New rig to remove the smell of melted PSU and motherboard (£2k)

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My main desktop just made that horrible burning electrical smell when I got home last night and now wont power on, after a quick PSU swap its still not coming on so something is borked Its 4 years old and I was planning for a new rig in the new year anyway so things just got moved up.

Typically its the week after all the huge deals were on for black Friday but what can you do.

Below is my first stab, aiming at £2kish,Want to get it delivered tomorrow if possible so its going to be a DIY build. (that's my Saturday spent)

Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail £308.99*
Asus Maximus VIII Hero Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £189.95*
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B30 £109.99*
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid Gaming 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card £749.99*
Corsair HX750i 750W '80 Plus Platinum Digital Modular Power Supply (CP-9020072-UK) £147.95*
Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU) £149.99*
Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Mid Tower Case - Black £153.95*
Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060025-WW) £109.99*
Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)

Could maybe get the glass door version of the case,
would 750w be enough for SLI in the future,
Is there a reasonable priced 500gb M2 type drive and is it worth the extra?

Hard drives are hopefully coming from the dead rig (15tb of data has gone if they are dead though the unreplaceable stuff is on my NAS/cloud backup as well).

Any advice or comments gratefully received.
 
Ouch, only a couple of weeks after the deal as well.

A 750w unit is plenty for 1080 sli but I wouldn't go for the HX750i though. Don't get hung up on Corsair. For the most part they are overhyped and overpriced. These are worthy of consideration.

My basket at Overclockers UK:


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The Bitfenix Whisper 750w is a CWT built unit with quad 12v rails. Each group of components has it's own rail so 12v1 is for Motherboard + Peripherals, 12v2 is for CPU, 12v3 is for GPU 1 and 12v4 is for GPU 2. The full 750w is available across the 12v rails and it has a 7 year warranty. Review of the 850w version here.

The XFX XTR 750w is a Seasonic built unit with a single 12v rail of 744w and has a 5 year warranty. Review here.

The Superflower Leadex gold has a single 12v rail of 749w and has a 5 year warranty. Review here. Be aware that all Superflower Leadex models have bright white led's where the cables plug in and they cannot be turned off.

The Superflower Leadex Platinum 750w has a single 12v rail of 749w and has a 5 year warranty. Review here. Same as above with regards to the led's.

The EVGA Supernova G2 750w is built by Superflower and is basically a Leadex Gold with a different fan, no led's and a longer warranty at 10 years. It has a single 12v rail of 749w. Review here.

The EVGA Supernova P2 750w is built by Superflower and is basically a Leadex Platinum with a different fan, no led's and a longer warranty at 10 years. It has a single 12v rail of 749w. Review here.

The Corsair RMx series is argueably the best series that Corsair sell and the 750w version is no exception. It's a CWT built unit with a single 12v rail of the full 750w and has a 10 year warranty. Review here.
 
It's worth noting that the 8pack bundle which sold for £500 on the week running up to black friday is supposed to be running again for christmas.

You could hold out 3 weeks and see if it does?
 
Kidge said:
It's worth noting that the 8pack bundle which sold for £500 on the week running up to black friday is supposed to be running again for christmas.

You could hold out 3 weeks and see if it does?
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Gibbo said it would on the 28th, if it was be I'd just wait for that or maybe even go for Kaby/Zen when released.
 
Couldn't wait. Not going to be without a PC for my whole xmas break.
At least with this I may have finished tuning and mucking around with it by then.

Parts arrived at 11am today, system was built by 3pm including the wife wanting me to run here into town while I was trying to install rads.

Downloading games now, just a quick OC so far 4.6ghz and plus 125 on the four

Fun will start tomorrow I guess trying to get a little more out of it.

Got the glass case in the end front looks lovely back is a vipers nest of cables but with 6hds in there there's allot of data power cables making it a mess but I've put that side facing the wall.

Thanks ocuk for the usual fast service.
 
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