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Powerful Gaming and Deep Learning PC Build

6 points by keyboardman 7y ago

User23 7y ago
Spending over 5 grand and leaving the NVMe slot on the motherboard empty doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Even if all the SSD does is run the OS it will make the machine much snappier. Is there some reason? Otherwise, this is a solid example of a high end build.
- bl4ckneon 7y ago
  I agree. Didn't even notice that. You can get a high end Samsung nvme SSD for a couple hundred bucks so there really is no reason not to get one
- dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
  > Even if all the SSD does is run the OS it will make the machine much snappier. This PC is meant for gaming. Loading games from HDD takes a long time. It's beyond me why they chose HDD over SSD, they're quite cheap now.
bl4ckneon 7y ago
Do you have any benchmarks or anything? It seems like this article was "I picked the best things and got good performance". I would argue that if you are going into deep learning that AMD'S new cpus that they just released is something that should be considered.
- Jimmehh 7y ago
  This entire build is strange to me. It does seem like they just picked all the most expensive parts. With Zen 2 I’d imagine an AMD cpu would be a better pick. I don’t really think there are many use cases that Intel is better, if they are better it’s only by like 2-4%. He doesn’t want to use a SSD either, he says it because he doesn’t want to deal with dual booting with two drives, I’ve never had any issues with it. Then he mentions he only buys Bose speakers and headphones. Why? Bose are not the best you can buy. You can spend way less and get way better, speakers or headphones. All I can say is they spent way to much money on a PC, you could easily spend way less and get performance for your dollar.
- xigency 7y ago
  > The PC will be used for gaming. Performance on any single thread is critical. So AMD is not considered and the highest Intel consumer end CPU Core i9-9900K was selected. The author has this to say. Given that Linus from LTT endorsed the latest Ryzen CPUs for gaming and said they were the only choice for anyone doing real work, this seems like a dubious choice.
jonplackett 7y ago
No SSD = INSANE Easily the biggest speed boost any PC can get.

6 points by keyboardman 7y ago

Spending over 5 grand and leaving the NVMe slot on the motherboard empty doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Even if all the SSD does is run the OS it will make the machine much snappier. Is there some reason? Otherwise, this is a solid example of a high end build.

bl4ckneon 7y ago
I agree. Didn't even notice that. You can get a high end Samsung nvme SSD for a couple hundred bucks so there really is no reason not to get one
dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
> Even if all the SSD does is run the OS it will make the machine much snappier. This PC is meant for gaming. Loading games from HDD takes a long time. It's beyond me why they chose HDD over SSD, they're quite cheap now.

bl4ckneon 7y ago

Do you have any benchmarks or anything? It seems like this article was "I picked the best things and got good performance". I would argue that if you are going into deep learning that AMD'S new cpus that they just released is something that should be considered.

Jimmehh 7y ago
This entire build is strange to me. It does seem like they just picked all the most expensive parts. With Zen 2 I’d imagine an AMD cpu would be a better pick. I don’t really think there are many use cases that Intel is better, if they are better it’s only by like 2-4%. He doesn’t want to use a SSD either, he says it because he doesn’t want to deal with dual booting with two drives, I’ve never had any issues with it. Then he mentions he only buys Bose speakers and headphones. Why? Bose are not the best you can buy. You can spend way less and get way better, speakers or headphones. All I can say is they spent way to much money on a PC, you could easily spend way less and get performance for your dollar.
xigency 7y ago
> The PC will be used for gaming. Performance on any single thread is critical. So AMD is not considered and the highest Intel consumer end CPU Core i9-9900K was selected. The author has this to say. Given that Linus from LTT endorsed the latest Ryzen CPUs for gaming and said they were the only choice for anyone doing real work, this seems like a dubious choice.

jonplackett 7y ago

No SSD = INSANE Easily the biggest speed boost any PC can get.