to cover up the big hole
The reservoir brackets need to be leveled still, but its almost done.

 

 

Conversion gel and repulsion gel?

 

Just finished a new build. Haven't done this in like 8 years so it's nice to be able to play current video games again.

Intel i7-7700k
ASUS ROG Strix Z270E
EVGA GTX 1080 FTW DT Gaming
2x16GB G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 3200
500GB Samsung SSD
2x4TB WD Gold HDD
Creative Sound Blaster Z PCI-e Sound Card
Fractal Design R5 Case
Silverstone TD02-E AIO Liquid Cooler
Silverstone Evolution 1000w PSU
LG SATA Blu-Ray Burner


Also picked up a new pair of monitors. ASUS 24" 144hz and 1ms GTG.

 

That should certainly be able to take anything you can find to throw at it.

 

Yep, so far so good. Play Unknown's Battlegrounds was the main motivation for doing a new build and it usually cruises at about 100FPS with everything maxed, and will dip to 60FPS in the start lobby or if there is tons of **** happening with a lot of players in view.

 

That is a tough game to run for what it is. I have an i5-4560k @3.75ghz, r9 290, 8gb ram, SSD, and need to play with most settings on low to be comfortable. Where as BF4 runs like a dream on Ultra. That old arma engine is so inefficient.

 

That's right around what i've experienced.

 

Yeah PUBG doesn't seem to be a very efficient game at all, hopefully patches will help but it doesn't affect me much since I'm able to just power through it now.

 

can you guys help me spec something out that doesnt suck?

on paper my machine should be decent enough, but it thoroughly lacks computer power. (fx-8230, 32gb ddr3, 500gb ssd, R9 390 gpu)

my most used application--Adobe Lightroom--runs like trash. My games run okay, but not great. I know other with lesser machines don't have the choppiness i have playing at the exact same time/game. I cannot watch 4K videos--after about 5-10sec it gets too choppy and freezes and my cpu activity sits at ~80%.

I dont need a HDD or GPU, so just a decent barebones setup that I can use to process large photos, play games, and watch 4K videos. Unsure on budget, but the budgeter the better.

 

My initial response is to blame the user

Do you have an inexpensive 256gb SSD you can throw in there? If so, move your massive Adobe swap files over to that drive rather than the drive where the Adobe applications and OS are installed. I've done this for the folks in our marketing group and its helped tremendously with Adobe stuff.

Other than that, when was the last time you formatted and reinstalled? Updated the firmware on that 500gb SSD? Hell, what model is that 500gb SSD? I see no reason that you should struggle with the listed tasks, other than maybe AMD/ATI drivers are garbage?

 

the SSD win10 install wasn't too long ago. the machine has 3 other drives in there that slow some processes down a bit. i think i've allocated 50GB to the lightroom cache on the SSD. otherwise, photoshop and other adobe applications run just fine. IIRC it's a smasung or san disk 500gb drive. ill try to find out which exactly.

this computer has never been great -- ive always struggled with it. when it has to work, it makes one hell of a noise, all the fans spin up and it cant seem to handle the load.

also remember this was a $500 budget build i did over 3 years ago. I've only added a stick of ram, the gpu and ssd since.

 

Kill that 8320 with fire and upgrade to a Ryzen or an i7 cpu. I had an 8320, it was never good at anything and ran stupid hot all the time.
Just ordered my wife a Ryzen 1600X, can't wait to throw her 8320 in the trash. Her system is the 8320 paired with Samsung SSDs, and a 980TI. Runs OK but that CPU is holding it back.

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I feel like I've always gone with AMD to cheap out. I know the Ryzen is supposed to be pretty good, but is it actually worth the savings over an i7?


here's just playing South Park Stick of Destiny:



cpu pegged at 41%

 

I haven't used Ryzen a whole lot, but as far as the bench marks are concerned the mid range Ryzen chips are on par and even beating the i7 lineup. I definitely think they are a better performance to cost over Intel right now. Normally i would say that an AMD chip is cheaping out, but not with Ryzen. All of that said i will always be an i7 fanboy, but it is hard to argue against facts

 

Funny I was running an old AMD 965 before upgrading. Simple 4c4t OCd to 4ghz on an AIO and it ran awesome. It sill does.
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I would recommend an upgrade to ryzen. You just have to watch and make sure you get comparable / known working memory. I had some issues with memory not working early on. Though I was on the first generation bios updates. My 1800x renders 4k video like it's child's play. I'm am getting cinebench scores above 1700 with no OC. The ryzen 1600 is doing a score over 1200.

 

Sure, keep buying AMD chips at the suggestion of people here. I'm sure Adobe is real tight with them.

 

You can't really go wrong with a current gen i7 and DDR4, but I assumed that Scott would just cry because its expensive, and the AMD crew would show up to shout me down with Ryzen propaganda so I didn't waste the keystrokes

 

Gaming = Intel
Everything Else = AMD



I plan on doing a ryzen build soon.

 

seems like my main app doesnt play well with ryzen:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/ar...rformance-910/

adobe doesnt like core.


I'm going to try out Capture One Pro as an alternative program... I hear good things about it.