Skylake MASTER RACE

"Nibby" (nibby68) 05/21/2018 at 13:40 • Filed to: None

2

41

2016 called, it wants its custom PC back.

Antec P100 ATX case
Rosewill Glacier 600W Semi-Modular power supply
Gigabyte Z170HD3P ATX motherboard
Intel Core i7 6700K 4.00GHz quad core processor
Scythe Kotetsu cooler
32GB DDR4 2400 RAM (4x8GB)
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 video card
Samsung 950 Pro 256GB NVMe SSD
Seagate ST2000MD001 2TB 7200RPM SATA hard drive
PLDS DH-16AES SATA DVD/RW drive
Windows 10

rear

inside all tidied up, note even the SATA cables are black

closeup of the cooler

box of cooler

box of the CPU, bought in 2016

kawaiiCPU

EVGA GeForce GTX 970, freshly cleaned + new thermal paste

speccy + temps

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 13:43

2

This reminds me that I need to finish my 2016 computer project. That I never actually bought a GPU for.

itschrome > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/21/2018 at 13:44

0

yeah prices looking good right about now.

TheRevanchist > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 13:45

0

That 6th gen i7 should still be good for a few more years.

itschrome > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 13:46

0

hey, I’m still running a haswell Xeon with a GTX 950.. you saying my pc is junk? hahaha I really need a GPU..

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 13:46

0

The P100 is nice, but the front is a little too shiny for my tastes. I prefer the matte/non-reflective fronts...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > itschrome 05/21/2018 at 13:51

0

It’s going to be a quadro, so it never was going to be too horribly pricey from bitcoin mining, only moderately.

random001 > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 13:51

0

How much can one expect to be paying here? I need to update my 4770k/ddr3 computer some, but maybe not go full 8700k prices (call it $600 for cpu, ram, mobo) ish.

itschrome > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/21/2018 at 13:52

0

damn, I just sold a quadro k4200 for pennies...

Nibby > random001 05/21/2018 at 13:55

0

tbh I wouldn’t bother upgrading that cause it’s still very much capable. DDR4 RAM prices are still insane but at least GPU prices are much better. Do you have an SSD? How much RAM do you currently have and which video card?

Nibby > itschrome 05/21/2018 at 13:56

0

more than good enough

Nibby > TheRevanchist 05/21/2018 at 13:56

0

not planning on replacing it any time soon

LOREM IPSUM > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 13:56

0

Shit, I’m still running on board video from my Asus P5e-vm-hdmi. Dual core Xeon at 3.0, with 4 gigs of ddr2, baby!

Nibby > LOREM IPSUM 05/21/2018 at 13:57

1

i have a GTX 560 if your PSU has 2x6 pin PCIe power and is at least 450W

bump up the RAM to 8GB and it’ll still be fine

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > itschrome 05/21/2018 at 13:58

0

It’s cool, it probably wasn’t a dwarf height one, which is what I want.

random001 > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 13:59

0

I’m RAM limited on a bunch of stuff I do. I have a 2 TB Samsung SSD, 24 GB ddr3, a GTX 1080 Ti. It feels painfully slow to encode a blu-ray. I might try it on my dell poweredge sitting in the corner with like, a billion cores of xeon goodness, but it’s so loud...

But I’d then need to rip the BR on my desktop, transfer 30-40 GB per to the server for encoding, and then get the movies back off. Seems like a lot. But maybe it’ll take less than 8 hours to encode a good copy.

random001 > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 14:00

0

I meant RAM bus limited. At least I think so.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 14:00

1

Pfft. No RGB fans? Do you even computer bro?

Nibby > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 05/21/2018 at 14:01

0

my mouse is RGB does that count

Nibby > random001 05/21/2018 at 14:02

0

ah, hm. i’d try to hold off until DDR4 prices come down to earth

Nibby > random001 05/21/2018 at 14:02

0

ah, hm. i’d try to hold off until DDR4 prices come down to earth

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 14:05

0

Thaes a bit of a stretch but fine lol

random001 > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 14:09

0

What are the chances of that happening, like, at all?

itschrome > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/21/2018 at 14:17

0

nah it was full size.

itschrome > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 14:18

0

oh yeah, just need a GPU tho..

