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t30 · ‎03-02-2016

Hi everyone, i am a newbie here and planning to build 1 system. Below is my wishlist:

1.Asus Rampage V Extreme, P/N: RAMPAGE V EXTREME/U3.1
2.Intel Core i7 5960x, P/N: BX80648I75960X
3.Cooler Master NEPTON 240M, P/N: RL-N24M-24PK-R1
4.CORSAIR AX1200i Platinum, P/N: CP-9020008-EU
5.Samsung 950 Pro 512GB, P/N: MZ-V5P512BW
6.G.Skill Ripjaws 4 128GB DDR4 kit, P/N: F4-2400C14Q2-128GRK
7.PNY Quadro M6000 GPU, P/N: VCQM6000-PB

All your expertise comment are very welcome. Thanks in advance,

Qwinn · ‎03-02-2016

Holy crap,.I never even heard of the quadro gpu before. 5 grand for one card? Too rich for me. IMHO if you want 12 gigs of GPU memory, get two 980tis and run them in SLI for 1/3 the cost. If you have money to burn, get 980tis that come with built in water cooling, from all my reading maxwell cards overclock significantly better just for being under water, regardless of core GPU temps. Probably has to do with VRM temps. And of course you could do custom loop liquid cooling if you have the skill and patience for best results.

Vlada011 · ‎03-04-2016

Qwinn wrote:
Holy crap,.I never even heard of the quadro gpu before. 5 grand for one card? Too rich for me. IMHO if you want 12 gigs of GPU memory, get two 980tis and run them in SLI for 1/3 the cost. If you have money to burn, get 980tis that come with built in water cooling, from all my reading maxwell cards overclock significantly better just for being under water, regardless of core GPU temps. Probably has to do with VRM temps. And of course you could do custom loop liquid cooling if you have the skill and patience for best results.

Only TITAN X could offer clear 12GB, GeForce GTX980Ti 4 Way SLI offer 6GB of video memory for gaming.
If you play games I would go on ASUS TITAN X 12GB of video memory.
Because of that guys who build 3way SLI GTX980Ti instead TITAN X SLI for 4K monitors and future I think was mistake.
OK 6GB of video memory is still enough for anything but 6 more just in case for 2017/2018 are welcomed.
You really need 128GB of video memory? You will not be satisfied with 64GB 2800 same 1.2V for 350$ only.
I mean difference between 2400 and 2800MHz in real situation is not big but 128GB ...750$...

Example F4-2800C15Q2-64GRK...

You can find and 8x8GB Dominator Platinum 2400 C11 for 550$ with two Air Flow fans.
I would not install them because nothing look better than 8x8 Dominator Platinum. But board love more 4x16 and looks like they are cheaper little.
OK ASUS boards usually eat everything but in many situation less memory slot occupied give better chance for overlocking and tighter latency .

Minsekt · ‎03-02-2016

the card offers absolutely nothing compared to a titan x or a 980ti. quadro cards are just cherry picked gpus/ enterprise cards for longevity, you even have to use special enterprise drivers, normal ones dont work. its just not worth in any way for any build actually. even if a titan x or a 980ti gets somehow defective, buying a new one is still cheaper, theres absolutely no performance gain on a quadro card.

@ qwinn, 980ti sli, sli overall, does not stack vram, it will still be 6gb vram. (unless youve had dx12 in mind, which actually merges the vram)

Menthol · ‎03-03-2016

t30
all very nice components, only thing I would be concerned about is the amount of memory may give you problems, then again it may not I have never used a 128GB kit
Good luck on your build

red454 · ‎03-03-2016

The Nvidia Quadro card is for CAD work. We used them in our engineering work stations that used Solid Works. They are very expensive. You can game with them, but they are designed for intense computational graphics - not high speed gaming graphics. There is more to it than this, but that is the basic stuff about it. AMD offers has their own series of workstation graphics cards - the FirePro series.

t30 · ‎03-03-2016

@Qwinn, Minsekt & red454
i bought the Quadro last year. so no turning back. 😉 Thanks for your input.

@Menthol
My initial plan is to go for 64GB (4X16GB), but after reading some article and threads below. then i decided to go for max 128GB.
is anyone here try and tested 128GB? i need something proven good and highest performance. any recommendation for 64GB if i go for it?

http://rog.asus.com/419712015/rampage-motherboards/g-skill-announces-128gb-ddr4-memory-kit-exclusive...
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?57038-Don%92t-combine-memory-kits!-The-meat-and-potatoes-o...

This system mainly not for game but more to software development of 3D data processing.

Menthol · ‎03-04-2016

Not very many people use that much memory but I would take a look at this kit, the new Samsung modules have proven to be very good

http://www.gskill.com/en/press/view/g-skill-announces-ddr4-3000mhz-cl14-128gb-8x16gb--memory-kit

cekim · ‎03-04-2016

Sometimes you can't but if you've waited this long to buy an 8-core CPU, personally, I'd be very curious about Broadwell-E before the 5960x. Particularly if you use those cores, you might find you get 2 more and 4 more threads in a few months. Either you may be able to get a 5960x a little cheaper or get a 69xx whatever it is for roughly what a 5960x will cost you today. Waiting sucks though. 😉

SGMRock · ‎03-05-2016

Yeah if I was just now buying I would wait a bit though I ended up getting my kid a 5930K a week ago, maybe I shoulda waited too. 😛 Either way I'm holding out for the Skylake-E before I upgrade anything again.

I know some X99 CPU's are having a hard time getting 64G to run at 3000Hz , but I see you are getting a 2400Hz set so maybe you can get that up to 2400 with NP. If it is a bin tested set then possibly. I'm not the expert there. 64G is nice as you can run any game out there now on a RAMDisk, but I stayed with 32G because I wanted to be sure to hit the 3000 speed. Most people have best success with 4 RAM chips and not 8 though. So getting the biggest 4 chip set is what I would do.

I wouldn't buy that Corsair 1200i though, there are a lot better PSU's out there than that one. I just bought the EVGA SuperNova 1200 P2 that is pretty nice one. There are many others out there as well.

Asus ROG Rampage VI Apex 2002 BIOS / Intel i9-7900X / G.Skill TridentZ RBG F4-3866C18Q-32GTZR 17-17-17-37
LG 38" 38GL950G-B Ultrawide / EVGA RTX 2080Ti FTW3 Ultra Hybrid/ Sound Blaster AE-5
Corsair H115i Pro CPU Cooler / EVGA SuperNova 1200 P2 / Corsair Arctic White T780 Case

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