Second part of my upgrade

[smithy83]

Hi everybody after upgrading my monitor/gfx/psu/hardrive a few months back I can now do the rest

I'll be needing
Cpu (have my heart set on the oem 6700k)
Motherboard
Ram (16gb)
Aio watercooler
Case (no RGB lighting preferred)
Fans (no RGB lighting preferred)

Thing I'll be keeping from my current rig
MSI armor gtx 1070
Samsung evo 250gb
EVGA 650w psu
Wd 2tb drive
I won't need a key for Windows 10 as I have a new one ready to go


Mainly for playing games and light video editing and a little overclocking

Looking to spend about £650 to £700

 

[mickyflinn]

I have added 2 bundles just to give you options, im not sure if the corasair has the link software .

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Window Edition - Black Full Acrylic Side Window= £74.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 - Skylake Core i7 6700K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving**= £484.98
• 1 x Asus Z170 Maximus VIII Hero - Skylake Core i7 6700K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving**= £487.98
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FB2K2/1= £59.99
• 1 x Corsair Hydro H110 280mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060014-WW)= £94.99

Total: £1,216.13
(includes shipping: £13.20)
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[smithy83]

Thank you never noticed the bundle savings

One thing is paying the extra £30ish for 3200mhz memory worth it?

 

[mickyflinn]

One thing is paying the extra £30ish for 3200mhz memory worth it?

In terms of cost i would say not but skylake likes fast ram , i have seen many reviews and are torn because of the cost/performance ratio. If you can afford it then i would go for it in a high end system but look at a few reviews/benchmarks .

Here,s a good value option ram

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Dark 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TDKED416G3000HC16AD= £68.99

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[smithy83]

been doing a little looking around and this is what ive came up with

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £299.99
• 1 x Cooler Master MasterLiquid Pro 240 AIO Water Cooler= £96.95
• 1 x Team Group Dark Pro 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (TDPRD416G32= £89.99
• 1 x Asus Z170-A Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £127.99
• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Window Edition - Titanium Green Full Acrylic Side Window= £69.95

Total: £696.57
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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anybody see any issue or better options?

 

[pastymuncher]

That cpu has now jumped to £320 and is a tenner more than the retail version which is on this week only.

 

[smithy83]

Yeah noticed that will just go with the retail version will probably order in a few days

 

[smithy83]

After 2 weeks of thinking what i was going to buy i have ended up ordering this

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Window Edition - Gunmetal Grey Full Acrylic Side Window= £69.95
• 1 x Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £299.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Red LED= £99.95
• 1 x Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060025-WW)= £109.99
• 1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)= £5.99
• 1 x MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £127.99

Total: £713.86
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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[pastymuncher]

Nice case choice. I love those Phanteks cases as you get so much for the money.

 

[smithy83]

well finished the build at the weekend some problems with it the RAM did not like getting set to the xmp (would not boot) profile but setting it buy manual and its working fine and i have installed the cpu cooler upside down but its working fine

got it running at 4.7ghz at 1.3v on the core

 

[pastymuncher]

Nice neat and tidy build. I would probably have put the cooler that way around as well because if it was the other way around the hose would droop much lower. How much of a performance boost have you got over the setup you had before? Nice overclock too.

 

[smithy83]

Yeah I'll be remounting the cooler soon anyway because the USB port on the block is a very tight fit where it is at the moment I almost had a heart attack when I noticed it I hate mounting coolers

Performance wise video coverting is pretty great gaming wise it don't think I'm getting any higher fps but it has helped the stuttering and frame drops I was getting in WoW and overwatch

Going to have a good mess around with the overclocking this weekend I'm pretty sure it will go further