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wtf are you gonna do with that much ram though ?

Might not be enough. Someone on PCMasterRace posted up a pic showing Photoshop using close to 50GB. They were glad they had over 100GB total. That might might not even be enough if you use Chrome though.

That's a pretty mobo alright.

Originally Posted by [CoFR]SirMoo

I always feel uncomfortable buying used GPUs from ebay, I mean do you just go by their ebay rating? I don't know how long they've used it, how much they've overclocked it or whatever it's like a $300 investment that you can't save if the card is DOA or dies soon after.

There is always a risk. To be honest, if you are shopping around for a 3 year + old GPU, there is always a chance that it won't last too long, but you are paying a fraction of what it costs to get a new one, so that is the benefit.

Now, I would almost always go with buying a brand new GPU, even a lower model, unless I was looking to boost the performance of what I already have. If I could drop in a second card in SLI for a couple hundred and get me back up to the performance of a $500 GPU, I would certainly consider that option. As another option, if you have $250 burning a hole in your wallet, you could sell your current GPU on ebay for $200, and then take your cash and go buy a $450 GPU, which would probably do better than the SLI setup.

It just depends on what you are doing and what is easiest. I've had great luck selling my GPUs on Ebay and upgrading to the new models. I went from GTX 570s to a GTX 690 to GTX Titans to GTX 980s. I have since stopped my upgrade path in this rig as my 3 x 980s still do very well and overclock great since they are liquid cooled.

In my living room PC, I went from GTX 660 to 760 to 960, selling the cards on ebay and putting everything towards the next card. I'm happy with the 960 as it only requires a single 6 pin PCIE power plug, and my living room PC is somewhat limited on power plugs without requiring some crazy adapters.

I could be interested in that 780Ti, Kanati. I've actually been looking at GPUs, since my pathetic little 550Ti can't even run Mankind Divided properly. If you would, pm me some details if/when you decide to sell.

Originally Posted by moving-target

wtf are you gonna do with that much ram though ?

I try to never exceed 50% memory load. With 32GB I "can" hit 50% if I put a heavy load on my system. The idea of a new build is for it to last ~4 years with only moderate upgrades. If I was building a system today I would plan on its needs 3 years from now and if I didn't go 64GB in the new rig today I would at least do 32GB in 2 Dimms now so that I can double it in a year or two with the 2 open bays. With m.2 NVMe SSD's and the throughput on the new video cards you don't want your bottleneck to be system memory.

Originally Posted by Phyrelight

I try to never exceed 50% memory load. With 32GB I "can" hit 50% if I put a heavy load on my system. The idea of a new build is for it to last ~4 years with only moderate upgrades. If I was building a system today I would plan on its needs 3 years from now and if I didn't go 64GB in the new rig today I would at least do 32GB in 2 Dimms now so that I can double it in a year or two with the 2 open bays. With m.2 NVMe SSD's and the throughput on the new video cards you don't want your bottleneck to be system memory.

I'm not sure it makes any difference if you are using 50% of your memory capacity vs 90%. As long as you have available resources and are not having to use your virtual memory, then you should be good. I have 32GB in my main build right now, and have since last year. It is still overkill for most users. I think I have only run over 16GB usage a couple of times, but I had a LOT of shit going on in the background, and was playing games at the same time.

Additionally, I've got PCIE AHCI M.2 drives and NVMe drives, and I hardly notice any difference in gaming or day to day applications. I know that is a different topic.

I have only used more than 16GB if I am running work related stuff while gaming from home. That being said, I don't have 64GB in my current rig, I don't need it in this build. I said if I was building a new rig today I would plan ahead for 64GB because within 2 years systems will need it. I aim for 50% knowing that if I have to I have more its available. You build a system today with 16GB and you will be sorry. Memory is one thing that will bring your system to a grinding halt if you don't have enough and with today's prices its pretty cheap to do 32GB and double it to 64GB in a year.

I'm running 64GB in this build. And just for bragging rights, I am considering taking it to it's max of 128GB.

Originally Posted by HeavyG

On a side note, I got to see that motherboard in person today, and holy hell does it look bad ass in person. The pictures don't do it justice in this forum, but this thing looks wicked! A friend of mine is doing a water cooled build with this motherboard/cpu combo and is waiting for his full cover block to come in.

It's definitely a cool motherboard. It's also the first motherboard I know of with DLC. There must be a half dozen add-ons you can buy for it.