Upgrade: Mobo/Processor? Or Mobo/SLI-GPU?

RealNeil · Apr 9, 2015

OtherSyde said:
Make that $390 because California rapes everyone with obscene taxes. Ugh. Why did I move here

One of the reasons I left there and moved to Virginia was taxes, car insurance costs, and house prices. (and my ex-wife) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I like the new setup.

OtherSyde · Apr 9, 2015

RealNeil said:
One of the reasons I left there and moved to Virginia was taxes, car insurance costs, and house prices. (and my ex-wife) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I like the new setup.

Thanks! Incidentally I'm a non-resident of Cali, so they get to nail me with the taxes on merchandise and internet orders, but not on property taxes or on automotive-related taxes; I'm registering my car in Missouri in order to avoid this, and may buy a house there as well.

[Ion] said:
I'd argue that with all of the 120mm fans in the front and top, you don't need rear fans. My Dell T5500 is like that; a pair of ~100mm-ish fans in the front and then it just counts on pressure pushing air out the back.
I assume you'll be mounting the WC radiator to one of the front fans?

Yeah, maybe you're right - with the four case fans, CPU fan, PSU fan, and two GTX 970 fans, I think eight fans should probably be enough to ventilate my case... I guess I'll just mount my radiator to one of the front fans when I get it.

thebluebumblebee · Apr 9, 2015

[Ion] said:
you don't need rear fans

Especially since they're 80 MM's.

rtwjunkie · Apr 9, 2015

If you DO want to fill those 80mm slots with Quiet fans that also move a good amount of air, I can only recommend (but very highly) the Vantec Stealth: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999602

OtherSyde · Apr 10, 2015

Well, my bank sent me a prepaid Visa cash rewards card for a few hundred dollars as a result of my spending ungodly amounts of money on my bank credit card over the last 5-6 years and it got here last night, so I went ahead and ordered a 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz RAM kit in silver, a Corsair Hydro H105 dual-fan liquid cooling system, and a tube of Antec Formula 6 Nano Diamond thermal paste to install it with. I'm now awaiting these upgrades, and will soon post to let you know if I screw up the installation and wreck my system lol.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233535
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181060
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835209059

OtherSyde · Apr 14, 2015

Just FYI, I decided to stop adding to this post and start an actual build thread here...

Again, thanks to everyone for the advice, I feel like I'm on the right track to a strong build now!

Twinto · Apr 20, 2015

you already get 960 for gpu
so I dont think upgrade gpu will be a good option

so upgrade your cpu and mobo will be the good choice
I do like the msi z97 sli krait edtion, nice board with cool white color!

OtherSyde · Apr 20, 2015

Twinto said:
you already get 960 for gpu
so I dont think upgrade gpu will be a good option

so upgrade your cpu and mobo will be the good choice
I do like the msi z97 sli krait edtion, nice board with cool white color!

Haha, you're little late... I already bought a 4GB 970. It was inevitable, since the 960 only had 2GB of VRAM, which just isn't enough for someone who likes to push their system hard. Also, the new case I bought is a Mirco-ATX case, so I couldn't use that Krait motherboard now anyway lol.

System Name	Home Brewed
Processor	i9-7900X and i7-8700K
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Rampage VI Extreme & ASUS Prime Z-370 A
Cooling	Corsair 280mm AIO & Thermaltake Water 3.0
Memory	64GB DDR4-3000 GSKill RipJaws-V & 32GB DDR4-3466 GEIL Potenza
Video Card(s)	2X-GTX-1080 SLI & 2 GTX-1070Ti 8GB G1 Gaming in SLI
Storage	Both have 2TB HDDs for storage, 480GB SSDs for OS, and 240GB SSDs for Steam Games
Display(s)	ACER 28" B286HK 4K & Samsung 32" 1080P
Case	NZXT Source 540 & Rosewill Rise Chassis
Audio Device(s)	onboard
Power Supply	Corsair RM1000 & Corsair RM850
Mouse	Generic
Keyboard	Razer Blackwidow Tournament & Corsair K90
Software	Win-10 Professional
Benchmark Scores	yes

