I've got a desktop PC and not afraid to admit it thread

I've got a desktop PC and not afraid to admit it thread

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Jinx

11,345 posts

259 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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curlyks2 said:
24 lanes used, 40 spare. Another GPU will go in at some point.
Threadripper?

RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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It appears I have half a PC biggrin

Ordered most of the bits for a complete new machine from Amazon with a few from CCL and Overclockers, thanks to the PCPartPicker website, but it appears the Amazon stuff is actually from several different retailers, so at least 8 parcels in total. I'm away at the moment so I expect the wife to be quite annoyed at the amount of packages she's taking in by the time I get home hehe

Keyboard, mouse, case, power supply and SSD have arrived so far, and the processor and graphics card are apparently being delivered between 12:26 and 13:36, gotta love delivery companies idea of accuracy hehe

Slushbox

1,484 posts

104 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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RizzoTheRat said:
It appears I have half a PC biggrin
Yeah. No-one needs a motherboard. Just un-necessary expense. :-)

We desktop nerdoids look forwards to pix.

I'm getting on fine with my 'low-end' Dell Inspirater 3268 desktop. i5-7400 is snappy enough. DDR4 Ram prices though, £74 for an extra 8GB chip annoys. Now at 16GB.

I handle some big documents here (publishing). Loading a book file in Word with 400 pages, and a pic on every other page is now about five seconds, compared to over a minute on the old poot. This with a creaking spinning 7200rpm hard drive.

We also tried to crash the machine with a test Word file with 11,489,286 words, 20,900 pages. (About fifteen Bibles. ) It didn't. Also a monstah Excel test spreadsheet with 4.7 million cells, ditto.

Cooking with gas, as they used to say. :-)




Edited by Slushbox on Wednesday 3rd October 11:55

RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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Slushbox said:
Yeah. No-one needs a motherboard. Just un-necessary expense. :-)
Annoyingly that seems to be slowest item, they claim it was dispatched today but delivery is estimated 8-11 Oct. I reckon it must be coming from Taiwan by cycle courier. I'm not actually at home to build it until the 11th anyway so hopefully it'll arrive on time.

Mind you Amazon reckoned 1-3 months delivery for the CPU hence it coming from Overclockers instead!

leglessAlex

5,384 posts

140 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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RizzoTheRat said:
It appears I have half a PC biggrin

Ordered most of the bits for a complete new machine from Amazon with a few from CCL and Overclockers, thanks to the PCPartPicker website, but it appears the Amazon stuff is actually from several different retailers, so at least 8 parcels in total. I'm away at the moment so I expect the wife to be quite annoyed at the amount of packages she's taking in by the time I get home hehe

Keyboard, mouse, case, power supply and SSD have arrived so far, and the processor and graphics card are apparently being delivered between 12:26 and 13:36, gotta love delivery companies idea of accuracy hehe
Ohh, what're you getting?

I've recently built myself a PC, the spec is as follows:

ASUS Rampage VI X299 Motherboard
i9 7900X 10 Core
64GB DDR4 3000MHz
Nvidia 2080ti Founders Edition
Water Cooling of the CPU
1TB M.2 NVMe SSD boot drive
6TB Seagate storage drive
650W PSU
be quiet Silver Dark Base Pro 900 case

Just waiting on the 2080ti to arrive, it's got a 1080ti in there as a temporary card.

Yes, it's massively excessive, but it makes me happy. Plus, I shouldn't have to touch it for another ten years or so I hope. Six years at least.

RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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Somewhat lower spec than that, but considering my original plan was a Ryzen 5 2600 and a 6GB GTX1060, I've also gone slightly overboard with a i5-8600k and a GTX1080 biggrin I'm sticking with air cooling but apparently the Be quiet! Dark Rock 4 cooler should let the chip get close to 5GHz without any problems. Not that the stock 4.3GHz is likely to be underpowered unless I go mad in Kerbal Space Programme hehe

Biggest increase on the original budget though was from a 24" 1080p 75Hz monitor to a 27" 2k 165Hz G-Sync one.

Long term plan is to add a VR headset to it but need to have a good play on both the Vive and the Rift to see which works best for the short sighted.



One of my colleagues has been grumbling that his 2080ti was supposed to ship at the weekend but has been delayed. Crazy process though, that one card is more than my original planned (but subsequently smashed) PC budget!

Jinx

11,345 posts

259 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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leglessAlex said:
Ohh, what're you getting?

I've recently built myself a PC, the spec is as follows:

ASUS Rampage VI X299 Motherboard
i9 7900X 10 Core
64GB DDR4 3000MHz
Nvidia 2080ti Founders Edition
Water Cooling of the CPU
1TB M.2 NVMe SSD boot drive
6TB Seagate storage drive
650W PSU
be quiet Silver Dark Base Pro 900 case

Just waiting on the 2080ti to arrive, it's got a 1080ti in there as a temporary card.

