On 06/09/2016 09:55 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Now I want to build one closer to $500, but I want to have as much commonality as makes sense. Definitely the same case for cosmetic reasons.
I'm hoping I can save a lot of money in the CPU/video selection, and also I will use a lot less RAM this time.
Greg, Just did 2 of these for my 2 girls (they needed 'gaming' PC's). Total was just over $600 Motherboard: MSI Z170-A Pro LGA 1151 (w/PCIe M.2 SSD) ~$79 Processor : Intel Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5 GHz ~$219 RAM : G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8G) DDR4 3200 ~$79 Graphics : NVidia GTX460 1GB DDR5 ~$38 (eBay) Drive : WD Black 1T WD1003FZEX ~74 PowerSupply: Corsair CX500M ~$55 Case : NZXT S340 ~$69 ------------------------------------------ total: $613 Everything was either Newegg or Amazon. These boxes are blistering fast (even without the SSD, which would have been a splurge for the kids). League of Legends at 507 FPS initial, 294FPS sustained with all minions spawned, graphics, shadows & lighting turned as high as they can go). Raw processing speed - Linux Kernel red_black tree, 10,000,000 insertions and erasures in 0.18603 sec -- that's twice as fast as my AMD FX-8350 Black. Would I build another with the same parts -- you bet. My substitute a Gigabyte board -- just depends what was cheaper for the same Z170 chipset. Good Luck. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org