New PC Build, Gaming @ £1500 or so.

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Hi, I'm building a new PC, ive got a pretty good idea on the components and if you would be so kind to provide some advice.

The PC will be for gaming, and light video editing / streaming.

CPU = i7 - 6700k
Motherboard =Asus Maximum VIII Hero
Ram = ????
Power Supply = Supernova P2 750W '80 Plus Platinum'
SSD = Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
Case = Enthoo Evolv ATX or tempered glass edition.
GPU = GeForce GTX 1080 DirectCU III OC Strix
CPU Cooler = I have a corsair H100i which i will move to the new PC

Other stuff, like monitors or keyboards etc i have/ will buy seperately.

A few points

I would get the 6600k, but i will be doing light video editing, also, i would be multitasking things a lot, so i think it will be worth it for me.

As for the SSD, my consideration would be between the 850 EVO 500GB, vs the 950 Pro 256GB M.2.... They are roughly the same price, however i dont see how exactly the extra speed will benefit me, i have a 256gb right now, 500gb would be good for a little more room before i have to transfer or delete things.

Game load times i can say are not so important, right now on this PC i have to wait for other people to load anyway.

The case is IMO 100%, i initially wanted to build with full tower, however, i will have only 1 SSD, no HDD's and no optical drives, so really its pointless

As for the GPU, i will eventually get a 4k monitor, in terms of performance, stability is the most important thing for me, i will not be running max settings if minimum frames drops below 60.

Also i have decided against any SLI or crossfire in the future, i just dont think its a good idea tbh.

Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice.
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,674.87
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Thats the parts you listed but its no where near £1500 even with cashback.

So instead here are some changes,






My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,466.86
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Added a HDD...surely you need one?

For 4K you may very well need to SLI and get a 750W PSU.

£55 cashback - https://toptechcashback.com/gb/en/pages/cpumb/qualifying



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X99,

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,564.86
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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£55 cashback on this.





My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,694.90
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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£70 cashback on this cpu+board combo.

Edit, maybe check cashback is available on a OEM CPU, if not the retail one is £5 more
 
stulid said:
Thats the parts you listed but its no where near £1500 even with cashback.

Added a HDD...surely you need one?

For 4K you may very well need to SLI and get a 750W PSU.
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Hi

The £1500 is a pretty rough budget, i don't have a "fixed" budget but at the same time i don't want to go over the top.

As for the HDD i have a home server PC which has a lot of drives, if it turns out gigabit LAN is too slow its a simple matter of taking one drive out and moving it to the new PC.

For SLI i thought just to get a power supply that is enough for it, so one day i could buy another card if for someone reason it would be a good idea.
Keep in mind that i do not need to play the game @ max settings, and the games i play a lot, are far less demanding than current games. I think SLI would be a waste of money tbh, (the Crossfire 280X i have in my sig was a waste, i sold one)

I dont think X99 is a good idea as i dont require multi-threading much of the time at all, if i were going for SLI i would probably build on X99, but that would be then far too expensive, maybe in a few years.


Im interested in what you think between the GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 or the Maximus VIII hero, why you picked that RAM, and the advantages of that M2 SSD.

Thanks a lot for your reply :)
 
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I will try to reply in order,

Not all boards support SLI, but all of the ones listed above do support SLI, you obviously do need a 750w psu for a pair of 1070/1080s

X99+5820K, you mention light video editing so that would be where it has an advantage, it can also be overclocked to 4Ghz or maybe 4.5Ghz with that cooler you mention and so any single thread advantage the 6700K has will evaporate a bit.


Gaming 7 VS Hero, well the Gaming 7 has a rack of awards from reviews, I started an owners thread here - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18730403

The RAM is because it works with the board (I use the black version, its just the colour thats different) and is a nice 3000MHz rating.
 
Thanks stulid for the advise.

I have finished building the PC, had to wait so long for the black version of the case....

The parts i finally went for are.

I7-6700K
Asus Maximus VIII hero
2x16GB Corsair Vengence LED
Asus Strix 1080
Samsung 950 Pro 256GB
Corsair HX750
Corsair H115i 2x140mm Cooler
Evolv ATX tempered glass

Here are some pic's it looks rubbish as i am not a pro photographer
http://imgur.com/2tOBGzl http://imgur.com/wMzszoF

To anyone who would build using that case, i would recommend putting the AIO cooler on the front or, get low profile ram, the fans are basically pushing gently on one of the ram sticks (litterally 1mm more and there would be big problems)

And yes 0.5KG weights are for pro's to hold down cables!
 
pretty case :) looks quite tidy as well. I would be half tempted to take the sticker off the PSU though, just to remove the random blue from the colour scheme.
 
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