I appreciate your mind is set but from my experience of 'making a mistake' and not listening to advice on my first PCS P, I would really go for Oussebon's build or something similar. I ignored everyone and went for an AMD, thinking more cores, more power and although it was good, It never really performed as well as I hoped it would. I have always been a huge AMD fan but have now seen the light...lol. The V300 drive suffers from performance issues and isn't much better than a standard HDD. Also the copper pipe coolers are excellent and the AIO are really best suited to overclockers. The one you have would in fact be noisier than the copper pipe version.
Just ordered my very first PC - previous console scrub
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Oussebon
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The memory speed is largely irrelevant compared to the CPU having 76% better single threaded performance and 30% better multithreaded performance. To put it another way, playing Doom on medium settings you might expect FPS to be lower by about 40 on a GTX 970 if paired with an FX 6350 rather than the i5 6600 http://www.techspot.com/review/1173-doom-benchmarks/page5.html
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/bulldozer-ddr3-overclocking,review-32455-13.html
The M-ATX motherboard isn't an issue unless you need to add lots of PCI-E cards, and in short you won't.
The Titan cooler is more than fine for the 65W TDP CPU https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Titan/Dragonfly_4/6.html (the bench here is of an 84W TDP i7)
If you find yourself wanting to upgrade the CPU in future you'll basically be looking at a new motherboard because of the limited options within the AM3+ socket, possibly new RAM depending on the new motherboard, and likely a new operating system due to OEM licensing. It's much more cost effective to get the better CPU at the outset, and upgrade other things later like adding an SSD since you're not having to replace anything, you just add it in as an extra with no waste.
I wasn't going to say anything else but since the discussion was ongoing I thought I'd mention the above
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/bulldozer-ddr3-overclocking,review-32455-13.html
Obviously the price gap is smaller than when that was written so faster memory is better value but the performance obviously isn't any better. Certainly not enough to make up for 30-70% performance difference for the CPU.
The M-ATX motherboard isn't an issue unless you need to add lots of PCI-E cards, and in short you won't.
The Titan cooler is more than fine for the 65W TDP CPU https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Titan/Dragonfly_4/6.html (the bench here is of an 84W TDP i7)
If you find yourself wanting to upgrade the CPU in future you'll basically be looking at a new motherboard because of the limited options within the AM3+ socket, possibly new RAM depending on the new motherboard, and likely a new operating system due to OEM licensing. It's much more cost effective to get the better CPU at the outset, and upgrade other things later like adding an SSD since you're not having to replace anything, you just add it in as an extra with no waste.
I wasn't going to say anything else but since the discussion was ongoing I thought I'd mention the above
DnBsoldier
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I just wanted to post here again and inform everyone that suggested otherwise - That i maybe should have listened!
I have no issues with my PC at all - except one.
the future of my mobo and processor... Im not someone that can easily swap/upgrade my mobo to work with an i7 (which is what i would like one day), So, my main issue is that i annot upgrade very easily in the near/coming future.
Well done peeps, you were right and i was wrong (but it does do everything i want it too for the minute)
I have no issues with my PC at all - except one.
the future of my mobo and processor... Im not someone that can easily swap/upgrade my mobo to work with an i7 (which is what i would like one day), So, my main issue is that i annot upgrade very easily in the near/coming future.
Well done peeps, you were right and i was wrong (but it does do everything i want it too for the minute)