Help me build my PC 2016 Edition Catch All

We need a jpeg of the clown laughing at the guy from IT Crowd, but the guy needs an Intel logo over his head.

I need the 1600X give it to me

The Amazon best seller thing only lasted a few hours. The i7-7700k was back at number 1 pretty quickly.

The 1700X is still sitting pretty at second and the regular 1700 is I think fourth or fifth though. And one of AMD's other older chips is somehow still in the top 5 as well.

The 1800X isn't even in the top 10 anymore I don't think, but the amount of time it spent there given the price is pretty impressive.

*Legion* wrote:

I need the 1600X give it to me

You'll be waiting at least a bit. Still no date announcement for R3 or R5 chips.

Some of the hardware sites I visit have said they've never had this level of affiliate traffic for their Amazon links for Ryzen hardware. So at the least it seems a decent response from the enthusiast community. That has to be encouraging for AMD given how long the enthusiast community has shunned them.

Yeah, but for as long as they've shunned AMD, Intel has been price gouging them.

Plus, the hype is crazy for Ryzen. Most exciting thing to happen to CPUs in a long time, as you all know.

Guh well I guess I'm ok with that case getting here slow now.

If only they had done this instead of buying ATI, history might have been quite a lot different.

Thin_J wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

I need the 1600X give it to me

You'll be waiting at least a bit. Still no date announcement for R3 or R5 chips.

I know! It's driving me nuts. GIVE. IT. TO. ME.

Interesting price drops in Intel's chips recently. Putting the i7-7700K at just over $500 with the 1800X coming in at $699. So here it'll be a fight between the 1700X and 7700K.

http://www.autoworldnews.com/article...

If this ends up true with Ryzen and now Vega this might be the tech comeback story of all time.

TheGameguru wrote:

http://www.autoworldnews.com/article...

If this ends up true with Ryzen and now Vega this might be the tech comeback story of all time.

I really hope this is true. The PC enthusiast market has REALLY need more competition from AMD for years.

TheGameguru wrote:

http://www.autoworldnews.com/article...

If this ends up true with Ryzen and now Vega this might be the tech comeback story of all time.

Don't forget Polaris, that was the first shot fired. Right now there is zero reason to buy NVIDIA in the below-$250 GPU market, and arguably anything in the below-$350 market (any advantage the 1060 has over the RX 480 in DX11 is pretty well offset by the 480 in DX12 and Vulkan and the 480's healthy price advantage).

*Legion* wrote:
TheGameguru wrote:

http://www.autoworldnews.com/article...

If this ends up true with Ryzen and now Vega this might be the tech comeback story of all time.

Don't forget Polaris, that was the first shot fired. Right now there is zero reason to buy NVIDIA in the below-$250 GPU market, and arguably anything in the below-$350 market (any advantage the 1060 has over the RX 480 in DX11 is pretty well offset by the 480 in DX12 and Vulkan and the 480's healthy price advantage).

For sure the 480 is an amazing card for 1080P gaming.. even the 470 is amazing at <$150

Corsair has their AM4 brackets up.. looks like either Free or $4.99

http://www.corsair.com/ryzen

So monitor help. Got a 970 and want a decent monitor. 144 hertz and 24". Not set in stone. 400 or less would be nice.

TheGameguru wrote:
*Legion* wrote:
TheGameguru wrote:

http://www.autoworldnews.com/article...

If this ends up true with Ryzen and now Vega this might be the tech comeback story of all time.

Don't forget Polaris, that was the first shot fired. Right now there is zero reason to buy NVIDIA in the below-$250 GPU market, and arguably anything in the below-$350 market (any advantage the 1060 has over the RX 480 in DX11 is pretty well offset by the 480 in DX12 and Vulkan and the 480's healthy price advantage).

For sure the 480 is an amazing card for 1080P gaming.. even the 470 is amazing at <$150

Good news: My 480 just arrived from Newegg.

Bad new: I won't be able to install it until this weekend.

My case is leaving Germany and entering the hands of the USPS.
I'm scared ya'll.

