05-04-2016, 04:14 PM
(05-04-2016, 02:04 PM)roguephoenix64 Wrote: $2,279
Intel Core i5 6600K Skylake-S 3.5GHz
ASUS Z170 Motherboard
2 x 8GB Corsair Memory
Samsung 250GB SSD OS Drive
Western Digital 1TB Storage Drive
NZXT Mid Tower Case
ASUS GTX970 4GB Graphics Card
Corsair 650W Power Supply
$2,989
Intel Core i5 6500 Skylake 3.2GHz
MSI Z170 Motherboard
8GB Kingston Memory
Samsung 250GB SSD OS Drive
MSI GTX970 4GB Graphics Card
NZXT Mid Tower Case
Corsair 650W Power Supply
>PLE Water Cooling
Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Which is better?
Both appear really expensive, 1.5-2x what it would cost me to build. Though if you are having this built by someone that would be why.
I would go with the 16GB of ram. SSDs get eaten by the swapfile if a system doesn't have enough ram in it, so plan on having 2x more ram than you actually will need. Of course it is possible to put the swapfile on the HDD instead, but this comes with a performance penalty.
On that note, I hear a lot of mixed reports about the Samsung SSDs. They don't like power outages for one thing, a badly timed power outage during the SSD wear levelling operation can cause a bsod or unbootable system because they lack the ability to deal with such issues.
I'd try putting a 250GB Corsair MX200 SSD in instead, this has data integrity functions to prevent data loss during a power failure
Feel free to PM me if anything is broken