Stingray of pc builds?

"GeorgeyBoy" (georgeyboy)
07/15/2015 at 22:08 • Filed to: None

Opinions?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/R7j6bv

DISCUSSION (15)

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > GeorgeyBoy
07/15/2015 at 22:12

More ram dude.. 8 gigs won’t get you nowhere. 16 is minimum in a desktop.

No Prius Needed > GeorgeyBoy
07/15/2015 at 22:12

It’s a good build, but I would go with an nvidia card instead of the R9.

GeorgeyBoy > No Prius Needed
07/15/2015 at 22:14

I did until someone on the pcpartpicker forums swears the R9 is superior.

GeorgeyBoy > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
07/15/2015 at 22:15

Pretty much the opposite of what people told me. I have 16 in my laptop but people swear 8 is more than enough in a mid level gaming rig. O well.

Nibby > GeorgeyBoy
07/15/2015 at 22:15

Two things I would do... for such a nice rig, go with 16GB RAM and I would also get a monitor with an IPS display. It’s a bit more money but it is definitely worth it.

No Prius Needed > GeorgeyBoy
07/15/2015 at 22:17

It has more VRAM but it doesn’t perform much better than a 970. Also AMD’s driver support is atrocious.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > GeorgeyBoy
07/15/2015 at 22:20

Depends on what you’ll use said rig for I guess... I’ve got 8 gigs in my gaming laptop, 32 in my desktop. I do use them to edit videos and such though.. my 4 gig Macbook is NOT fun to edit videos on. Anyway, RAM is quite cheap, go for 16 gigs now, you won’t regret it.

mcseanerson > GeorgeyBoy
07/15/2015 at 22:20

I would get a 256 GB Samsung PRO SSD instead of an EVO. I do not trust seagate. I don’t know if I would invest in DDR3 for a new system. The reason for the SSD is pretty much all SSD lose a lot of performance if they are more than 75% full and I have an 840 PRO 256 GB and I struggle to keep enough free room.

DDR3 seems like a dead end to me and I would want to invest in x99 with DDR4 for the performance capability and the ability to upgrade and maintain a system based on that longer. I don’t know if you have a microcenter nearby but they offer really good deals on intel motherboards and processors.

GeorgeyBoy > mcseanerson
07/15/2015 at 22:22

Ugh more monies flying out of wallet. Will consider.

mcseanerson > GeorgeyBoy
07/15/2015 at 22:22

8 is enough and as long as you’re sticking with DDR3 that’s where I’d stay unless you get a really good deal on 16.

mcseanerson > GeorgeyBoy
07/15/2015 at 22:24

It definitely is but I bought an lga 1155 system and now if I want to upgrade my cpu or ram I have to buy a new motherboard, cpu, and ram all at the same time. I could definitely justify this build as is except for the hard drives though. You definitely will need a bigger ssd and a WD hdd.

Because Racecar > GeorgeyBoy
07/15/2015 at 22:25

Get rid of the AMD and the Seagate, double you ram and lose the CPU cooler unless you plan on overclocking.

GeorgeyBoy > mcseanerson
07/15/2015 at 22:27

The ssd was meant just for Windows. I really have no preference for regular hard drive, I just picked the best deal on Amazon.

mcseanerson > GeorgeyBoy
07/15/2015 at 22:29

Just Windows will fill 120 gigs faster than you’d think.

TheOnelectronic > GeorgeyBoy
07/15/2015 at 23:30

My thoughts:

As Racecar said, you don’t need that CPU cooler unless you plan on overclocking. CPUs come with a small fan/heatsink combo that will work just fine. The exception would be if you want less noise to get a passive cooler (massive) or a closed-loop water cooling setup ($$$). Personally, I have the latter and love it. As long as I’m not playing a super intense game, I can run my PC totally silent.

8GB is fine for general computing stuffs. For video editing or something, yeah, you want more, but if you’re not going to do that it’s superfluous.

That Power supply seems larger than you’d need for just one graphics card. Maybe with the rebate it’s cheaper than a smaller one, in which case you’re not really losing anything. I also don’t know that your card doesn’t require a lot of power. I vaguely recall AMD catching some shit for that.

I’m skeptical of that mouse and keyboard combo. A friend of mine always got the cheapest amazon keyboards he could find. After the fourth one in a year quit working he upgraded to a mechanical keyboard (Das) and loves it... even if I do regularly have to remind him where certain keys are. (They’re all blank). I’m not saying you need something super fancy, but especially with the mouse, you want something that’s comfortable to hold and use. I used Logitech mice for ages until I got my current Razer. It’s mostly just down to how it felt in my hand.

If your main focus is gaming, that CPU might be overkill. The only games I’ve come across that are CPU limited are physics-heavy games like KSP, Rigs of Rods, or BeamNG Drive. Even then, because a lot of games aren’t multithreaded (can’t use more than one core/thread), you’ll get better performance out of a dual-core than a quad. Quad cores, and buff CPUs in general, are more important for other tasks like editing, photoshop, rendering, etc... I went from a quad core to a six-core and my performance in KSP actually went down.

Oh, and depending on the type of games you want to play, you might want to pick up either a wired 360 controller, or the wireless adapter if you have a 360 controller already. A lot of games are much easier to play with a controller than KB+M