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Skylake Build with ASUS HERO VIII on Air

Splash1
Level 7
Budget: What budget? As they said in the Right Stuff .... No Buck$...No Buck Roger$.
Anyways, based on current parts selected on Vendors Website it should come to AUD$2000. About to finalise with Vendor next day or 2.
Intended use for build is mostly flight simulation FSX-SE 9 / Falcon BMS 432 / COD. Oh! and some gaming on Steam (TF2/ARMA II)

Parts required: CPU, Motherboard, RAM , SSD , Power Supply (See selected parts below):
*Intel Core i7 6700K Skylake Quad-Core CPU LGA 1151
*MAXIMUS VIII HERO Asus Z170 Maximus VIII Hero Socket LGA1151 ATX Motherboard - DDR4
*Noctua NH-D15 Multi Socket PWM High Performance CPU Cooler
*Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB G1 Gaming Edition Graphics Card
*Corsair HX850i 850 Watt Fully Modular 80+ Platinum Power Supply
*Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 2666MHz RAM, Black - CMK16GX4M2A2666C16


Previous build information (list details of parts):
* i7-940@2.93GHz (never overclocked, but that can be changed)
* GA-EX58-UD5
* Corsair 6Gb DDR3(TR3X6G1600C8D)
* Nvidia GTX295 (341.44)
* RAID5 - 3x WD1500HLFS (279Gb capacity, now with 33gb free!)
* 3x 1Tb Storage Drives + 6TB USB Storage backup.
*Corsair HX620W
* Lian Li PC-A20B case
* 1x24"ASUS MK241H(1920x1200)
* Vista 64bit Ultimate.

Monitor resolution:
* The 24"ASUS MK241H is native 1920x1200. I am also planning to use 3x Dell U2412M , native 1920x1200.

Storage requirements:
* re-using my 3x 1Tb Storage Drives + USB Storage backup 6x TB

Will you be over-clocking:
* Yes. Plan to stabilise @4.6Ghz on Air after initial setup. I'm happy to initially run in and trial everything at 4.2Ghz

Any motherboard requirements (no. of USB, Xfire/SLI, fan headers):
* Pretty happy with what MAXIMUS VIII HERO has to offer. Has enough fan headers.

Extra information about desired system:
The following purchased parts are waiting to be installed, purchased earlier for my current system but put aside.
* Samsung 850 EVO Series 1TB 2.5in SSD
* Windows 7 Ultimate
* I am also thinking of going with an AIO water cooling system maybe next year. Thinking of EK Predator 240 AIO Expandable Liquid CPU Cooler. But need to check setup in current case!
* Any thoughts or comments regarding choice of memory? I have checked and confirmed compatibility on ASUS website and read good reviews.
* Thoughts on Corsair HX850i regarding adequate power system. I don't plan to SLI in the future. but then again who knows?
* One main concern is checking conflicts of Noctua NH-D15 blocking PCI express, or any other ports, using chosen HERO VIII Mobo. Noctua compatibility site says all is OK?

Looking forward to your thoughts and comments. Thanks in advance.
MoBo: Asus Z170 Maximus VIII Hero / LGA1151
CPU: i7 6700K Skylake Quad-Core. - 4.2GHz / Noctua NH-D15
Mem: Corsair Vengeance 16GB - DDR4 2666MHz
GrafixCard: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB G1
Storage 1: Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB
Storage 2: TBA
PSU: Corsair HX1000i 80 Plus Platinum 1000W
Case: Lian Li LanCool II Mesh RGB
OS: Win 10 Pro.

Gigabyte M32Q 31.5" QHD 170Hz 0.8ms IPS Gaming Monitor
SteelSeries Apex Pro RGB Mech Keyboards
Razer Basilisk V3 Gaming Mouse
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Nate152
Moderator
Hello Splash1

Welcome to the ROG forum.

If you plan on going AIO liquid cooling you might as well get it now instead of getting the noctua. I'm not familiar with your case but you may have to remove the hdd cages to fit a 240mm AIO cooler, you'll have to check on that.

Will you be using 3 monitors in surround? If so a single gtx 970 won't cut it.

