spec me £1500

Wiefil · 20 Feb 2016 at 14:34

Hi,

I am wanting to build a new PC. I would like to have at least some future proofing on it.
Would like to be able to play some 4k gaming too. I have never used worked with water cooling before, and pretty naive when thinking about it, but is it easy enough to work with?

The £1500 would be for the PC only, I shall have a separate fund for the monitor. I plan on buying the parts on a weekly basis.

Thanks for your time

stulid · 20 Feb 2016 at 14:38

Hi,

Do you need a copy of windows also?

As for water cooling, you can get a sealed for life AIO unit which requires no maintenance etc rather than a custom loop which you have assemble and leak test before use.

Wiefil · 20 Feb 2016 at 14:40

ah yes, windows will be a separate budget also. Good, puts my mind at ease with the water cooling then.

stulid · 20 Feb 2016 at 14:49

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Fractal Design Define S Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £69.95
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £65.99
1 x Gigabyte X99-SLI - Intel Core i7 5820K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***£30 Saving***= £469.98
1 x Antec H1200 Kuhler 240mm AIO Liquid Cooler= £59.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M4A2666C1= £99.95
1 x WD Red 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM WD20EFRX= £71.99
1 x Corsair RM Series RM1000X '80+ Gold' 1000W Modular Power Supply (CP-9020094-UK)= £144.95
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Superclocked ACX 2.0+ 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (06G-P4-4993-KR)= £539.99

Total: £1,537.49
(includes shipping: £14.70)

The X99 platform should support Broadwell_E with a BIOS update.

The PSU and board are also ready for a 2nd GFX card for 4K gaming.

The case has no option for an optical drive, but you can get Win10 on a USB stick - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/micr...usb-pen-drive-retail-kw9-00017-sw-174-ms.html

Wiefil · 20 Feb 2016 at 14:55

Sweet, now i have my shopping list I can't wait to get started.

Thanks for the speedy response

Wiefil · 20 Feb 2016 at 15:06

Really like the PC tower, sleek.

Wiefil · 1 Jan 2017 at 15:49

Hi, so I've been busy with my year and I did manage to get some of what was listed. Such as
Ram
Tower
Watercooler
Psu
Hard drive

I just need to get
Mother board
Processor
Graphics card

Unfortunately what was listed previously is not available now. Is there any suggestions on alternatives please. Thank you in advance

StarShock · 1 Jan 2017 at 16:06

Hold fire till next week. CES is about to happen and we're getting new cpus

lee32uk · 1 Jan 2017 at 16:28

The new Kaby Lake cpu's won't be much of an improvement over Skylake. As for AMD you are probably looking at March for Ryzen.

Jae-So · 1 Jan 2017 at 17:04

I would go with a 1070 over a 980Ti if buying new however.
Some may say to wait for AMD's vega GPUs but they are an age away.

StarShock · 1 Jan 2017 at 17:21

lee32uk said:
The new Kaby Lake cpu's won't be much of an improvement over Skylake. As for AMD you are probably looking at March for Ryzen.

I agree. But it's worth seeing what the prices look like next week. Might not change, but would be sad if they cut prices of Skylake to push kaby lake or in response to what amd do.

Wiefil · 2 Jan 2017 at 09:24

So should I wait, because I'm pretty keen to be able to buy these parts. My old computer is flaking and makes me sad.

Just need motherboard
Graphics card
Processor

Cheers

James

gary996 · 2 Jan 2017 at 10:01

If it was me i think i would wait and see

Wiefil · 8 Jan 2017 at 06:22

Good Morning,

So now the CES has swooned by, do you think that the KABY is worth the investment? and what should i select for my graphics card and motherboard?

Cheers

James