Hardware Best Gaming PC Setup!!

[SirNapkin1334]

got a 1080ti overclocked by factory + 7700k + 3 hdds + nvme +280mm AIO in load this thing doesn't go over 600 watts both in games or running miners

Really? Sources say otherwise. I was talking about multiple cards, you know.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Good lord guys let's wait until his friend gets back to him about pricing and stuff. It's really quite useless to keep throwing suggestions that are very similar into a heap of posts that aren't even going to be looked at for a few days at this point

 

[kumikochan]

If you want to put a good pc together and seeing that you're from the states where there is no consumer protection and prices go up due to miners i would recommend getting a titan xp since you can buy that normal price and isn't money wasted compared to other cards. I also would advice to wait a bit for the new ryzen+ or the new line of intel chips seeing that 8700k chips still use 1151 wich will be obsolete with the new line of chips that come out and you basicly waste money on another motherboard again. Go for the titan xp and not a 1070,1080 or TI and if you really can't wait get an 8700k. Also don't go with the hype of having a PSU gold line up, i've been using a non gold variant for over 6 years now and still goes strong

 

[Kioku]

If you want to put a good pc together and seeing that you're from the states where there is no consumer protection and prices go up due to miners i would recommend getting a titan xp since you can buy that normal price and isn't money wasted compared to other cards. I also would advice to wait a bit for the new ryzen+ or the new line of intel chips seeing that 8700k chips still use 1151 wich will be obsolete with the new line of chips that come out and you basicly waste money on another motherboard again. Go for the titan xp and not a 1070,1080 or TI and if you really can't wait get an 8700k

That's... Bad advice... The video card anyways...

 

[kumikochan]

That's... Bad advice... The video card anyways...

Why is that bad advice and everybody telling him to buy a 1080 or 1080 Ti while the titan xp cost the same ? And buying an 8700k right now is bad advice ? Are you kidding me atleast with the next line up you'll be sure that your motherboard will be supported another generation while 1151 will not. Totally curious why that would be bad advice

 

[Xabring]

IF "best bang for your buck" means "best correlation between price and perfomance" AND prices aren't a concern.
I guess I'd go for this:

Core i3-8350K
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GTX 1080 Ti (nuff said)
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860 Evo 2TB (IF you use traditional Sata, that is)
or
and/or Any mechanical drive adobe 1TB and a SSD of 512 GB or more.
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16 Gigs of RAM
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A motherboard that supports them and has a USB type C connection or something.

if I miss something....
but that's what I might do...if again, prices aren't a concern. AND use it EXCLUSIVELY for gaming.

 

[Kioku]

Why is that bad advice and everybody telling him to buy a 1080 or 1080 Ti while the titan xp cost the same ? And buying an 8700k right now is bad advice ? Are you kidding me atleast with the next line up you'll be sure that your motherboard will be supported another generation while 1151 will not

Wait, for some reason I was thinking Titan V...

Also, there's no reason to not buy an 8700k.. Unless the price scares you. The advice "just wait" hardly bears any positive outcomes anymore. Considering my 4790k is still more than enough by today's standards. He may as well never buy a PC with that logic.

 

[kumikochan]

IF "best bang for your buck" means "best correlation between price and perfomance" AND prices aren't a concern.
I guess I'd go for this:

Core i3-8350K
-
GTX 1080 Ti (nuff said)
-
860 Evo 2TB (IF you use traditional Sata, that is)
or
and/or Any mechanical drive adobe 1TB and a SSD of 512 GB or more.
-
16 Gigs of RAM
-
A motherboard that supports them and has a USB type C connection or something.

if I miss something....
but that's what I might do...if again, prices aren't a concern. AND use it EXCLUSIVELY for gaming.

No a 1080 ti goes around 1200 dollars now while a titan xp on nvidia.com also goes for 1200 dollars

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Wait, for some reason I was thinking Titan V...

Also, there's no reason to not buy an 8700k.. Unless the price scares you. The advice "just wait" hardly bears any positive outcomes anymore. Considering my 4790k is still more than enough by today's standards. He may as well never buy a PC with that logic.

I upgrade every 2 generations and he might 2 so buying a 1151 chip now would be stupid since the 8700k will be the last of those.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Good lord guys let's wait until his friend gets back to him about pricing and stuff. It's really quite useless to keep throwing suggestions that are very similar into a heap of posts that aren't even going to be looked at for a few days at this point

 

[Kioku]

Yup, got it. Just discussing other things that have some relevance to the topic.

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No a 1080 ti goes around 1200 dollars now while a titan xp on nvidia.com also goes for 1200 dollars

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I upgrade every 2 generations and he might 2 so buying a 1151 chip now would be stupid since the 8700k will be the last of those.

Not really. Unless the next generation Intel processors offer a truly enticing incentive, there's no real reason to not buy the 8th gen. You're just offering subjective advice based on your spending habits. Not everyone can update every other generation. Hell, I've had to replace my PSU and GPU due to unforeseen issues.

 

[Xabring]

No

Lets go all out. What's the BEST setup?

Wat would you put in it?

Good lord guys let's wait until his friend gets back to him about pricing and stuff. It's really quite useless to keep throwing suggestions that are very similar into a heap of posts that aren't even going to be looked at for a few days at this point

Didn't read ALL of the posts....ops. I'll wait then.

