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Thanks a lot for the replies.My friend is a semi-professional dota 2 player so running the game at 1080p and 120 FPS is a must which is why I went for the 970 (although a 960 can achieve these settings too, I wanted to future proof it). He plays in tournaments many times per week so this PC dying would be really bad. The plan was to use just use open broadcaster for streaming to twitch and shadowplay for recording, so no fancy additional hardware.As far as I could tell from looking at other builds, the Noctua NH-L9i should just about be able to cool the xeon.I am actually very tempted now to pay £40 more for the 65w i7-6700 which I think would guarantee stability and has slightly better performance than the xeon. Otherwise I think I would go down to a 960 and the keep the Xeon as a cheaper option. Thoughts?
Thanks a lot for the replies.
My friend is a semi-professional dota 2 player so running the game at 1080p and 120 FPS is a must which is why I went for the 970 (although a 960 can achieve these settings too, I wanted to future proof it). He plays in tournaments many times per week so this PC dying would be really bad. The plan was to use just use open broadcaster for streaming to twitch and shadowplay for recording, so no fancy additional hardware.
As far as I could tell from looking at other builds, the Noctua NH-L9i should just about be able to cool the xeon.
I am actually very tempted now to pay £40 more for the 65w i7-6700 which I think would guarantee stability and has slightly better performance than the xeon. Otherwise I think I would go down to a 960 and the keep the Xeon as a cheaper option. Thoughts?
