Geekgasm (new hardware)
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Sin317
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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Oct 2016 09:13    Post subject: Geekgasm (new hardware)


with my 2 970's Smile yay
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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Oct 2016 09:50    Post subject:
Excellent! Enjoy!


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paxsali
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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Oct 2016 10:53    Post subject:
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Sin317
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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Oct 2016 13:24    Post subject:
paxsali wrote:
I'm looking for Z170 mobos as alternative for a X99 build because I'm undecided yet.

Finding a good Z170 is difficult becuz there are soooo many, so similar.

How & why did you choose yours?

EDIT: btw... are those your feet at the bottom of the photo? If yes, how BIG is the mobo? Or how small are you?? Confused


Haha yeah those are my feet lol. The mobo is on a table tho, so it's all about perspective ^^. It's a standard ATX format.

Also, the mobo seems to be fairly popular and the specs are fine and also I got it for 90€ instead of 160 € . It's a RMA return, just the board, nothing else which is fine by me.
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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Oct 2016 18:20    Post subject:
Give me that i7 my friend, thanks.


Enthoo Evolv ATX TG // Asus Prime x370 // Ryzen 1700 // Gainward GTX 1080 // 16GB DDR4-3200
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Sin317
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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Oct 2016 18:55    Post subject:
Doing a lot of video encoding lately lol, so I really needed that upgrade Smile

btw. I went from

ASUS Z87-PRO
Intel i5-4670K
16GB DDR3

to the above
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OnBoard




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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Oct 2016 00:03    Post subject:
Sexy and nice place for the M.2 SSD if you plan to stick one there. Should get cool air too, unlike those that go below the GPU. edit: oh you got 2 GPUs, so it would still be at least half under Razz

I would have propably gone with same memory. Looks good, low profile and nice price, compared to others.

Be carefull mounting the 6700k, silly Intel almost halving the substrate from Haswell to Skylake, that thing is thin.

I just ordered a 4K IPS display, so waiting my geekgasm to arrive. Oh and single GTX970 (yeah, won't be playing BF1 in 4K, got to stick to 1440p resolution then.)


LG 27UD58 27" 4K IPS | ASRock Z87M Extreme4 | i7-4770K @4.2GHz delid/reseal | Phanteks PH-TC14PE | Palit GTX 1070 Super JetStream coming! - Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 | 16GB G.Skill Sniper 1866Mhz | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB + Kingston UV400 480 GB | 2TB HDD | Fractal Design Newton R3 600W Platinum | Aerocool DS Window White | Logitech G9x | Corsair K70 Cherry MX Brown (MX Clear spacebar mod) | W10 Pro x64


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Sin317
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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Oct 2016 00:12    Post subject:
All mounted and running fine. Used my trusty h80i from my old mobo, no hassle at all. Everything ran from the get go. Smile
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Danyutz




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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Oct 2016 17:44    Post subject:
Bob Barnsen wrote:
Give me that i7 my friend, thanks.


Why ask Bob, you has job now, a gazillion euros go to your account, you can buy.

@Pax, I got a non-gaming Z170 from MSi, my choice was based on price, idk if a gaming one would have done things any different.
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paxsali
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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Oct 2016 18:15    Post subject:
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Danyutz




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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Oct 2016 21:28    Post subject:
BF is 1.5 months away, can you wait?
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Sin317
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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Oct 2016 22:58    Post subject:
@paxali I am with you on most points. Not that I am against the others, tho, just they don't apply to me Smile

Anyway, for me, the most important part was the CPU and I absolutely wanted an i7 for the video encoding I do a lot lately. So next I had to choose a motherboard to accompany it. And since I was able to get the board for 90€ instead of like 160€, I jumped on the occasion, once I checked out how it performed in a couple reviews and it seems to be a good option. Personally, I couldn't care less about the "Gamer" tag.

However, I am a bit a mark for the "Pro" tag in Asus products since it usually means it has more "stuff" than the non-pro versions Smile

Anyway, for that price, I don't think I could have gotten anything better anyways Smile

Same for the ram, they're about the cheapest 16gb Dual stick combo I could find, without going into the value ram section Smile
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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Oct 2016 23:05    Post subject:
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