| Kristof81 said: Get WD Red instead. The number of issues I've had with Seagate drives is just astounding. It's $20 more, but it's worth it. In terms of GPU, I'd wait and see as RTX 20x series will have an impact on GPU prices. I wouldn't be surprised if soon you could get GTX 1080 in $300-$400 price range. Also the rumor has it that AMD might refresh its Polaris series in Q4 2018.
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I would personally go with a black for games though.
Red is fine for storage.
WolfpackN64 said:
The RX 570 isn't that far off. And since he'll mostly be doing 1080p gaming, a 4GB framebuffer isn't going to overflow that fast. Depending on how pricing is in your area, if the RX 580 is closly priced, he better spring for that indeed. |
Probably better off with the Geforce 1060 3GB over the RX 570 IMHO.
| Cerebralbore101 said: Does anybody know if overclocking the 2700X will have a decent effect? Or is the Turbo mode in the Chip already enough? |
I wouldn't waste my time overclocking the 2700X personally, the voltages needed to hit just 4.3Ghz can be pretty uncomfortable for most people.
The default clocks are perfectly okay.
| Cerebralbore101 said: Yeah, I'm sure in two or three years 8 GB of RAM will be a joke. I was already planning on getting 1 stick of 8GB, and then adding another 8GB stick later on. I had no clue that there were faster ram sticks out there. Changed the RAM stick to the only DDR4 at 3000 MHz speed. |
Many boards support 3466MHz and 3600MHz DDR4. Worth it in my opinion.
Officially the chips support DDR4-2933, but 3200Mhz was the sweet spot with the first gen Ryzens, the newer chips (I.E. 2700X) tends to clock up better.
Don't underestimate good memory speeds and low latencies.
16GB should be the minimum as we enter 2019 in my opinion.
| Cerebralbore101 said: 4K Monitors are too expensive, and it's really hard for me to tell the difference between 1080 and 4K unless I'm using a huge TV. But once the prices of monitors drop in a few years, I'll throw a better graphics card in here, and call it a day. |
I would personally (And have) gone for 1440P anyway, which is a better fit for a Radeon RX 580 anyway.
I think what is ultimately more important is to try and get a display that isn't 60hz and/or TN/Twisted Nematic.
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