re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

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Not a bad way to do it. Just do i5 Skylake

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Wasn't sure whether to go 6600k or 6700k, but as I understand it, either of these CPU's should be all I'll need for quite a few years.

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fast DDR4

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Was looking at 16GB of DDR4. It doesn't cost much extra to go from 8 to 16 looking at PCPartPicker, so I figure why not?

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and a motherboard with an M.2 slot supporting PCIe x4

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TBH, not sure what all of that is for. Looking at the MSI Z170 mobo right now.

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That's about as future-proof as you'll get (but there's really no such thing). Maybe someone here has a cheap used card to sell you (Coyote still offering his 780 Tis, but not exactly budget cards).

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I was looking into the 750ti. I can get by playing some older games like Skyrim, Deus Ex HR, Dishonored GOTY, New Vegas, etc for the time being. I'm currently outside the States (6 weeks in Abu Dhabi). I'll start looking into things when I get back. If I can get a used one off the GB, that would be perfect.

As for future proofing, I don't really feel the need to pump all the graphics options to ultra, performance is what I care about the most. If that means kicking down settings from ultra to high to maintain a superior framerate, I'll do it. I think how I've got things planned will be able to handle that for many years.

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If you're going to wait for Pascal/Polaris, I advise getting the flagship. No point in waiting for the next crop of cards if you're just going to grab a cheaper cut-down version of the new architecture, especially if you're trying to avoid upgrades for a while. This is particularly applicable to NVIDIA as of late. My only regret with my GTX 980s is that I didn't get the 980 Tis. But the 980 Ti was released 9 months later, so it would've been a long wait. It's an endless cycle.

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Definitely, I know it's going to be expense, won't be half-assing it. Again, thanks for all your help.

I'm going to need to do some more research I guess. Fortunately I've got plenty of time offshore coming up.

Nano!

Has anyone upgraded from FreeNAS 9.2 to 9.3? I can't get 9.3 to boot from a USB.

I did.

His password is #Nvidia, pretty easy.

I keep saying I will get around to it

I can't remember the last time I've seen an empty kitchen sink in my house.

I see titan x backplates, indicating you either just now put some 980 Tis under water, or you already did some time ago. If the latter, what could you possibly be upgrading?

So many things I want to upgrade. My daughter will be out of daycare in May and starting Kindergarten in August. A month after that, both cars will be paid off. That'll be nearly $1300 a month in bills eliminated at once. Obviously the responsible thing to do is save some for a couple of months and then immediately blow through it all.

By the end of the year, I may upgrade to whatever Intel's tick or refresh is at that time, which will be a $600+ upgrade by itself. Plus, I'll need a pair of flagship cards and some goddamn bitch-arse waterblocks-- so that's what, another $1500. And of course, a freesync/gsync monitor (depending on who's winning the GPU war that week). And it wouldn't be right to keep using this lame SATA SSD after those upgrades, either.

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I see titan x backplates, indicating you either just now put some 980 Tis under water, or you already did some time ago. If the latter, what could you possibly be upgrading?

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Spreading out the 980Tis from PCIx16 3.0 1 and 2 to 1 and 3. Putting a PCIe expansion card with M.2 slot for this 950 Pro . I've had it for over a month but never could install because still on X79.

Honestly just bored and i'm having trouble with my FreeNAS server and 9.3. That is usually the hardware being upgrading and tinkered with but i'm having serious issues even getting the fckker to boot at the moment.

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So many things I want to upgrade. My daughter will be out of daycare in May and starting Kindergarten in August. A month after that, both cars will be paid off. That'll be nearly $1300 a month in bills eliminated at once. Obviously the responsible thing to do is save some for a couple of months and then immediately blow through it all.

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The SO is paying off her car this year and my ride is dunzo next year. Can not wait to get that monkey off our backs.

Crazy part, I commute a long ways so honestly we will be in the market for another vehicle again next year.

You've made that clear all morning