I went with: Asus pa328q 4k monitor Asrock z170 Pros4 Core i5 Unlocked 6600k Lga 1151 Crucial Sport LT 8GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 Radeon RX460 Cooler master Hyper evo 212 heatsink cost - about $1300 Reconstituted parts: Das keyboard Logitech Anywhere 2 Corsair gs700 power supply Cooler Master Haf X tower Western Digital 1tb mybook external drive 2 western digital 1tb 6 sata black harddrives raid 0. It took me 3 hours to remove my old motherboard and install all my new parts, but after I fired it up, everything worked. All I had to do was update my bios to raid and then f11 to boot to my thumb drive. So simple. Anybody in the market for a motherboard, I highly recommend this Asrock z170 pros4, cost $110, but it seems stable as hell and everything is laid out perfect on the board.
I never ever tried amd. I know people like them, I'm quite happy with my Pentium. However, the board is what I am most impressed with. This board is so stable and nice. And obviously my $850 monitor ain't bad either. But seriously this asrock board is fantastic.
No offense, but that is a horribly balanced system. Your graphics cards can't run a 4k monitor. An SSD is far and away the biggest performance upgrade you could have gone with. Even if to just put windows on.
Don't need an SSD and don't care about an ssd, and my graphics card can run 4k just fine. But for your information, if I wanted a gaming rig (which I don't), I probably wouldn't have bought an IPS moniter. Also, trying to run games in 4k on max settings is a money pitt (if that is what I wanted to do.) Also, if I were building a gaming rig, which I ain't, I would have bought a board that I could overclock. No offense.
your rig kind of sux. could have got a better cpu and gpu if you had just got a 1080p monitor no need for a 4k monitor.
My main reason for this system is to stream movies, Netflix, amazon, 4k content and to have a bigger screen with high clarity. The video card I have (if you know anything about it) is highly recommended, and an editors' choice, because it was positioned to be a card that will run all games (or at least the ones' everybody plays) overwatch for example at full 1080p. Though like I said I don't play video games. If I wanted to play video games at 4k all I really need to do is get an xbox one s and cast it to my computer screen. At $300 I'll have the best of both world's. Or I could add another video card and crossfire them together, but again, I never play video games.
Definitely should get an SSD. It makes everything so much faster, I don't understand at all why you wouldn't care about that. Like super perplexing. I'd also have gone with a 1440p monitor over 4K, but if you're not gaming then I suppose it doesn't matter. Also, why get an unlocked CPU? I'm assuming you won't be overclocking given your stated uses, so you paid extra for a k CPU, and had to buy an aftermarket cooler on top of it.
The unlocked cpu was on sale. As far as the ssd, I have never cared that ssd is faster, I need it to be fast enough for my computer and what I use it for. I could have bought 64 gigs of ram and an ssd card and a cheap moniter, but I ain't after that. Besides, the trend in gaming (just for your benefit) is toward games that aren't won by who has the fastest rig, then you have xbox moving toward 4k, and even play anywhere games where hardware will be server side rather than client side. I'd rather get a terabyte of storage for the nominal benefit that I might get from a 500mb ssd drive. Believe me, I am satisfied with my rig without an ssd drive.
Don't let all the negativity get you down brah. Yeah, your system isn't balanced and yeah it seems like you don't know what you are doing. However if you are satisfied with it, that is all that really matters. When you decided to make changes to your "rig", I am sure LarsV8 will be glad to help you.
Dual monitor setup > 32" 4k Just for comparison: Acer Aspire (7 years old) Dual 23" LCD monitor setup Dual-boot Windows 7 64-bit/OpenSuse Tumbleweed 64-bit 1 TB HD 8 GB RAM (upgraded from 4 GB) AMD Athlon II X4 645 @ 3.10 GHz
Dual monitor isn't going to help him stream at 4K. But yeah I have to stick to my guns that getting an SSD makes a world of a difference. To each his own...
An SSD is not a joke. 500MB of storage is a ridiculous hyperbole. SSD's outlast hard drives, are much faster with reads+writes, and have exponentially faster access times in comparison to HDDs. Loading from storage has always been a horrendous bottleneck, naturally upgrading the lowest common denominator will be extremely visible/noticeable.