FYI once I get my hands on some Ryzen CPU's I will update the thread to a 2017 version provided they end up being worth it. I can see the 1400 and 1600 ending up in the low to mid range builds. I think the 7700K still ends up in the $2000 build as the absolute best for gaming.

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The GTX1080Ti sounds great and they've not gone too nuts on the pricing - time to replace my 970!

In fact the pricing is aggressive enough it makes me wonder what they know about Vega...

Sonicator wrote:

The GTX1080Ti sounds great and they've not gone too nuts on the pricing - time to replace my 970!

In fact the pricing is aggressive enough it makes me wonder what they know about Vega...

Yeah, that Vega news link Guru posted looked a lot more plausible after seeing that price.

Yeah, I think I'm going to sell one of my 1080's before the value drops too much more.

Regarding Ryzen, something maybe a bit less than confidence inspiring? The much rumored Feb 28th date for the end of the press NDA was clearly not true. Still no reviews or verifiable third party benchmarks despite official launch being tomorrow.

*Welp, so much for my 1800X order?

Apparently despite the steady stream of Newegg orders I make all year long my credit card decided to flag this one and Newegg put my order on hold. Then it wouldn't let me change my payment information. Kept throwing some error. Threw in the towel and canceled.

Oh well. Guess I get to wait and see how things shake out now.

Maybe I'll drive up to Microcenter and see if they have anything available tomorrow.

Or maybe I'll just sit on it until I can get the cooler I want with the right brackets already in the box.

Thin_J wrote:

Yeah, I think I'm going to sell one of my 1080's before the value drops too much more.

Regarding Ryzen, something maybe a bit less than confidence inspiring? The much rumored Feb 28th date for the end of the press NDA was clearly not true. Still no reviews or verifiable third party benchmarks despite official launch being tomorrow.

*Welp, so much for my 1800X order?

Apparently despite the steady stream of Newegg orders I make all year long my credit card decided to flag this one and Newegg put my order on hold. Then it wouldn't let me change my payment information. Kept throwing some error. Threw in the towel and canceled.

Oh well. Guess I get to wait and see how things shake out now.

Maybe I'll drive up to Microcenter and see if they have anything available tomorrow.

Or maybe I'll just sit on it until I can get the cooler I want with the right brackets already in the box.

There's been enough leaks for Intel to drop their prices. As well it's shown up in official benchmarks outperforming the 6900K and coming in just under the 7700K in gaming benchmarks. It's real and if not a home run it's a triple easy.

That's certainly better than trying to bunt for a hit they've been doing this past decade.

So Nvidia announced the 1080Ti at $699 (I was thinking it was going to be more like $799 or $899) and slightly faster than the Titan (thanks Nvidia!!!). I still waiting for my EVGA $99 swap out for my 1080's to the newer cooler.. Now I'm wondering if EVGA will allow some sort of step-up right to the 1080Ti instead.

Ooh, both my 1080's are EVGA Founders' Editions. Wonder if I can trade up to a Ti.

I'd really love for this to be a grandslam for AMD. I was with AMD very early and stayed up through a 955 Black Edition but moved to intel because I didn't like the bulldozer. I've always hated Intel because of their price gouging and bullying tactics.

Ugh, so much new tech on the cusp of release that is going to destroy current pricing points. I'm really tight on my budget right now, I'll probably wait for Vega at this rate to make a decision.

What benchmark program can i use not only to benchmark my system but also diagnose the bottleneck?

I.E. i'm using a 660TI so upgrading to a new shiny 1080TI sounds reallllly tempting but is it cart before the horse because my cpu... ram... hard drive is already the bigger problem?

Well, different programs bottleneck on different things. Blizzard games, for instance, frequently bottleneck hard on CPU. It's more normal for most games to choke on video speed; because consoles have weak CPUs and strong GPUs, most games are oriented around shiny graphics and not too much processor power.

Unless you've got something really awful under the hood, replacing that 660Ti will probably do more for you than anything else. From there, you might well get further improvements by replacing the CPU/motherboard/RAM, but that's much more dependent on what you want to run.