CPU for UE4 development?

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My first question is does that motherboard support CPU overclocking? I didn’t notice anything in the description mentioning that. If it doesn’t support overclocking then you can save yourself a few bucks and get a non “K” version of the CPU.

You should check out some of the PSU calculators and plug in all of your parts, 650W for this build seems a little high IMO. At a quick glance I don’t think this system would exceed 300W, CPUs and GPUs are super power efficient now. It definitely won’t hurt anything, high power PSUs should be more efficient at lower wattages. But you might be able to shave off a few bucks going with a lower wattage PSU.

I’m a bit out of the loop with DDR4 recently but 2133MHz with a latency of 15 for 200$ seems a bit steep IMO. Maybe I’m just mistaken, hopefully someone else will chime in on that. I also would recommend finding RAM that is advertised for your chipset. I know this wasn’t a real issue in the past with DDR3 but DDR4 doesn’t seem to be mature enough to have actual industry standards. I know that Ryzen is still having issues with certain RAM sticks not working at advertised speeds while specific RAM sticks with Samsung dies are working perfectly. I expect Intels platform to be more mature since they have been dominant for so long, but you should definitely double check your RAM compatibility.

Oh yeah that’s something I forgot, to OC an i7 you need a model with a Z270 chipset. Here a comparison between chipsets.

The price of the RAM is OK, it’s 50$ for every 8GB and DDR4 prices have been going up since the beginning of the year.