Help building my 1st PC

P.B · 12 Aug 2015 at 20:42

and what was your thoughts on the 980ti's vs titan x they perform with in a few % of each other the main selling point will be the vram are you planning to crack the settings high at that res like AA ?

lee32uk · 12 Aug 2015 at 20:51

A custom loop might not be the best idea for a first build, so I included a sealed water cooler instead.

If you want a faster SSD then look at the Samsung SM951. They cost about twice the price though but the read/write speeds are a lot faster.

YOUR BASKET
2 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980Ti G1 Gaming 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £569.99 (£1,139.98)
1 x Intel 5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K) £299.99
1 x Samsung 1.0TB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E1T0B/EU) £289.99
1 x Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £204.95
1 x EVGA SuperNova P2 1000W '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply (220-P2-1000-XR) £161.99
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - Black £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H110i GT 280mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060019-WW) £100.99
1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FBK4/16) £99.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £75.95
1 x CableMod E-Series G2 & P2 Cable Kit - Black / Orange £69.95
Total : £2,563.72 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

dacads · 12 Aug 2015 at 20:57

Might as well go all out with the RAM as well

YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Quad Channel Kit - Red (CMK16GX4M4B3000C15R) £139.99
Total : £139.99 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

P.B · 12 Aug 2015 at 21:08

There is no screen on them
5930k.......... for the extra pci-e lane
MSI X99S SLI Plus Intel X99 ....................as its the best midrange x99 board
Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Quad Channel Kit............. because well its 3200mhz
Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e Gen3 8Gbps x 4 Solid State Drive ............... because well its fast!
Seagate 2TB SATA-6Gb 7200rpm 64MB
Corsair Hydro H100i GTX 240mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
SuperFlower Leadex Platinum 1200W Fully Modular "80 Plus Platinum" Power Supply - Black..... this it an amazing psu could even power 3x290's as 8 pack found
2x Zotac GeForce GTX 980Ti "Reference Design" 6144MB
Acer Predator 4k2k XB280HK 28" G-Sync................ for a fluid 4k experience

comes in at 2800inc vat so 200 for case and any other bits you want

lee32uk · 12 Aug 2015 at 21:19

P.B said:
There is no screen on them
5930k.......... for the extra pci-e lane
MSI X99S SLI Plus Intel X99 ....................as its the best midrange x99 board
Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Quad Channel Kit............. because well its 3200mhz
Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e Gen3 8Gbps x 4 Solid State Drive ............... because well its fast!
Seagate 2TB SATA-6Gb 7200rpm 64MB
Corsair Hydro H100i GTX 240mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
SuperFlower Leadex Platinum 1200W Fully Modular "80 Plus Platinum" Power Supply - Black..... this it an amazing psu could even power 3x290's as 8 pack found
2x Zotac GeForce GTX 980Ti "Reference Design" 6144MB
Acer Predator 4k2k XB280HK 28" G-Sync................ for a fluid 4k experience

comes in at 2800inc vat so 200 for case and any other bits you want

The Monitor isn't included in the budget.

You don't need a 1200W psu for SLI. Even a 1000W gives headroom.

The 5820K is fine for SLI and an M.2 pci-e SSD. You don't need the 5930K.

Also you don't need high speed Ram. A 2400MHz kit will do the same thing.

ianandmurphy · 13 Aug 2015 at 03:29

wow thanks for the help, now I have to go away and do some thinking

P.B · 13 Aug 2015 at 11:59

lee32uk said:
The Monitor isn't included in the budget.

You don't need a 1200W psu for SLI. Even a 1000W gives headroom.

The 5820K is fine for SLI and an M.2 pci-e SSD. You don't need the 5930K.

Also you don't need high speed Ram. A 2400MHz kit will do the same thing.

But why spend more than you need too ? and if its future proofed you don't know what might take more pci-e lanes in future.

P.B · 13 Aug 2015 at 12:00

ianandmurphy said:
wow thanks for the help, now I have to go away and do some thinking

No worries

lee32uk · 13 Aug 2015 at 12:55

P.B said:
But why spend more than you need too ? and if its future proofed you don't know what might take more pci-e lanes in future.

You are spending more by going with the 5930K when it isn't needed. There is no such thing as future proofing either.

ElminaKamley · 13 Aug 2015 at 13:17

lee32uk said:
You are spending more by going with the 5930K when it isn't needed. There is no such thing as future proofing either.

good answer.

P.B · 13 Aug 2015 at 13:48

but it gives him the option of a 3rd gpu later on if he wanted to

lee32uk · 13 Aug 2015 at 14:20

P.B said:
but it gives him the option of a 3rd gpu later on if he wanted to

The 5820K can do 3 way sli if that is what the op wanted to do. The Gigabyte SOC board doesn't use any pci-e lanes for the M.2 Socket either.

P.B · 13 Aug 2015 at 15:05

the gigabyte boards only use the m2 port @ 50% its stated speed though

davewhite04 · 13 Aug 2015 at 15:15

lee32uk said:
You are spending more by going with the 5930K when it isn't needed. There is no such thing as future proofing either.

There is. My i7 920 was bought in January 2010 and if the motherboard/memory hadn't give up I would have still been using it now with my 970 GTX which (currently running with 8GB as it slowly dies) plays any game full setting 1920x1080.

P.B · 13 Aug 2015 at 15:22

buy the best you can afford I'm sure in 3 years to gpus will need full 16x 3.0 to run two smoothly

lee32uk · 13 Aug 2015 at 17:09

P.B said:
the gigabyte boards only use the m2 port @ 50% its stated speed though

It is up to 20 Gb/s which is plenty fast enough.

lee32uk · 13 Aug 2015 at 17:13

P.B said:
buy the best you can afford I'm sure in 3 years to gpus will need full 16x 3.0 to run two smoothly

How are you going to run 3 gpu's at x16 with a 40 lane cpu ?

The difference between x16 and x8 is tiny, as is the difference between pci-e 2.0 and 3.0.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Impact-of-PCI-E-Speed-on-Gaming-Performance-518/

lee32uk · 13 Aug 2015 at 17:21

davewhite04 said:
There is. My i7 920 was bought in January 2010 and if the motherboard/memory hadn't give up I would have still been using it now with my 970 GTX which (currently running with 8GB as it slowly dies) plays any game full setting 1920x1080.

I could buy an i7 4790K and 8GB Ram and it would perform just as good as an i7 5960X with 64GB Ram in most cases when gaming. You don't even need an i7 for a pure gaming pc.

P.B · 13 Aug 2015 at 17:38

But his budget allows for it then why not ? if you buy the best core components all you need to do is swap gpu's as they start to fall behind.

But years down the line like the old x58 systems they will still be able run and keep up with latest gen gpu's

lee32uk · 13 Aug 2015 at 18:14

P.B said:
But his budget allows for it then why not ? if you buy the best core components all you need to do is swap gpu's as they start to fall behind.

But years down the line like the old x58 systems they will still be able run and keep up with latest gen gpu's

The 5820K and 5930K will have very similar performance as they are both 6 core cpu's. The 5930K has a slightly higher clock speed of 200MHz and an extra 100MHz Turbo boost.

So you are paying roughly an extra £140 for the 5930K for a few more pci-e lanes and 200MHz clock speed. Not worth the extra money in my book.

I would only go with the 5930K if I knew I was going to utilize all the pci-e lanes. Most people will be fine with 28 lanes on the 5820K.