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It's all starting to make more and more sense now. This forum together with a lot of 'this vs this' questions posed to Google is giving me a good idea of what's going on. I'm going to stick with the components posed in your initial list.

However WRT the Monitor, nearly all of my research points to the opinion that 'If you can afford it, go 1440P' The problem is, I see prices range anywhere from 6K to 15K and up. Seeing as though the monitor, together with the GPU, are the most expensive components in the whole basket, I'd prefer (if possible) to only purchase once over the 4-5 year lifespan of the rig.

Is there a specific 1440P monitor you can recommend I consider?
 
I have viewed so many reviews still can't decide rx470 8Gb vs rx480 4Gb. Will only be playing Hots and Battlefield 4/1. Any suggestions?
 
Juan-Pierré said:
I have viewed so many reviews still can't decide rx470 8Gb vs rx480 4Gb. Will only be playing Hots and Battlefield 4/1. Any suggestions?
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Those games are like 3 years old?...can't see the 470 or 480 struggling with either, tbh. At 1080p, 4Gb is enough and at higher resolutions, both those cards are going to run into compute limitations far sooner than VRAM buffer issues.

Is the 1060 out of reach price-wise? Last I looked, it was significantly faster at Battlefield than the RX cards.
 
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Neoprod said:
Those games are like 3 years old?...can't see the 470 or 480 struggling with either, tbh. At 1080p, 4Gb is enough and at higher resolutions, both those cards are going to run into compute limitations far sooner than VRAM buffer issues.

Is the 1060 out of reach price-wise? Last I looked, it was significantly faster at Battlefield than the RX cards.
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Not anymore, driver updates since release have really made the RX cards shine, even the stock standard reference RX 480 is now faster than a EVGA GTX 1060 SC in BF1 DX12

"So which one of these would I buy? That will likely boil down to whatever is on sale at a given time but I’ll step right into and say the RX 480 8GB. Not only has AMD proven they can match NVIDIA’s much-vaunted driver rollouts but through a successive pattern of key updates have made their card a parallel contender in DX11 and a runaway hit in DX12. That’s hard to argue against."

GTX 1060 vs. RX 480 - An Updated Review
 
Juan-Pierré said:
I have viewed so many reviews still can't decide rx470 8Gb vs rx480 4Gb. Will only be playing Hots and Battlefield 4/1. Any suggestions?
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Save yourself some cash and buy the RX 470 4GB or go for the RX 480 4GB, I wouldn't even consider a RX 470 8GB.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Not anymore, driver updates since release have really made the RX cards shine, even the stock standard reference RX 480 is now faster than a EVGA GTX 1060 SC in BF1 DX12

"So which one of these would I buy? That will likely boil down to whatever is on sale at a given time but I’ll step right into and say the RX 480 8GB. Not only has AMD proven they can match NVIDIA’s much-vaunted driver rollouts but through a successive pattern of key updates have made their card a parallel contender in DX11 and a runaway hit in DX12. That’s hard to argue against."

GTX 1060 vs. RX 480 - An Updated Review
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My bad, I read about the driver improvements since someone posted the other day but I didn't think it applied to a game that old.
 
noonsi said:
It's all starting to make more and more sense now. This forum together with a lot of 'this vs this' questions posed to Google is giving me a good idea of what's going on. I'm going to stick with the components posed in your initial list.

However WRT the Monitor, nearly all of my research points to the opinion that 'If you can afford it, go 1440P' The problem is, I see prices range anywhere from 6K to 15K and up. Seeing as though the monitor, together with the GPU, are the most expensive components in the whole basket, I'd prefer (if possible) to only purchase once over the 4-5 year lifespan of the rig.

Is there a specific 1440P monitor you can recommend I consider?
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The more expensive ones have features like gsync/freesync where the monitor dynamically adapts the refresh rate to the output of the gpu which fluctuates all the time.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Not anymore, driver updates since release have really made the RX cards shine, even the stock standard reference RX 480 is now faster than a EVGA GTX 1060 SC in BF1 DX12.
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But overall irrespective of API?

DX11
GTX-1060-UPDATE-60.jpg




DX12
GTX-1060-UPDATE-72.jpg
 
Think all things considered I will go with the RX480 4Gb. my biggest worry was Battlefield 1, thanks much appreciated
 
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Anything you would change on this build?

