New rig prototype

[LowPolyOWG]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Memory: G.Skill TridentZ RGB 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($344.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 760W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($88.58 @ OutletPC)
Case Fan: NZXT Aer RGB140 (3-pack) 71.6 CFM  140mm Fans  ($84.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case Fan: NZXT Aer RGB140 (3-pack) 71.6 CFM  140mm Fans  ($84.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Keyboard: Corsair STRAFE RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard  (Purchased)
Mouse: Razer DeathAdder Chroma Wired Optical Mouse  (Purchased)
Headphones: Kingston HyperX Cloud Revolver  Headset  (Purchased)
Total: $604.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-02-18 11:33 EST-0500


Prototype list for a new rig when AMD's Ryzen CPUs are launched. I'm a *bleep* for LED lighting now and I wouldn't mind having something to light up my room in colours

[PZ]

Cool  looking forward to the final build

[LowPolyOWG]

Thank you

My rig is about 3 years old and I'm not going to retire it yet. Still, I could probably use the additional performance offered from AMD Ryzens and there's a lot of stuff my Haswell setup doesn't support (M.2 SSDs, DDR4 RAM and other new things).

I'll have to wait for benchmarks and if I get a summer job, I might retire my rig to go full red team

[Art Blade]

 

[LowPolyOWG]

The entire line-up have been leaked and prices + specs looks very competetive

[PZ]

 

[LowPolyOWG]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD RYZEN 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor  ($318.33 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X62 Liquid CPU Cooler  ($158.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-AX370-Gaming K7 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($209.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill TridentZ RGB 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($400.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 960 Evo 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($248.98 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Crucial MX300 525GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($144.49 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate IronWolf 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($129.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 8GB NITRO+ OC Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  ($240.39 @ Jet)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 8GB NITRO+ OC Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  ($240.39 @ Jet)
Case: Phanteks ECLIPSE P400S TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case  ($99.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 760W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($134.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($88.58 @ OutletPC)
Case Fan: NZXT Aer RGB140 (3-pack) 71.6 CFM  140mm Fans  ($88.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Keyboard: Corsair STRAFE RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard  (Purchased For $0.00)
Mouse: Razer DeathAdder Chroma Wired Optical Mouse  (Purchased For $0.00)
Headphones: Kingston HyperX Cloud Revolver  Headset  (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $2505.07
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-15 21:20 EDT-0400

Had a nice discussion with some employees from "Digital Impuls" (Basically Norway's Micro Center on a smaller scale). They were selling PC hardware at The Gathering and have done this since 2012. Komplett used to do this before, but that company evolved into a concern (cellphone subscriptions, banking and they seem to focus on web trading).

Octa-core Ryzen 1700 (I save 2000 NOK as the 1800X is basically higher clocked and I can OC the 1700 to be on par with it. The R7 1700 includes RGB air cooler). The goal is to make the PC look fancy so the majority of my parts features RGB lighting. RAM is 3200 MHz DDR4 with 14 nm CAS latency. Those are supposedly Samsung memory modules and can therefore deliver the frequency offered compared to 16 CAS RAM. Wich is made by Hynix and often delivers up to 2900 MHz.

M.2 SSD for the speeeeeeeeeeed. Originally opted for a "Pro" model, but the speed difference would be neglieble. Just a 100-200 Mb/s difference and I would pay twice as much just for extended warranty and a small speed increase. I guess GTA V/FH3 will load insanely fast. Standard SSD solely for Black Ops 3 and its mod tools (230+ GB for everything). Seagate 4TB HDD for anything else. PSU will be the same brand I bought in the U.S (some retailers in Norway sell Seasonic PSUs, even thought the price is double than U.S). Gigabyte motherboard which have a range of features for a reasonable price and RGBs. Will also opt in for a Phantek metal/glass case this time, it comes with RGB as well  Now, I wonder how the NZXT RGB fans will w0#k with this.

GPUs will be CrossFire AMD Vega when they launch. I plan for a 1440p 144 Hz FreeSync Monitor w/HDR2

[Art Blade]

 

[PZ]

That looks like a great rig! 

[LowPolyOWG]

Of course, can't wait until I can build it. 

[mandru]

Even though I won't use AMD products (in spite of the tempting pricing for these powerful new CPUs) I do like to see AMD take huge jumps in quality and processing power.

Competition is good.  To stay in the race this will goad Intel into upping their product development game. 

I'm old enough to remember when the competing Big Oil branded gasoline stations (ARCO, Esso/Exxon Mobile, Shell, Texaco et al.) would have pricing wars to lure customers into their locations.  On occasion we could fill our tanks for as little as .19¢ a gallon as compared to the typical 30-32¢ normal pricing and pick up some gimmicky pseudo-collectable give away item (usually logo branded plates or kitchen glass ware) for buying 10 gallons of gas or more.

But that was before the Big Oil companies all joined forces and started uniform price fixing.

[LowPolyOWG]

Indeed, we have been used to Intel's monopoly like scheme for like 6 years already... Also, AMD's latest release of the R5s litterally crush Intel on price/performance. You can now buy an AMD hexacore for the same price of an i5 Honestly, Intel haven't done anything new after AMD ballsed things up after 2011. The Sandy Bridge CPUs are still going strong (pretty sure that BinnZ's CPU is an intel-2xxx) and those OC like a dream. Later architectures just gave a measly 1-5% preformance increase over their predecessor. Didn't offered anything newer either for consumers, we were given just 2-4 cores (i3-i5-i7) and hexa-core/octo-cores was priced like 1000$. Why the heck do Intel offers dual cores in 2017?

The Ryzen line-up is very interesting and AMD are already helping 300 game developers to optimize their games for it. A game got like 30%+ boost to performance with a new BIOS and a Ryzen specific patch

[Art Blade]

that's massive

[LowPolyOWG]

Yeah, it would theoretically equal to an 18 fps+ increase in games (60 fps is usually the norm in PC gaming)

[LowPolyOWG]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor  ($289.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AX370-Gaming K7 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($191.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($406.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($234.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Crucial - MX300 1.1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($277.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital - WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX VEGA 64 8GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  ($699.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX VEGA 64 8GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  ($699.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Phanteks - ECLIPSE P400S TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case  ($95.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - PRIME Titanium 1000W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($258.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($89.89 @ OutletPC)
Case Fan: NZXT - Aer RGB120 (3-pack) 61.4 CFM  120mm Fans  ($69.89 @ OutletPC)
Monitor: Samsung - CHG70 31.5" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor  ($649.99 @ Amazon)
Keyboard: Corsair - STRAFE RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard  ($139.99 @ Amazon)
Mouse: Logitech - G502 Wired Optical Mouse  ($50.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $4156.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-15 17:20 EDT-0400


Alright, this will be my new PC Now, I'm counting down to Black Friday/Cyber Monday