I've never been to this section but I was looking for some advice. I'm selling my old pc a friend helped me build for like 1200 and since my buddy wants it and it's gonna pay a grand over time I can't pass up a great opportunity to upgrade. So here's the new list.
Keeping in mind I've only ever had 1 monitor so I thought ide go all out with 3

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/L4cYGf

What are you going to use this PC for specifically?

Runescape

I mean tbh I plan to start playing league again or something. I'm excited to have More monitors

I had a lot of people telling me about the ryzen but idk if it's truly better by that much

This post was edited by Bnv on Jul 7 2017 05:00pm

Well it is better for heavy multitasking. For gaming the IPC + Higher clock from intel gives yields in most games specially 1080p and resolutions under.
Tho I don't really see the purpose for your usage.
You can't really take advantage of an gtx 1080. No reason to go for such a high card if you don't wanna max out new AAA titles or play 4k.

Intresting thoughts about the graphics card because I was more worried about going with ryzen and idk about that water cooled can but my buddy said it makes it quieter I'll probably get back into ark with a brand new comp

well kinda a myth about AIO watercooling being more quite. They can transfer more heat away, but you have to overclock your CPU quite a lot to take advantage of it.
A cooler like Cryorig H7 for 35$ is amazing.

Early access games are often really badly optimized. Personally I would have put a bit more cash into the CPU over the GPU in this situation.
You aren't talking about workstation related stuff so Ryzen is not really a must in this situation.
You should get some more opinions on this matter I believe.

BTW i highly recommend you to skip that sound card. Would be a waste of money specially with those speakers, you need need some highend HIFI to hear any sound quality difference from the onboard sound card.

agree with early access games being badly optimized. they run like ass no matter how good your system is (unless you get a super baller card).
1080 is justified if you do or have always liked playing early access games. i went with 1080 ti but i've had a bit of a streak when it comes to playing early access games.
super into pubg right now
more $$ into cpu is my thoughts as well. you should benefit from going 6600k - 7600k/7700k for Early access games as the current bottleneck is usually CPU related, depending on which early access game you're going for. ark is definitely CPU intensive as the instructions are poorly coded.

I could launch ark and let you know what I get

also agree that sound card isnt' needed, pretty much ever. get money is better spent on a dac/amp

50 in jungle
60 when hitting things
75 sky
ultra/epic settings w/o motion blur, film grain or that other dumb one
7700k @ 4.7 / 1080 ti no oc

you still dip to 15ish when the world renders again, amazing how they think they can release a game without that being fixed... they have a month until full release and you'd think this would have been addressed..

This post was edited by Penguins0690 on Jul 7 2017 06:48pm

With everything being on the processor I think I'll just drop. The sound card and get a ryzen? Unfortunately I don't understand everything y'all are saying and I don't understand half the numbers but I'll just go with top tier shit then might as well spend another 100

Unless there is an intel as good as ryzen or what processor are you guys recommending