Help to build a £1000-2000 system (Max £3000)

Centropy · 19 Apr 2015 at 21:33

Hi guys,

Would really appreciate some help here. I'm looking for a new rig running up to £2000 (can push to £2500-3000 if needed).

I was looking at the Battlebox Zodiac from OCUK, as I'm looking to buy or build a system preferably in a cube case.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-064-OG&groupid=43&catid=2475

I was looking at the prices and I'm thinking it may be cheaper to build my own so would be grateful.

Preferred specs and uses for system:

Will be used for gaming and video encoding
Storage 500GB SSD + secondary/tertiary storage
Preferred a Cube based case
Decent graphics card to last me a few years with gaming on max settings

Really appreciate any help you guys are willing to provide - it's been an extremely long time since I've built a PC.

Thanks
Centropy

stulid · 19 Apr 2015 at 21:34

Hi.

Are you able to build a PC yourself or does it have to be made for you?

Is it just the cube with the biits inside that you want? no operating system or extras such as mouse/monitor etc?

Centropy · 19 Apr 2015 at 22:22

Hi Stulid,

Either works, I can build it myself.

I have a mouse, monitor, OS etc. And yes, a cube case and the bits inside is what i need help with

stulid · 19 Apr 2015 at 22:23

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce Titan X 12288MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (12G-P4-2990) £899.99
1 x Asus X99-S - Intel Core i7 5820K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***£30 Saving*** £525.94
1 x Intel 750 Series 400GB PCIe 3.0 X4 HHHL Adaptor NVMe Solid State Drive (SSDPEDMW400G4ES) £369.98
1 x Kingston Predator 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C13 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (HX426C13PB2K4/16) £215.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £134.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Arctic White (CC-9011048-WW) £126.95
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD30EFRX - OEM HDD £92.99
1 x Phanteks PH-TC12DX CPU Cooler - Black £44.98
Total : £2,421.40 (includes shipping : £8.00).

TitanX, nothing faster using a single GPU core.

750 SSD, fastest consumer SSD I think it is.

PSU to allow you to add a 2nd TitianX.

Too over the top for you?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel 5960X Extreme 3.00GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75960X) £869.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 980 ACX 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (04G-P4-2981-KR) £449.99
1 x Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £218.99
1 x Kingston Predator 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C13 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (HX426C13PB2K4/16) £215.99
1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU) £164.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £134.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black (CC-9011030-WW) £114.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i GTX 240mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060021-WW) £101.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD30EFRX - OEM HDD £92.99
1 x CableMod E-Series G2 & P2 Cable Kit - Black / Orange £69.95
Total : £2,449.80 (includes shipping : £12.50).

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 980 ACX 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (04G-P4-2981-KR) £449.99
1 x MSI X99S SLI Plus - TeamGroup 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 Intel X99 Motherboard Bundle **£40 OFF** £249.98
- 1 x Intel 5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K) £335.99
1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU) £164.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £134.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black (CC-9011030-WW) £114.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i GTX 240mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060021-WW) £101.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD30EFRX - OEM HDD £92.99
Total : £1,660.86 (includes shipping : £12.50).

Centropy · 19 Apr 2015 at 23:35

stulid said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce Titan X 12288MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (12G-P4-2990) £899.99
1 x Asus X99-S - Intel Core i7 5820K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***£30 Saving*** £525.94
1 x Intel 750 Series 400GB PCIe 3.0 X4 HHHL Adaptor NVMe Solid State Drive (SSDPEDMW400G4ES) £369.98
1 x Kingston Predator 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C13 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (HX426C13PB2K4/16) £215.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £134.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Arctic White (CC-9011048-WW) £126.95
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD30EFRX - OEM HDD £92.99
1 x Phanteks PH-TC12DX CPU Cooler - Black £44.98
Total : £2,421.40 (includes shipping : £8.00).

TitanX, nothing faster using a single GPU core.

750 SSD, fastest consumer SSD I think it is.

PSU to allow you to add a 2nd TitianX.

Too over the top for you?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel 5960X Extreme 3.00GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75960X) £869.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 980 ACX 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (04G-P4-2981-KR) £449.99
1 x Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £218.99
1 x Kingston Predator 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C13 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (HX426C13PB2K4/16) £215.99
1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU) £164.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £134.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black (CC-9011030-WW) £114.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i GTX 240mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060021-WW) £101.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD30EFRX - OEM HDD £92.99
1 x CableMod E-Series G2 & P2 Cable Kit - Black / Orange £69.95
Total : £2,449.80 (includes shipping : £12.50).

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 980 ACX 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (04G-P4-2981-KR) £449.99
1 x MSI X99S SLI Plus - TeamGroup 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 Intel X99 Motherboard Bundle **£40 OFF** £249.98
- 1 x Intel 5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K) £335.99
1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU) £164.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £134.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black (CC-9011030-WW) £114.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i GTX 240mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060021-WW) £101.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD30EFRX - OEM HDD £92.99
Total : £1,660.86 (includes shipping : £12.50).

