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S1Lv3R

S1Lv3R

S1Lv3R

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Hi All

It's been almost 2.5 years since I last upgraded as I decided to put it off until the 1080's came out.

Previous build was recommended by Doomspeed in the thread below:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18569698

I have 3 monitors now 2 x 1440p (Asus PG278Q ROG Swift 27" G-Sync 144Hz) and 1 x 4K Asus (Asus 28 UHD 4K 1MS 2xHDMI/MHL/DP, PB287Q)

I don't plan on using any of my previous build components from the pc and I don't want to mess about with water cooling if I am building myself so am looking at potentially the build below:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/infi...-watercooled-extreme-gaming-pc-fs-457-oe.html

Could I get a better system on air for similar money? I am not confident to overclock myself so pre-clocked bundles would be ideal.

Or should I wait for the 1080Ti and possibly newer tech when they drop? :confused:

Any help will be appreciated.
 
S1Lv3R said:
Hi All

It's been almost 2.5 years since I last upgraded as I decided to put it off until the 1080's came out.

Previous build was recommended by Doomspeed in the thread below:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18569698

I have 3 monitors now 2 x 1440p (Asus PG278Q ROG Swift 27" G-Sync 144Hz) and 1 x 4K Asus (Asus 28 UHD 4K 1MS 2xHDMI/MHL/DP, PB287Q)

I don't plan on using any of my previous build components from the pc and I don't want to mess about with water cooling if I am building myself so am looking at potentially the build below:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/infi...-watercooled-extreme-gaming-pc-fs-457-oe.html

Could I get a better system on air for similar money? I am not confident to overclock myself so pre-clocked bundles would be ideal.

Or should I wait for the 1080Ti and possibly newer tech when they drop? :confused:

Any help will be appreciated.
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Both of those builds that Doomedspeed did are still very strong. You won't see much difference going for a Skylake or Haswell-E cpu for gaming.
I would just replace the graphics cards for a couple of 1080's when the aftermarket versions come out.
 
Really not worth upgrading your current kit apart from GPU. Upgrading to the newest i7 will mean a new CPU, new motherboard, new RAM, etc all of which will give only a small upgrade for a big cost. Just wait for the 1080 prices to stabilize in a few weeks and get 1 or 2 of them, then look at upgrading the rest of the computer next year or something.
 
I'd simply wait for the prices of the 1080's or 1070's to settle and drop a bit.
Or even, as you say, wait for the 1080ti.

Unless you're doing video editing or something that makes use of the extra cores, there's probably not much gain you'd get from broadwell-e at the moment.
 
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