1500$ budget i5 6600k AMD RX 480 Please advise

[ASOT]

In 2020 AMD will launch AM4+ 24 Cores 36 Threads,SO wait ))))

Doesn matter AMD is always behind Intel everytime..those 8 core"fake" are slow then a quad on intel.

Future proof is marginally 1-3 years.. is ok,then become outdated,tech evolution is fast/high.

U never end have the last tech/pc for many time

The question are u ready to buy something or have money ?

 

[Kanan]

Asus strixx is very good but you need to manually correct the fan curves, because its simply set up too conservative stock.

 

[Toothless]

In 2020 AMD will launch AM4+ 24 Cores 36 Threads,SO wait ))))

Doesn matter AMD is always behind Intel everytime..those 8 core"fake" are slow then a quad on intel.

Future proof is marginally 1-3 years.. is ok,then become outdated,tech evolution is fast/high.

U never end have the last tech/pc for many time

The question are u ready to buy something or have money ?

Your math and wording in that post is so confusing.

How is it 24c/36t when hyperthreading is two threads per core?

Unless AMD can win the IPC war that "24c" chip will be weaker than a 6950x.

I'm not even going to try to understand or translate the other "points" in that post.

 

[ASOT]

If u see in the END I M LAUGHING ...

 

[Kanan]

Im pretty sure the 40% ipc uplift is true but Im not so sure about clocks, meaning it wouldnt be good for gaming but very good for professional use or servers. Gamers need ipc and then they need high clocks too.

Im somewhat skeptical if 14nm Samsung/GloFo is already that advanced, amd also said something about "the best is yet to come" - maybe 2nd gen Zen with high ipc and also clocks.

 

[slozomby]

Future proof is marginally 1-3 years.. is ok,then become outdated,tech evolution is fast/high.

there are plenty of 6-7 year old i7 9xx running around that are still fast enuf for gaming. video cards are the only part is obsoleted that quickly.

 

[ASOT]

True..HD 6990 is still a strong gpu,and so many exemples

 

[Cvrk]

Finally got the RX 480 & SSD HyperX Savage 250gb .
I went with MSI RX 480 Gaming X 8 Gb. Hard decision between the msi and the sapphire. Still don't know if i made the right one. MSI is the more silent one....well in gaming mode you definitely hear the fans, in OC mode it's quite loud and bothersome.

I really wanted to see for my own eyes the bottleneck that my cpu will inflict upon performance. IT'S HUGE!
Whatever fps you can get with a i5 6600k and the rx 480, divided by two, and those are my fps with the phenom x4 .....at best! I was expenting a max of 20 fps drop. Nope! From a 90 fps in Farcry 4 , i get around 40+ ( used to have 12 fps with my old card HD 5670).
In Grim Dawn i get 14-20 fps 1080 ultra! The game was unplayable! I had to turn all to medium and lower ress.
Last i tested Dark Souls 3 1080 ultra ,and got 25-35 with the RX 480(used to have 5-10 fps with the old HD 5670). People on the internet get around 60+ using a i5 skylake

The improvement with the ssd is huge, and strange at the same time. Everything is super fast now, and not so much. If i copy data from the ssd to my hdd ,it freezes and in a few seconds i see the end result successfully. Maybe it's writting to fast ?
I manually added a patch to a game. The patch was on ssd and game on hdd. The patch stopped working ,just froze. Had to close it with task manager,when trying to reaplly the patch was already done,all files where in the right place. I don't know. Maybe the hdd isn't capable of taking the data as fast as the ssd it giving it to it ? No ideea what is going on. Sure it only happend 2 times.
Will proceed getting the i5 and the rest of the componenets.
Report back for more updates.

 

[P4-630]

Hope you can upgrade your other hardware as well soon...
That case though....

I really like the looks of these MSI Gaming cards

I use AB with a custom fan profile, it spins around 1000rpm idle and doesn't spin much faster during gaming.
I don't hear much noise coming from my noise insulated case, it doesn't bother me much, most of the time I have a TV on as well.

 

[Kanan]

If the MSI RX 480 is too loud you simply have to set a custom curve that ends with 80ºc tops.

And yes amd gpus need strong cpus to work properly so old cpus and even newer fx are kinda disqualified for the kinds of rx 480 and upwards. Strangely enough amd Gpus work good with Intel cpus and nvidia Gpus work somewhat good with amd cpus.

Edit: also the ssd is probably slowed down by the cpu at least a bit.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

And meanwhile, who is super excited about amd new cpu "Zen" !? Release early 2017.

Not me. while I hope its successful for AMD to be competitive again, Bulldozer was hyped just as much and it failed hard as hell.

 

[Cvrk]

Hope you can upgrade your other hardware as well soon...
That case though....

NOooooo!!! I does not look that bad. When i had my old card in. the cable management (even tho the case had zero) was good. And it looks dusty, but i keep it clean. Every week i clean it.
Now that i had to pull out all the cables for extra supply to the card and ssd, it's kinda a mess. But not for long!

Will consider a custom curve for temp/fan thank you

 

[P4-630]

NOooooo!!! I does not look that bad. When i had my old card in. the cable management (even tho the case had zero) was good. And it looks dusty, but i keep it clean. Every week i clean it.
Now that i had to pull out all the cables for extra supply to the card and ssd, it's kinda a mess. But not for long!

