Incredible value for way less than half the price. I wanted to build a computer for the work I do. Started shopping parts a couple months ago and read about AMD's soon to be released chips. Decided to wait as my work requires 3-27" monitors ( a 50" 4K and a 3-27" monitors was my goal to increase work efficiency ). I always have multiple cloud based subscription services being monitored, a couple email accounts, at least an excel spreadsheet going usually 2, a news feed, a couple dozen chrome tabs open, multiple google maps open, and every day numerous memory overload warnings, an occasional lockup......
I was shopping an i7-6900k paired with a couple 1080's.
I am glad I waited, even though I feared being an early adopter, this "built by me and my son computer" (1700 non X, with a pair of 480's, corsair 3200 LPX, Asus X370......) flat out blows my expectations away. For what I was going to spend on the 6900 alone, I bought the 1700, the 2 480's (nuegg MSI RX480 4gb $145ea after rebate) , the SSD a Hundy, the RAM a buck twenty and MOBO. The case, psu, W10, and hard drive were less than half the cost of one 1080.
Needless to say, the final cost to build was less than half to build a 6900 system, far less than half.
The expected performance for my needs has been far exceeded. I do game but I didn't build this for gaming, but it does game incredibly. The 13yo has confirmed completely.
This was my first ever computer build, I did not know how to flash the mobo with the latest, I watched a YouTube video and 10 minutes later - the mobo was flashed with the latest! I did not know how to overclock, I watched a YouTube video and 10 minutes later I was overclocking at 3.8 and 2966 on the ram.
My son, I encouraged him to help with the build, bios update, overclocking and software loading. Full disclosure- he pretty much entirely built the computer, flashed the bios,loaded the software ...... I just made sure he watched the videos and followed the directions on the videos. This has been great to build it with him as he has even less computer hardware and software experience than me. He now has real experience and confidence.
What he built far exceeds my expectations going in, we have learned just how easy it is to choose and assemble a computer (2 hours of a 13yo's short attention span and constant refocusing) load an operating system, flash bios, overclock this CPU and ram.
What a rewarding thing to do with him (second guess most steps really).
The results of the performance of this system, had I bought a twin from ... HP or Dell, I would still be raving about!
This computer build has completely blown away my expectations on not just how easy it was to build and tune, but also how it exceeds the performance level I was budgeting to spend over twice as much to achieve. Now we have a bunch of "fun money" that was budgeted for work... Our win, a trip to the beach becons this summer now.
I'll update with some pics, of the beach of course.
| Processor | 3.7 GHz amd_ryzen_7 |
|---|---|
| RAM | DDR4 |
| Wireless Type | 802.11a/b/g/n |
