£1100 gaming pc build

CheeseRoller · 19 Dec 2015 at 17:38

Hi All,

I am thinking of buying these parts, all opinions welcome: -

Case CORSAIR SPEC-03 COMPACT GAMING CASE - RED LED

Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Core™i5-6600K Quad Core (3.50GHz @ upto 4.60GHz)

Motherboard ASUS® Z170-P: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs

Memory (RAM) 16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB Kit)

Graphics Card 4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970 - DVI, HDMI, 2 x mDP - 3D Vision Ready

1st HD 250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd HD 3TB WD BLACK WD3003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

DVD Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

PSU CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Cooling Noctua NH-D15S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler

Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND

OS Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence

Quartz · 19 Dec 2015 at 18:31

Do you really need an optical drive? Consider an external USB one instead.

Do you need a monitor? If not, what is the resolution of your current monitor?

Consider getting a bigger SSD and ditching the HDD entirely.

The Corsair CS series PSUs are manufactured by China Great Wall Computer Group Co. Ltd. You should go for a quality device from Seasonic or similar, and you only need a 450W PSU unless you're going to put a second GPU in.

Do you really need an ATX system? Might an ITX system be more suitable?

lee32uk · 19 Dec 2015 at 19:04

You don't need thermal paste as the cooler has it's own.

The psu and all the internal drives are hidden in the Phanteks case, so you get a nice clean build.

The SuperFlower Leadex is a much better psu and is plenty for a single card system.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI - Intel Core i5 6600K Bundle **£20 Saving**= £293.98
1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FBK2/16= £79.99
1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 970 AMP! Omega Core Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-90106-10P)= £269.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 550W Fully Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply - White= £64.99
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £59.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD30EZRZ)= £77.99
1 x Samsung SH-118CB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM= £13.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)= £79.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Black CPU Cooler= £39.95
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro Mid Tower Case with Window - Black= £89.99

Total: £1,084.05
(includes shipping: £13.20)

Dom86 · 20 Dec 2015 at 13:01

For 5 quid more you can get windows 10 with the usb pen drive so you won't need the dvd drive, if that's why you included it.
My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £84.95

Total: £93.65
(includes shipping: £8.70)

sebianoti · 21 Dec 2015 at 21:16

Dom86 said:
For 5 quid more you can get windows 10 with the usb pen drive so you won't need the dvd drive, if that's why you included it.
My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £84.95

Total: £93.65
(includes shipping: £8.70)

Wow that's expensive, and I thought key resellers on reddit asking for £20 was a bit much.

ExRayTed · 21 Dec 2015 at 22:58

But it will be wholly legitimate. Unlike a lot of key resellers, who sell the same key to multiple people or sell pirated keys. They'll be cheap for a reason

Limpnoodle · 21 Dec 2015 at 23:07

If he has an old windows 7/8 key hanging around that should work with win 10