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[Floating Cloud]

Lots of good advice, but I would add my 2p and advise against 32gb ram. RAM is horribly expensive at present (I believe that the price has doubled within the last 12 months).

Unless you have a CURRENT need for 32 GB RAM then I would stick with 16GB. Just make sure that you can add more RAM later (I.E. buy 2 x 8GB DIMMs so that you have two free memory sockets for a future upgrade).

Who knows, by the time SC goes Beta we might all be on DDR5 memory (and rocking 'Mr. Fusion' power supplies).

I'm tempted to suggest looking at the current generation motherboard/processors since that will give you two to three years CPU upgradability, but whilst that might save you money in the long term the additional cost now would probably make that unnapealing :)

Grats on whatever you decide, you are going to have a kick-ass system whichever path you tread.

 

[marcsand2]

The ones I've found - 6700 is $300-340, 7700 is around $380-400. I don't intend to do much overclocking tbh, I'm happy with the standard clock speed.

6700k and 7700k bith have default OC, just like turbo on old procs. If needed, the 6700 goes from stock 4GHz to 4.4GHz without need for better cooling, extra power.
Real overclocking involves tweaking base clock speed, power levels and produces more heat. I never did this, it also shortens CPU life, can be risky / unstable.

 

[SullyQuindarius]

Ok. I'll do the i7-7700k instead of the 6700k and stick with 16gb ram then.

 

[marcsand2]

Ok. I'll do the i7-7700k instead of the 6700k and stick with 16gb ram then.

Unless you have a CURRENT need for 32 GB RAM then I would stick with 16GB. Just make sure that you can add more RAM later (I.E. buy 2 x 8GB DIMMs so that you have two free memory sockets for a future upgrade).

This is some solid advice