12-03-2016, 02:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-03-2016, 02:50 AM by Kaz.
Edit Reason: Neglected to fully answer the question.
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(10-18-2016, 02:36 PM)mediocre Wrote: I thought about the list a bit more and we decided to go with the following, based on your tips.
* ASUS Sabretooth X99
* Intel Core i7 5820K (LGA 2011-v3)
* 2x HyperX Fury 16GiB DDR4-2133
* 2x EVGA GTX 1080 Founders Edition
* Samsung 850 EVO Basic 500GiB
* Corsair HX1000i
* NZXT Kraken X61
* NZXT H440 V2
However, performance-wise I am unsure whether to prefer two 1080s over two 1070s. How noticeable is the difference?
Don't know if you already got this rig but it appears you are looking at getting 2x16GiB sticks of RAM giving you 32GB total. From what I gather this is overkill unless you are doing something else with the machine that needs the RAM 16GB is enough. Going off of epixoip from this thread. However as you are using the CPU to crack as well that might not be the case. Is someone else able to fact check me on this?
EDIT: The difference between the two seems proportional to the cost of the cards so not much worry there I don't think, based on the benchmarks I have seen on the 1070 compared to the 1080's I use.