The Power PC Thread [f*ck off consoles]

[Lal B3N]

Thinking of ordering this lot for an upgrade to my current setup. Would anyone make any changes to it? Budget is around £600ish.

Asus Z97-K - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle
Akasa AK-CC4008HP01 Venom Voodoo CPU Cooler
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

 

[DeeKay86]

My most recent build consists of the following:

Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower ATX Case + Airflow kit
ASUS ROG Maximus Hero VII Motherboard
Intel i5-4690K Devils Canyon (OC 4.4ghz)
EVGA GTx 970 SSC (SuperSuperClocked) edition w/ ACX 2.0 (OC to 1500Mhz) + Backplate
Corsair H100i Liquid Cooler + 2x SP120 Fans
32Gb Kingston HyperX FURY Ram 1866Mhz (yet to be OC'd) [2x White + 2x Red]
Corsair CX600M PSU (80+ Bronze Certified)
Samsung 850 Evo 1Tb SSD
2Tb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm HDD
1Tb WD 7200rpm HDD
Internal White LED light strips x2 (hidden)
Corsair SP140 Red LED Fans x 2 [Front]
Corsair AF120 Red LED Fan [Bottom]
Corsair AF140 Red LED Fan [Rear]

I think that's about it lol - very happy with this build so far!

Build Name: "Zeus"

 

[DeeKay86]

My most recent build consists of the following:

Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower ATX Case + Airflow kit
ASUS ROG Maximus Hero VII Motherboard
Intel i5-4690K Devils Canyon (OC 4.4ghz)
EVGA GTx 970 SSC (SuperSuperClocked) edition w/ ACX 2.0 (OC to 1500Mhz) + Backplate
Corsair H100i Liquid Cooler + 2x SP120 Fans
32Gb Kingston HyperX FURY Ram 1866Mhz (yet to be OC'd) [2x White + 2x Red]
Corsair CX600M PSU (80+ Bronze Certified)
Samsung 850 Evo 1Tb SSD
2Tb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm HDD
1Tb WD 7200rpm HDD
Internal White LED light strips x2 (hidden)
Corsair SP140 Red LED Fans x 2 [Front]
Corsair AF120 Red LED Fan [Bottom]
Corsair AF140 Red LED Fan [Rear]

I think that's about it lol - very happy with this build so far!

Build Name: "Zeus"

My Part picker link: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/8nhXD3

 

[Darren S]

Picked up the below for Christmas. Just got 22 days to wait now..... :smirk:

 

[Gareth]

Nice Darren, I'd be very keen to hear your thoughts on it, I want 2 in the new year.

 

[Pistachio]

After pouring a drink on my graphics card, I've been looking at replacements. I also kinda want a new motherboard so I can get a faster processor. And I would really like a 3D monitor.
So I priced all that up on overclockers, then I found that AMD doesn't really support 3D monitors

So I started looking at Intel stuff instead for all of the above, but it seems so much more expensive for the same specs. It seems like a lot of you guys are on Intel systems. Is it really worth it?

I'm at the point where my whole system needs upgrading, so now would be a good time to switch if I was going to

 

[DeeKay86]

After pouring a drink on my graphics card, I've been looking at replacements. I also kinda want a new motherboard so I can get a faster processor. And I would really like a 3D monitor.
So I priced all that up on overclockers, then I found that AMD doesn't really support 3D monitors 😧

So I started looking at Intel stuff instead for all of the above, but it seems so much more expensive for the same specs. It seems like a lot of you guys are on Intel systems. Is it really worth it?

I'm at the point where my whole system needs upgrading, so now would be a good time to switch if I was going to

Personally I have always found that going the route of Intel / NVidia is best for me.

If I were you I'd go Intel / NVidia now as well seeing as AMD as a company is not looking too stable right now.

 

[Wilkeh]

Picked up the below for Christmas. Just got 22 days to wait now..... :smirk:

I've been rocking mine for just over 12 months now Darren and I absolutely love it

Although, it did take me 3 units to get the one I was happy with with zero deal pixels. Where did you buy it from? Overclockers have the best pixel warranty from anybody else, however you'll need to check it within 28 days. Better get it tested before Christmas

- OcUK Exclusive Service: Warranty regarding dead pixels falls under ISO rules and as such dead pixels if very few are not an actual fault. But at OcUK we value our customers especially when spending such a large amount of money on what is a flagship gaming monitor. As such even if you only have 1 dead/stuck pixel and it has not gone after 3 days, we will class the monitor as faulty and exchange it for you at no cost to you. This service is exclusive at OcUK for Asus ROG Swift ONLY or other qualifying monitors! (Valid for 28 days from purchase)!

