Building my next gaming pc

[Nickelsig229]

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to say thanks in advance for any help, inspiration and guidance you have to offer me.

I came here in 2012 and got a lot of good info on building a gaming pc and I'm happy to be back 5 years later to start the process of building a new rig.

I'm guessing around 2k for a complete system but it could go +/- a few hundred in either direction and I'd be ok with it.

I love my games, messing around on the net and porn. No real work or video editing, atleast not enough to have them influence the build.


I will list what I'm leaning towards and hopefully people can confirm my build or offer better advice.


ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero (Wi-Fi AC) LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel Z370 ATX Intel Motherboard $279.99
I7 8700k $409.99
Corsair dominator platinum 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 4000 (PC4 32000) C19 $309.99
CORSAIR RMx Series RM750X 750W 80 PLUS GOLD Power Supply $99.99
ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080-O8G-11GBPS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 8GB 11Gbps OC Edition $589.99
Fractal define c temp glass $95.99
SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 500GB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 $234.99

That gets me to about $1750

I'm still undecided on a monitor, whether to go gsync, 27" or 32" I'm not really including the monitor in the price of the build If anyone has any good advice I'm all ears.

Same with keyboard and mouse, I like what I have now and might use a usb switch to control both my old system and new with the same setup.

Some thoughts I may get a second m.2 1tb sata, a little cheaper then the 3.0 but It would be for storage. If not then I'll get an external storage later.

I'll only run one video card so I might spend the premium and go for a ti card but I don't really think its necessary to be competitive and have fun.

The dominator memory comes with an rgb fan "corsair airflow fan" I checked on line and I don't see anywhere that says its compatible with asus aura, does anyone know for sure?

I plan to fully populate the fan headers with pwm rgb fans that work with aura but I don't really now which fans to get, there are sooo many choices.

I'm undecided on a cpu air cooler and would like some advice not interested in aio water.

I want the case to look clean, the only cable to show would be the gpu power cables. so no sata 2.5 or hard drives, no 5.25 nothing, no cables.

If anyone has any advice on setting these peices up together and if they would be optimal or what would be in its place I'm all ears. I know it's easy to put them together, but alot of times there is some hidden software or trick to enable everything to work at its max potential that isn't common knowledge.

Thanks for taking the time.

[Nickelsig229]

Has anyone had problems getting high frequency memory reporting properly using xmp with their boards?

I'm being told I should only get 3200 memory instead of 4000 because the high speed doesn't post and xmp doesn't see it properly

[ThrashZone]

Nickelsig229 wrote:
Has anyone had problems getting high frequency memory reporting properly using xmp with their boards?

I'm being told I should only get 3200 memory instead of 4000 because the high speed doesn't post and xmp doesn't see it properly

Hi,
I'd at least go with the AX series psu and 1000w instead or as close to as you can

Max memory I'd get is 3600 and yes even it will have to be dialed in to actually work
Mother boards as long as the rated speed is in it's compatibility list but the processor is the road block
So you get 3600 you'd still have to dial it down to the processors speed and gradually increase it from there until you hit the ceiling
Say your processor has a rate speed of 2800 "which I have not looked up" start there
Making sure it is still using 1.35v which should still be at xmp profile 2.
You can also see what xmp profile 1 uses 1.2 or 1.35v and go from there at that v you'd be good through 2667