Ram - I would choose the G.Skill Trident Z

http://www.gskill.com/en/product/f4-2800c15d-16gtzb

Will you need an optical drive?

Will you be using 3 monitors in surround? If so a single gtx 970 won't cut it.

I've sighted builds dating back 2 years ago with triple screens that run FSX. Admittedly I don't know exactly what resolution and frame rates are?
Would have thought current card tech would produce an acceptable triple screen output by now. Admittedly I wasn't specific with screen resolutions.
MoBo: Asus Z170 Maximus VIII Hero / LGA1151
CPU: i7 6700K Skylake Quad-Core. - 4.2GHz / Noctua NH-D15
Mem: Corsair Vengeance 16GB - DDR4 2666MHz
GrafixCard: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB G1
Storage 1: Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB
Storage 2: TBA
PSU: Corsair HX1000i 80 Plus Platinum 1000W
Case: Lian Li LanCool II Mesh RGB
OS: Win 10 Pro.

Gigabyte M32Q 31.5" QHD 170Hz 0.8ms IPS Gaming Monitor
SteelSeries Apex Pro RGB Mech Keyboards
Razer Basilisk V3 Gaming Mouse

Nate152
Moderator
your 1200p monitors are slightly better than 1080p which in turn is slightly more demanding.

Here is the gtx 970 with the 4790k at 4.6GHz and one 1080p monitor.

Not sure of resolution, but if this guy can do it with this build would'nt my build be able to handle it?

https://youtu.be/T-8xHBJNKeo

Cheers
MoBo: Asus Z170 Maximus VIII Hero / LGA1151
CPU: i7 6700K Skylake Quad-Core. - 4.2GHz / Noctua NH-D15
Mem: Corsair Vengeance 16GB - DDR4 2666MHz
GrafixCard: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB G1
Storage 1: Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB
Storage 2: TBA
PSU: Corsair HX1000i 80 Plus Platinum 1000W
Case: Lian Li LanCool II Mesh RGB
OS: Win 10 Pro.

Gigabyte M32Q 31.5" QHD 170Hz 0.8ms IPS Gaming Monitor
SteelSeries Apex Pro RGB Mech Keyboards
Razer Basilisk V3 Gaming Mouse

Splash1 wrote:
Not sure of resolution, but if this guy can do it with this build would'nt my build be able to handle it?

https://youtu.be/T-8xHBJNKeo

Cheers


I suggest you to find cheapest version of reference or any GTX980.
Difference in gaming is not so small as benchmark results of overclocked GTX970 show.
You choose excellent components but I would try to save on some components to pull every dollar and invest in GTX980.
Better and reference and later some cooler even if GTX980 is not hot card than GTX970.
Example 750W PSU is enough for GM204, even 650W is enough but let's say 750 if you use one day card with 250W power constumption.
You can find some excellent PSU for 110-120$. that's few dollars saved, CPU keep i7-6700K, motherboard Hero is one of best Z170 motherboard. At the end I would choose rather AX760 than HX850i.
Do you have Corsair Link? Do you really need that?
But are you sure you need ATX, maybe Maximus VIII Gene is enough, mATX? That's few more dollars.
I'm sure it's possible to find GTX980 for 450-460$.

Nate152
Moderator
Well in that case I suppose it could, he's even using a weaker 7970 gpu although he doesn't say if he's running it at 5760 x 1200 resolution.

Give it a try and see how performance is, if you're not happy with performance add another gtx 970 in sli.

The corsair HX850i can handle two gtx 970's.

kkn
Level 14
outputs on the 7970 -> http://www.hisdigital.com/UserFiles/product/0107_01_1600.jpg
heres evga's specs on one of their 970 cards, and you see how menny monitors it supports - > https://www.evga.com/products/Specs/GPU.aspx?pn=63d27a41-4ac9-49f6-9fd2-757596181cff

it have as outputs: DVI-I + D and HDMI and display port.

Nate152
Moderator
As kkn is pointing out it would be good to get a gtx 970 that has three displayports which the Gigabyte G1 gtx 970 does.