 

[Gareth]

Useful to know! (as much as I don't particularly like OcUK).

 

[Pistachio]

Personally I have always found that going the route of Intel / NVidia is best for me.

If I were you I'd go Intel / NVidia now as well seeing as AMD as a company is not looking too stable right now.

Best in what way?

 

[welshname]

Best in what way?

By same spec Intel vs AMD are you talking number of cores and clock speed? Because each intel core is currently wayyyy more advanced than each AMD core. So core for core at the same clock speed Intel wins every time

It's literally as simple as that.

 

[Pistachio]

Yeah I was going by the specs. I thought if they were the same specs they would perform similarly. So how do you compare them to know the intel version is superior?

 

[Pistachio]

Just as an example, which makes me laugh...

On overclockers, the most expensive AMD processor is £175 8 core 4.7GHz
For the same price you would get an Intel 4 core 3.5GHz
The CHEAPEST 8 core is £542 and it is a 2.4GHz

I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, I just understand it lol

 

[Wilkeh]

Just as an example, which makes me laugh...

On overclockers, the most expensive AMD processor is £175 8 core 4.7GHz
For the same price you would get an Intel 4 core 3.5GHz
The CHEAPEST 8 core is £542 and it is a 2.4GHz

I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, I just understand it lol

AMD MHz don't equal Intel MHz

 

[Pistachio]

AMD MHz don't equal Intel MHz

Wow I actually thought you were joking until I googled that

 

[welshname]

Yeah I'm not being biased. Genuinely AMD are so far behind with their processors. They are on such an old manufacturing process.

 

[Darren S]

Nice Darren, I'd be very keen to hear your thoughts on it, I want 2 in the new year.

Yeah - fingers crossed it's a good one! I've had my previous 27" Iiyama for several years now - but I think it's time I moved out of the 60hz zone.... :smile:

I've been rocking mine for just over 12 months now Darren and I absolutely love it :smile:

Although, it did take me 3 units to get the one I was happy with with zero deal pixels. Where did you buy it from? Overclockers have the best pixel warranty from anybody else, however you'll need to check it within 28 days. Better get it tested before Christmas :wink:

Glad you mentioned that m8 - I'll be opening it this weekend and testing it. I'd be a bit pissed if it did have dodgy pixels and I pushed myself out of the returns window, waiting for Christmas.

I got it from Scan, mainly because they are local to me and appeared to be around £40 cheaper than elsewhere. I would have liked to have gone for the IPS version - but at another £200 on top of this, it's a bit too much! Plus, I'm not rolling with 900 series cards yet, so I couldn't take advantage of anything north of 144hz anyway.

 

[Gareth]

Yeah I've upgraded to 980ti and as awesome as it is, I've no doubt 1080p 60Hz is hiding its true capability.

 

[Pistachio]

What about this as a first draft wish list. Any recommendations? I want it to easily handle GTA 5 and be somewhat future proof

Asus X99-Pro

Intel i7-5820K 3.30GHz

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 3200MHz

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4096MB GDDR5

 

[BoatNonce]

I think that'll be fine.

 

[Martin_172]

Yeah I'm not being biased. Genuinely AMD are so far behind with their processors. They are on such an old manufacturing process.

This!, Last time I had an AMD was an Athlon XP!!
actually I tell a Lie I have an AM1 Quad core Athlon 2.1GHz in my HTPC and I cant wait to replace it, but I'm too tight to until ive had 12 months out it!

 

[SharkyUK]

Yeah I'm not being biased. Genuinely AMD are so far behind with their processors. They are on such an old manufacturing process.

Another nod of agreement from myself, too. I worked on a substantial project a couple of years back whereby I was tasked with writing a high-performance simulation that would scale nicely across multiple cores and processors. The initial setup involved an array of 64 AMD cores. The results were disappointing. We decided to try an Intel solution but only had immediate access to a 16 core setup... yet it blew the AMD array into the weeds (using EXACTLY the same code and scheduling / tasking).

 

[Pistachio]

I've also added this cooler to my list. A single fan will be ok right?

Corsair Hydro H55 Quiet Liquid CPU Cooler

What about this as a first draft wish list. Any recommendations? I want it to easily handle GTA 5 and be somewhat future proof

Asus X99-Pro

Intel i7-5820K 3.30GHz

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 3200MHz

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4096MB GDDR5

 

[Gareth]

@Darren S

Have you checked out the ROG Swift yet mate? I'm going to order one from Scan also I think and then maybe a second shortly after.

