Show Us Your Stuff - v2.0

@Grey_Eyed_Elf: @ronvalencia: @BassMan:

I'm in that same boat, which is why I'm in this pickle to begin with. I have house money to play with on this upgrade since I have 2 cards to get out from under that are going for a premium at the moment. If the 1080 Ti's drop some when Vega drops, I will pick one up. I think I'm gonna wait until Asus drops their new monitors next year to worry about that upgrade. I can justify upgrading GPUs every year or two. A monitor? Not so much. Especially one that cost $1K+

Thanks everyone for the info!

MY 980Ti are OC'ed so slightly better than an OC'ed 1070. However I am stuck at 60Hz, 3440*1440.

@horgen said:

Seriously considering getting this case here

The Phanteks Eclipse 400S, and simply have the radiators outside. Getting the Mo-Ra3 420LT and 4 200mm fans.

I'm considering Phanteks Enthoo Pro M to replace my old Fractal R4.

I ended up with Phanteks Evolv ATX Tempered Glass.

I put a 280mm rad infront, using the fans that comes with the case. Slowly putting together a new rig. Gonna be a few months before it is finished.

@horgen@elessarGObonzo@Grey_Eyed_Elf@ronvalencia@BassMan

Thanks for the help everyone. I went with the Asus ROG Strix 1080 Ti. I ordered it a few days ago and I should have it sometime during the week. Now my only real bottleneck is my monitor. To wait for the Asus 4K 144Hz G-sync stuff next year for futureproof purposes, or to stick with my original 144Hz 1440p plan? The struggle continues...

Monitors are a tricky thing as they seem to be advancing quicker than most other parts these days. 144Hz-240Hz, ultrawides, 1440p, 4k, HDR, the list goes on and on. I started with a pretty decent 27" IPS 1080p monitor and was pretty happy for a long time. Then I went to an ultrawide 34" 2560x1080p monitor and thought I was in heaven but wanted to experience higher resolutions and refresh rates. So I went to a 27" IPS 2560x1440p, 165Hz, Gsync monitor and was over the moon but missed the ultrawide aspect. Went through the 4K phase on my Samsung 9500 series screen and was floating around Jupiter. Now I'm on an ultrawide 35", 3440x1440p, 120Hz, Gsync monitor and think I've finally found my personal sweet spot. I think you're choices, both present and future will both make you happy so long as you are happy with a good balance of features that appeal to you. To me, the difference between 1440p and 4K aren't exactly night and day apart, but when mixed with other technologies that appeal to me, I've found that happy medium where this monitor now personally "futureproofed". Either which way you go, you'll be fine.

@joseph_mach: Could you link to the current monitor you use?

Sure thing Horgen.

http://www.144hzmonitors.com/reviews/acer-predator-z35p-preview/

Thanks :D

Now I just need a new Monitor

So the 1080Ti benchmarks about 2K less than the 1070 sli, and I'm for sure dropping way more frames in games. This is far more of a side-grade than an upgrade. Volta better bring it!!!

Waiting for Volta myself. I want a GV104 chip that beats my 980Ti Sli. 500W being beaten by a sub 200W card.

SLI is not applicable for all games.

https://www.techspot.com/news/70584-nvidia-volta-gaming-gpus-not-foreseeable-future.html

However, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang quashed these rumors during an earnings call last week saying that Volta will not be replacing Pascal in gaming anytime soon.

“Volta for gaming, we haven't announced anything. And all I can say is that our pipeline is filled with some exciting new toys for the gamers, and we have some really exciting new technology to offer them in the pipeline. But for the holiday season for the foreseeable future, I think Pascal is just unbeatable. It's just the best thing out there. And everybody who's looking forward to playing Call of Duty or Destiny 2, if they don't already have one, should run out and get themselves a Pascal.”

Oh I don't mind. Doing other PC upgrades in the mean time. Getting more worth out of my current cards the longer they wait.

@ronvalencia: Looks like a disco party in your rig. :)

980 Ti still has memory bandwidth advantage which OC GPU can utilize.

I know. Which is surprisingly important if one wishes to OC the core itself.

