So if I buy this stuff, word has it that I will have "a computer." Is this enough to get to play with CUDA on a little tiny GPU?

Well you haven't got a case there...

Are you planning on upgrading to an unlocked CPU to overclock? If not you could save some bucks in not going with a Z-series chipset and you could invest that money towards a better CPU or even an HDD for storage and on the case you're missing.

Also, the 1050 might be small but packs a punch compared to the previous 950 and 750. I might risk and even say that in gaming the 1050 Ti is head to head with something like an 760 or 960

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/...

More than enough. Dunno what your budget is or what your goal is, but I would definitely swap that mobo for something less expensive (and spring for a 1060, but that's just me).

@spongessuck I know.. It's silly the mobo is the most expensive piece on my list. But I want something with three PCIE 3.0 16x so I can add one or two more GPUs in the future. I'd ultimately like to use it to train neural nets. If I get into a master's program, I'm sure they'll have a cluster, but I'd like something of my own I can use for over half a decade or so.

@spongessuck Are there cheaper boards out there with two or three 16x pcie interfaces?

@milkbytes not planning on over-clocking or even relying the CPU for speeding up my code. I'm just looking to learn parallel computing, so I think any cpu is fine. I found this chipset because it had three pcie 16x interfaces. If I could save money by going with a different board but still have the same number of GPU slots and similar transfer speed from ram to gpu, I'd be very happy.

@thejohnhoffer couldn't say, it's not something I've ever looked for.

@spongessuck thanks for the input though- It's just good to hear there's no obvious fire-starting incompatibility that people on DevRant would notice right away.

This looks like a gaming budget built, so I would strongly reccomend waiting for the release of AMD Ryzen. It's a fine build if you can't wait though.

A B150 or H170 mobo would be enough for this config.

Asus B150 Pro Gaming
Asus H170 Pro Gaming

@thejohnhoffer What about the H170? It's pretty much the same except it doesn't support overclock (not sure about specific specs tho)

@HelmetBro hey bro- well, I'm on a budget, and this is my first build, but I can wait until the end of 2017.

@LonelyGeek @milkbytes thanks so much for suggesting these boards!

@thejohnhoffer Black Friday usually has great deals. Here in Europe I manage to grab a 4690K build (Z97, 16GB, 240GB SSD) for less than 500€ - excluding the graphics card since I already owned it.

@thejohnhoffer most of the motherboards I find either cut the speed down to 16x/4x or 8x/8x if there is one card in both 16x slots.

@thejohnhoffer looks like if I actually expect a motherboard with full dual x16x16, I would need to go way up in price for everything and get an X99 compatible board. Maybe I should just wait for pcie 4.0 to exist.

@thejohnhoffer Even if the motherboard has more than one PCIe 16x slot and the chipset support more than 16 lanes you're always limited by the number of PCIe lanes the CPU supports. Intel "extreme" CPUs (like Haswell-EP and Broadwell-EP) and Xeons usually support more PCIe lanes than the "mainstream" CPUs. For example, the 5820K supports up to 28 PCIe lanes while the 6100 you shown in your build only supports 16. That means that the 6100 must divide the 16 lanes by all the connected PCIe devices you have and that's why you see that those motherboards "cut down" the bandwidth.

@thejohnhoffer However, I don't think the performance impact is as big as it seems to be. Check this article: http://gamersnexus.net/guides/...

@milkbytes . Ah, I understand now. I need to go with an LGA2011-3 socket compatible Intel processor if I want support for more pcie lanes. Or... I could go with an AMD 990x chipset, which also has 28 lanes.

@thejohnhoffer I don't know much about this either, I learned about it when I was shopping for my build. The new AMD CPUs promise performance/price wise, but I don't know much about how their platforms work since my last AMD build was over 10 years ago

@milkbytes cool- thanks. But it is true that I'll need a pricey Intel processor to concurrently use more than 16 pcie lanes, right? That's enough to make me want to take a look at AMD, but I have a few months for this decision. I'll try to put together comparable spec AMD and Intel builds (ignoring the CPU performance and only looking at dual GPU compatibility), but I feel much more learn-ed after your help. Thank you!

@thejohnhoffer Moat certainly you will! 2nd hand Xeons are quite cheap actually, the problem is that the motherboards are way expensive. You're welcome!