Recommend a Case for Apollo Series

Forst, don't put it on the floor.  That's where all the dust and hair swirl around and get picked up by the fans.  It'll mean more cleaning.  Even a foot ot two off the floor will make a difference.

For your budget and most likely a single video card system without the Pro water cooling, any of the cases will work.  Aesthetics plays a big role.

What's the rig for and what resolution monitor ?

The Slade, Corsair 600Q, will be the quietest.    The Apollo default 760T case is a very good all around case.

The Velox has about the best air cooling.

A consideration is your desk setup.  The Apollo 760t has a left facing window and the Velox a right facing window.  Might make a difference.

They all work. 

list us your specs let us help you, you don't want vortex its not the best cooler, I would go with h115i if you want the least headache and best performance. remember all lc is not the same.

Well luckily for you we have already done all the work for you, I know exactly whats what, so I can help you real quick and if you like you can go research what I told you and see for yourself.

but first, with all due respect you are doing this all wrong.

what we are doing here is building a race car. So the first thing we need to know is what kind of a race is it.

so to turn that over pc is the race car and your use is the race, you say your pc is for lot of gaming, ok then, in order to build a pc for gaming we need to know your track, aka what resolution are you gonna be gaming at.

Yes as crazy as that sounds, if you want the best bang for your buck you need to build your pc around the resolution you want to game at for the next 2 years.

for example if its 1080p, then we know exactly what gpu we want to max that res, that tells us our psu/mobo/case needs. However if the res it 1440p or 4k then its a whole different story.

so If I may, why don't you let me know what res or monitor you are gonna be gaming at and I will config a system for you and if you have questions on the parts I can answer them for you.

so if I can know your res, other then gaming what will the pc be used for?

thank you

Well we dont' want to build one for 1080P and then need one to max out 1440p next year, but its up to you.




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Ok so above I gave you a 1070gtx will does great at 1080p and good at 1440p so you are kinda covered. we recommend gpu upgrade every 2-3 years, with that this pc shoud do great for you in the next 4-6 years.

Ok lets clarify, the size of the monitor does not matter, its the res that does, a 30" can be 1440p or 4k, big difference there.

So lets talk resolution instead of size. let me ask you this, a good ips,144hz 4k monitor (not even out yet till h1 of 2017) is gonna cost a pretty penny, what is the budget for the monitor? that should help us, budget always dictates.

Maybe this will help. I play a lot of shooters (like The Division or Borderlands 2). I'll be getting BF1 soon. I also play a lot of strategy games like Sins of a Solar Empire, Stellaris, etc.

Will do. I've been doing research on this all day. Finally decided on the case and CPU (both the same as the ones you picked. Now comparing graphics cards. Looking like the 1070 is sweet spot so far, then it will be which 1070. From there, I'll move on to memory. I'm leaning toward 32GB just to be a little more future proof.

From there I'll look at SSDs and what size/performance.

Thank you again DST4ME! You've been a great help! I'll post more questions/specs as I get them.

It does. Yeah I use Anadtech and a bunch of others. Good to know about EVGA. They made my last motherboard too.

I was just comparing 1080 to 1070 and 1060. Sure enough there is about 40% boost in performance to the 1070 from the 1060 but a much smaller boost to the 1080 from the 1060, so like your graph above, the 1070 is the sweet spot.

Thank you again!

I just finished the graphics card reviews. Yet again, you were spot on! EVGA it is!

Do you have any advice on the motherboards or SSDs?

Thank you again for the help!

No I'm having DS build it. My days of building it myself are over lol... Not enough time and these days I like letting someone else do it. They do a better job on cable management than I ever did!

Thanks for the info on SSDs. I'm going to start looking into them after I settle on which ASUS board.

Again, I appreciate all the help! Thank you!