Just got a SilverStone RL06 Pro.

@Grey_Eyed_Elf: Only window on one side?

@horgen: Yup and its the non glass version also... It was a birthday present. Superb airflow and installation was easy.

Mine has on both sides... I haven't started yet with it, hence the plastic cover is still on.

Suddenly cable management is super important D=

@horgen: Oh yeah... f*** good luck with that, I have a rats nest on the back of my case. New build will definitely be getting a modular power supply.

If I get rid of the HDD, get an M.2 disc, that will help. The case has a sentral fan controller so I use it to control the 3 fans in the case. It should be able to deliver around 30W so I might use a 1 to 4 splitter for the 4 fans outside of my case. Going down from maybe 15 fans to 7 will help.

I might remove the 280 rad I've put in the case. It depends on how cramped it will be when I start filling it up with hardware.

@horgen: Thats my plan with my next build(soon) by getting a 1tb m.2 Samsung PM961, just waiting for that 6 core i5 that I plan on throwing a X31 on and grabbing 2x 8GB DDR4.

1TB M.2 disc... That would be sweet. I am thinking about the i7 6 core.

That too would be a great option... I guess it all depends on your needs and the benchmarks. If the i5 six core beats out the current i7 7700K then its a no brainer for me... BUT if the i7 6c/12t is DRASTICALLY better for other purpose then I may have to take the plunge, especially since the i7 still beats everything for gaming.

I need more cores than I got today since I usually have a GPU folding. Nvidia uses easily a single core for that.

I need more cores and more RAM. I was processing 30 RAW images from my D700 in lightroom yesterday while listening to iTunes and damn every time a new file started processing the song would skip, I checked my CPU and RAM usage and I... I need more.

Either way I have £700 set aside for upgrades so I have the budget for a i7... Can't wait.

You need X299 and i9... With a minimum of 32GB RAM.

Nah.... I have a i7 3770K and 16GB RAM, no problem at all in multitasking with lightroom in my office at work. I am tempted in stealing one of the NEC 302's there.

Photography doesn't need all that power your HDD is far more important, first world problem "oh I cant listen to music while I process RAW files".

A i5 with 6 cores will be more than enough and a 6c with 12t will be overkill.

Doesn't use many threads then I guess? You need single core performance instead?

It does use around 5-6 threads when multitasking... So a i5 with 6 cores will do the trick, and I have seem RAM usage go to 9-10GB. So 16GB DDR4 with a i5 6c or a i7 6c/12t will be a great option for me. it all depends on performance, I am willing to go the Ryzen 1700 route if the coming Intel's aren't that great. It will take me a week of reviews to decide and build.

One of my mentors has been using a i5 2500 and 8GB RAM for the past 4 years and has no need to upgrade and he's a award winning photographer, it all depends on your work flow and if you multitask or not... A LOT of youtube "tech" heads recommend things that in the professional world unless you are doing CGI is overkill and not cost effective, for example if the difference between rendering one 100 50mp RAW files from a i5 to a ULTRA end i9 is 160 seconds v 210 seconds?... Not worth it. I would rather wait.

I don't take more than 1k images for a wedding and for a normal shoot its less than half of that... I throw in my CF card and copy the files on to my SSD in less than it takes to make a coffee and come back up stairs and that's with a i5. i9?... Pissing contest product for 90% of work.

The Ryzen will give you the same single core performance, just 8 cores and 16 threads in your case. If I pick Ryzen I'll have lower single core performance =/

I thought photoediting would be heavier for the CPU than it is then.

@horgen: Well it all depends really... Of course if you are working with 12MP raw files you have no issues doing that on a Laptop like I do with a i3 dual core, yes its slower but its not really going to be life and death. I use a Pentax 645z in the studio which is more than twice the file size of my D700 and X-Pro1 so of course it will take twice as long on the hardware you use.