Yes, it's massively excessive, but it makes me happy. Plus, I shouldn't have to touch it for another ten years or so I hope. Six years at least.
That 650W seems a little light with the water cooling and if you are overclocking (the skylake X's are very thirsty if you up the clocks as is the 2080ti)? I hope it's a good one.

curlyks2

1,028 posts

145 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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Jinx said:
curlyks2 said:
24 lanes used, 40 spare. Another GPU will go in at some point.
Threadripper?
Yes. 1920x.

Jinx

11,345 posts

259 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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curlyks2 said:
Yes. 1920x.
Nice. I was trying to hold out for a Threadripper Area 51 on Dell's outlet site but then my machine (7820X, 16GB ram, 1080ti, 256 M2, 2TB HDD) popped up for £2K (10% off if I bought that weekend - tail end of Jan this year when 1080ti prices were £1k alone). Now of course 1 or 2 turn up every week rolleyes


anarki

759 posts

135 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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I'm waiting for my Louqe Ghost S1 to arrive (only been waiting 11 months....) before showing any pics but my specs are:

ASrock X470 ITX motherborad
Ryzen 2700X @ 4.3GHz all cores @ 1.36Vcore
Corsair H100i V2 watercooling AIO
16GB DDR4 Teamgroup 4000MHz @ 3466MHz with low timings
RTX 2080 @ 2040MHz core / 15.4GBs DDR6
Adata SX8200 480GB NVME SSD
Corsair SF600 SFX PSU

Acer Predator XB271HU @ 165hz with Gsync

Quite a nice setup in a shoebox sized form factor.

leglessAlex

5,384 posts

140 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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RizzoTheRat said:
Somewhat lower spec than that, but considering my original plan was a Ryzen 5 2600 and a 6GB GTX1060, I've also gone slightly overboard with a i5-8600k and a GTX1080 biggrin I'm sticking with air cooling but apparently the Be quiet! Dark Rock 4 cooler should let the chip get close to 5GHz without any problems. Not that the stock 4.3GHz is likely to be underpowered unless I go mad in Kerbal Space Programme hehe

Biggest increase on the original budget though was from a 24" 1080p 75Hz monitor to a 27" 2k 165Hz G-Sync one.

Long term plan is to add a VR headset to it but need to have a good play on both the Vive and the Rift to see which works best for the short sighted.

One of my colleagues has been grumbling that his 2080ti was supposed to ship at the weekend but has been delayed. Crazy process though, that one card is more than my original planned (but subsequently smashed) PC budget!
That's a really decent build! I can't imagine it'll have too much problem with anything you'd want to play or do. 165hz screen too, so the gaming experince is going to be great.

Jinx said:
That 650W seems a little light with the water cooling and if you are overclocking (the skylake X's are very thirsty if you up the clocks as is the 2080ti)? I hope it's a good one.
Aye, the PSU is definitely on the light side, but I don't intend on overclocking it any time soon, it should be more than fast enough as is. I might have to move up to something 850W+ if I do overclock it. Of course, rather than overclock the GPU I might just get another one and add a 1000W power supply biggrin


RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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leglessAlex said:
Of course, rather than overclock the GPU I might just get another one and add a 1000W power supply biggrin
This was the problem I was having with my build. Lots of "Well it's only an extra £20 go up in spec for this component, and another £50 for that component..." Pretty soon you're nudging double the original budget hehe

kingBadger

194 posts

162 months

Thursday 4th October 2018
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My Founders Edition 2080Ti arrived at last - it's heavy! So I can finally benchmark and use my new PC build. I got it from Freshtech (who I've been really pleased with)...

Cooler Master V850 850W Modular Power Supply 80 Plus Gold
Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7, Intel Z370
Samsung 970 EVO M.2-2280 500GB PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe
Onyx RGB Mid Tower ATX 3 x RGB Fans Tempered Glass
Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240, 240mm All-In-One Hydro Cooler
Corsair 16GB DDR4 Vengeance LPX 3000mhz Memory
2tb Sata Hard Drive (to be replaced by a 970 Pro SSD soon)
Intel Core i7 8700K
+ Nvidia 2080Ti founders edition

Really impressed with the case, cable management is very good and the LED's are easy to turn off thankfully. I forget my Passmark score but it was a big number so it should be fine for Solitaire and I may even fire up Minesweeper. Can't wait for next gen VR systems to become available now.



Jinx

11,345 posts

259 months

Friday 5th October 2018
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kingBadger said:
My Founders Edition 2080Ti arrived at last - it's heavy! So I can finally benchmark and use my new PC build. I got it from Freshtech (who I've been really pleased with)...

Cooler Master V850 850W Modular Power Supply 80 Plus Gold
Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7, Intel Z370
Samsung 970 EVO M.2-2280 500GB PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe
Onyx RGB Mid Tower ATX 3 x RGB Fans Tempered Glass
Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240, 240mm All-In-One Hydro Cooler
Corsair 16GB DDR4 Vengeance LPX 3000mhz Memory
2tb Sata Hard Drive (to be replaced by a 970 Pro SSD soon)
Intel Core i7 8700K
+ Nvidia 2080Ti founders edition

Really impressed with the case, cable management is very good and the LED's are easy to turn off thankfully. I forget my Passmark score but it was a big number so it should be fine for Solitaire and I may even fire up Minesweeper. Can't wait for next gen VR systems to become available now.
Please tell me you have at least one 4K screen for the above...... Download this and really have some bench marking fun smile

kingBadger

194 posts

162 months

Friday 5th October 2018
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Jinx said:
kingBadger said:
My Founders Edition 2080Ti arrived at last - it's heavy! So I can finally benchmark and use my new PC build. I got it from Freshtech (who I've been really pleased with)...

