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maxspsound wrote:Welcome to the Tech Report!Hey Y'all,
maxspsound wrote:That is a very small hard-drive. If you're going to go to the trouble of including a spinning hard-disk drive in your PC, I believe that you should get one that holds at least 3.0 TB. If you just need a tiny drive, use an SSD.Western Digital WD1003FZEX Black 1TB SATA3 6GB/S 7200RPM 64MB Cache 3.5in Hard Drive OEM
maxspsound wrote:I'm going to agree with what DPete27 said about size. Micro-ATX's four PCIe slots are plenty for most of us. I like the Silverstone Temjin TJ08-E. You might also like the Cooler Master Silencio 352.Fractal Design Define R5 ATX Tower Case
In another thread, I wrote:If you have a need for the six or seven slots offered by ATX, consider a $113 MSI Z170A SLI Plus, $125 Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 3, $128 Asus Z170 Pro Gaming or $150 ASRock Z170 Extreme4. All of those Z170 motherboards support overclocking with a "K" processor. If you will never overclock and you still need to install six PCIe cards, then the $103 Asus H170 Pro Gaming offers a full set of features with the H170 chipset.
maxspsound wrote:With Skylake, you have two memory channels. If you want 32 GiB, start with 2x 16 GiB instead of 4x 8 GiB. You can expand to 4x 16 GiB later if you need that much memory.G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series F4-2133C15Q-32GVR DDR4 2133MHZ 32GB(8GBX4) Memory Kit
JustAnEngineer wrote:$105¼ 2x 16 GiB PC4-19200 G.Skill F4-2400C15D-32GIS (DDR4-2400, 15-15-15-35, 1.2 V)
maxspsound wrote:NOISE ! : I can't seem to find anywhere that gives me decent info on noise and cooling, how do i know what i'm buying is quiet ? I took the Fractal case for that and the cooler as well, but i don't know what else i shoudl add... More fans ? quiet ones ?
derFunkenstein wrote:Prices are quite a bit better now than they were a year ago.I have a total of 32 GiB of memory (in a pair of 16 GiB modules, which wasn't cheap.
maxspsound wrote:Samsung 850 EVO 500GB M.2 SATA3 (Was 20$ cad more than the regular SSD, so i decided to try it)
Western Digitial WD2003FZEX Black 2TB SATA 6GB/S 7200RPM
maxspsound wrote:NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970
maxspsound wrote:Hey Y'all,
My questions are as follows,
- Is skylake really my best best? I would need something that handles "gaming" for 3D Engine, but also runnign audio editing software which uses a lot of plugins (CPU), Is More core the way to go ? Or is skylake fine ?
Thanks !!