LOREM IPSUM > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 14:19

0

According to the asus site it has:

1 x PCI-E x16
2 x PCI-E x1
1 x PCI

So I’m unsure if that card would work for me. You’d know better than I though.

PS is over 500 watts though, for sure. Need to grab s’more ram one of these days which should wake it up a bit. The Spectre patch seemed to hit this thing particularly hard. Went from somewhat snappy to wow this is a pig, seemingly overnight.

Edit: just realized you were talking about the PSU power outs when you mentioned pinouts, not the mobo sockets. Lol, n00b.

Unsure if my psu has those outputs on it. I’ll have to double-check, but I kinda doubt it does.

Nibby > LOREM IPSUM 05/21/2018 at 14:26

1

check that first

Nibby > random001 05/21/2018 at 14:27

1

¯\_()_/¯

facw > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 14:31

0

Soon I will finally get around to building a new PC. Wish Fractal Design made a version of the Define Mini C with a USB type C port (would be super cool if case manufactures in general worried more about features and silence instead of RGB lighting). Also would be great if DDR4 prices cratered in the next month or so. I think I paid $114 for my 16GB of DDR3 in 2011, so paying $300-400 for 32GB of DDR4 is a tough pill to swallow.

facw > itschrome 05/21/2018 at 14:32

0

Prices are coming down! Quite possibly I should have sold my 1070 when they were high and used the money to buy a 1080 now.

facw > winterlegacy, here 'till the end 05/21/2018 at 14:36

0

I’ve been using the less shiny P182 for over a decade:

Finally ready to move on but disappointed with the paucity of both Micro ATX cases (this seems like the best size, almost no one needs ATX anymore, but Mini ITX seems too limiting), and cases with USB type C ports.

LOREM IPSUM > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 14:40

0

Just popped the tower open and had a look. It’s a Cooler Master RP 650, which apparently has the two 6 pin connectors and 650 watts of oomph.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171014R

(Omg, snake, lol)

Nibby > LOREM IPSUM 05/21/2018 at 15:00

0

you’re in US right? if you want that GTX 560 shoot me an email nibby4wd@gmail.com

LOREM IPSUM > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 15:01

0

Assuming all looks compatible, let me know what ya need for the gtx 560 and I can paypal it to you or something of the sort. I’ve been meaning to upgrade this thing for a while now, and this should really help I’d imagine.

LOREM IPSUM > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 15:01

0

Canada close enough?

Nibby > facw 05/21/2018 at 15:02

1

fractal design makes some of the best clean cases out there.

i paid $110 for 32GB DDR4 RAM in 2016 and the same link on newegg is $332

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232252

Nibby > LOREM IPSUM 05/21/2018 at 15:02

0

yea i’ll probably have to charge a bit more for shipping though

LOREM IPSUM > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 15:04

0

That’ll work, shipping is what it is, unfortunately. Will send an email shortly. Thanks!

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Nibby 05/21/2018 at 23:15

0

Still not bad! I’m running a first gen Core i7 with 9 GB of RAM. It’s got to be at least 8 years old now. I don’t really game, so as long as it keeps running...

Nibby > BaconSandwich is tasty. 05/21/2018 at 23:40

0

ye and if you have an SSD all the more better

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Nibby 05/22/2018 at 08:32

0

I do. An Intel 240 GB. The machine is sounding a bit rough on occasion. A few weeks ago it failed to boot, but thankfully rolling back to a previous restore point fixed it.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Nibby 05/27/2018 at 15:42

0

ayyyy, we have the exact same graphics cards! Although I didn’t clean mine or apply new thermal paste, because I didn’t know that was a thing for graphics cards. Do you just take the plastic fan shroud off and clean the heat sink fin thingys?