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Yes the case is from I think 2005, I'm a bit nostalgic, and well why not its been sitting in a garage for I dont know how long.

I can't change the MB. So I guess Ill drop down to the 6th GEN CPU as I literally know no one who has a skylake.

Also wrt the CPU being too much for the GPU, I was told to rather go for the 1060 in a previous post for my set up.
 
RossCo91 said:
Hello,

Yes the case is from I think 2005, I'm a bit nostalgic, and well why not its been sitting in a garage for I dont know how long.

I can't change the MB. So I guess Ill drop down to the 6th GEN CPU as I literally know no one who has a skylake.

Also wrt the CPU being too much for the GPU, I was told to rather go for the 1060 in a previous post for my set up.
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I MIGHT just be selling my i7 6700K
 
RossCo91 said:
Also wrt the CPU being too much for the GPU, I was told to rather go for the 1060 in a previous post for my set up.
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The 1070 is fine and will not be bottlenecked by an i5, you also have all that OC headroom with the k cpu.
 
I feel like I've been left with more questions than what I came with hahaha.
 
Thoughts on this build to replace an aging i5 notebook for as close as possible to R6000, with the prospect to add an RX480 in a month or two? Peripherals and O/S catered for:
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lcbxx said:
Thoughts on this build to replace an aging i5 notebook for as close as possible to R6000, with the prospect to add an RX480 in a month or two? Peripherals and O/S catered for:
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A few things:

Use two memory sticks for dual channel, if you think you'll only ever need 8 then get 2 x 4GB, otherwise 2 x 8GB.
An SSD is a must imo, even a small one just for Windows.
Odd choice of drive, that appears to be a surveillance-focused range.

You could possibly save some bucks going for the Intel G4560, only very slightly slower than the i3 but R900 cheaper.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
A few things:

Use two memory sticks for dual channel, if you think you'll only ever need 8 then get 2 x 4GB, otherwise 2 x 8GB.
An SSD is a must imo, even a small one just for Windows.
Odd choice of drive, that appears to be a surveillance-focused range.

You could possibly save some bucks going for the Intel G4560, only very slightly slower than the i3 but R900 cheaper.
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Thanks for the feedback! The board has a M.2 slot so I will pop one of those in there later on as well.
My limited tech brain thinks that the 7100 may be slightly more future-proof as I am mainly looking to refresh the GPU in the future and not the base hardware.
Is there real world benefit to be had with dual channel?
 
lcbxx said:
Thanks for the feedback! The board has a M.2 slot so I will pop one of those in there later on as well.
My limited tech brain thinks that the 7100 may be slightly more future-proof as I am mainly looking to refresh the GPU in the future and not the base hardware.
Is there real world benefit to be had with dual channel?
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Wait for the new AMD release in the next couple of weeks.
 
lcbxx said:
Thoughts on this build to replace an aging i5 notebook for as close as possible to R6000, with the prospect to add an RX480 in a month or two? Peripherals and O/S catered for:
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Change the HDD to a WD 1TB Blue.
Look at a cheaper case.
Use the savings from the above two for an i5 cpu. You can get an i5-4590 for R2100 and i5-6500 for R2600. http://gtxgaming.co.za/index.php?route=product/category&path=73

Why i5? You mentioned getting a rx 480 and depending on the game the i3 can bottle neck a 480/1060
 
ponder said:
Change the HDD to a WD 1TB Blue.
Look at a cheaper case.
Use the savings from the above two for an i5 cpu. You can get an i5-4590 for R2100 and i5-6500 for R2600. http://gtxgaming.co.za/index.php?route=product/category&path=73

Why i5? You mentioned getting a rx 480 and depending on the game the i3 can bottle neck a 480/1060
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That i3 seems fast enough, close to a 3rd gen i5. That extra bit of juice over the previous gens won't bottleneck it.
Might be a good idea to start moving away from 1150 now, think I give those boards a year before they start being phased out.

So I would either go i5-6500 or the 7th gen i3
 
HideInLight said:
That i3 seems fast enough, close to a 3rd gen i5. That extra bit of juice over the previous gens won't bottleneck it.
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There is very little to no difference between the 6100 & 7100 in gaming, the 6100 bottlenecks some gaming titles so I can't see why the 7100 won't do the same.
 
^, very much yes but that board is kinda intended for people intending to overclock. You could go a bit cheaper if you wanted.

Edit: I lie...i misread the power phases and stuff, it's not actually able to do any overclocking. Still 2k is a bit steep for a board to just plug stuff into. It is very nice though.
 
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Neoprod said:
^, very much yes but that board is kinda intended for people intending to overclock. You could go a bit cheaper if you wanted.

Edit: I lie...i misread the power phases and stuff, it's not actually able to do any overclocking. Still 2k is a bit steep for a board to just plug stuff into. It is very nice though.
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What would you recommend?
 
skinndeep said:
What would you recommend?
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Just get one of the cheaper h110 or b150 boards.

The b150 will give you 6 sata ports vs 4, more usb ports and some of them have 4 dimm slots whereas the h110 usually only have two.

Make sure you get a DDR4 board and not the ones that do ddr3.
 
ponder said:
Just get one of the cheaper h110 or b150 boards.

The b150 will give you 6 sata ports vs 4, more usb ports and some of them have 4 dimm slots whereas the h110 usually only have two.

Make sure you get a DDR4 board and not the ones that do ddr3.
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You guys are legends, thanks :)
Neoprod said:
H110 chipset would serve as well...this one is the same sort of aesthetic as the Asus you posted.

http://www.wootware.co.za/msi-h110m-gaming-ddr4-lga1151-chipset-micro-atx-skylake-desktop-motherboard.html

That one is a bit pricier than other H110 boards....you could save another few hundred going something without the "GAMING" tag. Or you can stick with the pretty one :)
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