£1900 build

terley

terley

terley

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I was wondering if somone could give me some confirmation/advice on whether or not this build could be improved upon within the £1,900 budget.

I've wanted the 460x since i first lay eyes on it. The motherboard has thunderbolt 3.0 and lots of nice features, with the i7 6700k i thought it was a nice price. The Zotac comes with 5 years warranty and i've heard great things about them, the rest is pretty subjective.

I'm buying this within the next 3-4 weeks, i will probably see what january sales are about and see whether or not kabylake is released.

Thank you for any advice.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,913.81
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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IvanDobskey said:
I'd go for 2x8gb of ram so you have spare slots for future upgrades. The 6700k is dual channel memory not quad channel anyway.
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Awesome, thank you :)

hornetstinger said:
Buy a £250 GPU and upgrade it when it's slowing down. £700 on a GPU is absurd.

You could buy two GPU upgrades with that £750.
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Why settle for a £250 GPU? :| I will be purchasing a 1440p 144hz monitor and a second 1080 come may anyway. Go big or go home i say, very rarely get the chance to empty a bucket ton of cash on a high end gaming rig.
 
I would go with the Gigabyte G1 for £40 or so less and then use that money to get a 750W fully modular psu (SF Leadex, EVGA G2, Corsair RMx/RMi etc).
 
Here is an alternative spec with an Asus GTX 1080 RGB Strix. If you want a Zotac I would just go with the regular AMP one. I don't think the Spectra is worth the extra £49 over the Asus.

The TP-Link AC1300 is a better wireless adapter which supports 802.11ac. You could also look at a powerline adapter. They are available with built in wifi although they are a bit more expensive.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £55.69
(includes shipping: £8.70)
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The EVGA GQ 750W will allow for a 2nd GPU. You can drop down to a 550W unit if you only plan on one GPU. Something like a SuperFlower Leadex 550W would do fine.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,914.03
(includes shipping: £15.30)
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lee32uk said:
Here is an alternative spec with an Asus GTX 1080 RGB Strix. If you want a Zotac I would just go with the regular AMP one. I don't think the Spectra is worth the extra £49 over the Asus.

The TP-Link AC1300 is a better wireless adapter which supports 802.11ac. You could also look at a powerline adapter. They are available with built in wifi although they are a bit more expensive.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £55.69
(includes shipping: £8.70)
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The EVGA GQ 750W will allow for a 2nd GPU. You can drop down to a 550W unit if you only plan on one GPU. Something like a SuperFlower Leadex 550W would do fine.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,914.03
(includes shipping: £15.30)
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Thank you for the input :)

The GTX 1080 strix looks like a winner, cheaper and its got 2x HDMI for VR

The Wireless is a no-brainer dont know why i didnt spot that one you suggested

And the Ram looks a hell of a lot better, allowing me to upgrade to 32gb in the future

I have discovered today that i won't need an operating system as i get a free legitimate copy through Microsoft Imagine service through my university, so thats a cheeky £100 saving.. Total price coming up as this.

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Question, is it not worth getting a 1070 over a 1080 in the short term, and SLIing it in May? It would save me £150 and seeing as im only running 1440p 60hz would it really make much of a difference?
 
terley said:
Question, is it not worth getting a 1070 over a 1080 in the short term, and SLIing it in May? It would save me £150 and seeing as im only running 1440p 60hz would it really make much of a difference?
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Id say that its definitely worth getting the 1070 as it will run just about everything currently at 1440p 60hz. But sli can be a bit sketchy, depending on which games you play, so its not the clear cut upgrade path it seems.
 
terley said:
Question, is it not worth getting a 1070 over a 1080 in the short term, and SLIing it in May? It would save me £150 and seeing as im only running 1440p 60hz would it really make much of a difference?
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Any plans to change the monitor ? If not then a single GTX 1070 is all you need for that resolution @60Hz. It won't do any harm if you wanted to keep the 750W psu though.
 
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