Planning an Intel/nVidia build for many uses

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Guess I did have time. That was faster than I thought.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:So, a slight change in my financial situation has a really high chance of happening over the summertime. I've applied to a special program that has an extremely high chance of finding people a job, but limits their weekly income and forces them to stop working once they return to school, designed for students, and limited to my age group

Just get a real job!

kinkinkijkin Wrote:(no, I'm not actually going to disclose my actual age here yet, it's easy to find on the internet, though, if you know where to look, so the site can just think that I'm 24 for now).

Nobody cares.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:a greedy, self-centered layabout who should probably go kill himself (it's not me, by the way),

Good to know.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:I've run some numbers, and, realistically, I have a budget of $2900 CAD for this build by the end of the summer time

You can buy pretty much anything for that much.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:once you take away the rest of the $5850 to account for drinking.

How the fuck are you going to spend that much on alcohol? Are you going to be drinking nothing but wine from the 1950s?

kinkinkijkin Wrote:for people who aren't constantly cold),

Canadian problems. Come to the tropics. We have stable temperatures and lots of mosquitoes.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:with Intel and nVidia parts, for only $2500 (taken off another bit for other vices).

I would ask you to reconsider that restriction. People have a right to recommend you an AMD GPU if it is deemed better for your needs. Unless you have a specific need for nvidia GPUs (which if that is the case you need to elaborate on this) AMD GPUs are better suited to your needs since you plan on using dolphin.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:I've started compiling a little list on PCPartPicker, but I need help doing this. It will be MONTHS before I'm able to even dream of buying this, but, as I've pretty much copied and pasted multiple times over on Overclock.net:

By then prices and parts will be different.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:Currently, I'm starting low on it. But, as soon as I've picked viable parts for each spot, I wanna start moving up. Save each budget rung as well, just in case.

I have no idea what this means.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:Please don't mention power supplies unless you are going to be VERY thorough in it, including comparing scores given to the power supplies by reputable reviewers, price comparisons, and at least a small amount of trying to tell me that it would look better.

No deal.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:- Small form-factor

Why?

kinkinkijkin Wrote:- No HDDs (ignore the HDD in the list already, this is something I wanna work up to)

What do you plan on using for now? What is your end goal?

kinkinkijkin Wrote:- Relatively easy to bring to another room in the house (meaning wifi, and possibly light weight)

Why?

kinkinkijkin Wrote:- Not-immense power requirements - Make it like the turd-burster (my current computer) is now, but because of efficiency, not crappiness

This is extremely vague.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:Do not recommend me mice or keyboards, please. If I get a new mouse, I already know exactly which one, and I've already chosen the keyboard with no chance of changing my mind

Your loss.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:I need a 16:10 resolution

Why? This completely rules out all of the best options on the market including the 2560 x 1440 and 3840 x 2160 panels.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:god I hope someone doesn't just run into this thread and exclaim that I need to buy a 4670k, that's not really productive anymore at this point. I only need a processor capable of keeping up with my GPU, and playing my small collection of light GC/Wii games in dolphin.

You set your budget at 2900CAD and you expect people not to recommend you the best cpu for what your trying to do which is easily affordable within those constraints? You would have to be criminally stupid not to recommend the 4670K under this scenario.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:Oh, and it needs to be able to compile lots of java quickly, that's the language that my current projects are in, and I'm not about to rewrite them to a superior language just because it'll perform faster, compile faster, be easier to debug, and give me more lower-level options than java would

Your loss.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:god I hope someone doesn't just run into this thread and tell me that I need to wait for the new haswells to come out to make this list

Well....what did you expect? Obviously if better cpus come out you'll want to reevaluate your choices.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:Is there a Xeon that's equivalent to the 4670?

No. And if there was you wouldn't want it.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:If anything, though, I plan to REDUCE the stock clock a little bit, so that it doesn't get as hot.

That serves absolutely no benefit and will reduce your performance.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:Excess, when it comes to PSUs, is actually better, unlike most things in a computer (but you probably already knew that, didn't you?). To me, the farther I go above the computer's max pull with the PSU, the better. Especially after my bout with cheap, golden PSUs with "550w dual fans". So, I'm not going to buy an Antec Green 320D for a computer that pulls a full 200w. I would, however, use it for an HTPC which pulls 84w at load, and 12w idle.

Buying extremely high end PSUs for a low load system is both less efficient and a waste of money. The electrical savings will never pay back the higher cost of the PSU and PSUs tend to lose efficiency when their load drops below 50% (as will be the case most of the time in this scenario). So you might not even gain any efficiency at all. Your own links confirm this. He's just trying to save you money.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:I've made some changes. I WAS going to change the GPU for a 780, since I do some GPU-heavy things, but I decided not to when I saw how much higher the price went.

What about the 770, 760, and 660? Just because the 780 is too expensive doesn't mean you have to drop it all the way down to a 750.