Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: dBeav on June 13, 2018, 04:03:50 PM
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If anyone can see any glaring problems with this build please let me know. It's been a while since I've put a PC together so I haven't kept up with all the latest and greatest. I know I don't have an HD listed. Not sure if an SSD would give me enough of a boost to spend the extra money on it.
If it looks good I'll probably end up building about 5 of these so I want to make sure I get it right.
Thanks!
Coolermaster SIL-352M-KKN1 Silencio 352 Silent Mini Tower Computer Case
CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 8GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) (16 gb total)
Intel Core i5-8600K Coffee Lake 6-Core 3.6 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo) LGA 1151 (300 Series)
GIGABYTE H370M D3H LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel H370 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Cooler Master Hyper RR-212E-20PK-R2 LED CPU Cooler with PWM Fan, Four Direct Contact Heat Pipes
ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 DUAL-GTX1060-O6G 6GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready Video Card
CORSAIR RMx Series RM750x (CP-9020179-NA) 750W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Power Supply
Sceptre 27" Curved 75Hz LED Monitor C278W-1920R Full HD 1080P HDMI DisplayPort VGA (3 total)
I plan on using VR on 1 or 2 of these as well so hopefully I'll have enough power for that.
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I'm running an i5-7600K, 3 Gb GTX 1060, 8 GB RAM. Runs the game well on the Oculus Rift.m I think 8 GB ram and a 650 W PSU would be more than enough, if you want to save a bit of $.
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I would consider another power supply. That particular Corsair unit is made by Channel Well Technology. They are not a bad company, but there are better supplies around.
The Seasonic SSR-750PD will cost a little more, but is a better supply. Just a thought.
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Awesome Skuzzy, thanks!
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You can't overclock CPU/RAM in a H370 mainboard - you need a Z370. DDR4 is lmited to stock 2666 speed in H370.
750W PSU is wayyyy overdosed for this system - 400 would be sufficient (PSU load in the 60-70% region under gaming) but 500-550 gives more headroom for a big gfx upgrade.
Seasonic has some new and very good 550W Gold series PSUs
SSD is a must-have today at least for the system drive - a 500GB MX500 offers sufficient space and may host some of your most beloved games. Just for system a 250GB version is large enough but don't go smaller.
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Everything is together and working well. Frame rate steady at 60 with all settings maxed out. Now I just have to work through getting the resolution set to use all 3 monitors.
The CPU cooler would not fit in the orientation I wanted due to a heat sink on the MB so I had to turn it 90 degrees. Other than that the build went smooth.
Not sure that the stand I got for the multi monitor setup is going to work correctly. It said up to 27" monitors but I may be a tad over what it can hold. We'll see.
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You can't overclock CPU/RAM in a H370 mainboard - you need a Z370. DDR4 is lmited to stock 2666 speed in H370.
750W PSU is wayyyy overdosed for this system - 400 would be sufficient (PSU load in the 60-70% region under gaming) but 500-550 gives more headroom for a big gfx upgrade.
Seasonic has some new and very good 550W Gold series PSUs
SSD is a must-have today at least for the system drive - a 500GB MX500 offers sufficient space and may host some of your most beloved games. Just for system a 250GB version is large enough but don't go smaller.
And one would need to overclocking for AHIII why? Overclocking increases the risk of instability on any system, unless you really know what you are doing in terms of setting voltages, clock rates and understand the CPU architecture in use; not to mention you need to do substantial cooling just to keep things stable and cool. A game like Metro or Witcher sure, AHIII ... not needed at all. In fact, it may cause more problems than it's worth, and lower the lifespan of the computer overall.
Mind you, this is coming from a guy who builds high end water-cooled computers for gamers for income. Personally I use dual Xeon workstations and Titans. One CPU handles the game threads, the other handles PCI tasks. Don't need to OC when you have horsepower and RAM and VRAM in quantity. :banana:
The system the OP has is fine and really no tweaks other than a better supply.
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Power supply was swapped out per Skuzzy's recommendation.
I don't plan on doing any overclocking. I was looking for stable/dependable. However, overclocking seems to be rather common place so I don't mind the recommendations and I appreciate Denniss taking the time to respond.
I would still like to be able to swing the outer monitors in just a bit more but I can't with this stand/monitor combo.
These are going to be used in an air museum display and there just happened to be some pilots from another museum visiting over the weekend. I turned them loose on this and almost couldn't get them off of it. They were a bit critical of the flight modeling but loved the graphics and the curved monitors. Overall I think this is going to be a big hit, especially with the younger museum visitors.
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The folks that control the purse strings got a chance to take a look at this setup and they were blown away by Aces High. Now I only have to build 4 more and 1 of them with VR. So if anyone sees anything that would hinder the VR please let me know.
Thanks!
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The folks that control the purse strings got a chance to take a look at this setup and they were blown away by Aces High. Now I only have to build 4 more and 1 of them with VR. So if anyone sees anything that would hinder the VR please let me know.
Thanks!
Since you have gotten a hold of their ear, I would recommend trying to go with a 1080ti graphics card for the VR setup, so you will be able to show the "Full Monti" or most of it anyway....
I think others would most likely agree
Hope this helps and best of luck to you
TC
edit: I was not implying that the 1060 6 GB graphics card would not work for the VR setup
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As for the heatsink VS system ram issue...
order the low profile version of the Ram, so you can mount your heatsink/fans cooler the direction you desire the air to flow....
Hope this helps
TC
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And one would need to overclocking for AHIII why? Overclocking increases the risk of instability on any system, unless you really know what you are doing in terms of setting voltages, clock rates and understand the CPU architecture in use; not to mention you need to do substantial cooling just to keep things stable and cool.
Well getting a K-series processor with a motherboard that doesn't allow overclocking is a waste of either money or a processor. Should go one way or the other.
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Sweet, dbeav! Way to go!
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As for the heatsink VS system ram issue...
order the low profile version of the Ram, so you can mount your heatsink/fans cooler the direction you desire the air to flow....
Hope this helps
TC
Thanks but things are never that easy for me. It's actually a heat sink that's part of the MB that's in the way. It's really a minor problem but it now has me thinking of just doing water cooling. As for the video card, WOW, that's quite the price jump to the 1080TI!
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Well getting a K-series processor with a motherboard that doesn't allow overclocking is a waste of either money or a processor. Should go one way or the other.
Thanks for the heads up. Saves me a few bucks.
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Sweet, dbeav! Way to go!
If you ever make it back to Michigan you'll have to stop in and check it all out.
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If you ever make it back to Michigan you'll have to stop in and check it all out.
Thanks, dBeav! :aok