1st Gaming build

Scoren · 17 May 2016 at 12:46

hi guys and girls

my Gaming pc just died and it says i dont have Hard drives, one is an SSD and one is mech but any way heres what im looking at

Elite Tier SkyLake Bundle: Intel i7-6700K OEM @ 4.50GHz, Z170 VIII Hero, 16GB 3200MHz DDR4, Hybrid C

Leadex GOLD 1000W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black

1.0TB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive

SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive this will be my OS drive

Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - Black

2 GTX 1080 maybe 3

i am going to try and overclock the pc

any advice and tip would be great

Skilid · 17 May 2016 at 13:18

2 maybe 3 GTX 1080s? Is that not completely overkill?

TacticalFish · 17 May 2016 at 13:22

3 X GTX 1080's!!

You'll certainly be future proofing yourself for future gaming, but I'd be surprised if there's anything out there now that wouldn't be maxed out on 2. If money's no object though, then why the hell not!

All looks to be compatible though.

OverDrive · 17 May 2016 at 13:34

3 X GTX 1080's!!

WOW!

Aren't the GTX 1070 and 1080 out later this month?

TacticalFish · 17 May 2016 at 13:53

OverDrive said:
WOW!

Aren't the GTX 1070 and 1080 out later this month?

They are yes, I believe one alone will run 4k happily.

stulid · 17 May 2016 at 17:41

Cant do 3 way on that board.

alphaomega16 · 17 May 2016 at 17:55

I thought you couldnt do 3 way sli 1080's

Blame · 17 May 2016 at 17:58

You can still do 3 or 4 way sli's on 1080. You just need to apply for a enthusiast code to unlock the option. And use the normal 3/4 way sli bridges.

Scoren · 17 May 2016 at 20:51

Yea after watching a few vids I think I'll be just staying with two that been said what psu should I go for

Scoren · 17 May 2016 at 20:53

stulid said:
Cant do 3 way on that board.

On the web site it say it dose Supports NVIDIA® 2-Way/Quad-GPU SLI™ Technology

stulid · 17 May 2016 at 20:59

Scoren said:
On the web site it say it dose Supports NVIDIA® 2-Way/Quad-GPU SLI™ Technology

If you use a card that has dual gpus on a single PCB then yes.

You can fit a pair and have 4 way.

Scoren · 17 May 2016 at 21:02

stulid said:
If you use a card that has dual gpus on a single PCB then yes.

You can fit a pair and have 4 way.

Ok thanks what motherboard should I get that dose 3 way gpu

stulid · 17 May 2016 at 21:12

I believe this is the cheapest listed here - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...et-1151-ddr4-eatx-motherboard-mb-539-gi.html#

To do SLI a board has to have 8X bandwidth atleast to a slot, now to get that many lanes and that many cards to run, the board makers add a PLX chip that doubles the number of PCI-E lanes coming from the cpu, so there are enough to spread around and keep all the other things running full speed such as the m.2 slots etc.

Thats why they are so expensive = extra hardware required to work.

Scoren · 17 May 2016 at 21:18

Ok I think I'll stick with just two what psu will I need for 2 1080s overclocked and a cpu overclocked

stulid · 17 May 2016 at 21:19

750-850W.

Corsair RMx, RMi, EVGA G2/P2 or Superflower leadex.

Any of those will be spot on.

Scoren · 17 May 2016 at 21:22

Ok so 850 no need for a 1000?

stulid · 17 May 2016 at 21:32

Nope, besides these 1080 use very little power for the performance they give, the reference card design uses a single 8pin connector.

Scoren · 17 May 2016 at 21:36

Ok thank any others changes you make to the build?

stulid · 17 May 2016 at 21:45

Seems fine to me.

Brazo · 18 May 2016 at 08:28

Looks good to me, personally I wouldn't bother over locking that as it will run everything you could think of in 4K at stock speeds, so over locking seems pointless at least 'today' anyway!