Cooler Master V850 850W Modular Power Supply 80 Plus Gold
Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7, Intel Z370
Samsung 970 EVO M.2-2280 500GB PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe
Onyx RGB Mid Tower ATX 3 x RGB Fans Tempered Glass
Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240, 240mm All-In-One Hydro Cooler
Corsair 16GB DDR4 Vengeance LPX 3000mhz Memory
2tb Sata Hard Drive (to be replaced by a 970 Pro SSD soon)
Intel Core i7 8700K
+ Nvidia 2080Ti founders edition

Really impressed with the case, cable management is very good and the LED's are easy to turn off thankfully. I forget my Passmark score but it was a big number so it should be fine for Solitaire and I may even fire up Minesweeper. Can't wait for next gen VR systems to become available now.
Please tell me you have at least one 4K screen for the above...... Download this and really have some bench marking fun smile
Ah yes - forgot to mention screens - 2 x 1440p and 1 x 4K as well... all of them relatively small but I much prefer having more smaller monitors than one or two huge ones. Thanks for the link!

RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Wednesday 10th October 2018
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My new PC has arrived



hehe

TomScrut

2,546 posts

87 months

Thursday 11th October 2018
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My PC is a little unconventional in an attempt to get the best of both worlds in terms of CPU speed and RAM quantity:

Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 OC'ed to 4.5GHz on all 6 cores cooled by Noctua NH-D15
Gigabyte X99 SLI Mobo (the later one with TB3.1)
96GB of RAM (2133 RDIMMs)
MSI GTX 1080 Armor OC
Samsung 970 Evo 500GB
Corsair 300R windowed case
Cant remember the PSU, it was given to me by a mate. About 750W I think.
Plugged into my Samsung 4K TV which isn't ideal, monitor next on the shopping list!

The PC came about as I bought a brand new Dell Precision 5810 cheap on eBay back in April 2016, which had the CPU and a Quadro M4000 in. Sold the Quadro and went to the 1080 for about £75,would have bought a better 1080 but I bought it a few weeks after launch, and everything was crazy priced. Anyway ebuyer very kindly put some of these on at RRP which lasted about 20 minutes (I had an alert set) which I promptly pounced on! I tyhen got my 96GB of RAM on eBay (RDIMMs are quite good to pick up on there from server pulls) as I occasionally do FEA work on the PC it helps having good headroom on RAM. I think all 96GB (as the 16GB that came in the PC was 2x8, I run 6x16) cost me about £100-150.

Anyway then I discovered that the 1650 v3 is unlocked. So I bought the X99 motherboard (one with the RDIMM support, not all do) to allow me to OC the CPU (game wise I play a fair bit of Civ which is very CPU bound on turn times). I think it would be good for more than 4.5 if I was patient enough to tweak things further, I just changed the multiplier, power limits and upped the voltage slightly. The motherboard also gave me the M2 slot to go NVME with my drive so not long ago I bought the 970.

But from what I can tell what I have done is the most up to date way of getting an overclocked CPU with registered memory (on Intel at least), as the later Xeons are locked and the i7s and i9s dont support the RAM. Nowadays the consumer stuff supports up to 128GB anyway IIRC but that wasnt the case when I first ended up with the CPU.

Zod

35,295 posts

257 months

Thursday 11th October 2018
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Why do you need 96GB of RAM? No game will use that much for quite a few years yet.

edit - just saw FEA.

TomScrut

2,546 posts

87 months

Thursday 11th October 2018
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Zod said:
Why do you need 96GB of RAM? No game will use that much for quite a few years yet.

edit - just saw FEA.
Yeah it can't say I have seen it over 16GB in games. Whilst it's not a work PC I wanted to do some work from home and I got a bit carried away on eBay. I have had it full too before!

captain_cynic

11,876 posts

94 months

Friday 12th October 2018
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TomScrut said:
Zod said:
Why do you need 96GB of RAM? No game will use that much for quite a few years yet.

edit - just saw FEA.
Yeah it can't say I have seen it over 16GB in games. Whilst it's not a work PC I wanted to do some work from home and I got a bit carried away on eBay. I have had it full too before!
A fair few games still aren't even using more than 3 GB (the old 32 bit limit).

But there are heaps of reasons for using a lot of RAM, databases, GIS/Image processing, virtualisation to name a few.

I've only got a meagre 16 GB in my gaming PC, but it's enough to run a VM lab if need be.

My smallest virtual host at work runs 256 GB and 4 CPU (16 cores). Newest server has 1.5TB and 2 CPU (20 cores) and is 1/8 of the size of the former (blade vs 2U rackmount).