Looks good, like the plan
As mentioned earlier, this is basically spending money for the sake of spending money. Not only will you see no significant benefit in the real world, but you've also closed your opportunity to upgrade to 64GB; if you wanted to do that, you'd have to buy a completely new set, rather than just being able to buy another set of 2 matched DIMMs off of eBay 5 years down the line
Looks good to me. Keep in mind that the only thing the software controls is the lighting of the fans (and maybe the pump speed? That'd be more up to the motherboard, though). So if you wanted to just use the controller box to set it once, without syncing with the rest of the lighting necessarily, that'd be fine. Otherwise, if you're certain you'll be using an Asus motherboard, get a cooler with fans that say they support "Aura Sync"
I guess I'm a little confused as to why you're not going with the PSU the parametric filter recommended in my revision; again, there's spending to get a better value, and then there's just plain wasteful spending
Same applies here; the 970 line just isn't a big enough step up from the 960 line to justify the enormous price leap
I gotta say, I'm a bit amused by the fact that you say you didn't like the case I picked out, then picked the exact same one that I did, but with RGB fans and a white interior
Looks good, like the plan
As mentioned earlier, this is basically spending money for the sake of spending money. Not only will you see no significant benefit in the real world, but you've also closed your opportunity to upgrade to 64GB; if you wanted to do that, you'd have to buy a completely new set, rather than just being able to buy another set of 2 matched DIMMs off of eBay 5 years down the line
Looks good to me. Keep in mind that the only thing the software controls is the lighting of the fans (and maybe the pump speed? That'd be more up to the motherboard, though). So if you wanted to just use the controller box to set it once, without syncing with the rest of the lighting necessarily, that'd be fine. Otherwise, if you're certain you'll be using an Asus motherboard, get a cooler with fans that say they support "Aura Sync"
I guess I'm a little confused as to why you're not going with the PSU the parametric filter recommended in my revision; again, there's spending to get a better value, and then there's just plain wasteful spending
Same applies here; the 970 line just isn't a big enough step up from the 960 line to justify the enormous price leap
I gotta say, I'm a bit amused by the fact that you say you didn't like the case I picked out, then picked the exact same one that I did, but with RGB fans and a white interior
Gotcha. If you want advice in terms of picking best frequency/CAS latency, you'd need to talk to someone else, because my knowledge there is pretty basic and entirely theoretical. That said, I definitely can't justify spending almost $200 more on a kit just for what is on paper supposedly a 10% theoretical gain with no real-world benefit
"Headroom" was referring to more wattage; both the units we're comparing are 750 watts, which should be more than enough to drive this system with overclocking as long as we aren't talking about adding extra GPUs. Titanium vs. Platinum should realistically save you a few cents per month on your power bill, but that's the only real-world gain. Unless the warranty period is longer on the titanium.
I'd chalk it up to marketing. That may be the case, and I'll look into it, but again that's not something that I would personally be able to justify paying over 33% more for
What's the issue with the ports being on the side, if I may ask? My set up (which isn't with this case, but it would accommodate it) is that my PC is on my desk to the right of my monitor, and depending on if I'm at my dorm or home it's either pushed sideways so the window is facing me or at a 45 degree angle to save some horizontal space on the desk
Was it this thread? https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/5p1gkj/when_choosing_ram_does_cas_latency_matter/
Either works, though IDK what the x2000 is. Probably just to make the number larger. Speed / latency higher is better, latency / speed lower is better.
Not for sure, but the 2000 might be converting picoseconds to nanoseconds?... Dunno where the 2 is coming from though
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