Computer Forum Chat Thread

[Artorius]

Add another 200% to the price because of import duties because Brazil too.

Example of prices at a respectable store:



512 USD for a 4790K.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Example of prices at a respectable store:



512 USD for a 4790K.

holy jebus :/

[DeltrusDisc]

What you guys think of the new i7 Skylet possessor ??

See for yourself: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...kylake-is-here

- - - Updated - - -

I really want that LGA 2011-3 X99-E WS board from Asus, but its nearly 500 euro :<

Behold its sexiness:

/sexymobo

When the spec includes this PCI-E lane distribution...

seven slots: x16/x8/x8/x8/x16/x8/x8

Yeah, if I ever had to get another X99 system, for whatever reason, this motherboard would be something I'd eye. It is quite gorgeous!

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

When I get the new PC, I'm considering just getting a second 7950 or 280 and running crossfire until Q2 next year when the HBM2 cards come out. It just doesn't seem prudent to spend 600+ dollars on a new card now.

[Remilia]

I'm just going to wait, not going to bother a second card.

[Artorius]

Sincerely speaking I don't even know why I have a CF/SLI capable mobo...

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

[PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor (€404.48 @ Home of Hardware DE)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler (€85.00)
Motherboard: Asus X99-E WS SSI CEB LGA2011-3 Motherboard (€525.29 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory (€263.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Samsung XP 941 m.2 SSD (~200 euro)
Case: Silverstone RV02B-EW-USB3.0 (Black) ATX Full Tower Case (€190.00)
Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex Gold 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€149.90 @ Caseking)
Total: €1839.57
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-08 21:47 CEST+0200

There we go

Something like that. Plus the salvageable bits from this PC. It'd be interesting to see how good the auto-overclocking has got since the Z77 days (when it over-volted like crazy).

[DeltrusDisc]

... auto-overclocking? BUT WHY?!

It still is stupid.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Mmh. I guess you can do it yourself

I'm guessing that you'd want to partition the M.2 SSD for an OS partition of maybe 80GB and a non-OS but frequently used applications partition because of "lolsofast"?

[DeltrusDisc]

Can someone explain why people still partition drives? ._.

[Artorius]

Can someone explain why people still partition drives? ._.

Maybe they just like having more letters.
Or like being able to format the system drive without losing the rest

[DeltrusDisc]

Okay, I hadn't thought of that.
lol I've never partitioned, really. XD

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

It means that you don't need "yet another fucking drive" to be able to format the system drive without losing other stuff.

[Remilia]

Or just be like me and have a small OS drive and a bunch of HDDs.
4x 2TB HDDs 1x256GB 1x128GB SSD.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Yeah, I just don't know whether to just get a 128GB m.2 PCI-E 4x SSD for OS and OS-related applications/extremely frequently used applications, or get a bigger drive and split it.

[Artorius]

Yeah, I just don't know whether to just get a 128GB m.2 PCI-E 4x SSD for OS and OS-related applications/extremely frequently used applications, or get a bigger drive and split it.

I'd personally say that PCI-E SSDs are not worthy the extra cost.

[apepi]

Because when I installed Windows 10, it did itself...>.>

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

I'd personally say that PCI-E SSDs are not worthy the extra cost.

They do have the advantage of not needing to route more cables though

[Remilia]

So apparently skylake scales better with higher frequency + low CL RAM. Yeah no... not going to bother paying 50%-100% more just to finally edge out a tiny bit more single core performance...
Apples to apples RAM speed it loses out... what the hell...

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Kind of makes sense. DDR4 RAM has much higher latencies (basic kits are around CL15 compared to the CL9 of DDR3 1333/1600) and the timings are further apart; if you can drive those back down to DDR3 levels while maintaining the memory clock you'll see results.