Well just started the long path to building my PC. Now the reason I say it like this is that I have like a 12 step plan. Okay, maybe not that many. But it's a path for sure. So this morning I just placed the order for my CaseLabs STH10. I was able to get a rain check on the two tone that they just ended at the end of February. So I'm doing Gunmetal Grey on the outside panels and then making the chassis and all internal parts Black.
My current system is a Phanteks ITX case with a EVGA Z97 Stinger in it with a 4690K and 16Gb DDR3 1600Mhz G.skill Sniper RAM. I have a Galax GTX 970 Short GPU and a SSD for OS and a couple games and a 3Tb HDD for my other games and movies that I stream to the TV with.
So my plans are this. I have a buddy that has a MSI Z97 XPOWER AC mobo and 32Gb of G.skill DDR3 2400 Mhz RAM that I am getting for free because he doesn't bench on them anymore. This board has a PLX chip on it so it's like getting 4 extra PCI lanes. I'm waiting on the Pascal cards to release and not the first card of the series because that should more than likely be the Titan version with HBM2. I owned a Titan X when they first released and as soon as the 980ti hit the market I regretted it so I am not making that mistake a second time. I plan on running 3 GTX "1080" cards(" " are since the new series name hasn't been announced yet) and getting a 4790K or 4770K for this board. I'll get water blocks for the GPU's and the CPU. I already have blocks for the RAM on the way and the Motherboard has water cooling built in.
Now with how the STH10 is designed, I plan on running a 480 mm Rad in the top bay and a 560 mm rad in the lower bay. 480 for the CPU, RAM and Mobo. 560 for the Tri-SLI. Once Skylake-E hits towards the end of next year, I'll switch back to Enthusiast chipset series(I had a X99 build before this ITX system).
Now I only plan on going with the "1080" series because it's supposed to be the GDDR5X type VRAM and be much faster than the GDDR5 VRAM that's on the Maxwell series currently. Titan is supposedly HBM2 and people are hinting that the new ti series should be HBM or HBM2. Only problem with this is that from my understanding is that HBM/HBM2 will not be overclockable. Now, not everyone needs to overclock their GPU's but I usually like to do some benching to see how efficient my cards are then I apply a small OC.
So pretty much, took that first step into my Main build today. lol Almost $1000 put down on the case. That hurt.
Sorry for the novel here but Tech is one of my hobbies and I love it. Plus I have really enjoyed this group and wanted to share my plans. Anyone else do this too or is it just me?
My current system is a Phanteks ITX case with a EVGA Z97 Stinger in it with a 4690K and 16Gb DDR3 1600Mhz G.skill Sniper RAM. I have a Galax GTX 970 Short GPU and a SSD for OS and a couple games and a 3Tb HDD for my other games and movies that I stream to the TV with.
So my plans are this. I have a buddy that has a MSI Z97 XPOWER AC mobo and 32Gb of G.skill DDR3 2400 Mhz RAM that I am getting for free because he doesn't bench on them anymore. This board has a PLX chip on it so it's like getting 4 extra PCI lanes. I'm waiting on the Pascal cards to release and not the first card of the series because that should more than likely be the Titan version with HBM2. I owned a Titan X when they first released and as soon as the 980ti hit the market I regretted it so I am not making that mistake a second time. I plan on running 3 GTX "1080" cards(" " are since the new series name hasn't been announced yet) and getting a 4790K or 4770K for this board. I'll get water blocks for the GPU's and the CPU. I already have blocks for the RAM on the way and the Motherboard has water cooling built in.
Now with how the STH10 is designed, I plan on running a 480 mm Rad in the top bay and a 560 mm rad in the lower bay. 480 for the CPU, RAM and Mobo. 560 for the Tri-SLI. Once Skylake-E hits towards the end of next year, I'll switch back to Enthusiast chipset series(I had a X99 build before this ITX system).
Now I only plan on going with the "1080" series because it's supposed to be the GDDR5X type VRAM and be much faster than the GDDR5 VRAM that's on the Maxwell series currently. Titan is supposedly HBM2 and people are hinting that the new ti series should be HBM or HBM2. Only problem with this is that from my understanding is that HBM/HBM2 will not be overclockable. Now, not everyone needs to overclock their GPU's but I usually like to do some benching to see how efficient my cards are then I apply a small OC.
So pretty much, took that first step into my Main build today. lol Almost $1000 put down on the case. That hurt.
Sorry for the novel here but Tech is one of my hobbies and I love it. Plus I have really enjoyed this group and wanted to share my plans. Anyone else do this too or is it just me?