 

[Darren S]

@Darren S

Have you checked out the ROG Swift yet mate? I'm going to order one from Scan also I think and then maybe a second shortly after.

Hi m8,

Yes I did - I brought it into work rather than faff around at home. Worked perfectly on the tests I did here - not one dead pixel!

Not had chance to actually try out any of the G-Sync features yet though. All the DisplayPort enabled cards here are the onboard graphics ones - principally Intel GFX. It does look a bloody good monitor though!

 

[Mikeyjp]

so, after upgrading my PC, i caved in and got a freesync 24" 4k monitor, after watching some 4k vids, i thought it would be interesting to buy or stream a 4k film but 4k content is more limited than i thought, but if i did buy a film, would i require a new dvd drive ? or do they run off normal bluray drives

 

[Gareth]

Hi m8,

Yes I did - I brought it into work rather than faff around at home. Worked perfectly on the tests I did here - not one dead pixel! :smile:

Not had chance to actually try out any of the G-Sync features yet though. All the DisplayPort enabled cards here are the onboard graphics ones - principally Intel GFX. It does look a bloody good monitor though!

Cheers D, going to order 1 now.

 

[Gareth]

lol, ended up ordering 2 by accident but I guess I may as well get them both now.

 

[Darren S]

lol, ended up ordering 2 by accident but I guess I may as well get them both now.

Lol - baller!

 

[Gareth]

Awesome monitors, unfortunately one is perfect, the other has a white spot / screen bleed mark so I'm sending it back on RMA, hopefully they will clear it and I'll have to re-order.

PITA

 

[Darren S]

Awesome monitors, unfortunately one is perfect, the other has a white spot / screen bleed mark so I'm sending it back on RMA, hopefully they will clear it and I'll have to re-order.

PITA

Ah - not good. Are you using them straight away? Not a Christmas present or anything??

 

[Gareth]

Ah - not good. Are you using them straight away? Not a Christmas present or anything??

No I'm using them straight away, I wasn't that impressed initially until I realised they needed to be set at 144Hz, then wow big difference! Switching back to 60Hz in games is comical.

You can just see it on this resized pic, i'm not sure what my chances of RMA are, its going to cost me circa £40 if they choose to decline it.

 

[Gareth]

I've also got an interesting issue RDP'ing from Windows 10 to older servers 2008 / 2003 full screen, the text rendering is unreadable etc, apparently this has been sorted in the latest build of Windows 10 released this week so I've got to try and get my build to that. If I use the RDP window @ 1920 x 1080 its fine.

 

[Darren S]

Wow - your monitor is properly broke. The red 'on' ring is replicated on your screen. :wink:

Yeah - a tricky one that. It does stand out - enough that it would bug me too. I haven't even sampled the 144hz loveliness yet - that I am looking forward to.

I'm wondering if there's any mods out there for running a few games in the vertical plane with the monitor swivelled at 90 degrees? Any of the Pinball FX games and others like Ikaruga would look amazing in the traditional arcade 'view'.

 

[Gareth]

If it was a £200 monitor I'd be replacing in a few years I'd let it go, but not on a £500+ monitor that will be with me for the foreseeable. I'll advise what happens, I could end up with it back yet.

 

[Wilkeh]

No I'm using them straight away, I wasn't that impressed initially until I realised they needed to be set at 144Hz, then wow big difference! Switching back to 60Hz in games is comical.

I had a mate who bought a 144hz screen for like £350 and used 60hz for 12 months until I pointed it out to him at a LAN once Needless to say he was stumped. 144hz is literally amazeballs.

 

[Snake182]

This is my current self built pc, Im changing from AMD to Intel on my build this Christmas which has worked out quiet expensive as im used to AMD's low prices.

 

[Ben.Block]

Water cooling is so cool. I managed to buy a pair of non reference cards that I can't get a full water block for. Not really sure what my options are.

Did you not fancy water cooling your cards?

 

[Snake182]

Water cooling is so cool. I managed to buy a pair of non reference cards that I can't get a full water block for. Not really sure what my options are.

Did you not fancy water cooling your cards?

yeah definitely but like yourself there are no water blocks available for my card unfortunately, I would like a pair of gtx980ti to be honest but il have to get them later in the year as I just blew ££££ on a new setup for Xmas, I decided to go with the Intel sky lake i7 6700k CPU which wasn't cheap.

 

[Snake182]

This is the bundle I ordered for my next build, going for a red and black theme. It just so happens that the motherboard I wanted was actually red and black as well ...perfect.