hey all, alright its time to upgrade my rig. currently i'm running a 4790k on a asus hero mobo with a d15 cooler. speed isn't so much my issue as I can overclock to 4.8 easily and temps stay under control. My main issue is that my MSI GTX1080 has crap silicone and cant OC for crap, since the GTX 30 series is around the corner as well as the new Ryzen chips I figured I may as well just build a new PC. I am settled on a few things, I have storage worked out as well as ram (6TB WD black HDD and 16gb DDR4 3600 trident neo ram) I am also going to pick up a 500-1000gb M.2 if gen 4 pcie m.2's start becoming available. I will be getting the new 3080 series card when that becomes available and perhaps even the Ti variant if it is a big enough step up, I really would like to get to 4k/60fps on most titles. Now I have a few questions,
1.) are stock AMD coolers good enough to stick with? I plan to go with whatever CPU has the best single core performance which currently is the 3800X (technically the 3950 IS faster but only by a tiny bit and its way overpriced for what im going to be using it for). so would I be able to use the stock cooler or would I have to get another cooler, I dont overclock much but I would like a BIT of headroom.
2.) kind of attached to the above question, I want to show off the ram on the mobo so re-using my d15 is out since it covers the ram, what is the best performing cooler that will allow me to use at least the 2,4 slots of RAM on the mobo?
3.) finally, my current case is a inwin GRone but as im going for a more flashy build with good thermals what cases would you guys recommend? I don't want to reuse the GRone because it has no PSU basement and generally cable management is impossible. Any suggestions?
1.) are stock AMD coolers good enough to stick with? I plan to go with whatever CPU has the best single core performance which currently is the 3800X (technically the 3950 IS faster but only by a tiny bit and its way overpriced for what im going to be using it for). so would I be able to use the stock cooler or would I have to get another cooler, I dont overclock much but I would like a BIT of headroom.
2.) kind of attached to the above question, I want to show off the ram on the mobo so re-using my d15 is out since it covers the ram, what is the best performing cooler that will allow me to use at least the 2,4 slots of RAM on the mobo?
3.) finally, my current case is a inwin GRone but as im going for a more flashy build with good thermals what cases would you guys recommend? I don't want to reuse the GRone because it has no PSU basement and generally cable management is impossible. Any suggestions?