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sanadsaad

sanadsaad

sanadsaad

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Hi guys. New to overclockers UK. A bit of history before I ask for your kind help. I am a trainee doctor here in London and the last time I built my own computer, it was in 2008, a water-cooled Intel Q6600 with 8800GTX. Loved every minute of tinkering and overclocking it. Then I moved to UK and surgical training kept me busy so technology took a backseat. I find myself with a few months off and the laptop isn't cutting it at all. I was thinking of getting back into PC building and gaming. My main uses are video/image editing and gaming. I have researched AMD Ryzen vs Intel Coffeelake. The budget I have is 800 pounds which can be pushed to £1000. I was wondering if you would be able to help me out whether AMD or Intel fits the bill better. Would appreciate your suggestions.
 
Sounds like self build and full set up with monitor included ?
Coffeelake is great and Intel finally starting to do someone about their lackluster push in recent years but prices have shot up due to demand. Ryzen has come out very strong !
And for 4k or 1080p video editing , ryzens core count helps greatly and can keep up with Intel with gaming
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Bit over and as below not knowing is cash is for core or other parts


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Have to be creative with windows - let Google or others do that . GPU won't drive that monitor all the time at 1440p medium settings but will last a good while and on a damn good deal .
Should be easier enough to twig to suit needs

Drop case for costs or getting £160 1080p screen etc etc
 
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Hi,

The usual questions:

Can/will you build it yourself?
Windows required or already have a copy/will obtain elsewhere?
Need any peripherals such as monitor, keyboard, mouse?
 
Hi! Thanks for the quick replies. I will build it myself. I will have to buy Windows 10 and I already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I also have a Samsung ego 850 250gb in my old MacBook pro which i can use in the desktop and a 1.5TB 7200 rpm WD Green.
 
The above monitor quoted above is a VA panel and 1440p .
What's your monitor model ? If not needing s screen above and SSD saves £350 to slap on top of GPU and ram . But if your screen is a standard 1080p, then you've got £350 to save in your wallet :)
Worth getting 16GB of ram though which floats around £160
 
sanadsaad said:
This is the monitor:

https://www.mayflex.com/sites/default/files/pdf/SAVI002/M4000_D55992.pdf
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1600p, Display Port cable required to display max resolution (going by owner comments not the data sheet which says Dual Link DVI). Could overclock it to near 75Hz if lucky, to help with gaming (not really a gaming monitor). And yes, a GTX 1070 would be nice.


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The cheaper GTX 1070s at OcUK are out of stock, so one of the best deals I've seen elsewhere just now is MSI Gaming X GTX 1070 for £407.99.

If you waited till Boxing Day, there'll probably be discounts on RAM, Ryzen processor perhaps. Maybe even a special deal for a GTX 1070Ti.

Doesn't include Windows. You probably know it can be used without activating for a month (even after that but then with watermark), giving you time to find a good deal.
 
 
I'll probably upgrade to 16gb for £1065. Silly question, is it worth saving up an extra £1000 and do a threadripper build instead? It will probably be a few extra shifts over christmas and new years but I think I can add that to the build. Or would the performance gains not be that significant?
 
Compared to above build, here are some different options with a higher performing GPU, better PSU (with 10 year warranty) and a few different case choices:

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Have gone over budget, but the PSU is definitely worth grabbing now, as is the CPU and perhaps one of the cases due to the discounts.​
 
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southernorth said:
That's a terrible 1070ti price. Just get a 1080 for that money, like the Zotac AMP.
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True, can find Aorus and amp extreme 11gbps for £520 mark . Wouldn't bother with standard gtx 1080 personally, specially when they can cost more .

Cheapest 1070 Ti here

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sanadsaad said:
I'll probably upgrade to 16gb for £1065. Silly question, is it worth saving up an extra £1000 and do a threadripper build instead? It will probably be a few extra shifts over christmas and new years but I think I can add that to the build. Or would the performance gains not be that significant?
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Seems 16gb is becoming more and more common with games preferring the extra ram over 8GB . City skylines for myself uses 13GB with mods I run and was over 8 on standard
 
Definately recommend 16GB RAM, 8GB is the bare minimum and some games are starting to push 7-8GB with max settings, despite not using the full VRAM available.

Threadripper is not really a performance gain in gaming, in productivity yes. I think for your budget a Ryzen 7 with a 1070 may be more suitable, the extra cores will save a lot of time in the long run with video encoding. Going for a 1070 instead of the Ti does mean you may need to reduce game settings a little (for 1440p+) but the benefit from the better CPU should be more useful to you.
 
Just read a few reviews of i7 8700k. Is it worth putting in extra cash and going intel? Or is it a better bet staying with Ryzen 7? Max budget I can go up to is £1600. But that would be a PC i intend to use for atleast 4-5yrs.
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
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Looking for a case. Cant seem to decide. For watercooling, what's the performance difference between a watercooling kit and setting up a custom watercooling loop?
 
sanadsaad said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,634.93 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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Looking for a case. Cant seem to decide. For watercooling, what's the performance difference between a watercooling kit and setting up a custom watercooling loop?
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Build above would be smashing for games.
Might want to swap out PSU unit for 650w focus unit .

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You can also pick up an Aorus gtx 1080 11gbps version for £495 on Google . Not standard 10gbps version if you want to keep it all matching
If not, that palit is 3 slot good unit , not UK RMA I don't think but could be wrong ,?
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Custom water kit will always be better due to better waterblock design, ability to field larger tubes , larger and thicker rads to keep cooling to its best or uses with very slow sounding/spinning fans .
Since your a doc you can prob work out the gains of larger diameter tubes, stronger pump for flow and pressure etc etc
AIO have greatly improved but if you can and will to go custom, go custom. Whether hard line or soft tubing, can have it your way .
But for easy and warranty, current gen asstek AIO like nzxt above will do the trick :)

As for cases

Lian Li PC-o11
Bequiet base 700
In win 805... Yep, costly though stunning


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Also get £40 steam voucher with that board, 2 users already won extra £100 steam vouchers too haha
 
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sanadsaad said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,634.93 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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Looking for a case. Cant seem to decide. For watercooling, what's the performance difference between a watercooling kit and setting up a custom watercooling loop?
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Spend less on the motherboard, PSU, RAM and AIO to get a better GPU (1080ti) it's a better use of the money.
 
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southernorth said:
Spend less on the motherboard, PSU, RAM and AIO to get a better GPU (1080ti) it's a better use of the money.
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Even the above and sticking to 1070ti, monitor is 1600p 60hz . Ti would be bit over kill and hardware not being utilised, cash saved .
Have a feeling OP being a Doc, and seeing fan members, ain't gonna have much game time come completion of course haha .
Aorus ultra/ Strix/extreme 4 , focus unit and £188 odd ram, £150 500gb SSD instead of 256gb nvme and roughly £120 saved.
Eisbaer 420mm AIO for same price as NZXT unit Nd one cool chip.. just finding a case to fit 3x140mm haha
 
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