Erik005

In a small rig a M.2 drive is one less cable to worry about though

I would suggest a M.2 NVME ssd for windows and a large budget ssd for the games library.

I don't see what resolution it is but the other demos are all 1080p, if a GTX1080 can run games in 4k It should be able to run this at 1080p. When I watch it full-screen on my 27 inch screen it doesn't look that impressive anyway.

I had a H100i in my phanteks enthoo primo and it just never worked right, even with the fans at full blast it could barely keep my 3930k at 42oC idle. I then bought a Noctua nh-u14s and it has been working great my processor is now at 26oC idle and when the fans go to full speed you simply can't hear it.

My original Titan wasn't that bad in my big tower that stands on the floor it didn't really get hot enough to go full leaf blower and I usually game with a headset, but in the HTPC where it lives now it gets pretty hot and loud. A GT710 usually lives in my HTPC so that is a big difference though. :laugh: My new ASUS GTX1080 Strix is a lot quieter and it isn't even the quietest 1080.

Never get a reference cooler unless your case really really needs one, or like with the GTX titans there is no alternative. So important it has to be in a different post

The reference cooler is almost as bad as

That is something a lot of people forget, always try to find benchmarks for the games you are playing. Go for the RX480 if it gives you better performance in games you play. Just don't get one with the reference cooler and you'll be fine.

Have you installed the GeForce drivers? You might be using the iGPU of the processor. You can check with cpu-z You might have to tell the computer to use the 680mx

The GTX 680MX is not powerful enough to run skyrim at 1440p with good frame rates. Your laptop probably had a 1366*768 resolution which would require less powerful hardware. You need a beast of a gaming pc to play games at 1440p.

At that resolution the GTX 760 might still be fine. Why do you need new Hardware? are you getting low FPS in games? or is Windows slow?

What resolution are you planning to use? If you are sticking to 1080p you could maybe get an AMD RX480 first and see how that goes.

I would be careful buying a laptop, check if there are minimum specs for a laptop. Also 17.3 and 15.6 inch laptops are to big and heavy to carry to class every day. If she only needs a laptop to take notes in class and office work, a good light chrome book would be a better option.

The guy at the store was right, you will not be able to play any version of skyrim at decent fps. Your computer is designed for office and internet not gaming.

The Intel one would be the better choice right now. And windows 10

Indeed I hope you didn't specifically pick out the motherboard and PSU for SLI

Yes, there was a time when really low quality SSD were prevalent on the consumer market. Their problems were mostly due to old Jmicron controllers, they sucked. But even that it wasn't so much about running out of cycles as it was about poorly designed controllers. Although these controllers certainly did kill some drives with write amplification. I wasn't trying to showoff or anything, just elaborated on a point more than was necessary. (As for large companies with 24/7 databases, they work with more complex storage solutions than a single SSD or HDD array in the first place. I recalled a situation that's more familiar to me and closer in scope to consumer drive choice.) I don't think there was a major SSD manufacturer that didn't have problems when SSD's went mainstream, OCZ took a few major hits with the vertex series and even my crucial m4 had a weird bug that caused the system to shut down every 100hours of operation.

So from the Intel roadmap I can conclude that the Kaby Lake-X will be the answer to AMD Zen? Zen is supposedly going for the gap between the 115x and 2011 platforms.

I really hope the AMD Zen is as good as they say, it might stir up the fire a little bit. As for storage I think M.2 is getting more popular, it will be standard in the next Intel chipset.

The Skylake socket 2066 don't seem interesting at all, but the Kaby lake seems to be good. Late 2017 or early 2018 would be a good moment to upgrade for me.

I see myself still buying storage in the foreseeable future. Games keep getting larger and larger. They streaming is going to take over but I don't think internet speeds are fast enough yet.

This is some interesting reading about the reliability of storage. http://www.zdnet.com/article/ssd-reliability-in-the-real-world-googles-experience/

What is wrong with a 450w power supply for a 1060? A decent 450w one would run a 1080 Core i5: 65w GTX 1060: 120w A system like that would pull 250w under load max

The CPU is slow yes. But I can see your display is 1600x900, resolutions lower then 1920x1080 will put more stress on the processor. Getting a 1080p screen might get you better frame rates.

This always helps me. https://us.hardware.info/pcbuyersguide One of the first questions you must ask yourself is what kind of screen are you going to use. If you are going for 1080p a gtx 1060 will be enough, for 1440p you will need more power.