I am basically wanting to go "budget"

This machine will spend 90% of it's life downloading torrents and sharing its drives over the network to my RPi2

I would also want to comfortably play Mass Effect 3, and ME Andromeda, as well as things like Dragon Age: Origin, etc.
I will not be playing Online FPS.

1080p will be my limit, maybe 1440p if I ever buy a new monitor for home.

CPU
Intel® Core™ i5-6600K - Carbonite

CPU Cooler
http://www.wootware.co.za/raijintek-aidos-black-edition-92mm-pwm-fan-cpu-cooler.html

Motherboard
http://www.wootware.co.za/asus-h110...et-micro-atx-skylake-desktop-motherboard.html

GPU
http://www.wootware.co.za/zotac-zt-...-192-bit-pci-e-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html

Memory
http://www.wootware.co.za/corsair-c...gb-ddr4-2400mhz-c14-black-desktop-memory.html

PSU
http://www.wootware.co.za/corsair-ps-c450vs-450w-power-supply.html

Case
http://www.wootware.co.za/phanteks-ph-ec416p-bk-eclipse-satin-black-steel-atx-mid-tower-chassis.html

Hard drive
http://www.wootware.co.za/western-d...-64mb-cache-3-5-inch-internal-hard-drive.html


Total Price
+- R12000
 
I'd go for an AMD to cut cost... since you won't be doing much with the machine.
 
_kabal_ said:
Anything you would change on this build?

I am basically wanting to go "budget"

This machine will spend 90% of it's life downloading torrents and sharing its drives over the network to my RPi2

I would also want to comfortably play Mass Effect 3, and ME Andromeda, as well as things like Dragon Age: Origin, etc.
I will not be playing Online FPS.

1080p will be my limit, maybe 1440p if I ever buy a new monitor for home.

CPU
Intel® Core™ i5-6600K - Carbonite

CPU Cooler
http://www.wootware.co.za/raijintek-aidos-black-edition-92mm-pwm-fan-cpu-cooler.html

Motherboard
http://www.wootware.co.za/asus-h110...et-micro-atx-skylake-desktop-motherboard.html

GPU
http://www.wootware.co.za/zotac-zt-...-192-bit-pci-e-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html

Memory
http://www.wootware.co.za/corsair-c...gb-ddr4-2400mhz-c14-black-desktop-memory.html

PSU
http://www.wootware.co.za/corsair-ps-c450vs-450w-power-supply.html

Case
http://www.wootware.co.za/phanteks-ph-ec416p-bk-eclipse-satin-black-steel-atx-mid-tower-chassis.html

Hard drive
http://www.wootware.co.za/western-d...-64mb-cache-3-5-inch-internal-hard-drive.html


Total Price
+- R12000
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In all honesty, if you're going to use it predominantly for downloading and sharing why even spend this much? Just curious. If for a little gaming on the side sure, but it's a massive overkill for what you want to do with it.
 
^, if he's keeping the Pi2 AND gets into x265, a decent CPU would be handy for transcoding. Catch 22 if he only games occasionally...still needs the hardware for those occasions.

Solution: play games more often and make the investment worthwhile :)
 
Pitbull said:
In all honesty, if you're going to use it predominantly for downloading and sharing why even spend this much? Just curious. If for a little gaming on the side sure, but it's a massive overkill for what you want to do with it.
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That's why I would recommend an AMD build since he won't be doing much with it.
 
ponder said:
amd is the last thing I would buy now, you'll be stuck with an obsolete socket. ryzen should also be out soon.
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The fact is... that he won't be doing much... sure its much more than having an rpi for download box but look at what he wants to use it for? not much.
And it doesn't look like he wants to spend much either... so why go all out?
 
ponder said:
How much you paying for the cpu? you won't be able to overclock it on that mb.

The GPU is a bit low on the vram side, maybe consider a rx480 4gb.
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The cpu is R2900 for a tray version.
Is overclocking really something I should be considering? What kind of performance improvements do you get, considering I assume there is quite a big price differential, as you need better MB and cooling


As far as VRAM, I should really research that more. Something like this? http://www.wootware.co.za/his-hs-48...it-gddr5-pci-e-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html



As far as Intel vs AMD, I just would rather pay more and stick with Intel.



As far as the usage, I should have probably said that currently my desktop is a torrent client/"NAS"

I am hoping that spending a bit of cash will "force" me to play more games, I do enjoy it.
 
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