Will consider a custom curve for temp/fan thank you

But you will upgrade the case as well right?
Or is that the last thing you'll buy?

All new hardware, new case

 

[HD64G]

Lower the voltage of GPU core to 1.05V using sapphire trixx or msi afterburner (download the latest versions to be able to configure RX480). Lower temps and noise without losing any performance at all.

 

[Marstg]

I think your first tactical mistake is to go for a monitor with a GPU sync technology. And if you go with a k sku cpu why not get a mild overclock done anyway? What is with the I am getting an unlocked cpu but I won't overclock trend? Especially when you want to throw a 1.5k on the build?

 

[Cvrk]

I think your first tactical mistake is to go for a monitor with a GPU sync technology. And if you go with a k sku cpu why not get a mild overclock done anyway? What is with the I am getting an unlocked cpu but I won't overclock trend? Especially when you want to throw a 1.5k on the build?

It was gsync vs freesync. Amd won the battle.
I have been thinking about it very strongly. that i5-6600k should be at least a bit oc'd right? It would be a waste of performance and a very powerfull cooler Be!quite dark rock pro. So in this case Z170 is the only option. Thing is those bords are expensive.
And i don't know what to do cuz i can;t find strong advice on this matter anywhere. A high end B150 vs a mid low end Z170 motherboard. The price is absolutely the same.
It would have to bee something like this http://www.emag.ro/placa-de-baza-msi-socket-1151-z170-a-pro/pd/DGZWSYBBM/
P.S. I can not afford a high end z170.

 

[Kanan]

If you don't want to oc take a 6700k instead (has high clocks from the start).
Yes it's supposed to be oced. If you can afford a Z board then go for the 6600k if not you can easily take a cheaper board and buy 6700k instead - I even think it's better. Hyper threading helps.

 

[Marstg]

Why do you limit yourself to a monitor? Space restraints? I am gaming on a 55" 120Hz TV, no smart module. I could easily play on a 60Hz refresh panel just as well. Your configuration could look like this. http://pcpartpicker.com/list/xXfqRG But for the GPU I would have gone for a gtx 1060 3GB especially that you want to play at 1080p only if the monitor would not have already been bought.

 

[Toothless]

Why do you limit yourself to a monitor? Space restraints? I am gaming on a 55" 120Hz TV, no smart module. I could easily play on a 60Hz refresh panel just as well. Your configuration could look like this. http://pcpartpicker.com/list/xXfqRG But for the GPU I would have gone for a gtx 1060 3GB especially that you want to play at 1080p only if the monitor would not have already been bought.

Games on 1080p are maxing out 3GB vram.

 

[Marstg]

Games on 1080p are maxing out 3GB vram.

Not all. Have you seen the review? And it does 60FPS in most games.

 

[Toothless]

Not all. Have you seen the review? And it does 60FPS in most games.

Not all but who is to say new games won't?

 

[Cvrk]

If you don't want to oc take a 6700k instead (has high clocks from the start).
Yes it's supposed to be oced. If you can afford a Z board then go for the 6600k if not you can easily take a cheaper board and buy 6700k instead - I even think it's better. Hyper threading helps.

So z170 i5 and go oc. Or cheap 1151 socket b150 ( i guess ) and go i7 ?

Will z170 with higer freg ram and oc i5 be more stronger than i7 stock ram ? The price is the same...but witch one would be better? Thing is i7 is expensive...even with cheap board the i7 build would go over the budget

 

[P4-630]

So z170 i5 and go oc. Or cheap 1151 socket b150 ( i guess ) and go i7 ?

Will z170 with higer freg ram and oc i5 be more stronger than i7 stock ram ? The price is the same...but witch one would be better? Thing is i7 is expensive...even with cheap board the i7 build would go over the budget

@GreiverBlade owns a i5 6600K with GTX1070 and as far as I know he's pretty happy with it.

Edit: You don't need an i7 with your RX480.

 

[ASOT]

@P4-630 If he wants i7 let take...but only bla bla words..dont u see how hard he pick parts ))))

Dude get h110m if poor and no oc,any i5 6400/6500 and ddr4 2133 16 gb

OR

Z170 mobo 6600K + OC + Ram 3000+ 16 gb and GG!

PS: Better take GTX 1060 6gb,but u rush ...and pick bad

 

[Cvrk]

With this board witch is Micro ATX http://www.emag.ro/placa-de-baza-msi-socket-1151-ddr4-h110m-pro-vd/pd/DDHSLYBBM/
+ i7 6700k + normal XFury ddr4 ram 16 gb the price is 553$

With z170 atx board http://www.emag.ro/placa-de-baza-msi-socket-1151-z170-a-pro/pd/DGZWSYBBM/
+ i5 6600k + normal ram the price is 521$
With all this but more powerfull ram http://www.emag.ro/memorie-corsair-...xmp-2-0-red-cmk16gx4m2b3000c15r/pd/DNKFH3BBM/ the price is 543$

Witch is the best choice ?


P.S. is there a problem if its micro atx ?