System Name	Mainframe
Processor	Core i5 3570K 3.4GHz/4.3GHz Turbo (OC'ed)
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Maximus V Gene
Cooling	4 Apevia 120mm Blue LED Fans (Front/Top) + 1 80mm Rear Fan; Corsair Hydro H105 Liquid-Cooler on CPU
Memory	32GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz DDR3 (Silver, 8GB x 4)
Video Card(s)	EVGA 4GB GDDR5 GeForce GTX 970 SuperClocked
Storage	Corsair Neutron 240GB SSD/Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM
Display(s)	ASUS 2ms 27"/Dell 5ms ST2310F 23"/60" HDTV (All displays are 1080p)
Case	Black Corsair Carbide Air 240 Micro-ATX Box Tower
Audio Device(s)	Onboard Crap
Power Supply	ThermalTake TR2 700Watt
Mouse	A-Jazz Wired LED Gaming Mouse
Keyboard	A-Jazz LED-Backlit Gaming Keyboard
Software	Windows 10
Benchmark Scores	I don't even wanna try yet.

System Name	Main/DC
Processor	i7-3770K/i7-2600K
Motherboard	MSI Z77A-GD55/GA-P67A-UD4-B3
Cooling	Phanteks PH-TC14CS/H80
Memory	Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) LP /4GB Kingston DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	Asus GTX 660 Ti/MSI HD7770
Storage	Crucial MX100 256GB/120GB Samsung 830 & Seagate 2TB(died)
Display(s)	Asus 24' LED/Samsung SyncMaster B1940
Case	P100/Antec P280 It's huge!
Audio Device(s)	on board
Power Supply	SeaSonic SS-660XP2/Seasonic SS-760XP2
Software	Win 7 Home Premiun 64 Bit

Processor	Core i9-9900k
Motherboard	ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 6
Cooling	All air: 2x140mm Fractal exhaust; 3x 140mm Cougar Intake; Enermax ETS-T50 Black CPU cooler
Memory	32GB (2x16) Mushkin Redline DDR-4 3200
Video Card(s)	ASUS RTX 4070 Ti Super OC 16GB
Storage	1x 1TB MX500 (OS); 2x 6TB WD Black; 1x 2TB MX500; 1x 1TB BX500 SSD; 1x 6TB WD Blue storage (eSATA)
Display(s)	Infievo 27" 165Hz @ 2560 x 1440
Case	Fractal Design Define R4 Black -windowed
Audio Device(s)	Soundblaster Z
Power Supply	Seasonic Focus GX-1000 Gold
Mouse	Coolermaster Sentinel III (large palm grip!)
Keyboard	Logitech G610 Orion mechanical (Cherry Brown switches)
Software	Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (Start10 & Fences 3.0 installed)

System Name	Mainframe
Processor	Core i5 3570K 3.4GHz/4.3GHz Turbo (OC'ed)
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Maximus V Gene
Cooling	4 Apevia 120mm Blue LED Fans (Front/Top) + 1 80mm Rear Fan; Corsair Hydro H105 Liquid-Cooler on CPU
Memory	32GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz DDR3 (Silver, 8GB x 4)
Video Card(s)	EVGA 4GB GDDR5 GeForce GTX 970 SuperClocked
Storage	Corsair Neutron 240GB SSD/Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM
Display(s)	ASUS 2ms 27"/Dell 5ms ST2310F 23"/60" HDTV (All displays are 1080p)
Case	Black Corsair Carbide Air 240 Micro-ATX Box Tower
Audio Device(s)	Onboard Crap
Power Supply	ThermalTake TR2 700Watt
Mouse	A-Jazz Wired LED Gaming Mouse
Keyboard	A-Jazz LED-Backlit Gaming Keyboard
Software	Windows 10
Benchmark Scores	I don't even wanna try yet.

Upgrade: Mobo/Processor? Or Mobo/SLI-GPU?

RealNeil

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Twinto

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