Right now I'm just like, daydreaming, picking and choosing components I'd like to have, costs be damned. We'll see what I can actually swing when it gets down to actually making a purchase.
Stuff I've "assembled" so far:
Assuming it ever actually makes it out on the market:
*Preliminary; picking PSU is a lot of work, but my current Corsair has worked out fine, and this unit has 4-pin fan for RPM monitoring and speed control. Lots of PSUs cheap out with 2-pin fans that could die without you ever knowing it until your PSU overheats and shits itself. 1000W, because the 7900X seems capable of pulling well over 300W on its own when overclocked on all cores. Also, Vega 64 can easily do 300W apiece as well, so if I want XF setup (and with dual 16x slots I think I would), then 850W PSU would seem to be a tad undersized. Even if I have no plans on going for an all-core 4.7GHz overclock (I am pretty damn sure the Noctua can't handle it if the CPU hits 110C with older all-in-one watercoolers
), I would like to push it a bit upwards at least and then it'll probably start sucking down some juice, so a bit of margin is good thing to have methinks.
**3200 and 3600 speed grades are almost identical in price for a 32GB set of 4; just SKR100ish difference (US$10ish when factoring in sales tax) so might as well go with the faster. Anything above that is kray-kray ezpensive. Thing is, 32GB is still almost SKR5k. Filling all DIMM sockets, which is something I prefer to do, is a dog's hair under SKR10k just for RAM; holy smokes! That's a lot of dough for some LED bling! Also, I don't really need 64 friggin gigs of RAM! These DIMMs don't seem to be available in 4GB capacities however, and I don't know how many high-end DIMMs are these days.
***Capacity pending what I can swing when adding everything up. I have 480GB SSD right now and not anywhere near running out of space on it. Thinking of going Evo instead of Pro, but it's not THAT much cheaper, and you get TLC flash which is...well, not as flashy. Could also go with another make of SSD, IE cheaper, slower most likely, but Samsung is AFAIK the overall fastest of what's available currently so that's what I'd prefer.
Sooo. This is what I'm thinking. Not because it's practical, but mainly just because if you're gonna buy something, why not buy something you'll be happy with. Go big or go home, sort of. I have to replace stuff anyway, because my current chassis is too small for the coolers popular on today's GPUs, and my mobo has no PCIe 3.0 4x M.2 slots, and since it's uATX it's not practical to run dual GPUs on it, and if I do I'll only get 8x bandwidth to each of them, which frankly irks me.
Also, all my current components are a half-decade old already if not more and have been powered on 24/7 basically since day 1, so things just might start dying and where would I be then? Stuck with a bunch of obsolete stuff I can't plug into anything new. So I might as well start over from scratch I'm thinking.
Stuff I've "assembled" so far:
- Fractal Design Define C TG (Casing; ATX)
- ASUS ROG Strix X299-XE Gaming (Mobo; socket 2066)
- Intel Core i9 7900X (10-core CPU; socket 2066)
- Noctua NH-U14 S (Already bought, unused, wouldn't fit in rig I have now)
- Corsair RM1000i (PSU*)
- G.Skill TridentZ RGB (DDR4**)
- Samsung 960Pro M.2 (SSD***)
Assuming it ever actually makes it out on the market:
- ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Strix Gaming (GPU, pref. x2)
*Preliminary; picking PSU is a lot of work, but my current Corsair has worked out fine, and this unit has 4-pin fan for RPM monitoring and speed control. Lots of PSUs cheap out with 2-pin fans that could die without you ever knowing it until your PSU overheats and shits itself. 1000W, because the 7900X seems capable of pulling well over 300W on its own when overclocked on all cores. Also, Vega 64 can easily do 300W apiece as well, so if I want XF setup (and with dual 16x slots I think I would), then 850W PSU would seem to be a tad undersized. Even if I have no plans on going for an all-core 4.7GHz overclock (I am pretty damn sure the Noctua can't handle it if the CPU hits 110C with older all-in-one watercoolers
), I would like to push it a bit upwards at least and then it'll probably start sucking down some juice, so a bit of margin is good thing to have methinks.**3200 and 3600 speed grades are almost identical in price for a 32GB set of 4; just SKR100ish difference (US$10ish when factoring in sales tax) so might as well go with the faster. Anything above that is kray-kray ezpensive. Thing is, 32GB is still almost SKR5k. Filling all DIMM sockets, which is something I prefer to do, is a dog's hair under SKR10k just for RAM; holy smokes! That's a lot of dough for some LED bling! Also, I don't really need 64 friggin gigs of RAM!
These DIMMs don't seem to be available in 4GB capacities however, and I don't know how many high-end DIMMs are these days.***Capacity pending what I can swing when adding everything up. I have 480GB SSD right now and not anywhere near running out of space on it. Thinking of going Evo instead of Pro, but it's not THAT much cheaper, and you get TLC flash which is...well, not as flashy.
Could also go with another make of SSD, IE cheaper, slower most likely, but Samsung is AFAIK the overall fastest of what's available currently so that's what I'd prefer.Sooo. This is what I'm thinking. Not because it's practical, but mainly just because if you're gonna buy something, why not buy something you'll be happy with. Go big or go home, sort of. I have to replace stuff anyway, because my current chassis is too small for the coolers popular on today's GPUs, and my mobo has no PCIe 3.0 4x M.2 slots, and since it's uATX it's not practical to run dual GPUs on it, and if I do I'll only get 8x bandwidth to each of them, which frankly irks me.
Also, all my current components are a half-decade old already if not more and have been powered on 24/7 basically since day 1, so things just might start dying and where would I be then? Stuck with a bunch of obsolete stuff I can't plug into anything new. So I might as well start over from scratch I'm thinking.
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