You must not want much

I've noticed that when the occasions come that I want more performance it's more to do with wanting more processor speed since it's never because I want more eye candy and grass/water effects in my video games, which are always only about the actual game play for me anyway.

I'd actually prefer a broadwell-e build but there's too many sacrifices to make in other areas to fit that into a $1600 budget comfortably

This post was edited by DCSS on May 17 2017 09:56am

You're different

The gpu has a 'OC Edition' from what ive read in reviews. The price differnce between that one and the OC is big?

And is his sufficient cooling? Thanks!

/e remember, if the extra 150-200 on top of 1600 helps alot, go for it.



This post was edited by Apoch48 on May 17 2017 10:01am

Oc Edition means nothing.

Cpu doesn't really need a cooler they stay really cool with the stock one which is quite good (i have this cpu)

This post was edited by WhoBut_WBMason on May 17 2017 10:02am

I think he meant the asus strix's cooling, the answer is probably, but the bigger factor in OCing your gpu is going to be rolling the dice on ASIC quality. No real way to know til you fire up GPU-Z

i didnt exactly win big with mine...



This post was edited by DCSS on May 17 2017 10:07am

Yeah save the extra 200 for a 1440 monitor

Have a good 1440 already.

Any other builds out there or no?

I honestly have no idea what ASIC is or anything you just posted really lmfao

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MjxczM

1800$

Basically when you're shopping for a GPU all you really need to do is make sure you're getting good memory (don't let them give you that micron shit) and cooling, exactly how well it overclocks compared to other cards from other manufacturers is not something you can determine while shopping. It's a complete dice roll. It's possible for someone else's $100 less PNY card with worse cooling gets higher clocks than your MSI Gamer OC edition ultra gamer x card. Not terribly likely, but possible.

Of course generally having better cooling helps. Samsung memory is also really nice to have since Micron is unstable and shits itself if you crank up the mem clock even a little above stock.

edit: im talking about vram when i refer to memory. Many gpu manufacturers switched to using Micron recently thinking no one would notice since Samsung had a shortage and until now were the only ones providing the kind of silicon that had the quality required to run at the speeds gpu's demand it to. Turns out they still basically are.

This post was edited by DCSS on May 17 2017 10:33am