Technology has come a long way and for the most part performance is just convenience for a normal work load unless you are rendering things then performance makes a huge impact but for the most part the only outcome is time which isn't a problem when we are just talking minutes. A M.2 drive at 1000+MB read and write spead's with 16GB RAM and 6 modern Intel cores?... You don't need anything more than that for photography. Photography in general has a lot of misconceptions thrown around its why I am still using a D700 with 12MP... Simply because resolution for standard print sizes makes almost no difference past 10MP and with my area of photography I don't need a low light camera or a fast one, I set the subject in the right place then set the lighting compose the shot and shoot 3-5 shots before doing another pose... Don't need 30MP with 10FPS unless your a sports photographer who prints for billboards but even then your going to need a bigger sensor for a cleaner image.

I'm rambling sorry I had three glasses of Lagavulin 16.

@Grey_Eyed_Elf: Rambling on is accepted when it comes to the field you work in. Hahahaha

I been meaning to show off my PC for a long time now and so, here it is. My PC set up is nothing to brag about but the most important thing for me, it get's the job done when I game in 1440p/60fps but anyways, here's my set up:

PC Specs:

• Motherboard: Z170 MSI Pro Solution
• CPU: i5 6600k (Overclock 4.0Ghz)
• CPU Fan: Cryorig H7 Tower Cooler
• GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1070
• Ram: HyperX Fury 16GB
• PSU: EVGA SuperNova 650w 80 Gold
• SSD: Samsung 850 EVO: 1TB
• Case: Corsair Carbide series 200R Mid Tower
• Monitor: Acer G257HU 25-inch (2560x1440p) widescreen
• OS: Windows 10

@davillain-: That's quite decent. Get a lot of performance for not so much money there. You should be able to reach 4.2-4.4 on the CPU easily. Also what RAM speed do you got?

Sorry for the late reply, due to the Hurricane Irma, I lost power for 2 days and even then, I had no Wi-Fi as well, I can only access the web through by coming to work.

As for the CPU, I could go over to 4.4 if I wanted to but stability is more important to me so it's why I didn't bother pushing it and I was satisfied staying 4.0Ghz. RAM speed is DDR4 2400MHz.

Oh really? :P

So did Irma bring the shore to your backyard?

Positive leak test....

It's both connection to upper radiator. Though given that both are made up of two pieces, compression nipple and 90 angle, compression nipple and temperature sensor I don't know exactly what is faulty. (dunno if the picture will show up)

@horgen said:

is a nice one. the new P400S Eclipse Glacier is really nice looking, and silent?.

a lot more cases have really become more aesthetically appealing for less money these last couple years. it was hard to choose my current box and a week later i wanted to get something different/"better".

have a new toy on the way for review:

http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/gaming/28--uh750-uhd-monitor-with-quantum-dot-lu28h750uqnxza/

can really test for myself the comfort-ability & smoothness difference between 1440p high refresh rates VS 2160p 60Hz. just sucks that it's FreeSync instead.

Nope, my house was okay, just the power was out for days and no Wi-Fi when we got power back on.

@horgen said:

Positive leak test....

It's both connection to upper radiator. Though given that both are made up of two pieces, compression nipple and 90 angle, compression nipple and temperature sensor I don't know exactly what is faulty. (dunno if the picture will show up)

Water looping is something I couldn't get into. It just looks time consuming and will always stick to Fans in my personal taste. I gotta admit, that's a nice loop setup.

@davillain-: it is nice knowing I can throw in an overclocked 7980X and dual 1080Ti or Titan X and keep it cool and silent.

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A couple more oics. Leak testing again and no leak so far. First image is the Mo-Ra3 420 rad. It is getting 4 230mm fans. The internal rad will not be used yet, well not with fans.

Second picture is the pump.

Damn, I am getting good at posting in a row here now.

Anyway I am in a need of a good stress testing program. With real bench, using all the ram I got my CPU temps tops out at 48C... This is at 4.7GHz. =O

I'll post some pictures soon. I just have to actually finish this. Dunno where to keep the HDD. No room for them inside the case

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Here are another two pics. SLI and water cooling in this case means no room left over. I still got an Aquaero 5LT I want to place in it somewhere. And two HDD, however I will just put them behind the case in a HDD cage. Get longer SATA III cables.

My latest build...

@i-siamak-i said:

My latest build...

We got the same case. My led is greenish. Can I change it by myself?