BinaryData Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Yep got a new air cooler. It is booth good and sad when I came to the conclusion that cpu sppeds no longer matter. I came to the day I just can not justify anything more than an i7 4770k. I do even 7 or 8 virtual machines in VMWare Workstation! Still cpu not all used and it just won't slow down! Lol. Good raid 0 SSDs and ram for that extreme case with a moderate nvidia GTX 770 is more than enough for even Crysis. Some cpu fans ... looking at you AMD ... are terrible. A $40 one is very quiet. No need to OC it as an i7 4770 has 170,000,000,000 instructions per second! No you did not misread that. In the good old days of the 1990s it was the CPU as the bottleneck. OC your 486 and BOOM DOOM FPS would DOUBLE!! Today? NO difference at all. A nice case to show off is better if you are into this as a hobby. I can not justify the cost but it depends on your budget. If you have student loans to pay and a kid to feed you are an idiot if you do this make under $80k a year. Sorry Precisely my point. I'm getting into a lot of heavy programming, and graphics designing. I'm self-teaching myself a lot of things, including CGI. So having a nice beef CPU/RAM is nice for me. Graphics card isn't needed as much, unless I'm using HashCat, then it's nifty. I'll have an ESXi server for my VMs. Which is where I'll do a lot of my work. BudMan has helped me out a lot with my build for it. I should have a pretty nice setup when its complete! I won't get Water Cooling right off the bat, simply because I don't have the resources to drop on it. Getting a new place to live is slightly more important to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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