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Input on PC Specs

Sep 8, 2017 6:12AM PDT
Corsair Carbide Clear 400C Midi Tower
Corsair CS 650M, 650W PSU
Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Prosessor
Cooler Master Hyper TX3i Komplett Ed.
ASUS GeForce GTX 1080Ti ROG Strix Gaming
ASUS Strix B250F Gaming, Socket-1151
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 16GB
Samsung PM961 SSD 256GB M.2 NVMe
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5'' HDD
MS COA Win 10 Home Nordic

Would love some input on these parts to see if anyone has any other suggestions to parts that would work better here or might have a better value.

What i am looking for is a good gaming rig that will hold a few years. I usually have 3 screens running, with this being the main one.

I mostly on the edge between the i5-7600k and the i7-7700k. Also heard that getting 2x16 gb instead of 2x8 might be smart, seeing how i usually have a lot of internett pages open and run several screens. And thinking that since i have 2x 2TB eksternal harddrives i might as well change the internal from 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD to just 500GB SDD.

Would love any sort of tips, i am overall rather new to all this and have mainly been going through here
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/
to see what is best and has the best value.

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I have the 512GB SSD
Sep 8, 2017 7:21AM PDT

With some 1TB HDD in a laptop and it's plenty of space here. You can for a time eject the 1TB or recycle what HDD you have now for mass storage.

More than 16GB RAM? So far, not paying off on gaming. May change in a few years.

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Well, I don't game but
Sep 8, 2017 7:27AM PDT

it appears you'll not be taking advantage of the new processor's ability to support Intel's new Optane module which would help your mechanical drive. If you want the icing, I'd go with an SSD rather than the mechanical. You could keep 1TB drive if you need additional real estate for files but get a nice 250 or so SSD for the OS and programs.

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Thanks for the input
Sep 8, 2017 7:37AM PDT

Was thinking of having 500gb SSD, with the OS on, and the Multiplayer games i mostly play. Then just save most other stuff on the external hard drivers(4tb total space).

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Re: save
Sep 8, 2017 7:48AM PDT

Don't forget to include 2 * 4 Tb = 8 Tb of backup space (either external hard disk or cloud) in the total expense. Just "storing" on an external hard drive means you don't mind to lose them and that might not be what you want.

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As Kees noted.
Sep 8, 2017 8:00AM PDT

To store files, etc. isn't as simple as it seems. The forums fill with folk that didn't understand that a single copy on one drive is at risk. Failure rates are pretty low but one wrong move or a natural disaster and it's gone.

OS, games can be replaced. Backups of what you can't replace is what we focus on.

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I was wrong about something
Sep 8, 2017 9:20AM PDT

but it's not going to apply to anything. I'm behind on MB chipsets I was not familiar with the B series as mostly I see the H and Z. I may be that you can even boot from an NVMe drive (about which I know almost nothing) so it would be a shame to waste that potential by using a mechanical drive. I'm not sure that technology is for the masses, however.

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Specs
Sep 8, 2017 8:34AM PDT

If you have the bucks go with the I7.
I doubt you'll see much difference over the I5 but it won't hurt.

Ram...start with 2x8 and watch the ram usage.
If your pushing up near the top you can add 2x8.

Disk...I'd go with a big ssd for OS and apps and stuff that's used often.
A one TB internal hdd can store a lot of games plus it will be using the sata bus.

Keep your externals for backups.