After some ideas on a new PC

[P1Fanatic]

I’m looking to buy myself a gaming pc early next year but I have been out of PC gaming for so long it’s a bit of a minefield. At first I thought I wanted a 4K capable rig but I don’t want to have to buy a new monitor as well (already have an ok dell 27” 1440p IPS panel) and mostly play FPS games such as Battlefield so frame rate more a priority than max resolution.

I want to future proof myself for at least the next Battlefield game out next Xmas. My budget started out at £1100 but it’s already creeping up. Realistically I think £1500 is my max limit. I have built my own in the past but now at the age where I can’t be bothered so would go for an OCUK prebuild. I’ve always preferred Intel & Nvidia so have been looking at the Gallium https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-pc-intel-core-i5-8600k-4.8ghz-fs-1bv-og.html

I guess the first question is do I need an i7 cpu for gaming or will the i5 8600K (OC’d to 4.8G )more than suffice? GFX wise I really don’t want to fork out for a 1080 so would the bundled Asus GTX 1060 Dual OC be ok?

I would up the Primary drive to 500gb but does the £60 extra for the 960 Polaris reflect a worthwhile performance jump over the 850? As up the RAM to 16gb.

Anything else you would change on this build?

Thanks
Simon

 

[Quartz]

You're going to be running at 1440p so a GTX 1070 would be a better choice.

Windows loves RAM so go for 16 GB. As for the SSD, you're a gamer so not going to notice the difference in speed between the two SSDs, so go for the cheapest. With a 500 GB SSD you can probably drop the HDD.

Looking at that case, you may also need a rear fan, depending upon the cooling solution OCUK use.

 

[southernorth]

I’m looking to buy myself a gaming pc early next year but I have been out of PC gaming for so long it’s a bit of a minefield. At first I thought I wanted a 4K capable rig but I don’t want to have to buy a new monitor as well (already have an ok dell 27” 1440p IPS panel) and mostly play FPS games such as Battlefield so frame rate more a priority than max resolution.

I want to future proof myself for at least the next Battlefield game out next Xmas. My budget started out at £1100 but it’s already creeping up. Realistically I think £1500 is my max limit. I have built my own in the past but now at the age where I can’t be bothered so would go for an OCUK prebuild. I’ve always preferred Intel & Nvidia so have been looking at the Gallium https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-pc-intel-core-i5-8600k-4.8ghz-fs-1bv-og.html

I guess the first question is do I need an i7 cpu for gaming or will the i5 8600K (OC’d to 4.8G )more than suffice? GFX wise I really don’t want to fork out for a 1080 so would the bundled Asus GTX 1060 Dual OC be ok?

I would up the Primary drive to 500gb but does the £60 extra for the 960 Polaris reflect a worthwhile performance jump over the 850? As up the RAM to 16gb.

Anything else you would change on this build?

Thanks
Simon

So do you want to play at 1080p and 144hz/240hz or 1440p and 144hz/165hz?


Yeah a 8600k would be more than fine for gaming. For 1080p high refresh rate the GTX 1070 will do fine, but for 1440p high refresh rate I would go for GTX 1080 or higher.

 

[P1Fanatic]

You're going to be running at 1440p so a GTX 1070 would be a better choice.

Windows loves RAM so go for 16 GB. As for the SSD, you're a gamer so not going to notice the difference in speed between the two SSDs, so go for the cheapest. With a 500 GB SSD you can probably drop the HDD.

Looking at that case, you may also need a rear fan, depending upon the cooling solution OCUK use.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah thats kinda what I have been reading online re: SSD's. Will stick with the 500GB 850. I have a 250GB Samsung (may even be an 850) on an older machine I can move over anyway and the rest of my storage is NAS'd anyway. Makes more sense to spend that extra cash on a better GFX card.

 

[P1Fanatic]

So do you want to play at 1080p and 144hz/240hz or 1440p and 144hz/165hz?


Yeah a 8600k would be more than fine for gaming. For 1080p high refresh rate the GTX 1070 will do fine, but for 1440p high refresh rate I would go for GTX 1080 or higher.

Thanks for the reply. Well as I have a 1440p monitor it would be nice to play some single player stuff at that higher res. Will see if I can squeeze a 1080 into my budget.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Save more cash, go for Intel i5 8400 , no bottleneck with gtx 1080/Vega playing at 1080p
Though that's risen in price but might be had for £170 and smashes Ryzen in most things bar price :/

 

[mistersprinkles]

Thanks for the reply. Well as I have a 1440p monitor it would be nice to play some single player stuff at that higher res. Will see if I can squeeze a 1080 into my budget.

You don't want to play @ 1080P on a 1440P panel. It's blurry. Much blurrier than running 1080P on a 1080P panel. Get a GPU that will give you 1440P gaming at at least 60FPS. 1070. Ideally 1070Ti or 1080.

 

[P1Fanatic]

You don't want to play @ 1080P on a 1440P panel. It's blurry. Much blurrier than running 1080P on a 1080P panel. Get a GPU that will give you 1440P gaming at at least 60FPS. 1070. Ideally 1070Ti or 1080.

It was perfectly fine playing PS4 at 1080p and looked a lot better than 1080p on my older 24” 1080p monitor. But I have upped the budget and gone for a 1080ti anyways.

 

[mistersprinkles]

It was perfectly fine playing PS4 at 1080p and looked a lot better than 1080p on my older 24” 1080p monitor. But I have upped the budget and gone for a 1080ti anyways.

It's blurry