Looks good. I like the first two, however I have no experience in overclocking, which I'll definitely need. Any ideas as to how to resolve that? :confused:

stulid · 19 Apr 2015 at 23:37

There are guides for X99 overclocking online.

I can also guide you through the SOC Champion myself as it is something I have used.

What sort of clock speed did you want?

Centropy · 19 Apr 2015 at 23:41

stulid said:
There are guides for X99 overclocking online.

I can also guide you through the SOC Champion myself as it is something I have used.

What sort of clock speed did you want?

I'll be honest with you, I have no idea. It's going to be used heavily for gaming and encoding x265 videos...not sure if that will give you an idea..

stulid · 19 Apr 2015 at 23:46

How about a bit of a mix+match,

YOUR BASKET
1 x evga geforce titan x 12288mb gddr5 pci-express graphics card (12g-p4-2990) £899.99
1 x intel 5820k 3.30ghz (haswell-e) socket lga2011-v3 processor - retail (bx80648i75820k) £335.99
1 x gigabyte x99 soc champion intel x99 (socket 2011) ddr4 atx motherboard £218.99
1 x kingston predator 16gb (4x4gb) ddr4 pc4-21300c13 2666mhz quad channel kit - black (hx426c13pb2k4/16) £215.99
1 x samsung 500gb 850 evo ssd 2.5" sata 6gbps 32 layer 3d v-nand solid state drive (mz-75e500b/eu) £164.99
1 x evga supernova g2 1000w '80 plus gold' modular power supply £134.99
1 x corsair carbide 540 high airflow atx cube case - black (cc-9011030-ww) £114.95
1 x corsair hydro h100i gtx 240mm high performance liquid cpu cooler (cw-9060021-ww) £101.99
1 x western digital caviar red 3tb sata 6gb/s 64mb cache wd30efrx - oem hdd £92.99
1 x cablemod e-series g2 & p2 cable kit - black / orange £69.95
total : £2,365.80 (includes shipping : £12.50).

the cpu base frequency is 3.3ghz and with a single thread stressing it it rises to 3.6ghz (this is the turboboost) and with 2 or three or five and six threads this 3.6ghz will decrease downwards.

what you can do is set it to always be 4ghz either all the time (so it doesn't speedstep any more which is the power saving features that reduces core speed and vcore) or keep the turboboost and speedstep so it idles at a low frequency and saves power by reducing vcore but will shoot up to 4ghz when needed.

or of course higher than 4ghz, just depends how brave you are and if the cpu is willing.

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to expand on the turboboost.

this is the 5960x - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=cp-550-in&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1672

its base frequency is 3ghz and a turbo upto 3.5ghz if you look at the specs.

here is a picture of a soc champion bios - http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTQyNTE2MTU1OUI2MWNqSWhUMkdfM181X2wuZ2lm

Can you see where it says Turboboost active (1 core to 8)? and the ratio decreases as the cores/threads are used up.

So what you can do is adjust those values (maybe not even need any extra voltages etc) to read 40X for all eight and low and behold that will be 4Ghz no matter how many cores are being used.

Centropy · 20 Apr 2015 at 00:00

Thanks Stulid. Looks good, will have a think on it

lee32uk · 20 Apr 2015 at 02:48

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce Titan X 12288MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (12G-P4-2990) £899.99
1 x Intel 5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K) £335.99
1 x Lian Li PC-D600WB Big-Tower - Black £279.95
1 x Panram Ninja-V 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit (PUD42400C154G4NJW) £199.99
1 x MSI X99S SLI Krait Edition (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £199.99
1 x Crucial BX100 500GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT500BX100SSD1) £149.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £114.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i GTX 240mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060021-WW) £101.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £84.98
1 x CableMod E-Series G2 & P2 Cable Kit - Black / White £69.95
Total : £2,454.26 (includes shipping : £13.75).

Centropy · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:35

Thanks guys.

would someone willing to spec me up £3000 as I may be willing to go up to that. Would prefer the case is black too

snips86x · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:41

Centropy said:
Thanks guys.

would someone willing to spec me up £3000 as I may be willing to go up to that. Would prefer the case is black too

Don't see the need to use the full amount, the above would cut it perfectly

stulid · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:45

Not doing it, you have 4 (is 5 but one is white) excellent suggestions.

But if you were to put a TitanX into that one with the 5960X+SOC champion, thats coming up on £3K roughly.

In fact.

what monitor, keyboard+mouse do you have? spend serious bucks on those things.

Centropy · 21 Apr 2015 at 13:46

stulid said:
Not doing it, you have 4 (is 5 but one is white) excellent suggestions.

But if you were to put a TitanX into that one with the 5960X+SOC champion, thats coming up on £3K roughly.

In fact.

what monitor, keyboard+mouse do you have? spend serious bucks on those things.

Bought all the pieces from the 5960X + SOC Champion and swapped 980 for the Titan X

I have a razer naga wireless and Ultimate blackwidow stealth and 24" monitor

stulid · 21 Apr 2015 at 13:56

Blimey

Would love to see a picture when its all put together.