Help Hobo building a rig. plox - ADDED POLL FOR CPU!!!!

[Molly]

i5 = no hyperthreading :3

[pogosan]

[Kafein]

i5 = no hyperthreading :3

Nobody cares. And I do multi-core programming.

As for the GPU thing, it all depends on resolution. You definitely want a high-end card like the 970 or 980 if you plan on switching to 1440p or 4K.

[Tore]

I'm not going to use that GPU forever. I would get a better one but a decent GPU costs half or even more than half than all the stuff I'm discussing here so it's not an option for now. When I'll save some more money (after buying all this) I'll start thinking about new one.

Just be content with what you have, no point in upgrading. Your PC will do fine in any game and it's just mindless consumerism to think anything else. Do you really need all these fancy pixels on your screen?

[Senni__Ti]

Make sure your PSU meets Haswell requirements.
http://techreport.com/review/24897/the-big-haswell-psu-compatibility-list

The gaming 3 mobo is ok, but I saw this (not sure where you live, so many not help)
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z87mpower

It's z87, so no m.2 slot for super fast expensive SSDs. But it's MSI's extreme style board, designed to OC like not much else.

[Molly]

Nobody cares. And I do multi-core programming.

As for the GPU thing, it all depends on resolution. You definitely want a high-end card like the 970 or 980 if you plan on switching to 1440p or 4K.

Games care performance wise.
And hardware development goes into parallel working lines instead of frequency.
Multithreading is and will gain importance.

[Senni__Ti]

For the lifetime of this pc though, most games would prefer an OC'd i5 to a under-stock i7.

And price, I'm pretty sure a 4690k is still quite a bit cheaper than a 1231V3. (price really dictates this fight and could swing either way)

[Molly]

Granted, the price for the e3 went quite a bit up since I bought it. I didn't really check before.
That is an actual worthwhile argument.

But I still refuse to see performing a brand new cpu out of its warranty limits as a good choice nor good suggestion.
Especially when on a tight budget.

[Kafein]

Games care performance wise.

What games are we talking about exactly? The ones that use 8 logical threads? For gaming today HT is virtually useless.

And hardware development goes into parallel working lines instead of frequency.
Multithreading is and will gain importance.

I completely agree. However, games and applications in general are still very, very far from that.

But I still refuse to see performing a brand new cpu out of its warranty limits as a good choice nor good suggestion.
Especially when on a tight budget.

You have to be particularly reckless to brick your parts with a reasonable OC today, especially considering the amount of reading material and auto-OC tools around. There's no point even taking the slightest risks if none of the things you do are going to be impacted though, true.