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LennyLen

Member #5,313

December 2004

I've just upgraded my PC to be UHD gaming capable. The assembly went well - there were no space issues or funny hiccups, and the system booted perfectly first time.

The new parts I have are:

Motherboard: MSI X99A Godlike Gaming

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CPU: Intel i7-5930KM

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CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i GT

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RAM: 32Gb G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2800MHz

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Graphics Card: 6Gb Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 980ti

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I haven't had a chance yet to have a good sit down and get all the over-clocking set up, but even straight out of the box, games are running at 3980x2160 really well. I have Path of Exile (which is notoriously poorly optimized) running at between 250-350 fps.

Mark Oates

Member #1,146

March 2001

Now it's Edgar's turn to upgrade.

That's cool. The i7 has had a lot of staying power. Must be a really good chip.

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

Show us the assembled unit! :-/ My computer is still surviving so I have no desire to attempt to rebuild it anytime soon. Which is good because I also have no money for it! Hah! I would love to be able to play The Witcher 3, and I have no idea if my hardware could handle it, but since it is Windows only at this time I don't have to worry about that. I'll reassess my hardware when a Linux-compatible game becomes available that I must have. Or my hardware just fails. Whichever comes first.

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Chris Katko

Member #1,881

January 2002

My Athlon X2 @ 2.6 GHZ and GTX 560 SE are still going strong. Only the beginning of this year was it finally too slow to run a game... ARK: Evolved.

I'd love to upgrade, but money isn't there right now.

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Bob Keane

Member #7,342

June 2006

I'll be rebuilding a pc soon. I can't say the hardware will be impressive though. It's an atx and I could not find a lot of mobos for it. I did a search for memory modules but did not find any. I think the board comes with some though.

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Ariesnl

Member #2,902

November 2002

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jhuuskon

Member #302

April 2000

On the contrary, it's gonna burn if it wasn't for those fans.

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type568

Member #8,381

March 2007

I can't really imagine any reason to have i7 for home vs i5, but oh well.
The machine is very lovely. What's the check $?

Append: Oh, I love your ram. Everyone seems to understimate the importance of latencies on these chips, & cut corners where they shouldn't be cut(like having i7 with 1600mhz would be utterly dumb, and yet it's common).

Append1:
The oldest part in my PC now is probably the mobo - cpu - ram, which are from fall 2011. Nevertheless, I can't recall rebuilding a PC.. It's always replacement of the weakest/malfunctioning nodes of the chain.

piccolo

Member #3,163

January 2003

I wonder how much money the development teams spend into making the components look so flashy.

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type568

Member #8,381

March 2007

Intel doesn't seem to be spending much on that
The rest.. Well, some design. There's nothing redundant actually, at least nothing catching my eye.

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This for example seems a little too much, despite them saying it uses Formula 1 design to enhance cooling effectiveness :|

Bob Keane

Member #7,342

June 2006

Yay, my new psu came in. I'll be finishing my rebuild tomorrow!

bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

I got my new mouse home today. I ended up biting the bullet and bidding on a G9x on E-Bay. I got this one for USD$100. Steep, but I like these mice, it's supposed to be like new, and these mice usually sell for about USD$400! Unfortunately, I didn't win my bids on Das Keyboards which I needed more. :-[

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Bob Keane

Member #7,342

June 2006

Quote:

I ended up biting the bullet and bidding on a G9x on E-Bay. I got this one for USD$100.

That's more than I paid for my motherboard. I hope you got your money's worth.

<edit> My pc at my night job has is not getting along with my printer. Tech support has ordered a new computer.