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Johnw1104 on 14 October 2017
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CGI-Quality said:

1060s and 70s? Some good lookin' (soundin' - no one seems to like pics ) builds in here

 

Johnw1104 said:
@OP lol that's awesome, I think we're sporting the same tower and keyboard.

I'll get some pics later as it's still not set up (had to leave my flooded apt due to Irma and so currently I'm using an Alienware 17 R4 laptop), but here's the specs that I remember:

-64 GB RAM (Something Corsair I believe, I swap out RAM rather often)
-Samsung EVO 850 SSD and some 1TB SSD from Crucial(?) I think it was
-GeForce Titan X (I rarely buy top-end graphics cards as they depreciate in value so quickly but I was trying to get my HTC Vive and 4k experience to run flawlessly and this mostly got the job done)
-LG 27UD68-W 27-inch 4K UHD IPS Monitor with FreeSync (2017 model)

The only thing I don't remember is what my processor is, though I do know that it is definitely the least impressive of the bunch and is likely holding the rest of the hardware back at this point. Once I'm in a place where I'm regularly using my PC again I'll probably go all in on a top-of-the-line processor as those do not fade into obsolescence anywhere close to as fast as GPU's do.

Ah, the first high-end person so far! Just curious, is your Titan X the Maxwell one or last year's Pascal Titan?

It's the Pascal one. I never tend to go high end for GPUs (this is the first time I've topped a $600 price tag, generally preferring to get a lower tier of the most recent gen for the ~$300 price range), but PC's were (and still are) in a unique spot where two different very enticing features are resting right on the edge of feasibility with hardware, they being VR and 4K gaming. In my research I'd found that the 1070's/1080's were still running into some issues and so I decided to just go all in on the Titan X when it was announced, fully understanding that in a very short period of time it would look like a waste of money lol

The main thing for me is that I've always preferred one strong GPU to going the SLI route, as many games simply don't accomodate that arrangement very well. It was clear to me that the only way I could ensure that I'd get both the Vive and 4K experience running without issue was that Titan X, and if I was going to be spending hundreds of dollars anyway I didn't want to spend that money and find myself disappointed at times with the result. As things currently stand, there will be much better GPU's with faaaar better cost-to-power ratios in the future, but I've never once had frame rate issues and don't see any reason that I'd feel compelled to upgrade for a number of years, so I'm happy with the purchase overall.