What's on your hardware wish list ?

[StrayKAT]

a Intel Xeon phi Co processor , tough sad thing is luxion keyshot doest support this
a GTX 1080 Ti cus im quiting on amd!

right now im happy with my workstation only grapics card is way underpowered...

Why are you quitting? I have AMD envy personally. But jumping ship wouldn't be smart atm.

 

[Morgoth]

cant even get a rx 580 for a normal price or ist even in stock, niether a vega card for a proper price or in stock

 

[StrayKAT]

cant even get a rx 580 for a normal price or ist even in stock, niether a vega card for a proper price or in stock

Oh, OK. Same. It's good that I'm strapped for cash atm anyways.

 

[mac_user]

I would like to own Asus FM2A88X-ITX+

 

[cucker tarlson]

I finally decided to take some action and make my OP wish from #1 post come true. I just found out there's a freesync version of the Alienware monitor which is a lot cheaper than g-sync, and with a 240hz monitor who wants to use g-sync anyway. The money I'll get from selling my S2716DG should cover both the monitor and the G900 mouse, so it's a super sweet deal. 1440p gaming is neat but if you want your fps really high then 1080p is the only reasonable option. I'm gonna get DOOM first, then the new Wolfenstein (hope it'll run just as good).

 

[FYFI13]

I thought it would be 8700K+mobo+RAM, but i just built a PC for my friend with these components (+GTX1070) and had a bit of PUBG. While minimum frame rates were slightly better, overall experience wasn't much different from my i7 4790K (+GTX980Ti) and now I'm not sure anymore.
I might just go for fast 1440P monitor and better graphics card. But, do i need it if i feel perfectly comfortable with my 24' 1080p @75Hz monitor and GTX 980Ti?

 

[cucker tarlson]

980ti and 1070 are pretty much the same. And you need a 1080 or a 1080Ti to see 8700K really stretch its legs. Otherwise you're GPU limited most of the time.

 

[RejZoR]

I thought it would be 8700K+mobo+RAM, but i just built a PC for my friend with these components (+GTX1070) and had a bit of PUBG. While minimum frame rates were slightly better, overall experience wasn't much different from my i7 4790K (+GTX980Ti) and now I'm not sure anymore.
I might just go for fast 1440P monitor and better graphics card. But, do i need it if i feel perfectly comfortable with my 24' 1080p @75Hz monitor and GTX 980Ti?

Framerate variances because of CPU and RAM are minimal. Almost any quad core with 4+ GHz (excluding AMD Bulldozer) will give you about the same framerate. It's up to better graphic card to really bump up the framerate... And even if you're CPU limited, having faster graphic card helps more than also buying new faster CPU (and thus also entire new platform).

 

[cucker tarlson]

Framerate variances because of CPU and RAM are minimal. Almost any quad core with 4+ GHz (excluding AMD Bulldozer) will give you about the same framerate. It's up to better graphic card to really bump up the framerate... And even if you're CPU limited, having faster graphic card helps more than also buying new faster CPU (and thus also entire new platform).

Well, any cpu bound test seems to prove otherwise. It's actually common knowledge that if a fast gpu like a 1080 gets bottlenecked by the cpu, then replacing the gpu with an even faster one is just plain stupid. It'd get even more bottlenecked and will give you hardly any performance increase.

 

[RejZoR]

All that CPU bound tests prove is that you're not getting the maximum. They don't tell you that lowest framerate which is most irritating is entirely on graphic card. CPU only helps you reaching very high max framerate.

 

[FYFI13]

Almost correct @RejZoR , once you have 4c 8t processor at least for this particular game, all that matters is GPU. But then, a GTX980Ti is almost overkill for 1080p.

 

[Nuckles56]

My current wishlist is:
Ryzen 1700/1700X with an ITX mobo
16GB of 3200MHz RAM
Vega 56 or a GTX 1070/1070Ti
A Corsair RMx550
And a HTC Vive

 

[cucker tarlson]

Almost correct @RejZoR , once you have 4c 8t processor at least for this particular game, all that matters is GPU. But then, a GTX980Ti is almost overkill for 1080p.

that's not just any 4c/8t, that's 7900X on DDR4.

 

[ShurikN]

Steelseries Apex m500 keyboard. Cherry MX Red.
Told my wife to buy me one for my birthday in november.

 

[THE_EGG]

Even though they don't exist yet, a 4K 120/144hz monitor please

 

[RejZoR]

Almost correct @RejZoR , once you have 4c 8t processor at least for this particular game, all that matters is GPU. But then, a GTX980Ti is almost overkill for 1080p.

It's not an overkill if your target is high framerate for 120Hz or 144Hz monitor. Where 1080p is actually preferred so you're easily achieving that. All of a sudden GTX980Ti isn't an overkill anymore...

 

[remixedcat]

a whole ryzen system x 2 and some decent network racks that would work under a desk. As well as smarthome stuff.

 

[cucker tarlson]

I'm having second thoughts on this alienware 240hz display. I found out XL2546 has the same technology as FG2421 had, a black frame insertion, plus it's actually native 240Hz and actually has very good brightness when in DynamicAccuracy mode (well, pretty much all the time since it's on by default). The design of the Aleinware is so much slicker though, but I think ultimately the one with blur reduction (the sweetest one for motion clarity), 240Hz (no tearing) and good brightness is all a high refresh/low blur gamer can ever ask for.

Halp me out.

Geez I already can see the sick moves I'll be pulling off in DyingLight and Shadow Warrior 2 with 240Hz and blur reduction. The world ain't ready.

 

[StrayKAT]

Optane works a helluva lot better than expected. So far at least. Bootup speeds are similar to SSD. It even defrags (or trims) like an SSD.. and at the same speed. Weird.

Now I need a big ass HDD.

 

[cucker tarlson]

Creative BlasterX Siege M04 mouse. Looks like a mouse I've been waiting for. Perfect shape,perfect weight,great sensor,light and quiet clicks, good looks (nice idea with the RGB base instead of top, lightens up the mousepad and desk ,not just flashes cloros in your face). Plus the price is really,really good.

 

[EarthDog]

Optane works a helluva lot better than expected. So far at least. Bootup speeds are similar to SSD. It even defrags (or trims) like an SSD.. and at the same speed. Weird.

Now I need a big ass HDD.

youve had it for loke a couple days... what kind of defragmentation were you expecting in a short time?

 

[cucker tarlson]

Optane has nice speeds, but 16/32GB is an obvious limitation, no need to delve any deeper, this is very,very limited space for caching a huge HDD if you're accessing random files frequently. Hit and miss.

 

[Toothless]

So maybe I'd like a 8700k setup with 64gb of rammers. I have maxed out my ram usage before and I enjoy extra threads where my current rig runs out.

 

[cucker tarlson]

I find 16GB absolutely sufficient if it weren't for those friggin memory leaks on Win 10. On 8.1 I could run my system 24/7 with no leaks FOR WEEKS. On Win10 after fresh restart I've got 12% RAM usage. It's now been running for 6 hours, I played 2 hrs of Andromeda (btw I'm blown away by the first Eos mission), running torrents (110% legal) and watching youtube. Now it's at 38% usage just with the browser open.

 

[EarthDog]

No leaks here bud.

Look in the mirror for your source of use.