£2500 to spend on a new PC!

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Hi People,

looking to build a new rig. Will ideally want a 3440x1440 monitor with a faster than 60hz refresh rate.

As future proof as possible please. Don't need KB/M and speakers or Winblows.

Will re-use my 2 SSD's but they are only 128GB & 256GB so may need a bigger one also.

Current rig is getting on a bit 3770k 8gb ram GTX780 and a Korean 1440p monitor with only a DVI port.

Purely for gaming and browsing the net.

Cheers :)
 
Hi People,

looking to build a new rig. Will ideally want a 3440x1440 monitor with a faster than 60hz refresh rate.

As future proof as possible please. Don't need KB/M and speakers or Winblows.

Will re-use my 2 SSD's but they are only 128GB & 256GB so may need a bigger one also.

Current rig is getting on a bit 3770k 8gb ram GTX780 and a Korean 1440p monitor with only a DVI port.

Purely for gaming and browsing the net.

Cheers :)

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/32932837/

or POWER


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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,525.76 (includes shipping: £0.00)​

4 YR warranty on gigabyte gpu
 
Hi People,

looking to build a new rig. Will ideally want a 3440x1440 monitor with a faster than 60hz refresh rate.

As future proof as possible please. Don't need KB/M and speakers or Winblows.

Will re-use my 2 SSD's but they are only 128GB & 256GB so may need a bigger one also.

Current rig is getting on a bit 3770k 8gb ram GTX780 and a Korean 1440p monitor with only a DVI port.

Purely for gaming and browsing the net.

Cheers :)

Hi,

How about that? :)

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,439.86 (includes shipping: £0.00)​
 
As future proof as possible please.
You should know that there really isn't future proofing.
Except maybe in case. (11 years old one here)
Also quality PSU is good for toward 10 years of use, like implied by warranty.

Processing components lose their position, at least when ever there's actual competition.
You can only try to minimize how much there's going to be hiccups for how long you're intending to go without upgrade.
And even that doesn't happen in GPUs, in which there aren't inherent limitations for increase of performance.
Those simply get exceeded in everything.
Meaning if you want high end performance, you're going to have to change it in few years.

In CPUs primary thing you can future proof is having enough of cores/threads.
If those run out of and CPU can't dedicate enough of them for the game, that will start fast causing fps drops and hiccups.
Though ability to upgrade CPU to newer one can help in that.
8 cores/16 threads would be good for at least few years, if you don't have web browsers etc on background.
Next-gen consoles coming in year with Zen2 based 8 core and likely 16 threads CPU are big wildcard and could fast start increasing core and thread demands of games.
For most of the decade advance of game development has been held down by Intel.

Also amount of needed RAM is another which can be changed by next-gen consoles.
For now 16GB is enough for almost all games, if you keep amount of background stuff small and don't have much tabs open in browser etc.
But next-gen consoles could come with more than 16GB of memory considering their long life cycle.
Fortunately RAM is easy to upgrade, like GPU.

That 4K8KW10 would be quite good.
Though would change few parts.
Like CPU VRM wise there's no need to pay as much for motherboard as CPU to get board which would handle CPU upgrades in future.

And 5 year warranty PSU in that price PC woulds be serious lackluster.
Besides it having other problems kicking it out from high end PSUs.
 
Five year warranty is serious lackluster for that price level PSU.
And more seriously that PSU has tripple the 12V ripple of high end PSUs at extremely mediocre ~90mV, which would be subpar even for average PSU.
Also 12V is lowish.

Yeah… SilverStone’s definitely going to want to do something on the 12V rail. This is very much like the 600W model, in that ripple on that rail is sitting there at 88mV. It’s one thing to be in spec, and another to be only just in spec by 32mV. Especially when you’re competing against 800W units that can do the job in under 25mV. Right now, the 12V rail is four notches away from excellence, and that will be scored on.
http://www.jonnyguru.com/blog/2016/08/01/silverstone-strider-titanium-st80f-ti-800w-power-supply/4/

Maybe gross undersizing of something or two is reason why Silverstone gives it such lackluster warranty...
 
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