Can someone please suggest the cheapest place to purchase the New Skylake CPU and Motherboards from. Also does anyone know a Good place that builds custom gaming PC at a reasonable price without compromising quality?
The New Intel Skylake CPU
Lfitbaaboo on 07/08/2015 - 13:59
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another vote for building it yourself.
You can get a lot of help from YouTube but really everything you need should be in the instruction manuals. The motherboard manual usually covers everything.The only part that requires thinking is connecting the case switches to your motherboard. They don't usually bother writing a good quality manual and the labelling used by the case may not match the labelling used by the motherboard, trial and error should sort that out though.
check out http://www.silentpcreview.com/ for some recommend builds. They also review cases and power supplies in much more detail than most other sites.
If I was building today I would go for a microATX build and spend a bit extra on the case and power supply - they are the only components which won't be obsolete in the next 2 years so its a good investment.
LOL i can put it together for ya… just don't ask for after service. =P
It's all plug and play now, quite easy. Here's my motto for PC building… If it doesn't fit, it won't ever fit, so don't bother jamming the thing in with all your might. use staticice to choose your parts or pcpartpicker AU.
yeah i think even me i can build my own pc
simple. motherboard, gpu, memory, hdd, processor, power, other pcis.
put all into case. connect monitor
Advanced lego ;)
Nah, if anything I think PC building is dumbed down version of Lego =\ At least with Lego you can customise it and put things where they shouldn't.
Though I've been itching to put another one together… just don't have the reason to do so. Did plan on making a HTPC/Media Server but then I realised I don't need to have it on 24/7 so my desktop would be better seeing as no extra money spend + no extra electricity incurred.
"It's all plug and play now"
Whereas in the past it wasn't? We're talking decades since you've really needed more than a high school education to figure it out …
"… no extra money spend + no extra electricity incurred."
Why not opt for an ultra low voltage system? They are also considerably cheaper than performance systems also.
Raspberry Pi 2 - $35
128GB microSD - ~$50Power consumpition is approx 2.5 watts watching 1080p video. Works out about 50 cents a month under load 24/7.
"It's all plug and play now"
I remember someone telling me that everything back during IDE era required you to install drivers whereas now you didn't. Honestly, didn't delve into it too much back during the IDE era.
Raspberry Pi 2 - $35
128GB microSD - ~$50Didn't know this was able to handle 1080p transcoding, planning on making a PLEX media server to store my digital content and also as a back up server for my household computers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OVEmTPZomI
:)
edit - yeah you used to have to slipstream some drivers into your install rom but was mainly an issue with Linux support back in the day.
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I think you mean the ISA era, which was the card slot used before PCI.Like the serial port (which was replaced by the plug and play USB), you needed drivers for your sound card/graphics card, nothing was 'plug and play' and automatically detected.
ISA has been obsolete for decades now, Plug and Play was a revolutionary feature for Windows 95IDE connects hard drives and cd rom drives, the only reason you would have driver issues was if you were trying to install onto a raid setup - usually because this meant you weren't using the standard ports
@tmdhag: probably mate, started building pc only a few years back. So I started when sata 2 was around.
A10 7870k + R7 360 + 2400-2800mhz ram. Skylake's Flagship chips have proven to be no faster than an APU less than half the price with discrete graphics card.
500gb SSD & 8TB Seagate archive.
You'll be happy.
Example, without 8TB drive - http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/JrnQbv
Skylake's Flagship chips have proven to be no faster than an APU less than half the price with discrete graphics card.
sorry what…
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1497?vs=1544
Overall score
trumpsbeat it… not to mention with a skylake cpu, you don't need a discrete GPU which would lower your power usage at idle as well… APU + GPU power draw > CPU power drawYou just proved my point. Have another look at the benchmarks. The discrete GPU in Skylake is an improvement but it's no APU iGPU. Many of the benches there also only mention minimum and maximum, the real deal is all in the average frame rate.
Skylake costs more, doesn't perform as well with it's iGPU, and is no better (Overall) FPS wise with a discrete GPU unless it is using a game which is optimised for a particular GPU manufacturer.
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=i5+6600k&sp…
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=7850k&spos=… - I selected the 7850k here as it's much of a muchness compared to the 7870k
Skylake costs more, doesn't perform as well with it's iGPU
That part I agree with after scrolling down towards the end, was thinking you meant
CPUprocessing power. Processing power is better though for the skylake… Very strange though, I remember seeing a review stating the Skylake was on par with low range GPUs.and is no better (Overall) FPS wise with a discrete GPU
That's because CPU has very little effect in gaming aside from making sure the GPU is fed with data, it is all dependent on the GPU. I suppose if gaming is the only thing the PC is used for, then go for an AMD CPU (unless the OP plans on going SLi in which case you may need better processing power to make sure the data is fed to both GPU quick enough), if the PC is to be used for other purposes, then an Intel CPU usually wins hands down.
Completely agree with you. I don't know if he purely wants a gaming PC, or if he's fishing for options for multiple setups etc.
Yes, certainly, for video or audio editing, transcoding/encoding etc… Intel wins easily. *Not always the story if the software used allows for help from a GPU (or even iGPU).
"*Not always the story if the software used allows for help from a GPU (or even iGPU)."
You're comparing different fundamental architectures. GPUs are designed to process embarrassingly parallel algorithms incredibly efficiently whereas CPUs are designed to process just about anything you can throw at it the best way possible (higher entropy). The problem is that there are practical limitations attached to the usage of GPU architecture as most algorithms aren't embarrassingly parallel.
Skylake.. DDR4 ram..yeah baby 👶!
When can we expect a deal or sale on these new chips? (mainly the 6600k)
You want to have someone build it for you? Or you can build and want place to find components.
Id suggest build yourself, will save quite a lot as you can source from multiple places and save on components and building cost as well. I'm building one myself- got ram, ssd and i7 from different deals found here. Searching for rest of stuff, otherwise remaining from msy. Or if I find better option from your post's answers.