 

[dAVID_]

If your friend is into mining, for $16,000 he can get the Baikal Giant B, which can earn you up to $25K in Bitcoin/month, apparently.
Make sure to grab a motherboard with at least 2 PCI-E slots, because you'll want an SLI setup.

Don't jump into BitCoin!
BitCoin is going to crash, because of sheep believing that they will be overnight millionaires.

BitCoin is profitable, but only as a long time investment. Don't fall into the "make money quick" scheme.

 

[kumikochan]

Wat would you put in it?


Didn't read ALL of the posts....ops. I'll wait then.

If i really would put together a build right now and not wait a couple of months till the new ryzen+ chips come out and ampere well an 8700k combined with a titan xp

 

[Xabring]

Don't jump into BitCoin!
BitCoin is going to crash, because of sheep believing that they will be overnight millionaires.

BitCoin is profitable, but only as a long time investment. Don't fall into the "make money quick" scheme.

Wisest piece of advice...at the wrong place. but let's go back to the "best PC" chat, shall we?

If i really would put together a build right now and not wait a couple of months till the new ryzen+ chips come out and ampere well an 8700k combined with a titan xp

that's interesting. That's a nice combo for gaming + productivity.
yeah, building now is a nightmare. But let's see what the OP is gonna say then.

 

[BORTZ]

Saying you want but"the best" meaning there is no limit to the money he's willing to spend is asinine. There is quite literally no ceiling for what you can spend.
Not 100% sure this is all compatible (I don't know much about bleeding edge hardware), but you can easily head towards 30k USD with all the hardware available on Amazon and new egg.
I could probably add a few thousand picking around at fringe parts for cases and stuff, but I can't really give you numbers higher than that without actually bugging people who make that kind of stuff. If you want to talk peripherals, there's those $100k diamond and gold encrusted headphones, you could make a keyboard that's probably many thousands of dollars, there are cable manufacturers who sell USB cables for thousands and thousands of dollars.
Like I said, there isn't one, if you want a number for custom and aftermarket builds, it's literally as much as you're willing to spend, the upper limit would be how many rare materials are actually buyable by consumers. However, 30k seems to be the upper limit to what the regular consumer can sit down and buy from an online shop and put into a tower.

You could probably build some sealed custom loop cooler that runs off of liquid nitrogen, and you'd have to hire people to maintain it.

All this begs the question, is you friend a drug lord?

 

[SirNapkin1334]

Saying you want but"the best" meaning there is no limit to the money he's willing to spend is asinine. There is quite literally no ceiling for what you can spend.
Not 100% sure this is all compatible (I don't know much about bleeding edge hardware), but you can easily head towards 30k USD with all the hardware available on Amazon and new egg.
I could probably add a few thousand picking around at fringe parts for cases and stuff, but I can't really give you numbers higher than that without actually bugging people who make that kind of stuff. If you want to talk peripherals, there's those $100k diamond and gold encrusted headphones, you could make a keyboard that's probably many thousands of dollars, there are cable manufacturers who sell USB cables for thousands and thousands of dollars.
Like I said, there isn't one, if you want a number for custom and aftermarket builds, it's literally as much as you're willing to spend, the upper limit would be how many rare materials are actually buyable by consumers. However, 30k seems to be the upper limit to what the regular consumer can sit down and buy from an online shop and put into a tower.

You could probably build some sealed custom loop cooler that runs off of liquid nitrogen, and you'd have to hire people to maintain it.

All this begs the question, is you friend a drug lord?

Oh yeah! That reminds me! His friend should buy these totally legit* enhanced HDMI cables from wireworld! http://www.wireworldcable.com/hdmi-2.0-cables.html
For only $1000, you can grab a Platnum Starlight 7! The best HDMI cable ever!
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Also grab an ATX power supply. It'll be compatible with an ATX case (which you should most definitely get) and is compatible with all motherboards, (ATX, mATX, and mITX). Not sure about nITX or pITX, but there's no way your friend will be getting one of those, they're extremely small and for those who want to save as much money as possible.

 

[Deleted User]

I strongly advise against building a gaming pc at this time. The prices are pretty high at the moment, and it will most likely take a few months or so for them to return to their original state. In addition, new graphics cards and processors are planned for release later this year, so there are many reasons to wait.

 

[SirNapkin1334]

Good point. New AMD CPU's are coming out soon, similar to i9, (more PCI-e lanes though!), TITAN V, and GPU's are hella expensive rn.

 

[Dr.Hacknik]

Hell, you can turn a damn Optiplex System into a gaming PC like me; if you're lazy and broke. Just slap some more RAM in there, slap a SSD, a GTX 1,000 series card; and voila. A gaming PC is born.

Or you could build one yourself Cough PC Part picker Cough.
Or you could take the cheap route, and grab a prebuilt or even have a Company build one with your choice of parts. There's tons of options, even friendly ones for noobs.

 

[SirNapkin1334]

Go for DigitalStorm, they have really good stuff. Not cheap-o, they have very cool custom-built PCs.

Here, I built a config for you. It's absolute top-of-the-line, just change the chassis color under External Chassis to your liking and change the HydroLux Fluid Color (under Engineering) to your taste (make sure to pick [whatever color] fluid + clear tubing, or it won't work):
https://www.digitalstorm.com/configurator.asp?id=1854721