Your reviews on my PC

[Balakrishna Prasad]

Hello! I want you pals to share opinions on my PC build.

Here are my PC specifications:
Intel Core i5-6500
ASUS MAXIMUS VIII RANGER
Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB (8x2) DDR4 2133 MHz
WD Caviar Blue 1TB 7200 RPM
ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 1060 6GB OC
ASUS DVD+R DL/RW Optical Drive
Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-03 case
Corsair RM750x Power Supply
Windows 10 Home x64 bit
Cooler Master Hyper 103 CPU Cooler
Case Fans - 2xFront (Intake), 1xRear (Exhaust), 1xTop (Exhaust)
LG 25UB55-B Monitor (2560x1080)
Logitech G430 Hyperion Fury Mouse
TVS-e Keyboard PS/2 port Mechanical (Cherry MX Blue switches)
Logitech G403 Headset

Here are all my components. So, is my PC enough for future proof like for atleast 4 years? I do play games more and do some video editing stuff. I have build this PC for the first time with the 'Budget' kept in mind. What are your opinions?

(I know 750W PSU is an overkill but I chose it for future upgrades).

Thank you.

 

[fralexandr]

In my opinion:
Expensive motherboard given you don't have a K/overclockable processor.
Could've gone with a cheaper mobo ~$100-150 and gotten a 128-256 GB SSD, or 1070.
The RAM is also a bit slow, but shouldn't be a problem for a while, and not really worth spending much more on a faster one.
2560x1080 might be pushing it on a 1060 for gaming especially 4 years from now, unless you're ok with medium settings.

Other than that, seems like a good build. Everything else looks good to me.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I probably would have gone with faster RAM, but overall, not bad.

Edit: Now I see it, the glaring omission... where's the SSD? ("wheres the beef???")

 

[Balakrishna Prasad]

In my opinion:
Expensive motherboard given you don't have a K/overclockable processor.
Could've gone with a cheaper mobo ~$100-150 and gotten a 128-256 GB SSD, or 1070.
The RAM is also a bit slow, but shouldn't be a problem for a while, and not really worth spending much more on a faster one.
2560x1080 might be pushing it on a 1060 for gaming especially 4 years from now, unless you're ok with medium settings.

Other than that, seems like a good build. Everything else looks good to me.

I didn't realize I can buy a faster RAM at that time because I've seen Intel Core i5-6500 specs and it said it supports 1866/2133 MHz RAM and it didn't mention more than 2133 Mhz and so, I brought it. Anyway, thanks for the review.

 

[Balakrishna Prasad]

I probably would have gone with faster RAM, but overall, not bad.

Edit: Now I see it, the glaring omission... where's the SSD? ("wheres the beef???")

Thanks! I may be installing the SSD later.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Don't need a z mobo on a non-k build. Don't really need a cpu cooler on a non-k part unless it's for acoustics. Don't need that big a psu unless it was on sale for cheap. No SSD is terrible.

Could probably swap some of the stuff around and manage to get a small SSD into the budget.

 

[Balakrishna Prasad]

Don't need a z mobo on a non-k build. Don't really need a cpu cooler on a non-k part unless it's for acoustics. Don't need that big a psu unless it was on sale for cheap. No SSD is terrible.

Could probably swap some of the stuff around and manage to get a small SSD into the budget.

I actually chose that Motherboard and PSU for future proofing. I didn't buy an SSD because it didn't fit my budget due to all other expensive components. Anyway, I have a WD Caviar Blue that can maintain the performance enough. By the way, PSU is little cheaper on sale.

 

[fralexandr]

Not that it matters for the ops current build, but having a z motherboard helps with support for faster ram. So there are uses to a z board with higher end non overclockable cpus. The lower end boards won't support as many ram timings and speeds. I replaced my p55 1156 motherboard with an h55 to test if it was causing infrequent sporadic blue screens and failures to boot, and never swapped back. My 1866 kit is running at 1600 because of that .

Offtopic: windows 10 seemed to have fixed it, though the only parts left that could have been causing it were the cpu and psu :s.

 

[Balakrishna Prasad]

Not that it matters for the ops current build, but having a z motherboard helps with support for faster ram. So there are uses to a z board with higher end non overclockable cpus. The lower end boards won't support as many ram timings and speeds. I replaced my p55 1156 motherboard with an h55 to test if it was causing infrequent sporadic blue screens and failures to boot, and never swapped back. My 1866 kit is running at 1600 because of that .

Offtopic: windows 10 seemed to have fixed it, though the only parts left that could have been causing it were the cpu and psu :s.

RAM frequencies doesn't show much of a difference not even in gaming. Maybe it performs better in some programs. So, I bought 2133 MHz which also costs a little less. The Motherboard I bought has many expansion features and so, that came to my choice of budget.

 

[Valantar]

I actually chose that Motherboard and PSU for future proofing. I didn't buy an SSD because it didn't fit my budget due to all other expensive components. Anyway, I have a WD Caviar Blue that can maintain the performance enough. By the way, PSU is little cheaper on sale.

That sounds like a clear-cut case of prioritizing wrong. An SSD is the biggest performance upgrade for any PC in day-to-day usage. Also, buying a very expensive Z170 motherboard alongside a non-K CPU and barely any upgrade path for your CPU, that's just bad judgement. If you're lucky, Intel will have one more generation on Socket 1151. Most likely not. So your only real upgrade option is an i7-7700K. It will probably come down in price in a couple of years (especially given the launch of Ryzen, which gives you 2x the cores for $20 less), but that doesn't justify overspending on the motherboard by $100 or more. That price difference would also easily get you a 240GB SSD to use as a boot drive.

Faster RAM doesn't net you much in terms of performance, so unless you had room to spare in your budget, don't sweat it.

My main gripe is that you ask if your build is future proof, yet you seem to have prioritized future proofing through upgradeability. Spending "too much" on a motherboard isn't a bad idea in and of itself, but there has to be some reasoning behind it - otherwise, you're not getting any more performance than if you bought a H110 board. And planning for upgradeability on an Intel platform that's already two generations in (they rarely last more than that) is not a good idea. If you need more than 4 CPU threads in a few years (which is likely), you might end up spending as much on a 7700K then as some more modern 6-core (or at the very least 4c8t) from AMD with a brand new motherboard - in which case your extra investment in the motherboard would be a complete waste.

I'm not saying this is a bad build, but it could definitely be better.

 

[fralexandr]

RAM frequencies doesn't show much of a difference not even in gaming. Maybe it performs better in some programs. So, I bought 2133 MHz which also costs a little less. The Motherboard I bought has many expansion features and so, that came to my choice of budget.

Yeah, that and the annoyance of rebuilding the computer are mostly why i didn't replace the board again. I replaced my 2x4gb ddr3 1333 with 2x8gb ddr3 1866 for fallout 4 and various dx12 games which may benefit from having more RAM. Fallout 4 is the only game that I know of that has significant gains from RAM speed. The ddr3 1333 was moved to another computer.

http://www.techspot.com/review/1089-fallout-4-benchmarks/page6.html