£1900 build

I was wondering if somone could give me some confirmation/advice on whether or not this build could be improved upon within the £1,900 budget.

I've wanted the 460x since i first lay eyes on it. The motherboard has thunderbolt 3.0 and lots of nice features, with the i7 6700k i thought it was a nice price. The Zotac comes with 5 years warranty and i've heard great things about them, the rest is pretty subjective.

I'm buying this within the next 3-4 weeks, i will probably see what january sales are about and see whether or not kabylake is released.

Thank you for any advice.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asus PCE-N15 300Mbps 802.11B/G/N Wireless PCI-E Network Adapter= £19.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 - Skylake Core i7 6700K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving**= £488.98
• 1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme Spectra RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-P10800B-1= £698.99
• 1 x Corsair Crystal 460X RGB Midi Tower Tempered Glass Case - Black (CC-9011101-WW)= £154.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £99.95
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £79.99
• 1 x Corsair Hydro H105 240mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW )= £99.95
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £145.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (TPKD416GM2400HC16Q= £79.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £44.99

I'd go for 2x8gb of ram so you have spare slots for future upgrades. The 6700k is dual channel memory not quad channel anyway.

Buy a £250 GPU and upgrade it when it's slowing down. £700 on a GPU is absurd.

You could buy two GPU upgrades with that £750.

IvanDobskey said:

I'd go for 2x8gb of ram so you have spare slots for future upgrades. The 6700k is dual channel memory not quad channel anyway.

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Awesome, thank you

hornetstinger said:

Buy a £250 GPU and upgrade it when it's slowing down. £700 on a GPU is absurd.

You could buy two GPU upgrades with that £750.

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Why settle for a £250 GPU? :| I will be purchasing a 1440p 144hz monitor and a second 1080 come may anyway. Go big or go home i say, very rarely get the chance to empty a bucket ton of cash on a high end gaming rig.

I would go with the Gigabyte G1 for £40 or so less and then use that money to get a 750W fully modular psu (SF Leadex, EVGA G2, Corsair RMx/RMi etc).

It may not be important to you, but note that the wireless card does not support 802.11ac.

If you're getting a second 1080 come May then you might as well get a beefier psu now.

For that price I would also expect an m.2 pcie ssd.

Here is an alternative spec with an Asus GTX 1080 RGB Strix. If you want a Zotac I would just go with the regular AMP one. I don't think the Spectra is worth the extra £49 over the Asus.

The TP-Link AC1300 is a better wireless adapter which supports 802.11ac. You could also look at a powerline adapter. They are available with built in wifi although they are a bit more expensive.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x TP-Link 300Mbps AV500 WiFi Powerline Extender Starter Kit (TL-WPA4220KIT)= £46.99

The EVGA GQ 750W will allow for a 2nd GPU. You can drop down to a 550W unit if you only plan on one GPU. Something like a SuperFlower Leadex 550W would do fine.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x TP-Link AC1300 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Adapter (Archer T6E)= £39.95
• 1 x Asus GeForce GTX 1080 DirectCU III Strix Advanced Gaming Aura RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics= £649.99
• 1 x Corsair Crystal 460X RGB Midi Tower Tempered Glass Case - Black (CC-9011101-WW)= £154.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £99.95
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £145.99
• 1 x Team Group Night Hawk LED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Red Light (THRD4= £89.99
• 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £45.95
• 1 x Corsair Hydro H105 240mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW )= £99.95
• 1 x Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 - Skylake Core i7 6700K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving**= £479.98
• 1 x EVGA GQ 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £91.99

Why not wait for kaby lake next month?

lee32uk said:

Here is an alternative spec with an Asus GTX 1080 RGB Strix. If you want a Zotac I would just go with the regular AMP one. I don't think the Spectra is worth the extra £49 over the Asus.

The TP-Link AC1300 is a better wireless adapter which supports 802.11ac. You could also look at a powerline adapter. They are available with built in wifi although they are a bit more expensive.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x TP-Link 300Mbps AV500 WiFi Powerline Extender Starter Kit (TL-WPA4220KIT)= £46.99

Total: £55.69
(includes shipping: £8.70)
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The EVGA GQ 750W will allow for a 2nd GPU. You can drop down to a 550W unit if you only plan on one GPU. Something like a SuperFlower Leadex 550W would do fine.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x TP-Link AC1300 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Adapter (Archer T6E)= £39.95
• 1 x Asus GeForce GTX 1080 DirectCU III Strix Advanced Gaming Aura RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics= £649.99
• 1 x Corsair Crystal 460X RGB Midi Tower Tempered Glass Case - Black (CC-9011101-WW)= £154.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £99.95
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £145.99
• 1 x Team Group Night Hawk LED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Red Light (THRD4= £89.99
• 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £45.95
• 1 x Corsair Hydro H105 240mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW )= £99.95
• 1 x Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 - Skylake Core i7 6700K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving**= £479.98
• 1 x EVGA GQ 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £91.99

Total: £1,914.03
(includes shipping: £15.30)
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Thank you for the input

The GTX 1080 strix looks like a winner, cheaper and its got 2x HDMI for VR

The Wireless is a no-brainer dont know why i didnt spot that one you suggested

And the Ram looks a hell of a lot better, allowing me to upgrade to 32gb in the future

I have discovered today that i won't need an operating system as i get a free legitimate copy through Microsoft Imagine service through my university, so thats a cheeky £100 saving.. Total price coming up as this.

You might as well add a m.2 ssd.

maklabouhlel said:

You might as well add a m.2 ssd.

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There isn't anything worth adding at the same price range. The Intel 600p isn't that great.

lee32uk said:

There isn't anything worth adding at the same price range. The Intel 600p isn't that great.

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Apart from at least 3x the read over a SATA SSD...

HoneyBadger said:

Apart from at least 3x the read over a SATA SSD...

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I guess you haven't read a review on it ? It is cheap for a reason.

Question, is it not worth getting a 1070 over a 1080 in the short term, and SLIing it in May? It would save me £150 and seeing as im only running 1440p 60hz would it really make much of a difference?

lee32uk said:

I guess you haven't read a review on it ? It is cheap for a reason.

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Just checked a couple of reviews out - really didn't know they were as bad as that!!!!!! Shocking!

terley said:

Question, is it not worth getting a 1070 over a 1080 in the short term, and SLIing it in May? It would save me £150 and seeing as im only running 1440p 60hz would it really make much of a difference?

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Id say that its definitely worth getting the 1070 as it will run just about everything currently at 1440p 60hz. But sli can be a bit sketchy, depending on which games you play, so its not the clear cut upgrade path it seems.

terley said:

Question, is it not worth getting a 1070 over a 1080 in the short term, and SLIing it in May? It would save me £150 and seeing as im only running 1440p 60hz would it really make much of a difference?

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Any plans to change the monitor ? If not then a single GTX 1070 is all you need for that resolution @60Hz. It won't do any harm if you wanted to keep the 750W psu though.